perkoff. partner. per. the nationalist sweden democratic party makes a big gains in a general election dominated by concerns over immigration. a second wave of anti migrant demonstrations eastern germany time over the death of a twenty two year old man in the town of clinton. and of the week's top stories british authorities named two suspects in the screwball poisoning case while moscow points to inconsistency is in the u.k. version of events.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. at the right wing's sweden democrats party has won its largest ever share of the vote in a general election dominated by concerns over immigration with ninety nine percent of the ballots counted the sweden democrats have almost eighteen percent of the votes and it has been a disappointing night for the ruling social democrats they have just twenty eight percent their worst result in more than one hundred years swedish moderates are in second place with nearly twenty percent with no clear leader emerging the result paves the way for lengthy negotiations on forming a governing coalition the leader of the sweden democrats a jimmy akeson has hailed of the result as a breakthrough for his party. you will be at the bills more than any i know who's won this election is this weekend democrats that's how it's. we are strengthening

our pivotal position and increasing our seats in the swedish politicians we see that we are going to get incredible influence in the future and no one can take that away from us those who would moderates have agreed to start talks with the christian democrats on forming a conservative coalition meanwhile the swedish prime minister stefan louvin has said he will not be resigning he called for cross party cooperation to keep the sweden democrats out of town or accusing the nationalists of trying to increase division and. political analyst charles or tell believes that the result is a blow for the leadership it's doesn't seem like this is going to be a clear break with the past i think it's a rejection of the current leadership i think it's a combination of. concerning care about the state the bad state of the immigration influx and the violence and the underreported in unreported crime situation which boasts weeds do go about but which the government and the corporate owned media

refuse to publish you know i think it's the past the tipping point and i think we have to be watching sweden not simply in this coming week but in the months and years ahead it's going to change i hope either for much for the better or much for the worse. and before the election memory of travelled to the southern city of helsingborg to gauge opinion on the most divisive issue in this election immigration. the swedes will be a minority in our own country within two or three decades even if you stop all immigration now we will become a minority that's the demography journalist in good carlquist has been branded a racist by many she's calling for the borders to be closed and all immigrants to be sent away nowadays when people call me a racist i say ok fine let's get say that i'm a racist can we not go on to discuss the facts the fact is the ones one of them is

to most generous populations in europe almost a quarter of all swedish people today have the foreign background and some parts of society really aren't happy with that reality sweden is not swedish anymore i mean this is still the change here used to be a small little you know the shop where you could buy your hotdogs now it's sort of a bad shot you never find any swedish will dogs anymore but then as i ask out. this being late. it's just arab here. or the science or you know adding your own or your organ or his owner of oh no no no no let me wrong. it is even if we don't actually use it. i'm very sad that sweden is not a swedish country anymore it makes me want to cry. regularize my i feel like crying

and crying in the nation. because so used to that all swedes say oh we love immigration we love all you are. and so they get really you know they're not used to us we say what i say that's what they get of what while we continue to walk with the camera more and more people come up to us most of them to argue. to complain. so easy even immigrants think that we are a meek country that we don't have good laws tells us he's been an asylum seeker in sweden for almost fifteen years with no work permit and no i.d. so how do you get your money when you get one of the migration. but. who pays that money. you know who pays migration swedish taxpayers you know how much money

how much we work and how much taxes we pay i don't understand how this can go along for fifteen years as a nation we did swedish migration agency and immigration minister and ministry of justice and social democratic party without getting any clear answer yet. on the agency's website twice he was denied asylum in two thousand and four and two thousand and seven his third application is currently pending according to swedish law an asylum seeker can appeal against the decision if there placation is refused today fifty thousand immigrants remain in sweden illegally have to failed asylum cases and not others. seventy five thousand are still waiting on the migration board's decision including. for the third time in fourteen years today i have this

id. like a dog. until to morrow comes holds a so-called l m a card very fine him as an asylum seeker he can legally stay in the country and receives the coolant of iran and seven euros in swedish crowns every day and other social benefits but he's banned from studying or working here give me a paper i don't need to take his money if two thousand two hundred it's not money is right but give me a paper i drop in the box like her help. and if it's not just refugees here question the system's efficiency but the locals and base size of the political spectrum people have a sensation of that the society is slowly deteriorating everything is going the wrong way you cannot ignore also the fact that we have nine hundred eighty given approval for two three point three million people from other countries to live here

and seven percent of them have been refugees according to the united nations and the rest have come here for for many other reasons. and this discontent breeds fear and anger where you can't immigration immigration bond given paper. hate to do that . is example like hollow wake up is it me i'm not a person is it me boy i do what i can do to make like promise for you because you not give me paper. from sweden. rallies have been held in germany over the death of a twenty two year old man in the town of court incident has been blamed on migrants hundreds of people took to the streets and were met by heavy security presence in the latest update medics are now saying that the man actually died of a heart attack two suspects are still being held in connection with the deaths of.

two afghans were provisionally detained on suspicion of homicide the reasons for and concrete circumstances of the incident are not yet known according to german media the incident took place on a playground where three afghan men started an argument with a pregnant woman you know to locals are believed to have stepped in leading to a deadly fight this follows riots elsewhere in germany in the chemist's after a man was stabbed allegedly by iraqi or syrian mark. was.

cut the. german officials have blamed the unrest in comments on the far right. when today someone gives nazis salutes now streets that's a disgraceful country we must get out from our couches and speak up. chemist's government is at the forefront of the movement making it clear that right wing radicalism has no place in this country chancellor angela merkel has echoed that sentiment about support for her government continues to fall with the latest polls that giving the coalition an approval rating of twenty eight percent and the anti

migrant alternative for germany is polling at a record high of seventeen percent. moving on to syria now russia's defense ministry says american warplanes have dropped white phosphorous bombs on there is or province in the pentagon has denied that allegation artie's jacqueline vogue earlier discussed of the story with my colleague you know neal. thank you what further details did the russian military give them this well according to them on saturday to a u.s. led coalition jets bombed the town enduros or province in eastern syria with white phosphorus munitions and that's of course an incendiary munition and according to the statement massive fires were seen in the area afterwards at this point it's unclear whether there were any casualties resulting from the bombing or the resulting fires but we have asked central command for comment on the situation but we've yet to get an answer from just give us some more detail if you will on white

phosphorus weapons what makes them so dangerous that it will the use of white phosphorus in civilian air areas is banned under international law because the weapon is so devastating it's an incendiary munition and it burns until it's deprived of oxygen so when it comes in contact with people it can cause second and third degree chemical and thermal burns even burning down to the bone itself and of course and burns it also produces a dense white smoke that if inhaled can lead to illness and also possibly death regardless of all that there have been reports in the past of the u.s. using such weapons including last year in syria and iraq and that caused outrage among human rights groups such as human rights watch who said it's used by the u.s. quote raises serious questions about the protection of civilians now for their part the u.s. has said in the past year when these accusations first came that they use such rounds in general only as smoke screens and signals and those uses are not banned

under international law leaving the u.s. a loophole to keep such weapons in their ammunition. where u.s. prosecutors have admitted making a false claim against an alleged russian agent of that story much more coming up you're watching the weekly on our two international. my body told me that i belong with the board but my thoughts my mind was that along with the girls. still be of any particular. person. i was born a male had a sex change when i was thirty years old. i've now been living as a woman for twenty eight years and i fully regret that. my problem should have gone away from by now but they hadn't so these surgeries are nothing more than plastic

surgery i've had several female to male friends and you look at it and you just go god you paid for that it's horrible nobody can change genders is impossible. is delusional it's a mental illness. this isn't one of my own flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was teaching me. all about is the weekly on our team international and u.s. prosecutors have admitted to falsely accusing maria boards and and alleged russian agents now waiting trial in custody of offering sex in exchange for employment

court filing prosecutors said the accusations were based on boots and his text messages and other information that they had obtained but conceded that they wrongly interpreted the conversations back in july maria boots. no was arrested on charges of acting as a foreign agent without registering within the u.s. government moscow called the arrest politically motivated.

and human rights alert dent holic says that the sex allegations were an attempt to destroy britain his reputation i think in order to bootstrap a pretty weak claim against or they originally had the salacious claims of her offering sex firm ploy i mean which frankly would rise to the level of case anyway. but frankly in order to destroy her reputation which they probably have the

fact that we done it at this point and out of the land think the case will be dismissed and there's nothing here i think this was a political gambit frankly to deal with the bigger geo political issues to try to ruin you know the outcome of the summit between trump and putin she's being used as a political pawn by the united states and these cases this should these charges will be dropped but in the meantime the life will be destroyed. this week a british authorities released photos of the two men charged with the poisoning of russian double agent sergei scream paul and his daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian and military intelligence officers acting on direct orders from moscow.

the british media outlets have made the most of the story with the headline such as putin's hit men on our streets and put in smiling assassins but his art is what our guys never explains there are major questions over britain's version of events 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. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the

g.r.u. just check it 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 may think we will people to come forward and give us the evidence you'd think they would have to know who these two suspects ah 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 do 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 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 wouldn't. use. 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 reasonably cation and so on we understand that they will be transmitted via 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 of 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 souls of all the experts advise that the evidence to date does not suggest any long term health risk from short term. contact with low levels of this agent so which is it might be a tad confusing for locals in salisbury everything's fine and save but it isn't so 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 yet know where the suspects disposed of the ritual that they used to attack the scruples front door or where dolan surely got the bottle that poisoned them 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 way after six months we're told this is how the poison came into the country in a perfect bottle why could we not been told that before why was it not put out now what it was stopped these two people picking up a perfect bottle with a 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 souls 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 live are russian intelligence officers are more austin powers than james bond two killers traveling

on the same airplane from moscow and then back to moscow leaving in a skip or charity 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 done this good day the head of britain's counter terrorism scored neil basu in his press conference when asked do you have any evidence of russian state involvement in this crime he served with one more know and to top all that all of the british insisted could only have been the russians first they said that the new russian manufactured nuvi chalks and then that fell through the russians pointed out a dozen other countries capable of doing so czech republic admitted they had

synthesize small quantities for defense britain's own chemical lab porton down admitted it had micro stockpiles contradictions everywhere. support of a brazilian presidential candidate was recently stabbed at a campaign rally people in their support for. according to the latest polls the right wing politician is the front runner in the election which will take place next month. i. was in. a rally on thursday a suspect was arrested and has been named by brazilian media the motive is unclear bulls and hours in the hospital in the stable condition jail that former president . was earlier the favorite to win the election but was disqualified due to

a corruption conviction. for something completely different safari tourists are usually told to keep a safe distance from predators but a park in the russian province of crimea is allowing people to get. up close and personal with a two year old male life. cute . cute

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on the welcome to worlds apart of millions trapped in a delay of facing down this guardian how leno was typical of the western media coverage just before the leaders of russia turkey and iran got together just because the future of the last opposition held strong called 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 tax meeting which 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 even if we declare

a cease fire this will be a victory for the summits and the most important step in the process will give peace of mind to civilians that it is usually a big state to do but if we don't have representatives of the opposition at the table. i soon 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 this trip 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 something 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 turkey

and iran have agreed on everything so far so of course it's not true so no actually and this episode tiny episode gives us some idea about like we'll disagreements between washington came on that one of our colleagues here in moscow suggested that this was a good call 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 the 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 who are the moderate opposition and what of. 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 the leaders militant leaders on the ground than it's ready to negotiate they want to as as i said die hard i mean doing this are in conflict we are always in the every stage and in every here with so such groups and from moscow's perspective. ninety five percent of those groups are not inclined to negotiate and to talk. to pursue a political process so. i think it no matter for talk about the summit what matters here is russia turkish relations and their partnership in lip in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can just push it and impose its own way to on.