trying to track them down in the end they came forward voluntarily they made a phone call to margaret to see when our editor in chief. 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 brick . falls are these people you yes it's still what were you doing there. our friends have been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town souls' brewery and the 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. with. me to come out of it. this is where you came to souls greet to take a look at the clock and then you're in the summer when the child no we plan to visit london at first and have fun there. at the players but it wasn't a business trip this time. and we planned to go to london and then to salisbury is in stores mid east yes another so those are more we did you know but when we were almost there we thought the plane wouldn't land on the first drive and it was there was a heavy snow storms but that's because of all the havoc they had with transport in the u.k. on march second in the third because of heavy snowfall but nearly all the cities were paralyzed we were unable to go anywhere now so that's just a small exit this whole thing goes all of my dreams 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. rough. intelligence officers that

was tackled two year those surprises they denied any links to the g.r.u. the russian military intelligence service they didn't reveal too much about the 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 affectively been turned upside down by all of us would i do you work for the g.r.u. and you me and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the gerry used but you are being accused of your colleagues accusing us of that by your colleagues you mean journalist you are being accused by you gear 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. or i know they also want to say don't their their lives who are badly affected by this they say they came to our. broadcast to hear 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 yeah that's right and the but 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 and 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 them. changed. position to ask for

protection he said no more than you can say we kept silent after our lives turned into a nightmare we didn't know what to do where to go when you might the police the investigative committee the u.k. embassy. 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. i think a lot of viewers are going to see this interview will have quite mixed feelings. 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 is docked identity

documents on a 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 and she made a few comments after the interview just giving some of her own prussians about their interaction i mean you know i mean there were nervous and sweating a lot i had to turn up the air conditioning a lot higher than usual and still there were sweating and wiping their foreheads which obviously happens when people are nervous there could be a lot of reasons for it and 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 persecuted and identified further but they showed them to me it's not that i did not run the polygraph on them as a journalist i believe what i see i saw those were the people i saw their i.d.'s and that they feed the photos and videos what was going through their minds and whether there was speaking the truth it's hard to see it's up to. those who watch

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 and give their version of events their story and explain their presence and you can't for their actions during those days and i mean really give the 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 just on the last point. in spoke to kevin owen on reacting to the interview britain's top diplomat slummed it has a fake t.v. show our london correspondent polly boyko goes through some of the other reactions from you care fishel including the prime minister's office we saw 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 thousands down to resume

a spokesperson has rubbish the accounts provided by alexander petrov from a share of and they've used pretty strong language to do it take a listen to the lies and blatant fabrications 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 asked 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 fast 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 use the devastatingly toxic illegal chemical weapon on the streets of our

country we have repeatedly asked russia to account for what happened in so it was three 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's 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 accusing russian citizens of telling lies forty minutes after new interview what was the reason for that what was so specifically non-credible and what the. one official authorities accuse someone of. you must be responsible for the. so we're in the situation now where london is dismissing the

interview and questions about why london's 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. meanwhile across the globe sick u.s. lawmakers are valving to impose new more severe sanctions on russia for its alleged use of a nerve agent in the script all case the plan to impose a very severe second round of sanctions under the sea 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 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 ending 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 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 they're going to admit 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 did that are you know what

brought this all began when a former double agent and his daughter were poisoned back in march 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 analyzed 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 or staying on the topic of sanctions donald trump's signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he describes as a national emergency the president's 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

a seen as the primary reason for the order coming in it may have been meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed targeting sectors of the strategic significance like find the sort defense which the north takes a closer look nah. 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 and 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. you 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 retreating we can leaks outside of america would be interfering in the election. to so is the twenty sixteen 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 wrong 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 the investigation will have to review all evidence within forty five days but chances are you won't see any of that. to. the framework which may be classified in whole or in part should focus on ensuring the. 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 who it wants.

well the f.b.i. director meanwhile has being quick to warn the white house over a mid term meddling highlighting what he called rush's information warfare capabilities christopher ray's comments came just a day after donald trump signed the executive order we've just been discussing well let's get into this story a bit further with our of and avoid our who's a twenty twenty presidential hopeful for the libertarian party and is always welcome to the show good to have your company or even if the f.b.i. director say he is confident in his agency's intel over so name malign russian activity why do you think it's shielded so much what would not be better i suppose to give a fragment of evidence to prove it. usually end best a geisha and the only time you withhold evidence is if the don't want the other

person to know that you're investigating them i think at this point the cat is kind of out of the bag people know there's an investigation going on and then who is being investigated if they're if they're holding that information so closely i think it's going to be more likely to be part of the kind of descent from man mason campaigns our government has been running against us the kind of things that were shown to be true from the revelations that came from for example edward snowden we know that the government our government has been routinely being not entirely forthright with us i think this is most likely to be another example of that kind of dishonesty will donald trump signing the executive order will it put some kind of distance between him and the russia collusion investigation is maybe that what he wants to come from and he said earlier that nothing happened in twenty sixteen he reiterated that again but yet this is now happening. it seems that the media has more than enough time to go after either real or fabricated but however

you look at it either nonexistent or very very minor kinds of meddling while they still continue to both ignore a challenge of political parties like the libertarian party as well as the actual kind of evidence and of what's going on overseas at this point the u.s. government has done all it can for example to keep the media away from our military operations so right now we see is the media not covering what it should be covering and over covering these minor to zero issues my guess is the media's going to continue to blow this out of proportion to continue to focus on this instead of on any kind of issues that actually matter in any significant way to the american people time is just feeding us this hour thank you so much for your time marvin but we're a u.s. presidential hopeful for twenty twenty a libertarian party candidate. where back in ninety seconds what more world news.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again the russian military has claimed that extremists in syria's igloo province of stage and film the chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow sees the fighters will send some of the footage to the united nations on 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 approved to be sent to the u.s. and the o.p.c. w.

the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality well according to the russian reconciliation center the preparations were made near the syrian town of cowen shaken where an alleged chemical attack occurred in april last year its claim but filming took place in a nearby village where there is also a chemical stockpile washington has ignored warnings from russia about 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 and as the battle for a deliberate 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. looks into washington's approach in syria has 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 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 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 group released a video claiming to be proof of a chemical attack in april this year trump 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 joined 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 us 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 ellipse 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. news updates for now i join her nisha said to you in just over thirty minutes for more stay with us now because there's more great r.t. programs right ahead. prosecution

will need to be criminals in place your. desire to take on where you question the threat of fines. by the number one place you do i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on the only main control to security to mr nuns with the bundled up business models he was my american corporations. of lossing called police sold them could be mental disease as you. see controls on the same. set of. eyes up in association with the potato. i noted when he saw it is just somebody of deleting. an investigative documentary.

ghost war on oxy. but the advent of the trump presidency much has been said about america's cultural wars even a new civil war the country is clearly divided but trump didn't do this on his own there are two americas now call since. welcome to the alex salmond show and to our thought and final program and our series on britain's railways last week with luke to the case for and against a chance to size the still

a white cross sectional support despite mounting concerns of cost overruns and delays this week we've been out to the boat looking at the fate of some of the communities in london who are getting in the way of the high speed revolution and many think being just cast aside is there the shape of things to come but first here's tells me that if your tweet should be e-mails and your messages now are see these on bill we seem to have been very timely indeed to the i newspaper last week losing on what they call the you can feel revolution they say master lease and timetable chaos have persuaded the prime minister to overhaul the whole system apparently dynasty fears quote and.