you know a few of the week's biggest stories british authorities released photos of two men they claim carried out the poisoning of former russian spies and his daughter moscow says that a major inconsistency is in that version of events that. concerns while an escalation and a potential chemical attack in syria's province sparked tense debate on the u.n. security council. and something happening right now this weekend voting is still underway in sweden's general election as surveys suggest there's been a surge in support for right wing parties in the country propelled by anti immigration sentiment.

by the very good afternoon welcome to the weekly review of some of the big stories that made the news headlines in the last seven days is kevin owen here in moscow with me this sunday first than on wednesday british authorities released photos of two men they claim are responsible for the poisoning of russian double agent so gay scriptural and his daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian intelligence officers and were acting is the claim on direct orders from moscow. it. was.

many british media outlets were quick to seize on those claims accepting the authorities version with headlines branding the two men as putin smiling assassins those says there are major and consistencies in britain's version of events as more ghastly of explains next. 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're meeting 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 on speaking terms 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 and refusing to budge until the brits respond to certain questions look the russians have asked for fingerprints harmless rights of the two suspects the british say they'll hand over nothing and then complain that the russians are being held for contradictions by the meticulous and painstaking searches and although unlikely it is impossible to guarantee that there are no other materials present in the source for you know all the experts advise that the evidence to date does not suggest any long term health risk from short term or one month contact with low levels of this agent so which is

it might be a tad confusing for locals in salisbury everything's fine and saved but it isn't so we don't pick anything up and keep an eye out is that over or not and then of course there's the huge gaps in the investigation we don't know where the suspects disposed of the ritual they used to attack the scruples front door or where do all in charlie got the bottle the poison the. or is it if it is the same bottle that has been used in both poisonings they don't seem to know what happened to the container for months and months and now asking the public for help to identify these suspects who they've already identified as secret agents of the discipline g.r.u. and to explain what happened to the nerve agent container which the said discipline secret agents just seem to throw away for ease of identification doesn't seem very

professional one of the deadliest substances known to man ended up in a charity bin sudden away after six months we are told this is how the poison came into the country in a power few bottle why could we not been told that before why was not put out no work to stop these two people picking up a perfect bottle with the poison in it one of them dying as a consequence why are we not being told why have we not been told the full extent of what the danger might be and sos written i've still not been resolved the poor people there are still suffering so as i say i think there's a lot of questioning a lot of suspicion about this in britain these two people if the are russian intelligence officers are more austin powers than james bond two killers travelling on the same airplane from moscow and then back to moscow leaving in a skip or charities skip a perfume bottle full of an agent with

a russian name having tried to kill two russians with it if you set out deliberately to set up russia for this crime that's precisely what you would do someone trying to blame russia could not have done a better job than this could be the head of britain's counter terrorism scored neil basle in his press conference when. that is the exact formula they always follow before a chemical weapons attack get assad out. so

a security analyst we spoke to says the jihadists to pose a considerable danger to people living in a province right now. the major threat against civilians is a terrorist threat that the major threat against civilians comes from the about that and that 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 they all that is the route that the syrian army and the russian army were able to control most of the syrian territory is. the big story happening right now a big change predicted in swedish politics this sunday because a growing anti migrant sentiment of the country the polls are open the voting is happening we're trying to gauge where it's going to go after the break.

seems wrong. to me to get to shape out just because get educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on all sides very dramatic developments only and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

again thanks be with us this weekend so voting is underway right now in sweden in the general election that could rock the political landscape the head of sunday's vote polls suggested that the swedish democrats party was getting traction with pre-election campaigning largely dominated by immigration on saturday the prime minister and center right party leaders lashed out at the anti immigration election rivals. results you know not so used to scrape again and again and again they showed the nats in racist roots and they're trying to destroy the time when we need that corporation the most new in the in the foster today it is not working class children who are not allowed to go to school now it is a lot of children of immigrants now we can choose if they will be given the same

chance as other children he must adjust stede multiply we must fight against the population mostly left wing populist and the right wing populists this is an election about values have a series sweden's been fundamentally challenged and left particularly when the swedish democrats are only. in the run up to sweden's vote of the week just go refresh their travels to so-called vulnerable areas in the country was some are linking immigration to a spike in crime. but for fifteen hundred it's one that's rated sweeter crime in the country has skyrocketed a spike in shootings this year already violent crime has moved the right up the least of issues swedish parties a pledge and to tackle the head of the general election we went to two cities making some of the worst criminal headlines. model in southern sweden has been the same to many volunteer tax earlier this summer there was a drive by shooting here across the cybercafe you can still see the marks from 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 in criminal activities this is. usually something to do with the narcotics and different types of heavy crime the trade continues and police conduct many details between such incidents happen in vulnerable areas like this the question on everyone's mind seems are they from sweden. so you dno things in the rains that people tend to blame all that i know it's here rain or well. it's hard to say that it's a lot of people are second or third generation immigrants in our statistics that we

don't take in the ethnicity as well you can say that at least ninety percent of the people who are suspects are victims of these types of crimes are young men young male and they're usually from families that may not be highly educated chrome from usually rather poor circumstances as well. 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. experiences both at the top of the social pyramid and the bottom. studies almost always show crime rate is linked to welfare one professor at mit we

ask what many want to know are immigrants responsible you can present in different ways a computer and a dot. com present a socio economic problem you can present that the recent youth problem i mean your truth in that way of choosing. also there is a political money for stage and that's a way of marginalizing stereotype by you know it's all the way of saying that people look from europe are more primitive so i mean all these come into the politics professor is referring to the sweden democrats the right wing party tips for its best result in these years it's immigrants who burn cars who rapes murders who cause huge amount of money that affects all other areas in the three 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 their data to show immigrants are to blame but stina warns they are often taken out of context most of overrepresentation by immigrant disappears if you. add the fact that they are socially deprived we have reports in from one thousand and six two thousand and five that established that 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. fair few and. and these kinds of crimes we don't see an increase just recently an investigative program on national television also confirmed immigrants and rapes

for instance it might be easier to report. a perpetrator who is an immigrant or in another way is socially deprived to you can try this all this integration stuff has been that i've been trying for thirty forty years and it's totally useless the only real. thing to solve the problems is to make the move or it has become a strong political issue and there isn't a new political arena sweden with the right wing parties we've been attacked by left wingers and immigrants in this election campaign i mean i seen so many reports on. if there's going to be increased turbulence after we win an online through september that's on them not us. 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. to blame and they had the answer on sunday voters may just give them a chance to show it. r.t. sweden. and other stories in the wake twitter of facebook bosses apologized wednesday for being too slow to spot alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election social media giants are testifying at a senate hearing on foreign influence found ourselves unprepared and or quit for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged we were too slow to spot this and too slow to act. that is on us you know and to be to be frank we haven't done a good job at this some the past and so this is a big threat and our opponents are going to keep getting better and we have to get better and we have to stay i had and the more we can all work together the better

off we're going to be and we've really strengthened our partnership with our government agencies since twenty sixteen when according to the so-called maligned russian activity was estimated at less than one percent of all traffic on the platform however twitter and facebook were warned about a more powerful russian side of the strike being prepared for the mid-term elections coming up the russians also continue to infiltrate and manipulate american social media to hijack our national conversation again you've gotten better and i'm pleased to see that you've begun to take action but also the russians are getting better as well they have now become harder to track worse now that the russian playbook is out there other adversaries as we saw recently like iran have joined the fray russia neither leans left or right if simply say extreme well a weak america is good for russia. the day before that hearing facebook announced

plans to build a physical war room within its h.q. and would be command center for eliminating election meddling in cyber warfare. into. anything any. prints no trace. no messy. facebook says this war room is designed to detect and prevent interference in the upcoming u.s. mid-term seems this room will include several screens it'll keep track of certain facebook metrics and will highlight any of the usual activity and in case said he is phone alarms also calling employees to take action. elsewhere next thursday the jerusalem post told r.t. it had been subjected to censorship by the israeli military the news provider published an article online saying that israel had admitted giving military support

to anti-government forces in syria it was later deleted though the article was summarizing a media briefing which was held by senior officials of the israeli defense forces more details next from our middle east correspondent paula slayer about it. in a groundbreaking revelation published by the two recent post newspaper on tuesday it ran with a headline that these weighty defense forces confirms that israel provided lightweight pens to syrian rebels the article was immediately taken down but not before which was picked up elsewhere on the mate the division's article outlines high israel has been providing syrian rebel groups with money and arms while the i.d.f. maintains that it was not intervening in syria's civil war are minded confirmed that as part of operation good neighbor israel has been regularly supplying syrian rebels near its border with light weapons and ammunition in order to defend themselves from attacks and a substantial amount of cash to buy additional arms operation good neighbor was

officially presented as the idea if it should provide aid in syria but according to the jerusalem post article its real goal was to keep his but the fight has and rainy and soldiers away from israel's borders and if the guy is well over so to speak provided aid to no fewer than seven syrian rebel groups included among them so some joined up with a full hundred strong fighting force you would see some five thousand dollars as the money to put the ports open circulation for a while but israel supports so many rebel groups but this is the first time that those with subpoena tributed to the idea of or at least they could have been if the article was not dropped we contacted the i.d.f. but they refused to comment but a spokesperson for the syrian rebel group previously confirmed israel says quote to the wall street journal israel stood by our side in a heroic way we wouldn't have survived without israel's assistance however the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vehemently projected these reports he

says that israel's assistance has been purely humanitarian we do not interfere in this terribly bloody conflicts we do however provide humanitarian aid to young boys and girls it is expensive but we will continue to invest. of course the syrian government has been accusing israel of providing weapons to the rebels for some time back in may syrian state t.v. before said that the militants handed over hundreds of israeli made weapons israel vehemently denies these reports but some of the findings have elsewhere and on numerous occasions we reached out to the post who told us they were forced to remove by the army citing security reasons. r.t. . if you have all told this is heard these days to hide something once is being published. it probably appeared in such a major media outlet because it has some truth it's not such a secret it's been done many times before no one wants to publicize it the syrian

rebels don't want to be publicizing the fact they're working with the evil jewish state and the jewish state doesn't want to publicize the fact that it's working with syrian rebels that are allied to others because they're enemies as well but they there is a common interest here and it falls the rule of the enemy of my enemy is my friend but clearly it stepped on some people's toes here they don't want it out to publicly and they decided to retract it well you can't retract anything that's already out and in this world today. just some of the stories that shape the week around us just go on always so much more of course as it happens twenty four seven adults children are up to their mosco it's kevin oh insane have a great rest of the weekend.

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