if lionel is of the view that all those billions of dollars that spent worldwide on advertising on news channels like arts here and others is just absolutely just wasting money just to you might as well throw it out the window if that's your attitude then obviously i'm not going to persuade him or anybody who believes that that by no that's not what he said it would affect anybody's opinion line oh no she's me i didn't really know what so i said my point is my point is my point is that yes i think facebook should be ashamed of itself because the evidence seems to be that it knew exactly what it was what its role in this was and in a sense it was kind of facilitating this in the interest of making a buck and i think that's wrong. you became the main topic for the talks between the saudi crown prince and the us president on tuesday and then i found a rather creative way to present his potential customers with more military hardware . three billion dollars five hundred thirty three million dollars

five hundred twenty five million dollars the peanuts view. so here it is a very wealthy nation and they're going to give the united states some of them well hopefully however that meeting was met with protests as activists called on washington to stop backing the ongoing saudi bombing campaign of yemen. in yemen is a crown i can only crown prince it's here in the usa nice inside the white house right now meeting with president roosevelt well he's here to secure and secure more us when things should be used against me i mean and to him because he learned himself as a reformer who will be responsible for creating the worst humanitarian disaster on earth hands on yemen and you know they are you. saying there's been a whole lot of criticism over washington's role in the kingdom's campaign but first

some background ten thousand people have been killed since the start of the intervention back in two thousand and fifteen and a saudi imposed blockade has left the country at the brink of famine which the u.n. has deemed the world's worst humanitarian crisis. there good work that you think it would. get. now even though the public has condemned washington's role the u.s. has been actively supporting the campaign by arming the saudis amongst many other things last year trump signed a record arms deal with saudi arabia worth about a hundred and ten billion dollars one of the biggest in history and trump hopes to

make more deals with the country some senators have voiced opposition to u.s. involvement and they even put forth legislation in the senate that would end cooperation with the saudis but that was voted down and they've even grilled u.s. centcom over the use of american weapons but the pentagon didn't seem to have any answers just sit com track the pope. this of the nations that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of the mission senator we do not ok. forty two people are confirmed dead after a series of missile attacks struck government controlled suburbs of the syrian capital a local state media blaming rebels in eastern guta as across live now to local journalist joining us here on the program you've been to the site of one of the strikes what more can you tell us about the attacks in the suburbs of damascus.

well this is one of the largest single rocket strikes that ever hit the syrian capital damascus since the beginning of the conflict back in two thousand and eleven. wrong several rockets have left as you said in the introduction over forty two killed in at least in one site in school in the suburb east of the syrian capital damascus the rockets hit a popular market a marketplace that was very crowded at the heart of people shopping because today people into a summer break mother's day and many people are out buying their gifts yesterday and when the shells hit leaving this large number of. civilians in that particular song it is as i said one of the biggest rocket attacks in syria ever and certainly the biggest single we're talking damascus since two thousand and one. we have i witnessed a callous we can tell you right now. when we got outside we couldn't see anything because the dust a real massacre ice we wouldn't wish anyone to witness

a scene like this it's really saddening. local journalist thanks very much thank you. and you sexual consent bill in sweden is proposing to increase the punishment for rape plans headed to parliament on tuesday revised the list of sexual crimes. that's different from current legislation where has to be shown that there was violence and threats force were the plaintiff was in a particularly vulnerable situation we have not however changed the basic principle that it's willingness which decides if it's an act of abuse or not there will no longer be a need to prove intent in rape for example meanwhile sexual consent must now be verbal or clear actions as mentioned punishment for perpetrators is also being increased however no changes to evidence standards were proposed now it comes amid a ten percent rise in the number of rape crimes in the country in just a year of

a danish journalist i've been around the home for fear that if passed the law will only increase the number of false accusations i think it is a way to send some political signals because this is nor will it change the definition of what is rape and now a man has to prove that there was a total consent from the woman it can be easier to accuse a man of rape there are rapes going on that is never reported because there's no evidence so this could actually help a lot of women to come out and make accusations but what could also happen is that there will be a lot of false accusations and you know just having sexual activity could be like entering a courtroom is wednesday march twenty first here in moscow more of the worldwide headlines in just a moment. it

would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media attack donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mackay but the f.b.i. is taking some point is this the beginning of a purge. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million and one player. it's an experience like no one else want to because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful game but great so will more chance for. the base this minute.

have you with us today for the program a muslim police officer in germany has been fined a thousand euros after refusing to shake hands with a female coworker citing religious reasons the officer was then made to sign a document acknowledging women as equals while also promising not to discriminate in the future the incident took place at a staff party last year which led to disciplinary action some exam exposed in order to allow any form of physical contact with the opposite sex if the man and woman are not related to my colleague daniel hawkins out opposing views from experts about the incident this behavior is averse to so the ladies who would think the same thing will also not change the hands of the man so it's not the sort of not

accepting or upsetting the gender of the one it belongs to a tradition in europe as a sort of core to z. greeting each other and shaking the hand there is a difference between different people and the train cultures and some cultures they fit better together and others do not does not fits a perfect when you have a complete different concept of culture in your country we don't try to to islam as eyes every problem we see in our life so there is a lot of other cultures like the japanese they don't shake even some of the orthodox jews and also they don't like to shake hands the similar case in sweden with. where a police officer again. believes refused to shake hands. sided with the officer they said we need to embrace diversity. what's the problem with

embracing diversity come. immigrants do made a lot of more problems than for instance eastern european immigrants or vietnamese immigrants germany has to decide what it wants to become do we want to accept that islam is part of our every day's life and every day as cultures or do we want to accept the wail. on women's heads and faces that we want to accept work or do we want to accept gender inequality the majority of people in germany in surveys shows . don't want that freedom of religion is one of the columns of our society and accepting diversity as societies should we saw so or so generous to accept is that versity but there is there is a general. and the general. comment that how to deal respectful with each other accepting each other. twenty six people are confirmed dead after a suicide blast near kabul university on the first day of

a major holiday marking the new year in afghanistan at least eighteen people have also been injured in the blast hit an area close to the university campus the site of the explosion has now been cordoned off by security forces we understand at this point no one has a claim responsibility for the attack. rumors are growing of a key reshuffle in donald trump's legal team with american media headlines warning that the president plans to fire the head of the rusher investigation robert muller the following two tweets fueled media attention questions the impartiality of the investigation led by moolah you also claims that the probe itself is based on quote a fake dossier paid for by democrat rivals now just to remind you robert muller is an investigator leading the probe into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election his team continues to look for possible connections between trump and russia. now reporters did manage to watch trump

himself about miller's potential firing but the president refused to be drawn in. all right thank you very much all right. let's make right now trump didn't tweet about him that whole time even once until this week and see no cause when it comes to mr maule or he needs to be able to do is job independent of any political influence donald trump is gearing up to fire robert muller if you're innocent act innocent and right now he's looking like you know i want this over because he's got something to hide and that's a mistake we spoke to news commentator jean allowed she believes that the molar issue was simply being driven by the mainstream media because it believes it could lead to trouble impeachment the topic of mole or is one of the votes perfect examples of where trump tweets something the media goes into apoplexy over it gets themselves all in

a tailspin about it when in fact there's nothing going on there and there's nothing that's going to come of it and the media feeds right into this the media with love to believe that the president would fire moeller and that this would somehow lead to the president's impeachment because that's exactly what the left wants they are constantly desperately clawing and scraping for some way to get this president out in the media perceives everything that the president does as sickly a prediction of his next policy move they're making a gross error that they've been making for going on a couple years that al and that's why it's not serving the media so well but despite the rush of probe dominating american mainstream media the current best selling politics related books in the us suggest the public is perhaps more interested in a slightly less serious issue. we

wrote a book about mike pence his rap it's all rap it has a boat all you so there's that oh oh oh oh oh i hop to the garden to look at the flowers that is when i saw him the most beautiful bunny i have ever seen. thanks for sharing your wednesday with us here on r.t. international we'll have more in a short while. the

most expensive fish in a will 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 catching. it's only remnants of a much larger mission was one 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 long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. global war hawks telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that will . produce offspring to tell you that because of the public by fell for the most important thing. about telling me you are not cool enough to buy their

products. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. i'm after tense here we're going underground on the day tourism is appointed judge summit in more big begins procedural hearings for the inquiry into one of britain's worst tragedies graham fell coming up on the show we ask a former senior british intelligence officer why london now says moscow has been stockpiling the nerve agents six months after the organizations of the prohibition of chemical weapons announced complete destruction of russia's chemical weapons stop and we going to war with iran and who will be fired next in washington we get

the lowdown on the only world leader general to raise amazed and from a member of donald trump's media advisory board dr jean allowed in the headlines not state a. reason made on the oil company that was protesters to frack calls all the support coming over today is going underground first this week marks nineteen years since britain went to doing arguably illegal war against a sovereign nation without any resolution from the u.n. security council mandating violence no not iraq russian backed serbia and yugoslavia and even de facto china in yugoslavia in a sense the un is sidelined in all of this the russians and chinese made it clear some months ago that they couldn't support military threats but we simply couldn't stand by and do nothing as a result of russian and chinese our eight years later nato supreme allied commander of that war general wesley clark explained what the pentagon would then tell him i

came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time we were bombing in afghanistan i said are we still going to war with iraq in general which worse than that he said. just be picked up. piece of paper he said i just he said i just got this down from upstairs me the secretary defense office today and he said this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years starting with iraq and syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and finishing off iran. of those seven countries iraq is arguably under a rainy in orbit and syria has kind of wanted to war against u.k. backed regime change somalia and libya destabilized by britain went to resume a was in government fighting islam ists in fact libya is in the news because of the detention of former french president nicolas sarkozy sudan meanwhile is allied to brics china and yemen bombed with weapons supplied by tourism is government represents the world's worst humanitarian crisis for iran the world waits for

donald trump to rip up the iran nuclear deal signed in vienna in twenty fifteen here's his former national security advisor mike flynn on this show talking about the iranian threat and why russia should be involved with any confrontation with the islamic republic it's facing all of us it's facing the world and we have to recognize and we cannot keep. catering to nations like iran which are part of it and i think for russia and i've said this before on this network that russia has to take a different view of how they deal with iran interestingly it was allegedly iran in conjunction with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons a synthesised novacek back in twenty sixteen our only real knowledge arguably of the agents claimed by juries or made to have been used in the poisonings of a m i six agent in england comes because of iran no wonder some might say the britons partners use the diplomatic phrase of a type made by russia rather than from russia as o.p.c. w.

scientists today investigate i'm joined now by philip ingram a twenty seven year veteran of the u.k. army intelligence corps worked in iraq northern ireland and yugoslavia philip thanks for coming on just before we get on to the atrocity in wilcher why you appearing on the this kremlin controlled network that to resume is counted and will handing off been given the editorial direction as to what it is and to say or not to say so you know i believe in free speech and you're giving me free speech so we'll get the message out well let. get this you believe the prime minister which says the only credible explanation it went from highly likely to credible explanation to plausible is that russia is responsible for the attempted murder of the scruples i do. do for a number of reasons but you you mentioned just before i came on about other countries that there's been reports that they produce no study agents or talks for a group there are so many different chemicals that could fall within that group and

as a group the international community knew very very little about it remember the o.p.c. w. . responsibility to oversee the destruction of weapons of the been declared to them and anything that's not declared and programs they need to try and find out about it and have other oversight but there's two reasons when you look at. how the attack happened in salzburg and the first one is who's got the capability of producing this type of chemicals so many countries that have the ability to produce a joke surely know what you're going straight to tel aviv well i would i wouldn't say washington or britain i wouldn't i would say so many countries you know scientifically there are a number of countries around the world that have the laboratories and have the capability if they want to produce it to produce it i suspect. but then the most important thing is you have to look at why you're what was the intent for this engine to be produced and used in the way it was and that's when you get into analyzing the intent that

a lot of the indicators point toward russia so the intent was to destroy russia's reputation of the world cup no not not not not the slightest bit intent i think was to send a very clear message and i think this is why i believe it was russia if you look at the type of agent you whoever used that agent on the suit say whoever at this time wanted to make it clear that they were using something that was novel that was horrible it was terrifying they were sending a message so we then need to look to see what sort of messages were they sending and i think there's you know there's a number of pieces here the first one was and i think this is the lowest priority message to a defector someone who had betrayed his home country was we don't even though he'd been pardoned even though we've been pardoned will get them but we've heard president putin say on television that you know he will go after anyone who has.

acted against mother russia when it was a rhetorical flourish about betrayal and i mean we have we've seen we've seen that in a number of cases the second thing is i think to send a message to the international community in the same way that we have seen security council resolutions being voted against we have seen with the onyx nation of crew. the support that's going on for rebels in eastern ukraine with the movement of a carrier battle group down into the mediterranean to fly jets against the rebels that were fighting in syria what president putin is doing is showing to the world that russia is not going to be messed around with and not sending a very clear statement domestically that russia is by. on the world's superpower market you said there's a message into the world was the domestic messaging and surprise surprise this happened two weeks before the president's election and president putin is a character is a strong character and wanted

a greater percentage of the vote than they got in the last election so the final part of the message i think this was the primary reason for using a very nasty chemical and using it in such a public way was to send a clear message out of those dissenters that could actually hurt him were every you are in the world just watch out because they didn't get you they didn't know before obviously this is all circumstantial evidence or could use exactly these facts to create a different reality when you obviously feel you are understand the kremlin more and you've you've worked with intelligence i've got i've got to get to this. why is it that even though the o.p.c. w. the british ambassador the o.p.c. w indeed congratulated russia on the complete destruction of verifiable destruction of all the chemical weapons in the past few months that the foreign secretary boris johnson said that within the past ten years russia has definitely been making

chemical weapons no virtual sex is the. one of this intelligence or suddenly appeared on. what one says the barossa fact. and is known for making a very bold comments that may not necessarily be based on ever anything that's there i don't know what intelligence has come across as desperate enormous privilege as she had else on a television program not not not at all and therefore i would put this down as a as a boris's i'm in you know he's making a statement for in effect that he's understood him himself but what it will be is he will have had a better understanding because his foreign secretary and he will be briefed it would have been briefed and overtalk and threats from the v. talk because there was no reason for that up until this in. that happened i'm not all of a sudden your large proportion of briefs that will be going across his desk will be nobody talk i'm giving him all of the background detail the probability is of course that we have that iraq example of where the evidence was used to fit geo

political policy you're presenting it is dispassionate intelligence offices dispassionate law enforcement little dispassionate government. isn't the problem here that i mean even this phrase of a type made in russia. a very important journalist's job kim jong un's brother when he was killed by a v.x. nerve gas the british government could be blamed because britain invented vieques nerve gas all that kind. of thing i think i think you're using that they could appropriate to say of a type that was invented by the british i'm sure the series of agents the next one was one that was developed the british between one hundred fifty two and fifty four so you know it joe but why jump the gun on the p.c. w that's investigating today and will show why don't wait for the outcome of the u.n. inspectors well i think there's two aspects to this the first is the the political

aspect you know the prime minister was under some political pressure not least of which from the opposition parties to give a statement as to what happened and to take cycling jerico would say she had to apportion blame immediately or the labor from bajor the i would wait for their property i don't i don't i don't think the prime minister would have apportion blame unless she had some very strong intelligence that will not be released into the public and that intelligent supersedes the official u.n. inspector report or will the u.n. inspectors report. whenever i worked with the united nations on them i'm not knocking them in any way shape or form but because every country in the world is a member the united nations we close we used to recognize google as having a higher classification than united nations intelligence so what's the point of your b c w being i will shoot it well with. our bringing in a set of independent spector's they can either use the facilities important on to

examine the agent and they probably will there and see what's going on and look at it as much as they possibly can to. try and examine the assessment has been made and come up with their own conclusions. and then the public take a sample of it away to their own laboratory so they can independently. look at the engine that's been used and apportion their own view as to where they think it's come from and that's very important to get the sort of independent oversight that you think is political pressure that caused a razor blade to jump the gun as it will i think they have their own little pressure i think is a political necessity and i think this in the city for the people the country because this is the first time that such a horrific agent has been used on this on the streets of europe that we shouldn't underestimate just how dangerous this is and the need to be a degree of public reassurance as if they have this lethal nerve weapon what's to stop this escalating without any kind of summit between london and moscow wants to stop this being escalated into threatening us in

a much more real way from developing from a cold war to a hot war which is fighting this war diplomacy comes in and international diplomacy comes in and this is where it's important that the o.p.c. w. gets in can make their assessment they can inform the united nations what's happened and we get back into the good old fashioned diplomacy game you know i think if we saw the russian reaction to the british expulsion it wasn't as severe as it could have been and therefore was a sort of like for like so there's suggestions there that your president putin didn't want to escalate this any further whether the closing of the british consul and the consulate in some petersburg is considered an escalation or not that's for treason made to decide for the bigger thank you after the break what did the saudi crown prince talk about during yesterday's meeting with president donald trump we ask a member of the old drugs media advisory board did you know loud and from the headlines some cozies gift from gadhafi with cash on top of these gifts from israel with all

the civil coming up in part two of going up the grove. join me every so straight on the all excitement chill and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . well you know the thing we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball it's next to the hard pull of ships and it's generally. not. the limo selves to be told fish already ninety percent of the dot and it won't be calmer. conta fifteen scoops.