headlines international escalating tensions with russia the u.k. adopts a new national security strategy ranking moscow alongside islamist terrorism on its list of main threats. and with many countries joining. over the. m.p.'s in neighboring island voicing their opposition to. gauge reaction in the irish capital. i think it's a needless threat to our sovereignty to look for the proof heard any i think it's. a country it's beyond it's just it's. tens of thousands of joint us. who was recently. and the first made in connection with the fire that killed

sixty four people including forty one children in the russian siberian city of camera as the city enters a third day of mourning. international a very warm welcome to you. amid increased tension between the u.k. and russia over the souls of. britain has adopted a new national security strategy with london moscow alongside islamist terrorism on its list of main threats the so-called fusion doctrine focuses on strengthening defense and the armed forces but also emphasizes using a broader range of capabilities including intelligence and economic tools to counter the. russia is branded

a threat and accused of engaging in hybrid warfare. and i see a truck and it has details. national security capabilities review that the british government released of course does not fail to mention russia it's a fifty two page document that talks about all sorts of threats and issues that the u.k. is faced with from cyber attacks to terrorism to crime to increasing all of the possible measures they can take to be able to take steps against all of those threats now among some of the means that the u.k. plans to use it when it comes to soft power is quote investing two hundred ninety one million pounds to twenty twenty in the b.b.c. world service to increase access to trusted news and information and they see that this soft power will be. used to project our values and our advance u.k. interests and indeed russia is mentioned in this report thirteen times the word

russian is used nine times and it's being listed among threats such as north korea and iran the document goes on to say that the indiscriminate and reckless use of a military grade nerve agent on british soil was an unlawful use of force by the russian state they talk about a well established pattern of russian state aggression assess a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption including meddling in elections and those are listed along with other acute threats as is being described such as islamic terrorism human trafficking piracy crime and instability. true gemayel prime minister actually in one paragraph she says to stretch this from islamic state north korea will nobody would argue that and then she says russia. right to review our security we have to review every country in this but to tag. a

russia in with north korea and with islamic state i think she's out of step with the ordinary man and woman on the streets of the united kingdom come we'll all just please calm down what we need is the evidence if the evidence points clearly to russia and indeed to vladimir putin i'll be the first to calm them russia and him but we have not seen the evidence and between russia and britain has been escalating for weeks following the poisoning of double agents script and his daughter yulia in the city of seoul very both are now reportedly in a coma investigators now say the highest concentration of the suspected nerve agent chalk was found on the script files front door a scotland yard to tech to have reiterated that the probe may take months. as a former russian intelligence agent he was stripped of his rank off to spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage before being released both already say script olen his

daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent of a type produced in the soviet union. now official power point slides have been leaked which form the basis on which the u.s. and the e.u. supported britain's expulsion of russian diplomats they described the nerve agent allegedly used to blame russia for the attack the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malicious tippity by moscow these include cyber attacks alleged election interference in what the presentation cold's the occupation of crimea well i must go to any any involvement in the poisoning it's made a formal request for the medical examination records of you and your script pal who is a russian citizen russia also calls the expulsion of diplomats a baseless sanction but judging by the slides in the presentation the allegations were based not on proof but on what was deemed a quote highly likely assumption. while

many countries have expelled russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k.

not everyone agrees with the move. which is also kicking out diplomats you're asking us to trust doris johnson and dare i say this might not be the why use this course of action we spoke to people in the irish capital about what about the diplomatic expulsions relating to the script. i think it's a needless threats to our sovereignty by a man who is thinking only of his legacy i deserve to look for the proof and i haven't heard any definition to wait until it was proven i mean it's there's some messed up things going on on the upstate things with caution you know we're really a neutral country like what would we do i think if disgrace to neutral country and it's can be and it's just it's tolkien is some of what they're telling now don't have got no reason to support the british security services or to take their word for what happened and so as a brit or for anything else but personally speaking i mean i think it was

a game that any ab's government would act as a puppet sort of britain as a puppet of the british security services but this tells us something about the drift of european politics and the death of irish politics along with their european partners at the moment i think it's a dangerous moment and is making a step into that ireland i think it's a country always in your two countries started making a step away from neutrality and that has got ominous implications for the future of foreign policy and indeed domestic policy of the republic. following last week's brutal killing of an elderly holocaust survivor the jewish community in france is sounding the alarm over the rise of anti-semitism in the country tens of thousands of parisians took part in a silent march and on or of the eighty five year old jewish woman was stabbed eleven times in her apartment and this case is the latest in a string of violent attacks against the jewish community some say they just don't

feel safe. there are lots of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of the slamming fundamentalists who create growing hatred and ill feeling to give the impression that the state can't cope and stop its who i am here with an operation this was not an ordinary criminal. he was inspired by anti-semitism and the weak are intact children young people this is trying to make a move released here she was jewish this issue is really serious figures from both sides of the political spectrum and senior government officials joined the demonstration some received a hostile welcome from the crowd leading to scuffles left wing. and right wing a marine le pen defied organizers request not to attend the event both parties have denied accusations of anti semitism in the past they know it was an eighty five year old holocaust survivor she narrowly escaped

a nazi order to round up of jews in the french capital in one thousand nine hundred two last week she was stabbed multiple times before her paris apartment was set on fire the two men have been arrested and charged a religious motive has been cited by all authorities and noles son daniel has been left utterly shocked by how killing the. unbelievers. she can move. in the. province is home to europe's largest jewish community and has seen a surge in anti semitic and reported incidents jumped by twenty six percent last year there's also been a significant surge in the desecration of jewish places of worship and burial sites

around forty thousand jews are estimated to have left the country since two thousand and six with many blaming the growing hostility and jewish community advise a believes the government has failed to address the situation. again and again you go then men dunn's institutions schools train to elp and to assist the jewish community is that not capable really to provide. security to women to men to kids together because the poor the policeman and if the jews in france many jews are asking what will be the future because they cannot continue to mulch in paris and to get said tears and to gain flowers. from the government because it's not enough it's not the bringing back to life i mean. he sees only me also many young jews of been killed in the last years.

the russian sub here in a city of cannot of and has a third day of mourning after a fire at a local mall killed sixty four people including forty one children with more facts about the tragedy surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of unbelievable courage have also started to a much. greater and i were pretty to gather in paris of shoes when i smelled smoke heard them a walkie talkie someone saying that people are running you know when he saw people rushing down the stairs three reasons alarms in which we started to write you a people or employees others with you do you want is the fear of the accident that i don't quite remember how i got it down in the soon as i got outside i saw none jumping out of the window from the third floor. was. all our coworkers had already stated when we looked at the is collated it was

full of people started helping us to get out of their rehab or back at the end of the storage room was still just cooling people to come to us when you. there were dizzy to my day our guys lived out there will cheer somehow get them to go downstairs everything i'm glad is that clouds of smoke surrounding it we've breathed heavily but we see to the end we just hose to save someone else do some people run into panics did you feel panic deep inside too of course we did there was no way to escape i don't know what would have happened to me not them i'm a father a son and a brother through so i can understand those people i wish one son would grow up the same be useful to humankind we don't consider ourselves rescuers we'll ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men who were burnt to death then you say a hero. my mother was worried about me she wanted to hospital and she says it was

terrifying. we go to moscow every day flowers and placed candles. meanwhile the investigation into what caused the tragedy is advancing the two men versions of the malfunction of the fire safety system and five people have been arrested among them two directors at the mall on the developer of the fire safety system of the blazing come out of it is one of the deadliest in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed as we mentioned earlier of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds of them were children just as the school holidays had begun. i was.

up late for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending through to twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else on to it because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game played great so well paul chance with. the base is going to. what politicians do something don't. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to.

have to go on to the press to supply them up for free in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the ones in the house. during question. good of you to join us today washington's unsay russian rhetoric has now resorted to a metaphorical expression the state department spokesperson said russia was a big east from the deep sea he's kind of off and went to the streets of new york to gauge reaction and her recent comments to the media state department spokesperson heather nauert had some interesting words to describe the largest country in the world russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other

nations elections as well. arms and how to describe what acquitted and like and you just said that just one of the bees from the deep sea yes russia has tentacles all over the world it's a beast from the deep sea it's rather creative now with metaphors like that you think that heather nauert was on par with herman melville and jules verne but she didn't think of it herself take a look at these old propaganda posters inciting americans to be afraid of the soviet union it turns out heather was just beating an old dead mccarthyist horse we decided to ask americans if they think that russia is really a deadly octopus what country do you think they were referring to. something to ioannes ireland years later that they didn't have what country they think it is no idea they called it the med learn. england. have no idea right there so what is that poster right if we lose like an octopus right what country do

you think that's supposed to represent. well it's in red so this means a communist country is a good russia. good guess russia what makes you think that because it's red do you think that russia might be like a like an octopus yes you don't think of russia's as a as a big octopus you know strangling and spreading out. across the planet i think america's more like octopus donald trump assured us during his campaign that he wanted to improve ties with russia i believe and easing of tensions and improved relations with russia from a position of strength only is possible absolutely possible well nothing paves the way to peace better than comparing other countries to wild oceanic beasts. r.t. new york. taking a stand against a preordained future has led to tragedy for one teenager in the us texas police

accuse the parents of a sixteen year old muslim girl of torturing their daughter for saying no to an arranged marriage with a man who was offering the family twenty thousand dollars. was abused by. the body she was being. at least she was almost. just. really. it was fifteen when her parents decided to marry her off to a man from another city after her refusal they allegedly tried to persuade her with force she run away before the wedding it was reported missing at the end of january this year disappearing off as she left school in san antonio but was found in mid march parents were arrested last friday and charged with abuse of a family member however they were released on bail two days later police say other charges may be filed in connection with the case. five siblings aged five to fifteen have been placed with child protection services and the parents deny any

wrongdoing and stated possible husband to be is also innocent father said all they wanted to do was help the young couple build a family together well we spoke to the head of an organization for preventing child marriages she told us that some us states which allow early wedlock and not helping matters. unfortunately if you look at the dates of that takes it's currently the u.s. has a federal structure where states of different ages not and i mean i know unfortunately do you quest like the u.k. like canada do allow marriage of girls under the age of eighteen if in the world today six hundred and fifty million women where money got children then you know that they all didn't run but of course that all cases where girls of the one pound way they know their rights and that is all to run unfortunately not as many girls

are able to make it to safety as the we we would like to see i think it compounds the problem if the boys over eighteen because then you're talking about issues of. i would say statutory rape because she's a minor but i think more children are becoming more aware that our more services available. can get help and support. thousands of protesters have marched in the streets of god as capital denouncing u.s. military expansion in the west african nation. nah. nah. nah but a controversial military cooperation deal was approved by parliament last week some of its members walked out in disapproval the u.s. will invest twenty million dollars in equipment and training for the country's army the deal also includes joint exercises and the right to use the nation's radio frequencies and runways some locals think it infringes on gonna suffer and. that's

the big gun he insists is to demonstrate against the decision by our presidents. side and i commend for the u.s. government to bring them to the three. countries. still being assigned. dogs this isn't good for my country to be so good as i decided to call fritz monday just to be president is the most recent. guest told us why they think gonna isn't getting the best deal possible the question is the canadian military be allowed to use united states radio frequencies the united states of america the answer would be flatly no this is a one sided deal a one sided arrangement but keep in mind as well that u.s. oil giants have been exploring all show or from god and reportedly have discovered many fines in terms of petroleum and i dare say that these u.s.

oil giants are also concerned about protecting their investments in west africa and therefore they would also demand and desire in enhanced an increased u.s. military role. or she can really is that shrunk from its responsibilities in the world and instead of hoping african countries develop their economic power. by investing in infrastructure to go the route energy ports. united states is increasing we relied on military kinetic warfare to fight terrorists and this doesn't work because the reason these terrorists are able to recruit is because it would be poor economic conditions at virtually drive the young people into the hands of a terrorist small amount of money. this is r t international the dollar

is facing a new threat china has just launched a new one back to oil futures which will challenge the globally used petro dollar china is the world's largest oil importer until now it's been paying for its oil in dollars and you launched a shanghai on exchange will allow china and other countries to bypass the standard petro dollar it comes the very same weakest on all trump unveils billions of dollars of tariffs against china or the economist among two solemn a says the broader implications of the new petro you one could be a game changer over the long term. it can it change it a lot because by definition the better you won is challenging the dominance of the petro dollar and in doing that it will impact adversely on the petro dollar and of course by the finish and on

the american economy itself. currently the petro dollar is the only currency you do will price and sell oil china i know is that and it wants to give the same benefit first by as stablish the line as an international currency. of course. and the petrodollar suddenly it will take time but it certainly poses a challenge to the petro valid for the first time since nine hundred seventy three when the petro dollar was low. but i thank you for sharing your time with us on this thursday march the twenty ninth we are back soon with more.

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clone of welcome to worlds apart in less than two weeks russia won from the highest order enthusiasm which sold logic of which in a locked up for another term to the los of grief and rage over the camera tragedy we sacrificed all of our four dozen children to national attention corruption to god the largest expulsion of russian diplomats from the west and the spread of a major military confrontation over syria what ima put in its next term is off to a rocky start what is it likely to bring well to discuss that i'm now joined by you've been mentioned a prominent political consultant here in russia as i mentioned it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time thank you now input is

a long stay in power russia has experienced and number of large scale tragedies some of them run managed so well for example in the course of the disaster it was general perceived as a communication failure on put inside that there was trying to do which was used as a starting point point for a major administrative reform i wonder how do you think the camera tragedy is going to be remembered is it likely to prompt any policy changes there is no. specific on sequences which could be resumed after this tragedy. at the same time i guess the communication stuff these should be was shown to some politician in the local and regional level like the governor of a region for example was not very successful. i guess this kind of victim blaming or trying to find some kind of external enemy

is not very effective because that's a retread it is i really want to pursue that angle of crisis communication a little bit later but let me ask you one question about which and specifically because i think the most difficult thing about this particular tragedy to process is that it was totally man made and putting himself said that this children died not because of terrorist attack not because of a gas explosion but because of a formalism corruption negligence and all of those things they have become archetypical trait of the russian state the state that he himself helped to create do you think is it fair to describe that tragedy as his own personal moment of reckoning i can tell you that unfortunately there is no. complete insurance for cases like this and fortunately i guess that yes that was a tragic mistake but i don't see a reason to blow.