headline stories this hour russia launches its own criminal investigation into the attempted murder of. the daughter of the former double agents who were both poisoned in the u.k. . that's when the from seventeen. to flee the militant controlled district of eastern in syria so united nations welcomes a cease fire that's still. there for a week. couple who. don't get a backlash from relatives under neighbors and say they've been forced to move from their home.

or you're joining us from right around the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international good if your company our top story russia says it's ready to annoyance retaliate tory measures against the u.k. after britain expelled twenty three russian diplomats following accusations it was moscow who was behind the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter russia earlier requested some poles all of the nerve agents said to have been used against that but it didn't get any response from britain it also said it was willing to help with the investigation again no answer moscow has now launched its own criminal case into the attempted murder of a script who is a russian citizen even though the british investigation into the poisoning is still ongoing u.k. officials are already turning their words into action. reports. issue

threats impose sanctions and cancel your plans to attend the world cup now there's no time to explain the stuff means are made of literally concrete proof a full in transparent investigation no time for that the european council isn't hanging around double tough it's calling everyone in to discuss what nobody is certain about to put this issue on to your next. charging forward on the most likely inspired by moscow front no time to be sure even australia is backing teresa mayes compelling case against russia innocent until it gets interesting. and solidarity and supports the united kingdom and the u.k. defense secretary isn't overly keen on hearing out the defense frankly. should go it should churchill just after that gavin williamson announced forty eight million pounds will be invested in a new chemical weapons defense center why because russia of course the defense secretary is also going to deliver with anthrax vaccines for troops what does that have to do with the script all poisoning no time to explain and it took france no

time at all to change its mind on action and they're fully skeptical and calling it too soon to blame the kremlin paris is set to agree on and impose new sanctions on russia we have firmly condemned the attack which russia conducted on british so the plan is solidarity with the u.k. which apparently includes deliberately avoiding a russian stand at the paris book fair what we are seeing is a whole lot of act first and ask later and frankly we should take more time to find the answers well on friday the british foreign secretary. saying it was overwhelmingly likely that the poisoning was directed by president putin himself the kremlin described the comment as quote home for give a behavior for a diplomat russia's envoy to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the u.k.'s refusal to work together with moscow is suspicious. gloria i want is could get

a good well based on statements by the head of the british delegation they regard our proposal on bilateral consultations as an attempt to procrastinate and they urged everybody not to listen to these lies as they say they say russia's intention is to avoid being held accountable but i see it differently and my guess is actually our british friends and partners are just afraid they are afraid that our experts may analyze those samples and they may see some dirty tricks there or something but our british partners don't want this to happen if they don't produce any evidence we will regard that as they have nothing to show and they will be held accountable for slander. it'll go it's going to put we offered other options if they don't want to talk to us directly we can go through the executive council we can set up a group of technical experts led by the director general and if they are not happy with that they can call a special session but the british are not happy with any of these options they can

call a meeting of the highest body of the o.p.c. w. and we can address the issue there so they have a number of different options for sure they will not be able to tell where the substance came from this will require dialogue between russia and the u.k. direct or indirect there are many ways to go about it through all of them. so yes when the soviet union collapsed in the early nineties intelligence services took from russia a group of specialists and their documents including veiled mirrors are young enough and they continued their work with soviet knowledge and we even know in which countries the work continued some of this work was successful and we can find the results openly on nato and e.u. websites. and just a new development to tell you are by this hour russia's foreign ministry has just summoned the british ambassador to give notification of moscow's response over the

script al case we will of course bring you more details and when we get them. highly likely that russia was responsible. to another headline story this hour as thousands of civilians flee the militant held enclave of eastern ghouta in syria the u.n. special envoy to the country has welcomed a brief ceasefire in the district stefan de mistura calls for a nationwide to say sion of hostilities. pro that meetings have been taking place since general reaping between the russian federation and jay shift in the last few days on the out of the result of these engagement came you. begin the government russian military n.j. shift forward to have continued to largely hold that. they know.

that for the thief a halt because being a police one good. very bad what is actually happened is that seventeen thousand people have managed to flee eastern ghouta through russia sponsored humanitarian corridors it's the biggest single exodus since fighting escalated last month the first to make it to safety where children women and the injured according to the russian defense ministry they were given basic supplies when they reached the government controlled side of the car door here so they described life under the militants was. that the militants were living with us next to a harness and inside them they would open our home to mines the houses to be able to they would not leave and we did not dare to say get out. you know they fired at us they didn't want us to escape at all costs will so that

we couldn't leave. because we had now food or water there are ten of us and we could not buy a king our flour we were starving we wanted to escape but they wouldn't matter it's not a gas there will so they fired at us and half of the people were shot look at our children their feet hungry and without clothes but the militants showed no mercy. thank you. i don't remember the last time i ate we didn't have food in our village the militants took everything but the humanitarian convoys delivered. well eastern ghouta was seized by rebels in late twenty twelve and since twenty thirteen has been under siege with the syrian army trying to recapture the area the assad government has no succeeded

in driving the militants into three small pockets regaining control of much of the region well despite the advances many civilians there are still living in dire conditions political analyst and author phyllis bennis believes that the heart owing situation goes far beyond the enclaves borders. there is no place for them to go the country of syria has been decimated by these seven years of war and people have been moved from one place to another looking for safety and not finding it those who have been driven out of the country are finding the gates of other countries closed against them most notably of course the united states which has prohibited refugees coming from syria all together in the context of the so-called muslim bans that donald trump has imposed but even the countries close are the countries right in the region who are already taking care of hundreds of thousands in some cases more than a million refugees in lebanon for instance is

a very small country one out of every four people in that country is now a syrian refugee in jordan where there's over a million refugees but there's simply not enough water available so the humanitarian crisis is is massive on a regional level certainly within syria is the most serious then on the regional level and on a global level the syrian refugees are facing a devastating future. this time tomorrow russians will be casting their votes in the presidential election their choice will decide who gets the kremlin's top job for the next dozen years. is a day of election silence in which campaigning is stopped and news coverage of the candidates or their mama festivals is not large so until the polls close on sunday

we won't be able to tell you much those are vying for the russian presidency but we can tell you about the people who will be deciding russia's future so let's meet some of the voters in this hour we go to the classroom. and. i. will.

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what all of the reports that you've already in nature. remember marching in the d.c.u. and that's not will because they're pushed into the an alternate reality of the place where did the thief you know we were taken down here and i think that we knew from the because you will feel it is but it's a new somewhat good thing that repeated from both of the new chum and if we can. get the views of the voting teachers well we have got special coverage of course this election live from red square it starts out a.t.m. our school time on sunday continues right through monday as we bring you the results as they happen and get reaction from. the name a double trouble probably isn't one you would expect to find someone called in afghanistan that is exactly what one couple decided to call their child hoping that it might bring some good fortune unfortunately the gamble didn't pay off the family

are facing backlash and have even been driven from their hometown. earlier it was odd the loss of the last phone but before my son was born i was reading about donald trump's bag round and he's policy i thought his policies the best and this made me call my son after. that i want to model for when i name my son donald trump the behavior of all my family my parents changed because of pressure i left my village for campbell because france also distanced those of us from the us why did you name your son donald trump was in there or any other name.

but i'm afraid of course we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope you will become a politician like don't which i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as demand will never change. the. will take a look at the overall picture of the us campaign against al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan has been ongoing for the past sixteen years it started under george w. bush us part of the so-called war on terror the latest u.n. report on the country is a sobering wild documentary over ten thousand civilian casualties last year alone speaking in the afghan capital on tuesday the u.s. defense secretary said america is no longer seeking a military solution there. all work he. would keep a record deal we would already know we gave out

a military victory the victory will be with the rug that we gave. the taliban will pay a price a military action is also designed to clear the way for sustained comprehensive and relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice the truth is this is not really about actually recognizing. the senselessness of this whole what is actually about from the point of view of the us is trying to recruit the taliban as a proxy spoiler for the growing regional integration involving china pakistan and afghanistan and stabilisation that's going on the afghan government since the mid two thousand has been getting closer and closer to china economically and since the end of last year militarily as well the objectives always been to keep afghanistan destabilized we. basically in the pocket of the us and dependent on the us for security and so on and they waging the war was one means of doing that

and now there's this chinese pakistani peace initiative that's threatening the war seriously. bringing stability to the country. one of america's biggest corporate fraud scandals in years has dragged in some very big names including the defense secretary will tell you why the break. dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle but still. produce offspring to tell you that the beach gossip the tabloids but i felt a little. off about telling me you are not cool enough to buy their products. that we along with all

the. the good and the bad you need capitalism to work both winners and losers they can't bail out every single bank that gets into trouble they can't bail out every single capitalist i need free money you gotta let the system weed out the losers otherwise you end up with you know a state controlled state maintained price fixing regime by the state that resembles all failed such experiments of the us why not just let the free market be the free market. just coming up to twenty minutes past ten am this saturday morning here in moscow welcome back on american multi billion dollar health care company linked to the us

defense secretary is embroiled in a muscle fraud scandal the firm called third loss promised to make blood tests cheaper and faster but is no accuse that they're floating investors to the tune of seven hundred million dollars by making false claims about its products contracts on earnings third else was founded in two thousand and four by elizabeth holmes when she was just nineteen after she developed a drugs pouch to administer doses based on blood type the firm then moved into diagnosis claiming it's simple blood test could be used to detect all manner of conditions except that didn't work but the rapid rise of third and also attracted big names to the board a similar has been looking into. secretary of defense james mattis has more than america's would be enemies to worry about he's caught up in a lobbying scandal for faulty blood testing machines elizabeth home c.e.o. of tech company there are

a noce inc was charged with fraud by the security exchange commission and forced to pay five hundred thousand dollars for lying to investors through our nose had promised cheap and fast blood testing using a new app and we'd like to see a world in which every person gets access to this type of basic testing and the types of tests that are done are ones that provide insight into the onset of disease in time to do something about it but it was all a scam instead of using cutting edge technology it used old sam some equipment and even lowered its prices to appeal to investors and that wasn't the only way holmes brought in clients she also had some political clout secretary of defense james madison sat on the board of directors and unwittingly turned out to be instrumental in negotiating with the department of defense in two thousand and fifteen wall street journal first revealed the issues however mattis wasn't convinced serranos had demonstrated a commitment to investing in developing technologies that could make

a difference in people's lives including for the severely wounded and ill i had quickly seen tremendous potential of the technologies the runnels develops and i have the greatest respect for the company's mission and integrity when a military regulatory expert had some questions about it mattes wrote this in an email. i have tried to get this device tested in theater asap legally and ethically this appears to be relatively straightforward yet where a year into this and not yet deployed what it all turned out to be a sham hole has got into legal trouble but matt is still sits comfortably as the secretary of defense samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . hard work never harmed anyone is how the saying goes but that is not the case for one french baker he's been fined three thousand euro for refusing to take a day off. and

. in. my first year i worked in july and august seven days per week with special permission and the second year at the bakers' union prohibited me from continuing but i decided to work seven days anyway in july and august because my customers and the tourists asked me to i didn't think this would be such a big deal i got a letter from the administration saying i owed them three thousand euros which is not a small fine for me. in. the tourist area it seems essential that a business can open every day during the summer there's nothing worse than closed shops when there are tourists. in. our

towns getting more touristic and it's annoying to people who arrive here for cation can get fresh bread whenever they want i don't understand why we don't have the right to have a bakery that works every day and i think that a fine of three thousand euros is too big that's why i launched the petition and the majority of people signed immediately. what i think about this story is that people who just want to work at being punished but they're only doing it for other people. there are a lot of people here in selma and so there are a lot of small businesses as well i want to help them. it's stupid that we can't do what we want in our own stores it seems like in france when you're willing to work you are shamed when you're doing a job that you love i don't see why it should be a problem to work five six or seven days. subs. they feeling hungry for some reason well if you'd like to delve deeper into

this our stories our website can bring you right up to date news views analysis and reaction always all r.t. dot com. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure come after you have to go to the center of the beach but how would you and will show the great game the british get you out of the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down knowing let's go. alone and

just i want to know and i'm really happy to join that for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet the special one was also clichéd me to just say to review the aussie team's latest edition to make up a bigger need to just say look. i'm a fan five human rights music notion of the example of yemen you see the. genocide there were the good gone then just look who is some porting who american them british and a number walk of european countries they are a very generous nation then there's support to the actress so what kind of human blood she sat in which to live a million children a woman does not count. the

most expensive fish in the world each one selling for the tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at it. it's only weapons of a much larger mission was once the that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared for the long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. i thought if there are. at this time we're going to end yeah good enough the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. thank you we were tied

for that designation in the past on this show i've listed many of the countries that are cia and military of either taken over or backed coup in order to alter the government to something we find more friendly to our business is there are war crimes or what have you everywhere from iran day hated cuba nicaragua want to chill into vietnam to syria to hawaii to disneyland to sim city all right do you remember the dance squads we send into sim city alright they saw glee the rivers ran red to the red pixels. point is you name it we've toppled it and often it was it was right after all movement toward socialism in that country or even just a anti-business move by one of their leaders well now our cia and military. have their eye on another country a country the recently saw

a massive movement towards democratic socialism with a harvard survey finding that over half of the millennial is in that country do not support capitalism the country our military intelligence community has begun infiltrating is a small nation south of canada and north of mexico. and goes by the name of amreeka i think if i'm pronouncing it right or for any america or something its national pastime is a triple bypass surgery and if it's national bird is this one. and you'll be happy to hear the love and the birds are going extinct this one flourishing you you just you just pull you for not killers at someone's bedroom you'll see it. in some countries our cia and military spend millions of dollars and countless hours fomenting dissent in that country other times they capture the

powers that be with bribes and threats and still other times they send in bombs and guns and the honey pots with poisonous nipples and all kinds of stuff in the case of an america the cia and military are infiltrating the media and the political system for this upcoming midterm election if you go to these cut politicians files on their website it just says. candy your neighborhood cia agent i now want to represent you in congress my likes include skateboarding boarding and waterboarding. yeah ok ok you can trust me ron you can vote for me. there used to be a time when these mothers were. either you serious or they would pretend to be like a volunteer at the polling place or something and then slowly shredding ballots behind their jazz just trying to play off the noise like it's a.