well to international just eleven o'clock here in the evening you're seeing there on your screen and i'm going extraordinary meeting of the u.n. security council called quest of russia we already heard the russian representative speak karen pierce the u.k. representative speaking at the moment it's streaming online r.t. dot com nikki haley the u.s. representative will be speaking this hour to we'll be across that story a lot to come out of it and some other news we're covering as well and they vote in paris turn to gang life and hearty gets a glimpse of what life is like for residents terrorized by migrant teenagers. plus coming up to a campaign for israeli women to keep their seats on airplanes instead of switching with ultra-orthodox jewish ones to block by authorities cause a lot of controversy where cross it is well.

again so many story dominating something right now the u.n. security council local russia meeting underway in new york let's cross over the u.k. representative for just. not quite sure his community indeed i just heard it will be nikki haley from the u.s. interesting as it were as the chinese got to say yesterday this council met on the tragic anniversary of the sarin attack and conscience on syria and master healy use urged us to use the meeting as the start of a renewed partnership and i renewed commitment to address chemical weapons that is because as she said no one wants to live in a world where chemical weapons are used. we were reminded of the human toll of the devastation caused by chemical attacks and of the fact that we came together over

many decades to build an international consensus banning these despicable weapons of war. sadly today's meeting isn't about any of that instead it's just another attempt by russia to use the security council for political games it's an attempt to cast doubt on the attack in salisbury using phrases like collective psychosis and propaganda war and likening the media to asika trophic substance that's used to manipulate the public likening the response of any country that challenges russia's narrative to nazi propaganda as joseph goebbels this is not a tactic that is appropriate for this body but let's remember the facts about what happened we are discussing the agree just use of a military grade nerve agent against two civilians in the united kingdom and attack that expose hundreds of people innocent bystanders and first responders to the effects of this agent the fact that a permanent member of this security council was involved is especially appalling.

as the united states has made clear before our support for the united kingdom is unwavering and we continue to stand in absolute solidarity with our british colleagues we have stated previously and do so again today our firm belief that russia is responsible for this chemical weapons attack on u.k. soil either russia deliberately use this military grade weapon or failed to declare and secure its stocks of this nerve agent we strongly support the o.p.c. as independent analysis that is underway as well as the u.k.'s criminal investigation into the use of chemical weapons on its sovereign territory and believe those responsible for that attack must be held accountable. the international community has rightly come together to express its outrage and take action the united states united kingdom nato and twenty seven other countries have expelled altogether over one hundred fifty russian intelligence officers this is a testament to the grave concern that we and our partners share for russia's

attempts to undermine international peace and security meanwhile russia puts forward a series of conspiracy theories in an attempt to shift blame with wild claims that the u.k. or the united states might be responsible this didn't december mation and projection coming from our russian colleagues is preposterous member states should not be fooled or led astray by these absurd efforts to dissemble from the facts. russia is known to have developed military grade nerve agents of the type used in the solsbury attack russia has a well documented record of conducting state sponsored assassinations including previously in the united kingdom high ranking russia with russian officials have themselves made clear in public statements that defectors and so-called traitors are legitimate targets for assassination yesterday russia tried to get the o.p.c. to adopt a decision that would have undermined its ongoing independent investigation into

the solsbury attack and that would have helped russia to disguise its called ability the members of the executive council overwhelmingly rejected russia's proposal now russia wants to try again at the security council but the truth of russia's involvement in the solsbury attack remains and the international community should remain united behind this truth once again as ambassador healy said if we do not change course now on chemical weapons we will be fast approaching a new and far more still dangerous reality for all of us. we must hold those who have hughes chemical weapons accountable and rebuild the global consensus that these weapons mess never be used under any circumstances as the security council that is the goal we should be working to achieve rather than using this chamber to undermine the truth thank you. can ask us another present. the representative of the united states of those statements and i'll give the truth to

the representative of d.c. if you think you mr president mr president were not nearly there of course that was the u.s. representative in the kelly curry giving. america stood on this she said there was a firm belief that russia was responsible support was unwavering for and she said that russia was using the security council for its own gains we heard at length as well before that the u.k. representative karen pierce and also for about half an hour selina benz of the russian representative giving russia's point of view and where that stood tonight let's go across to new york listening into all of a sec caleb maupin there in new york hi there talk us through this meeting a lot came out a very heated unpleasant for certainly the russian representative. fire it times take us through it as you were across it and.

well the meeting was called by russia this was a meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations the u.n. security council and the russian representative of the russian ambassador he addressed the meeting saying that the allegations made against his country are absurd and he went on to point out that essentially the case against russia and the allegations against them regarding the sellers bring incident it's just falling apart this is what he said these are some of his remarks to the security council. to go to tunisia if we speak. very cynically the chimp was not only was why did we have to wait years due to and decided to do this two weeks and he she wants you to presidential elections in russia in just a few weeks before the world cut you off shoot of the libs to do so that's why i was even released from the country that i think you would like eliminate the individual in this is just strange and dangerous for people around him and

such a. highly public. mess that. now from there we did hear from the representative of the united kingdom now the representative of the united kingdom interestingly in the remarks did not name know the chalk as a substance that was used only referred to a chemical weapon was not specific which is rather interesting now it's important to note that only a scruple has made comments to the press she did give a statement to the police and from what we understand she says that she is very disoriented by the events however she does ultimately feel stronger so we're waiting to see what happens at this meeting as we hear different countries address the u.n. security council it's a moment of tension and all eyes are on the u.n. security council at this very important meeting by the russian federation. show you've got more to tell us about it later as we get more details in where we're

watching of most of what was said there live as well thanks for the update systems of the moment nothing's really changed but it looks like the tensions are rushing up britain has been quick to point the finger at russia but has been left slightly red faced to call soft some of the claims that beginning to unravel the u.k. representative is trying to counter all that. takes up the story. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies

what the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing alright keep calm first goo back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then that riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as novacek it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we've removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but bars johnson himself had said

almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from portland. they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so far they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep

doing what you do every day are you going to walk away on. russian action. is the government going to use russia. of surrogates of people is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians a russian russia russia russia russia i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and france and a serious questions to what he claimed on german television this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all that if i was not a true they couldn't say where it came from. or the labor party m.p.'s have been rounding up boris johnson on twitter meantime the shadow

home secretary said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that now vilified german t.v. interview other stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and says the instance being used as a diversionary tactic. it seems to me that the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more the slower screen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over bricks policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told german interviewer. scientists who doubt it said it was with the vasher so i think jeremy called me was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions

but we need to get to the bottom i mean the evidence and jeremy said this seemed to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. let me just remind you the u.n. security council is still continuing you can stream it you can watch it streaming at r.t. dot com we've got more to come on it over the coming hours as well as more reaction comes in to what was said in a heated exchange on all sides now a check of some of the news in one of the most visited cities in the world some locals are living in fear is gangs take over their streets artie's going to meet residents in one paris neighborhood is literally turned gang land. as you exit the metro in much of paris is eighteenth out of the small the first thing in groups of young men locals claim they migrants mostly from north africa they say they filmed gangs and generally wreak havoc theft is common and it's clear even the

police this area is problematic within minutes were offered advice from an officer of the famous it's. about the way we feel about him. we see police stopping young men and searching that banks. locals say that being terrorized by a group of around sixty juveniles migrants from morocco but because their teenagers the police rarely do anything more than give them a caution before letting go again. of fighting between them live with knives one time of night when it's not. on the morning like five six o'clock the morning you know. it's like the god i like to. them it's like yeah you know it's. like you lady like you know it's.

like you know and it would be. yeah yeah it's. easy it's you know is and the problem there is for me from you know this is part of the gang he was referring to they look like young children but local say they've had enough of them fifteen hundred have signed a petition for action those who know the area say residents are taking precautions such as. that so that it is. the butt of the first move. to. the city has tried to deal with the problem the teacher allocated seven. year of this new same to trying these children off the streets but it seems most show no interest in the fees and support it seems they prefer to live on the streets surviving on the mystery of birds charlotte

devinsky. paris. israeli authorities have blocked adverts urging female passengers not to switch seats with ultra-orthodox jewish men on airplanes. billboards in tel aviv airport word you to go up in the passover holiday saying ladies please take your seat and keep it crucially the campaigns aimed at highlighting that gender seat swapping is illegal traditionally ultra-orthodox jewish men refused to sit next to women because of their religious beliefs and it can end up causing delays at the airport with planes the director of the israeli religious action center told us more about this latest campaign them and what we wanted to do this that is that. this month is passive aggressive because of the here in israel and a lot of people are traveling one to. a person which is basically a public service announcement letting women know of their greatest passengers and

we were denied by the airport authority we wanted to pay for it. but most of the they just said that the campaign was not after raise. and when we turned to the media when we asked them they said. it was now inflammatory but it was a controversial campaign and they didn't want it to be in the airports in recent years the number of conflicts between ultra orthodox jewish male and female passengers is increased this particular religious group known as the ready man in fact is growing rapidly in israel and putting many passengers in a difficult position some women affected by the tradition demand an apology but occasionally you get so bad the whole row ends up in court you may recall case in point but a year ago a case was ruled in favor of woman who said she'd been humiliated after being asked to move she was eighty three year old rennie or a bit of it holocaust survivor and lawyer she sued israel's national airline el al for its discriminatory policy the court ordered airlines to instruct staff them to

stop seat swapping and to pay eight hundred dollars in compensation again the israel religious action center again released video no explaining what women's rights are if they find themselves in this situation. there's a growing trend already men who simply refused to sit next to women on planes because of the demands that the female passenger will move or else he won't sit down instead of telling the men to sit down the woman is dealt with severe pressure by fellow passengers and the flight attendant until she gives up and from her seat first i want to make sure that we don't generalize this not. this way but some do we've had several reports of a case where. an alter of that's man was refused to sit next to women you had boarding. boarding pass with the seat just next to a woman didn't arrange the ahead of time and there was no place for him to move and

the woman next to him didn't want to see what he does he doesn't want to sit down if he refuses to sit down then he delays the entire flight and the flight attendant and other passengers begin to pressuring begin pressuring the women to move and that's basically what we're opposing we think that's bullying thing that the airline should be very very clear saying if you have now you're sitting with this were. before boarding then you have to either take your seat or get off the plane and you're not going to be compensated. facebook has admitted that the scale of that data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the web giant says now that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data research firm cambridge analytical however the company that's now accused of illegally using the information that it says its reach was much less in total we believe the facebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the

u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical licensed for no more than thirty million people. the consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among the company's client list with donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians across the globe of also resorted to cambridge one of the two concessions to an attempt to influence public opinion but the social media giants now saying that cambridge analytical is not alone in attempts to breach private information it was also revealed last night it could be that all two billion accounts on facebook could have been exposed internet law media experts we heard from say there's a real lack of awareness about how people's data is being used these days and that so social media makes money can be generally the guys denying the figure they claim there is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of different very thirty million a late in the u.s.

navy is the principle behind the old story about what about the use of internet robots as we call them books in order to meddle with us elections not the bills there is a little bit of they are a little bit ridiculous nobody's talking about it but it was very interesting to hear was designed to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for loudly and we're going to leave the boxes today that it was then being you do influence election is that if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather then to see news as they've done locally this is a company that route so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that

data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process but now want to say that they can they can police themselves internally. they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think you know there are legitimate reason that that's not good enough we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google another. story next about a real david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan and it's another sensitive issue over water there despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to increase how much water it extracts from local sources to then bottle up and sell it could now draw fifteen hundred liters per metre which is over five hundred more than previously allowed now it's been four years since others in michigan have even had access to clean water for drinking water the city of flints crisis may recall that

with lead contamination is still dragging on that's why this is hurting them a state senator who is on the natural resources committee said she was deeply disappointed now by the approval of nest as late as permit and that almost eighty one thousand people have contacted the authorities saying that they were strongly against the quote the corporation extracting this much water with a seventy five saying they thought it was a good idea despite all that that groundswell of public opinion it was ignored by authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies in full transparency of the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to sheets of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permit decision. opposition to all this goes back to the two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to the lakes of rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns that he says when we moved here you can see that there

is no or no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide. going to occur poor rural communities offering all kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialized. and taking as much water as they can care and when a stream runs dry they believe well as a footnote to this for its part nestlé says it will carefully review its permit in order to comply with all the requirements right now and the michigan environmental council also said it would be closely monitoring the company's water extraction. if they do poke in the butt well all of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and forced the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of a river so that out so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that flow maintains

a healthy glow and in cases where if the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're asking the state officials to talk boy to curb it and make us make nestle turn the wells off. students at the florida school were seventeen were killed by a teenager in february is speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration of students now being told to use seethrough backpacks which is one of the school's new safety measures partly the youngsters say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as they see it samir khan reports it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that

results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the n.r.a. is agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter of senior year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and mission if a middle school teacher in georgia after two days to write a letter to congress demanding a stricter gun control it. i mean enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain stanley or class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after

scrapping plan a which was wait for it golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action. on r.t.e. washington d.c. . by the way just for my breaking news just a recap of my shoulder there the big news tonight that the u.n. security council emergency session you say kuwait speaking at the moment it's been called by russia over the scriptural affair is still underway there in new york city russia u.k. the u.s. they've already restated their positions in a heated and extremely frank exchange more analysis of all that to come here in r.t. of the coming hours and it's still streaming right now that if you want to get up to the one i was. so now it's kevin zero in saying thank you for watching but

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