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russia's foreign minister pushes france's over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in britain and accuses the u.k. of going too far with its allegation. the white house reveals that donald trump and putin recently discussed plans for a meeting in washington. also militants on the move in the syrian city of duma released and we can report russia says over a thousand people have left the area since sunday following an evacuation deal with rebel groups. view in developing story israel now suspends a deal reported earlier with the u.n. to resettle african migrants while tonight italy and germany say the unaware of any such agreement anyway.
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are there live from moscow this r.t. news midnight he and i want to know and thanks for achieving to us than this for your news update starting with this the russian foreign minister says the u.k. is going too far with its accusations over the poisoning of sergei scruple and his daughter and will eventually have to provide arms as he said to the questions posed by russia here's some of what sergey lavrov had to say which correspond he goes down off expanded on. you will not be possible to get away from the questions since the obvious nails and what else is obvious is no british colleagues have gone too far with this game. 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 is on the mend to also he has stressed that russia
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still has a lot of questions that 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 russia's been asking these questions since day one since this horrible incident took place what does russia hope to get any answers to any of these quest will in fact russia is hoping to get some answers as early as this wednesday because this is where the o.p.c. w. members are meeting and this is a summit initiated by russia so this is why sergey 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
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only one thing 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. well and his daughter or whether or not russia just lost track of the nerve agent did mr lavrov have anything to say about how russia's going to respond to those claims well he said that russia has no motive in this russia that for at least a decade russia has no beef with the script because in two thousand and 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 and in terms of the news
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coverage even though we're really no further forward weeks on from all this it's really not stopped the headlines spinning and spinning out of 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 seems that everything has slowed down significantly you bring sources have a listen source briefed on the investigation tells 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 reason made 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
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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 to politics right david swanson told us that despite information being scarce still the media there was already delivered its verdict well it's not a 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
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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 a number of western countries say the entire world though is on their side against russia now. patience is wrong they're 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 at the global backing on them up and say it pans out the british and american officials say they have over the nerve agent attack consoles break it seems you can check a sofa many countries show the support nato members but even among them there are still some uncertainty is david swanson again. well i think they think of
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themselves as the world the international community which is always just a handful of nations that calls itself that of 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 if you diplomats jobs are to interact when there are disagreements and if you get rid of them you're talking about you know not having communications other than by means of military force. midwestern relations between russia and the west that could be some good news on the rise and i can tell you this morning seems the white house could host a meeting between the u.s. and russian presidents with more on the d.c. correspondent. well here are the latest details on last month's phone call between
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president putin and president trump now back on march twentieth donald trump called to congratulate president putin on his reelection now this wolf was criticized by many in the american media according to the russian aide to president putin and the white house spokesperson a bilateral meeting was planned during the phone call but today we learned that during that conversation trump invited president putin to visit washington d.c. but just as a reminder the phone call happened before the u.s. expelled a sixteen russian diplomats over the poisoning of a russian expiry with russia being blamed for it of course and then russia responded in a tit for tat measure announcing the expulsion of sixteen u.s. diplomats but the kremlin says that no meeting preparations have been made at the time but according to president putin's aide the white house was. discuss is one of the possible then use so we're just have to see how this all plays out. the
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evacuation of militants from the syrian city of duma in eastern guta is well underway according to the russian defense ministry since sunday more than a thousand militants have left doomer the last rebel stronghold in that besieged area cheerless muhammad ali is in damascus with the latest. the first batch of. militants to started leaving the town of doom and eastern along the buses are now lining up at the outskirts of istanbul talk picking up more militants oppositionists them and their families it is expected that at least fifty buses will be exiting from. the final number is set on the outskirts of east on the water they will be heading towards the most in northern syria the border town in the northern countryside a look oh this will be the first batch following of course reaching a deal brokered by russia between the syrian army and this particularly militant group according to reports coming from inside duma there is
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a kind of division among the group leaders of this militant 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 been low on its social media accounts published some of the items of this deal the. 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 just a standard in the past five or six years believe those are believed to be believed to be inside the prisons official particularly as prison inside the 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
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are guarantors in the estonia talks meaning iran and turkey on supervising the process of the release of those kidnapped civilians and army personnel. fox news host has found herself in hot water following a run with one of the most outspoken survivors of the school shooting in florida laura ingram show is facing a boycott my friends told the times is after
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a mock tweet about the teenager jacqueline booga takes up the story the bigger they are the harder they fall a lesson that one of the most popular hosts on fox news the most watched cable news network in the us is learning the hard way over a dozen of laura ingram top advertisers have pulled their commercials from her program and fox's the week off the host is now taking was preplanned but many think it may have something to do with seventeen year old david hogg he is one of the survivors of the parklane school shooting and is practically a household name in america at this point this is the start of spring and the blossoming of our democracy. because since the tragedy he's become one of the leaders of the student led gun reform movement that's took the nation by storm between t.v. appearances and mass protests hogs face everywhere joining me now from parklane florida a senior david hogg he survived the shooting david thank you for being with us guys it is so great to have you both back on the show more people died in america as
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a result of gun violence and they have fighting in war it's not time for debate it's time to work together let's put the usa over the n.r.a. in a recent interview haga mentioned that he had been rejected by a number of universities and for some unknown reason ingram decided to mock the student online belittling his grade point average and told him to stop whining now in a different day and age. with different players the whole thing may have gone unnoticed but hogg who now has over seven hundred thousand twitter followers chose to use his way to successfully get in rooms and advertisers to boycott her show she's only apologizing after a third of her advertisers pulled out and i think it's really disgusting the fact that she basically tried promoting her show after apologizing or apologizing to me this is a buyout a group of people who have been almost a knowing kid as on touchable their kids their victims and they are what they have been through a lot what ever they say whatever the forum whatever the claim it doesn't matter
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don't say anything in return the democrats don't have any issues they don't like trump that's their platform but this is the only thing that counts as an issue guns they hate guns they hate gun owners this isn't going anywhere and the laura ingram fox news story may change but it will manifest in transmute into a new issue before you know it and frankly his attack against makes perfect sense as there is no off loss between her and the left we may be witnessing a turning point in the american political climate outspoken leftist forces like hog and his fellow activists were more or less sidelined they were just the angry kids mad that their agenda was not passing through wasn't now they have a powerful movement a lot of momentum behind them that they're clearly not afraid of using and their
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cause is getting the attention and support of a number of democratic heavyweights including hillary clinton barack obama and even bernie sanders as well let me especially think the young people at the high school in pok lynn florida who are dealing with their grief. by standing up and fighting back for many trump was seen as the voice of the people everyday americans whose concerns were often ignored by those in washington but today a lot of voice has taken center stage coming up israel suspended a deal to resettle african migrants been a few twists in terms of most of the last few hours we'll bring you the latest when we come back. when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are
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all symptoms of a greater problem in haiti and that greater problem is imperialism the problem is debt dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first. free republic of war by black people since the a.t.o. for.
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international live from moscow so israel has in the last hour or so suspended a controversial migrant deal that had just been announced earlier that could have saved thousands of african refugees sent to western countries the israeli prime minister reached agreement with the un's refugee agency on monday before then you turning on its implementation of what's been described as internal pressure school it's a unique agreement with the states of israel which removes sixteen thousand two hundred fifty people. developed countries such as canada germany and italy. so first there's a deal then there isn't a deal for now anyway paula middle east correspondent across these twists and turns it's changed a lot the few hours bring us up to speed. well certainly what seems to be happening is that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is buckling under pressure and criticism in the last few hours we've heard him make three different statements
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regarding the future status of african migrants inside israel now late on monday in a dramatic about face the israeli prime minister announce that he was canceling earlier announcement in which he said that a new agreement had been reached between the israeli government in the united nations refugee agency regarding the future of migrants now that agreement was supposed to see some sixteen thousand african migrants resettled in a western country the countries that were listed with canada germany and italy and another eighteen thousand who would receive temporary status here in israel after that announcement the prime minister received a lot of criticism there was a backlash from members within his only could party there were other members of the coalition government and he is reliant on those coalition partners to remain in power a lot of them spoke out against it what's also confusing is that we've heard from the german embassy here in israel saying that they have nothing and there was no
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communication with either the israeli government or the united nations regarding the future of migrants supposedly being taken to their country so there is a lot of confusion over all of that and this is an issue that has been dividing israeli society for months now earlier there was an announcement an agreement put forward by the government that said that migrants in this country would be given two options the one would be to be forcibly deported to either uganda or you wonder all to be sent to prison and those that chose to go chose in inverted commas would receive a sweetener are some three and a half thousand dollars as well as a plane ticket but human rights organizations and thousands of israelis over the past few months and months have taken to the streets to criticize that announcement so subsequently went on yahoo. nancy that he was scrapping it there was a five relief from many quarters here in israel what we're hearing now however is in a facebook post by the prime minister he says that he hears the residents of particularly
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south tel aviv which is where many of these migrants live and he's putting everything on temporary hold saying that he's suspending the agreement until he holds talks so but confusing at this stage a lot of developments in the last few hours but certainly it does seem as if the israeli prime minister is under a lot of pressure to reach some kind of decision but he's got different parties vying for what they want that decision to be it's turning out to be pretty embarrassing for him as well the face of it isn't it ok paula thanks for bringing us up to speed on this is silly keep you busy this afternoon recolor no further forward though who were it's going at the moment or right thanks for that for now just to recap on what paula was saying that as far as it seems italy certainly has been concerned officially the italian foreign ministry said that the country indeed hadn't received any kind of request regarding migrants i went on to stress that if it was going to go ahead this deal would strictly be between israel and the un's refugee agency a bit earlier i spoke with frank christian hansell too from the alternative for
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germany party to try and get a whole lot in germany and it seems although this was an official as he saw it at the time germany also knew little about this proposed agreement. as i was informed and i have informed myself rather for four short time before this there was no official asking from israel and no actually they don't know about this resettlement program with israel here so what is the un doing here what israel actually doing here is the mortar behind the scenes is just some huge admin error what is the way for netanyahu to quit to cool down the problem in his in his own country but i think we have to understand we have a global migration crisis it's not about asylum we see that individual asylum is another thing where whole groups of populations are concerned as a migration crisis due to two failed states in two failed economic policies and two
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failed economic development especially in africa and this big challenge has to be answered by other means with regard israel there are about thirty thousand migrants who are initially being mentioned here and israel's going to keep half of them under this proposal is just been saying is planning through the un refugee agency to send the other sixteen thousand or so on to maybe germany maybe italy still to be confirmed by the sounds of it tonight so israel is doing its part here is it not keeping at least sixteen thousand of these people that often come from awful backgrounds and awful lives maybe this is true but i think it's more important for the western countries to to stop the magnetism or to the refugee welcome attitude we have in some parts of the west especially in germany this will not work actually we do have to find another development strategy for for africa and other parts of the world like them in a region. with his will for next story to see the countries being slammed for how
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it's militaries handling ongoing protests at the guards a border the so-called palestinian march of returns already left seventeen killed more than a thousand injured over the course of three days. these. was .
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different. people demonstrating you know much to all that. was actually killed by. the annual march of return as a demonstration to see 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 world leaders have condemned israel's actions but in turn they've been accused of double standards by the israeli prime minister as holkins 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 u.n.
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secretary general was quick to call for a full investigation he used foreign affairs 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 country's 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 in yemen but some world leaders return the focus to friday's brutal
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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 who had indiscriminately bomb 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. hate 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. one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is an older dog
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but today it seems human life has become less valuable than political expediency or a good soundbite. supporters of catalan independence have been protesting in berlin demanding the sacked leader of catalonia be released from custody in germany colors purged arrested more than a week ago now but you have police he's facing extradition to spain where he's wanted for rebellion and sedition after last october's independence referendum people from across germany were joined by cattle and politicians at that rally and they're demanding the release of what they see as political prisoners following a crackdown on the separatist movement by madrid and a member of the german left party says the only way to solve the standoff over between catalonia madrid is through dialogue between national states and german government this was in response to find a way that these different actors can instead of criminalize this movement as well but we don't like one political actor in the scrimmage at least.
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due to a law which is very rich it should be different than criminalization of the. real solution. to it and. that's a nice wrap so far and kevin i would make sure you don't miss a thing get instead news alerts from us on the r.t. app if you're not downloaded it already. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is a fun it's a to my issues by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right this has
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