judgment paved the way for a measured policy in the future. in the stories that shaped the week british foreign secretary boris johnson is accused of lying over what scholars wrote in the script poisoning as the u.k. lab that tested the nerve agent says he can't prove it came from russia he won as doctors say both the former russian spy and his daughter are no longer in a critical condition a relative who was refused a visa to visit the has written to the british prime minister. are scared i will find don't something more in the queue we will talk. yes try to meet with you not to cry but i might argue you know i will write to the you know if i fail here i will go from you to. me while accusations pile up that syria's government is behind the latest chemical attack in the rebel held city of duma despite

a lack of evidence or reason how it could benefit president assad. and their job on wins substrate term as prime minister of hungary after an election campaign dominated by fears over immigration. one cake contract and you're watching the weekend headlines here at aussie international thank you for joining us. a storm of accusations has been raging this week over the poisoning of former russian double agent sort of a script and his daughter yulia a british military lab admitted it was only able to pinpoint the source of the nerve agent involved but that didn't stop the british government from pointing the finger at mosco as artie's an associate explains the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted on march twenty second announces by world.

leading experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly when i look at the the evidence from the people from from port and they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt well it seems that all of that was going well until when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the source was we have not verified the press a source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for

the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able look or down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that at the same time the foreign office is saying everything is still the way it was and nothing is inconsistent are you ready for the big report on exactly where is the stuff and we are rushing production. is the government going to accuse russia. of surrogates of free power is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians a russian russia russia russia russia i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and some serious questions to what he claimed on german television this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all they can. if i was not

a troll i couldn't say where it came from. well aside from me to jeremy corbyn members of his opposition labor party also criticized orator boris johnson's assurances that russia was behind the poisoning one m.p. suggested the foreign secretary should try to delete that interview he gave to german t.v. i love to stress the need to check the evidence labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and said the script our case was being used to deflect attention from the government's problems 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 of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties of a. policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german interviewer that. scientists

doubt it said it was without doubt that the agents had come from russia so i think jeremy called them was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seems to point towards russia but 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. who both the former double agent and his daughter appear to be recovering a march the fourth they were found unconscious on a park bench in the southern english city of seoul a spree does reheard british officials stated the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent called novacek developed in the soviet union or at the time prime minister to reason may said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never fully recover when it became clear the script

hours were getting better a family relative victorious cripple attempted to get a u.k. visa to visit her family members but her application was denied the turia says she has written to cerys and may asking for her visa to be approved. just what you need to put up with now the whole world is talking about god we've been through the heart of the scam know the real you know who together all the documents missing from the education and i hope it's not your credit tricks will prevent me from seeing my love for hearts is when i ask the u.k. and you personally to reconsider the decision to use my voice when you are scared that i will find out something more that you will tell me something yes they try to me please when you can not the cromwell but my father you know i will write to the air if i fail here or i will go to the people which you. know now have some breaking news from syria the country's a state media is reporting that

a military base in homs province has been targeted by missiles the agency says several people have been killed and several more injured but the numbers are unclear the t four base activated its interceptor system and all the incoming rockets were apparently destroyed the pentagon has said it's aware of the reports but cannot confirm them according to lebanese media reports the missiles were launched from planes that pass through lebanese airspace well this comes a day after president trying to achieve that syria would pay a big price for an alleged chemical attack and it's almost exactly a year since the u.s. military fired tomahawk missiles at a syrian military base. meanwhile rebels in the syrian city of doom are in east english are now leaving the territory through a humanitarian corridor in these latest pictures you can see them traveling by pass through a checkpoint members of the giant islamic militant group agreed to exit the city after negotiations with the syrian and russian governments the russian army says

eight thousand militants and forty thousand of their relatives will be leaving tomorrow. for me was a controversial activist group has accused the syrian government of using chemical weapons in duma the white helmets claim that dozens of civilians were killed russia's defense ministry has slammed the story is fake and is ready to send in chemical experts to prove it the u.s. has already called for the syrian government and russia to be held accountable the un security council is set to discuss the claims it's a session on monday and ahead of those talks the presidents of france and the u.s. have spoken via telephone agreeing to coordinate their actions polonia president trying to reach it that putin russia and iran are responsible for backing the bill assad he added the chemical attack was carried out for no reason whatsoever but this lack of motive is now prompting questions over exactly who is to blame as artie's morag as the it explains east ghouta is almost over ninety percent has been

liberated by syria's government the army of islam nuestra the al qaeda affiliate islam ists they've lost opting to take the buses to rebel territories. the vast majority of rebels surrendered and negotiations are underway for the handover of the last weddle stronghold on the cusp of victory as is now tradition

assad goes against all reason and logic he's won this battle and launches chemical weapons at civilians according to his enemies he contact helped put the united states continues to use all efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons in syria and otherwise a cannibal the regime's history of using chemical weapons against its own people is not in dispute. russia warned repeatedly that this may happen they had intelligence a month ago that rebels were preparing to stage these attacks why not if they can't fight if they can't win why not try to provoke an international intervention it's worked before that is not to say we're jumping to conclusions by all means these allegations are false for a very simple reason now i have a landslide victory and regaining all the territories lost before why would the

syrian regime commit a war crime there is no possible reason for this in addition there is an evidence that all the stores in the reclaim territories were having several stores of chemical weapons controlled by the terrorists a third evidence is that weeks ago the syrian government said there are lurks that the. terrorists are planning for a chemical attack on the disputed territories just to undermine and put pressure on the syrian regime i mean by all means why should i as a rejean use this when i have to keep a low profile and not provoke the international community it's not logical.

congress prime minister viktor orban has led a rally in budapest after an overwhelming victory in sunday's general election he gave a speech hailing what he called a crucial result advantage to defend the country with almost all the votes counted the ruling coalition has one hundred thirty three seats in parliament getting the material surety the largest opposition force will be the right wing anti immigration your big party with twenty six seats and it is a disappointing night for the socialists winning. just twenty seats well victor all one has been in past since two thousand and ten and previously served as prime minister between one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and two thousand and two his hardline stance on migrants entering the you has caused friction with other member states hungry has refused to accept a new quotas for taking in refugees or ones government has also passed controversial laws on the judiciary and the media but as a columnist attila tibor nike told us why voters support the agenda of the ruling fittest party telling the truth or some majority of the.

wards and do a stand big what if he does campaign was messy chained and decor no ulterior message to use that immigration must be stopped and it towards be not allowed for migrants to enter the hungary and dirty wars the foetus messaging of course i expect a. new tensions between grass europe be a uni on and hungary and government because orbit has already said. leadership of the your european union on the one th sure implement you will measure us on immigration's barely see in. the hunger the i got them and. now the biggest owner of television stations in the

us is facing a backlash over a promotional announcement warning against fate news presenters on dozens of its channels were made to read identical scripted messages the sharing of biased and false news has become a call to comment on the social media more commonly. we were watching the first unfortunately for some reason. the. why. do you think this is really dangerous george marcy well the pro conservative sinclair group owns almost two hundred stations across america reaching almost half of all u.s. households the broadcaster claims the project serves no political agenda and they don't understand the criticism yet the initiative has prompted anger across the mainstream media and critics warn the move only strengthens fears the popular outlets are spreading fake news well the us president stepped into the spots to

defend the same playgroup however telling news organizations what to say and do is an accusation that we've heard before this artie's jacqueline who explains russian media is the beacon of honesty truth and integrity we work hard to maintain our outstanding level of work unlike foreign outlets who lie i love putting. well stop 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. on all

platforms well and its recent promos there's not much of a choice or a difference it seems our readers misrata libya is just sort of our treasure valley communities deal passed a loss christmas communities eastern i was. in communities we are extremely proud of the quality balance journalism that c.b.s. news produces but we just think you are the ones you stories are 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 on northwest communities. 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

an females should wear yellow gold magenta sign that divides red blue or purple because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apart from these promo think we're 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. now let's get back to that breaking news from syria the country's state media is reporting that a military base in homs province has been targeted by missiles the signer agency says several people have been killed and several more injured but the numbers are unclear the t. four base activated its interceptor system and eight incoming rockets were apparently destroyed the u.s. government says it has not conducted any missile strikes against the base according to lebanese media the missiles were launched from planes that pass through lebanese airspace. but meanwhile at least

ten palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border on friday after thousands of protesters staged a wide scale anti occupation 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 then one hundred of thousands phallus in years have been here tensions are running high right now and 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 alley for book bullets 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 view as flags and israeli flags and also saying slogans against the israelis and the americans. a wave of rallies began at the end

of march with organizers claiming their last for six weeks more than twenty palestinians have been killed over the last seven days with many more wounded during what's being called the great march of return one journalist has also died and several others have been injured in the clashes yes i'm a target worked for a local t.v. production company gaza health officials said he was shot twelve filming close to the border and died in hospital in this photo you can see he was wearing a jacket marked press the israeli military said it only fired at those it called instigators of the violence. however a spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set up explosive devices in the attempted terrorist attack when we while fourteen of the fifteen members of the un security council have backed calls for an independent investigation into the deaths caused by israel's use of live ammunition during the

gaza protests it was brought by only one nation the united states and we discussed the issue with experts from palestine and israel no record that mentioned that there was fire from the palestinian side there was a few who could because the princes who had the power theme of legs on different things or. they were only throwing stones or burning by a wheel then the board of every israel. while up with the americans the inquiry commission to come to god's doing with the gate of the coming of the twenty minute we will and the injuries have been here some of them were actually hamas fighters and bombers dogs and most of those who were killed the last week well among them was with people who are paid by hamas. to work for hamas as there always so what will they want to organize door attacks against israel.

and work and. doing the things you used to. people in the district of paris claim their lives are being ruined by gangs of young migrants they say drugs there and fights on the streets and making it dangerous to live there r.t. shall a day when city has been talking with some locals. as you exit the metro in much of paris is eighteenth out of the small the first thing you go chase groups of young men. locals claim they migrants loosely africa they say they formed gangs and generally wreak havoc. theft is common and it's clear even the police feed this area as problematic within minutes were offered advice from an officer of the government. who see police stopping young men and searching that banks. locals say

that being terrorized by a group of around sixty juveniles migrants from morocco but because they teenagers the police rarely do anything more than give them a caution before letting go again. with knives the time of night when the kids don't. like fights except the balkans you know. looks like the. it's like yeah you know it's like you know. it's. like you know how hard it would be if. yes yeah yeah it's. easy. and the. life you know this is part of the gang he was referring to they look like young children but local say they've had enough of them

fifteen hundred have signed a petition for action those who know the area say residents are taking precautions . but. the shift. to. the city has tried to deal with the problem the teacher allocated seven. year a school for new center trying to these children off the streets but it seems most interest in the fifty's and sixty's. it seems they prefer to live on the streets surviving on the mystery. so what do you not see r s. now back to that breaking news story from syria the country's state media is reporting that a military airbase in homs province has been targeted by missiles the sun agency

says several people have been killed and several more injured but the numbers are unclear the tea for base activated its interceptor system and eight incoming rockets were apparently destroyed the u.s. government says it has not conducted any strikes against the base according to several different media the missiles were launched from planes that pass through lebanese airspace a route previously used by the israeli air force back in february the tea for airfield in homs province was hit by israeli airstrikes but so far there's been no comment from the israeli government on the latest incident well i'm about with latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on our stories go to r.t. don't call. we

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a funeral in the same as one enters. mind gets consumed with this. speech you just never know what they're. saying that mainstream media has met its make. it welcome to worlds apart from this couple saga is far from over but it has already had its toll on russia's relations with europe prompting nearly two dozen countries at britain's urging to stand russian diplomats home but as the british narrative continues to unravel can this rush to judgment pave the way to

a more measured policy down the line well to discuss that i'm now joined by eric jones director of european and eurasian studies at johns hopkins university professor jones it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time well thank you very much for having me on your show now we are in the midst of this really unprecedented u.k. russia rao a rally that has already the entire world involved to be just witnessed pretty heated exchanges of the united nations security council the other day and if you put the political posturing aside what lies between russia and the u.k. both geographically and economic plan to some extent politically is europe is it clear to you at this point what stance europe is going to take in this whole controversy well i think i think it's pretty clear that europe has been united in its russian policy particularly since about two thousand and fourteen and that europe has been united particularly in response to this incident so i don't i don't

suspect that they. we're going to see deep divisions emerging in europe either around this issue or in russian policy more generally a lesser of a substantial material reason for that to happen now you said that europe is united and from what i know it's only about two thirds of the e.u. countries that actually showed solidarity with the u.k. which is not a small number by any means but at the end of the day expelling one two or even four diplomats like germany for example is more symbolic than practical joe many after doing that actually approved both the construction and the alteration of the second those same pipelines so i wonder if there is perhaps a bit of a gap between what the european leaders say on russia and what they actually do so ok but but there's a big gap between what we mean by russia and when what we mean by the russian government right so the particular conflict the screwball conflict is.