was once a russian intelligence officer but was stripped of his rank after it's revealed that he'd been spying for the u.k. in two thousand and six he was sentenced to thirteen years in jail but he was released four years later in a high profile spy swap and he moved to the united kingdom the russian ambassador to the u.k. says that russia is still being denied consular access to him and that that's in violation of international law. unfortunately we don't have access to these people to sort through books for the russian citizens if they don't want our assistance for him but we want to see them because for the put to do what we just saw the pictures nobody through voice nobody saw with a lot we don't know. has been discharged from hospital we know that the medical team have said that he's going to be continuing his recovery outside of souls for a district hospital in terms of his location well that's a closely guarded secret we can assume that he has been whisked off to a safe house much like his daughter yulia square pile was back when she was

discharged from the same hospital last month she's been kept well away from the public eye and out of the glare of the media and i think we can expect something very similar with a surrogate script pile to happen that in itself is very interesting given the massive scandal that their poisoning sparked and the diplomatic fallout that we've had as a result between russia and the u.k. take a look at how the for the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter has unfolded over the past two months.

the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the un to go into the script. that can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a fact. drop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression and in regards to where the novacek came from well the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yack event i was just saying in that press conference that as this story unfolds more doubt is being cast upon the u.k. government's continuous assertion that it could have only been moscow behind the attack take a lesson. from for example from the from the triple that from the president torture this certainly won't do for the troops produced to. do simply

that fuses bro this to resent me that russia is the only country that was cuba thinks. it was wrong scotland yard has released a statement saying that the counterterrorism investigation into the attack continues and that they're keeping the progress of it under wraps but perhaps most importantly what's interesting here is that despite the huge scandal and the political fallout that's ensued as a result of what happened in cells brain on the fourth of march and the diplomatic expulsions of the war of words with the kremlin and it is that investigators in this case are still none the wiser as to who the assassin was that smeared that nerve agent on the script files door handle of their house in cells very. german chancellor angela merkel is in the russian black sea resort of sorts she's

been meeting with vladimir putin a few hours ago the leaders held a news conference and answered questions from journalists among the parties really put. it didn't seem at all especially at the very beginning like two political wives internationally i mean we're meeting here and saatchi when angola merkel stepped out of her limousine vladimir putin was standing there with roses and that was just when the newly reappointed russian prime minister dmitri medvedev was walking out of the building and the chancellor wished him good luck in russian. then later during the press conferences both leaders kept saying how you know political differences can stop them and their countries from being partners if not friends fish to all sorts of you we have strategic interests to maintain good relations with russia and maintaining dialogue is crucial i want to underline that

if we want to overcome issues we need to conduct dialogue there are many topics where we're united. germany is one of our key trade partners we just started by german goods in higher volumes which supports jobs in germany cooperation common enterprises these are essential factors influencing the lives of germans and russians but the russian and german governments do have a whole lot of issues between them from the ukrainian crisis to even the script all cases and in one way or another all these issues were brought up during the talks or the press conference however since donald trump said goodbye to the so-called iranian nuclear deal berlin and moscow do genuinely see eye to eye at least on one issue no official you on germany and great britain france and all our colleagues in the e.u. support the iran young nuclear deal and we are sticking to it we from the european side are discussing the situation with iran the agreement isn't perfect but it's

better than none we should continue negotiating with iran and on that we are united . lot. approaching and angola merkel promised to make an extra effort to make sure that the nuclear agreement stays in place now moving on to sanctions usually when you hear merkel talks the first thing that comes up on your mind is anti russian sanctions but so to say the season is different since economic sanctions and all other kinds of punishment you can think of have become the favorite toy or rather the political tool of the donald trump administration we've been hearing about all kinds of sanctions against iran against russia and even against european companies that deal with russia and those that deal with iran and in this case a joint russia german project called nord stream two for the direct russian natural

gas deliveries to germany is now in jeopardy lot of our putin was asked about it his reaction was cause and he did point out that the issue of north stream two is one of the very few things if not the only thing where the obama administration and the donald trump administration share common ground. the u.s. position on the north stream project is well known in this case we see a rare situation of the white house actually agreeing with the legacy of the a bomb or administration there's no doubt that these kind of summits will continue in the future and possibly next time with the leaders of france and ukraine to sort out the political crisis in that eastern european country the so-called normandy format . also in sochi were fighting between michael and putin eleven years ago generated lots of headlines because the russian president brought along a labrador lots of western journalists trying to betray that moves putin playing

psychological games considering that michael has a publicized fear of dogs in a later interview putin claimed he didn't know that and apologized for the incident to sin as he found out our correspondent mentioned earlier both leaders have a long history of coming face to face. with. the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can exchange i have also gotten very good smoked fish. angela from time to time sent me

a couple of bottles of rather good beer. meanwhile the e.u. is foreign back at the us following washington's unilateral withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal european commission is triggering legislation to protect the e.u. companies that are doing business with iran from u.s. sanctions it would also allow e.u. firms to recover losses arising from u.s. action as it has instructed the european investment bank to facilitate new investment in iran. the european union is committed to mitigating the impact of u.s. sanctions on european businesses and taking steps to maintain the growth of trade and economic relations between the e.u. and iran that began when sanctions were lifted. his r.t. is my guest there with a closer look at the souring relations between the us and e.u. and the latest move by brussels no arguing with it america and europe had something special a relationship unlike any other they did everything together condemned rogue

regimes slapped naughty countries with sanctions even they wanted to get we have a very strong relationship with our friends and partners our friends in u.s. administration we have a really great relationship blow through and life and this is this very special relationship this is us almost too good to be true and it seems it was money trumps all now that america has unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal with iran it could start sanctioning european states companies that haven't the to do business with iran e.u. leaders merkel mark on the others tried to change trump's mind with love. graduations and i think a great victory. thank

you. except love has nothing on money europeans and facing american sanctions that's not very nice is it not something friends would do looking at the latest of president. europe has had enough they stand to lose cash because of america and they won't let that happen. or put to work as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six. what you're a business doing is using

a statute initially developed to circumvent washington's trade embargo on cuba the law basically protects european states from laws or sanctions implemented outside of europe you can see a political resolution look at america's new ambassador to germany hours after being confirmed he threatens german companies as donald trump said u.s. sanctions will target critical sectors of ron's economy german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately my advice after a long ambassadorial career explain your country's policies and lobby the host country but never tell the host country what to do if you want to stay out of trouble germans are eager to listen but they will resent instructions from us bully boy tactics haven't gone down well in europe the block is finally showing its teeth so. we defend on this subject as all others is the trading sovereignty of europe

and what we demand is to be exempted without any conditions and limits it with new ones that you can't what do we want to be able to be blinded to what americans tell you or do we want us europeans to say about how the economic interests of a move want to have economic relations with russia what can you say every relationship has its bumps its just that some bumps and in divorce. we should not overestimate the importance of trade with iran as of all in europe this is a matter that might be very crucial to specific smaller companies that for example have a large part of their trade with iran i mean the big companies of good in going to choose to look for the better and they're going to see our interests lie more with the u.s. now with iran and they're going to not to risk these kind of sanctions where the real impact is going to be that the remains to be seen we should not forget that

the e.u. on politically on foreign policy issues it has always been strong on words on symbols but not much on real implementation a program for italy's new coalition government between the euro skeptic five star movement and the far right party northern league has been unveiled it comes after more than two months of political deadlock that followed the march fourth elections which resulted in a hung parliament our europe correspondent peter oliver has more. it's been called the contract for the government of change it certainly puts out plenty of change in both proposals now this was published by the five star movement it's part of their coalition agreement deal with the far right league and nord party should they agree then world those two sides get to put forward a prime minister and it's up to the italian president then to decide whether he gets his vote or her or she gets his vote and they become the next prime minister

if that makes sense that's where we are at seventy days on since italy had an election it's this is the attempt to try and get some kind of consensus government now the preliminary versions of this agreement that had been leaked over the last few days while they were criticized in the media as being either you all pro russian we can now have a look at exactly what was in what is in the proposal so they will be no unilateral exit from the euro zone or the e.u. there won't be any referendum taking place on italy leaving either of those two they won't ask for two hundred fifty billions that you are worth of debt to be written off but there will be a real your go see a sion that will be attempted and we're also looking at potentially a huge overhaul of immigration policy within the e.u. particularly the dublin treaty italy wants to see big changes there the both five star and league ignored wanting to push that through should they get it ok in the

go ahead on this government they also want to see the scrapping of sanctions against russia and russia to be viewed as a trade partner not as a threat now if we look at the the versions that were leaked previously that would immediately was in there it's worth noting that isn't in the official final version the team published on friday and there's also talk of any universal basic income that would be seven hundred eighty euro per person living in italy that's going to see. seventeen billion euros worth of public spending but also and ask for cash from the european union have to keep an eye on that but this is certainly going to be if it gets the green light a government that goes head to head with brussels there's going to be collisions here particularly when you look at the ideas that are being put ahead to scrap austerity and to get back spending public money that is not going to go down well

in either frankfurt with the european central bank or in brussels it easy you head office we spoke with two members of the possible coalition government for an inside view into the negotiations and what the outcome could mean for the e.u. and russia. this last two weeks were very profitable i would say seventy percent of the points were already in common so it was easier for something and not very easy for the other points but at the end there we have a good result. after each year this kept. growing every year because people are desperate we have a we have a really number of people under the level of forty so this contract is made on the needs of the italian people so we respect our alliances we want to be part of the e.u. . being stronger as italy either norway for we will.

vary but we know surely we every. you know you are much more ornate then how much we get becker from the european you saw it will we be and we get the big problems maybe we do today we will work out three was pretty stupid we are not the only one in europe that sanctions through russia use this because of how long is it that we are being we are apply sanctions to russia what was the result now think the sanctions are useless and even warsaw because of our economy troubles. more victims of forced sterilization and the japan's now scrapped eugenics law speaking out and suing the government for compensation here's the story of one of thousands of victims a seventy five year old man who didn't want to be identified and his name has been

changed. if i was forced to have the operation in second grade of junior high school please return the life that i've lost my life has been made pathetic however in my heart i have a feeling that i want to tell the story kiddo was sterilized as a teenager without warning or explanation he was taken to a hospital and operated on he was later told it was punishment for misbehavior at school something considered abnormal now he's suing the government for about two hundred seventy thousand dollars when he married later on he couldn't bring himself to tell his wife and after decades of a childless marriage she managed only to break the news shortly before her death in two thousand and thirteen when i confided to my wife about the operation i apologized from the bottom of my heart that i made one woman on how to be a consumer it's my wife was whenever she was told by people around her that you still haven't had a child and by her friends that's why can't you have

a child she was just looking at me listening to my story and when she finished listening she didn't say anything about the operation at school but just that the kindest words. always have in the genes and eats well japan's eugenic protection law was first introduced in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with an intent of what was described as preserving the purity of the japanese race it allowed for the sterilization of people with genetic disabilities with the declared intent of eliminating malignant genes however inaccurate medical tests often lead to wrongful surgical treatment permitting operations on over sixteen thousand people in japan until one thousand nine hundred ninety six story is a rare one though as earlier lawsuits showed the majority of victims were women and he only revealed his story after he had heard them speak up we previously interviewed the woman who was the first to do this. has

a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers to sneak into his house. i was constantly pierced by his wife and never had the chance to see the. back of my diagnosis either she hated me. at the time my parents told me the time was. now i cannot have a baby my father didn't agree to this. welfare reform since. the government claims its hands are clean as it was just complying with japanese law at the time but for the victims this isn't good enough officials plan to carry out a nationwide survey into the consequences of the now defunct law i mean increasing scrutiny of the practice with more operations being declassified day by day it's

causing more people to demand the government compensate its victims unfortunately this won't return the lives of the victims say they have lost the only thing keith has left to hope for is justice for him and others to push forward this trove for those people who so food to. thank staying with all of the international bout with the top stories in half an hour. max geysers financial survival guide liquid those that you can convert music than supply usually. to keep in mind though as a tremendous pleasure. for. the

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in twenty forty you know bloody revolution two to prevent the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer i mean your list with video and threw me in the new bill is that i'm spoiling you know to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. global was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles but still. a new thought for the tell you that because of the public by itself the most important. off the bad guys and tell me

you are not cool enough to buy their products. all the hawks that we along with are the ones. stan collymore show has been looking enough to travel to many of the thirteen countries that qualified for the fateful world cup but there is one that stands out above all five times world champions welcome to brazil.

so from christ the redeemer looking out with beautiful rio de janeiro to one of the world's most iconic style humans the american oh. well coming to the american all-star year they saw iconic venue is hosting to frame for walcott finals but first a nineteen cliff think when one hundred nineteen zero in fact was a painful stadium to the rafters and then i was here it's a witness i'll bring the media tribute in germany be argentina one nil in the two thousand and fourteen edition they say it's quite an incredible venue. something about pizza at one of your rights and some of the museum wearing the famous brazil shirts and hats in america we have

a big right man joining us on the first episode of the stan collymore show he means very little introduction making of soccer yeah he played and sung to sing some paolo but he made a lot of history here in the stadium that's the ball of the goal one thousand without sand and that's the ball. he scored over a thousand goals but there's a famous one it's a penalty yeah a penalty. they scored a goal with her majesty the queen came to them out of can all when made it perfectly right through this before and right i think two one five she came here on the cd sixty eight ok they were sponsored a product of construction here in the city and they came here she was a fan of. playing and we made a match for the queen here the king of soccer and the queen of england with. the queen and the duke of edinburgh yeah that's the lesson seats and i mean the gold mine hundred these match for the queen one year before number one thousand nine hundred gold.

the walkway of fame. on some of the great manager of the team in knowing. and here . alto or tornado. but we know we see. with his dad every time when i was eleven dad was the reason will really. always want to do well. for a lot of it because. you know i'm forty years old i still get emotional when i. have to.