breaking news this hour breaks it means exit for boris johnson the u.k.'s foreign secretary quits to resume a's embattled government he's the third minister to resign in twenty four hours over the latest plans for a soft break said. police say they are still i'm able to link the nerve agent used in the amesbury incident to the one used to poison a former russian double agent in march. a journalist who helped whistleblower edward snowden expose the n.s.a.'s secrets is branded as kremlin puppet all because he has attended a cyber security conference in russia. and is the world cup and to this last week our correspondent goes to test the quality of wins but before leaving russia. for

a. much. harder moscow. birches r.t. . r t. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nicky air and start with breaking news this hour the british foreign minister boris johnson has announced his resignation he's the first minister to quit in just twenty four hours with all three refusing to back to reason may's plans for a soft briggs's don't see his departure follows the resignation of bricks secretary david davis and undersecretary steve bay come and go live now to our correspondent in london and the show that they can you bring us up to date with all the developments please. well the u.k. prime minister is facing a tense meeting with tory m.p.'s i'm hipp is at parliament today

a shill want to try and keep control of her cabinet and missed all the infighting in her leadership is at a huge risk the infighting surrounds may's idea for a facilitated customs arrangement that's her plan in securing a trade deal once the u.k. it leaves the e.u. in march two thousand and nineteen now the reason brought to tears angry is because the current plan is a soft acceptance closely aligned with the senate made having trouble balancing a cabinet and this is what this is what has led to all these wrecks of nations in the past twenty four hours but the foreign secretary boris johnson an influential figure the face actually of the vote leave campaign in two thousand and sixteen he was meant to give a press conference at the western balkans summit in london but downing street put out a statement saying that reason a how to accepted his resignation but to resume a balancing act is not going so well in parliament at the moment let's take a listen to the dream of the people i want to recognise the work of the former secretary of state for accepting the european union to recognise the passion the

former foreign secretary demonstrated it's going. to inform our change. from zero zero zero order of the arms she really atmosphere that's. all i want to hear about these important matches she was thinking i'm sure the prime minister thank you for the soul the foreign sector demonstrated in promoting the global britart of the world as we lead the european union. well despite these eruptions of laughter theresa makes spokesperson said that the government isn't in meltdown and there's no question of revisiting the position that was agreed in checkers on friday he and bit of laughter that that jeremy corbyn needs of the labor party has actually made the claim that she's restored to cabinet responsibility at this from previous discussions two years on from the referendum sixteen months on from article fifty being triggered it's only this week

june and the cabinet managed to agree on the gold shooting position it's nice. to forty eight hours. while cherami called in and said that he understands why cabinet ministers didn't touch the resign on friday because their phones were removed they would have lost their calls because of government cuts and they would have been no bus service as well though also reports and police saying that they were on standby on friday ready to pick m.p.'s up if they resigned in under twenty four hours they will be seen for the resignation of david davis as well the press secretary he said that the reason they had given away too much too easily when he resigned on sunday night and will be replaced now by dominic robb a prominent leave campaign in the two thousand and sixteen referendum but the public poll that i was being poll shows the approval of the public record that negotiations has seen a significant role in july the lowest on record and last month thirty six percent

of the public approves current negotiations now this is drops to twenty nine percent so significant for that but the resignations of two of the cabinet leading ministers leaves to raise cabinet now and very much tenuous position. that they speaking to us live from london thank you for keeping across this for us we'll be coming back to you shortly i'm sure thank you for no. ok we can now because live to our guests former mayor of london ken livingstone mr livingston always lovely to have you on the program i want to ask was your initial reaction to boris johnson's resignation. well i'm not surprised i mean david davis who resigned yesterday is a man of absolute integrity i remember i was in parliament with him when he resigned his seat in protest calling causing a by election to protest against erosion of human rights by the government of the day and he's always been principled but boris johnson's always just been about

promoting himself wanting sr didn't want to be prime minister one day saying if david davies hadn't quit forest would still be in there boris knows that if there is going to be a leadership challenge to trees in my eye he's got to leave the cabinet to do that . now we're seeing is three resignations within twenty four hours and people are talking about the government being in full broke blown crisis meanwhile theresa may spokesman says there's no question of revisiting the break the position agreed by the cabinet checkers on friday and that the government is not in mout down what's your take on the cabinet statement. well basically we when treason may seem to be so off we were all quite surprised that she'd managed to keep the cabinet together except king affectively a sort of limited remaining in the single market but the simple fact is that we will the e.u.

twenty seven nations agree with their position i suspect they would demand further concessions and so she will start losing more and more of her ministers i.e. the simple fact is i can't ever recall a time in my life when the politics of the british government has been in such chaos and with complete impossibility to try and understand where we would be in three months or six months or next year will the government survive we don't know when will we actually vote to leave we don't know literally i've never known such an uncertainty in all my time in politics and frankly i suspect it would be a huge impact on our economy what foreign corporation is going to be thinking of investing in britain when all of this is helping me and absolutely i start to ask you well how do you think europe is a viewing all of this going on at the moment. well i think the simple fact is that they wouldn't be happy with the deal that the reason i was offering are you there

totally committed to those principles of free market for services goods and a free movement of labor and the simple fact is. treason mais terrified of offering free movement of labor because you think then perhaps a majority of tory m.p.'s would vote to get rid of a because they fear the backlash from the voters if we don't try and right now border street foreigners out in an extra this is becoming a very unpleasant. sort of nasty fight and the simple fact is the majority of immigrants who come to britain don't come from the they come from the rest of the world and if the government wanted to reduce migration it could stop you of that but they don't and the reason is migrants bring dynamism to your economy seventy percent of the migrants who come to britain come with a university degree whereas in britain only about a quarter of people called degree more migrants have come to london than any other part of britain and london is the only part of europe that matches american levels

of productivity and competitiveness we'll now live in a global world if we think we can start raising barriers again where we just land which i don't know there's still this term are really couldn't have come at a worse time for some reason make hit it with everything she has on her plate at the minute with the us president coming over to visit sperry shortly and also with the country dealing with this second snow of age an incident i mean it is this the perfect time to resignation as if if they want a vote of no confidence against me. well literally trees in my ears had a difficult time their entire time as prime minister because it's taken two years to get this release crappy deal announced members of the cabinet dropping out will be quite a lot of backbenchers posing in the simple fact is this most probably a majority in parliament in favor of retaining some sort of do right is. getting

around won't be as easy as boris johnson things boris johnson has all this is about is basically a campaign to leave him he was absolutely shocked when that results came in and most of us thought he's only campaigning to leave because he wants to get the support of the hard line breaks out here tory m.p.'s when the next leadership challenge comes and should to reason may choose to step down or should a vote of no confidence not be beyond the realms of possibility right now what's the possibility if you think there's someone new would really be able to bring the two warring sides of the party together. it just isn't possible there is no one person on either side who can unite the tory party around this issue i am the most divisive issue and it takes me back to the one nine hundred ninety s. when an then tory prime minister john major who is trying to preside over

a tory party to be divided in parliament over whether or not we should join the common currency and at the end of his term you had a labor landslide and i think most property trees and money may limp home till the next general election but that could be later this year i i think looking at the mess in the tory party now it's much more likely that it will be jeremy corbyn as a labor prime minister who will then negotiate a better deal with the microscope well given that the labor party are just as divided as the conservatives on this anyway do you think labor really could do a better job where we can if you look back it was only about two or three percent of labor m.p.'s voted to leave because they knew leaving the is going to damage our economy it will cost us jobs they'll be less investment coming to britain so we've got to get that across to people and i think we can everything

that's come out in the last two years has been bad news most businesses criticising the government nothing's cause better in our economy we're limping along with his the full rate of growth wages have holding behind inflationary we've had the worst ten years in our economic history you got to go back to the time of napoleon for a period as bad as this scenario to me that's not vote winner. so where do we go with the break that process from hair i mean according jeremy corbyn it's just been two years of time wasted with the cabinet infighting what's the next step from here. well german right they could have had this decision two years ago immediately after the break but it's been stored stored and stored we're now just a few months away from the point at which we leave so it's absolutely chaotic and i mean i've tried and we steward lying in my political career and i can tell you it's

not just me but i don't think anybody in politics has any idea where we're going to be in three or four months time when i can i mean i wouldn't bet a penny on anything coming out of this is absolutely chaotic. if you think we'll see more resignations in the coming hours. i'm sure there'll be some more coming in but i mean the two big names have now gone and they're lining up behind backbench critiques jacob reese more so i do think there is going to be groups of tory m.p.'s meeting tonight talking about show we trigger a leadership election show we block this going through parliament and that of course if you've got a big chunk of tory rebels means the decision comes into the hand of jeremy corbyn in the labor party with what they doing that ken livingstone former maryland thank you for joining us on r.t. we appreciate thank you which is police announce that they still can't link the nerve agent found in the town of amesbury with the one used in march is poisoning

of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the nearby city of seoul sprit the statement comes in the wake of the death of one of the victims all the latest poisoning the woman along with her partner had been exposed to the nerve agents novacek. investigation is being led by detectives from the u.k.'s counterterrorism police and network. and they are unable to say at this moment whether or not the nerve agent founded this incident is linked to the attack and so again you really are screwed. scotland yard's counterterrorism chief also said the victims must have handled a contaminated container which police are still searching for me while a meeting of the government's cobram urgency committee is being held over the poisoning instant in amesbury annecy a check and takes is through the events as they unfolded as well as some of the reaction this been triggered. one of the two people that were taken to hospital last weekend from ames very which is just miles away from seoul's brewery where sergei and yulia script all were said to have been poisoned by

a child back in march was indeed been pronounced dead we do know that forty four year old donna sturgis died on sunday night and we know that the british prime minister has expressed that she's the poles have shocked by this development indeed the partner of this woman who was also taken to hospital remains in critical condition and scotland yard have now announced they will be a treating this as a murder investigation and despite the fact that this lead a separate incident following the one with. a script is indeed being in its early stages of investigation we do know that some officials giving the whole mood about these incidents have still been pointing fingers at russia already somebody is responsible for you know the end of the day. stops with the kremlin time to send a clear message to putin about chemical weapons relegate the remaining games of the

world cup to elsewhere in europe well us some of the newspapers here in the u.k. have indeed already followed suit i can show you just some of this morning here we have not been charged mom. and what what she's been poisoned with is described as a russian nerve agent despite the fact that of course throughout the last several months we have heard that other countries have come forward in terms of being able to have produced this nerve agent here we have russian boys and brits dies surely given how much attention has been given to the original for you the fall of poisoning which of course we have to keep in mind that himself and his daughter yulia are now fine and well and have now for quite some time left the hospital it is expected that given the moods with the original poisoning despite the fact that investigation is now only trying to figure out how would. exactly possible that months after the original poisoning this coupled with also pronounced to have fallen ill for novacek we do know that given the moods by politicians here in the

u.k. in terms of the attitudes of blaming russia for this despite russia saying it has nothing to do with it is likely to stick around especially with just last week before this woman unfortunately pasta we we heard the home secretary talk about how russia needs to come to me in this case it is now time for the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on it is the actions of the russian government that continue to undermine our security well again and of course this is a story now that has taken a much more tragic turn of events so far u.k. officials have announced that four people had fallen sick from this nerve agent on their soil we now know of course that's one person has died which means this investigation is going to be even more vigorous and hopefully will be shedding light on who exactly was behind these incidents. the award winning

journalist who helped the whistleblower edward snowden to expose the secrets of the n.s.a. has found himself under attack for visiting russia for a cyber security conference we get more on this now from artie's caleb maupin. to see you know what has this journalist supposedly done that so wrong well glenn greenwald who is the famous journalist who exposed electronic surveillance in the united states using the documents of edward snowden revealed by edward snowden the whistleblower he is getting a lot of criticism at this point now he went to russia he attended a conference on cyber security at that conference he spoke on a panel related to the issue of fake news and then from there he went and did a t.v. interview with this network this is some of what he said in his interview with r.t. . there's an obsession in the united states with viewing russia not just as an adversary but as an actual anime it's permeated both political parties

there's actually talk a lot now about how what they regard as the interference in the twenty six thousand election is similar to pearl harbor when the japanese attacked the united states turned world war two or al-qaeda and nine eleven and so there's this sense that russia is now an enemy on par with al-qaeda or the japanese during world war two russia is often talked about this way in the sense that any kind of connection with or interaction with russia is viewed as inherently suspicious or even worse and it's extremely dangerous and extremely toxic now from there we saw a whole lot of media voices in the usa jump on glenn greenwald simply for the fact that he gave this interview one commentator from m.s. n.b.c. responded to the fact that glenn greenwald stated his views in an interview with

this network this way this is what was said. glenn greenwald shows his true colors as an agent of trauma and moscow now we know why here how snowden defect covers for the leaks attack on democracy and shields for fox news he's deep in the kremlin's pocket now glenn greenwald was quick to speak up on twitter saying that basically this was mccarthyism and the fact that he was being accused of being an agent simply for having given an interview just reeks of the mccarthy period of hysteria and guilt by association in the united states now it's also interesting to note that a twitter account that is linked to voice of america which is the u.s. government official media accused glenn greenwald of not only giving this interview but in the interview in the interview quote voicing support for the government of russia now now it was responded he did not at any point in the interview voiced support for the russian government now glenn greenwald is not the first individual

to have been targeted this way and basically accused of all kinds of things simply for appearing on this network we saw that green party presidential candidate jill stein faced a similar allegation simply because she did interviews on r.t. and that she went to russia and met a lot of mir putin and we've also seen in the recent in the aftermath of the passing away of edge scholtz we've seen similar statements and strange things made in allegations made in the obituaries in the reporting around his death so glenn greenwald has responded to those jumping on him for doing the interview saying that this is simply mccarthyism and it reminds people of the period in the united states in which guilt by association was very common and people were being accused of being disloyal and treasonous simply for meeting with somebody or giving an interview or shaking hands with someone glenn greenwald is quick to jump on this as an example of kind of the hysterical atmosphere created around russia in the united states the subject of the interview he gave to r.t.

. well bring it up to speed on a story that's artie's caleb moore can thank you for no. let's turn our attention to the world cup now it's a day without games today so it's been fairly quiet here in moscow but it is the calm before the storm with just four countries left in the race for cup glory tomorrow france clash with belgium in the semifinals both teams are favorites of the tournament and then england play croatia in moscow on wednesday nevertheless the charity footy match involving stars of the game has been held in red square participating as the captain of west germany's nineteen ninety world cup winning side and backs russian midfielder alexander must avoid the game was organized by the naked heart foundation which helps children with disabilities we spoke to those taking part. in seeing children participate their emotions how it helps them become

a part of this policy this is the best honor of. the. moment it was. said president but i like that i can be here and help and also play. that's the thing that i remember i'm really glad to participate in such an event be part of the free food world cup which is it seems to me is absolutely from to that it will be that i mean. i'm so proud of seeing russia i'm so proud that i'd see him there played. for the goal i think they conquered the hearts of the biggest skeptics about russian football and know what is actually happening today is really important because now thousands of boys and girls will want will be motivated to take on this force and of course when it comes to young kids with special needs they're not the exception they also want to play

football the world cup is going to have impact on them for donations. this moment was for. fifteen years from the beginning. this is a very nice and a radical producer ship and i think it's the same. aside from each other from the world cup was a very nice to know there's a lot of surprise. still in the story the same the russian team was long in that thought i meant the quarterfinals maybe so many russians except. well. well they're counting game of the world cup was also a first by having bowl goals our correspondent checked out the quality of women's football in. which team has the best. game of the world cup they both beat russia after all they won five nil no saudi arabia wrong again so

here's who did. they found another player with every single pass the. ball in the world cups opening there from a junior women's football club today from a neighborhood. remote even by russian standards to get their free moment at the world cup opener the teenagers won a contest against boys and girls from all over the world biggest country. so this is obviously a. good olympic year but it seems that if it. could be said of the mistakes of. the . millions would have loved to find themselves in the same boots. when. girls from this amateur football club from moscow not so many of those in russia for now but count them in you won't see them

helping out at the russian world cup arenas but these ladies of. power don't need special occasions to shine on and off the pitch their team can for one threw a party that would lure crowds of moscow's most hip party goers. for a bit of fun and all of the name of football women's scow mature football football for everyone. it's just like you get what you. work at the beat up on the hook you simply go way out. your first thing you're a ten year old kid so i just didn't go to mute it. didn't know about it. but i was just a little bit upset i don't like. the stimulus would be good i'd just given what

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