as the double agent powell and his daughter begin to recover after last month's attack in sold his niece from russia is refused a visa to britain also to care martin speaks with the former director general of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons about this kind of case and also 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 that i go to structures to tell me that i should resign said your management style to washington. the u.s. blocks the 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 plus washington will not be offered a military base in ghana the country's president makes the announcement following

mass protests it comes as the u.s. and other countries to seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. for their well can you watching our international business saturday afternoon which just turned three o'clock here in moscow in our top story as poison double agents recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of soldiers bring his niece to victoria a russian citizen has been declined to visit her sick relatives. 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 are preventing a relative from visiting with more his. 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 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 we just know you're not a minor. not of my list of potential users are. you yet you. know all even the. newly yet but. already. many of the will to use it the doc told me in august the book is called all of. you are doing it to just really

going to a yes no money and yes 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 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 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. powell and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the city of seoul sprit a month ago british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned by a military grade nerve agent of a type that used to be produced in the soviet union well at that time that prompted some harsh words from even the prime minister to resign may he said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never recover but as we see now. a coma and in a stable condition the recovery of the strip hours has raised questions too about how they managed to survive after reportedly being poisoned by such a strong nerve agent we discuss this issue with the former director general of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons joe you say this danny 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 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 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 decision to identify the poison idea to find the source of the boys without giving a chance to the specters though the international going to look which is after all the the national organ with the mandate to do this type of job in many questions related to the use of this poison for example how do you control and limit the use

of dispose and to only two people if it is know of a truck as the announced it was it's not something that will not affect much many more people. even those who use the poison gas. josie stanley there is a brazilian diplomat and is 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 seat or just as he was leaving his post it came to light it upsets washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the p.c. w which would mean iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons well that was apparently viewed as an obstacle to the u.s. intention to engage in military action in iraq in an open letter supporting the starting many activists demanded to put world pace ahead of us you know that truism well his account 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 attempt to enlarge the membership of all of the organization was convincing of iraq in libya for example to join in and that when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans are ready to take some action military action against iraq accorded to fruition 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 or did the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support. well there was one man he was particularly

against danny being the a.b.c. there you head john bolton here who was at the time the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security adviser and will shortly take his post as you study says that his intentions to make iraq a member of the a p c w stood in the way if u.s. ambitions i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time we 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 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 doubt it over to you i was elected by acclimation by all the

member states of a good decision it's only you you out there since 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 or said i don't know of any agreement with my government and then they said ok so there will be retaliations and appear to do to accept the consequences we know where your kids are and the moment two of mice 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 at the pier my family's is my family is is a whale that's going on to spear to feast of course it was so go ahead and he was a little bit shocked that he left his not a man you can have a dialogue with. now at least ten palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire

. on the gaza border on friday it came after thousands of protesters staged a massive anti occupation protest a wave of rallies broke out at the end of march and the supposed to last for weeks local journalists incredulity was in the middle of the protest. we're now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters flooded and a hundred of thousands phylis immunes have been here since the morning. tensions are running high right now and 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 were now endured sunday's really i mean that by live bullets and i mean nation and get tear

gas canisters. this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from the al the booklet and at the tear gas and then it's crowded ambulance and on the medics are trying to save 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 squarely 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 the funds. to her.

as you see the palestinian protesters are running away from the tear gas canisters that were thrown just right now and the protesters. and. so the. explode it did gas canisters that are being targeted and suited. the palestinian protesters. thousands of hundreds of palestinians have been here since the morning and these are palestinian protesters burning. and israeli. also saying. they're making sense that morning tension is running high right now and palestinians are still in the field instead near the fence that was a local reporter in the diary there well several journalists were injured during the protest and one of them later died from his wounds yes i'm a target and work for a local t.v.

production company garza health officials said he was shot while filming close to the border he was wearing a jacket mark preston is also holding a camera the israeli military hasn't provided any specific comment on the matter other than saying it fired only those it called instigators of the violence meanwhile fourteen of the fifteen members of the un security council back to call for an independent investigation into the deaths during the protests in garza it was brought though by only one nation the united states un 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 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 where the spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security. vents and set of explosive devices in the attempted terrorist attack and a tweet from his colleague has sparked outrage online to a picture to it to show a group of children apparently under the close watch of the i.d.f. and the text headers warn quote those trying to hide from the sites of the forces of the tweet twitter post by officers claim he's trying to highlight the idea that children are being used as a weapon by mass let's get the thoughts now. his human rights activist from garza and joins us live now you very well. what's your reaction firstly to those tweets we just read there from the i.d.f. . thing the so clearly

the birth was born on the border that means the kind of targeted killing. three really in the world in the world of the in the last. lot about william line. really and the old and among. many shows room were killed in addition of that we have over two thousand five hundred injuries with the line of them in danger and their lives because of the part of the killing by the israelis so of the thought clearly the. jury was about four hundred five hundred meters of the princes he wasn't inside the. differences thought israel are just defying killing of the thing on earth and pull a thing in three billion who were demonstrating peacefully on this are you going to say they were generating peacefully let me just ask you this. israel says that

protesters are trying to storm the fence and they know that they have fired weapons to israel says that its security is being challenge. no record that mentioned that there was fire from the palestinian side there was a few who could cross the fences to hang the palestinian flag on the fences or leave and the artist there were all the throwing stones of burning wheels and the borders and the governing that. the international media was there documenting minute by minute second by second these things that while not accepting with the americans the inquiry commission to come to gaza to investigate of the killing of the twenty nine we will and the injuries have been here so if ever dark they can defend what they are doing to accept the inquiry and to be accountable what's what's going on gaza israel also claims and jab that this pilot could actually stop

tomorrow if protesters simply moved away from the fences that simple already the protesters of a seven hundred meters from the border of the from the fences so the tents the governing the demonstrations it's all away from the defense it's all. the more of the want of to end the demonstration easy so they have to end the illegal or blockading gaza they have to accept to our blithe international law and the policy interest is to indicate patient and to accept all the un resolutions the policy is all in ask for justice to our ally the international law so if the israelis want to end these demonstrations they have to accept these principles dobby of light on the policy by territories. what he will say to the weeks ahead because we know these protests are going to continue. a few

weeks to come. i mean it's been a huge death can't already be what she feared to the weeks ahead. this israel is doing gronk response to words these demonstrations this must play should not be to be faced by brutal force force they have to accept in order to end its illegal. illegal practices on the ground and in the same time to accept international brands human rights law on the palestinian territories to end its grave violations this is how to end it not through. killing more palestinians and i have to tell you that more palestinian alan gauging on these the most peaceful civil demonstrations since then or exit for developing is no solution from the international law it's more from

from the administration to ignore the basic legitimate policy and why it's only reasoning on the right of return so the palestinians only find their way through the peace wall demolished civil demonstrations in order to suppress their rights and their intention to continue that a struggle to find a way for all in this illegal occupation and in the same time to find a way to end this illegal blockade on gaza strip while we are twelve years of suffering as you know that yesterday israeli prevent entering the cars. to get in gaza so as a solution this is not the solution it's more embossing more suffering on the policy a little million palestinians who are living in ok and chad we're going to have to wrap things up there we've been at a time but i got to tell she thanks for coming on to r.t. that and chat she was a human rights activist from gaza thank you thank you. life teaches

now from jerusalem thousands of worshippers a gadget that witnessed the highly fire ceremony it is celebrated on right back. day the day before or three drops each day. the people inside the church of the holy suppose their candles from the flame passing quickly to those waiting outside worshippers believe the fire appears miraculously when greek and armenian patry are spray on the place believed to be jesus christ two delegations from different orthodox churches including a greek armenian coptic and syrian i do take part in this ancient ceremony. so heavy this a mass protests in ghana provoked the government to make a stand against the u.s. we'll have a look at that in detail just after the break. the

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have got to suffer as a result. fourteen people have been killed after a bus carrying members of the kenya ice hockey team collided with a truck in canada on friday evening police say the bus was carrying twenty eight people at the time of the fourteen survivors three is said to be in a critical condition played the humble. tween sixteen to twenty one they were heading to a playoff game and the tragedy happened present the team has released a statement saying the broncos family is in shock as it tries to come to grips with the incredible it's. not the u.s. will not spill foot

a military base in ghana the president of the west african nation officially announced on thursday. ghana has not offered a military base and will not offer a military base to the united states of america but that statement comes after mass protests in ghana's capital against the military deal with the us the demonstrators were worried that such an agreement would give washington too much influence over the country's sovereignty r.t. hugo he done a look now at how the u.s. and some other nations to you 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 though 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 rule 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 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. 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. things are looking safe today but before we go we have got time for a kinked story from kazakhstan.

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