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 troops the time is now watching closely watching. the two men names by the u.k. as suspects in the script poisoning case deny any involvement in the incidents they've been speaking exclusively to. you really look like the pictures shown to us by the uki why you. were those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would say under path through the russians are those your real names yes they are our real names the british prime minister's office has responded to be interviewed calling it lies and fabrications while russia's also led them to clarify its harsh reaction made only minutes after the interview ads. and

still no trump signs an executive order to counter suppose that foreign interference in america's elections has ever november's crucial midterm votes. hello and welcome to r.t. international. global news updates. the two suspects named by the u.k. in the poisoning of russian double agent and his daughter back in march have given an exclusive interview as a tie in chief let's take a look at part of that interview with margarita simonyan and operate on of it on the program. we are. those are 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 do you send it off it was one bullshit

of. we it really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. doesn't mean that if. and. when the someone who are you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would throw at the russians are those your real names national yes the your real names now doesn't it just got them but even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on them. what would you look like your 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 themes appeared in media in public discourse released by yuko thora to these men certainly resemble those in c.c.t.v. images released by u.k. police they have confirmed they should have followed exotic 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 margaret to see what 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 brick . walls are these people you yes there hurts us. what were you doing there and our friends have been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town souls' brewery a 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 meter spire.

on. it is famous for its clock one of the first ever created in the world it's still working. for. me to come out of it. this is so you came to solve greek to take a look at the clock and then you know some on the cello know we plan to visit london at first and have fun there. it wasn't a business trip this time. 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 that 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 and third because of heavy snowfall but nearly all the cities were paralyzed and we were unable to go anywhere so that's just a small exit this whole thing goes all of my groups are asking them some pretty

basic questions but 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 and they were confused by the media attention the speculation saying their lives that effect really been turned upside down by all of us what 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 jerry he was there 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. 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 go on to say don't they that their lies when badly affected by this they say they came to our. margaret is a prominent broadcaster 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 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 call it leave the house they call or 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 then today you called me because you want to speak to the media what's changed. position to ask for protection is to them or the way you can 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 by 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 you're my friends 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. think a lot of us 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 has been

a bit of. game of chess really between the u.k. and russia. the men refused to show their passports that is dr identity documents on a camera what 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 impressions about their interaction i mean you know 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 but 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 it's not that i did not run a polygraph on them as a journalist i believe what i see i saw those were the people i saw their i.d.'s so

i repeat my question directly to the british side 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 they say when official authorities accuse someone of tell you lice he must be responsible for those all again. 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. across the atlantic u.s. nor make the vowing to impose new more so this sanctions on russia for its alleged to have been of agents 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 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 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

un 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 girls on their own people. congressman at this point it's not even a matter of russia admitting it we know they did it or you know but 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 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 staying on the topic

of sanctions donald trump signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in the us elections which he describes as a national emergency the presidency issued an executive order which focuses on any attempts by individuals or countries to influence or results the crucial midterm elections in november were a seen as the primary reason for coming in now in the events that meddling is prevented sanctions would be imposed targeting sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense. takes a closer look. trump has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement weapons free. to the assessment shall identify it 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. 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. 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 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 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. the f.b.i. director has been quick to warn the white house of a mid term meddling highlighting what he called russia's information warfare capabilities chris for ray's comments come just one day off to don't try to sign an executive order just discussed however even for a twenty twenty presidential hopeful for the libertarian party says the threat of meddling isn't coming from abroad but much closer to home. i think it's going to be more likely to be part of the kind of dissent from manned mission campaigns our government has been running against the other kind of things that were shown to be

true from the revelations that came from break damp or edward snowden quite frankly whatever miniscule impact that russia or china has it's so small it's either nonexistent or so small as to be irrelevant when it comes to united states elections neither oppose any kind of meaningful significant threat of any kind the actual threat to our elections come from the organizations that benefit from government spending we're talking about teachers' union we're talking about the military industrial complex lobbyists meddle in american elections those people meddle in american elections. next there russian military says syrian terrorists have staged and films a chemical provocation to blame the government the details when we come back.

that's. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. watch it like. this is like a really big that. i'm interested always in the why.

they should. welcome back to r.t. the russian military has claims that extremists in serious adlib province have staged and filmed a chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow says the fighters will send some of the footage to 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 helmets and terrorists from higher terror out of the nine videos from the two were approved 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 re conciliation center the preparations were made near the

syrian town of concha kuhn where and alleged chemical attack occurred in april last year it's came to the filming took place in the nearby village where there's also a chemical stockpile. washington has ignored warnings from russia that the self-styled syrian rescue group the white house minutes as i regularly involved in staging the attack saying there's no evidence to support the claim and there's the battle for edna province and the u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack there will be a looking forward to. this is what happens to pensions in britain. watched as a report. in a world of big partisan. 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 smarter 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. with the advent of the trump presidency much has been said about america's culture wars even a new civil war the country is clearly divided but didn't do this on his own there are two americas now in. this. this is boom vast broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business

and finance and the impact upon you i'm part children in washington thanks for joining us. coming up this isn't the weather channel but there is a heck of a lot of news related to global weather out there that will be impacting more than just people it will have huge ramifications for businesses and economies will get to that straight away and our own daniel brito joins us to discuss the expulsion of united nations chantay corruption agencies from guatemala and the impact on business confidence plus holland cook host of the big picture joins us to take a look at news from apple and how the company seems to it changed that stock what's up with wearable and we look at digital disruption around the world as a new report by the economist magazine ranks nations related to the preparedness for technological change conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve malzberg joins us let's go. extreme

weather and the potential for that weather is moving markets worldwide today again typhoon mang hut is on track to directly hit the island of luzon in the philippines luzon is the nation's main island and its breadbasket manc cut is the most powerful typhoon of this year's season roughly nine hundred kilometers in diameter with reported sustained winds of two hundred five kilometers per hour that's one hundred twenty seven miles per hour authorities further west are preparing for the storm which is currently tracking on a path towards southern china the zone of concern and preparation reaches as far north as taiwan this comes as many are certainly mindful of the recent hit from typhoon job by which killed eleven in japan and close the consol international airport a major regional hub for days on the other side of our twiddly warming world hurricane florence has not yet made landfall on the east coast the united states but she is already influencing energy markets worldwide and is expected to push gasoline

prices up in the united states the american automobile. associate invited a storm like this typically causes and increase in fuel purchases in the market motorists can expect spikes in pump prices and they could be dramatic meanwhile aaa also reports that their latest figures show domestic stocks of gasoline including on the east coast were higher last week than it in the same time last year let's hope those stocks can help to tamp down regional market.