in our review of the week's biggest stories a british authorities released photos of two men they claim carried out the poisoning of former russian spy. says they're a major inconsistency in this version of events. escalation of the potential chemical attack in syria dominate a three way summit in tehran and sparked tense debate at the u.n. security council. and in today's news polls are opening for sweden's general election as survey suggests there's been a surge in support for right wing parties held by anti immigration.

and there in the morning from moscow this sunday september the ninth on a clean break the biggest stories as covered right here over the past seven days first off winding back to wednesday british authorities released photos of two man that they claim are responsible for the poisoning of russian double agent so gay script holidays daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian intelligence officers and were acting on direct orders from moscow.

on thursday the u.k. called a special u.n. security council meeting where the british and russian representatives crossed swords over the latest allegations. the u.k. government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police investigation i mean fact officers from the russian military intelligence service also known as the g u z with a well known level of confidence which is highly likely it is stated that they have connections to the russian security forces their real names are known however it is known that they work for the g.r.u. how you can detect that not knowing their real names is a mystery to us the names may be fake but the crimes are real london needs this story for just one purpose to unleash disgusting anti russian hysteria and involve other countries in this hysteria in today's statement we had the same cocktail of lies. from many british media outlets were quick to seize on the claims accepting

the authorities version with headlines branding the two men as potent and smiling assassins moscow says there are major inconsistences in britain's version of events as well i guess he explains. we're sure but we are sure it's safe now but don't touch anything we're sure they're russian but we don't know who they are contradictions everywhere based on a body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. are officers from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the g.r.u. just check out so you can. go and you know just whether they are actually serving officers in russian intelligence agencies we have significant lines of inquiry about who they meet when we will people to come forward and give us the evidence you'd think they would have to know who these two suspects are before accusing them

of being russian military intelligence agents but no instead they're asking the public for help to identify these two men who to raise it may already seems to know this was not a row operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state would be real easy if they just called up the russians and ask them with passport numbers and everything but they aren't and speaking to i can confirm that we have had no cooperation from the russian government on the other hand how do you complain that someone isn't being helpful when you refuse to pick up the phone you know it wouldn't be. the british and voice said that the u.k. site will not present any materials london also refused to present any other information about the case passport numbers patronymics data from the cation and so

on we understand that they will be transmitted by interpol so here we are the british refusing to so. much as acknowledge the russians and moscow in refusing to budge until the brits respond to certain questions look the russians of ours for fingerprints harmless right of the two suspects the british say they'll hand over nothing and then complain that the russians are being helpful contradictions. the meticulous and painstaking search is under the unlikely it is impossible to guarantee that there are no other materials present at the schools for you know all the experts advise the evidence to date does not suggest any long term health risk from short term. contact with low level it's agent so which is it might be a tad confusing for locals in salisbury everything's fine and safe but it isn't so

we don't pick anything up and routes are only at the stuff that we travel to so-called vulnerable areas in sweden where some of linking immigration to a spike in crime before fifty hundred it's stated in sweden in the country has skyrocketed the spike in shootings this year already violent crime has moved right up the least of the issues swedish parties are pledging to tackle the head of the general election we went to two c.t.'s making some of the worst criminal headlines . model in southern sweden has been the same to many violent attacks earlier this summer there was a drive by shooting here across the cybercafe where you can still see the marks on the bullets three people have been killed and three others seriously injured interesting that police station is just walk away from here.

people who were the victims were targeted because of who they are we know that they are heavily involved. criminal activities this is. usually something to do with narcotics and different types of heavy crime the trade continues and police can't give many details between such incidents happen in vulnerable areas like this the question on everyone's mind seems they from sweden yes so d.n.r. days in france that people tend to blame all the criminal to rain or well. it's hard to say that it's a lot of people around there are a second or third generation immigrants in our statistics that we don't take in ethnicity as well you can say that at least ninety percent of the people who are suspects and or victims of these types of crimes are young men young males and

they're usually from families that may not be highly educated chrome from usually rather poor circumstances as well. arson and riots dominated the summers news in gothenburg divisions there are also high and very visible. and fifteen minute trend treat just from one part of the city to another exposes both the top of the social pyramid and the bottom. studies almost always show crime rate is linked to welfare one professor ignatz we ask what many want to know are immigrants responsible you can present in the fairway you're competent but that isn't my problem come present

a socio economic problem you can present that he said youth problem i mean you truth in that the way of choosing. also the use of political money for stage i'm not so well. of marginalizing stereotype eyes and you know it's all the way of saying that people look are not from europe or more primitive so i mean all these come into the politics professor is referring to the sweden democrats can write to him party tips for its best result in years. immigrants who burn cars who rapes murders who cause huge amount of money that affects all other areas in the swedish society that's the real problem. stina holmberg works at the national crime prevention council whose job is to make sure crime policy is know which based politicians and media use the data to show immigrants are to blame but stina warns

they are often taken out of context most of overrepresentation by immigrants disappears if you add the fact that they are socially deprived we have reporting from ninety ninety six two thousand and five that established people from middle east africa are grossly over epicenter when it comes to violent crimes for instance yes those gang shootings it's a lot of second generation young men but if you see a fair few and assaults and these kinds of crimes we don't see an increase just recently an investigative program or nationalise which television also confirmed immigrants and rapes for instance it might be easier to report. a perpetrator who is an immigrant in other way is socially deprived you can try this all this

integration stuff has been better been trying for thirty forty years and it totally useless the only real. thing to solve the problem is. to make a move back it has become a strong political issue and there isn't a new political arena swayed in with the right wing parties we've been attacked by left wingers and immigrants in this election campaign i mean i think some of the reports are. if there's going to be increased turbulence after we win on life of september that's on them not us polls say this weekend democrats are closing in fast on the ruling social democrats whether they are right or wrong the anti immigrant party is convincing people that the security situation is critical in grains are to blame and they had the answer on sunday voters may just give them a chance to show it. r.t.

sweden. accusations fly as the battle looms for the last terrorist stronghold in syria the details when the weekly returns in just a few moment. you know world's big partners new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this very dramatic to follow only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back the conflict in syria has been in the spotlight this week with the final battle for. the northwestern provinces thought to be the last terrorist stronghold in the war weary country donald trump's woman syrian leader against launching an attack on the area and his allies against taking part in what he calls

a potential human tragedy the fate of a deliberate also on the agenda of the un security council on friday. a piece in its lead. terrorists when russia and the assad regime say they want to counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb school hospitals and home school who we are firmly under the impression that the west imposes a sticking his duty. and in any case are attempting to prevent the food of the last major terrorist stronghold in syria the assad regime and its enablers russia and iran have a playbook for this every man woman and child becomes a target this eerie an army has incurred your most casualties and it's an effort to make sure that as few civilians as as possible are killed it is the terrorists who make it their policy to go out and deliberately kill civilians history does not

show that the syrian army has caused widespread civilian deaths unlike the situation in mosul and rocca where the western forces simply did carpet bombing in the killed everyone. of the security council session also devoted time to discussing chemical weapons moskos repeatedly said the terrorists in the planning to use the arms to frame the assad regime of already brought eight barrels of chlorine to the province russia also believes that members of the controversial rescue group the white helmets will be filming the incident when it staged the united nations acknowledge that the terrorists did have chlorine. the government on one hand. which is or gave the nation declare that they reached the figure. being deep kept ability to produce weaponized chlorine despite russia's repeated claims the united states un envoy

appeared to have her own idea about any future chemical attacks in syria. if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them . yes russia is making accusations about opponents white helmets everything else. assad is doing the same. that is the exact formula they always follow before a chemical weapons attack that assad does on its own the.

us defense department estimates that up to thirty thousand terrorists are in the province right now as security analysts we spoke to says their major threat to civilians not just regime forces the major threat against civilians is a terrorist threat they have the major threat against civilians comes from the. groups that are terrorist groups and i think it's absolutely ridiculous why would the syrian regime and the russians use any chemical weapons or allow the use of any chemical weapons for the last stronghold of these terrorist organizations i mean there. although you are right that the syrian army and the russian army were able to control most of the syrian territories. to magazines hosting high profile festivals have received a strong backlash for inviting donald trump's former chief strategist steve bannon

but while the london based economist stood by its invitation the new yorker dropped balun from its gathering in october he was due to be a keynote speaker but his appearance was called off after several other guests threaten to pull out in protest if steve benen is that the new yorker festival i am out i will not take part in an event that normalizes hate i hope the new yorker will do the right thing and cancel the steve benen the band maybe they should read their own reporting about his ideology i'm out sorry new yorker see if you're not bliss is free baron and me on the same program could never happen the new yorker first of all is an annual debate and entertainment event featuring writers politicians and comedians now the editor of the new yorker magazine explained his decision to call off steve bell and appearance david remnick said he'd reconsidered saying there's a better way to deal with than and he went on to say that interviewing bannan in the future but in a more journalistic setting up donald trump's former chief strategist hit back at

the magazine accusing remnant of being gutless when confronted by an howling online mob although bennett himself is no stranger to causing controversy to. if you look at you know the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign how they portrayed the transition now that the portraying the administration it's always wrong to corporatist globalist media.

given what steve bennett has represented and the massive critique around what bad and represents which is the rise of white nationalism in the united states i think it's overall generally a good thing that platform is taken away steve benen is not evil and if you disagree with him you should want to hear him and confront him not say if he comes on not coming bad and was the hard right populist white nationalist right and you don't have to you have to like come out with a swats a car or something to be a white nationalist this is not that simple that was his agenda if you watch documentaries if you watch the kind of media he put out that is exactly what the undertones and the discourse of ben and represents let's assume for the sake of argument that that statement about white nationalism and the link to steve bannon is true which it is not what's the harm david remnick the publisher said he was

going to grill steve bannon he was going to challenge him on his ideas he was. not going to give them a softball kind of the interview yet that wasn't good enough for the left the intolerant left people like jim carey jimmy fallon and others who said if he comes we're not coming now and then because we don't like to hear the other side we don't like we don't like to hear people like us and you have to be clueless to not see that there is an association with steve benen policy and politics and the growth of white nationalists resentment in this country that you're seeing the rise in hate crimes you're seeing this kind of obsessive fixation on xena phobia and criminalizing all immigrants as if you know we're all rapists so i think that this is chris is also going. to like what the public thinks acceptable. but i would say if you do that and yourself and well they just don't want the opposition to be

heard period that's what that does they beat people up there the radical left they shut people down to colleges they don't want an exchange of ideas in this country they want one idea this idea that is being proposed by my opponent that sore only certain people on the left just want to cut off a dialogue is absurd i mean there is plenty of room for dialogue outside of steve benen i also think people have the right to not want to participate in something like that if you're going to be a speaker and a guy like that shows up you know is there some kind of commitment to you having to know you don't have to like i think it's perfectly plausible as well for society to draw the line somewhere you can draw the line i agree with my opponent you can draw the line and if you're a speaker and you don't like one of the speakers you can say i'm not coming but the fact that the left does this and the right doesn't and that speakers on campus if they're conservative there's riots on campus to shut them up and not when it's

a leftist speaker shows the culture as it is and that's the way for the south thanks for watching that we're focusing on the battle for it live in syria next world. on the welcome to worlds apart of millions trapped in

a valley of facing doubt this guardian had learned was typical of the western media coverage just before the leaders of russia turkey and iran got together to discuss the future of the last opposition held stronghold in syria did the meeting in tact eliminate the danger of an imminent bloodbath and was it ever on the cards to discuss that i'm now joined by alexi klebnikov middle east expert at the russian international affairs council alexey thank you very much for your time thank you for coming over thank you for inflation now i'm sure you watch the broadcast of the meeting beach was quite unusual in a sounds of allowing all of us a glimpse of how global leaders tangled with one another behind closed doors let's watch a clip of what happened at this meeting and then discuss it. and if we declare a cease fire this will be a victory for the summit and the most important step in the process will give peace of mind to civilians that it gives you the state it literally but we don't have representatives of the opposition at the table you have to learn how to isolate

them to be the president of turkey is right that would be good too but we can't speak for them especially for the terrorists on the street will i still go to a bit of a friendly bickering on the part of president putin and president present aragon later refrain he's requesting to let's call on all the bad guys to lay down their arms to reach everybody eagerly agreed i wonder though how do you interpret that was that all theatrical in front of the t.v. cameras or was it janney an effort on the part of president barry go on to get a little bit more out of this meeting well the first place if we hypothesize and thing that it was actually staged in reality it reflects existing disagreements between all parties i mean it's impossible to believe that all three russia took in iran have agreed on everything so far so of course it's not true so actually this episode tiny episode gives us some idea about like we'll disagreements

between russian turkey on now one of our colleagues here in moscow suggested that this was a good called bad call protean played out by a putin an error though on two on one hand montagne the credibility of the opposition and on the other hand to bide our there on a little bit more time the question is why would turkey need more time in a bleep and is there any credible opposition left in that province because from the kremlin's perspective everybody who wanted to reconcile with either syria or russia have already done that in other provinces the only people left in italy the diehards. starting with the second point i mean depends on who you are and how we treat and how we define core the moderate opposition and more than. the moderation of the opposition it's about whether or not these people are ready to talk and from what i understand there have been several statements by leaders militant leaders on the ground that know it's ready to negotiate they want to as as i said die hard i

mean doing this are in conflict with always in the every stage and in every here we saw such groups and from moscow's perspective ninety five percent of those groups are not inclined to negotiate and to to talk.