i. i i i. i. i. think. three people are dead and twenty confirmed injured is a fan of plows into a crowd in the german city of months that. the blades. begin to recover following last month's attack in seoul frieze nice for russia has refused a visa to britain. speaks with the former head of the international organization

for the prohibition of chemical weapons about this case about how he was pushed for me seat because he was against us invasion of iraq i got a phone call from john bolton said that i had instructions to tell me that i should resign said your management style. washington. plus us journalists voice their concern over plans find the department of homeland security to create an extensive media monitoring database. this is our to international great to have you with us. and we start this hour with our developing story here live pictures from the scene three people who. have been

killed and twenty others confirmed injured this is in the german city of moons there were a van as round into a crowd of people let's go live to r.t. correspondent peter oliver who's been following this story for us bring is the salient details peter what's taken place. world what we know from the interior ministry here in germany who have announced some figures on this terrible incidents taking place in the city of munster they're telling us that four people have died at the scene that as many as twenty people perhaps more have been injured with six of those described as being in a very serious condition now this happened after a silver gray volkswagen rammed into a crowd of people who were sat at a very popular cafe and restaurant in munster in the old town there a lot of people gather at this particular cafe in the outside seating area of it's been a very nice weatherwise day here in germany there will be

a lot of people on that square when this happened what we're hearing though is that this crowd this car this vehicle then plowed into those people and they say police confirming that three people were killed at the scene and that the driver of the vehicle then took their own life some media reports are saying from the scene right now that they've been told by police sources that the driver shot himself that's a direct quote from from some of the the reports coming out here and we also understand that the police were they evacuated nearby buildings as they conducted a search of the vehicle they were concerned about a suspicious package that they're still conducting that particular investigation right now also we're hearing with regard to those that have been injured some of the injuries have been quite severe extremely severe in some cases we're hearing that blood donations are being called for by local clinics but when it comes to the reason behind this where police have said that they're looking at all options that

are available they called on the media not to speculate this came after there were reports that a another suspect had been on the run following the incident no police shut that down saying that they had the situation as they called it under control in contact . ain't saying they weren't looking for anybody else. they said police calling people not to speculate about a motive that hasn't stopped stories emerging just seconds before i came on to talk to you it's been reported in a major newspaper developed here in germany that the perpetrator of this this in this incident this attack had actually been a german citizen who is understood to have been suffering from some form of mental illness this is all just very new at the moment the barry latest that we've heard coming out from the media reports that at the root at the scene things are filtering through here to assemble in very very quickly and of course we have our own people looking into that on the scene right now but that's the very latest

that's come out the police still yet to make a statement on that also the interior ministry who have been following this and have been giving out information so far still yet to comment on that what we do know is that around three thirty local time this this vehicle rammed into this crowd of people there were a lot of police already in the area now this was to do with a demonstration that had been planned that was taken place by a kurdish group that were demonstrating against turkish actions in the north of syria there. so there were a lot of police in the area already they were on the scene incredibly quickly still no official confirmation of what may have been the reasoning behind this but as we know and what's been confirmed so far three people have been killed in a crowd many more wounded some of those severely after a car plowed its their way into that crowd of people outside of a restaurant we're also hearing that the driver of that vehicle took their own life it is being reported they may have shot themselves with

a handgun of some kind of course developing by the minute here and i'll be bringing you updates on that soon as we can as we have any more information about these terrible scenes that have unfolded in munster absolute fact let's try and check in with you a little later on this hour and get the very latest. mation many thanks for the update peter oliver in berlin. i was the poisoned double agent recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of souls bree his niece victoria a russian citizen has been refused a visa to visit her sick relatives in the u.k. she says that she was not surprised by the decision she questioned whether the british authorities might have something to hide if they're preventing a relative from visiting parties are trying to 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 victoria scruple on the grounds that replication 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 cousins. that you know us with us or you're not a minor. not of my list of potential users are. you yet you know we. are all using the. newly more and yet those of. already. many of the will to use adult dog lovers the book is called almost. the. only other warning it took years to come 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 that toria 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 leads to risk repulse 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 too now that visa thing the pawn so when did speculation like this become

a new british tradition like talking about the weather. his daughter was found unconscious on a park bench in the city of solsbury on march the fourth british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent named nova chalk a type which was used to be produced in the soviet union the time that prompted some harsh words even from the prime minister to resign mayor who said that those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never recover and as we see now both victims are out of a coma and in a stable condition the recovery of the script files has raised questions about how they managed to survive after reportedly being poisoned by a nerve agent of such strength who discussed this issue with the 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 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 the have the capability to do that there are experts from all countries it's committee of people that are very expert very few over doing this work so i was surprised and to see that it was so premature decision to identify the poison idea to find the source of the poison without giving a chance to the specters of the international going to do 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 disposal into 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 around. even those who use the poison gas just it will stand he is a brazilian diplomat and was the first elected director general of the o.p.c. w. although there's been much speculation into the reasons as to why he quit his seat just as he was leaving is positioning came to light that he'd upset washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the organization. which would mean iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons now 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 starter many activists demanded to put world peace ahead of us unilateralism it was one man who was particularly against it was stanley being head of the o b c w 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 advisor and will shortly take up that seat because of a start he 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 it said that i heard his structures to to to tell me that i should resign from the organisation and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to 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 have to 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 or said i don't nor vaine the agreement with my government and then they said ok so they will be retaliations and appear to do to you 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 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 fix the course it was so go ahead he was a little bit shocked with that and he left his not them and you can have a dialogue with. killers go back to our developing breaking news story three people have been killed twenty confirmed injured this is in the german city of

munster after a van plowed into a crowd of people reports suggest six of the victims are in a critical condition heavy police presence has been reported at the same with nearby buildings evacuated the driver is reported to have taken his own life following the incident with police asking the public not to speculate over what happened authorities that it's too early to say whether or not the incident was a terrorist attack will bring you more information and indeed will be hearing from our correspondent in berlin there later this hour. in other news the evacuation of civilians and militants from ceres eastern ghouta has been suspended that's according to the russian defense ministry so after one of the militant groups which had previously agreed to leave the enclave violated the

agreement the district has been under siege by government forces since two thousand and thirteen when it was retaken by rebel groups the rebels have carried out multiple attacks on nearby residential areas of damascus causing numerous civilian deaths based journalist mohammad ali joined my colleague andrew farmer with the latest. cording to the russian ministry of defense militants obstructed the deal on their evacuation with their families from doing many eastern will cut from northern syria they also according to a syrian official military source. of the ins from accepting from duma via humanitarian corridors and open gunfire at demonstrators and side who are calling on the militants to leave of course this comes after a sub members and senior commanders are. turned against this evacuation deal reached last week over there inside duma and those senior commanders

actually ousted the other commanders who are negotiating with russia on this deal after of course such developments the syrian government forces stepped up their military actually attacks and started a new ground offensive against militants in dumont there was a lot of hope. that this humanitarian corridor would succeed just on the basis that over the last few weeks we've seen similar humanitarian corridors work pretty effectively yes for several weeks and russian governments opened safe corridors for civilians that said those who wish to come out from eastern. there were two main humanitarian corridors in a fifteen count on the outskirts of eastern was on also. over there civilians were safely getting out there were ambulances waiting also in order to provide medical aid and help for the civilians accepting. humanitarian or get it

organizations are also on standby. ok. building. that was. the school analyst the right. joins me on the line now very good evening to you sir with this evacuation now suspended military action resumes some civilians still trapped inside how will this affect the region do you think. well this has been going on for some time now and we were all expecting that the deal with actually stand.

and the militia would be with respect the negotiations with the russians and the fighters who demand to leave who would prefer to leave would be able to leave but as you were just saying in the report before there has been some. clashes between two different sections of vision islam and it seems that the disaffected the way the deal was going on and. the battle i started all over again since late night yesterday. of course of this this is really sad to hear because the with the deals that the russians have been negotiating mr moti we have at least saved the lives of one hundred fifty thousand civilians not to mention the d.s. the disappearance soldiers that are now having that battle fifty five thousand

nearly five thousand have returned to their homes in the eastern and to see and not to mention also the destruction that we have managed to avoid to see all that collapse because the two different types of senior officials official islam cannot agree upon is this out there on a smelly militant as they used to base some of already left of course of the numbers that weakened the surrounded by damascus forces what are they hoping for here today realistically still think they can secure a victory. no the what actually were afraid of that they weren't really to fight in the end because in the end it is the civilians who will pay the price on both sides mainly we don't know and we don't know exactly how many civilians are there or inside i think the syrian army has already. surrounded

the. have and have entered the farms surrounding ottar and is soon to enter the neighborhoods which means that the fire going to get more tense and it will be more dangerous for both civilians and the syrian soldiers we don't know exactly how much are left in terms of the fight of the visual islam but we know that four thousand already left and they were expecting the who are left in site to leave by the end of the week but as you can see there's not happening anymore there appreciate it my guess is that hide our political analyst thank you. now been numerous casualties after a van rammed into a crowd in germany we can bring you all the latest information on that story after this break. it's.

the 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 fall out there 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 precise thinking fall out and drop out and crashing in different areas so their revenues have got to suffer as a result. of

them back a new proposal by the u.s. department of homeland security seeking to compile a database to monitor thousands of media outlets and journalists around the world under this plan the agency is looking to track over two hundred ninety thousand global new sources in more than one hundred languages including chinese arabic and russian the database will be searchable by location subject and individual media professionals but it's also set to include social media influences the main objective of the plan is described as identifying any and all coverage related to the agency or a particular event that the database is raising concerns. maybe the trump homeland

security forces would like dissidents we're monitoring bracelet and submit themselves to tattoo to cool the office of homeland security wants to docs all the journalists in the country this isn't bad at all when you have a president who has called the press the enemy of the american people i think in sunder standard for people to be concerned when d.h. s. announces that they want to create a media monitoring platform in the meantime a spokesperson for the apartment of homeland security has pushed back against suggestions the plan will compromise freedom of speech saying that maybe a monitoring is standard practice or comparing critics to conspiracy theorists we spoke to political talk show host brian crabtree for his take. i'm a little puzzled why everyone can't look in their own mirror in the united states and realize we do have a media problem here our big one think we've got to do something to dis incentivize fake news which is basically lying or creating

a disingenuous presentation to the american people which is ultimately misleading as to the facts i don't think that that should be outlawed but i think it should be frowned upon a nuff that society just doesn't tolerate it we've got to hold our media accountable to the truth whatever does that i'm for if we step one one bit over that line i'm against it. get back to our breaking news story this hour three people have been killed and twenty others injured in the german city of munster after a delivery van rammed into work crowd let's go live to burlington our correspondent there is rather and as i understand peter we have some significant new information on this story. yes that's right we'll get to that in a moment it relates to who was driving the vehicle but the the information has been confirmed by the interior ministry is that three people were killed. around twenty others injured six of those said to be in

a very critical condition following the ramming of this vehicle into a crowd of people sat outside of a cafe a restaurant in the old town of minster now the driver is also understood to have taken their own life reports from the scene saying that they shot themselves with with a handgun now what we have been hearing since i spoke to you around ten minutes or so ago to fifteen minutes or so ago is a lot more information about just who that driver may have been he's been widely named in media reports from the scene as a forty eight year old german national with a history of mental illness and no live preview previous links to terror groups or any prior criminal convictions that's what we know about him also but that we don't know is what the motive behind this may have been police of called on the. yes not to speculate about what that might have been there had been rumors going around earlier on that there was a hunt on the go for a second suspect who'd fled the scene police have ruled that out saying they have

what they would call the situation in containment out there they aren't looking for any other suspects there's also a search underway for this search underway at the home of this forty eight year old german national who police understand is the or was the driver of that car that took his own life special forces currently searching that premises in munster this is the very latest we have we'll be bringing you all of the those updates as soon as we get them back in around thirty five minutes or so with that for you here on r.t. yeah much appreciated we said we go back for the latest from peter in exactly what we've done right up to date now peter all of in berlin thanks staying with us at home guys appreciate your time this evening. tracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i

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secretary steven minutiae 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.