russia's u.n. envoy describes the allegations in this group paul poisoning case as absurd during a tense meeting at the security council. r.t. visits a district of paris where the soaring crime rate has been blamed on gangs of migrant teenagers. the campaign for israeli women that to keep their seats on airplanes instead of switching with ultra orthodox jewish men is blocked by the authorities. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now world powers have concluded

a meeting at the u.n. security council on the screen poisoning case the russian ambassador addressed the chamber for more than a half an hour slamming the u.k.'s claims of kremlin involvement in last month's attack on the former double agent and his daughter. yes good it's when you let's look at it cynically why would russia wait eight and decide to act two weeks before the election and a few months before the world come cheap i mean why was he even released from the country in the first place why eliminates him in a strange and dangerous moment convened by the russian federation and when the un security council gathered the meeting opened with remarks by the russian ambassador in which he essentially said that moscow is demanding answers he pointed out the allegations were leveled against russia just hours after the attack a taken place and that those allegations are hard to believe as neither boris johnson or theresa may or chemical experts who went on to point out that porton down laboratory which actually tested the chemical substance did not say what the

origin of the chemicals was it had no way of determining that now we then heard from the russian representative and the ambassador of the russian federation said that the allegations were absurd. and so it's lost a little more strength mentioned don't stand crime and punishment saying to the its main intrigue was whether the culprit would confess before i'll give you. the novel by the way is not about that's the tool it's not a detective story it's the work of seriousness of cool literature i would advise worst joins in to read other works of the stand skis or at least learn the titles including little british intelligence has immediately rushed to burst its new rescue just like the ones we have but it was if. you see 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 find most is that have been lost in this ten five fight but in this particular instance the arsonist wishes to investigate his. i am sorry mr president but that does not make it an independent investigation yulia scriptural 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. are we can now cross live to a law professor done kovalchuk dan thanks for being with us here on r t international. do we have dan. ok it seems that we do not

have we will await you know live t.v. these things do happen and we lost him for a second there but we do have a now let's go to him live sorry about that we had a little bit of technical difficulties there for a second dan. so about this whole script case and the latest developments it seems that it's just a lot of chaos at this moment the russian ambassador to the u.n. . ben zia describe the u.k. allegations as a theater of the absurd do you agree with this assessment. first of all. it's leaking it's just a tactic that's what it was too apparently the agents that it were used against the script. could have been produced by any country and in fact i am it's yours. you mention the court and down laboratory that would be an initial screen of the

chemicals that it could not determine who was responsible for that. interestingly craig murray british citizen who used to be an ambassador back to stan is very adamant that he believes russia was not behind this that there's no evidence russia was behind this and so i think people need to take a step back and stop you know accusing russia before there's any investigation it's done and it was responsible for this well the u.s. envoy kelly curry said it was washington's firm belief that russia was responsible . other than just taking the ukase word for it how can they be so sure considering like the reports aren't even fully in yet. they can't be so sure i mean first of all we have to start with the premise that in in recent months. russia has been

blamed for everything from the needly new scandal in the n.f.l. to the charlottesville. protests. russia seems to be the first country of its playing for anything so i think it makes me very skeptical when people rush to judgment against russia especially the united states which russia seems to be the punching bag for the. for the united states right now and frankly for many decades. there is no evidence that russia was behind this and frankly the motive this and the fear there why would russia waited eight years to go after this spy and his daughter in frankly. a script will end up in britain because of a spy swap and russia has never killed someone they have let go of a spy swap because they know no country would ever swap with them again pore over the attack that that's what it was occur right before the presidential elections

watcher right before the world cup of events in russia there's no motive for russia to have done this at this time and so i just think this smells like a set. of russia and i think people need to be very skeptical of what's happening all right we appreciate your thoughts law professor dan kovalchuk thanks for being with us here on arch international sorry about that little technical glitch at the beginning but you know what live t.v. we get through it thank you. our during the security council session the russian and u.k. envoys traded accusations and that one point they resorted to quoting from lewis carroll's classic alice in the wonderland. to come here please your majesty serve the word that i've been jumping up a great hurry this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the queen i haven't opened it yet so the word that i would but it seems to be a letter written by the prison the dude to somebody it must have been that's the

digging unless it was really good nobody other than the prison scandal writing us in other of the judum nor their knots of the way they would and that's to queerness thing you bugged the jew do you all look puzzled he must've imitated somewhat his own sense of the king the jury all brightened up again please your majesty said the may for i didn't write it and they come provided there is no name signed at the end if you didn't sign it said the king that only makes the met the words you must have meant some mischief let the jury consider the verdict the king served for about the twenties time that day no more said the queen sentence first verdict afterwards. does that remind you of anything as a. very good quote alice in wonderland that is sometimes i believe it's many it's six impossible things before breakfast say i think that's the crate that seats my

russian colleague best well u.k. foreign secretary has been quick to point the finger at russia but at least one of the claims has not stood up to scrutiny or it is what i got they have has his own very commentary. 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 portadown 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 riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as not be 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 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 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 with 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 are you ready to walk away on earth we are russian production. is the government russia. of surrogates creep out is not an isolated case but the latest in a pattern of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians russian russia russia russia russia i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and boris johnson has serious questions too about 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 a sniper trial they couldn't say where it came from. opposition politicians in the u.k. have been rounding on boys and johnson on twitter and the shadow home secretary

said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that german t.v. interview others stressed in the needed to check evidence while labor politician chris williams and called johnson downright dangerous and says the incident being used as a demo version a 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 cannot make 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 that. scientists doubt it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think germany called it 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 seem to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this us huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. and one of the most visited cities in the world some locals are living in fear as gangs take over their streets r.t. went to meet residents of a crime ridden neighborhood in paris. as you exit the metro in much of paris is eighteenth out of the small the first thing you groups of young men locals claim they migrants mostly from north africa they say they formed gangs and generally wreak havoc theft is common and it's clear even the police feed this area as problematic within minutes were offered advice from an officer of the family but

. i've often feel ok we see police stopping young men and searching their 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. the. fighting between them live with knives one time of night when it's not. morning like five six o'clock the morning you know. it's like the god of the like the. it's like. you know it's like like. 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 you know 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 . that so that it is seen. as you should be part of the first move. to. the city has tried to deal with the problem the teacher allocated seven. year of this new center trying to these children off the streets but it seems most showed no interest in it receives any support it seems they prefer to live on the streets surviving on the mystery upwards charlotte devinsky oxy tyrus. on facebook

a data scandal continues to snowball that story much more still to come you are watching our international. it's. good to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be. actually going to be this is what before three of the more people. interested always in the water . question. all right well not this is our to international live from moscow facebook has admitted to the scale of a recently uncovered data breach was far larger than previously thought the web giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with research for cambridge analytic however the company that's accused of illegally using the information disputes that saying its reach was much smaller. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people

mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. 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 companies client list were donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians across the globe have also used cambridge analytical services in an attempt to swaying public opinion. but facebook is now saying cambridge analytical is not alone in trying to mine private data and almost all of the networks two billion accounts may have been compromised internet law and media experts told us there is a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of the fans very thirty million a late a million i think 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 the us elections now still stories seem now a little bit out of 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 allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being you're doing election is the this story was about influencing election but by body. rather than accessing uses they've done locally this is a company that roots 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. israeli authorities have blocked advertisements are urging female passengers not to switch seats with ultra orthodox jews on airplanes now billboards in tel aviv airport were due to go up during the passover holiday saying ladies please take keep your seat and keep it traditionally ultra orthodox jews jewish men refuse to sit next to women because of their religious beliefs and it can cause delays and the director of the israeli religious action center told us about the campaign. and what we wanted to do this passover of this month is passive aggressive because of the here in israel and a lot of people are traveling wanted to. hang a poster which is basically a public service announcement letting women know if their rights passengers and we were denied by the israel airport authority we wanted to pay for it. most of the

they just said the campaign was not authorized. and when we turned to the media when the media asked them they said that it was not inflammatory but it was a controversial campaign and they didn't want it to be in the airports in recent years the number of disputes between female passengers and ultra-orthodox men has increased some women have taken their complaints to court or year ago a judge ruled in favor of a woman who said she felt humiliated after being asked to move she was eighty three year old renee robin awaits a holocaust survivor and retired lawyer she sued israel's national airline for discrimination the court ordered the airline to pay one thousand five hundred dollars in compensation of the israel religious action center again released a video explaining what why it's women have in this situation. there's a growing trend already men who simply refused to sit next to women on planes because of the demands of the female passenger in the movie or in the seebohm 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 and it was first i want to make sure that we don't generalize this not all. 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 the head 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 so both 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 i think that the airline should be very very clear saying if you have not arranged your seating

with the floor. before boarding then you have to either take your seat or get off the plane and you're not going to be compensated. u.k. has opened a military base in bahrain housing five hundred navy personnel and inauguration ceremony was held on thursday it is the first permanent british base in the middle east since the one nine hundred seventy s. and will be able to serve minesweepers and aircraft carriers construction was funded mainly by bob greene well maybe commander steve dainton said the facility will help bolster security on key shipping routes. being with them or maybe being else here anyway is to enhance and ensure that mothers charge curacy in the in the region and whether or not that's. lord on the high seas countering piracy countering terrorism making sure that the high seas or. for the free flow of

commerce the free flow of trade to be able to say place. or british military support for bahrain comes despite global scrutiny of the gulf monarchies human rights record human rights watch has accused the country of widespread torture and jailing peaceful protesters political analyst dan glazebrook told us the u.k. has a long history of propping up hardline regimes in the middle east bahrain saudi arabia the same families in power today were put in power by british britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth century they've always depended on britain and to an extent the usa for their own survival and this was the deal britain will control your foreign policy. and will but will provide your security will nabl you to stay in power so they're beefing up their military presence in the region and they're beefing up the their naval presence in bahrain is it was all is all part of that so what's in it for bahrain is regime survival they will not be in power as

a ruling family without that western support so the west gets to demand naval bases or whatever it wants and even demand that they pay for them because it knows this is a quid pro quo they won't survive without the west support so they have to accept the terms because if britain and the us withdraw their support for the bahraini ruling clique they'll be overthrown tomorrow. all right that does it for me i will be back in about thirty four minutes with a fork in it with us. henry kissinger one says the russia in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions so tensions heightened over the scruple case other sites guided by misconceptions were deliberate misrepresentations. fracking gave americans

a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to gold but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality. after weeks of media hysterics an official claims without a shred of evidence the case that russia was behind the solsbury poisoning incident is falling apart transparency in the rule of law have never played a role what happens next sadly is only too predictable.

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never before around the globe as a new cinema investment is being made in an unlikely place we'll explain all that's coming up right after some headlines let's get to it the board of directors of w.p. p. the shoot global advertising group headed by sir martin sorrell is reported to have hired investigators to examine allegations of misconduct in. looting misuse of company funds by server martin who said he rejects the allegations unreservedly but recognizes that the company has an obligation to investigate i spent just a little time with martin we were guest co-host on bloomberg television once if not twice i can't really recall but i've always admired him for his leadership and amidst advertising's reduction in spending many companies going on all around the world shares of w p p have dropped by thirty seven percent in the past year so martin assertive w p p h.