the sideline news the u.k. is accused of going too far in its claims as russia's foreign minister pushes for over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in britain. also this hour militants are on the move in the syrian city of duma. russia says more than a thousand people left the area on sunday following an evacuation deal with rebel groups. and israel for its military's handling of protests at the gaza border which has left seventeen dead and more than a thousand others injured his criticism so far is from the turkish media. hate netanyahu you're an occupier and it is as an occupier that you are on those lands at the same time you're a terrorist. or

you're watching this on monday the second of april. it's six pm in the russian capital he's your news this hour the russian foreign minister says that the u.k. has gone too far with its accusations over the poisoning of cripple and his daughter will eventually have to provide answers to the questions posed by russia here's what sergey lavrov had to say first. take. beauty of that if you will not be possible to you know we were answering the question it's. obvious nods and what else is obvious solutions no british colleagues have gone so far as getting on your list of school issues the russian foreign minister has focused in detail on everything going on in this case first and foremost he said that he's very glad that the daughter of the russian citizen yulia is recovering and he's also said that he hopes that her father on the mend to also he has stressed that russia still

has a lot of questions that it has asked repeatedly but which remain unanswered pretty much russia even wrote an official mail an official letter to the o.p.c. w. those questions include some technical details that russia has inquired to the c.w. asking them what information the u.k. has passed to the u.n. nobody regarding the investigation because this is something that london is refusing to share with moscow and whether or not the o.p.c. w. in turn will be sharing that with russia has been asking these questions since day one since this whole incident took place where there's a hope to get any answers to them while in fact russia is hoping to get some answers as early as this wednesday because this is when the o.p.c. w. members are meeting and this is a summit initiated by russia so this is why sergei lavrov hopes to get at least something out of the u.n. body on wednesday. in the booty of our british colleagues to answer the questions

you want think it's a work of fiction and be more specific. and so in general the russian foreign minister has expressed concern about the bloc of countries who seem to have agreed to pin everything on moscow because in their opinion it seems it's not an investigation into who is behind the assassination attempt but more like how russia did it did putin give a direct order to its agents to go and assassinate sergei script. and his daughter or whether or not russia just lost track of the nerve agent mr lavrov. is going to respond to those claims well he said that russia has no motive in this that russia that for at least a decade russia has no beef with the. because in two thousand turned that's when the double agents what took place between moscow and london so that that's pretty much what closed the book on this for russia. for the news coverage even though

really for weeks on from all this it's not stop. spinning and spinning the media the reviving the story and they're basically using their standard playbook like when you don't know what to say when the it seems that everything has slowed down significantly you bring sources have a listen source briefed on the investigation tell c.n.n. they believe a move like that was too sophisticated for a rogue agent and likely needed kremlin approval so when you are citing a source it means that you have some inside information from the investigation and it's not clear why this c.n.n. needed exactly this in this particular situation because linking the kremlin directly to the assassination attempt is something that both treason may the prime minister and boris johnson the foreign secretary have been saying for a long time now so it's not exactly some classified information also another point that they're making is the attack was sophisticated and only a government could be behind it so. how come it is

a sophisticated attack and if it is sophisticated it's supposed to be performed and carried out on a very professional level if it's professionals who are behind it and in this case it looks very sloppy because both targets are not just alive but the getting better they are recovering so russia is indeed intending to get its its questions answered into ending to get answers to its questions and so he's hoping to get those as early as wednesday or expanding on what he was saying there geopolitics author david swanson says that despite information being scarce the media's already delivered its verdict. well it's not an judicial procedure this is not something brought to arbitration this is not the world court this is an accusation through the media and so russia is not being told very much and the public is not being told very much and of course that makes many of us sceptical but we just can't know

whether the accusations are true or not until we're shown some evidence despite all that a number of western countries say the entire world is on this side against russia. patients is wrong for wearing thin with president putin and his actions we stand with our british allies and the rest of the civilized world in denouncing the brazen and brutal chemical attack carried out against the united kingdom it has become clear that russia is behind this effort to kill innocent civilians with the banned nerve agent let's take a look about the global backing the british and american officials say they have over the nerve agent attack insult it seems that many countries showing their support are nato members but even among them there is still some uncertainty here's david swanson again. well i think they think of themselves as the world the international community which is always just a handful of nations that calls itself that but you know in the united states here

we've become very used to baseless accusations against russia and so some of us are very skeptical regardless of the position taken by our governments we can't know whether an accusation is true or not until they show us some evidence and rather than showing us some evidence that they're working on expelling diplomats and pressuring other countries to expel diplomats which seems like a way to cut off communications or is it what matz jobs are to interact when there are disagreements and if you get rid of them you're talking about not having communications other than by means of military force. the evacuation of medicines from the syrian city of dubai or in eastern guta is underway according to the russian defense ministry russia earlier announced that a preliminary deal had been reached with the jaish al islam rebel group which operates in the city there's reportedly more than four hundred militants which left him on monday as the last rebel stronghold in the besieged area journalist mohammad

ali who's in damascus told me the latest on the evacuation. the first batch of. militants to started leaving the town of doom and eastern. according to the syrian state news agency at least eight buses with over four hundred individuals on board those include both militants and their families and make up the first batch of vicious already exit at the eastern i will talk through our. exit which is that a couple of kilometers away from from duma and the buses are now lining up at the outskirts of picking up more militants opposition to stand and their families it is expected that at least fifty bosses will be exiting from. the final number is set on the outskirts of east on the water they will be heading towards northern syria the border town in the northern countryside of this will be the first batch following of course reaching that deal brokered by russia between the syrian army

and this particularly militant group according to reports coming from inside duma there is a kind of division among the group leaders of this minutes group on getting out or not but eventually it seems that the deal has been reached and they have started getting out in the boonies resistance movement has blown its social media accounts published some of the items of this. militants will have to surrender their heavy and medium weapons to the syrian army before leaving they can only take with them and their individual light weapons like clash in the gulf or something also very important item in the deal is regarding the fate of thousands of both the civilians and army personnel kidnapped by dishes in the past five or six years believe those are believed to be believed to be inside the prisons officials found particularly as prison inside duma according to that report the deal stipulates that there will be a work team formed and it will be headed by russia and included there will be

representatives of the syrian government and also representatives. of states which are guarantors and the estonia talks meaning iran and turkey on supervising the process of the release of those kidnapped civilians and army personnel and eventually the syrian government will then and or into the government institutions and establishment will be restored normal life will be restored then perhaps humanitarian aid urgent food and medical aid will also be delivered to the civilians inside and those militants who wish to stay and reconcile with the syrian government will be granted amnesty by the government and will be allowed to return back to normal life inside duma.

even. the. next up israel's being slammed for how its military is handling ongoing protests at the girls of border the so-called palestinian martyrs return has already left seventeen killed and more than a thousand injured over the course of three days.

different. people demonstrating in the world. was driving. by. the annual march of return as a demonstration denouncing what palestinians view as israeli occupation thousands of them have pitched tents across five locations along the gaza border where they're expected to stay for the coming weeks well the leaders have condemned israel's actions but they were accused of double standards by the israeli prime minister as daniel holkins now explains. this isn't the first incident of mass

palestinian casualties in clashes with the i.d.f. tragically it won't be the last the border violence had barely stopped before the criticism of israel's actions came thick and fast from all directions the un secretary general was quick to call for a full investigation he used to face chief wasn't far behind israel though is having none of it the army was doing its job if anything the soldiers that fired live bullets into the crowd deserve a medal according to the cunts. these defense minister and investigation no child ignore the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the middle east but when israel neutralize these sixteen terrorists they convene an emergency meeting of the un security council the i.d.f. will not cooperate with any investigative committee let them investigate the murders of half a million people in syria and tens of thousands in libya sudan and yemen no punches polled and some may say he does have a point multiple e.u.

states have taken part in nato or u.s. led interventions in libya and syria which have contributed to civilian losses and of course they also continue to arm saudi arabia that's the spike the catastrophic situation yemen but some world leaders return the focus to friday's brutal violence on the gaza border with president the one branding it an inhumane attack and prime minister netanyahu didn't let this go on answered the most moral army in the world will not be lectured by those that had indiscriminately borne civilian populations for years apparently this is how april fool's day celebrated an anchor on a thinly veiled reference to turkey's tough line on kurdish groups who are unable to terrorists or perhaps the turkey's ongoing military operations in northern syria triggering a further response from the turkish president. hey netanyahu you're an occupier and it is as an occupier that you are on those lands at the same time you

are a terrorist and the e.u. itself wasn't exempt from the turkish president's rhetoric don't throw stones from a glass house and one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is an older dog but today it seems human life has become less valuable than political expediency or a good sound bite. well another reaction journalist max blumenthal who was for it extensively on the israeli palestinian conflict says that it looks like netanyahu and using almost identical accusations but both have a point. slightly amused by the denunciations exchange by between benjamin netanyahu and the turkish leader. on. both are accusing one another of massive human rights crimes and both are correct that one another has committed gigantic human rights crimes netanyahu in gaza and against the palestinian people in general in order one now enough. in syria i compared this

spat between netanyahu in order one to the two thousand and four film alien versus predator were two monsters battle one another to the death and you know in real life as i mentioned netanyahu in order to one are cooperating below the surface neither man can claim the moral high ground so both are basically bottom battling from the moral depths of depravity china and the united states a setting off on a new trade war as beijing increases tariffs on american products that's among all stories still ahead when we come back.

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welcome back a standoff between italy and from so over a border incident seems to be going from bad to worse rome is investigating an alleged incursion by a french border patrol to a train station in italy the french ambassador has been summoned over it all rome's keeping a civilized tone so far up some italian politicians not. they remind micron that no foreign agent can come here and i so there are thirty we are a sovereign country not a province of france we are not micron's toilet on top of expelling russian diplomats we should expel french ones french police do whatever they want on italian territory without being disturbed as if they're at home what happened and bargain in his grave and shows how our so-called friends in europe have little or no consideration for us had no rights and no rights this will be the first and the last time i'll tracing this back diplomatic tensions were provoked when french

police entered italy to drug test a nigerian passenger on a paris bound train the station where the incident took place in the town about an hour which is known as a staging post for migrants making their way from italy further north the french authorities claim they crossed the a tally and border under a decades old bilateral deal but the italian foreign ministry stresses that it told from some time ago that the station was no longer acceptable because it's now being used by an ngo for humanitarian purposes political science lecturer neurons are probably asco who's in by the neck of the french police are in the wrong. the ngo which is running the migrant center in the make up by the way in a few hundred metres from there i am in but of making right now at the end declared the french authorities where you know way acting in an intimidating manner and so this act has been seen by many politicians and i would say by a large portion of the italian public opinion as an act of defiance a kind of violation of sovereignty on italian soil what has been said very clearly

by italian authorities is that. italian police were not informed by by french customs agent. about your peroration which is against the provisions of the binational agreements. and this is just the latest migrant related scandal on the french italian border we've been following one on our take a volunteer arrested a few weeks ago for helping a heavily pregnant migrant in the alps. well we were doing an ordinary patrolling tour as we have regularly done since the beginning of winter to bring aid to people who passed the pass in difficult conditions during this patrol we sponsored a group of people who were walking in snow there we saw that it was a family with two young children and pregnant women we gave them food and drinks and dry clothes i took my car to take it to the hospital.

they are asked for my documents and they catalogued my personal belongings they notified me of a hearing on wednesday and released me at midnight. if the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would act in the same way i did the right thing. the world's two largest economies china and the united states appear to be on the brink of a new trade war after beijing increased tariffs on more than one hundred american products the measures are in direct response to an american increase on imported steel and alimony and last month the charges target american food products including paul wine and fruit terrace are expected to increase by twenty five percent to be worth three billion dollars a year to beijing. the unstable trade relations of investors rightly worried as u.s. stocks dipped after reopening from the easter holidays but despite the tension donald trump still sees china as a friend in dealing with north korea i view them as

a friend i have tremendous respect for president xi they have a great relationship they're helping us a lot in north korea and that's china. lost our international relations lecturer ching hand-sewing told me there will be no winners in this trade war. what's what are the chinese government trying to do the target certain billion us explode in china and they specifically target the u.s. agriculture project is why i'm sure harm the u.s. interest by heat supporters because it was all state school produced agricultural products like earth route and meat and they were the one under they were the ones in the trunk to the white house so that's a child back in china trying to harm like trump supporters in order to see find a better deal his white house so i did a trade war everybody's going to do is there's no ringers through those kind of.

mission and. sixteen thousand people many of them children living in slums across france may now be facing eviction a winter amnesty on forced removals has now expired and the shelter do bensky reports many now face an uncertain future. for many spring is a welcome change from the winter but for others the prospect of warmer weather means only one thing they're at risk of losing the roof over their head every year france has what's known as the winter truce between november first and march thirty first landlords cannot forcibly evict tenants that includes people who live in slums and shanty towns like these we try to speak to the residents in one camp they refuse as they're afraid of being like them to fight and expelled but we had to journalists here before they filmed and then people were expelled sorry sorry who

we've just moved over from the camp because they've told us we don't want to go on what we saw though it's something you'd expect to see in a developing country squalid living conditions shanty towns where across france thousands of people are living like that you wouldn't think this was all of the richest countries in europe or the place is the reality for some people in france in two thousand and eighteen it's estimated around sixteen thousand people living almost six hundred shanty towns in france more than a third of children in and around the city of non there are about forty sites many have been set up by room a community authorities have said roma people have a very different lifestyle to the french in other words they don't fit in and many of forced from their makeshift homes and deported despite the fact that the e.u. citizens and entitle to freedom of movement the un rights chief has slammed

france's policy as punitive and destructive in another roma site where welcomed in one man tells me they could be expelled at any time you have been here five years well ground that does not belong to us it belongs to the city or the name maybe we will be expelled from here. around fifty people live in the camp including children and expectant mothers if i have one daughter and i'm waiting for another baby there are no properly even conditions we don't have a home it's cold for the children in winter because of the cold. i'm shown around by antonio you see him living like this seems to be a badge of honor. and you. only have three in this country. but it's local authorities get their way he could be soon moved. r

t. a new this hour the white house is a possible venue for a meeting between the u.s. and russian presidents details from a phone call that took place last month transpired on monday let's go live now to correspondent jacqueline very good across all this for jacki do we know any of the specifics as anything being officially confirmed yet but of course we heard back on march twentieth that the two had discussed a possible meeting and from the white house they were saying that that was going to be in the not too distant future whatever that may mean but today we do have confirmation both from the russian and the american side that possible venues were discussed including the fact that president trump invited to washington possibly to the white house to have this future meeting now since then of course a lot has happened and that phone call itself was very controversial many people in the u.s. or mad about trump had called putin in general in order to congratulate him on his reelection and since then things have only gotten worse of course this was before

the u.s. expelled sixty russian diplomats from their country over the screwball case and of course since then russia has also answered in kind to that move now we have the putin's aides saying that the president spoke on the phone and that it was an interesting and positive idea the idea of putin going to the u.s. meeting with trump in the white house there. of course the two presidents have only met once in person before then that was last year at the g twenty summit they have spoken to a few times on the phone and at this point the russian side has said that no plans have no concrete plans have been made in regards to this possible meeting so we'll have to wait and see what happens if that does come to fruition in this current climate only in the grass grow under their feet for the vote jacqueline bouvier thanks very much for the. but that you knew that for this hour if you're online check us out on facebook and twitter for twenty four hour news on the song called in bright back in half an hour with your next news update.

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