the russian presidential election exit polls opinions real time results monitoring and much more. russia expels twenty three british diplomats in retaliation for the same move by the u.k. following the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. also coming up. civilians flee the militant controlled district. in syria as the united nations welcomes a ceasefire that's mileage to hold in the city there for a week. and then after a couple who named their. relatives and neighbors and say they've been forced to move from their hometown.

just past midday here in moscow this saturday march the seventy wherever you're watching from across the globe welcome to international our top story twenty three british diplomats are to be expelled from russia in retaliation to an identical move by the u.k. over the poisoning of a former double agent. the british ambassador to russia was told the news when he was summoned to the foreign ministry on the joins us live to do with this just broke not so very long ago. what do we know but this diplomatic keeps escalating this is the latest reaction to it what is russia here what's their response well you know as you know this is been so controversial it's been dominating the headlines across the world and on a daily basis. you know action taken. by russia and it's russia's turn today. since have been escalating and here we are now twenty three british

diplomats are going to be expelled they've got a week they've been given a week to to leave this was told to the u.k. ambassador he was summoned to the russian foreign ministry this morning the russian foreign minister also said that further measures in retaliation to this growing diplomatic dispute over the nerve agent attack on the former spy in britain will be taken if and this is quite interesting for the measures britain takes any more friendly moves towards russia looking at the heart open that yeah they have so you know we have been seeing the rhetoric yesterday we saw a laugh off speak quite harshly and moscow retaliating as well and then boris johnson coming out with a statement almost accusing president putin of altering this poisoning so it's going on and on and on now what we also have is russia is ordering that the

consulate just explain this there's a consulate in st petersburg and they are still requested an expansion that has now been refused. and if we look at the background here you know russia has taken number of steps from these scribbles were poisoned to try and cooperate with the british authorities they were requested samples of the nerve agent britain refused to provide them russia also said it was willing to help with the investigation they haven't heard back from that so they want to cooperate then and recently moscow just lost their own criminal investigation we don't know when that's going to happen how that's going to happen if it's going to happen at all because of course they will need that cooperation from the brits that's the situation as it stands russia reiterating that no evidence has been released on the poisoning as well so that they could communicate with the u.k. so the news this hour russia ordering the expulsion of twenty three british diplomat. in retaliation for the c m

a moment from london the thank you very much for. yeah us and euro was alluding to there even though the british investigation into the poisoning is still ongoing u.k. officials already turning their words in to action vice versa right now shocking reports issue threats impose sanctions and cancel your plans to attend the world cup now there's no time to explain the stuff memes 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 and the 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 the strength is in 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 italy skeptical and calling it too soon to blame the kremlin paresis that 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 go back to 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 on for a give a bold behavior for a diplomat russia's envoy to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons ses the u.k.'s refusal to work together with moscow is suspicious. gloria i'm going to could did a good based on statements by the head of the british delegation and 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 to. go it's minute but we offered other options if they don't want to talk to us directly we can go through the executive council if we could 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 you know 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 aiyana of 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. or we are closely following the ongoing developments in the hun falling diplomatic standoff on will keep you posted when more details emerge. highly likely that russia was responsible. all right let's turn our attention to syria where civilians are continuing to flee the militant held region of east ghouta through russia sponsored humanitarian corridors these are live pictures from one of the to escape routes it is still mourning there just after eleven a in syria but what you're seeing here are continually roots of people crossing into the government controlled area over the last three days we know

seventeen thousand people and knowledge to flee this is some of the drone pictures coming from on top giving you perhaps a better idea of the length of the journey by these families and you know when we go to the other pictures and you see more of. a close up shop you're seeing a lot of children there are people who would never have been born in peace time they would only have known war and really these kids trying to get out from the terrorist occupation and that is what is occurring now it's the biggest single existence fighting escalated last month people as you can see are carrying their whatever belongings they have and getting i to all of eastern ghouta the first to make it the safety we know from days ago were children women the injured you're seeing a lot of women and children here as well information coming from the russian defense ministry they were given basic supplies when they reached the government control with side of the corridor and everyone there would have

a story to tell this is how they described life under the militants. was. that the militants who are living with us next to hollis and inside them they would open and hold in months the houses to be able to move they would not leave and we did not dare to say get out. you know they fired to dos they didn't want us to escape at all they fired at the cost will so that we couldn't leave. i suppose we had no food or water there are ten of us and we could not buy a kilo of flour we were starving we wanted to escape but they wouldn't let us be flat against their will so they fired at us and half of the people were shot look at our children their feet hungry and without clothes that the militants showed no

mercy. through and through over this i don't remember the last time i ate we didn't have food in our village the militants took everything that the humanitarian convoys delivered. meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to the country has welcomed a brief cease fire in one of eastern ghouta cities stefan demister alter renewed calls for a nationwide secession of hostilities. that meetings have been taking place. between the russian federation enjoy a shift in the last few days out of. it can you. be doing the government russian military and forward to continue to logically hold for the day no good for the

whole because being one good. very bad. was seized by rebels in late two thousand and twelve and since twenty thirteen has been under siege with the syrian army trying to recapture the area the assad government has not succeeded in driving the militants into three small pockets regaining control of much of the region despite the advances many civilians there are still living in dire conditions political analyst and author phyllis bennis believes at the heart of going situation goes far beyond the 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 busy casting their votes in the presidential election their choice will decide who gets the kremlin's top job for the next six years. i. suffered a though is the day of elections silence in which campaigning is stopped news

coverage of the candidates is not allowed so until the polls close on sunday evening we won't be able to tell you much about those vying for the russian presidency but what we can tell you are the people deciding russia's future the falters.

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he's policy i thought his policies the best and this made me call my son after. the amount of money for when i named my son donald trump the behavior of all my family my parents changed because of pressure i left my village for a couple of my close friends who also distanced those of us from the us where did you name your son donald trump was in there or any other name. but him or her we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as doing and i will never change. the.

oil the picture is a bleak one for little the u.s. campaign against al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan has been going for the past sixteen years it started under george w. bush as part of the so-called war on terror the latest un report on the country is also a sobering one documenting over ten thousand civilian casualties last year alone speaking in the afghan capital this week the u.s. defense secretary said america is no longer seeking a military solution. all work he. would keep a record deal we gave the record so we gave out a military victory the victory will be with the rug. the taliban will pay a price our 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 more of the day's main news in ninety seconds. that's.

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let's start again stateside where an american multi-billion dollar health care company linked to the us defense secretary is embroiled in a must of fraud scandal the firm called third promise to make blood test cheaper and faster but is now accused of defrauding investors to the tune of seven hundred million dollars by making false claims about its products contracts and earnings third notice was founded in two thousand and four by elizabeth holmes when she was nineteen after she developed the drugs punch to administer doses based on blood type the firm then moved into diagnosis claiming it's simple blood test could be used to detect old mother of conditions except that didn't work but the rapid rise

of thirteen o's attracted big names to the board. reports. 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 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 an 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 fam some equipment and even lowered its prices to appeal to investors and that wasn't the only way holmes brought in clients he 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 and developing technologies that could make a difference in people's lives including for the severely wounded and ill i had quickly seen tremendous potential in 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 maddux 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 when it all turned out to be a sham holmes got into legal trouble but matters still sits comfortably as the secretary of defense samir khan r.t. washington d.c.

. hard work never harmed anyone so goes the saying at least but it is not the case for one french baker he's been fined three thousand euro for refusing to take a day off. in . my first year i worked in july and august seven days per week with special permission and the second year 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 the business can open every day during the summer there's nothing worse than closed shops when there are tours. 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 the 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 and some 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. you can tell it taste fantastic two more great programs right ahead in our tasting with us. closer to the new menu don't. see the garlic try to get a court to do. what they need not through only ten spaces. let alone a. set. claiming to know. that. you speak french. sandel fulton new. jersey the delta.

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after a time here we're going on the ground on st patrick's day coming up with a show from the u.k. towards international relations committee lord valve tells us to raise a mate as normal but without all the angles on the response to the atrocity and will tour in the southwest of england and his cold war rhetoric freezing diplomacy in britain we speak award winning author and rolling stone journalist maybe about how and the russian hysteria would lead us to a nuclear winter plus the consultant for the would rather me a road daily email that drew p.s. predicts the fall out from wiltshire will lead to the end of jeremy goldman's political career oliseh more coming up in today's going underground but first british labor leader jeremy corbyn didn't even use one of his questions of prime minister's questions to go do minority government need to raise i'm

a into war because of weapons of mass destruction you want to dance is about a financial statement on monday the n.h.s. is clearly in crisis so why wasn't there a penny extra of the n.h.s. in yesterday's statement by the chancellor the prime minister told corbin to look at the arguably blairite labor party in wales perhaps you might look to see what neighborhood tearing in wales. at the latest on new day to the nation start new data shows when i look at twelve hour waits in any that's three point four percent of patients waiting over twelve hours and when compared to one point three percent in england they want to talk about meeting targets he should talk to a neighbor government in wales school been would hear nothing of it any chance england abandoned it psion he targets until april two thousand and nineteen it's.