well. as the double agent. and his daughter begin to recover after last month's attack in salzburg his niece from russia is refused a visa to britain. also in headlines r.t. speaks with the former director general of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons about the case and also how he was pushed from his seat because he was against the u.s. invasion of iraq i got a phone call from john bolton from washington who said. to me that you sign said your management style washington. u.s. brock's a u.n. security council move to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border after at least nine palestinians were killed in a fresh round of violence including a journalist. and washington will not get

a military base in garner the country's president made that announcement following mass protests it comes as the u.s. and other countries seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. live from moscow and daniel hawkins you're watching r.t. international wherever you are today welcome to the program. that was poisoned a double agent recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of solsbury his niece victoria who's a russian citizen has been declined a visit a visa to visit her sick relatives victorious cripple says she was not surprised by the decision and knew she would not be granted a visa she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to hide if they're preventing a relative from visiting franco looks into victoria's story imagine your cousin and uncle are hospitalized and in critical condition you'd likely freak out and rush to

their sides this is viktoria script all. surrogate screwballs nice to do just that she as a russian citizen needs a u.k. visa but she was denied we have refused a visitor visa application from that tourist proposal on the grounds that her implication did not comply with the immigration rules victoria says she saw it coming just before the no from the u.k. there was this phone conversation allegedly between the script all cousins want to you know us with us so you're not a minor. not in my list of potential users are. you. leaving the. newly. or to. me of the book that you said the doctor told me in august the book is called almost . doing it which is really in trouble to

control us no money and yet we don't know if this leak recording is real but it's been shown played and quoted by everyone what could victoria mean by i know perhaps something london doesn't want anyone else to know anyway forget feelings sympathy human things victoria was obviously on a kremlin mission to reach the u.k. that's what you read in the papers in britain croman pawn get it reports are now coming in setting and then sources in british organizations the foreign office there are various theories some even say she was denied an answer because london allegedly things that experience cripples because it is organized by the kremlin that's absurd as long as the british authorities are in top of the whole screwball case and they have the facts what the media says might be irrelevant but basically officials haven't shared any facts that will make you scream russia did this russia

did that to now that visa thing the pawn so when did speculation like this become a new british tradition like talking about the weather. screw powell and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the city of salzburg just around a month ago now british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned by a military grade nerve agent of a type used to be produced in the soviet union now at the time that prompted some harsh words from the prime minister to resign may she said those subjected to such a powerful mobile agent may never recover as we see now they're both out of a coma and in a stable condition. and the recovery of the scruples has raised questions about just how they managed to survive after being reportedly poisoned by a nerve agent of such strength we discussed this issue with former director general of the international organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons. from my point of view. after

a distance of sixteen years of course i believe the decision by the u.k. he was premature you can decide in twenty four hours what type of poison was used and where it comes from why didn't he call immediately do b. c w and why didn't the opposite w volunteered to take action because this is the role of doing decision immediately to go and identify and allies the victims take the blood samples and allies in three to identify because the have the capability to do that there are experts from all countries it's committee of people that are very expert very capable of doing this work so i was surprised to see that it was so premature the solution to identify the poison idea to find the source of the poison without giving a chance to the specs is the international going to look which is after all the the national organ with the mandate to do this type of job many questions related to

the use of this poison for example how do you control and limit the use of the spores into only two people if this new virtual is the announced it was it's not something that will not affect much many more people. even those who are. used to the guys the poison gas. that was or was thought of their former brazilian diplomat he was also the first elected director general of the international anti chemical weapons body although there's been much speculation into the reasons as to why he quit his post let's take a look at them just as he was leaving that position it was revealed that by encouraging iraq to become a member of the o.p.c. w. meaning it would have to destroy all of its chemical weapons he appeared to become an obstacle to the u.s. intention to engage in military action in iraq in an open letter supporting bustani many activists to monitor put world peace ahead of us unilateral ism is able to be

his account of what exactly happened when i became director general there were eighty seven members and when i left it was a hundred and fifty something countries so and in my last term to enlarge the membership of all of the organisation was convincing iraq in libya for example to join in and when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because they had plans already to take some action military action against iraq according to information that i had it was obvious that. during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for you dr to be accused of still possessing chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal for the convention and that conference was the one

that ousted me for the lack of support. and there was one man who was particularly against danny being the o.p.c. w. head that was john bolton who at the time of course was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security advisor will shortly take his seat which was a bush danny says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w. stood in the way of us. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time he had contact with him and said that i do structures to to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney and the vice president cetera said no way i don't accept that so he came to the hague and you keep to my office and he said you have to resign and i give you twenty four hours this is what we want and i said no way i don't have any reason to the day i don't owe it to you i was elected by acclimation

by all the member states of a good musician it's only you you out there sees the challenge my management style and they said but then again i tell you we have already discussed with your government that you should resign and said i don't know of any agreement with my government and then they said ok so there will be retaliations and appeared to to to to accept the consequences we know where your kids are and the moment two of my case kids were in new york the studied united states one of them is american for that matter was born in new york is a brazilian american and i had another daughter in london. and i said i'm not a peer my family is my family is is a whale what's going on to spear to fish that was it was so go ahead and he was a little bit shocked with that and he left his not them and you can have a dialogue with. another headlines at least ten palestinians have been killed. by

israeli gunfire on the gaza border this comes after thousands of protesters stage a massive and occupation demonstration a wave of rallies broke out at the end of march and they're supposed to last for several weeks local journalists him could already was right in the thick of the action. we're now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters flooded then the hundreds of thousands phylis immunes 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 already here to british take on the injuries that we're now in serious sundaes really i mean that

by live bullets and i mean nation and it tear gas canisters. this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from the. the booklet and at the tear gas and then it's crouched ambulance and on the medics are trying to save the injuries. and palestinians are very close to the fence and no i getting out way back because the but israeli army i have are shooting everyone who's getting near to the funds. this guy is squarely of the tires the palestinian youths have been flying since the morning and at the same time the israeli army have been throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians here 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 gas 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 flags and israeli flags and also saying slogans against the israelis and the american sense that morning tension is running high right now and palestinians are still in the field in still near the fence. from the process with a number of those injured continuing to grow palestinian medics are struggling to

cope that's according to marie elizabeth ingress from doctors without borders they don't even of human resources drugs and disposable so we try our best to give a super ox as a minister or her so far walk linux on where we give some specialized nursing frozen job people and we try year or so to find surgeon because we have a need of a surgeon and we try to open more facilities in order to give you because it's a lot of people or is not on your question a one day last several months for some of them because they will have so extended fixator they would need several surgeries so it's not on your question of one day to not tell you our best to increase the number of human resources and to get the city of beds we are more wary during xin negs in most recent years or fifteen of may we have more injured because the minister her sons are headed to cities and guess i will not be able to continue to manage media to agree jobs's or last days that you should continue exerted to not be pursued and you know. several

journalists were also injured during the protest one of them later died. from his injuries yes more target worked for a local t.v. production company in gaza health officials said he was shot while filming close to the border he was wearing a jacket marked press and holding a camera israeli military hasn't provided any specific comment on the matter saying it fired only those called instigators of the violence a spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying reuters attempted to cross the security fence and set of explosive devices in an attempted terrorist attack at 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 will 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

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 of fourteen of the fifteen members of the un security council did back a call for an independent investigation into the deaths during the protests in gaza it was brought though by one country the united states the palestinian a bus or to the un called the u.s. action very irresponsible i believe all those who defend those of you moderates particularly in the west this is a blatant case of committing a massacre against you know. hundreds of civilians killing some of them and enduring large number of them and those that are sponsored will need to face justice because this is a crime against humanity. with the rocketing crime rate in the widespread disbelief and corruption ridden system candidates for july's presidential elections

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because they're more focused. on the moment. coming up in just a few moments mass protests in gonna provoke the government to make a stand against the united states that story and more after just a short break. the

tech sector that's leading this rally we've seen for the past five or six years requires the 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 which can be cyber wars that means that platforms that require precipitation and sinking fall out and drop out and crashing in different areas so their revenues have got to suffer as a result. welcome

back to the program the u.s. will not be given a military base and that's according to the president of the west african country he announced that decision on thursday. ghana has not offered a military base and will not offer a military base to the united states of america that statement comes after mass protests in the capital of god you can see there against the military deal with the united states that was traitors world war and such an agreement would give washington too much influence over the country's sovereignty artie's igor's that of the u.s. and some other nations have been trying to gain a stronger foothold in the continent. uncle sam is wooing africa boasting about their strong historical bond a family tree washington's key argument is seven thousand strong. scattered all across the continent the impression this mouse makes is an ambiguous africa is no one's playpen but america's this impression is wrong in fact many african

nations prefer relations not secured by the u.s. dollar and ghana is the latest country on the u.s. troublemaker list and for washington it couldn't have come at a worse time the pentagon understands hearts and minds are there for the taking external actors may diminish u.s. influence by undermining our development and diplomatic efforts in africa nonetheless as the strategic environment becomes more crowded and competitive gauging with external actors like china and russia will continue with an open and clear discussion of intersecting interests and differences beijing's clearly stepping on americans tollways in africa chinese firms have invested billions of dollars into the continent's infrastructure their contribution has been the catalyst for a continental free trade area somewhat equivalent to the european union but much bigger soft power has got washington in a twist with sales pitches attempting to undermine china's expansion in africa

partner with. good governance to meet long term security and development goals. this stands in stark contrast to china's approach which encourages dependency using opaque contracts predatory loan practices and corrupt deals rex tillerson then washington's chief a mystery went on a charm offensive to africa back and much his trip coincided with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov visit a clear sign more school is fos to do business with africa to their diplomatic marathon across the continent set off from the same hotel in the o.p.'s but there's no indication whether rex tillerson managed to tip the balance of power during the visit after all why would anyone listen to a man who was shown the door the day he returned to american shores if i were a betting man i would bet the united states would lose the competition not only

with china but with russia and turkey perhaps even with friends i say that because in part united states has a very arrogant attitude that it takes towards people from africa and that's just set aside which is a united states does not have the economic or right answer wherewithal to compete with china in any case and then finally there is what those nations on the african continent with regard to u.s. interference in the internal affairs of african continent all in all i would say that united states prospects in africa going forward are rather poor. finally this warming story from kazakhstan about the rescue of a baby squirrel. so

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton and coming up the u.s. markets were in a meltdown mode friday and the new jobs numbers are up we'll break it all down with danielle de martino booth and homebuyers in the united states are facing a definite dilemma as the traditional home by season begins r.t. correspondent trinity chavez explains plus the brazilian economy has been on a rough ride as the country's former president is headed to prison r.t. correspond manila chan and i discuss jazz 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 a u.s. based aggregate 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.