that's what the local. people are. interested. in. donald trump signs an executive order to counter foreign interference in america's elections what insisting there's never been any in the past. the russian defense ministry claims militants in syria to film the staged chemical attack and sent it to the un and circulated it online. also this hour hungary is censured by fellow e.u. members for breaching the blocks values of a migrant look at other nations being.

hello and welcome to your hourly updates from r.t. international before we get on to stories are new in this alex could see on the bottom of the screen the two suspects name to buy the u.k. in the poisoning of the russian double agent his daughter back in march have spoken to artie's editor in chief alexander patrol. identified by britain earlier this month its claim that both work for the g.r.u. russian intelligence service president if you're watching yesterday you might remember he said the civilians and that there was nothing criminal about them. and we'll be showing you that interview here on r.t. in the coming hours. donald trump signed off moves to tackle foreign interference in u.s. elections which he describes as a national emergency the president issued an executive order which refers to any attempt by individuals or countries to influence or alter vote results now the

reason he's so concerned about all this is because a lot rides on those crucial midterm elections which are coming up in november now in the event that any meddling is proven sanctions will be imposed to targeting sectors like these of strategic importance finance defense down to attack and transport our washington correspondents americans been taking a closer look. the order will authorize sanctions against the entities charged with election meddling this applies to a companies organizations and even individuals the term entity means a partnership association trust a joint venture corporation groups group or other organization now if they impose these sanctions will block assets limit access to the us financial system and ban people from entering of the country in the order trump admitted that no foreign power has ever successfully influence a us election but he signed the order anyway although there has been no evidence of a foreign power to ring the outcome or vote lation in any united states election

foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system now it's also important to note that the order did not specify any country in particular the term foreign government mins any national state provincial or other governing authority and any political party or any official of any governing authority or political party in each keys of a country other than the united states these sanctions will also be imposed on anyone accused of spreading propaganda and this information and the authority determine who's been meddling has been granted to the director of national intelligence the state department the treasury department homeland security and the justice department with forty five days to do so a legal and media analyst lionel believes the executive order is vague unlike previous documents of its kind but a couple of things i want to bring up using the canons of of all american law away which i know

a little bit about and whenever we look at any statute any statute law or regulation executive order p.t.d. you name it anything that is written one of the candidates that we always look to is are the behavioral are the prohibited actions are those intended. these spelled out accurately enough and with specificity enough so that you were able to read that particular executive order read the statute and comport accordingly meaning may i read this and say oh i know what to do now the next thing is sometimes we have terms void for vagueness vagueness ambiguity what is interference and i don't want to do this the air quotes but imagine i'm doing it what is interference what is propaganda what is one team two if you have a good effect and i can come up with

a lot of terms interpretations new ones if i tweak and leave the verity veracity what does this mean i don't even understand how you would even know why this because normally when you look at the statute it. interference shall move this it means it does not mean this the dissemination of an idea discussion debate what is that what when any country has any discussion i think there is an effect so it's very concerned if it concerns me for vagueness in ambiguity what it is is the u.s. presidency responding to the domestic media and any doubts that people might have of foreign interference in the election the substance of it really is not material because there are not going to be any measure of all indications of foreign interference in the election certainly not with vote rigging or tampering in any

event so basically this is a public relations exercise from the white house. russian military claims that extremists in syria say hedley province of staged to film the chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow says the fighters will send some of the footage to the united nations and circulate the rest on mine. following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmets and terrorists. out of the nine videos from the two were approved to be sent to the us and the old b c w the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality according to the russian reconciliation center the preparations were made near the syrian town of qana shake where an alleged chemical attack took place on the fourth of april last year its claim that filming took place in a nearby village where there's also a chemical stockpile and washington's ignored warnings from russia that the self-styled syrian rescue group white helmets are directly involved in staging the attack saying there's no evidence to support that claim and as the battle for the

province looms the u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack they'll be a much stronger response than before jacqueline bouvier looks into how washington's approach in syria is evolved over recent years. the deeper the u.s. gets sucked into the syrian conflict the more the continuity of time seems to change when it comes to decision making in washington back in two thousand and thirteen when allegations of chemical attacks arose barack obama was still in the hot seat and time still seemed linear we intend to investigate thoroughly exactly what happened. obviously in syria right now you've got a war zone we have to make sure that we know exactly what happened what was the nature of the incident what can we document what can we prove. our common sense review the evidence and attack if justified later the idea that investigations require time those were the good old days but two thousand and seventeen came and

times changed syrian dictator bashar. launched a horrible chemical weapons attack. on innocent civilians less than seventy two hours later the u.s. fired fifty nine cruise missiles at the airbase they suspected chemical weapons were launched from before any investigation took place. only months later did a un report come out placing the blame at the feet of the syrian government something they still deny the when the controversial white how much the group released a video claiming to be proof of a chemical attack in april this year trope was able to pinpoint the culprit in hours many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area atrocities in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for

backing animal assad big price. so the area's inaccessible and yet those responsible have been found out already no ifs ands or buts how does the guy do it the u.k. and france also join the ranks of the striking government sites in syria after an investigation you ask well three months later the o.p.c. w. did put out a report saying chlorine may have been found but on nerve agents and the case is still open so all proof of the last attack hasn't been found the u.s. is again using its crystal ball to determine what no one else can and is ready to act at least according to wall street journal sources brazil and bush are on the son of syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold u.s. officials said so if and when a chemical attack takes place during elipse liberation the guilty party is already known if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to

use them that russia's warning of stage attacks is irrelevant that it would lead to exactly what the terrorists want also irrelevant but why look at every scenario when you have everyone else and time on your side. russia is at it again this time the media's pointing the finger following a spate of mysterious incidents that the u.s. says has damaged the health of some of its diplomats in cuba and china teligent say agency is investigating attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba and china now strongly suspect that russia is to blame if there is some place of blame or at least looking seriously at russia n.b.c. news reports that u.s. officials consider russia the prime suspect in their investigation into mysterious attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba there's a new trend and it's been a buzz since march the american medical association published its findings about twenty one work is that the u.s. embassy in cuba will fall victim to mysterious symptoms they experienced headaches

vertigo had trouble sleeping and apparently suffered from him. auditory hallucinations the head of the team that compiled the report later said the likely culprit was a microwave weapon now multiple reports suggest that the u.s. intelligence suspects russia orchestrating the attack but apparently journalists got their hands on new details before the state department there is no known cause no known individual or group believed to be responsible at this time we are looking into it our position has not changed the investigation is ongoing we have not assigned any blame and we continue to look into this i want to be very clear about this in fact the initial scare over weaponized energy in cuba is being waved out of the window the f.b.i. investigated the mystery but found no trace of a malicious plot both the u.s. and then u.s.s.r. are known to have pursued the type of weapon described in the initial report but as

of now no microwave device capable of depriving the brain is known to exist for many scientists actually talk like this is akin to flat earth theories that kind of distracted speak talk to doubt with the embassy is really a theory it's only conjecture that microwaves are involved at all no one has measured waves in the embassy as far as i know and the only suggestion that this might be due to my crew is that it's always a low level sound effect which people speculate might be due to his that it's just speculation that there is anything at all on my who is this case i can't conceive of the microwave weapon as it's started out in this case and it's not clear yet the symptoms are real i'm familiar with went deeper it was published by a group that examined these subjects and the results route three inclusive. but who cares for scientific evidence right not this republican senator for sure cory

gardner is so scared by this fantasy weapon i urge the senate to pass my legislation requiring the state department to consider the designation of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism well mr gardiner if you are still in fear i've heard this helps. so it's a minute you're watching out the next hungry gets a dose of discipline from the e.u. about how it's treating migrants the details on that when we come back. you know world of big. and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. the senate has taken up with obama's. course those like you know medicare for all of the great but we're just. going to ask the something. progressing.

welcome back a group of european lawmakers are voicing their support to hungary after the european parliament voted to slap budapest with the books most severe disciplinary action for breaching the union's core values of the migrants such populist lead a good field is called the decision a shame while the outspoken british army paid not to offer raj warned of an authoritarian grip but as peter all of the reports hungary's not the only country backing the e.u. rulebook. the european parliament has voted to put hungary on its official naughty list by starting article seven measures against budapest will you let it happen dead a government that violates the values upon which this union was built with out consequences or will you ensure that the values of this union are more than just which is this then you are the lections this year were held in an atmosphere doesn't gresham and intimidation article seven of the lisbon treaty is the biggest stake member nations have with which to beat members of the club not upholding. values if seeing through

to its fullest and we are still some way away from that happening just yet it could result in a member nation having their voting rights to spend it in the e.u. institutions essentially taking away their right to have a say hungary is charged with breaking a wide array of e.u. laws but when you look at them as a group there are many member states that aren't in breach of some of the same things being levelled at budapest individuals into government and rich themselves their family members staff rents from public funding from utopian taxpayers money bulgaria is also down there at the wrong end of the table when it comes to corruption and conflicts of interest transparency international puts them bottom of the list when it comes to e.u. member states but also down there at the wrong end of the table a countries like rumania greece italy and croatia any piece reserved

a real tongue lashing for the bonds government when it came to the rights for minorities the council of europe's commissioner for human rights indicated that he was concerned about the deterioration of the situation as regards racism and intolerance in hungary when it comes to discrimination against vulnerable groups let's say for example here muslim i. it's from north africa it's a far worse picture in the netherlands where almost half say they've been the victim of discrimination italy and france don't fare well here either another area where hungry has crossed the line for parliamentarians arguably the biggest issue many had with viktor orban is the collision course the garion prime minister has been on with brussels over migrants we need more europe you know. i would like to raise the voice of the people all over in europe that they are full of fear

we need more union in our refugee problem is not a european problem we need a fair and just distribution the problem is a german problem it is not a problem you create a new legal situation at the borders saw it to be even more strict than it was but now we're hearing similar messages coming out of italy. it's over we welcome those who deserve to be welcomed we save lives we save women men and children but italy will no longer be the european refugee hungry ticked to many of the boxes too many times when it came to breaches of the e.u. core values and that is why any piece of voted to start article seven but what it may also there's a reminder and a wake up call to some of those nations who also find themselves not exactly whiter than white that they could well be next peter all of r.t. . hungary and government denounced the vote as a fraud and called it the revenge of pro migrant politicians journalists told us

that certain political forces believe it's their last chance to stop populism advancing in europe the left is furious it's really a crisis to an incredible point as well as the liberals the globalists because they know it is stale last chance to obtain that with a populist sop tarnished somehow the list grows longer you have the austrian. you have the italians it didn't work it won't work and all day do is fit to mind old man or brown will be reelected certainly one time comes with a big majority because he's a victim of europe the worst that europe can produce we heard yesterday and today today it was less important vote happened and that was it but the report produced by mrs sargent was a green party activists from all and is is really a piece of work and it's really incredibly aggressive in its content and she didn't even go to hungary to make this report this bullying will go nowhere you know

article seven will never be applied italy austria poland will refuse of course that this be applied at council level if not at the parliament level so they are afraid of the next parliament after the may elections that's the thing. russia's largest military exercise in decades is rumbling on in the country's far east hundreds of thousands of troops and combat vehicles being put through rigorous testing but the games are also proving to be rather irritating for the west with the pentagon saying it's watching very closely. president but he made hussein's also attended the drills he watched the joint russia china parade of army hardware aviation also at the war games but i guess the if. we found ourselves in russia's far east witnesses to

a pitched battle it's simulated 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 done the missiles and then throwing everything they've caught with the russians cruise missiles jets as well as rockets artillery the russians offending them all. and defense is a complicated business because lots of cooperation between various units because everything is happening so quickly projectile to travel to the kilo which is a second so everything has to happen quick.

and in these big major rapidly evolving technology the technical requirements asa via you need different types of raised to detect different delegates whose results could only round hits and they could be operating over different frequencies serve with different ranges in different weather conditions difficult to get the move to work together both spoke two thousand and eighteen will gain for the biggest breath test of the russian military in decades and. this is about. various catchments of the russian military navy the air force to work together because it's one thing having knowing how to use all these expensive toys it's entirely another tree using them. this reminder of our top story new in this hour the two suspects the britons named in the poisoning of russian double agent group holidays daughter

back in march in salzburg have spoken to artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan says the two people shown in the security camera pictures from the u.k. contacted under projected giving interviews to any other news outlets alexander patrol for muslim bashir or for identified by britain earlier this month and it's claimed they both work for russia's domestic intelligence service the g.r.u. president putin however said on wednesday that the civilians and that there was nothing criminal about them now we'll show you that interview in the next couple of hours also we'll tell you where on international. now for the cameras or is this course at the ground really as dysfunctional as it appears to discuss that i'm now joined by mary the president of the united nations general assembly for this seventy second session mr president it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me and good morning from new york now your term is about to and within the next couple of days and about a year ago when you just assume that your duties you said in an interview that one

of your ambitions for this ten year is going to be overcoming narrow national interest do you think you have succeeded in that. well i feel very strongly about united nations and about the general assembly being the most representative platform and the fact is that we have one hundred ninety three member states they all come here we do their interests with the red lines but at the same time it's important to understand that. we should not be fighting against each other because we should be fighting together for a better world and this is what i have tried to promote during the session and well i hope we have succeeded at least partly well judging from the pretty adji discussions at the security council during which member states accuse one another of the most horrendous crimes like for example the use of chemical weapons one would think that overcoming narrow national interest is simply an impossible task are you trying to say that within the un corridors when nobody's watching those

diplomats are actually nicer and more civil to one another than they appear to be on cameras have to say that we never had a nasty discussion in the general assembly hall and again this is a vision we have to of diplomacy that. those are here to defend national interests and at the same time they should respect the other countries' interests and i will give you one example agreement on the text of global compact on safe orderly and regular migration you know how sensitive the issue of migration is and yet the one hundred ninety two member states were able to agree on this text because they understood that this is a common the challenge come on phil phenomenon and we have to act. together to be able to face it but surely you would agree with me that such a display of. a corporation and comradery is not very frequent within the halls of the united nations look at any session concerning iran or syria you would think

that you know those people are ready to kill one another nor i disagree i mean we've never heard the discussion in the general assembly that would you know step out of the limits of. what do you expect when new. listening to a diplomatic discussions so there can be heated debates but today never turn into insulting the diplomats or countries so i believe that also in this regard the general assembly is a standard set up here i know that one of the initiatives you launched was the so-called morning dialogues a platform which allows permanent representatives to meet and discuss issues in an informal and perhaps more personal more open way why does it have to be in the morning don't you think that they could have built a better report after hours especially those after hours happened to coincide with happy hours you know i'm a career diplomat. and i've been. dealing with this profession for thirty years now

and i see that. lately there is less and less space for real dialogue dialogue means you don't read your script but you're rather say what you're saying and you find time to listen to the others and to to think about what they have to say.