russia tells sixty u.s. diplomats to leave the country and closes the american consulate in st petersburg it's an answer to washington's expulsions over the script. of the u.s. state department says it reserves the right to respond even further. sources close to wiki leaks tell r.t. the ecuadorian embassy has blocked julian assange has internet access to stop and tweeting about cattle on issues his friend british fashion design if you west were told as it's essential to get back online is really important that he's got access to the world via all the. money to german. elsewhere netflix uses to threaten to boycott the online entertainment giant is that a point form of president obama's national security advisor to its board of directors

. thanks for joining us this evening my name's neil harvey this is r.t. international the russian foreign minister has announced retaliatory measures against the united states also pledging a quote response to other states that expelled moscow's diplomats over the script case. include the expulsion of the same number of u.s. diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate in some petersburg as far as other states are concerned we will always give amir a response as it promised russia has responded tit for tat for every russian diplomat kicked out from the two dozen or so countries one of their diplomats will

be kicked out of russia almost all of those countries by the way the nato members who hopefuls the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty evidence diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same number kicked out by washington where the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and nearest spawn's no more no less and again moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to us south or ities inciting in fueling this merican pain against our country to rethink incurred their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations the sum up russia which remotely denies any role in this poisoning says never before have we witness such mockery of international law it is also convened a special meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons would

be c.w. has sent technical experts to examine the substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of and you'll a script this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance the o.p.c. w. technical secretariat doesn't have the mandate to verify as. ukase allegations by the way the investigation into the case is still ongoing and the u.k. and its allies insist that russia was behind this russia the nies any such thing and says that this fair is politically motivated there's been no investigation no trial no evidence only accusations which have taken a turn for the literary rather like the beginning of crime and punishment the real

crime. i know man he was a tree full of ours at this point. where all confident about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess or be caught what discussion worse have you read crime and punishment to the end you know unlike you we have read the story you have specially for boris johnson the just the ascii quote translated in english from a hundred tributes you can not make a horse one hundred suspicions don't make it proof boris johnson went on to cement his case by saying that unlike russia which makes deadly poisons britain manufacture is nonexistent imaginary fantasy weapons that don't work but you need to know. about the difference between modern britain and the government bloody

maturity. so i seriously they make novacek we make light sabers one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a implausible theatrical prep with a mysterious buys many would know anybody opinion is divided on what exactly boyish johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case. but the diplomatic standoff threatens to continue escalating as washington says it may respond further to moscow's moves you reserve the right for there to any russian retaliation against the united states and we are reading this we are reviewing it and will respond accordingly these that the pharma spokesperson claims that russia is isolating itself through its response to the expulsion of russian diplomats from the u.s. on the car brings us the details. well believe it or not the diplomatic spat

between the u.s. and russia has escalated even further just after russia announced their tit for tat response the u.s. is now considering new options against russia and just to remind our viewers washington expelled sixty eight russian diplomats and closed russia's consulate in seattle just after london claimed without any evidence that russia was behind the alleged poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter on british soil and in retaliation moscow asked the same number of diplomats to leave now even though it was a tit for tat measure the state department or you had that there is no justification for the russian response and russia supposedly isolating itself from the world and reporter same puzzled as to why moscow's move wasn't justified and continued to push for more clarification i want to remind you that there is no justification for the russian response and i'm not trying to understand you you guys throughout sixty of their people we don't see this as a diplomatic tit for tat the american diplomats who are being expelled are not.

spies and diplomatic cover i am saying that they work for the u.s. state department they are our colleagues who have served there with great distinction but you but you're saying that these your your action is justified there is wasn't because these people are the equivalent legs i think we're forgetting what got us to this place well now are dodging questions about whether the expelled u.s. diplomats were spies or not and then reporters pushed again to understand why the state department considers moscow's actions to be wrong and it seems that washington is forcing moscow to take responsibility and humbly accept punishment for a crime that there is no evidence for essentially you're asking russia to just admit that they did it and and take their punishment would not be the adult thing to do they're saying that they did it you are in fact asking them to you know admit to something that they say that they don't you know what there's nothing wrong with.

it minute it meeting wrong doing well now or went on to make some very incendiary comments to justify quote expressing solidarity with the u.k. calling the expelled diplomats russian spies saying that the us is better off without russian spies when there's no evidence that they were spies either so now we're just going to have to wait and see where this all goes from here moscow's called the expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sanction regime but what the u.k. so far has offered as evidence deliberations were based not on proof but on what deemed a highly likely sumption. the

founder of wiki leaks on his internet cut since the start of the week and is not being allowed visits at the ecuadorian embassy in london. reconnect the songs is trending now sources close to the whistleblower group of told r.t. why could or in officials took those decisions from outside the embassy shirking the reports according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police tell it tronic jammers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for five and

a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking we also understand that he is about he's been banned from having visitors inside the embassy and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the equip dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issues pacifically the detention of cattle on independence leader a carlist which demands in germany. earlier this week and our understanding according to this source close to weaken leaks is that julian assange would have to has to his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others concerning the cattle an issue in one nine hundred forty the elected president of catalonia louis comparison was captured by the gestapo at the request of spain delivered to them and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia karla's

preached a moment at the request of spain to be extradited now julian assange did not delete this tweet and it's our understanding again according to these sources that are close to julian assange gente we can lease is that the ecuadorian government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing his opinion about the catalan issue and following that information they did put those alec tronic jammers in place to have him stop communicating with the outside world and curiously all of this comes following a statement from a top official here in the u.k. describing julian assange as quote a miserable little worm let's take a look at this because of great regret the judean a silent remains in the ecuador embassy it is people even deeper regret that even last night he was tweeting against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in salzburg it's about time that this miserable little worm

walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice well earlier we know that claims were made by the ecuadorian government who said that julian assange had signed some kind of agreement saying that he wouldn't weed or say anything about politics of ecuador as well as other countries but again according to this source close to wiki leaks those claims have been false. british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of a song she gave him her support outside the embassy on thursday and told us she's worried about his treatment. we're very concerned about the fact that she can see our visitors the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposures achieved manages to do he's a reserve war hero he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know is is just my friend a nice brilliant armor fashion designer called vivienne westwood and i see him

quite regularly and are supportive whenever i can sans took refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve to being accused of rape in sweden a case later dropped by stockholm or for it is the whistleblower fears leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage i only colvin of the pro a song courage foundation told us his remarks on the catalan referendum may have proven too much for acquittal here seems to be an escalation we're talking about a few tweets about the catalan election which for a particular reason seems to be particularly sensitive to ecuador and their international relations goes to show that although you could have done an amazing service and are doing an amazing service in protecting tilley in the sand the issue of the cattle an election i think which you know may not be obvious to many people in the random rather it may not be obvious to many people in the speaking world is

in a spanish speaking world an extremely controversial issue i think that's. the situation is in korea is increasingly difficult for him and quite frankly you know there is no day was an investigation going on is when there is no longer any investigation there's no good reason for him to be threatened with arrest. twenty sixteen the embassy also suspended the internet access after we kill leaks released e-mails of the democratic national committee and of hillary clinton's campaign manager john podesta last year ecuador issued yet another warning over his remarks on the catalan independence vote but despite not being outside for more than two thousand now a song is so powerful and slightly less powerful friends. i

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come back online and to tell human giants netflix may pay dearly for a high profile new appointment customers are threatening to cancel this is after president obama's national security adviser susan rice joined the board of directors. explains why the move is facing such a backlash susan rice is a big name in washington she served under presidents clinton and obama and was a u.n. ambassador slowly but surely working her way up the white house ladder and during barack obama's second term in office it looked like rice would likely become his secretary of state until she was forced to withdraw her name following the ongoing controversy related to the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi rice had made inaccurate public claims that the attack wasn't

premeditated what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in benghazi spun from there into something much much more violent rice was later forced to eat her words. and admit they were in fact planned causing a massive backlash against her so she stepped back settling instead for national security adviser a tale as old as time really well if you're not for secretary of state that's what i wanted that's all i wanted that's what i was promised and now here i am and now it looks like rice is ready to netflix and chill with the streaming giant who announced that rice is coming on board on wednesday netflix co-founder and c.e.o. reed hastings put out a statement welcoming rice to the team saying that the company will benefit from her years of tackling complex global issues now netflix is the world's leading entertainment service and according to their site they have around one hundred seventeen million users and over one hundred ninety countries are continuing to

expand their reach which with prices help could have a more political spin to it and while it's not yet clear what a lifetime politician will bring to a media company the naysaying has begun already with many users calling for a boycott of the service hey netflix i've been a customer since day one that's just changed you must be absolutely insane to think that americans would you adding susan rice as a board member who priced your bonnets into liberals can keep you in business if anybody wants to boycott something because of an individual's actions i suggest boycotting netflix if a crew from netflix is filming and comes under attack what is she going to blame it on a film just cancelled my netflix membership reason susan rice they can have her but not me. this is where our family takes a hard bass we're canceling netflix altogether our kid will be better off instead of watching him chilling he'll be reading and waking up but perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that rice is making the jump from politics to entertainment we've

already seen her former boss appear as a guest on the netflix show and rumors have been running rampant that the obama's may be in talks to produce a series starring the dynamic duo raising concerns over where the company is headed . siberian city of camera has observed a third day of mourning after a shopping center fire killed sixty four people including forty one children with more facts about the blaze servicing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of incredible courage of also emerged. good and i were putting together pairs of shoes is when i smelled smoke heard them a walkie talkie someone thing that people are running out of the stop people rushing down the stairs to say there is an alarm on which we started to vie to eight people are employees of vs if they want because during the exit i don't quite

remember how i got out unless soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of the window from the third floor yes. man i am. mad at 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 back door 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 and help them to go downstairs everything i'm glad the clouds of smoke surrounding yes we breeze heavily but wait is it still be end we just hose to save someone else do some people runs upstairs in 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 if 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 human kind don't consider ourselves rescuers will old married 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 heroes you know my mother was worried about me sure if it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to the mosque every day and leave flowers and place candles. meanwhile the. the gay shit into what caused the fire progress says the two main versions at this stage are the malfunction of the fire safety system and also arson five people have been arrested among them two directors at the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blazing camera was one of the deadliest in russia for decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish the blaze one section of the complex was completely gutted large sections of the roof

collapsed and the sixty four people who died almost two thirds of them were children with the school holidays having just begun ira. and finally this hour around six thousand people have been out onto the streets of the russian city of volatile moscow to protest against a large commercial land fill located nearby protesters there demanded local authorities announce a state of emergency and declare the site an ecological catastrophe. ok. gathering started several hours ago outside the city administration building people were yelling come out and promising to stay there until this issue was might present as of the authorities finally emerged confirming

a state of emergency in the city last week around fifty children needing medical treatment you to symptoms of poisoning or collapsed residents believe villa says were caused by pollution from the money. even to wendy's night emissions happen my child coughs as if he's suffocating he can't sleep he cries he has a sore throat that it isn't just an ordinary cold but he didn't question fights when we put the kids to sleep we seal the doors and windows with the wet towels so that they won't believe the sand. and then you'll wish it was over here if that's unbearable the smell is awful we have told suffer when our children suffer more we're always nervous sometimes we don't even know whether they will wake up in the morning because many suffer from or. ok appreciate your company this evening thanks for joining us that's all for me for now to take part it will be here to bring you right up to date enough.

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thank you i am welcome to the alexander hugh in today's show we look at both business and politics however it's with a common theme and that is that people respond to and overcome life's challenges first alex talks alfy best someone who overcame both prejudice and a lack of regular education to become one of the u.k.'s most successful entrepreneurs and then into the world of politics where he first speaks to form a liberal democrat m.p. lembit opec who lost his seat after thirteen years in parliament and then to human

rights campaigner peter tatchell could one of the dirtiest by elections of the last century had the price of a problem and she seat snatched away how do they respond to and overcome these challenges we'll find out on the show but first thank you for your tweets messages and e-mails let's look a few surely said i know joy the show today in lanzarote evil hope having detention and congratulations to angus on his private member's bill the plight of young r.c. jesus not a new one a pulse father at ten what's a bella vista humbug to work his passage to the us when chapman said i spoke to a lady in a shop yesterday very interested in the sure she got up on the computer behind her while i was there to see all the fuss was all about her husband loves the alexander and sure tek. that's the deal says i risked a divorce of the alex i'm unsure discussion on i guess brendan macneill's refugee bill amongst other things of course and i survived well i'm pleased to hear it and

finally from benny he says another good shoe the focus on the private member's bill about child refugees we've been rather productive in producing refugees but not so keen in taking responsibility for it so this would be a small step in the right direction for brendan mcneil and so see all of us all part of angus is able to take this bill through parliament. now it's her first interview on overcoming challenges alphabets for me back kind man to face both prejudice and a lack of regular schooling but he's become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the u.k. just how did he pull that off. and i'm delighted to be joined by the best i'll feel welcome pleasures all my knowledge is growing up ninety eight is growing up in a room full of gypsy families what was that like. for a lot of people looking outside it was extremely hard but i got to be honest it is for me it wasn't people looking in and think we were very very paul but to be fair

with you it was a rich life you lived off the land you know i was born on the side of the road in a caravan but you know that i didn't know any different your families stapled what was that time academy and drives and things to do that i didn't door to door selling listen from an early age of eight years old i was cold calling on on doors and selling tom a classic tough school well the hard knocks of life are the ones that chisel you or make you the person you are the says about like political canvas if you get a saw you get just saw along to get your picture across before that door gets shut your face is in the e.u. have one of the best lessons you can learn in life is learn how to read people and by camus in the door instantly you know whether you get a good reception or a bad reception and you have to find children that every time she you've got thirty seconds before that door closes so that was your butler and then.