israel deploys times and snipers to the gaza border where it's thought at least eight palestinians are being killed in an anti occupation protest. u.k. don't just say russian former spy said basically polly is no longer in critical condition after last month's poisoning in salzburg as the british media continue to speculate where the nerve agent was produced. and former u.s. intelligence officers back we can expand a judean a song shoes being forced off line by the ecuadorian embassy in london over comments about somalia. dorrian government give julian a son not just the dorrian citizenship but the dorrian 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 response. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. at least eight palestinians have reportedly been killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border the palestinian health ministry says more than a thousand protesters were injured artie's correspondents have been reporting from both sides of the gaza border. now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowds you can see the protesters lie then 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. more palestinians are getting injured why the ambulances are already here to british take on the injuries that were now in syria sunday's really i mean that by live. and i mean ition and it tear gas canisters. this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now our friend up. for booklets and at the tear gas and there it's crowds ambulance and on the medics are trying to say father and uys. palestinians are very close to the fence and no are getting out way back because the by 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 flying since i'm wanting and at the same time the israeli army have been throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians where the funds. 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 gus canisters that are being targeted and suited on the palestinian protesters. thousands of hundreds of palestinians have been here since the morning and we saw palestinian protesters burning. it's 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 or 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 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 gotten reinforcements there are tanks on the border we're not allowed to go closer to the border then 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 then certainly in the coming days. the israeli defense forces say the protestors posed a serious danger a spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set up explosive devices in the attempted terrorist attack yet the u.n. says the use of live ammunition by the israeli forces was unnecessary 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 unlawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing and grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. well a week long process of becoming the deadliest in years thousands of palestinians are demanding access to ancestral lands which are now in israeli territory. i am not the i am. i. now the u.k. has denied victorious cripple the niece of poisoned former double agent surrogate scrip our visa the u.k. home office has issued a statement saying her application failed to comply with immigration rules but victoria believes britain has something to hide and said she was expecting the

refuse or earlier on friday said they're going to regain consciousness and is no longer in critical condition artie's has the details 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's ok script 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 yunior 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 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 authorities now that diplomatic 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 well meanwhile russia's foreign minister has hit back at the latest round of media speculation about where the nerve agent used against this group ours was produced. as far as reports about novacek nerve agent production in the surrounding region are concerns london is from sickly looking for confirmation of its unsubstantiated position. or major british newspaper ran a headline based on anonymous sources saying they pinpointed the production of novacek to the outskirts of moscow r.t. jacqueline berger picks up the story. the screwball case 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 sun 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 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. w. couldn't use their programming you know. it's well there was 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. but on voice are russia and the u.k. crossed swords over the script scandal at a u.n. security council meeting on says day and in one bizarre exchange they resorted to quoting for loose carroll's alice in wonderland this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the queen i haven't gotten it yet so the word that i would but it seems to be a letter written by the prison the dude to somebody in the prison scandal writing us another of the judaism. nor there not so the word the baby blues your marriage

is to serve the me i didn't but i did and they can prove i did there is no name signed to do them if you didn't sign 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 a. very good quote from alice in wonderland that 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 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 well meanwhile the us has stepped up its sanctions against russia more on that after the break.

the tech sector that's leading this rally we've seen for the past five or six years requires a logistics on a global basis to work in perfect sync so there's going to be a fallout if some countries are going to go to war with each other but they can be trade wars as can be cyber wars that means that platforms that require presidents thinking fall out and drop out and crashing in different areas so their revenues have got to suffer as a result. i would hope to change to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go on to the press this is what before three of the more people. interested in the waters and my . friends should.

welcome back former intelligence officers having launched a petition in support of june a solo mission they want the ecuadorian embassy where he's been staying since twenty twelve to restore his internet connection the letter was handed over by a former cia officer turned whistle. this is from the cia the f.b.i. military. you. want to make a letter thanking the government would. you give them one of saunders online access who was caught after he wrote a series of tweets about the separatist movement in catalonia ecuador accused him of putting diplomatic relations at risk john kiriakou the former officer who handed

in the letter told us ecuador needs to stand up for the person they're protecting when i deliver 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 not just ecuadorian citizenship but and ecuadorian diplomatic passport and 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 when i saw the wiki leaks have been behind the release of thousands of confidential documents for over a decade that's despite the whistleblower being unable to leave the embassy in central london as he would face charges in the u.k. and possible extradition to the u.s. and john kiriakou says ecuador is refusing to buckle 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'm 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. now the us government has approved the sale of artillery worth one point three billion dollars to saudi arabia the deal comes at the end of the saudi crown prince's three week visits to the us and as part of one of the biggest alms deals washington has ever signed.

weapons deal comes with saudi arabia still heavily involved in the yemeni war riyadh first intervened in twenty fifteen and the situation in yemen is now described by the u.n. as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in modern history twenty two million people are in need of assistance with a child under five dying every ten minutes and he arm straight out to miss sam walton believes the u.s. is complicit in the war. yemen 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 there 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. no relief so there would definitely be opposition to it which is good news but really you know there can be no moral excuse for u.s. u.k. complicity in what's going on in yemen at the moment no excuse when we were asked thousands of people in yemen's capital sanaa have been rallying against the saudi led coalition's bombing campaign the protest also condemned the raping of a yemeni girl by coalition soldier. now the u.s. has impose new sanctions on russia targeting twenty four officials and business people as well as fourteen entities the russian foreign ministry has reacted to the measure saying the u.s. is trying to impose its head gemini even on strong independent states. breaks down the latest measures and who's been targeted well it's the 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 up be a bit more precise word that numbers the list includes seven russian businessmen referred to as all of arc so would some of the while. theist people in this country then seventeen seeing your government officials as well as twelve companies one government oh and 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 in 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. the case against brazil's former president lula da silva has triggered mass rallies across the country he's been sentenced to twelve years in prison on corruption charges in a case that a sharply divided public opinion. was she was.

just so. sure. for more on this we can now cross live to caleb maupin hi there caleb could you talk us through this ruling from the brazilian supreme court and against it into silver and tell us why it's so divisive. well the court has ruled that lula da silva who has been convicted of corruption it's alleged that while he was president of brazil that he engaged in acts of corruption he was caught up in a scandal they have ruled that that you know with his appeals still pending he can be in jail he can be taken to jail to begin serving his sentence however he has not turned himself in he was given until five pm today local time in brazil to turn

himself in and begin serving his prison sentence he didn't do that at this point brazil's former president lula da silva is in a suburb of the brazilian city of south palo and he is with a lot of supporters thousands of his supporters in a metal workers union now you know president lula da silva the former president brazil was a member of the workers' party of brazil viewed as a left wing leader and he he along with the former president was just recently impeached over a year ago a both of them have often said that these charges of corruption are politically motivated and the ruling to send lula da silva to prison was quite controversial many saw it as an attempt to prevent him from participating in brazilian politics in the future so at this point he was given an order to report to the prison in order to start serving his sentence however his case which still has remaining

appeals his stay in his case remains in the courts however he has not turned himself in at this point he is holed up with thousands of his supporters in the headquarters of this metal workers union now there are protests taking place all across brazil by his supporters who say that the court rulings are not just that they are politically motivated and this isn't an attempt to hurt the workers' party and the left wing of brazilian politics so a lot of tension in brazil right now as the former president is refusing to turn himself in and surrender himself and begin serving a prison sentence see how long this time to thank you can't move. now i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories go to r.t. dot com. it's the cradle of jazz. so america is still very good we have

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a definite dilemma as the traditional home by season begins are to correspond to trinity chavez explains plus the brazilian economy has been on a rough ride as the country's former president is headed to prison or to correspond manila chan and i discuss dad of one of the four major golf championships every year the masters is taking place in augusta georgia and regardless of if you like or know anything about the sport the economics of golf are astounding west professor and sports economist victor matheson of the college of the holy cross to explain the high stakes for business plus there's an effort to stop killing robots i'll explain all that ahead but first let's get to some headlines. yesterday u.s. president donald trump said he was considering an additional one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods that's after china published a list of u.s. imports that would be levied with fifty billion dollars worth of chinese tariffs

but administration officials are also working to convince investors that the escalating trade tensions will not have the negative impact that some fear and that the administration may not carry out all of its threats today treasury secretary steve aminu sions said he was. not concerned about recent stock market selloff saying quote if you look at where the markets are people still have very very big gains the dow jones industrial average and nasdaq have both risen more than thirty percent since the november two thousand and sixteen elections today the chinese commerce ministry said quote we do not want to fight but we are not afraid to fight a trade war president trump defended his actions on twitter today citing a fall in the price of aluminum which experts say happened because mr trump exempted canada and mexico from new tariffs some notable domestic stakeholders criticized mr trump's trade actions including the national retail federation the

information technology industry council and republican senator ben sasse of nebraska a state with a heavy stake in agriculture production. and speaking of agriculture u.s. based agra giant cargill released a giant or greedy think corporate statement expressing concerns about trade tensions cargill officially said quote we're deeply concerned about the trade tensions and are urging both countries to get to the to go shooting table there are no winners in a trade dispute us exports including soybeans sorghum corn cotton before orange juice rice and pork and even though it's not a traditional egg commodity we can toss in whiskey as a kicker all would be hit by china's announced retaliatory tariffs on u.s. exports the u.s. annually exports an estimated twenty billion dollars worth of agricultural goods to china. and syfy if the committee on foreign investments in the united states also the national security regulator has approved japan so.