amid escalating tensions with russia. new national security. threats. with many countries joining. the voice their opposition to. the action. reaction in the irish capital. i think it's an immediate threat to our sovereignty. the proof heard any i think it's. beyond it's just.

joined us. it was recently. connection with a fire that killed sixty four people including forty one children in the. morning. it is international thanks for joining us on this thursday. top news stories. increased tension between russia over the souls of. britain has adopted a new national security strategy with london. islamist terrorism on its list of main threats the so-called fusion doctrine focuses on strengthening defense forces it also emphasizes using

a broader range of capabilities including intelligence and economic tools to counter the enemies russia is branded a threat and accused of engaging in hybrid warfare. other stuff here 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 say that the soft power will be. used to project our values and our advanced 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 this 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 of 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 well nobody would argue that and then she says russia think we're right to review our security we have to review every country in

this but to tag russia in with north korea and with islamic study us in 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 agent sort of basically powell and his daughter in the city of souls pretty both are now reportedly in a coma investigators now say the highest concentration of the suspected nerve agent used not a joke was found on the script front door scotland yard detectives have reiterated that the probe may take months so the case could have power as a former russian intelligence agent stripped of his rank off to spying for the u.k.

and jailed for espionage before being released authorities say script piled on 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 us and half 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 activity by moscow these include cyber attacks alleged interference on elections and what their presentation calls the occupation of crimea moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning it's made a formal request for the medical examination records of you and your script child who was 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 quote

a highly likely assumption. while

many countries of expelled the russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. not everyone agrees with the move. in neighboring. you're asking us to trust doris johnson and dare i say this might not be the why use this course of action and people in the irish capital about what they thought about the diplomatic 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've sort of looked for the proof and i haven't heard any that if we should wait until it was proven i mean it's there's some messed up things going on and of the at stake things with caution you know we're really a neutral country like what would we do i think it's disgraceful neutral country and it's can be and it's just it's tolkien made some of what they're telling now and have got no reason to support the british security services or there were for

what happened and so three or four anything else personally speaking and i think it was just gave me a risk of would act as a puppet sort of britain a puppet of the british security services but this tells us something about the drift of european politics and the drift of i always politics along with their european partners and i think it's a dangerous moment and it's making a step into that. i think it's a constant always in your to a country that is 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 in honor of the murdered eighty five year old jewish woman who was stabbed eleven times in her apartment this case is the latest in a string of violent attacks against the jewish community and some say they just don't feel safe. there are lots of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of islamic fundamentalists who create growing hatred and ill feeling we give the impression that the state can't cope and. it's why i'm here with. this was not an ordinary crime and it was inspired by anti-semitism and the weak are intact children people this is trying to make of release 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. and right wing a marine le pen defied organizers requests not to work ten years and both parties

have denied accusations of anti semitism. no it was an eighty five year old holocaust survivor she narrowly escaped a nazi ordered roundup of jews in the french capital in one thousand nine hundred eighty two last week she was stabbed multiple times before her paris apartment was set on fire two men have been arrested and charged a religious motive has been cited by authorities knowles son daniel has been left utterly shocked by the killing of. this. old woman. she can move. the. whole you can do the. home to europe's

largest jewish community and has seen a surge in anti semitic violence reported incidence 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 adviser. believes the government has failed to address the situation. again and again the government runs institutions. train to help and to assist the jewish community as they are not capable really to provide. security to women who may to kids who cannot you cannot put a policeman and if the jew in france many jews are asking what will be the future because they cannot continue to march in paris and to get tears and to get flowers . from the government because it's not enough it's not the bringing back to life.

nor the level of the sea the leamy or so many young jews have been killed in the last years. the russian siberian city of came out of a and has a day of mourning after a fire at a local mall killed sixty four people including forty one children and with more facts about the tragedy surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of unbelievable courage have also started to a much. i might and i were putting together pairs of shoes or just plain i smelled smoke heard them a walkie talkie someone saying that people are running out of the sub people rushing down the stairs specific there is an alarm. which we started to write to a people or employees of first of the walk is the tour of the accident but i don't

quite remember how i got out in a soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of a window from the third floor yes. yes i am. all our coworkers had already stated when we looked at the escalator that it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a bad leg or at the end of the storage room was still just calling people to come to us when there were disease and help to buy the our guys lived out there will cheer somehow get them to go downstairs everything are malacca and clouds of smoke surrounding it we breeze that heavily but wait it still be end just hoses to save someone else do some people run upstairs in panic 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 too 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 will ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men were burnt to death then you say heroes you know my mother was worried about me sure if it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to moscow every day and leave flowers and placed candles. meanwhile the investigation into. what caused the tragedy is advancing the two main versions of the malfunction of the fire safety system and arson five people have been arrested among them two directors at the mall and the developer of the fire safety system now a blazing camera 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 were children as the school holidays had just begun. i was. was.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. more somehow i want to be that's. what you do like to be for us was like them before us three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water using my. question. good of you to join us today washington's anti russian rhetoric has now resulted to metaphorical expression the state department spokesperson said to russia was a beast from the deep sea. and went to the streets of new york to gauge reaction. in 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 like and you just said that this 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. ireland ireland yes i do that it doesn't matter what country you think it is no idea they

called it the medlar. have no idea right there so what is that poster right if you lose a leg and 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 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 no i think america's more like dr posts 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. when comparing other countries to wild oceanic beasts.

see new york. taking a stand against a future has led to tragedy for a u.s. teenager teenager in america a texas police accuse the parents of a sixteen year old muslim girl of torturing the daughter for saying no to an arranged marriage with a man who was offering the family twenty thousand dollars. he was. just. really. smart he was fifteen when her parents decided to marry her off to a man from another city after her a few years old a allegedly tried to persuade her with force she ran away before the wedding it was reported missing at the end of january this year disappearing after 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 now the parents deny any wrongdoing and stated my possible husband to be is also innocent the father said all they wanted to do was to help the young couple build a family together and we spoke to the head of an organisation for the prevention of child marriages she told us that some us states which allow early wedlock is simply not helping matters. unfortunately if you look at the dates of that states it's currently the u.s. has a federal structure where states of different ages of marriage and unfortunately they you quest like the u.k. like and that do allow my reach of guys under the age of eighteen if in the well today's six hundred fifty million women where married that's children then you know

that the all didn't run but of course that all cases where girls of the way they know their rights and that is able to run unfortunately not as many girls that it will to make it to safety as the we would like to see i think the problem is if the boy is a team because then you're talking about issues of oh and i would say statutory rape because she's a minor but i think more children are becoming more aware that our more services available way gas can get help and support. thousands of protesters have marched in the streets of garner's capital denouncing u.s. military expansion in the west african nation. yet when a controversial military cooperation deal was approved by parliament last week some

of its members walked out in disappointment at the u.s. will invest twenty million dollars in equipment and training for the country's army the deal also includes joint exercises on the right to use the nation's radio frequencies and runways there were some locals think it infringes on garner's software into. the us gun and citizens to demonstrate against the decision by our president so we are carrying to start an argument for the u.s. government to bring our military and. our country. will sit down. this is my country to be so. i decided to create money just to be present to do the work for you so. our guests told us why they think ghana is not getting the best deal possible. but the question is should 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 on one side of the arrangement 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 there who are they would also demand and desire an enhanced and increased u.s. military role. but washington really is shrunk from its responsibilities in the world. instead of helping african countries develop their economic powers by investing in infrastructure development group energy ports united states it is increasingly relied on military kinetic warfare to fight terrorists and this doesn't work because the reason these

terrorists are able to recruit is because of the poor economic conditions at virtually drive the young people into the hands of terrorists small amount of money . the dollar is facing a new threat china has just launched you want them back to oil futures which will challenge the globally used petro dollar china is the world's largest importer of oil until now it's been paying for its oil in dollars the new deal launched shanghai audix change will allow china and all other countries to bypass. asked the standard petro dollar comes the same week as donald trump unveils billions of dollars of tariffs against china all economist mom two solavei says the broader implications of the petro you one could be a big game changer over the long term. it

will can it change it a lot because by definition the petro you one 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 used to put ice and sell oil china knows that and it wants to get the same benefit first by as stablish in the yuan as an international currency at. home. of course. and the petrodollar suddenly it will take time but it certainly poses

a challenge to the petrodollar and for the first time since nine hundred seventy three when the petrodollar was launched. and i thank you for sharing a time with us on this thursday more worldwide headlines on r.t. international at the top of the hour. it's the cradle of jazz. this is america is the america we have. to know is just jazz feel. a city of climatic contrast a feast of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least twelve members of my clothes my version of street racing in the heat of the

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a few short weeks a brick cited by the stay tuned for that but meanwhile let's stick to puerto rico for a second stacey what's happening what is your name weaponize that's the thing all names are weaponized and the battle of the mind as brought tears told me we are constantly fighting the demons in our mind that we are the heroes of our time i think there's a famous song. that brock likes to play very well to breakfast i want to talk about debt as you know puerto rico had the seventy billion dollars of debt when they first went bankrupt and defaulted on their general obligation bond payment of two billion dollars on july first two thousand and sixteen than the hurricane maria heads and right before that and they have about ninety five billion dollars worth of damage on the island so a lot of debt a lot of debt and people in america you know as congress debates whether or not to

help the people of puerto rico out as they would any other u.s. citizen like those in texas hit by hurricane harvey or those in new orleans hit by hurricane katrina you know there's usually more funds forthcoming to help americans develop and get better so i want to look at the u.s. debt situation oh those people who point their fingers to us gross national debt. spike's one point two surely in dollars in six months hits twenty one trillion dollars max twenty one trillion dollars. yeah well you know the g.d.p. of america is not anywhere near twenty one trillion dollars you've got a country now where the debt is well above g.d.p. it's as a function the assets on the books of the central bank four or five times bigger than the central bank it's way out of control the other way they can manage just to keep interest rates artificially low and of course that creates the wealth and

income gaps that result.