in the headlines tonight israel deploys tanks and snipers to the gaza border it's thought at least five palestinians have been killed one of them a child in a massive anti occupation protest. doctors say former russian spy sergei script though is no longer in a critical condition following last month's poisoning in seoul great as the u.k. media nonetheless continues to speculate where the nerve agent may have been produced. and former u.s. intelligence officers throw their support behind the founder of wiki leaks who's been forced off line by the ecuadorian embassy in london over comments he made about catalonia.

hi this is r.t. news at ten live from moscow with me kevin no it started with this story first new in this line support growing for the founder of wiki leaks to be reconnected to the internet a petition has gathered forty seven thousand signatures now in response to the ecuadorian embassy cutting off julian assange has access last week the document was delivered by a former cia officer turned whistle blower john kerry a. fellow whistleblowers. this is from the cia the f.b.i. the military. we want to make a letter thanking the government would. you give this to them well john kiriakou is here himself thanks for making the time to be with us what are you trying to achieve here in. the ecuadorian embassy going to listen to anyway.

well you know when i delivered the letter i thought that maybe we had a chance and perhaps we still do have a chance but the wall street journal reported something yesterday that was very troubling to me and that was in an article entitled ecuador is open for business in which it said that ecuador was actively seeking investment from the united states so i wonder if if ecuador's financial interests might outweigh the interests of freedom of the press and of transparency with that said there are a lot of people all around the world who are watching what ecuador is doing and we're hoping for the best we've made our opinions known we hope that they take our advice well acquittals line here is the sun just post a sign to deal not talk about certain things he didn't keep his part of the bargain so therefore they're not going to keep their part of the bargain although they are of course still given him safe shelter what do you think about that i

can understand that but at the same time the ecuadorian government gave julian a son not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens and your own diplomats now if they had a problem with something that julian had tweeted apparently they do have such a problem then they should punish him i suppose in a way commensurate with what it was that he did he issued one tweet i think this is going a little overboard in response do you think behind the scenes despite everything you've said in the past what he's been given except for that they're actually getting a bit tired of sheltering him now. i think they probably are you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is ridgeley from so certainly there are two sides to this i am sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we just don't know and i know maybe that's

the kind of pressure you're talking about is more the reason why his internet's been cut off rather than this small misdemeanor. count. so in the days you'll you'll you'll protest of forty seven thousand signatures are actually going to make a difference. we hope that it does you know we just wanted to be on record that we're watching this is very important to us we certainly don't stand alone and you know those of us who signed the letter rather than the petition with the letter were all intelligence professionals diplomats military officers f.b.i. agents we understand the background to this case we also understand how important transparency is and freedom of speech and freedom of the press we wanted the ecuadorian government to know that if you have to think it would go on this long that he'd still be almost non incarcerated no no i

don't think any of us ever thought that this would have dragged on all this time and it tells you really how powerful the united states is i think and how how seriously they're taking this issue i have no doubt that the us has has strongly pressured the british government to make sure that julian is not able to walk out of that embassy unfettered and at the same time i believe that julian probably has been indicted in the united states and i believe that if he does leave the embassy the british authorities will grab him and extradite him to the united states what is his prognosis as you see it would be a best guess would be read to the ground. to tell you the truth i want to be optimistic but i just don't feel optimistic there just doesn't seem to be any give in the position of the british certainly in the position of the americans and really i think at least in the near and medium term the best case scenario is

a stalemate john thanks for your time and telling us what you've been doing there with this petition handed in joe thank you former cia analyst whistleblower. at least eight people including a child and i thought to have been killed after israeli forces fired live i mean this unit protestors in gaza the palestinian health ministry says more than a thousand people have been injured forty eight children are among them the un rest broke out as palestinians resumed their protest against what they call an israeli occupation a correspondents have been reporting from both sides of the gaza border when now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters like then the hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been here since the morning. tensions are running high right now and the israeli army started to shoot randomly . like my list of names are getting injured

why that ambulances are i mean here to british take on the injuries that were not. injured from days really i mean that by live. i mean it's in your gas canisters. this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from that. and at the tear gas there it's cross ambulance and. the medics are trying to save the injuries. just. in years are very close to the fence and no are getting way back because the by israeli army arabs are shooting everyone who's getting near to the front thank. god this guy is grey of the tires the palestinian youth have been flying since the morning and at the same time there is really are we have been

throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians here in the front. row out. on the road as you see the palestinian protesters are running away from the tear gas canisters that were thrown just right now and the protesters so these are unexploded to gas canisters that are being targeted and suited on the palestinian protesters to aus and of hundreds of palestinians have been here since the morning and we saw palestinian protesters burning flags and israeli flags and also saying slogans against the israelis and the american sense the morning tension is running high right now and palestinians are still in the field and still near the fence i'm standing here on the israeli side of the israel gaza border with

these plumes of smoke cos slowly making their way from gaza into israel now there's a lot of tear gas that's being fired into gaza we can hear the sound of tear gas canisters from here we can also hear the sign sounds of bullets of course israelis are being accused by the international community off using live fire on unarmed protesters but the israelis for bayside say that among these protesters are hundreds of militants who are aiming at them with molotov cocktails and the like i'm standing in a closed military zone the israelis have brought in reinforcements there are tanks on the border we're not allowed to go closer to the border they where i'm actually standing the israeli snipers. also aware that the palestinians are using pieces of mirrors to try and block the vision and make it more difficult for them and we've also been told that should the situation on the other side of the border get too and the israelis plan on using sewage water to deal with the people there so the situation here on the border extremely tense and unfortunately the number of

casualties expected to climb if not in the coming hour with in certainly in the coming days. the ball over but israeli defense forces say they believe the protesters pose a serious danger the spokes person for the idea of took to twitter quote rioters attended across the security fence and set off explosive devices which israel considers an attempted terror attack before however the u.n. says the use of live ammunition by the israeli forces was unnecessary here and could amount to a breach of the geneva convention an attempt to approach or cross the green line fence by itself certainly does not amount to a threat to life or serious injury that would justify the use of live ammunition the killings and the injuries do actually point to an excessive use of force and in particular lethal force and that's in a situation where there was no threat of death or or serious injury the unjustified unlawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to

a willful killing and grave breach of the fourth geneva convention the week long protests have become the deadliest in years as thousands of palestinians demand access to ancestral arms which are now in israeli territory. her heart. thanks. to stories tonight new in the niece of poisoned former spy scruple victoria has been refused a visa to go to the you carrie the u.k. home office has issued a statement saying are up and didn't comply with immigration rules big toria however believes britain has something to hide and said she was expecting the denial that had earlier friday sort of goes through problem solve regain consciousness and is no longer a priority in

a critical condition artie's literature brings you what we know. we don't know that much but we have got a statement from the district hospital released by dr christina blanche others the medical director and she said that that so case cripple is responding well to treatment improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition and those are the details we have we also know that cripples daughter yulia is recovering so much so that she gave a statement to the met police saying that she is growing stronger day by day now if we go back to the beginning these two were poisoned by a nerve agent called novacek on the fourth of march now this incident has caused mayhem across the globe and you could almost say that it was a catalyst for already increased tensions between russia and britain in particular . there have been consequences to this event before the investigation started and immediately after the attack the finger was pointed at russia as the perpetrator

almost implying that both so gay and new lawyer were not going to make it through this ordeal russia has denied any involvement and has stuck to that and even asked for a joint investigation which was. denied and refused by the british authorities now that diplomatic mattick route did spiral britain expelled twenty three russian diplomats russia retaliated to that expelling the same number and spread to the european partners and the us as well and they also expelled a number of diplomats from those countries. now the results came out after an investigation at porton down lab and the results were that there was no definitive evidence as to where that nerve agent came from so you can see what was happening there the situation as it is now the two are recovering so possibly they will be speaking at some point and they might be able to give more clarity as to what

happened on that day meantime russia's foreign minister has called increased speculation unfounded as the media claims the nerve agent used to poison the screwballs was produced in a weapons lab here in russia. as far as reports about novacek nerve agent production in the seraph region are concerns london is from sickly looking for confirmation of its unsubstantiated position. furthermore one major u.k. newspaper ran the sensational headline based on anonymous sources saying they pinpointed to the production of nov a joke to the outskirts of moscow jackal of the pigs a story the script locator saw an explosive twist earlier this week when experts at porton down revealed they couldn't determine where the nerve agent was made a u.k. military laboratory is stunned but we're not the media and their sources have it covered.

the times' has revealed its sources believe that they have pinpointed the facility where the military grade nerve agent was made and surprise surprise it's in russia the son isn't certain but says it's near moscow so it is not one hundred percent certain about the location but highly confident i'm convinced about you their sources say that the often of a lab is one of a handful in the world that can produce nova chuck the sun has exclusively uncovered a moscow suburb lab that the o.p.c. w. couldn't use their programming you know. it's well there was a short lived hope that accusations against russia could fade. on tuesday the times tweeted a picture of the next day's front page with the headline may battles to preserve alliance against russia and told of ten downing street dismay that the global coalition against russia was being undermined but that article has now gone with

a link taking you to another story. we asked the times for an explanation and they told us it reflects a developing story explaining that the text was changed rather than adding a new article to avoid peppering their site with additional articles on the same thing although it's not clear how a story on isolating russia and boris johnson misleading the public can be considered the same thing come next day back to what sells best. russia says the u.k. is playing with fire and accusing moscow of being behind the salt reposing attack at the mergence the meeting of the un security council thursday russia's envoy pointed to a major inconsistency in the claims made by britain the u.k. then once again reiterated it selig ation that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for the attack and then they crossed quite literally saud's in an exchange quoting lewis carroll's alice in wonderland this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the grim i haven't opened it yet so the worth of

a bit but it seems to be a matter. of the reason the dude to somebody are they the prison scandal in other of the judum. nor there knots of the word the baby blues your marriage is to serve the me i didn't but i did and they come provided there is no name signed to do. if you didn't sign it says the king that only makes the most the words you must have meant some means to let the jury consider devoted to the king so what about the twenty stone that the normal course of the sentence first verdict afterwards. that remind you of anything as written down there very good quote from alice in wonderland this is sometimes i believe it's many it's six impossible things before breakfast so i think that's the quaked seats my russian colleague best 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 that is a very important piece of information that's never this never picked up on and secondly the childer that the russian chemist who revealed the existence of knowledge charts 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 what about what britain's gained out of all of this britain has gained now hasn't britain been trying to rage this campaign of isolation against russia for years now so if we're going to just reduce everything to ole what's country's got to form and a motive then britain's on very shaky grounds accusing russia and that's why it's so important to have evidence rather than just talking about motives. the us is impose new sanctions on russia targeting twenty four officials and business people

as well as fourteen entities really portraying to explain who is being targeted in these new measures well it's the new. names that are new the reasons are actually old on the u.s. treasury website you will find the explanation and it says that it's all because i'll quote it for you a range of russia's malign activities abroad and then comes the list it's crimea ukraine russia support of president bashar assad in syria and finally subverting western democracies and malicious cyber activities i'll be a bit more precise with the numbers the list includes seven russian businessmen referred to as all of arc so and some of the wealthiest people in this country then seventeen seeing your government officials as well as twelve companies one government owned weapons trading firm and also a bank the movers and shakers of the russian energy sector will have to watch out

for that list with the likes of like say miller who is the c.e.o. of russia's gas giant gazprom featuring on that list washington says they quote unquote benefit from the putin regime and play a key role and russia's activities abroad assets that are under the american jurisdiction belonging to the designated individuals and companies will be frozen and no american citizens will any longer be able to deal with these people these kind of moves by washington obviously followed here in russia constantine kasich a senator who was also targeted by the measures called them hostile but useless. washington's approved the sale of artillery with one point three billion dollars to saudi arabia the deal came at the end of the saudi crown prince is three we visit to the u.s.

still to be part of the biggest deals washington's ever signed off on and it includes one hundred eighty how it says systems the shells in a range of at least twenty four kilometers. or or or or. but this weapons here may concern a number of international organizations saudi arabia intervened in the yemen conflict back in twenty fifteen the war that has been described by the un as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in modern history twenty two million people are in need of assistance with more than a million suspected cases of cholera reported in twenty seventeen and he arms trade activist sam walton told me he believes the us is complicit in the crime saudi

arabia commits in the yemeni conflict gehman has been suffering at the hands of saudi bombardment for over three years now and it's an absolute outrage that the u.s. the u.k. as well continue to arm with saudi arabia and you know that really makes the u.s. and u.k. complicit in the war crimes that are happening in yemen there's definitely going to be opposition we saw a couple of weeks ago bernie sanders in the senate led a motion to stop arming saudi arabia full stop and that narrowly fell so there would definitely be opposition to it which is good news but really you know there can be no moral excuse for us u.k. complicity and what's going on in in yemen at the moment no excuse. meantime thousands of people in the yemeni capital of being rallying against the saudi led coalition's bombing campaign in their country to protest also set out to condemn

the raping of a yemeni girl by a coalition soldier that incident was confirmed by a number of non-governmental organizations last week. from the u.k. to admitted that during the toppling of colonel gadhafi it was in contact with some libyans who were believed to be part of a notorious armed islamist group and they've been linked to last year's manchester bombing in which twenty two died. during the libyan conflict in twenty eleven the british government was in communication with a wide range of libyans involved in the conflicts against the gadhafi regime forces it is likely that this included former members of libyan examine fighting group and seventeen february martyrs brigade as part of our broader gauge manager in this time libyan islamic fighting group the l i f gene a longstanding and the good daffy group they're made up of former so-called mujahideen fighters who returned from afghanistan to libya after that war was over

many of them developed and kept their links with al qaeda militants and many of them in their defense would say that they distance themselves from al qaeda some of those include family members of selman r.b.t. the terrorists responsible for the bombing of the mantras you know last year and so questions being asked as to what was known about the movements of this family and other links militants and of course we've heard in the past former fighters admitting that they were allowed to travel back and forth between libya and the u.k. in what they described as an open border or an open door policy with no questions asked so many critics are asking exactly what the extent of british intelligence knowledge of fighters linked to groups like al qaeda was exiled libyan professor bush says it's important to know whether the u.k. continues to fund militias in libya to. there's a link between the government and this group started in one thousand and five in

afghanistan and it's no reason for me to believe that this link is disconnected one of the things that really bugs the mind is that these are teenagers being used dimensions that is was fifteen years old when he was told he can go to look at that incurs by m i six you just can't lend yourself with the mafia to one mafia to kill or to compact another mafia or to actually in one thousand nine hundred five i was kind of this group is too radical for that the problem still continuing for libya so we need to know where the british are at this point are they stopping funding groups and militias libya just to get a hold of the national gains of some sort of libya in the future or not so this is these are the important things that we need to know. u.s. investors a fairly empowered to trade tensions following washington and beijing targeting each other with massive tariffs stock markets and trading indices have taken

a hit in the standoff with the dow jones saying it may just slump this friday on the back of news that the trumps reading more action against china the details from new york caleb maupin. for months global analysts have been fearing and anticipating the possibility of what they would refer to as a trade war between the two largest economies in the world the united states and the people's republic of china now it appears that that trade war is now upon us it is now taking place at this point this is what we heard from donald trump more recently we heard this from him yesterday these were his comments let's take a listen in light of china's and fairy tale ye shiwen i have instructed the u.s. to yard to consider whether one hundred billion dollars of additional terrorists would be appropriate under section three zero one and if so to identify the products upon which to post the terrorists this was china's response to donald

trump's actions through only. the results of this behavior and used to smash your own food with a stone if the united states announces an additional one hundred billion dollars list of terrorists china has already fully prepared and will not hesitate to immediately make a fish counter stroke when the new york stock exchange opened it was down two hundred fifty points at its opening and it has continued to drop as the day proceeds the stock market is dropping now let's not forget that donald trump often bragged about the impact of his policies saying that he was responsible for a rise in the stock market throughout two thousand and seventeen he was saying that his presidency was good it was good for the economy to look at the stock market rising that's what donald trump previously said during the first year of his presidency this is trump and employment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high and continues to go up up up we want to keep it going but now that trump is escalating what seems to be

these what people are essentially calling a trade war with china and tariffs are being imposed and tensions are rising as we're seeing you know an economic clash of the. in the two largest economies in the world the stock market is dropping it's having a big impact not just on the new york stock exchange brawn the global economy so people wonder if donald trump is going to be invoking the stock market any time selling a correspondent in new york city pira most. news at ten with me kevin zero in thanks about showing more of the top of the hour in thirty minutes with the next update in our programs for you continue in your part of the world after this break .

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle after weeks of media hysterics an official claims without a shred of evidence the case that russia was behind the sols very poisoning incident is falling apart transparency and the rule of law have never played a role it has always been about politics and agenda what happens next sadly is only too predictable. cross talking toxic politics i'm joy.