russia expel sixty u.s. diplomats and shuts the american consulate instead they just copying washington's move over the scripts case while the state department says it reserves the right to respond further. sources close to wiki leaks say the ecuadorian embassy has blocked julian assange internet access to stop him tweeting about catalonia and designer vivienne westwood says he must get back on line. really important that he's got access to the world via all the expos the t.v. manages to do. and to netflix users threatened to boycott the online entertainment giant as it appoints president obama's former national security advisor to its board of directors.

m k partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. russia will expel sixty u.s. diplomats and close the american consulate in st petersburg emulating washington's move over the script poisoning case foreign minister sergei lavrov announced that retaliatory measures against the u.s. and pledged a mere response to other states that have deported moscow's diplomats. 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 over the us consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirrors 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 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 they're investigating will be technical. experts have arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate and your list group 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 its. 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 denies 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 really a crime. i know many wives a tree full of hours of this work. where all confident about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess or be called brisk actually worse have you read crime and punishment to the end you know unlike you we have read the story of specially for boris johnson the just a 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 you need to

know. about the difference between modern britain and the government let him in. so i seriously they make novacek we make light statements. one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a. yet to prick with a mysterious badge he would know anybody opinion is divided what exactly boris johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case. well however the diplomatic standoff threatens to continue escalating as washington says it may respond further to moscow's moves we 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 well state department spokesperson has a now and they're also trains russia is isolating itself through its response to

the expulsion of russian diplomats from the u.s. . america own as. 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 a washington expelled sixty eight russian diplomats and close 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 reporters seem 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 through there are people we don't see this as a diplomatic tit for tat american diplomats who are being expelled. spies under 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're saying that these your your action was justified there is wasn't because these people aren't the equivalent legs i think we're forgetting what got us to this place well now or dodge 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 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 admitting 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 u.s. 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. almost go house could be expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sign sion the u.k.'s allegations of russian involvement in this clip poisoning have maintained a highly likely assumption wrong to improve. we

can use founder julian assange has been denied internet access since monday and isn't being allowed visitors at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been staying for almost six years now sources close to the whistleblower group of told r.t. one of the ecuadorian officials took those decisions as an associate in their reports according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian

government had police telling tronic jammers inside vehicle dorrian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for over 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's about how 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 cattle on issues pacifically the detention of cattle on independence leader of carlist which demands in germany earlier this week and are under. standing 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 put to much 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 and wiki leaks is that the dorian government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing his opinions about the catalan issue and following that information they did put those our 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 teaching against her majesty's government for their conduct in

replying to the attack in seoul three it's about time that this miserable little word 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. the british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of a song and gave him her support from outside the embassy on thursday she says she's worried about his treatment. we're very concerned about the fact that she can't 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 we aks 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 a supporter whenever i can well it sounds took refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden which was later dropped by stockholm's of sources the whistleblower fears leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage naomi colvin of the pro a songe courage foundation says his remarks on the catalan referendum may have proved too much for ecuador it seems to be an escalation we're talking about a few tweets about the cattle an election which for a particular reason seems to be particularly sensitive to ecuador and their international relations goes to show that although we have done an amazing service and are doing an amazing service in protecting julian assange and the issue of the

cattle an election i think which may not be obvious to many people in the catalan referendum rather it may not be obvious to many people in the speaking world is in the spanish speaking world an extremely controversial issue it think that's. the situation is in crete is increasingly difficult for him and quite frankly you know there is no. they 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. online entertainment giant netflix may pay dearly for a high profile new appointment customers are threatening to cancel their subscriptions after president obama's national security advisor susan rice joined the board of directors r.t. jacqueline further 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 secretary of state that's what i want that's all i wanted that's what i was promised and 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 and are continuing to expand their reach which with rice's 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 he netflix i've been a customer since day one that's just changed you must be absolutely insane to think that americans are key 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 a 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 the political cartoonist ted roll thinks netflix is making a political power play by giving rise and leadership wall what we're really looking at here is a scenario that is that we see over and over again where people are brought on to corporate boards really because of their political and corporate star power it seems to me like this is more about building bridges about having for access to her

rolodex not just the obama's but other people netflix you need to operate within the world of regular elation in the inside the beltway there's still a lot of people in washington who are more loyal to the democrats than to the obama administration they probably feel like they need a better bet going into two thousand and twenty two think that the democrats might win so they're probably thinking that this is a person who might be able to get them the kind of access they might need this is not about making good television it's about influence it's not about you know corporate leadership. the siberian city of camera has entered a third day of mourning after the shopping center fire that killed sixty four people including forty one children with more facts about the blaze emerging including allegations of criminal negligence there are also stories of incredible courage.

good and i were putting together pairs of shoes or just plain i smelled smoke heard them a walkie talkie someone thing that people are running out of the stop people rushing down just terrorists are there is an alarm isn't much and we started to vie to eight people or employees of the worst of it it was because the during the accident i don't quite remember how i got out and in a soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of the window from the third floor yes. i am i am. mad. 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 baggage or at the end of the storage room was still just warning people to come to us when there were disease and as to why did our guys leave to there will cheer and help them to go downstairs everything i'm glad is the clouds of smoke

surrounding us we breathed heavily but why is it still be ends just hoses to save someone else do some people run 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 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 rescue as we are 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 heroes you know my mother was worried about me sure if it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to demolish every day and leave flowers and place candles. well meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two

main areas of questioning are the malfunction of the fire safety system and also the possibility of arson five people have been arrested among them are two directors of the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blaze in camera for was one of the deadliest states eight seventeen hours to put it out one section of the complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays had just begun. was was. was was. now let's return to our top story russia's expelled sixteen u.s. diplomats and has shut the american consulate in st petersburg copying washington's move over the script poisoning case while the state department says it was says the right to respond further well to discuss this further we cannot cross live to

canadian former diplomats jeremy kinsmen jeremy thank you very much indeed for joining us i mean let's look at the situation that i mean in your new boss experience when she's in this diplomatic standoff between moscow and the western countries might affect russia's relations with canada you're absolutely russia's relationship. very curious this is not going to help some one of the features editor relationship course that she's at but she less to do so dancing for people either way isn't going to make a lot of difference as far as activities concerned but it's a deplorable situation and people have to get there it's together and work at the rules that would be just something like this never happens again let's also look at the reaction there from the state department that quick to react to russia's retaliatory measures saying it's justified in expelling diplomats while russia isn't so i mean what's your take on that. oh i don't know why i don't play this game of what about you what about you it's

a bad situation something very aggressive very hostile as happened in england it seems to be determined that it happened with the soviet era chemical mixture a nerve agent and so the conclusion has been that the russian state was behind it you know whether you agree with that or not the fact is it's an awful situation and relations are spiraling down just so i don't think that the explosion of diplomacy is the most dangerous thing right now is the absence of communication and there's got to be communication to work things out to not just on this but on a very complicated world on increasing distrust particularly on the part of what you know western politicians they reacted this way not just because of the chemical attack but because they were fed up with the russian interference in the democratic process these in their country they're fed up with russian eyes it's doing what

they accuse them of but somehow people have to come together on the facts and on the need to cut it. and i'm not particular nights i mean foreign minister sergei lavrov he mentioned merit message measures i should say against other states expelling russia's diplomats as you said it was to put out i mean do you think we're seeing going to see a diplomatic point of no return. i guess where do you get to zero there's nobody left i guess it's going to be terrible embassadors going to have to sweep the floor never seen such a thing no of course there's a i don't know it's very hard to read construct understanding confidence has to be built and the top people have to talk that is absolutely essential there isn't any concession involved in that that's in mutual interest but the rhetoric the competitive rhetoric the competitive threat. really have to stop it's becoming

not just childish but really very very frightening and moving aside from the from the as you said the tit for tat measures and the way that it's spiraling looking out the script our case so gave lavrov added the point that the u.k. and the allies voted on the script all case he said it makes a mockery of international law in the way that this has been handled would you agree with that so i don't know i don't share a view for many years if you don't mind me going to syria i used to know you know i've always liked him and thought he was an intelligent man he's got a very tough job you know and he was saying what he thinks he has to say. i think this thing is going to be the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons . and will be discussed and the evidence that they have from the blood samples and other evidence will be presented and disgusted hopefully in three four weeks

will have a clear idea but it may never be solved and the bigger question is the state of relations between russia and the west it can't go on the way it's going to it's really going to go to change there's going to be interesting to see what happens in the next few weeks jeremy kinsmen canadian former diplomat thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thinking that up. now around six thousand people have been on the streets and follow columbus can a moscow to protest against a large commercial landfill but just as plain to cite as making people ill and demand local authorities and a state of emergency. the gathering started several hours ago outside the town people yelling come out and promising to stay there until a decision was made representatives of the authorities finally emerged confirming a stay. of emergency in the town last week iran fifty children needed medical

treatment centers of my choice thing i like a lot of residents believe the illnesses were caused by pollution from the lungs. if you only 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 call which is still pretty good question fights when we put the kids to sleep we seal the doors and windows with wet towels so that they won't believe the sin did you wish it was up to you that's unbearable the smell is awful we adults suffer but 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. before or not ongoing story and plenty of others go to our website dot com otherwise i'll be back with the latest headlines at the top of the.

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behind such success. a contentious census controversy over the trumpet ministrations intends to add a citizenship question in the twenty twenty u.s. census what's behind this change that's first up on this edition of. politicking on larry king monday disrupted the streets of announced a controversial changed to the next official count of people living in the united states that is their intent to start asking participants in the census about citizenship status the last time the question was asked of everyone was in one thousand nine hundred fifty critics immediately labeled this action as anti immigrant while the administration says the change is critical to the enforcement of the voting rights act and an important tool in protecting against racial

discrimination during elections let's begin with our political planet joining me from washington d.c. is chris wilson director of research and digital strategy for ted cruz's campaign in two thousand and sixteen and he is c.e.o. of w.p.a. intelligence and in new york nate lerner grassroots director at the bill the way of organization executive director of the democratic coalition and creator of the app hash tag boycott trump all right chris we'll start with you what's your reaction to the administration including this citizen said question i thought the census was about how many people are living in america well it's sort of common sense change is that you read out initially i think it's also one support about protecting minority rights i mean the fact is the voting rights act requires the counting of citizens and so if you have either.