planing or investigating he words people key words the russians everywhere. britain's prime minister has branded russia a threat that doesn't respect borders she's in brussels for an e.u. council summit where the poisoning of a former russian agent in the u.k. is likely to be high on the agenda is more his r.t. speak to all of. briggs it has taken something of a back seat for theresa may as she has taken part in the first day of the european council summit in brussels drumming up support for a united e.u. message against russia has been what she's been about on thursday she had strong words entering the summit we can hear what you have to say right now russia staged a brazen and reckless attatched against the united kingdom when it is tempting to the murder of two people on the streets of seoul spring i'll be raising this issue with my counterparts today because it's clear that the russians threat does not

respect borders and indeed the incident insoles was part of a pattern of russian aggression against europe and its neighbors from the western balkans to the middle east federica mocker raney is the high representative for foreign affairs for the a you that makes as close as the block has to a foreign minister she said on her way into the summit that she stands firmly in lockstep with london we will also obviously express our strongest possible solidarity with united kingdom after the attack in salzburg as well as we have done already with the foreign ministers on monday expressing clear sort of narrative and decided to stay focused on that together because the strongest political sign we can give is unity unity and unity but there are a number of other countries that are saying that if there to back more sanctions against russia are all there to take any further action or commit to a unified harsh statement by the e.u.

that they are going to need to see more evidence from the british side understand the greek so all of those nations saying exactly that but when the european council president darrell to skin the e.u. commission president jiang claudio good took to the stage to field questions from journalists well they didn't really have many answers when it came to what type of action the e.u. would be to. against russia to march for all sorts always just to come back to an issue intrude. were decided to convert to an issue in october. and wonder we are never coming back were discussed some of the earth doing so couldn't in the brief come back to the question. this is where the british prime minister might have a problem because she wants a united statement that it may have to be a message that's much more watered down than london would have wanted

a number of countries coming out and saying they need to see more evidence if they're to come out in criticize russia anymore or to level stronger criticism or stronger to take stronger actions against russia now they're expected to the scarse the issue of what to do about the scrip i'll kiss over a working dinner on thursday evening they'll be back in brussels on friday for more of this european council summit and we'll see if we see that united message coming throughout friday. the spat between the two countries follows the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter and solves very with the use of a nerve agent russian officer. was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence to move to the u.k. in a spy swap in twenty ten u.k. police expect the probe into the attack to take months but it didn't stop british politicians from straight away pinning the blame on moscow the british foreign

secretary has been among most throwing accusations that moscow and russia's ambassador to the u.k. alexander slammed boris johnson's comparison of the upcoming football world cup in russia to the olympics and to hitler he called it unacceptable and an insult to the russian people. because the roads lead to the. putins go the way thirty six. years i think the comparison with the one hundred thirty six is is certainly right moscow considers this kind of statements made under the level of the foreign secretary in india we unacceptable and totally responsible the british government just free to make a decision about its budget submission of the world cup but nobody has the right to insult the russian people who defeated nazis and lost more than twenty five

million people by comparing our country to nazi germany. did he goes beyond the common sense and we do not think british war veterans including those of the arctic cold warriors would share this opinion. because the story now with tara mccormack he's a lecturer in international politics at the university of leicester a very good evening to it are at the summit as we know in the way. big question really is there going to be much support do you think for me your member states for treason may's very strong anti russia stance well i think what we wealthy and bed net tweeted now by a couple of journalists the times correspondent one of the baby think correspondents i think we're probably wealthy a strong statement band that was released on monday. but as to what

happens after that. it's difficult to tell there does not seem to be any much appetite in the e.u. for more sanctions indeed merkel has been hoping now that with putin's reelection you know there can be a restarting of the minsk process italy we know has been eager to remove sanctions on russia anyway and so and so i i think what we will see now after the dinner is a stronger statement but i'm not sure whether there will be any and i think that it will be limited in terms of concrete action you mention one glimmer cooler the merkel there who along with emmanuel microns understand neither of them actually mentioning the script and case in public so conspicuous by their absence of comment on this do you think there's a chance that they'll leave the abstains so to speak by really not saying anything or could they even oppose the u.k.'s call for action well i think that there's

going to be from what i have seen there will be a special meeting tomorrow with france germany and britain specifically on the screen paul case and again i imagine there will be some strong statements as of course the initial statement from france germany and then america was fairly strong we had a weaker statement on monday from the e.u. so i think we will probably will stick say a couple of more strong statements expressing solidarity and so on but again i do not convinced that there will be much concrete action certainly not at the moment in terms of say sanctions broader sanctions what about the technicalities of the whole process and how things should have been dealt with in this situation the u.k. says that it's worked in accordance with the p c w rules the russians so they haven't who do you think is is in the right here. well i think the british

government's reaction and behavior has been absolutely appalling now of course a serious crime has been committed as far as we know in that scruple and his daughter seem to have been poisoned but beyond that we really don't know much of what we have seen from the british government is a terrible rush. to condemn russia actually in the absence of evidence and it's very interesting may has consistently said and this is repeated by france and germany that this is a substance of a type you know made in russia which doesn't really tell us anything and there's something there's been a court order has just been really. court order because the o.p w.c. . wants to take blood samples from the scrapers in order to conduct their own tests so this is just been released and the court order actually says according to

porton down blood samples from surgery scrape lenya scrape all were analyzed and the findings indicated exposure to a nerve agent or related compound they tested positive for the presence of another chalk cloth agent all closely related agent so in fact poor this seems to suggest the porton down itself has actually said ok this is not a chalk type agent or similar now this is actually a very far cry from what the government boris johnson say you know not only do we know it's not chalk we know there are stockpiles of it i debated them tongue tooken but the foreign affairs. house of commons foreign affairs committee chair. a couple of days ago on this trading brokaw sting company and he stated that the british government knew what le borat tree this compound comes from however

according to this porton down aren't making such claims at all so i think we've had quite a worrying reaction from the british government and there's been a refusal to wait for the kind of legal due process yeah it sounds like a very significant development you just took us through the appreciate that update and your views tara mccormack my guest lecturer in international politics at the university of leicester. the rush of blame games extended into areas was considered beyond political point scoring on london correspondent anna sichem going to found an educational project with an anti russia twist. what's better than helping the young to try to maneuver the ever tricky world of global current affairs. of the day is an online news service that is used by one in three u.k. schools teachers and librarians from subscribing schools user articles and

activities across all subjects for lessons homework research. here's one handed to tory and provided by the service to help educate the young and broaden their horizons talks of putin on mission to poison west ouch and among questions to discuss is putin europe's most dangerous leader since hitler was this gus. to help students out topics like the ongoing spy scandal where an investigation is still underway are broken down despite this incriminating evidence of international outrage milly smirks and everything in case there is confusion still there is a dictionary included which explains the meaning of the words marks surely this teaches you to put things into perspective not the chalk and blitzkrieg are also in here a military tactic designed to crush the enemy with overwhelming force

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a trade action targeting china he added the would be the first of many. the tariffs themselves target more than one hundred types of chinese goods ranging from clothing to electronics there estimated to be worth up to sixty billion dollars we're talking trucks also asked the chinese to reduce the trade deficit immediately by one hundred billion deficit which is more than double the u.s. deficit with the rest of the world is the main reason trump cited for these new tariffs the other being the problem of intellectual property and the technology theft over the past year terms and predictable approaches to china has left many people scratching their heads. money. we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. if you can have the relationship you know there's going to be conflict but we have a very good relationship people say we have the best relationship of any president

president we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen president she was enjoying it i view them as a friend i have tremendous respect for president she. we have a great relationship this is a it's i think a very dangerous way to. act in the global system well i don't think anyone wins in a trade war usually both sides. in my view the policy that president trump is following is a very bad policy not be helpful for the american people and of course not sure the chinese people what trumps policy is saying essentially is we are going to try and block china from rising focus on what is called theft of technology really shows the problem. saif gadhafi spokesperson has confirmed after months of room is that the son of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for

president if elections do manage to go ahead. science father was driven from power and killed in twenty eleven despite holding no official position saif himself was described as being the defacto prime minister during his father's rule so it was later held captive for six years before being released last year amid political unrest we heard exclusively from his lawyer about the presidential bid. saif al islam has lots of supporters they are ordinary people there are even those who are against moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven and now they support the views of his son the situation we have in libya now is the result of the destruction of all the state institutions not only the toppling of the regime forty countries today against libya back then our country was bombarded and shelled all the military and civilian infrastructure was destroyed many civilians were killed and now saif al islam has put forward

a comprehensive overview of the situation in libya that's a reform project which will bring calm back to libya there are many young patriots in libya now they are so enthusiastic they're not concerned about political affiliations the main thing they care about is a patriotic spirit and they see it in the reforms by saif al islam they view them as an effective tool to fight corruption after the nato led incursion civil war has raised in libya since well are gadhafi was overthrown the power vacuum two competing governments have been vying for control of the country that conflict led to a massive migrant crisis widespread terrorism as well as violence among tribal militias is the lawyer again revealing that saif sligh face will in danger. onek that's about saif al islam whereabouts are kept secret for security reasons as his lawyer i will do everything to protect saif al islam from all anti libyan plots

masterminded by the countries interfering in libyan affairs as promised islam will make a speech when the right time comes then everything will be revealed libya will return back to its roadmap will become a democratic sovereign state a state where the law will triumph libya will no longer be a country of organized crime illegal migration human trafficking as it is described in the media we will defend the interests of the libyan people and will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. so i'm a security firm kaspersky has identified a highly secretive and sophisticated piece of malware used to infiltrate the computers of intelligence targets but other people may also have been affected because person is not identified the people or organization behind the malware but service security and the cyber scope alleges it's part of a classified u.s. program citing unnamed u.s.

officials are also quoted as saying the spyware was used to target terrorists by collecting information from their computers a spare skee explained why that didn't stop it from revealing the malware. we detect and remain eate all forms of malicious programs regardless of origin or purpose furthermore the company does not whitelist any malware samples not even malware used for so-called legal surveillance one can easily imagine the situation in which such malware falls into the wrong hands and can be used to launch attacks against law enforcement were just regular users. or code named slingshot the main purpose is cyber espionage it's able to retrieve large amounts of data including images and passwords from these infected computers sun suspected users are targeted through compromised routers targets of the malware been detected as far away as african a middle eastern countries and appears to compromise the computers of individual

users but others including governmental institutions may also have been breached to find out more about slingshot we will spoke with a kaspersky security expert about just how this tool works but this was never the last half of. its sophisticated malware we discovered it last year after examining it for some time we can confidently say that it is intended for cyber espionage because all it does is collect data from your computer what makes this malware so dangerous is that it stayed under the radar for quite a long time our estimate is that this malware has been operational for about six years in other words the operators of this malware were using it obtaining data and remaining unnoticed because this malware is so advanced and uses many tricks to avoid detection we detected about one hundred infected computers mostly in africa especially in kenya and a few more in libya and afghanistan we can see here use this malware all we know is that the people who created it speak english very well because the code contains

some text lines and even brief descriptions of portions of code which are written in very good english. appreciate you company the saving hope to see you in half an hour. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only a much larger mission was one that was much more well i mean just to 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. oh. yeah. mo oh my gosh us playing today after so many mohit those imax guys are this is the kaiser report in puerto rico a territory that is currently under occupation by the current. unbelievably we're standing in front of some art that is representational lee depicting this what the heck is going on stacy this is the left went to their lavandeira which means that the flag door on july first twenty sixteen it was painted black prior to that it

was the classic puerto rican flag blue at top red stripes down now it's black because from then what some dub who into began to occupy this. territory i was going to say so nation but of course it's not totally a nation is the territory of the united states so i'm july first twenty sixteen they defaulted on a two billion dollars payment on a general obligation bond the first time since one nine hundred thirty three that it happened in the united states or any u.s. territory really set in motion a new period in puerto rican history so roughly at about the same time you had a whole new group of entrepreneurs in the crypto space as well puerto rico could be a great place for us to come and de camp and set up shop and turn this into a crypto paradise and we're going to be looking at some of those stories while we're here in puerto rico and of course we'll be sampling some awesome most fungo and we're going to get into the culture we're going to do so on a learn how to do some serious salsa dancing by the end of the show something i've

been meaning to do for the past thirty years and do the horizontal mambo maybe a couple times who knows whether what the what's going on there let me just give credit to the artist alvarez she made this in two thousand and twelve and then painted it black in twenty sixteen when the obama admin administrator brought in pro mace which means promise in spanish but in english it stands for puerto rico oversight management and economic stability act. and the sign you mentioned to appoint a who of course was a puerto rican american his parents were from puerto rico he wrote that sawing song oyo. me smoke so listen to my rhythm is what that means and so we're going to listen to the rhythm of this island you and i have been to many places in a similar situation whether it's greece whether it's ireland we've seen economic collapse and troikas and outside bodies oversight fiscal stability boards coming in

fiscal control boards and this situation coming in and occupying economically at least and that's really all that matters financial repression you know whether it's in the you. us when they artificially drop interest rates down to below market rates or whether you're in greece where you have the troika as it's down to now here we are four to rico with the one being called around the world there's always a battle going on with the central bankers and the commercial bankers always trying to repress the population in one way or another we call it the global insurrection against banker occupation we've been saying this for years on the show so now we're going to look at it from the puerto rican perspective they are similarly being oppressed by the overlords of finance and they are reacting in a very specific puerto rican way a lot of salsa a lot of beans and rice lot of dancing lot of sunshine and a lot of crypto baby by the way they are america and that's one thing to remember that i feel so proud to be american this is

a great location san juan is gorgeous and yet colonial city it's hundreds of years old france who is that guy. ponce de leon. ponce there yes he first of course basically found his old san juan he was the first governor here and we're going to be here for the next few episodes we're going to be reporting on the financial situation here remember on june thirtieth twenty sixteen when obama first introduced this new legislation pro mesa appointing a fiscal control board over the island they are not allowed basically they don't have their own economic sovereignty here because the president of the united states appoints these people to the control board the fiscal control board when they went bankrupt at that time their debt was seventy billion dollars. that's about twenty thousand dollars per person on the island since then of course because

of the hurricane and because of the economic collapse hundreds of thousands hundreds of thousands have actually left so now there's only about three point three million people on the island this is the bay of synanon were all of the colonials all the colonial powers whether the dutch the spanish or the british arrive through here this is the new world the gateway to the new world it's so gorgeous reminds me of the south of france we should move here but decided we're going to move here and now we're going to join the crypt the revolution in san juan puerto rico i feel it watching in my veins. stigmata pouring out of my trip the consciousness right here is a fuse with cyber christ on sunday it is a sunday and you know we've been walking around this island and that is a thing that is quite surprising to me i thought it was more like the bahamas and a tourist destination and kind of a hellhole of miami like situation but in fact it's an amazingly beautiful five

hundred year old it feels like you're in lisbon orville fonts the marriage does feel like a remarkable european city we've been to a lot of beautiful places all over the world and this is going to be one of the most beautiful i've got to tell you. so i was talking about the fight the fiscal control board and the fact that they lost their economic sovereignty it's a situation similar to appen with greece however you can tell the difference max and i have been to athens many times over series and lawn no tear gas but also there's it's less much less depressed here i think because the fiscal control board is filled with americans who basically donald trump is now the guy who would appoint this fiscal control board and he's gone bankrupt more than anybody else on earth let me give you a comparison between greece and ireland you know greece was allowed made an example of and the economy went. and flames that tear gas was everywhere and their suffering and depression ireland played ball with the i.m.f.

and the troika and they were you know got through the austerity measures and now there's a huge financial boom there except you have to pay a lot for basics like water to pay for it also the poor get ripped off of course but here this is more like that irish situation where they're kind of nursing them through fiscally until the crypto boom hits and it's going to hit in the next twenty four months i can feel it i can feel the block chain if it smells like victory. well max you know that twenty sixteen when they defaulted on their two billion dollar bond payment the first time since one nine hundred thirty three that a state a u.s. state or territory had done so defaulting on a general obligation by which you're not supposed to be able to do well they did it they were seventy billion in debt then by twenty seventeen they were one hundred twenty three billion in debt and then nobody really talks about it anymore because you know i hurricane maria hit and hurricane maria was

a category four hurricane. you already saw. her. wow there's a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well you know old song wants on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're the new colonialists i did speak to

a former government employee matches he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see the mess so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the faulting on there there's more solid to the territory incurred this debt willingly. has always been a toxic debt dump where wall street dumps you know and this is the story when you have a. empire like the u.s. and they picked on not all the european countries and latin american countries but they take them for every you know it's completely asymmetric warfare they dump dead here and people say well we'll take the money i mean why would you say no to money and then they come calling for the interest payments of like oh no we got a default then they say well we're going to come in with austerity measures and take over all your basic services and private eyes and then maria hit and said. that's right we're in hurricane alley deal with that wall street well so.