he came down and he was there cause. he was the last course i was like oh yeah you know medicare for all of the great but we're just. going to ask the something. you're not progressing. in the headlines this present posted reveals that russia has identified the suspects that britain says carried out the script. is nothing special criminal because those are these should be leaders yes they are definitely civilians. and the story from brussels just a few hours ago is the e.u. parliament voted to trigger an article that could lead to sanctions against one of its own majority decision would see hungary lose its voting rights in the blog. in the russian defense ministry says terror groups in syria's province of approved

now staging a false flag chemical attack with video they say to be sent to the u.n. and posted online. hi good afternoon news around the south and let me take you through it is kevin owen here it out international five pm moscow time the u.k. is so far made no official request concerning the two russian men suspected in the scriptural poisoning case but moscow also confirmed yet to take any action against the individuals because of that president putin further said the suspects have been identified as civilians while speaking at least an economic forum in blood of all stock. reports this is an absolutely groundbreaking follow up for a lot of you last week statement by british authorities on. the suspects in the

script case the russian leader says that moscow now knows for sure who the two men are here's what exactly mr putin said to me from ashton we've seen the pictures we know who they are we found them. hopefully they will turn themselves in and we'll tell everyone about themselves there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians last week exactly six months after the attempted murder and british prosecutors named two suspects as russian nationals alexander and. they also pointed out that these days could have been fake another claim was that the two men were active members of russian intelligence now here's the evidence that london put forward it was basically a summary of the men's movements around the u.k.

. so these comments by the russian president are no less groundbreaking compared to what we heard from london last week and now i guess once again it is their turn to say something it was. representative for the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons he believes this cripple case was a provocation to disrupting russia's presidential election back in mom.

the member states hold a chemical convention. judge and. very through a series of comments from some. it least. they did a geisha capable of. feeling can not so blinded by russian propaganda the statement was a very put positively and. evaluated. back to march this year russia was hidden for the presidential elections. we have been preparing and we had been preparing for the world cup. did the russian leader something like these absolutely not the question is are who. did they need to these kind of two are no events and the answer use of the.

for the russian federation those who are trying by all means are to do you agree you to leave the ship and actually slow up new sanctions on the russian for the orange it was an attempt to influence. the force all do russian presidential elections hold them all saw against the grown all the claims sold to russia meddling in the american election. european union city one of its own members with disciplinary action is after the e.u. parliament voted in favor of triggering something called article seven which could see hungary sanction if european leaders all agreed to further measures it follows the hunger in prime minister viktor orban been criticised within the block for breaching european values over the migrant crisis. this is certainly one of the strongest weapons in the arsenal for the e.u.

to deal with an errant member of its own group what it's more like it's really like opening one big box and finding a series of other boxes inside essentially where we are right now with article seven point one for this to move any further well it would require either one third of e.u. member states all the e.u. commission to say they want to push ahead with further measures against hungry. hungry would be given a chance to defend themselves to put forward their own case and then this would go back to another vote in the european parliament that would require a two serves majority vote then that would go to the european council where it would have a unanimous vote still with me right this is still seven point two for it to actually go through and we to see sanctions in the. suspension of voting rights put in place upon hungry it would have to the voting rights put in place upon hungry it would have to go to seven point three that requires another vote by the european

council and that. has to go through by a vote of over fifty five percent essentially what's happened on wednesday in strasburg is this is the the official written warning to hungry from its a you colleague saying that in their eyes and needs to book up its ideas they've tried talking to hungary in the past and they haven't as far as they're concerned received adequate and says to serious questions that were posed in parliament on tuesday sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report in particular as regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judiciary individuals into government have envisaged themselves their family members deference from public funding from utopian taxpayers' money less alexian is this then we cannot close our eyes to the problems in hungary the elections this year were held in an atmosphere of aggression and intimidation and.

the reason i went through the complicated methods of where we were heading next is because a lot of where we had next depends on hungary and specifically on viktor orbán now he was in parliament in strasburg on tuesday heard all of the allegations against him and against his government he was bullish in his response in fact he said he didn't recognize the charges and he thought that the fact that they were being bring brought against hungary in the first place was an insult to hungary in history and the hungarian people. what you have already made up your mind i stand here to defend my country and this is a matter of honor this insults the honor of hungary this uses double standards and violates the treaties it says in our homes you want to make a moral decision based on numbers the nation be damned. well reaction to the vote has been coming in from the l d a group in the

european parliament they said they would. glad to see that this had been passed the greens also saying that they were glad that it gone through those on side with mr obama well you could always rely on nigel fairish the leader of the european freedom and direct democracy groupies long been a supporter of mr obama he said that this vote showed the authoritarian grip of the european union was getting tighter but ultimately what this means is hungry officially joins poland on the naughty list of the e.u. nations expect to be talking about them for a little while yet and they will meantime european commission president john claude younkers delivered his final state of the union speech in which he used it to summarize the results of his tenure as you'd expect we put them together to the. this is the last commission i that we will succeed in bringing our citizens closer

to europe. and the european commission's papers migration is the medicine for certain problems for us it's poison me it. was. in france. so now we will impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process. i

have a little black book. with for the past thirty years i have noted when someone has betrayed me. is this the beginning of the end of the year. i. russia's reconciliation center for syria's announced that nine staged scenes of a false flag chemical attack of been shot in the militant occupied it live province i.e. they have been filmed the center out of the two of those videos have been approved by a terror group leaders to be sent to the u.n. and the chemical watchdog the o.p.c. w. well russia's also said that the self-styled rescue group the white helmets have been actively involved in that film with together with about

a dozen children aged eight to eleven at the same time moscow says the white helmets together with terrorists preparing for an actual chemical attack on the participants of the filming in order to blame it on the syrian government. meantime russia's u.n. envoys clashed with his u.s. counterpart during security council session in syria russia's insisting on the separation of terrorists from the rebels to resolve the crisis which is coming to a head in a province just goes to coexistence with terrorists is impossible those are all branches of al-qaeda which we've been fighting since the terrorist attacks in two thousand and one and from whom we can expect the worst attacks imaginable. we welcome the opportunity to discuss the prospects for a diplomatic solution in syria but let's not waste time with the december mation distractions and outright lie deescalation zones or temporary measures there should be either a local police or

a counterterrorism operation russia iran and i stand our danila are demolishing in lead and asking us to call it peace. is claim the president bashar al assad gave the order to use chlorine the syrian authorities are not going to do that they do not have chemical weapons i ask you again to listen to us it would be an invitation for the western countries to launch an attack on syria which they're threatening if chemical weapons are used. hawkins takes a closer look at the fears of a potential chemical attack. the russian ministry of defense has been warning for two weeks of a possible false flag operation by militants using chemical weapons a red line for the u.s. and its allies according to the russian military that possibility became clearer citing local residents in the town of jews that show good or they claim camera crews on site have recorded footage of an alleged chemical attack by the syrian

government including video of what helmets rescuers treating supposed victims the footage says is to be sent to numerous channels imminently to justify a u.s. led military intervention the u.s. department of defense hasn't yet responded to us directly with comment on these claims although the u.s. has made their position clear they mowe uncertain terms but just so there's no confusion here if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly we would have syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use them there is no military necessity for it we urge the international community to support collective efforts and syria's use of chemical weapons and we remain resolved to act. uses chemical weapons again we would use them all sensible people will not use militarily useless means to draw before three powerful countries upon

themselves we have all seen what the syrian regime backed by the russian government has done in the past it should not be a surprise to anyone that that would be a concern of ours and the special interest we have the impression that u.s. threats against damascus aimed at preventing terrorist from being expelled there is not the first time the us no matter which administration has prioritised the task of changing dissident regimes above the common goals of radical terrorism and extremism. and fourth of accusations and the nazi ations the u.s. has been clear that any use of chemical weapons will be attributed to the assad government and will result in military action moscow's claim that damascus simply has no logic in drawing the wrath of the u.s. military on themselves has been dismissed as a distraction tensions in the liberal boiling point and anticipation of a government offensive against terrorists and rebel groups it's clear that any incident involving allegations of chemical weapons could be

a spark for the outbreak of all out conflict between multiple parties skepticism seems to be growing at the possibility of a chemical attack britain's shadow foreign secretary thornberrys pressed the government to verify any future attack with the o.p.c. w before taking any action. that the minister of state will gives to issuances today first that if there are any reports of chemical weapons attack particularly in the areas of it live controlled by h.t.s. that the government will not take part in any military action in response until the you have visited sites under the protection of the turkish government independently verifying those reports and distributed responsibility for any chemical weapons used relying on so-called open source intelligence why did my prescribed terrorist groups is not an acceptable alternative they don't need to wait for evidence they don't need it we need to wait for an investigation they surely don't need to wait for o.p.c. w. or any other agency to apportion blame they're already blaming the syrian

government they're already saying that president assad has authorized the chemical weapons strike so that you know that the strike at the lead story hasn't even happened but blame is already being apportioned so you know what what can we say apart from there it looks like very likely there's going to be a big strike and this could lead to obviously this could lead to a conflict with russia and what we're three or the final world wars as we should be called and they're not addressing the syrian arab army they're not even addressing the syrian government or president assad they're addressing the al-qaeda their proxy their armies al-qaeda affiliates. indeed lead and effectively what they're saying is the hotline is open you can call it your own airstrike or you need to do is provide if a pretext however lame that pretext might be give us something we can sell to all public spot i will have the cruise missiles in the air so that's the message the message is directly to al-qaeda and its affiliates in italy coming up the belongings of the missing wiki leaks associate to be found at sea in no way these details literatures company will get you a live update on that right after this break.

dennis kucinich has taken up with obama's plane came down and he was a cause hurt. he was the last. course i was like oh yeah you know medicare for all of the great but we're just. going to progress to something. progressing. in a world of big partisan. 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 back 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. the ninety minutes past five now this wednesday afternoon moscow time for the break there's been significant breakthrough it seems in the case of the missing internet privacy activist campus of a close associate of wiki leaks founder julian assange police have announced that the man's belongings seems have been found in the sea off the norwegian coast across this is put the police this in london was nine days ago this first came to light in the one of the police that they think may or may not have found that about

his whereabouts well as you said yeah i encountered first a close associate of julian assange is missing on holiday on the twentieth of august he was last seen and now rather all menace levy's belongings found in the sea by local fishermen off the coast of norway near to the town where he was staying the police in norway are now searching that area of sea where the rescue vessel and they've released a statement as well take a listen to what they had to say the police nordland was notified by a local recreational fisher that he had found some belongings floating in the seat near the shoreline the belongings are confirmed by the police to belong to the missing person are you an accomplice. so the location of these items appears to be fairly close to the town where i encountered first was staying where he was last seen on the twentieth of august when he checked out of the hotel there in the town

of bodo he was a dutch citizen and he was in norway on holiday as i said and he was meant to leave the hotel and take a train to another town ten hours south of the town where he was staying in order to get a flight from there but he never got on that flight and that's when friends and family started getting worried and started expressing their concerns about his whereabouts there are now dutch investigators in norway helping with the investigation and i think his disappearance is getting more media attention because of his close association to julian a son she. worked closely with wiki leaks in the past his online accounts said he has he was a free software advocate he was an i.t. security advisor and he'd also written a book about investigative journalism as well he did media appearances as an i.t. expert i think you'd see pictures of him talking to r.t.

on your screens as well but still a total mystery really what happened to him police say they're still trying to work out if there was an element of criminality involved they're not sure about that yet but of course the internet being the internet there's already wild speculation especially from the wiki leaks supporters about what may have happened to some at the moment pretty baseless and wild theories that perhaps that he knew too much that he may have been taken out by some secret service for his links to julian a sonnet others say maybe this is all a warning to julian assange and some speculation that maybe all this is just a deep cover assignment for wiki leaks but for now though police. coming that area off sea off the coast of norway trying to establish what happened to the coast so what's the family and friends well they must be going through right now still not really know what's happened so it qualifies for that for now he's

probably grim and. sort of rushed out to the far east it stayed two of the largest military drills in the country since one thousand nine hundred eighty one. vol still twenty eight even for us where the army showcasing some of its best tugwell. four. days two of the votes two thousand and eighteen will games and we found ourselves in russia's far east witnesses to a peach battle it simulates on the one hand you have detachments of russian and the feds fending off a simulated if determined and advanced enemy which is being represented on the battlefield by down the missiles and they're throwing everything they've got the

russian cruise missiles jets is whether it's hillary the russians offending them off. and defense is a complicated business because lots of cooperation between various units because everything is happening so quickly the project all the traveling need to load which is a second so everything has to happen quick. and in these big major rapidly evolving technology the technical requirements also. dia you need different types of raised to detect different targets whose results that are you wound hits and they could be operating over different frequencies or would different ranges in different weather conditions what's difficult is to get the

move was to get the votes both two thousand and eighteen whole games are the biggest stress test of the russian military in decades and decades this is about gives you all the various the attachment of the russian military navy beyond me the air force to work together because it's one thing having and knowing how to use the least expensive choice it's entirely if not the actually using them yeah i guess so we're going to be tested that is not ok keep up to date with the news as it happens states mobile device with are up check it out. twenty four seven here in moscow this and i wednesday afternoon is twenty five minutes past five thanks for watching and have a great evening. what

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle peering into the abyss the syrian arab army is determined to liberate good lives and to eliminate the terrorists they are essentially ending this international proxy war the u.s. and its regional allies are dead set against this why it's the trumpet ministration siding with terrorists. across talking syria i'm joined by my guest adel darwish in london he's a political commentator and author of the book the edge of war in leeds we have seen shah he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in beirut we have niamh solemn he is a professor of international affairs at notre dame university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to the best dressed man on television adel darwish in london i

love your bow ties. i don't explain something to be allowed to july of last year we had the american delegated to oversee dealing with the situation in syria direct and boy said the greatest concentration of terrorists in the world isn't it good and he again if i them is al qaeda and associated groups now we have remarkable turn around in the last days and weeks is that no that the syrian government is warned not to liberate its own territory and not to apparently seemingly not to lay a finger on any wanted live how do you account for this major reversal i think it's a four letter word and it's called iran but go ahead. well of course iran is a measure player and factor here. are you never really a subscriber to conspiracy theories but actually it looks to me like. become like

a fix become like america and probably we in britain dragged. things stand behind them there is actually managing the problem giving the problem and managing it like you have something you cannot eat consume we don't want to throw away so you freeze it. every area liberated by the city and out of our army we have seen insistence from america that the terrorists groups like about the most like. and others leave. and go to a concert they have now where will this terrorist go. if your and russia don't want them because most of them were actually were from now from other places nobody else wanted them and turkey of course doesn't want them although that in the beginning facilitated the supply of arms these famous stay with us for them

and so on so keep them there until the problem is solved because if. liberated a there would be a lot bloodshed be that nobody wants them then as i said comes iran iran with hezbollah as well and so yeah ok i get to point the but then why were these terrorists coddled funded salaried given arms i mean exactly exactly now nobody wants them i mean i read this piece of fiction by erda one in the wall street journal you gotta read this the world must stop assad i mean i've never seen such political friction written by a leader i mean he doesn't deal with everyone doesn't deal with how he's been part of this problem and directly to book a go ahead scene in leeds yaar. he said to me over the last two or three years any time that the syrian army and its allies managed

to take all the regions there was no colony agreement.