in the stories that shaped the week the raw nerve agent poisoning continues in the u.k. with the british foreign secretary yukio use of fabricating claims about responsibility . meanwhile doctors say both the former russian spy and his daughter are no longer in a critical condition close relatives were being refused a visa to visit them as written to to reason may. find out something more than. yes they try to many probably not the crumbling but. i will fight to the if i fail here i will go to the. ground at least twenty palestinians are killed after israeli forces used live ammunition against demonstrators in gaza. and this is really

dangerous george marci. one of the largest u.s. media groups comes under fire for telling its t.v. presenters to read a script of promo against you. are welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to watch in the weekly here on r.t. international. now war of accusations has been raging this week over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter a british military to admitted it could not identify the source of the nerve agent although the government has consistently said it came from russia but it has more to tell us. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on

there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the for say source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing alright keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as navi chuck it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the

agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we've removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from porton dollars. they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it

a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that with the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is pretty consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so fast they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day are you ready for the big break on earth we are not sure. if. you russia. well there's also been a lot of criticism on twitter from britain's main opposition labor party over boris johnson's assurances that russia was behind the poisoning when asked if johnson actually wanted to delete that german t.v.

interview as well others stress the need to check the evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson said that johnson was downright dangerous and claimed the incident is being used as a diversionary tactic seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more the smoke screen really it was a very convenient wasn't it for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over economic policy let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. or surrogate's group hour and his daughter were found unconscious in a park bench in the city of seoul spree on march the fourth british officials later revealed the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent named a type which was first developed in the soviet union well at the time prime

minister treason may said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never recover the tortilla script is the niece of the former double agent she's been trying to get to the u.k. to visit her relatives but her visa application was rejected she since written a letter to the british prime minister for justice but now the whole world is stuck in about a political scandal does the heart of the scandal are real people who put together all documents missing from their pleas and i hope not bureaucratic tricks will prevent me from seeing my loved ones i ask the u.k. and you personally to reconsider their decision to diffuse my visit they are scared that i will find out something more that he will tell me something yes they try to many please me not the crime one but how my five i will fight to the end if i fail here i will go to the us. well some u.k. media outlets have suggested the actor. was blocked because the government feed she

was being coached by the kremlin has claimed the russian government is using the tortoise could of power as a pawn in a political game the tortoise could have power says she was not surprised at her visa being rejected she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to hide by preventing a relative from visiting in exclusive interview to the agency victoria claims that in a phone conversation the new year was being prompted. but at first i was happy that he called but it was clear that she wasn't speaking her own words she was being prompted you can hear it in the recording but there's a start she was told yes you can talk which meant that she was being guided. now in other news at least ten palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire on the garza border on friday it came after thousands of protesters staged a massive anti occupation protest.

we're now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowds you can see the protesters flooded then one hundred of thousands of palestinians have been here tensions are running high right now as the israeli army started to shoot random your palestinians are getting injured why the ambulances are already here too pretty to take all the injuries that we're now the injured from days really i mean that by live bullets and i mean nation and to tear gas canisters this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from the al

for booklets and at the tear gas and the red cross ambulance and on the medics are trying to save all the injuries 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 and we saw palestinian protesters burning viewed as flags and israeli flags and also saying slogans against the israelis and the americans. local journalists in cadabby reporting there was a wave of rallies began at the end of march with organizers claiming they will last for weeks during the past seven days though more than twenty palestinians have been killed with many more wounded during what's being called the great march of return

several journalists have also been injured in the clashes one of whom later died yassin the target here worked for a local t.v. production company garcia health officials said he was shot while filming close to the border and then died in hospital but in this photo you can see that he was actually wearing a jacket marked press the israeli military though said it only fired those he called instigators of violence however a spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set off explosive devices in an attempted terrorist attack. fourteen of the fifteen members of the un security council blocked so he backed a call for an independent investigation into all the deaths caused by israel's use of live ammunition during the garza protests it was blocked by only one nation the united states we discuss the issue with an expert from palestine with an expert from israel. nordic or mention that there was fire from the palestinian side

there was a few who could cross the. theme of leg on the phone through. the order they were only throwing the dogs or burdening them the border every israelis of the. americans the inquiry commission to come to gaza doing with the gate of the killing of the twenty nine the will and the injuries have been here some of them actually hamas fighters and bombers. and most of those who were killed last week will involve them was with people who are paid by hamas. to work for hummers as there are always so what will they want to organize door attacks against israel. and what is the. doing. now today russia's defense ministry has strongly denied claims the syrian government was behind

a chemical attack in syria's rebel occupied town and it says it's ready to send chemical protection experts to prove otherwise reports about the attack came from the controversial anti government activist group the white helmets are also claiming it's killed dozens following the unconfirmed reports the u.s. though has already called on the syrian government and its backers including russia to be held accountable the allegations of a chemical attack come as syrian forces have liberated ninety percent of eastern which was occupied for years by multiple rebel and terror groups thousands of civilians returned to their homes in the liberated parts of the enclave a move made possible under a deal between the syrian government and the rebel groups but while the dream and has a division within some of the militant groups many backed the deal which also provided a safe passage for them and their families but among the fact is leaving to deal with a negotiate. on syria between russia and iran and the latest at the latest meeting

the russian president cited intelligence reports showing attempts by some groups to destabilize the peace process with possible false flag attacks involving a chemical agent. our joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of planned provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents. ok let's get the thoughts now of kathy's director of an office a think tank focusing on the middle east and he's with us a good afternoon tea what's your reaction then to these claims that it was the syrian government that was behind this chemical attack. well good afternoon the well the claims are made by people who would like to see the syrian government as really having been tend of killing as many possible civilians as as as you can

read however if you look at it from the syrian government's point of view as we understand it they view the people of duma as hostages in a hostage situation. eager to go to freedom or launch to freedom just like their fellow eastern who type people did in how to start from but not other areas get rhythm's or get rid of the militants basically so in a sense it would be in logical for them to kill those people especially there they would be looking forward to reintegrate them into the state and so on and so forth on the other hand we know that you should islam has chemical weapons it's actually the only action in syria that acknowledged hugh siege of chemical weapons exactly two years ago in aleppo in the she would area and you know it's not beyond reason to think you know they're either requesting in directly some need two

bombers to come and do something about it against syrian army positions or at least to send some investigation unit to delay the surrender of in order for them to get out of duma with the best possible condition some people talk about millions of dollars of money gold and whatever it is you know before surrendering their positions should we be wary of the evidence that's been presented so far i mean there have been there has been confirmation that scores of people have died here but when it comes to attributing blame is there much evidence that's been put there that makes it clear he did it. no i mean we've seen the videos clearly the people are in a natural state they may have been subject to something obviously again who did it why they did it is unclear but with all the evidence trying to be everybody's trying to man the evidence against the syrian government you know you could also

argue that there is a point where there is a case for those militants who you know. should understand they don't really care much about the people they probably care only about themselves tomorrow and such an attack as a final attempt to either delay or prevent the fall of. of do so in a sense that might have happened again we can see the statement by the u.s. department of state yesterday it didn't it wasn't really hawkish the you know it was about condemnation and so on and so forth so probably even they look at it rather skeptical skeptical lauri's you know is that true are just are just reading this i was looking at the u.s. state department comments and it says that ultimately it was russia and its unwavering support for the syrian government that ultimately bears responsibility for the attack i mean do you feel like going to father. well if you compare it with

what happened a year ago in hunchy whom they were pretty hawkish and actually they launched. a military strike cruise missile strike if you look back at the rhetorical about four and a half years ago with the big attack they were quite hawkish as well so yes compared to that sort of retore yesterday's statement probably is only trying to manipulate the situation to lay blame on somebody rather than saying oh this is enough we're going to do something about it and we're sending the cavalry ok i'm our niceto so we have to leave it that it was am i what hath director cannot as the think tank focusing on the middle east thank you. now a u.s. broadcasting corporation corporation faces a backlash over its fight against fake news we'll have a look at the details on much as the week continues after the break.

we tried 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 that the same time a member of secular societies it is possible. welcome

back to weekly now one of the largest local broadcasting corporations in the u.s. is facing a backlash over a promotional and i'm smart warning against fake news presenters on dozens of its channels were made to read out the exact same scripted message the sharing of biased and false moves here you can call to karl rove you are on. the safe it is pretty easy to see the rule without showing these extremists unfortunately the syrian regime of the south the solicitor why. aren't interested for you in this is really dangerous to our drugs well the thing to agree which is known for its conservative stance owns almost two hundred stations across american reaches about forty percent of all u.s.

households broadcast the claims that the project served no political agenda however the initiative drawn anger across the mainstream media with critics saying that the message supports donald trump's claim some popular outlets are spreading a news while the us president did step into the spot here to defend the singulair group however telling news organizations what to say and do is an accusation we have before us. now explains russian media as a beacon of honesty truth and integrity we work hard to maintain our outstanding level of work unlike foreign outlets who lie i love putting. my mind. spicy with irish that's the assumption many in the west make about russian media fully controlled broadcasts with angers and correspondents forced to read a pre-prepared scripts no details left to chance so much of it is state funded after all but in the us where so many channels are corporate owned it must be

different right the sinclair broadcast group which owns almost two hundred television stations and broadcast on around six hundred channels proudly proclaims its mission statement that it provides stories that make a difference the key to our success is called some choices. and the. platforms well and its recent promos there's not much of a choice or a difference it seems. to be what is sort of our treasure valley communities deal pass a loss christmas communities eastern i was communities with mission communities we're extremely proud of the quality balance journalism that c.b.s. news produces but we just try to do your. stories very plaguing our country as you can see anchors from different channels reading the same script there which was by the way leaked to some media outlets and it looks like they only had to fill in their names. and i'm the greatest responsibility is to serve the northwest community used. and if you look closely

you'll notice an absence of certain colors in their wardrobes that's no accident they were given specific instructions on how to dress in order to look neutral the goal is to look apolitical neutral nonpartizan yet professional black or charcoal suits from man females should wear yellow gold magic and science not divide red blue or purple because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apparently is promoting clear also distributes what's known as must run segments to their stations so all the propaganda finger is so often pointed at russia it looks like we actually have quite a bit to learn starting with my wardrobe. heading to the polls the cast their ballots in a parliamentary election this sunday the current prime minister viktor orban has already cast his vote he was at one of the polling stations in the country's capital budapest opinion polls at the moment do predict or bands conservative

ruling party coffee dish will grab the majority of the seats in the country's parliament second place is forecast to go to the left wing pro european socialist party and the far right nationalist party your pick your brain is predicted to place third or prior to the election western media reports of raised concern about the future of hungry viktor orban gains another term he's been criticised for his anti immigration stance and policies and to discuss this with a bit further now we're joined by norman care she's a researcher with the republican he's in budapest new very welcome daniel thanks for coming on to r.t. mr obama has sent his political goal here on an anti immigrant message do you think that will be enough today to hand him a convincing victory. and this is this is or should be question of this election and what we see in the turnout is quite high actually it was it was such a high into trees into viktor orban and. the election after four years in the

government so it seems likely that the feeders and we took over and could mobilize their own supporters which is about two point one two point two million voters that probably this is going not going to be enough to you have to have an absolute major eighty goal really going to achieve on a relative major city if the turnout is around seventy percent or even higher is there a suggestion that if there is a big turnout daniel is reflective of the fact the people are coming out to vote against all. yes it means that there are people what they. see is the opposition is quite fragmented there is there's a right wing opposition to your big part is your dimension and the levers are left and and liberal parties on the other side of the political spectrum but also this fragmentation also means that there's no opposition don't have a united voice first of all but also the fragmentation of the opposition also means that the fetus candidates in the siegelman the districts and one can only read at

the major easy so it was in the it was an important issue during the election campaign that the voters should should vote consciously that they should use tactical voting in order to have one candidate against the fetus candidate and if mr obama gets the majority that presumably he's hoping for what will be the relationship with hungary and the e.u. given this very strong and immigration stance taken in the full act we've seen between hungary and the e.u. in the run up to this election. so if viktor orban in the future succeeds at the election it means that they're going to probably continue dear immigration agenda and they're going to continue their conflicts we are european union of course because a sexist means impoverishment by the voters so there's going to be probably more coffee to the european union but it could be also happened it's going to be a symptom for european leaders and they try to stop this order phenomenon before

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