join me every thursday on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see a. name by the u.k. as suspects in this script poisoning case deny any involvement in the incident they've been speaking exclusively to r.t. . you really look like that to us by the uki why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i was under. all those you real names yes the real names of the british prime minister's office has responded to the interview calling it lies and fabrications rushes london to clarify its harsh

reaction made only minutes after the interview. also coming up on the program this hour signed an executive order to counter suppose that foreign interference in america selections that's ahead of crucial november it's. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow friday september the fourteenth my names you know. international our top story the two suspects named by the u.k. in the poisoning of russian double agents surrogate ascript his daughter back in march have given an exclusive interview to our tease editor in chief so let's take a look at parts all of that interview with margarita simonyan on our analysis of it

on the program earlier. we are the new to me and i've been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are a slum bullshit of the looks on the patrol and. we if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. hasn't it and that if for the. next year you will know someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would sooner pair three of the versions there are those your real names national yes they are real names and i would suggest that even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous and then. i can move what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives this story has been in the headlines since march but it's only about a week ten days ago that these two faces these things appeared in media in public

discourse released by yuko thought to these men certainly resemble those in c.c.t.v. images released by u.k. police they have confirmed they. are file alexander petroff that they were in the u.k. on those days they were on those c.c.t.v. images a lot of digging a lot of journalists trying to do some some news how it worked out to track them down in the end they came forward voluntarily they made a phone call to margarita simonyan our editor in chief and voluntarily decided to answer some of the key questions i'm sure many people would have had about what exactly happened on those days and they exam this is the t.v. footage from london you walk in those now famous coats and sneakers and soles bree . are these people you yes. what were you doing there and our friends have been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town souls' very wonderful town yes

a tourist town. there is the famous solsbury cathedral famous not only in europe but in the whole world. it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire. it is famous for its clock one of the first ever created in the world that still working. to. get out of that horrible. this is so you came to souls greet to take a look at the clock on the child no we plan to visit london at first and have fun there but. it wasn't a business trip this time. and we planned to go to london and then to salisbury. but when we were almost there we thought the plane wouldn't land on the first drive because there was a heavy snowstorm that's because of all the havoc they had with transport in the

u.k. on march second and third because of heavy snow for nearly all the cities were paralyzed we were unable to go anywhere now so that's just a small x. said this whole thing goes all of my groups are asking them some pretty basic questions for trying to get in there to get some info from them the main thing of course britain says alleges is that the. russian intelligence officers that was tackled to year those surprises they denied any links to the g.r.u. the russian military intelligence service they didn't reveal too much about their business their work they said they work in the sports industry in sports nutrition fitzsimmons protein amino acids. interview they said they decided to come to the media for protection they didn't know where to turn they were confused by the media attention the speculation saying their lives that effectively been turned upside down by all of us would do you work for the g.r.u. and you meet and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the

jerry but you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse us of that by your colleagues you mean journalists you are being accused by you get for it it yes that's the scariest thing where do you work if you are adults you need to make a living if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry all right now they also want to say they're on their their lives who badly affected by this they say they came to our. moderators from. broadcast here and often online that they came to our team for some sort of safety although because we're journalists not lawyers what was that about you know that's right only that that's one of the quotes that moderators job was to get some answers to some questions not to defend them or protect them to get those answers and for the viewer to decide whether they believe this version or not they say they can't leave their house they can't go to the shop can't go to the petrol station they fear for their families being somehow involved implicated in

all of this. that's why they chose to come forward voluntarily to some of these questions although there may be more questions than answers of course after all of this let's take a listen. sunny why did you decide to go to the media your photos were published some time ago together with your names but you kept silent with them today you called me because you want to speak to the media what's changed they should to ask for protection is to them or the way you say we kept silent after our lives turned into a nightmare we didn't know what to do where to go when the police the investigative committee the u.k. embassy you know. or the f.s.b. we don't know why would you go to the u.k. embassy. we really didn't know what to do where to go hello. you know when your life is turned upside down you don't really understand what to do and where to go and many say why don't they go to the u.k.

embassy and explain everything you think a lot of viewers are going to see this interview will have quite mixed feelings the men are clearly slightly uncomfortable some will have more questions to ask some will view this as another piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the case of course that is going to bit of a game of chess really between the u.k. and russia. the men refused to show their passports that a doctor identity documents on camera they said that one journalist to carry on digging into their past lives their families they did show them to margarita simonyan she confirmed that they do match with their identity. comments after the interview just giving some from prussians about their interaction i knew they were nervous and sweating a lot i had to turn up the air conditioning a lot higher than usual and still they were sweating and wiping their foreheads which obviously happens when people are nervous there could be a lot of reasons for it i understand this was the first interview in their lives but they could have been nervous for other reasons as well that's also possible

they refused to show their i.d.'s on camera because they didn't want to be pursued and identified further but they showed them to me that i did not run a polygraph on them as a journalist i believe what they see i saw those were the people i saw their i.d.'s and that they feed the photos and video what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see it's up to those who watched the interview to decide really this is but a chance for those two suspects to give some sort of have some sort of right of reply here to give their version of events their story and explain their presence in the u.k. account for their actions during those days and i mean really give their version of events here whether the public will believe that as margarita said she didn't want to give her impression her job was to ask those questions. of course remains to be seen and waiting for responses from. officials see where this goes next. indeed almost point reacting to the interview britain's top diplomat slammed it as

a fake t.v. show our london correspondent polly barker breaks down some of the other reactions from u.k. officials including the prime minister's office. reso margarita simonyan saying that it's up to the viewer to decide what to make of this interview and it's fair to say that the british government has given it a massive thumbs down to reason a spokesperson has rubbish the accounts provided by alexander patrol from a share of and they've used pretty strong language to do it take a listen to the lies and blades i'm sober cations in this interview given to a russian state sponsored t.v. station are an insult to the public's intelligence well that same government statement goes on to say that an illegal chemical weapon was used on the streets of the country and that four people seriously ill in hospital and an innocent woman died and russia has responded with contempt now this is the second official

statement that we've had from the government from downing street earlier on immediately after the interview with first ed there was a statement from the government and it was similarly scathing take a listen the government is clear these men are officers of the russian military intelligence service the g.r.u. who used to devastatingly toxic illegal chemical weapons on the streets of our country we have repeatedly asked russia to account for what happened in so let's bring in march today just as we have seen throughout they have responded with obfuscation and lies. so i think to say that the british authorities are buying it is to say nothing at all really no one's going to be lining up to give them any acting accolades certainly not here in the u.k. all the politicians have been rather skeptical to the member of parliament for soulsby john glenn he's tweeted saying that he's delighted that alexander patrol from a share of enjoyed the world class attractions that sells but he has to offer but

it's very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying novacek in their luggage he also said that soulsby welcomes tourists from around the world and it is very much open for business but the patrols the sheriff statements according to john glenn are not credible and don't match the widely accepted intelligence that the u.k. has on these individuals so you can see that this is a spat that is getting worse and we've got to the next stage of it now because we've had a response from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson that's maria's the horror of us so she's responded to the u.k.'s response to the interview and she has some questions for the british authorities issued this issue in the new book i believe it's absolutely unacceptable to accuse people of telling lies forty minutes after they have spoken so i repeat my question directly to the british what is the legal

basis and framework for accused russian citizens of telling lies forty minutes after noon to review what was the reason for that what was so specifically non-credible and what they say when official authorities accuse someone of telling you must be responsible for the. so we're in a situation now where london is dismissing the interview and last question is about why london is dismissing the interview and london is reminding moscow that they have questions that haven't been answered by the kremlin from the very beginning in this affair it looks like we're getting statements and counter statements but that doesn't appear to be any dialogue taking place between london and moscow right now polly boyko well russia all is smart and mccauley thinks it's on likely that either london or moscow will change their stance on the script powell case the british government has claimed that patrols of where our

officers are the g.r.u. that's the point of made over and over again and of course they can't know when they say they're not the country to go back british government cannot go back sorry we made a mistake so therefore the british government is keeping to its arguments which is usually our six months and most quiz keeping to its arguments and of course there's one statement counter statement one side says one thing and the other side says no that's not correct we don't believe that we want further clarification of the british point of view they just keep on repeating what have said before they haven't really offered any different attitude and a different point of view and a different evidence to show that. the patrol from bashir of our members g.o.u. because from british government point of view it's absolutely impossible to prove

who actually members there the officers of the g.r.u. because they don't have access to the. to that information all they can see is the bones of probability it is we think that. we're almost certain that that's as far as the british government can go. meanwhile across the atlantic u.s. lawmakers are vowing to impose new more severe sanctions on russia for its alleged use of a nerve agent in the script case the plan to impose a very severe second round of sanctions under the c.b.w. the global community will not tolerate behavior such as we've seen from russia especially in poisoning and killing its own citizens we are absolutely prepared to fully implement the second round of sanctions as she says it will include banking sanctions a prohibition on obtaining defense articles and aid money but back in august it was stated that the second round of sanctions could include cutting diplomatic ties with russia and ing all aeroflot travel and stopping all imports and exports but

things said that the second round of sanctions would not be imposed if russia commits to on site inspections we have indicated to them that they can evade the they can make themselves not subject to these sanctions if they allow the on site inspections as you've indicated if they give us a verifiable assurance that they will not use these nerve agents against their own people again they have not done so so far it should be noted that last october the u.n. verified the destruction of russia's chemical weapons and confirmed that all of russia's chemical weapons facilities were closed through on site inspections do you think that they're going to admit that their use goes on their own people. congressman at this point it's not even a matter of russia admitting it we we know that they would know this all began when a former double agent and his daughter were poisoned back in march chuck was

determined to be the agent used and everyone blamed russia because the agent was originally developed in the former u.s.s.r. but since ninety one it's been developed in several other countries russia has repeatedly denied involvement and has even offered to cooperate in an investigation and the o.p.c. w. and porton down the british lab that analyze the samples couldn't even identify the source or country of origin with all that being said all we can do right now is wait until november to see if the sanctions are indeed imposed. well staying on the topic of the sanctions a little longer donald trump signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he describes as a national emergency the president issued an executive order which focuses on any attempt by individuals or countries to influence or alter vote results the crucial midterm elections in november are seen as the primary reason for the order coming into force. in the event that meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed

targeting sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense down off took a closer look. trump has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement weapons free. to the assessment show identified to the maximum extent ascertainable the nature of any foreign interference in any methods employed to execute it the persons involved and the foreign government or governments that authorized directed sponsored or supported it don't be thrown off by the formal word government the us president understands that in a very abstract sense everyone and anything can be a government of sorts an actual authority a political party and even an individual all are designated targets. when it comes to new ones on a scale between a sniper rifle and carpet bombing trump is closer to a firm

a nuclear blast his understanding of interference is so broad it seems the president thinks the us election can be swayed by accident disclosing information threatening to disclose information undermining public confidence in a candidate by these rules everyone we can leaks outside of america would be interfering in the election. so is the twenty sixty. an election meddling case now closed after all the u.s. intelligence all agree long ago that russia meddled in that vote but of course trump won't be shooting himself in the foot the term united states election means any election for federal office held on or after the date of this order that's right the executive order covers the upcoming midterms and on wards in case of any meddling in the investigation will have to review all evidence within forty five days but chances are you won't see any of that. the

framework which may be classified in whole or in part should focus on ensuring that agencies for fill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency the shroud of secrecy around the forensics might as well conceal the lack of it the executive order allows an appeal in the century a gut feeling assigning blame although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any united states election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system trump didn't sign an executive order he created a magic bullet for himself marketed to the public as something that will protect them and which allows the white house to target whoever it wants. a right moving on the russian military has claimed of extremists in syria's

province have staged and filmed a chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow's ses the fighters will send some of the footage to the united nations and circulate the rest online. following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmet and terrorists. out of the nine videos from the two were proved to be sent to the us and the o.p.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 to near the syrian town of can shake could or an alleged chemical attack occurred in april last year it is claimed that filming took place in a nearby village where there is also a chemical stockpile while washington has ignored warnings from russia the self-styled syrian rescue group the white helmets are directly involved in staging

the attack saying there is no evidence to support the claim as the battle for it the saloons the u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than before jacqueline bouvier looks into washington's approach in syria as a volved 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 and 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 minear. 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. commonsense review

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