russia's u.n. envoy describes the u.k.'s allegations in the screen poisoning case as absurd during a tense meeting at the security council. visits a district of paris where the soaring crime rate has been 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 man is blocked by the authorities. are broadcast live in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now world powers have concluded a meeting at the u.n. security council on the screen paul poisoning case the russian ambassador addressed

the chamber for more than half an hour slamming the case 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 years you decide to write two weeks before the election and a few months before the world com ship to me why was he even released from the country in the first place why eliminates him in that strange and dangerous moment the meeting was convened by the russian federation and when the un security council it 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 and 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 and mention don't stand crime and punishment. intriguing was whether the concrete we can sense because i'll give you. the novel by the way is not about that's the tool it's not a detective story it's a work of seriousness of cool literature i would advise morris joins in to read all the words of the excuse or at least learn the titles including little british intelligence is immediately rushed to burst its new rescue mode just like the ones we because 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 and i find most that is that have been lost in this ten five but in this

particular instance the arsonist wishes to memphis. he's saying. i am sorry mr president but that does not make it an independent investigation not sponsored we being mothers admitted we didn't use but we are telling you that we did not they say there is a line on school in our school how we did it and when we asked for any proof they tell us no just confesses that would be best if you uli a 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. private investor

and author charles or tell told us the screwball case is being used by some in the u.k. and u.s. as a distraction from domestic problems. it just doesn't make any sense it doesn't serve russia's interest what it does do is it serves to heighten the tensions between the u.k. and russia maybe now the u.s. and russia and who benefits from that i think it's elements within the american deep state and allied actors in the u.k. this comes at the same time as we have lingering serious questions over the provenance of the steel dossier and you know how this robert muller investigation actually came to happen so you know i think we we really need to you know calm down a little bit and search for evidence jointly and i don't i don't like it when i what i see somebody make claims that aren't supported. well during the security council session the russian and u.k. envoys traded accusations and at one point they resorted to quoting from lewis carroll's classic alice in wonderland to come yet please your majesty so the word

that i've been jumping up in the great hurry this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the. i haven't opened it yet so the word habit but it seems to be a letter written by the prison the dude to somebody it must have been that sued the king unless it was a good nobody other than the policeman scandinavian gusts in other of the judum no they're not so they were the baby and that stick with his thing you bugged the jew do you look puzzled he must've been with the did somebody his own sense of the king the judea all brightened up again. please your majesty of the mayfair i didn't write it and they come provided there is no name signed at them if you didn't sign it says the king that only makes the most the words you must have meant some use to let the jury consider the verdict the king served for about the twenty stone that the normal subsequent sentence first verdict afterwards.

does that remind you of anything as a. very good quote from alice in wonderland that is sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast so i think that's the quote. russian colleague bet. or in spite of the serious overtones to the u.n. meeting the atmosphere between the russian and u.k. envoys was not entirely hostile as you can see vassily. karen appears found time for a friendly chat during a break in recession or britain's case against russia has been somewhat undermined by a controversial claim from the u.k. foreign minister argues but i've got to have has 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 now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade novacek 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 but typically 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 their 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 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 porton dollars. 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 you are the one thing on earth we are russian not sure. it's the government you russia. poisoning of surrogates creeping 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 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. opposition politicians in the u.k. have been ridiculing boris johnson on twitter the shadow home secretary said that well perhaps that mr johnson that might also want to delete that german t.v. interview and others stressed of the need to check evidence a labor politician chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and says the incidents being used as a diversionary tactic. it 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 german interviewer that. scientist called out 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 seem 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. 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 pairs. as you exit the metro in much of paris is a scene pretty small the first thing in a groups of young men. locals claim. mostly africa they say they formed gangs and generally wreak havoc theft is common and it's clear even the police this area that's problematic within minutes were offered advice from an officer of the family. who see police stopping men and searching their banks. the locals say that being terrorized by a group of around sixty juveniles migrants from morocco but because teenagers the police rarely do anything more than give them

a caution before letting go again. of. between with knives the time of night when the kids don't. like five six of them. to flock to. it's like yeah you know it's like you know. it's. like you know how hard it would be. yeah yeah yeah it's. easy to under. this is part of the gang he was with her 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 .

future. but the bulk of the solo of the show. up to. the city council tried to deal with local teacher and seven. year race when you sent it flying these children off the streets but it seems almost no interest at least support it seems they prefer to live on the streets surviving on the mystery it's. us. opposition politicians mikaela have told us the french government needs to take much tougher action against teenage gangs it would he said you determine what is the police in the eighteenth district of paris is doing what they can they have a huge amount of work they need to control the entire area where there is a growing problem with delinquency they're doing their best but they should be

traditional response to that it's a strong response from the government and there is none we living in a country are in certain places delinquency and violence are rampant with no punishment. israeli authorities have blocked advertisements urging female passengers not to switch seats with ultra orthodox jewish man on airplanes billboards in tel aviv airport were due to go up during the passover holiday saying ladies please take your seat and keep it now traditionally ultra orthodox jewish man refused to sit next to women because of their religious beliefs and it can cause delays 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 a 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 rene rabinowitz a holocaust survivor and retired lawyer she sued israel's national airline for discrimination of a court order the airline to pay eight hundred dollars in compensation the israel religious action center again released a video explaining what rights 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 a storm. and it was first i want to make sure that we don't generalize this not all . of 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 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'd delays the entire flight and so 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 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. the u.k. has opened a military base in bahrain housing five hundred maybe personnel and inauguration ceremony was held on for the day it is the first permanent british base in the middle east since the one nine hundred seventy s. will be able to serve minesweepers and aircraft carriers construction was funded mainly by rain while navy commander steve dainton said that the facility will help bolster security on t.v. shipping. the aim of the war may be being altshuler anyway. in the in the region and whether or not touch. culturing piracy culture. terrorism making sure that the high seas of. for the free flow of commerce the free

flow of trade to be able to say place. well 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 it torture and yelling peaceful protesters political analyst dan glazebrook told us that the u.k. has a long history of propping up hardline regimes in the middle east. rein saudi arabia the same families in power today were put in power by a 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 the 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 it because if britain and the u.s. withdraw their support for the bahraini ruling clique they'll be overthrown tomorrow. the u.s. president has signed an order to deploy the national guard on the mexican border until his long awaited wall is built. so we have to have strugglers we're going to have the wall we've already started building it we're working out systems now and we called out the national guard and you know we're doing a real job but i'll tell you what the laws of this country have to be strengthened and toughen up or president trump said he plans to stand between two and four thousand troops to the border this follows a more than two hundred percent surge in attempted crossings from mexico since march two thousand and seventeen this is according to official data from the

homeland security department and mexico has voiced its alarm over the planned militarization of the border and the country's senate has passed a resolution with the support of the president threatening to suspend cooperation with the u.s. on immigration and security see on the price even though much of the senate deborah public categorically rejects president donald trump's intention of militarizing the border relax and considers distraction as an additional greeting. card from all of this we can cross live to john william louden who is a former republican member of the missouri senate and also tighe barry from code pink gentlemen this is an issue that has a lot of people in the united states on edge now for an international audience they might not. fully grasp of the situation so hopefully we can help them sort through it i guess what do you think is behind this plan is it in the security interests of the united states or is it just for

a political show and i guess john we start with you. it's one hundred percent security any country should should be allowed the right to defend itself i spent the last six years living in california right on the mexican border i saw the influx i saw i saw illegal immigrants crossing and by the way i was in tijuana mexico enjoying a beer on the beach watched people cross over the fence they just crossed over they washed around in the waves around the fence because there are so little protection it's craziness i've seen it firsthand and by the way the people of california the elitists on the coasts are very happy to allow the influx for their various reasons but the people that are suffering are not the coastal leitz they're the people inland that have seen crime sore and and are nervous about their children at school

and everything else tired i hear you see you shaking your head and i know you want to jump in go ahead. laughing good it's soul i mean this is not reality i'm from california i live in santa monica i happen to be here in miami but i am from santa monica california my kids live there i've been to the border i've been to rosarito. there is no people in washington cross the border into the united states this is what's alice i watch the united states has nothing to fear there are i mean you can claim you did but it's not a reality if anyone goes to the border you would see i watched you can't wash around the wall well here's my question gameday i know the wall is larry already a. gentleman there is strong opposition to the border not hold on guys let me live

has always been so not true. so there's strong opposition to the border wall plan in congress and mexico itself has said very clearly it will not pay for the wall so this national guard move. a lot of people are saying it's basically an admission that the border wall is not going to be built and that this is some sort of a political stunt. first of all sending the national guard is to block an invasion and by the way my friend tries to out california me santa monica is not as easy as you know we have agent and they mention i'm not going to lie to them and i mean rosa rio arrows their egos knew already miles from agro rio is thirty miles from the border you've never been to rosarito and it's not a lot of across it was a rodeo you know that's thirty miles down i read n.c.

made a throw out words farther south you know i'm going to side of that is this a political stunt he won when i were in iraq in terms of you know ok we can argue about geography all we want let's get back to the lariat line guys you guys guys guys come on i need their. old i what we can argue about geography like who they've been where oh what i want to know is watched it what i want to know is we mentioned mexico is threatening to stop cooperated with united states on security and immigration. that doesn't seem like it's a good deal considering we do share a border if they follow through on that threat how much of a problem could that cause for the united states. well i'll tell you one thing i talked to i want to record the immigration naturalization service. talk to a former director and you know he told me he said one time they're having a bad with mexico and all he did was close about half the border crossing lanes

just closed them it choked up traffic so badly in mexico that the mexican government went to its knees and conceded immediately and came around our point of view that mexico is so much more reliant on people crossing the border than us a little tactic like closing some lanes crossing the border and look on like the member of santa mott the resident of santa monica is a lead as it gets i lived right on the border and i've crossed those lanes many times you close a few of those lanes and mexico will change dramatically not allege and i'm driven mind and you have a question a willing to use it of course. would have to say that i mean i mean. i mean there's it's just i mean debt's prasar you malibu's maybe and i hear there in the like our border in the southern part of california are so secure that we have nothing to worry about there are people in california who have thirty

years of life there with businesses with kids they're growing up and they're there they're establishing wives they protect us in so many ways in california this guy is like this a leader just. it is so full of propaganda i can't i. i mean well ok let's help for news so say to les go get her tell us let's let's let's go with the fish in the illegal the the problem with california is that we export our prisoners to honduras we export our prisoners to el salvador we export the murderers to these that is a problem in mexico all the biggest and one hundred hold on hold on time problem because they're free to roam they are free to roam in el salvador to about two

minutes and let it go and and in honduras here we have about eighty of this levee i want to ask and they create the thing that you call isis i want to i want to ask you that way there are a problem but it's not our america's problem gentlemen according to homeland security and really how do you feel if you are a problem and we created these criminals. let's get back to the focus at hand about specific border security and mexico and the united states according to homeland security there has been more than a two hundred percent surge in attempted border crossings since march last year there had been a seventeen year low in crossings does it look like trump's policies have actually encouraged people to cross the border and come to united states. any discussion of daca i mean any no and that is what's really sad about this any time you actually discuss an idea of amnesty you encourage more people to come across where our country sends mixed signals when we talk about it so close. only in a while i mean

a lot larger ice i so i support i so have already robust immigration a guest worker program it's illegal immigration that's the problem and so amnesty to the doc a recent paeans amnesty. to the other illegals any talk of that encourages an influx so are we have to discourage all illegal crossing we should we should not be holding out a care i have that one minute left and i want to soon be welcome i've got one minute left i want to talk with amnesty in the whole thing there is no amnesty daca is not amnesty lots of people get posing it. right yet is older and de fer the action is amnesty yeah it's their right way to roll it they were born they were brought here without their will they're right and they deserve to be

americans and they are great americans unlike you wow. unfortunately i mean this is how we want to talk about all day i wish we had all the time in the world to devote to it and i have to cut because our show is over thanks for being with us here on our to international john william louden former republican member of the missouri senate thank you and tighe barry from code pink. all right it does it for me you're watching the international stay with us. from. china retaliates with terrors of their own is this a trade war.