as the double agent. and his daughter begin to recover after last month. his niece from russia is refused a visa to britain. also this hour r.t. speaks with the former director general of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. and he was pushed from his seat allegedly because he was against the u.s. invasion of iraq. i got a phone call from john bolton to washington and said that i. should resign said your management style with washington. blocks 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. will not be

offered a military base in gaza the country's president makes the announcement following mass protests that comes as the u.s. and other countries seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. to live from moscow and daniel hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. that was poisoned. recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of salzburg his niece victoria who is a russian citizen has been declined a visa to visit relatives. says she was not surprised by the decision i 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. looks into the story. imagine your cousin and uncle are

hospitalized and in critical condition you'd likely freak out and rush to their sides this is victoria 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 the visits visa application from victoria script on the grounds that her appreciation 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. to us we just fell out of mine and. not in my list of potential users are. you know yet here we. live in the can you just really get those but for. me of the book that you said the doctor

not just the book is called almost. all of the. you know doing it which is really going to a yes moment yes we don't know if this leaked 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 and 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 week terrorist group also 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 aim 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 so screw powell and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the city of salzburg just about a month ago no british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned by allegedly a military grade nerve agent of a type previously produced in the soviet union and at that time this prompted some harsh words even from the prime minister to reason may who said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agents may never recover as we see now both out of a coma and in a stable condition the recovery of the script has raised some questions about just how they managed to survive after reportedly being poisoned by a nerve agent of such strength to discuss this issue with former director general of the international organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons shows they

are stunning. 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 they call immediately do you see 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 and try to identify because they 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 and to see that it was so premature decision to identify the poison identify the source of the poison without giving a chance to the specs is the international going to station 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 disposing to only two people if it's know of a truck as the announced it was it's not something that will not affect much mini more people. even those who use the poison gas. because it was thought he was a brazilian diplomat he was the first elected director general of the international and chemical weapons body although there's been much speculation into why exactly he quit his seat let's take a look at some of the background there just as he was leaving his post it was revealed that by encouraging iraq to become a member of the. meeting it would have to destroy all of its chemical weapons of course he was preparing to become an obstacle to the u.s. intention to engage in military action in iraq well in an open letter supporting

bustani many activists decided to demand to put world peace head of us. here's your studies accounts of what 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 organization was convincing iraq in libya for example to join in and when i am no system number 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 iraq 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. now there was one man who was particularly against shows it was funny being the o.p.c. w. heads 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 and will shortly take his seat because it was thought he says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w. stood in the way of us some missions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i do structures to to to tell me that i should resign from doing decision and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney 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 doubt it over to you i was elected by acclimation by all the member states of a good musician it's only you you out there see if they are challenged 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 appear to to to to accept the consequences we know where your kids are and two of my case kids were in new york the studied united states one of them is american put it 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's is my family is is a whale what's going on to spear to fish the course it was so go ahead and he was a little bit shocked with that and he left his not a man you can have

a dialogue with. at least ten palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border on friday this comes after thousands of protesters stage their massive. protests a wave of rallies broke out at the end of march and i suppose the last four weeks local journalist him could ari was in the middle of the protest. thousands phallus in years have been here since the morning. tensions are running high right now and the israeli army started to shoot trend to meet. more palestinians are getting injured why the ambulances are already here to british take on the injuries that we're now the injured from days already i mean that 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 booklet and at the tear gas and there it's crass ambulance and on the medics are trying to say father and juries. and 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 way of the tires the palestinian youths have been lying since the morning and at the same time the israeli army have been throwing tear gas canisters and targeting the palestinians here in 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 these are palestinian protesters burning. and israeli and also saying. against the israelis and that make sense the morning tension is running high right now and palestinians are still in the field instead near the fence and several journalists were injured during the protests one of them later died from his injuries yes targo work for a local t.v. production company gaza health officials said he was shot while filming close to

the border he was wearing a jacket marked press and holding a camera at the time israeli military hasn't provided any specific comment on the matter they said it fired only those described as instigators of the violence a spokesman for the idea of posted on twitter they've said rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set off explosive devices in an attempted terrorist attack the u.n. though 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 in particular lethal force and that's in a situation where there was no threat of death 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. fourteen of the fifteen members of the u.n. security council back to call for an independent investigation into the deaths during the protests in gaza it was brought by only one nation the united states the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. call the u.s. action very irresponsible. i believe all those who defend those over human rights particularly in the worst this is a blatant case of committing a massacre against you know. hundreds of civilians killing some of them and enduring a large number of them and those that sponsor will need to face justice because this is a crime against humanity. ok let's go to some live pictures now from jerusalem you can see them just on the screen behind me there where thousands of worshippers have gathered to witness the holy fire ceremony is celebrated on the great saturday

that's one day before orthodox easter crowds are flowing to the church of the holy circle kerry can see there where they're waiting for the holy fire to appear you can see the priests making their way now through the crowds it's believed to worship was at least believed the fire happens miraculously it's said to appear when greek and armenian patriarchs are praying on the place believed to be the tomb of jesus christ they pray alone and the whole place is is locked is sealed off for the ceremony itself they claim it's impossible to find out the origin of the fire though believers there do believe in this divine intervention though that the whole ceremony of course has a centuries long story centuries long tradition delegations from different author talks churches take part greek armenian coptic and syrian representatives as

well additionally a group of arab orthodox youngsters also join in the ceremony they always enter the church shouting as soon as the fire appears the worshippers then light their candles from from the fire they spread it between each other a candle is there lit from the holy fire will be brought to moscow that will happen tonight for that. the service of course over this weekend here in the russian capital will show you the highlights of that ceremony as well live when we get the pictures for the full version of course you can head over to our web site. to get updates on all those religious events. on the. other headlines mass protests and dawna provoke the government to make a stand against the u.s. how that story and more for you just off of this short break. we try to deconstruct all these manipulated dichotomies showing the world that is

the religion and it's a peaceful religion and it's possible to be a practicing muslims who believe that the koran is the word of god and at the same time be a member of secular societies it is possible. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. want. to be right for us this is what before you know more people. interested in the war.

joining us back auty international the u.s. will not be offered a military base in gone that's according to the president of the west african nation he made that announcement 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 garners capital against the military deal with the united states the demonstrators were worried such an agreement would give washington too much influence over the country's sovereignty r.t.c. goes down off looks at how the us and some other nations as well have been trying to gain a stronger foothold on the culture of. 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 unambiguous 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 are engaging 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 in march his trip coincided with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov his visit and a clear sign more school is steadfast to do business with africa to their diplomatic marathon across the continent set off from the same hotel in. 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 say that because in part united states has a very arrogant attitude that it takes towards people from africa and that's to set aside which is a united states does not have the economic right answer wherewithal to compete with china in any case then finally there is. nation 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. how the role of huge internet giants in blocking the promotion of currencies has

been a debate in russia the country's chamber of commerce organized a round table inviting experts to make this suggestions on how to overcome the current barrier is a miguel francis until i was there. a roundtable was organized by the russian chamber of commerce on the subject of internet advertisements and its new found barriers for russian businesses including mass media and block change technologies the panel is hosted by herman cain manco in an advisor to the russian president as well as russia's internet meet the marine chef the vice president of the russian chamber of commerce as well as russia's leading lauching lawyer alexander shot just isn't it a little bit polluted today grid to news sites that advertised on facebook are being blocked and this is a real challenge we're being vetted in the places where we feel at home with the kids you know that you know the governors are there companies like facebook twitter google and yandex have said they would block any advertising connected to cryptocurrency eason i.c.'s but they've given no real justification for that they

are looking forward to suffer some of that to get some companies consider themselves so big and powerful they can install leaders in america germany or anywhere else and you can't do anything if you don't pay them if you let the political machine was to get through to the people who can't see what's going on should be aware that companies are setting their own rules on freedom of information by using the colossal amount of data that they control this is part of a chain of events that we saw with the facebook scandal when the corporation decided that it has the right to free trade people's private profiles for commercial and political goals. it seems the political and business leaders of the blocking movement in russia have come together to weigh their options and create a structured and concise plan for a retaliation against the recent facebook and twitter limitations for both i.c.a.o. and russian media still more than a zealot done the solution. so what can be done by russia and other countries that

have gotten the same slant of their media and partly blocked chain companies what could be the answer. to this if the foundations. should be set up to pay for legal fees in the u.s. and other jurisdictions to collectively sue those who violate the law stay tuned for the latest from the world of crypto on crypto you're out of moscow russia miguel francis and giago r.t. . finally we've squirreled this one away for you right at the end of the run and it's a lovely title for you all the way from bushy tail in fact do take a look. lots

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