russia's defense ministry says it believes that extremist groups in syria are planning to stage false flag chemical attacks to give the u.s. a pretext directly striking the government. says rebel control of syria's eastern crumbles over forty thousand civilians flee the stricken region through humanitarian corridors. also in the headlines moscow expelled twenty three british diplomats mirroring the steps taken by the u.k. in response to the kremlin's alleged poisoning of a former spy daughter. doesn't want to name my son donald trump the behavior of my family my parents. because of pressure i left my village for a. couple who named their son donald trump say they've been forced to move away from

their hometown because of a fierce backlash from relatives. from moscow with me. nine pm here in the russian capital welcome to the program. russia's defense ministry has confirmed to rebel groups have been armed with chemical weapons in syria planning to stage false flag attacks as a pretext for the us to carry out a strikes. the details. representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have intimation and reason to believe that the united states it's as talent base in syria has been preparing squads of rebels fighters to stage a chemical provocation a chemical weapons attack in the south of syria in doubt which borders jordan and

israel they've been provided allegedly as when years twenty tons of norene this one is dead today this disguised as disguised as cigarette packs and this attack is imminent the fed's officials have said that this attack will be blamed on the syrian government and will be used this excuse by the united states and its allies to strike could push al assad to his government did his military directly then they broke up the provocations mention to be used as a pretext that the united states and its allies to conduct airstrikes against military and state infrastructure in syria we're seeing that such strikes are being prepared by warships in the mediterranean the red sea and in the persian gulf at the same time speaking in past a nice segue a lover of the russian foreign minister said that the syrian conflict is beginning

to look less like a proxy war than a direct confrontation on the hornets spetznaz of there are u.s. special forces on the ground they are no longer denying this they are accompanied by the british french and special forces from other countries it's not a proxy war anymore historical provide rather a direct involvement in the war it will slow we condemn their illegal presence on syria's territory the u.s. led coalition is not legitimate from the u.n. point of view either we are pragmatic people systems and we understand that we should not engage in armed conflict with them representatives of the russian armed forces also talked about this. situation in east ghouta from which they see food see seven thousand civilians have fled in the last several weeks they say there's a huge operation humanitarian operation underway three called the words of aid of god into. israel and they see the u.n. the u.n.

representatives on the ground in east moved to praise the russian in syria an effort in relieving the situation there providing food and other aid. to civilians in need they also say that armed groups in east ghouta as well it's easily missed to express their desire to leave to leave these. other locations once their sponsors give the green light. now we have a request for comment from the u.s. military on the claims made by the chief of the russian general staff i will let you know the response if as and when we hear about. now the briefing russia's military chiefs describe the civilian about to ation from eastern guta or as an operation unique in its scale over forty four thousand people have managed to flee from the region so far in the biggest single accident since fighting escalates a bear last month russia's defense ministry says the first to make it to safety

were children women and the injured they were given basic supplies when they reached the government controlled side of the corridor you know how they described life under militant. i was reading. about the militants who are living with us next to our hardison inside them they would open a rolled in months their houses to be able to move they would not leave and we did not dare to say get out. while you know they fired a dance they didn't want us to escape at all they fired at the cars well so that we couldn't leave. 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 at our

children their feet hungry and without clothes but the know it and showed no mercy . thank the south africa i had that in my case the aid was given only to certain groups so most of the medical aid was sold it was from humanitarian agencies and the un and was distributed didn't do so under the supervision of our government but the militants were selling it. 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. so the un's special envoy to the country has welcomed a brief cease fire in the city of duma in east thing guta stuff under mr also renewed calls for an end to the hostilities across syria and that was acquired by early hours r.t.

the organization's main humanitarian coordinator on the ground in the region. operating well with the russians center for the conciliation to organize humanitarian convoys and also to assist people who are leaving east duma so we're looking at more than twenty thousand civilians were living. in desperate conditions and they are housed in different shelters in and around damascus so they need everything they need blankets they need mattresses they need food they need medications they need protection they need to feel comfortable being made to feel secure a lot of teams are working around the clock with them together with. the syrian out upper class and i.c.r.c. and of course we are cooperating with the government my formula for that is suspension of hostilities over to do much to continue. over the east to continue ability to send convoys and medical assistance into east. and people are allowed to

leave. without any obstacles and the same applies to our freedom by the way because we have the same situation in freedom with civilians living on the duress and under threat of of the military and that is totally unacceptable. or we can go live now the red cross spokeswoman for the middle east command she joins us live for college thanks for joining us mam great to have you on the program obviously a very serious situation in the still ongoing how would you assess what's going on there on the ground right now. situation on the ground is catastrophic as you mentioned there was one point we entered together with this you can add up at present and the u.n. bringing food for twenty six thousand people in the main town of duma of prison mr malvo was with that one boy and he spoke to the people there he found exhaustion

and the spirit of thirty years would actually start sobbing after a few sentences people hiding in basements for fear of the fighting three families or whom with skate years with with law yes people hungry many many without access to health care injured people so what we need is indeed to be able to go back as soon as possible which when you don't convoys put those remains and said. i'd assume that most of today together we did see an advocate present we have emergency aid to the people who have fled quite now accommodate the two camps close to damascus we brought food for twenty thousand people we're also bringing food to collective kitchens and as of tomorrow medical supplies that's where i dissent and we are also very concerned as we said is that he was saying about his situation as we knew what he wanted to see billions all are still under fire and

also without protection. and just in terms of those humanitarian corridors established over and start over forty thousand people have left those routes how are they working of effective in getting those civilians out of danger and into an area they can get the help they need. well it's important to remind you that you meant it in corridors have to be establishments with an agreement on all sides but clearly whatever you spite and between them due to safety please where they have access to food to protection to shelter and medical care is where it at. we have also demanded all the quiet these three days a girl about internationally in terms of a that we shouldn't people who leave a conflict that you have to do so by their own. bet if the choose to stay for whatever reason the tea being protected the. who it here being that civilians

clearly did not attack it only military targets are legitimate so see billions injured school says hospitals lances homes not a legitimate target and what unfortunately we've been seeing throughout c.d.r. is a lot of the spec for this basic principle of international money day and all which is that civilians massed despaired at times to do things the situation and getting enough media attention i mean do you think enough is being done to ease the obviously very dire humanitarian crisis in that area. well i would say that media attention is always welcome but what makes the difference that it worked thirty five in uganda bombs is not media attention is a respect of the gurus for those by the court and many from the many parties work fighting in syria what might just. try hiding in

a basement in history fighting these hungry and you see is not yet internet the media with all due respect what matters is the fact that those fighting should respect the child should make sure that the child is still alive tomorrow so that only now many don't bond with him with food and medicine that their child needs to be still thriving different day and unfortunately again this is not happening often enough to of. course you're quite right obviously both sides in that conflict have been accused of various breaches of international or of crimes etc but just going back to the question of accusations i mean forty four thousand that's a very large number do you think agencies are able to cope with that large exodus of people that are leaving the area. where they hear from a police that totally in this equation is dealing flacks a definitive when you have large numbers of people arriving all at the same guy.

help you need days and days with things to for you to place but certainly everybody now and so it's that if you believe that we are i just seen. that we also need to be able to get in we convoys into the senate with that for those remaining and equally in two or three which is where again there has been a biggest uses of the fighting and again at three in the north of syria you have hundreds of thousands of civilians who are in dire need both assistance and of protection from the faculty. and of course your organization is doing a crucial role there in easing some of that very very dire hardship very serious situation from the red cross there bring us the latest on that is thank you to thank so much for coming on today. now russia is to expel twenty three british diplomats as relations between the two countries

continue to plunge to new lows this comes in response to an identical move by the u.k. that followed the kremlin's alleged poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the south of england and the old shooter picks up on a story. we all thought tensions could not get much worse between russia and the u.k. but how wrong we are to be so hopeful for the controversial story that's dominated the international media headlines with endless discussions and debates has of course been the poisoning the father and daughter the scribbles for measures have already been taken by london expelling twenty three russian diplomats from the country and now russia has retaliated the u.k. ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow and the results of that conversation are as follows twenty three british diplomats same number as russian diplomats being surveilled from the u.k. have just one week to leave russia in addition moscow has revoked permission for britain to operate a consulate general in st petersburg moscow has also stated that the government

could take further action if britain takes any more unfriendly moves towards russia here's how the u.k. ambassador reacted to the opportunity to explain the material. we asked russia where the material that it would keep the receipt for. what he noise. and the old stuff and stick to moscow today it is that idea any involvement in the attempted murders of survey and scribble and russia's representative to the chemical weapons watchdog explains how russia has never run another top program that's the nerve gas allegedly used in the poisoning since the collapse of the soviet union. russia has no connection to what happened in salzburg as far as novacek is concerned the russian federation i stress that the russian federation has never had a research program under such a code name for a spokesperson for the foreign ministry however side of the states had the

opportunity to develop similar nerve agents following the breakdown of the soviet union was the scientists who developed various aspects in the sphere left russia by chance western countries waited for them and they took technological expertise. with them after this soviet scientists continue do work in some western countries alongside the u.s. the u.k. slovakia sweden and other states all of these can be seen openly in sources now moscow says that it has made many attempts to cooperate with the u.k. investigators they requested a sample of the nerve agent that was apparently refused moscow says that they made numerous attempts to help with the investigation those requests were also refused and as a consequence russia has just launched its own investigation into the case of yulia script polish she is a russian citizen exactly how when and if they will be able to proceed is still unclear as they will have to have some element of cooperation from the british authorities to complete an investigation so diplomacy really is at an all time low

with threats and accusations flying from each camp the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson even went as far as accusing president putin himself of ordering the murder of so basically powell stating it is overwhelmingly likely that putin was behind the poisoning and moscow responded saying that those comments were shocking and forgivable so as the world watches and endlessly debate who's to blame what we really want to know is how barack this diplomatic spat will get an idea or tutor r.t. . the foreign ministers of sweden and the czech republic of firmly rejected russian claims that they possess locations closely following the ongoing developments and we'll keep you posted of course as the latest comes in. highly likely that russia was responsible.

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is in which to live a million children a woman does not count. welcome back to. russia to choose its president on sunday just less than twenty four hours to go now in fact we can go live to kevin owen who's our special suter right in the center of moscow on red square.

the proceeds you the best seat in the house for all the great coverage you got coming up of the big vote this weekend live from red square the iconic ramparts of the kremlin there kevin i would here with you at the moment the big buildup the russian presidential election when live from the heart of the russian capital chile here but no matter russian citizens spending eleven time zones will become their votes on sunday as they make their choice for the candidate to set to take the kremlin's top job for the next six years this saturday though is a day of election silence so actually we're pulling out all the stops to be with you the move there's a lot we can obviously say but the kind of the moment that's blanked off campaigning has stalled the news coverage of the candidates in the manifestos is obviously not a lead to give people a minute to think about things so until the polls close on sunday evening we will be able to tell you much about those vying for the russian president to see but it will kick off in about twenty four hours moscow time just over that what we can

tell you about right now though of the people who will be deciding russia's future so meet more the russian voters go to the polls tomorrow. story in the old song they put out some of these two of us gets going you sure you can all get. out of most of the google groups before innocent people to put

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before we're both out there on the stand of course in russia starts more many people have already. gathered over thirty thousand people who already cast their votes people from abroad because they want to and i as an indication it's going to be. those people already voted to make sure their votes are really into. the polling stations open from eight o'clock in the morning across the eleven time zones in russia so we're going to really start talking about it not o'clock tomorrow night moscow time to an hour further west of us in kaliningrad so that's all that we've got lined up for there's going to be a busy day i know you a little rest the team right as well now let me just leave you for a second with a quick shot of the kremlin here tonight as i say said chilly night but a super light to. bring our viewers a little look at it there we go let's spin it where is it spits prince spin you can see me they don't receive me i want to see the kremlin super silk people doing some

late night shopping good michel here and we'll end up with the iconic shot of st basil's cathedral along. this minus sixteen temperatures tonight i'll leave it for . you get in then. ok bringing us the latest from the heart of moscow on the election tomorrow now staying on the subject of presidents all be russian ones the name donald trump probably isn't one you would expect to find someone called in afghanistan but exactly what one couple decided to call their child as a sign of respect to president trump's policy they've faced perhaps understandably a backlash from both family and the community. truly are the. odds. on the last

one 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 of. theirs i wanted more from when i named my son donald trump behavior all my family and my parents changed because of pressure i left my village for a couple of my close friends who also distanced themselves from they asked why did you name your son donald trump wasn't there 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 don't trust i gave my son business to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as doing and i will never

a child. home. and set for myself on the team no doughty this i will see you at ten pm oscar time for more global headlines. that. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the

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c m a group the largest and most liquid exchange in the world is considering expanding further with the purchase of u.k. b. . based any x. group which offers bonds and foreign exchange trading and the x. touts the largest trading platform for u.s. treasury bond trading and c.m.e. is the largest interest rate futures market trading like any ext c.m.e. has a sizable and growing foreign exchange futures business at this point the negotiations are ongoing and under the rules of the london stock exchange where and the x. group is traded their stock is traded c.m.e. group has until april twelfth to make an offer to. unilever the anglo dutch consumer goods company is moving its headquarters out of the u.k. to the netherlands unilever says there will be a net loss of fifty jobs down from one hundred between the two current headquarter locations in the u.k. and in the netherlands well unilever's.