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russia's foreign minister demands answers over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in britain and accuses the u.k. of going too far with allegations. the white house reveals that donald trump invited me to putin recently discussed plans for a meeting in washington. militants are on the move. in eastern russia says over a thousand people have left the area since sunday following an evacuation deal with a rebel group. and israel suspends a deal with the u.s. to resettle african migrants to western countries while italy and germany say they're unaware of any such agreement.
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broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national i'm trying thomas glad to have you with us now the russian foreign minister says the u.k. has gone too far with its accusations over the poisoning of sergei screwball and his daughter. earlier joined my colleague collin bray in the studio to discuss the latest statement from sergei lavrov. you will not be possible to get away from the question. and what else is. british colleagues. 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 recovering and he said that he hopes that her father on the mend to also he has stressed that. russia still has
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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 un 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 where does russia hope to get any answers to any of these quest 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 beauty of our colleagues to answer the questions you
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want 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 put in everything on more school because in their opinion it seems it's not an investigation into who is behind the assassination attempt but more like how russia did or did give a direct order to its agents to go and assassinate sergei scruple and his daughter or whether or not russia just lost track of the nerve agent and 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 that russia that for at least a decade russia has no beef with the games in two thousand and ten that's when the classified information intending to get its its questions answered intending to get answers to its questions and so moscow is hoping to get those as early as wednesday . job politics writer david swanson says that despite information being scarce the
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media has already delivered its verdict well it's not in 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 are true or not until we're shown some evidence a number of western countries say the entire world is on their side against russia wimps 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 put to kill innocent
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civilians with the banned nerve agent now as you just heard u.k. and u.s. officials claim to have global backing in their allegations against russia but as you can see the countries that have sided with the u.k. in the script hall poisoning case cover only part of the world map here is it 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 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
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having communications other than by means of military force. well made worsening relations between russia and the west of there could be some good news on the horizon the white house could host a meeting between the u.s. and russia well here are the latest details on last month's phone call between president putin and president trump now back on march twentieth a donald trump call 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. the evacuation of militants from the syrian city of
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duma in eastern is underway since sunday more than a thousand militants have left duma the last rebel stronghold in the besieged area this is according to the russian defense ministry journalist muhammad ali is in damascus with the latest the first battle. so for. militants to started leaving the town of doom and eastern a lot of 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 of a look though 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 a kind of division among the group leaders of this militant group on getting out or
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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 in their individual light weapons like clash in the courts or something also very important item in the deal is regarding the fate of thousands of both the civilians and army personnel kidnapped by 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 are guarantors in the estimate talks meaning iran and turkey on supervising the
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process of the release of those kidnapped civilians and army personnel. the fox news host laura ingram is facing an advertising boycott over a tweet mocking a survivor of a school shooting in florida are to joke about it takes up the story for us 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
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network in the us is learning the hard way over a dozen of laura ingram stop 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 protest 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 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 haag mentioned that he had been rejected by
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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 hog who now has over seven hundred thousand twitter followers. chose to use this way to successfully getting 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 and this is about a group of people who have been almost a knowing kid as on touchable their kids they're victims and they are see been through a lot what ever they say whatever the forum whatever they claim it doesn't matter don't say anything in return the democrats don't have any issues they don't like
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