we'll informed speculation britain security minister dismisses media reports that police have identified the perpetrators poisoning. lines of u.s. court refuses to russian citizen. charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states claiming she offered sex in a bid to force connections with americans. i . called. to the ground. also in iraq. to raise awareness over the situation in his country.

with us this. now the u.k. security minister has media reports that police have identified those behind the poisoning of the script formed wild speculation on thursday the press association. source close to the probe claimed the perpetrators have been found and it said the media. source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have the suspected perpetrators behind the attack on the script. well this is all allegedly come from a source close to the police investigation into the original attack against the

script powells back in march and this source has spoken to the press association they're the ones reporting it and they've said that investigators are apparently closing in on the suspected perpetrators of the attack and the police have allegedly been looking at c.c.t.v. footage and they've been examining it and also looking at records of people who had ended and left the country around the time of the attack against the script files in march because the bomb shell really in all these reports is that these suspects are allegedly russian it is important to note that these are unconfirmed reports as yet so far it's just come from this one article by the press association but it's done the rounds and it's pretty big headline news here in the u.k. even though we haven't had any updates from the police or the oath or a tease in regards to the investigation that hasn't stopped the press speculation

though just to give you an example the sun newspaper has elaborated on the story saying that scotland yard apparently believes that it was a two man hit team that carried out the attack on the script files and that they did it on the orders of the kremlin and furthermore that the pair were thought to have left the u.k. for russia the morning after the attack and to quote the newspaper thought to be under the protection of president vladimir putin so that's the source of reports that are in the press here right now. has consistently denied any claims of wrongdoing even though the british government pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin in the days after the attack saying that it's highly likely that russia or did the poisoning and now are following these new unconfirmed reports the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yack event has already responded take a listen. russia wants to hued names of those accused of poisoning the scruples

from the authorities for now they're only media reports and in a way there you can see the russian diplomat really upping the ante saying we'll go on then give us these names if you're going to make these allegations that we want to see evidence of it and we've just got a line from the russian foreign ministry as well they've said that if the u.k. keeps these alleged russian suspects classified if this case becomes secret well then moscow will regard it as a cover up of the perpetrators so there's clearly a sense of increasing frustration here i would say from the russian side that the british media can sort of go on making these allegations almost indefinitely without a shred of evidence from the or thora season without any official statements from the police investigation to back it up. in the united states

a court has refused bail to russian citizen. after she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act as a crime an agent earlier prosecutors released court papers relating to her case the documents claim that bhutto was in contact with russian intelligence officials that she offered in exchange for a job but the u.s. special interests organization. the twenty nine year old has appeared in federal court and entered a plea of not guilty contesting the charges against her and she's been denied bail so she will remain in federal custody pending trial documents presented by the federal prosecutors have a lot of really unclear words in them for example it says appears to have ties to russian intelligence services they believe they said that was in contact with officials believed to be russian intelligence operatives furthermore they stated that they had a handwritten note that says how to respond to f.s.b.

employment offers so this is what they have a lot of very unclear statements in the document and furthermore they went on to allege that she has been covertly offering people sex for favors and basically the charge is that she has been operating in pro-gun lobby groups and with the republican party and has been doing so on behalf of the russian government without registering herself as a foreign agent now a lot of the media reports are using words like spy and ask but none of those charges have been filed she is not being accused of doing any military related work no classified information is involved in the case it's simply alleged misuse lobbying and behaving as a lobbyist without registering as a lobbyist on behalf of the russian government spokesperson for the russian ministry has come forward and said they are alarmed by the case and they are calling the charges groundless and politically motivated we've heard they are saying essentially the f.b.i. instead of dealing with its basic duties to combat crime is carrying out

a plane political order her lawyers argued that she has been cooperating with federal officials in the united states for the last few months that she is not a flight risk but the judge didn't hear it and the judge said that she was denied any bail so she remains in federal custody awaiting trial on these charges of being an unregistered foreign agent lobbyist. for the president's own old micron is on the must have pressure off to his aide was cooled beating up a student protest the incident took place at an anti government ronnie back in may . but you know if you. don't. feel. that you need just let us go live now to paris correspondent sean it demeans q four

more charlotte quite a bizarre bit of footage to to see that quite. as well what's been revealed about this incident. well a shocking video that shocked many people in france what you see all not you what you've just seen is alexandra banal first of all she is grabbing a woman and charging her down the street he passes the camera that still mean him and then a little bit later we see him once again this time he emerges next to a male protester who's already surrounded by riot police the c.r.'s here in france and what is clearly seen is him wrapping up male protesters now hitting him on the head and then he appears to be stamping him on the stomach mass he falls to the ground so why was he that well he just his forces seized i work a palace he could go and observe the c.r.s. the riot police during the may day protests to see how operations carried out in

regards to syria security now he wasn't on a working day he was on a day off and he was only there to. take part in the police action against the protesters and that itself has sparked a huge backlash he. believes this guy is still in the service of the president of the republic so. that's the film scene is very violent. macro's colleague usurps police insignia and hits a man to the ground you can't want an exemplary republic and let people think that they can be double standards one justice for french citizens and one for presidential workers. if we accept that anyone can pretend to be a police officer we no longer live under state rules law i've watched the video and i'm shocked just like the whole world the media poses a number of the questions. we need a commission inquiry. doing among law enforcement officers this question must be

posed to a man. well who is alexander but not what we know about him is that he has been politically active since his twenty's now he was a security aide to some of france's previous ministers but he joins american presidential campaign back in two thousand and sixteen he is an aide to marco and chief of staff and he is normally the person in charge of security arrangements as such he's often seen with president might call active vents just a few meters away there's plenty of video plenty of videos of the two together this is a man who really has the president right next to him almost all the time that he's on official duties now this is the official statement that the lease a palace has made this morning in regards to the situation. he has been

suspended for fifteen days without pay he has been relieved of his functions regarding the organization of security for the president's movements this sanction is punishment for unacceptable behavior and constitutes a final warning it is the most serious punishment ever administered to an aide working at the. well an investigation has been opened by the public prosecutor here in paris they are looking at a number of aspects which could lead to formal charges they are violent by a public official illegal use of the police and secret because he was wearing a police insignia at one point during that may day protests and also pretending to be a police officer now that charge alone if it's made in. guilty carries a sentence of up to a year in jail and a fifteen thousand euro fine. all right charlotte dubin ski very embarrassed bring us the latest on that. viral video of the music hit

by childish gambino this is america that points out topical issues of u.s. society has prompted one music artist on rocky descent to film his own hard. this is a. guy just like this is a red. skull we're not. a body show we're not played by people we're not wholesome barrels and barrels for girls and girls believe in the demolished deliberately mission accomplished. there is a cool source issue between america and iraq. the u.s. led invasion of iraq is a major contributing factor to where we are to think it was just sort of the. draw for this trip to be on the bottom or when humanity takes a brick. through it well it's agreed to do the movie a little something and i feel like we can be pretty good. and the

trip itself and just raising awareness and i think that's important i've had people come up to me and it's only. using the words and getting you know we're familiar with the subject that they were because they were too young at the time when the when the invasion happens of this trick in just one person in a positive manner and sort of get along in the conversation going there and sort of it's achieved at school and. then releasing. the russian defense ministry has unveiled video of its new generation weapons in action some of the world's most powerful armament somehow operational in the russian military but i guess if takes a closer look. when putin announced this new arsenal it came out of nowhere seemed like size five overkill to some but you know we now have videos of each. kindle or dagger and russian is

a hypersonic missile and it's fast really fast flies at three kilometers a second and definitely tries to shoot it down it dodges to maneuvering flying in an unpredictable trajectory first by the way the u.s. plans to test its own analog next year. saddam out this is the overkill bought a new nuclear i.c.b.m. that carries get this twenty nuclear warheads the real a store with its range which is practically unlimited past nuclear missiles had to use the shortest flight path and fly through ed defenses this thing can literally fly to the south pole and back up to hit that stargate from behind.

if for whatever reason you don't feel like flying through and. there's adam god it's designed to literally ram its way through enemy anti missile defenses with speed first it's lifted into space then its engines turn on and it enters the atmosphere at knock twenty that's roughly seven kilometers a second. poseidon the greek god of this she may be gone but he's got a no less terrifying successor a nuclear powered paedo that travels deep and so fast it's in theory undefeatable. brevets nick a new nuclear powered nuclear capable cruise missile it's literally powered by a nuclear reactor on board inside the misselling meaning it's got indefinite range so long as the reactor has fuel it can stay airborne fluids around and around until

the opportunity to strike. combat lasers of always been a cool science fiction gimmick but they never really got doing the science and technical requirements with too great until now it seems it is yet named after a russian worry among the laser weapons system designed to deliver incredible amounts of energy in a small area so shoot down all melt down and incoming drew nor jet to shell for example other than that not much known yet. now one might ask isn't all that is just begging for an arms race is russia iching for a fight no says putin it's all about balance balance means peace the

four things were even russia and the us had nuclear parity mutually assured destruction then after the u.s.s.r. collapsed nato began to expand began to field new weapons that could destroy russian nukes what putin unveiled is russia's a return to military equality status quo a return to balance. so you think the national will back with more headlines just off for a short break. with your. even here in the week even your did leave us with is a good idea i think a lot of americans this understanding which the ways in which we used to communicate for example were there military operations and sure we were even about

the baltics lewdly as they did in one nine hundred fourteen but your misunderstandings at the end of which you could be in a catastrophic war which would be crazy for russia would be crazy for your. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to the program israeli parliament as poss the contentious bill that

defines the country as the nation state of the jewish people critics diminishes the status of the country's arab citizens. but it effectively does is it enshrined in the israel basic law the concept that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and they have exclusive right to national self-determination now supporters say that it equates jewish values with democratic values it puts them on an equal footing but critics and there are many say that it effectively discriminates against the country's arab population who make up some twenty percent and other minorities now you have for example now in law the fact that hebrew is the official language of the country arabic is given the status of special status and has effectively been downgraded there were hours of debate in the israeli knesset the israeli parliament prior to this contentious nation state bill being passed into law a particularly content part of the ball is the whole idea of israeli or jewish

settlements now there was a lot of debate about this in the past it was changed because the charge was put forward that it promotes secret ation but even with the change critics complain because now for example they say it promotes jewish settlements it caused so much anger in the parliament that arab members of parliament actually ripped to shreds. this is more black flag hovers over it this is a law which harbors a black flag. now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that this is a pivotal moment in the history of zionism and israel. this is a historic moment in the history of zionism and the history of the state of israel israel is the national state of the jewish people and national state respects the rights of individuals the rights of all citizens and in the middle east only israel respects these rights so today we have written the law in stone now the ball was

first proposed back in two thousand and eleven and over the years controversial as it is it has seen a number of rewrites and parallel proposals the countries. my minister netanyahu has always supported it and for years he has evolved and eventually it will be pasta intell and that's what's happening now with a lot of reaction. i spoke earlier today from the jerusalem center for public affairs he said. that the new law is not discriminatory the shift in status merely allows israel to in shrine in the law that hebrew is the official language of the state arabic is a language with special status meaning any kind of institution organization association it will continue to have arabic as a special language and the islam as a culture the muslim religion as a religion as well as the arab national status of israel's arab minority will be

preserved one hundred percent the only difference here is that the government and the knesset wanted to underscore the importance of having a jewish emblem as the official emblem a jewish the jewish language thirty seven hundred years which is hebrew as the official language jewish holidays is the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever. rising numbers of farmers in south africa are considering emigrating as cases a violent games is on the rise some see russia as a suitable place to resettle and make a fresh start. are descendants of dutch speaking saddle heirs of the eastern cape frontier in south africa and much of the nineteenth century the blue people moved inland in the

nineteenth century they tried to act in the way they were surveyed they tried to negotiate negotiate officially they tried to avoid conflict the land in this area for example was never taken of them they can buy words from the legs with violence or in an unjust leather. the expropriation of land or. settlers of the sixteenth century without compensation is in visit just as one of the measures that we will use to exhilarate redistribution of land to black south africa. i recently visited russia with my family to explore possibilities of recycling in the area and i know that the growth in agricultural production is immense in russia so

i think it's the right time to buy in to a good quarter russia and i think there is a lot of to ensure. the reason our constituents are very immigration is honestly because i see a dark cloud. over a future that the reality is that we do fear for the bugs and the reality is that a white farmer is a deck to every day and so that. my grandfather. was murdered on this form the government has said they're responsible for creating the . of and tegan there's a towards what. we already have a plan for a settlement of roughly five hundred families with their own cattle near suburbs.

i mean while south african president settle rough for most are assured the community they shouldn't view the land reform as a threat or as a reason to leave the country. though for now that's it from the t.v. i myself here at all table back in thirty minutes for the latest global news headlines. tomorrow there may not be any kind of i'm maybe bacterial life and may not be anything but i think it's probably there's some intelligent life out there and certainly from now we can we can send off a robot to interact with some other species out there.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they've matter to us as over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise want to secure some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars . china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one in only. four men are sitting in a car when the feds get shot in the head. all

four different versions. what happened to one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not she ran a corner. welcome to the alex salmond and a world of pumping diplomacy where international relations are conducted by midnight to meet the seven meetings break up in disarray and establish world order on trade issues. is that a better way to conduct international relations today we examine the concept of

soft power and some of the institutions within the united kingdom charge for the task of taking it forward is it a fake negligible and a world of hard to man and tough choices or do we points the way to a gentler more patient and ultimately what effective method of conducting business with new friends and old enemies alike but first alex with your treats your messages emails. there's been quite a reaction to our series on gibraltar anomic quickly and mike nichols before hubel guest on the show have tweeted and to see how much the a joy the experience it was interesting the reaction from gibraltarians i mean i think there was a general view they were really pleased last some of those paying attention to their very particular issues with brakes that remember gibraltar territory if it's voted ninety six percent to remain in the european union but still won as we saw in our series which is looking confidently towards the future and a very solid view from stephen key food remains were so for george orwell's ninety

four and i think the way the world is heading stephen writes the northern hemisphere a dictatorial power blocs fighting over the resources of the southern hemisphere as a land even scotland it to be in the euro is a block of e.u. and russia luciana off america and if are we to be the northernmost part of that strip well abscessed the enough stephen george osborne wrote the sport to stop ian masterpiece in scotland so you may be on to something there and finally this week from matt who is talking about the national security capability of unis worried that the increase funding for the world service is basically a state funded propaganda channel using this state and capitalism to push their agenda the exclusion of all others actually but it was you read a tweet that gave us inspiration to do this program on soft power that's absolutely true that one person's propaganda is another pastor's information but we're trying

to deploy in this program much of these organizations including for that matter the b.b.c. world service seem to point to a better way to conduct international were relations and then hard but i think a soft power is fundamentally superior to. the concept of soft power where it's defined as a persuasive approach to international. actions typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence in the u.k. and is applied to many institutions some governmental and some like a great universities autonomous command of the public scene is defeated well it's impressive developmental budget however there are many other stretching from pure parliamentary such as into parliament to union to the state funded british council which for most educational and cultural links to hybrid initiatives between government and political parties such as the westminster find ation for democracy the work of the british council can depend on support across the corner.