those were deliberate misrepresentation. rushes un envoy describes the u.k.'s allegations in the script for poisoning case as absurd during a tense meeting at the un security council. there were two other news this morning r.t. visit to district of paris where the soaring crime rates being blamed on gangs of migrant teenagers. plus a campaign for israeli women to keep their seats on airplanes instead of switching with ultra-orthodox jewish men is blocked by the authorities. good morning live from moscow started news at midnight with me cavanagh in first in the program then we start with the breaking news from the un security council h.q.

in new york they've just finished convening world powers there concluded a meeting that was asked for by russia all about the scriptural poisoning case the russian ambassador has addressed the chamber slamming the u.k.'s claims of kremlin involvement in last month's attack on the former double agent and his daughter used to go to let's speak cynically why did rush your wings and decide to actual two weeks before the election and a few months before the world cup another beautiful why was even released from the country in the first place you're why eliminate him in that strange and dangerous manner. caleb opens in new york's proof following that what he did in frank exchange between the u.k. and between the u.s. and russia of course so we start first then mr benn's it was on stage there talking for just over half an hour wasn't it takes through it. well the meeting was called by the russian federation they convene this important meeting to discuss the

situation of the allegations being made and essentially at this point my scout is demanding answers now at this point we heard the ambassador from russia and he talked about how the allegations made by britain came just hours after the attack and it's highly unlikely that they had compiled any evidence because it did at this point boris johnson neither boris johnson or theresa may are chemist whole experts are chemical experts so how could they have determined this and how could they have determined that this nerve agent was produced in russia now porton down laboratory which conducted the test could not verify the origin of the chemical now this is what the russian representative said when you know laying out the facts before the un security council this is the russian ambassador. last little morris jones to mention dostoyevsky's crime and punishment saying that the no whose main intrigue

was whether the copra would confess before he gets cool it's the novel by the way it's not about that it's who it's not a detective story it's serious philosophical literature because i would advise boris johnson to read other works of dostoyevsky or at least learn the times who's british intelligence has immediately rushed to boris johnson's rescue you should be just like chippendale the place is this really. now russia has offered a joint investigation into the incident however it seems pretty clear that the united kingdom does not want that these are the remarks that we heard from the ambassador representing the united kingdom before the security council. mr president there are several ways to view this joint investigation i think the message for this i'm trying to make stand is that of an arsonist turned from it but in this particular instance the arsonist wishes to investigate he saying. i am

sorry mr president but that does not make it an independent investigation now uli a scrip or has actually given her first statement to the u.k. police and she is apparently recovering from the incident so a lot of questions are remaining and this could be the beginning of a new chapter in the investigation into what exactly happened in salisbury but the focus of the meeting seemed to be russia you know strongly urging the world not to make assumptions and to look into the actual facts of the case yeah absolutely ok well from the your new york side of it thanks very much for that let's get some more insight to this as well a britain independent political analyst dan glazebrook he's on the line hi there first off the russian ambassador to the u.n. recently the bens he described the u.k. allegations as a fear to of the absurd it was a heated statement that he gave

a lot over thirty minutes would you agree with a theater of the observer and absurd an accurate description or not. oh absolutely i mean there's a bit been kind of three pillars of the of the ukase case and they're crumbling away one by one that the basic three pillars first this sort of pseudo scientific argument this is novacek this chemical that no one ever heard of until three weeks ago this nerve agent and this only russia that produce it is only russia this capable of producing it and using it. that's the first one and the second to do with this idea that russia has form in the motive but the first case is really crumbling away now that the head of porton down has come out and admitted we can't verify that this is russian manufactured in fact totally obscured and neglected in the mainstream media two very important facts and one is that in september twenty seventeen the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons actually verify

the destruction of russia's entire chemical weapons program the u.s. and the u.k. have never put forward any reasons as to why they doubt the o.p.c. w.'s verification here or any evidence that russia still is producing. a child but that is that is a very important piece of information that's never never picked up on and secondly the actual the russian chemist who revealed the existence of not a chocks published a book with this formula in two thousand and eight saying that it could actually be made with you know fairly simple bits and pieces you get in pesticides and fertilizers and so on so far from the idea that russia is the only power capable producing this stuff it turns out that actually anyone with access to a decent lab on amazon dot com can produce this stuff so well that apparently is also the most scientific argument it could be only russia has completely crumbled away yeah and i spoke to military chemist again last night he said pretty much along the lines of what you were saying as well that this although it's

a very sophisticated set of weapons they could actually be made the actual constituent parts are relatively easily available and again this whole history of not. depends who you listen to doesn't it but viscerally know bans are also said on a on a practical level it would make no sense to carry out an attack like this on the for instance of the russian election in the world cup is it fair to say because the u.k. is using some of that as a convincing motive or not. yeah well well exactly so so with that with the sort of crumbling away of this of this of the sort of pseudo scientific part of the of the argument boris johnson the left really reveals that actually they don't really have evidence as such but you know that russia has the format has the motive this is now basically the case that the case that the u.k. is making i know if we look at form i mean boris johnson really needs to learn a bit of his own history before he starts accusing russia of form in this regard i

mean not only is britain invaded ninety percent of the world's countries known as britain committed acts of genocide on most of the world's continents but actually we know from an report by the independent newspaper two years ago by the extent of the british state testing of chemical and biological warfare on its own population is much bigger than anyone ever realized over seven hundred fifty experiments carried out on unsuspecting not volunteers unsuspecting members of the population in coastal towns in britain on the tube london underground having chemical and biological agents released on them during the cold war from the forty's to the eighty's and including testing sarin nerve gas on british soldiers right up into the one nine hundred eighty so if we're going to talk about form mr johnson britain has form on using nerve agents against british citizens on british soil so there is reduce the motive russia has this motive ok i get the idea that. you know the want to send a message to traitors so-called or that putin wants

a spat with the west and invites of the election i understand that but what about what britain's gained out of all of this britain has gained. twenty eight countries to expel russian diplomats now hasn't britain been trying to reach this campaign of isolation against russia for years now and hasn't this amazingly played into this campaign so if we're going to just reduce everything to old what's country's got the form and the motive then britain's on very shaky ground on the benazir using russia that is what it is we want to have evidence rather than. talking about motives yeah well maybe sensible government next week from the o.p.c. w. report the thing is do they think mr burns it called this so called the bigger picture here behind a coordinated well planned campaign to discredit and diligence in my eyes russia he warned the u.k. that it was playing with fire can you see where he's coming from here do you think do you believe what he says yeah absolutely yeah absolutely i mean this is very dangerous look we look if we take

a step back and see this as part of the bigger picture the very dangerous times right now we've had this whole escalation of the of the of the british led campaign against russia as he said to deliver to my eyes demonize russia but at the same time we've had the dismissal of rex tillerson the appointment of john bolton in the usa an avowed supporter of of military strikes military regime change against iran and north korea and at the same time the launching of a trade war against china by donald trump the very very dangerous times this and this kind of. you know can joining of these different events is very ominous in terms of you know is there oh it looks like there's a war of a new war of the next western u.s. u.k. led war of aggression is imminent that's what it looks like against cross probably iran and china and russia these moves against rice russia and china actually designed to intimidate them into acquiescing into which over the next war of aggression is so yeah very if britain is playing with fire but as part of the

bigger picture there's a whole sequence of different. was a very ominous and very worrying indeed it is strange to say and as would. said yes the hopes that common sense will prevail in the facts come out soon independent political analyst and glazebrook thank you. so britain has been quick to point the finger at russia but is being left slightly red faced after some claims are beginning to unravel covering the way that's turned out those twenty four hours were ghastly of next. 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 now this is by we're 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 eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for that particular nerve agent is it 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 all right keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said. our experts have precisely identified in her region as navi chuck 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 barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence from 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 fast 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 you heard it all right on. russian production. is the government russia. of surrogates creep out is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack. reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians of russia russia russia russia russia tomorrow i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and porous johnson has serious questions to answer he claimed on german television that this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all that if i was not

a troll they couldn't say where it came from. opposition politicians in the u.k. m.p. running on boris johnson on twitter the shadow home secretary said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that no vilified german t.v. interview others stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williams and called jones and right dangerous and says the distance being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me 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 of a smokescreen 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 the german interviewer that. scientist doubt it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy

called him 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 in 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 and let all the evidence. the most visited cities in the world some locals are living in fear we can report is gangs take over this street he went to meet residents of a crime ridden neighborhood in paris. as you exit the metro in much of paris is. the first thing in a groups of young men locals claim they migrants mostly from africa they say they formed gangs and generally wreak havoc theft is common and it's clear even the

police this area as problematic within minutes were offered advice from an officer . 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 they teenagers the police rarely do anything more than give them a caution before letting go again. of fighting between them live with knives the time of night when it's the. law. on the morning like five six o'clock in the morning you know. it's like the. it's like. you know it's like like you know. it's.

like you know it would be. yeah yeah it's. easy to know is. this is part of the gang he was referring to they look like young children but locals 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 . but. the truth. city was white to deal with the problem keep it example. when you sent it flying off the streets but it seems most interest. support it seems they prefer to live on the streets surviving on the.

israeli authorities of blocks surging female passengers not to switch seats with ultra-orthodox jewish men on airplanes seems billboards in tel aviv airport word jew to go up during the passover holiday saying ladies please take your seat and keep it the campaigns aimed at highlighting that gender swapping is in fact illegal now traditionally ultra-orthodox jewish men refused to sit next to a woman because of their religious beliefs and that can cause problems on tight places like planes the director of the israeli religious action center told spent more about the campaign and what we wanted to do this that's a. this month is passive aggressive because of the here in israel and a lot of people are traveling wonted. person which is basically a public service announcement letting women know of passengers and we were denied by the israel airport authority. the city at they just said 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 to be in the airports. in recent years the number of disputes between ultra-orthodox jewish men and female passengers is increased some women affected by the. by the practice of demanded an apology and taken their complaints in fact to court a year ago a judge ruled in favor of woman who said that she felt humiliated after being asked to move she was a three year old when a robin of it's a holocaust survivor a retired. lawyer she sued israel's national airline for discrimination the court ordered the airline to prevent such incidents in future and pay eighteen hundred dollars in compensation the israel religious action center again released a video explaining what rights women have if they find themselves in the situation there's a growing trend already men who simply refuse to sit next to women on planes the

demands of the female passenger the move for all seaborne to 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 birth. and it was first i want to make sure that we don't generally it's not. this way but some do we've had several reports of a case where. an author of the man who was refused to sit next to a woman you had the boarding. boarding pass with the seat just next to a woman didn't arrange they had a 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 the four. 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 the scale of a recently undercover data breach was far larger than previously thought the web joined says the profiles about twenty seven million people could have been shared with a research firm cambridge analytical however the company that's accused of illegally using the information disputes that saying in fact its reach was much smaller. 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 in a way to get cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the consultancy firm is accused of using the private information of facebook users for targeted political campaigning among the company's client list with

donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians across the globe of also use cambridge analytical services in an attempt to swing public opinion but facebook's now saying cambridge a little car is not alone in trying to mine private data and almost all of the networks two billion account may have been compromised internet lore media experts we heard from say there's a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used and that so social media of course makes its money. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim there is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of the from the very thirty million to late a million is the principle behind the old story about but what about the use of internet robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the us elections not the bills there would seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only

a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for loudly and we're going to lead the way about this debate that it was then being you're doing election is the this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than access to 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 facebook now wants to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that 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 and other popular platforms. story next about a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan and it's another sensitive issue because it's over water despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to increase how much water it extracts from local sources to then bottle it up and sell it on it can now do all fifteen. under just over liters per minute from the bore water table there which is over five hundred more than previously allowed and that's not gone down well with a lot of people it's been four years since others in michigan have even had access to possible good drinking water recall the city of flints crisis with lead contamination was still dragging on that's why this story grates of a lot of people there a senior state senator who is on the natural resources committee said she was deeply disappointed by the approval of nestle's permit and she said that almost

eighty one thousand people had contacted the authorities saying they were strongly against the corporation extracting more water in fact it seems to me seventy five said it was a good idea but nonetheless even given that groundswell of opinion it was ignored by authorities they said it simply didn't apply to their policies include transparency in the majority of the public comments were in opposition 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 two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan once again voicing their concerns. he says when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth either side nestle has a reputation worldwide. going to occur poor rural communities are free markets and economic benefits to the community that never really of the to realize

are taking as much wire as they can care and one of the stream runs dry they really for its part nestle says it will carefully review its permit in order to comply with all the requirements and the michigan environmental council also said it would be closely monitoring the company's water extraction. if they do but what if the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that flow mean teams that are healthy and in cases where the stream flow starts to dry out 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 state officials to talk boy to curb it and make west make nestle turn the wells off. some of the states for next story to students of the florida school was seventeen when killed by a teenager in february a speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration of students being told to use see through but percs 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 end

a razor edge and 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 going through write a letter to congress demanding a stricter gun control yes i'm an enraged parents who can. claim 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 at princeton the work 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 comeback statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . just quick reminder more reaction to the emergency u.n. security council meeting called by russia tonight the real frank and heated state of russia's position and came forth and response in turn from the u.k. and then the u.s. in the coming hours much more russian reaction to that than the next news bulletin here is just about twenty nine minutes away with me kevin when we get more great programs feline's up in your region after this break. like so many clubs over the years so i know the guy even so i got. the ball isn't.