i. i. i. as a double agent powell and his daughter begin to recover after last month's attack in seoul spring his niece from russia has refused a visa to britain. party speaks with the former head of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons about the script case and also how he was pushed from his post because he was against the u.s. invasion of iraq i got a phone call from john bolton from washington said that i do structures to resign your management style. washington. and the u.s. troops u.n. security council moved to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border

after at least ten palestinians were killed in a fresh round of violence including a journalist plus also to washington will not be offered a military base in the country the president makes the following mass protests it does come as the u.s. and other countries to see what it is to become more entrenched in africa. though it's just gone five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story is the poison double agent recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of seoul sprained his niece victoria a russian citizen has been refused a visa to visit her sick relatives in the u.k. she says she was not surprised by the decision she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to hide if they are preventing a relative from visiting with more. 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 scribbles 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 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. to us we just fell out of my note you know not of my list of potential users are. you yet you know we. live in can you just really get those but for. me of the use of the book

not just the book is called almost. you know going at the. moment you know. we don't know if this league 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 point 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's 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 you 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. and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the city of seoul sprit on the fourth of march british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent named north york a type which used to be produced in the soviet union well at that time that prompted some harsh words even from the prime minister to resign may you said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never recover but as we see now out of a coma and in a stable condition the recovery of these. questions about how they managed to survive after reportedly being poisoned by a nerve agent of such strength but we discussed the issue with the former director general of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons

josie. 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 drop the 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 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 idea to fight the source of the poison without giving a chance to the specs as though the international going to 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 many more people. even those who. used to the poison gas well josephus stanley there is a brazilian diplomat and was 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 just as he was leaving his seat there came to light it upset washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the o.p.c. w which would mean iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons well that was apparently view does not equal to the us intention to engage in military action in

iraq in an open letter supported by starting many activists to demand to put world peace ahead of us you know that tourism is joseph studies 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 organisation was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and 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 according 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 for the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support well there was one man who was particularly against me being the. head john bolton who at the time was 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 up his post there study says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him and said that i was structures 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 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 goodish issue and 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 they'll 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 prepared my family's is my family is is a whale that's going on to spear to face because it was so go ahead and he was

a little bit shocked with that and he left his not the man you can have a dialogue with. today at least ten palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border on friday came after thousands of protesters staged a massive and patient protest. are out. of. the. car and go through. the. gauntlet. but a wave of rallies broke out at the end of march and is supposed to last for weeks

during the past week in fact more than twenty palestinians have been killed but thousands more wounded during what's being called the great march of return but it's not only protesters that have paid a hefty price several journalists were also injured during the protest and one of them later died from his wounds yassin were target here worked for a local t.v. production company garcia health officials said he was shot while filming close to the border he was wearing a jacket marked press and was also holding a camera the israeli military hasn't provided any specific comment on this matter but says if eyes only called instigators of the violence were fourteen of the fifty members of the un security council back to call for an independent investigation into the into the deaths during the protests in girls it was blocked by only one nation though the united states the un says the use of live ammunition by israel 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 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 well in response spokesperson for the i.d.f. has posted on twitter saying that rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set off explosive devices in attempted terrorist attack and a tweet from his colleague has sparked outrage online the picture attached to it does show a group of children apparently closely watched by the i.d.f. the text won't say quote those trying to hide from the sites of the forces however

the twitter posts from offices to claim he is trying to highlight the idea that children are used as a weapon by hamas earlier we heard opposite views on what is happening in palestine from analysts they talk to infiltrate into israel and they shoot at us and they try to role model. bottles against us. to do some charges which they brought with themselves so i don't believe that any country will allow such a behavior of a mob nordic or that mentioned that there was fire from the palestinian side there was you could because the. theme of on the phone through all the oil they were all employing the. border every israeli. american the inquiry commission to come to god do with the gate of the kill. of the

twenty nine the will and the injuries have been here some of them were actually hamas fighters and bombers. and most of those who were killed last week well among them was people who are. actually work for hummers. so what do they want to. and what is the. doing. to morrow if they want to go to. the demonstration. so they have the illegal of market in gaza they have to accept. the international law. and to accept all the un the solution the policy is only ask for justice international law. cash is becoming a thing of the past in sweden where the country's on the path to full digitise

station but not everybody is on board with this idea with concerns being raised that russia might try to interfere. if putin invades god it will be enough for him to turn off the payments system.

but. you're watching our international still to come this hour mass protests in ghana have provoked the government there to make a stand against the u.s. we'll have a look at the details in a couple of years. we try to deconstruct all these manipulated dichotomies showing the world that islam

is a 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 a member of secular societies it is possible. you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. sold one of the first. want to be rich. that's it right for us this is what the three of them will be good. for still falls in the water. thanks should.

say now in jerusalem thousands of worshippers have gathered to witness the holy fire ceremony it is celebrated on great saturday the day before orthodox easter i think. people inside the church as he had supposed to actually handle seeming yeah flying past me quickly today's ways and that sun worshippers believe the fire disappeared miraculously when greek and i mean it's pray on the site believed to be jesus christ delegations from different orthodox churches including greek meaning coptic and syrian take part in this ancient so i. think. the u.s. will not be offered a military base in the presence of the west african nation officially announced on

thursday garner 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 ghana's capital against the military deal with the us demonstrates his will deliberate such an agreement would give washington too much influence over the country's sovereignty. looks now at how the u.s. and some other nations to you have been trying to gain a stronger foothold in the continent. because sam is wooing africa and 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 try and his 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 visit a clear sign more school is forced 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 a state 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 in an states does not have the economic of romance or wherewithal to compete with china in any case and then finally there is still your 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. that modern day slavery is on the rise in europe according to a report by the council of europe and some countries like brics boy has even overtaken sex trafficking we spoke to one of the authors of the report there is an increase in the number of people who fall victim to this you know to not know that a number of countries labor trafficking. emerges as the main farm in the u.k. or to girls cyprus

a few other countries. more victims of labor trafficking now being an end to find and sexual so this is a new trend and the report is actually talking about this the report covers the period starting from january last year and mentions forty seven countries workers are mostly at risk with male victims found in sectors like a group culture in hospitality and women in domestic or care work roma people and homeless children are also reportedly susceptible to being exploited the report calls for countries to improve their lot as well as work with n.g.o.s and businesses here the store over again it's not really these are people who. come from countries in europe countries where. we cannot make problems currently make a lot of people unemployed but the problem is often they have debt they have for example accumulated debt in order to travel to another country. or they paid some fees to the agency which employed them their pastor at the stake and the way

they're not made the salary never promised or they're not and anything they're made to work very long working hours there are a lot of people who are from within the european union countries who moved to undercut the same bulgarians going to spain well mania streatley but they're also people come from countries in africa and asia and latin america so to truly a transnational phenomenon. so that's how are things looking so far here in r.t. but before we go we have got time to show you a cute story from kazakstan. and

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since the great depression april is the cruelest month rumor t.s. eliot's diddy yes wow and then he drawled trumped up and tarted up on broadway with the fricken cats musical that i've seen twenty times because clients force me to look at this nona. stocks post worst start to april since the great depression with the s. and p. five hundred closing down more than two point two percent last monday the broad market index clinched this worst start to april since one thousand twenty nine based on recent market action the bears clearly have control right now bespoke co-founder justin walters wrote the s. and p. five hundred fell back into correction monday's tech lead the market lower with names like amazon and netflix both down more than five percent of course it's been quite wild up and down since then people don't know whether or not to buy the dips or not buy that but. you know our friend mark hughes goes also saying that it looks

like the smart money has been selling to the dumb money over and over at each opening over the last few weeks the bear is back quite possibly the background of rising interest rates and trade wars and heated up rhetoric and political kind of posturing with atomic weapon armed foes as got folks. office remember you know 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 which can be cyber wars that means that platforms that require precision and sinking fall out and drop out and crashing in different areas and so their revenues have got to suffer as a result plus we eat.