oh israel deploys tanks and snipers to the gaza border thought at least eight palestinians have been killed one of them a child in an anthill the patient protest. you don't just say former russian spy sort of a script is no longer in a critical condition following last month's poisoning in salzburg as the u.k. media 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. dorrian government give julian a son should not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens in your own diplomats i think

this is going a little overboard in response. hey there good morning just in one of the morning here in moscow now my name is kevin owen here with the latest thirty minute update from r.t. international and first least eight palestinians including a child of reportedly being killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border the palestinian health ministry says more than a thousand protesters were injured in total our correspondents have been reporting from both sides of the gaza border. now maybe one hundred meters to only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters light and the hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been here since the morning. tensions

are running high right now as the israeli army started to shoot randomly. the. more palestinians are getting injured why the ambulances are already here to british take on the injuries that we're now injured from days already i mean that by live. and i mean ition and to tear gas canisters. this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from the al for booklets and at the tear gas and there it's cross ambulances and on the medics are trying to say father and juries. have an opinion sinews are very close to the fence and no are getting out way back because the butt israeli army arabs are shooting everyone who's getting near to the

funds. this guy is squarely of the tires the palestinian youths have been firing since a mining and at the same time the israeli army have been throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians where the funds. are. 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 shoot to on the palestinian protesters. thousands of hundreds of palestinians have been here since the morning and we saw palestinian protesters burning. that's lads

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 in still near the fence i'm standing here on the israeli side of the israel gaza border where these plumes of smoke are 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 of using live fire on unarmed protesters but the israelis for this side say that among these protesters are hundreds of militants who are ending at them with molotov cocktails and the like i'm standing in a closed military zone the israelis have bought 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 are 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 to 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 hours in the coming days. meantime the israeli defense forces say the protesters posed a serious danger a spokesperson for the idea of took to twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security fence there and set off explosive devices in an attempted terrorist attack is how it's seen on the outside but another twist the u.n. says the use of the library mission by the israeli forces was unnecessary here and could amount to a breach of the geneva convention and 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 and 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 become the deadliest in years and thousands of palestinians to about access to ancestral lands which are now in israeli territory. proposed. other news the u.k. has denied victoria's screw pearl of these are no she's the niece of the poison double agent surrogate the u.k. home office has issued a statement saying her up location failed to comply with immigration rules the tour

of the oak believes britain house of the hyde and said she was expecting the denial so they also tell you burke earlier on fraud those sort of screw pole regain consciousness and is no longer apparently in a critical condition artie's the reports 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

and 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 nuclear 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. richie's now that diplomatic matic 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 u.s. 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 scruples was produced in a weapons lab here in russia. which. as far as reports about nova choke nerve agent production in the surrounding region are concerns london is from sickly looking for confirmation of its unsubstantiated position. furthermore one major u.k. newspaper ran a sensational headline based on anonymous sources saying they pinpointed they thought the production of novacek to the outskirts of moscow here jack lew good pics of story the screwball case on 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 says not one hundred percent certain about the location but highly confident i'm convinced about you their sources say that the yeltsin of the lab is one of a handful in the world that can produce snow or chalk the sun has exclusively uncovered a moscow suburb lab that the o.p.c. wu couldn't. you know. it's you 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 want to cues in moscow of being behind the souls proposing attack at the mergence the meeting of the un security council on thursday russia's envoy pointed to major inconsistency in the claims made by britain in turn the u.k. once again reiterated its selig ation that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for the attack and then they crossed literary swords quite literally

that exchange quoting lewis carroll's alice in wonderland this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the. i haven't gotten to the word that i would but it seems to be a matter. of the reason the doodoo somebody the the prison scandal writing us in other of the judaism. nor there knots of the word the baby blues your mood has to serve the me if i didn't but i did and they can prove i did 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 used to. be considered devoted to the concert for the world the twenty stone that the normal. sand dunes first verdict afterwards. 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 quake 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. 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 actual the that the russian chemist who revealed the existence of knowledge 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 what about what britain's gained out of all of this britain has gained now hasn't britain been trying to reach 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. coming up with a row brewing president trumps threatening to escalate further a tariff war with china will get reaction to that try and work out where it's going to go and the rest the news right after this break. also was to question whether it was very reasonable to react with sanctions on the breaking of the dialogue between the russia and the west we've come to this . as one of those countries that is firmly convinced that it is necessary and will be necessary to keep up this dialogue and still talk. about all the metros.

what hope to change to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. one of. the two going to be press which is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the ones in the. bush should. post one morning here in moscow now next story then seems to support growing for the founder of wiki leaks to be reconnected to the internet it's after ecuador cut off julian assange his communications with the outside world now former intelligence officers have signed

a petition and calling for his access to be reinstated at the ecuadorian embassy in london the document was handed over by a former cia officer turned whistle blower. this is from the cia the f.b.i. the military. and we want to make. the government would. you give this is that the sounds been offline for ten days ecuador said he'd put diplomatic ties at risk on twitter with a series of comments about the separatist movement in catalonia there are leaks founder of course is pretty inside that embassy for over two thousand days now i spoke to the former intelligence officer who handed in the letter to the ecuadorian officials when i delivered the letter i thought that maybe we had a chance and perhaps we still do have a chance the ecuadorian government gave julian a son should not just ecuadorian citizenship but and ecuadorian diplomatic passport you know is that how you treat your own citizens in your own diplomats now if they had a problem with something that julian 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 assigned to wiki leaks have been behind the release of thousands of confidential documents over the years that's despite the fact that whistleblowers been unable to leave the embassy in central london has just said because it face charges in the u.k. and a possible extradition to the u.s. john kiriakou again told me ecuador is refusing to parco under pressure from other countries. 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 originally 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 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. u.s. stocks have tumbled on fears of a trade war with beijing the dow jones lost almost six hundred points on friday after president trump threatened to impose new tires with one hundred billion dollars now a year on imports from china. is in new york with the latest. 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 pull such terrorists this was china's response to donald trump's actions grew 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 fierce 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 twenty 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. when 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 run the global economy so people wonder if donald trump is going to be invoking out the stock market any time sell. an economic policy specialist on these pacific region. where this will judging by the stock market on the u.s. side investors do seem to be rattled by this latest just check in what was happening in asia though didn't seem to be too much trouble in the asian markets hong kong's hang saying relatively untroubled rose actually more than one percent japan's nikkei edged just a little bit lower i.e. this is the more reaction to this on the american side than on the agency side you

surprised i'm not particularly surprised i wouldn't look at it just from a day to day stock market perspective issue in exporters you know if you was tariffs on china and china is the locus of the issues supply chain so it's not just china you're punishing you're punishing the whole of asia and the whole of isherwood suffer and so issuing stock sleuths like to when these when the street war becomes a reality but we must really must be a little clearer about this that if these tariffs do go into effect it is still it least a month and a half away maybe even two months will be so at this time it's just still open for any trade war to some extent and therefore the stock market i think is not an accurate barometer so. there's talk of a trade war as you see it's not just a risk it's a it's a when it is going to happen full blown trade war here. oh absolutely i think the chances are very high it remotely are actually to be to be frank

a part of the trade war has already started though it did for tat tariff impositions that happened because of the steel and alumium investigation those tariffs have already been imposed by both science we're talking three billion dollars of work by both sides against the other so to that extent actually it was already started but what we're talking about is the sixteenth real one with regard to china's i.p.r. practices and we're talking cumulatively at this point of time hundred billion dollars in trade and that is going to spend the local economy into it in spain for a year i mean donald trump's planning more measures no huge measures to see already ben sasse republican senator from the farming area in the brassicas called his plan nuts as you really thought it through the implications here because some of these people as grassroots voters. i don't really think he has thought it through he just feels that there's a huge deficit china is the reason for it china needs to be punished for it and

frankly as i also said we are not yet close to that drop dead date when these tariffs really begin to hurt so at this point of time there's an element of error in what he said is. that the situation has been given such albeit that it would be hard to wait for what sites to extricate themselves when we get down to leave me then we need to find a way out of this column from another side to this so usually when someone someone for their troubles usually somebody gains it seems the chinese ambassador to canada has just given an interview saying the beijing want to create a free trade zone with canada now could the u.s. tariffs actually provide the impetus for that i can live there could benefit here or absolutely and not just canada i can see china going out of that's really to become more amenable to the e.u. and to other issue and countries that are so countries look at it as a negotiating trade agreements to facilitate at says because most of these countries want to steer biomarker their own system and want more and deepening of

the global treaty or the interest only the u.s. and to some extent that it was also in the e.u. on this front in trying to be in trying to have these regressive measures so i can see china of course retaliated against the u.s. but with regard to other countries finding we that means to deepen its trade and investment relationship so go in that sort of economic policy specialist on the asia pacific region thanks be live on the program an hour to international nice to see. you. know the story for us next to the u.s. government has approved the sale of artillery worth one point three billion dollars to saudi arabia the deal came at the end of the saudi crown prince's three week visit to the u.s. it's part of one of the biggest arms deals washington has ever signed off on them and it includes a. hundred eighty howitzers systems that can fight shells at a range of at least twenty four kilometers.

the weapons deal comes with saudi arabia costa level involved a big time in the yemeni war riyadh first intervened there in twenty fifty eight in the situation in yemen has been described by the un as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in modern history twenty two million people in need of assistance right now it's estimated a child under the age of five dies every ten minutes there and straight out to sam walton told me he believes the u.s. is complicit therefore now in this war. 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 saudi arabia and you know that really makes the u.s. and the u.k. complicit in the war crimes that are going 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 in what's going on in in yemen at the moment no excuse meantime thousands of people in sanaa the capital have been rallying against the saudi led coalition's bombing campaign in that country the protest also set out to condemn raping a yemeni girl by coalition soldiers that incident was a number of non-governmental organizations last. keep abreast of all our news twenty four seven r.t.

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those we're producers to go to swear to snoop come up and do it because that is the cozy with you swear this approach to your shoes ration which shouldn't throw you should cook the. who's doing. a low in welcome across the uk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle after weeks of media hysterics and official claims without a shred of evidence the case that russia was behind the solsbury poisoning incident is falling apart transparency and the rule of law have never played a role it has always been about politics and it is agenda what happens next sadly

is only too predictable. cross talking toxic politics i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine also in london we have alexander the class of he is a political commentator and a former kremlin visor and in plymouth we crossed to patrick hemmings and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander let me go to you first in london you know so much is happening like to point out that yulia is actually spoken to the media apparently she had a phone call with her sister in russia and she's not giving up very much but i have to say what a miraculous recovery from if we start from the beginning of this story you know

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