israel deploys tanks and snipers to the gaza border where it's thought at least nine palestinians have been killed in an anti occupation protest. u.k. doctors say russian former spy said to a script file is no longer in critical condition after last month's poisoning in seoul spree as a british media continues to speculate where the nerve agent was produced. and former us intelligence officers back wiki leaks founder julian assange own issues being forced offline by the ecuadorian embassy in london over comments about council monium. dorrian government give julian a son not just citizenship but at the dorian diplomatic passport you know

is that how you treat your own citizens in your own diplomats i think this is going a little overboard response. when you're watching the latest headlines here at aunty international thank you for joining us. at least nine palestinians have reportedly been killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border according to the palestinian health ministry one of those killed was a journalist and six more reporters are among the sounds and protesters that have been injured correspondents are being reporting from both sides of the gaza border . where now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters flooded then hundreds of thousands phylis indians have been here since

the morning. tensions are running high right now and the israeli army started to shoot randomly. more palestinians are getting injured why that ambulances are in here too pretty to take on the injuries that we're now injured from days already i mean by live but it's and i mean nation and it 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 then it's cross ambulances and on the medics are trying to save the injuries. and palestinians are very close to the fence and no are getting out way back

because the butt israeli army i have are shooting everyone who's getting near to the funds. this guy is way of the tires the palestinian youth have been saying since the morning and at the same time the israeli army have been throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians here the friends. wow. the as you see the palestinian protesters are running away from the tear gas canisters that were thrown just right now and the protesters the. so these are unexploded to gas canisters that are being targeted and suited on the palestinian protesters car her out thousands of hundreds of palestinians have been here since the morning and we saw palestinian protesters burning view as 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 in still near the fence i'm standing here on the israeli side of the israel gaza border with these plumes of smoke ah 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 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 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 hour with then certainly in the coming days. or crowds flocked to the gaza border throughout friday what's being called the great march of return these are drawing pictures captured by r.t. as video agency ruptly palestinians are demanding access to ancestral lands which are now in israeli territory tents have been pitched in the area and in the distance you can see thick black smoke from burning tires that have been placed along the heavily fortified frontier. but 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 of explosive devices in the attempted terrorist attack here 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 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 particular lethal force and that's a situation where there was no threat of death or serious injury the unjustified unlawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention and the protests have become the deadliest in years and the militant group hamas has said they will continue for six weeks. i am not the only.

the u.k. has denied victoria scripts are the niece of poisoned former double agent so to get a script a 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 refusal early on friday said a script regained consciousness and is no longer in critical condition artie's near a shooter as 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 when we were russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has hit back at the latest round of media speculation about where the nerve agent used against this group ours was produced. reports about novacek nerve agent production in the surrounding region are concerns london is from sickly

looking for confirmation of its unsubstantiated position. one major british newspaper ran a headline based on anonymous sources saying they had pinpointed the production of another chunk to the outskirts of moscow r.t. jacqueline's 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 law is stunned but were 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 sources 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 snow or chalk the sun has exclusively uncovered a moscow suburb lab that the o.p.c. w. couldn't use. its it 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 well on boys from

russia and the u.k. crossed swords over the script scandal at a un security council meeting on sunday and in one bizarre exchange they resorted to quote from lewis carroll's alice in wonderland. this paper has just been picked up what's in it said the queen i haven't opened it yet said the word private but it seems to be a letter written by the prison the dude to somebody other than the prison scandal writing us in other the judum and. 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. 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

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 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. 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 not a child's 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 all watch countries go to form and the 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. former intelligence officers have launched a petition in support of julian a song they want the ecuadorian embassy where he's been staying since twenty twelve to restore his internet connect. the petition letter was handed over by a former cia officer turned whistleblower. cers from the cia the f.b.i. the military. want to make a letter thanking the government would hurt you if you give this to them the song is online access was cut off 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 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 not just ecuadorian citizenship but an 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 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 well songs and 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.

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 ridgeley from so certainly there are two sides to this i am sure there is 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. 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 measures saying the u.s. is trying to impose its had germany even on a strong independent state. breaks down the latest measures and who is being 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 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 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 of a senator who was also targeted by the measures called them hostile but useless. he while the u.s. 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 visit to the u.s. it's part of one of the biggest on steel's washington has ever signed.

he. well the weapons deal comes with saudi arabia still heavily involved in the yemeni war riyadh first intervened in twenty fifteen and the situation now in yemen is 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 arms trade activist sam walton thinks 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 u.k. complicit in the war crimes that are coming in yemen there's definitely going to be opposition we saw a couple of weeks ago bernie saunders 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 u.s. u.k. complicity in what's going on in in yemen at the moment no excuse. meanwhile thousands of people in yemen's capital sanaa have been rallying against the saudi led coalition bombing campaign the protest also condemned the raping of a yemeni girl by a coalition soldier. the. former brazilian president lula da silva has defied a deadline to surrender to police he's been sentenced to twelve years in prison on

corruption charges in a case that a sharper divide in public opinion it is so let brazil from two thousand and three to twenty eleven barack obama once described him as the most popular president on earth oversaw strong economic growth and left office with a sky high approval rating but in january he was sentenced to twelve years in jail for a bribe taking in a trial that has triggered nationwide unrest. while 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 paolo and he is with a lot of supporters thousands of his supporters in a metal workers union and he he along with the former president was just recently impeached over a year ago both of them have often said that these charges of corruption are politically motivated and the ruling to send it to prison was quite controversial many saw it as an attempt to prevent him from participating in brazilian politics in the future he is holed up with thousands of his supporters in the headquarters

of this metal workers union and other 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. the british government has admitted that he may have communicated with the newbie in minutes and agree. just to bombing the contacts state back to twenty eleven when the armed group was involved in the overthrow of kind of gadhafi. 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 exam fighting group and seventeen for every martyrs brigade as part of a broader gauge manager in this time libyan islamic fighting group the l i f gene a longstanding and good daffy group made up of former so-called majority

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 our betty the terrorists responsible for the bombing of the interest 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.

says it's important to know whether the u.k. still funding militias in libya. 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 that part of the mind is that these have teenagers been used dimensions of bomb as 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 him to compact another mafia or to actually in one thousand nine hundred ninety five kind of discipline is practical sort of 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 position and try 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. before on these

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to just say the radio the aussie team's latest edition to make up a bigger. look. welcome says sophie shevardnadze that the poisoning of a former russian spy in great britain has cost at diplomatic scandal u.k. calling for a united global action against moscow but are all countries really on board with the british version of events murdered fossil aben former minister of national defense of austria is with me today to discuss all of this. as russia newest

exchange diplomatic exposure with the poisoning of. some european countries are refusing to be drawn into the scandal. in the. global support is there a danger of the incident growing more than just a diplomatic row and no further escalation. there fast lobban former minister of national defense of austria welcome to the show great to have you with us today. so austria refused to heed the call of u.k. foreign minister bars johnson to expose russian diplomats over the x. spy poisoning case mr johnson called for a united global action and your country right now i imagine must be enjoying a lot of pressure for not being part of it. well there was one third of you members who declared with all the others a clear solidarity with great britain on the one hand but one third did not

decide to over sanctions and aster is one of those nine countries. but does it feel like you are being pressured because you are not united with a great britain on this no i do not see of course the question was i think. probably the british presentation held high plausibility otherwise all the members of the you would not have decided to make. the lattimer's declaration but in the question of the sanctions opinions different because of cause there was no clear proof on the one hand and on the other hand still also was to question whether it was very reasonable to react with sanctions under braking the dialogue between russia.