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 trump didn't do this on his own there are two americas you know can both exist. russia's foreign minister recent willingness to cooperate with the u.k. on the script poisoning case but not on the principle of machines killed but after some stark reactions from british politicians. you see that you see what's happening. with these two characters produced in this city to recruit by putin and it really makes my. british politicians and mainstream media exploded into a frenzy after the two russians accused of carrying out a nerve agent attack in the u.k.

come forward and speak to artie's editor in chief denying any involvement in the case. also to come concerns are over the potential presence of french troops in syria after photos released by the us army to appear to show a french military vehicle in the background and. people are pretty upset products for it i've been a very long time hillary supporter it was a shock to so all of us the results of your work. in a leaked video google's top executives reveal their true thoughts on the world from twenty sixteen election when raising questions over political bytes. hello there are seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international murder is having a holiday from hell only strengthening the case against them just

a taste of the response that's created the interview to r.t. with the two russians yuki's of carrying out the nerve agent poisoning in the u.k. city of seoul spring well russia's foreign minister has just spoken on the issue for the first time since our exclusive during a joint news conference with his counterpart german counterpart here's what they both had to say. mostly on the ship all our official requests received just formal notes and even simply spoken responses boiling down to your guilty all we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident used to maintain discussion on such a level is pointless we are still ready for serious dialogue based on the rule of international law but not on the principle they called highly likely to have informants when we got the information on the script case from the u.k. and we have no doubts about it but we're also interested in an investigation of what happened if everybody is ready to exchange information on the issue to clear

up the situation nothing more than prevent an investigation well the. reaction from the former british foreign secretary in reportedly a contender for the next prime minister. well you see that you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city to recruit by putin only russian t.v. these ludicrous she questions making a mockery of the whole thing and it really makes my blood boil. ok let's go to london now and our correspondent there. quite a reaction from mr johnson there what else to be have to say. and in a way a typically boris response really you hear him using vivid language about his blood boiling and he said that alexander patrol often respond to share the murderers and that they're welcome to see him in court if they want to challenge that fact and he

also spoke of his work as foreign secretary saying that he holds the kremlin in absolute contempt and that he made what he called the classic mistake of trying to engage with moscow take a listen to what he had to say i made the coffee classic mistake of thinking it was possible to have a reset with russia and. then it just became clearer and clearer to me that was the food. so when he was foreign secretary as top diplomat it was his job to represent the country to travel and he called himself a committed rasa file back in twenty seventeen it was his job to meet up with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov now however when he happens to be speaking in washington he says he regrets it all very much and it was a fool errand and to quote something he once said about his own views in europe his

view on russia appears to have veered like a supermarket trolley as well so quite an extreme reaction from the former foreign secretary why does the view of a former cabinet minister even matter well he is widely tipped by the bookmakers to be potentially the next conservative leader so. clearly his views are getting a lot of air time also the current leader to resume a prime minister her spokespersons rubbish the interview that alexander the trough and did with r t saying that the account provided by the two alleged attackers is an insult to the public's intelligence and outright lies so downing street wasn't having any of it but most foreign ministry spokesperson maria's the horror of was unimpressed with downing street response she came out

yesterday questioning why london immediately dismissed petrov account forty minutes after that interview was for us to add and the latest development from moscow comes from dmitri peskov the spokesperson for the russian president vladimir putin he said that russia would consider any request to interview the men from the u.k. in accordance with russian law but moscow is yet to receive such a request from london. thank you for the. london. well to remind you the two suspects accused by british authorities of poisoning former double agent come forward on thursday and spoke to artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan denying any involvement in the incident. we are the new to me and i've been to the one you called me on my cell phone and

told me that you are a slumber shooter from the looks on the patrol. if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. . that's. why you. we are those who are shown to you in the pictures but muslim bashir of. and i would throw at us and are those your real names national yes they are real names. even now when you're talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous. what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the g.r.u. but what do you mean normal and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the jerry used but you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse

us of that by your colleagues i mean journalists you are being accused by u.k. authorities and yes that's the scariest thing where do you work you are adults you need to make a living process if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you do everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short if you were in the fitness industry when artie said it or in chief says he didn't give her view on purpose preferring to leave it to the viewers to decide whether to believe the men or not here's what she had to say following the interview. i knew 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 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 of what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see that. ok let's discuss this further now with craig mary he's a human rights advocate and also a former british diplomat following this case very closely to craig a very welcome good to have you on this evening look you've written an article haven't you called lynch mob mentality and in fact defended the count given by those two russians accused in this group our case for you what are the key points that make their story plausible. yes i should say when you say i have defended and what i have said is that some of the things which were being said they widely in the u.k. particularly by the beater to be implausible are in fact not implausible it turns

out that it is absolutely true that stonehenge was closed by snow on the barge so the idea that they went on the third of march from seoul's blue city center snowed under and stonehenge closed came back and tried to go and next day is perfectly possible those were the weather conditions of the day and they said the next event been a four but there was heavy sleet and rain and they got soaked through and that also is true those were the weather conditions of the day so that part of fits with the known facts. it's also of course. perfectly true of the awful lot of tourists come to the u.k. in order to go and see stonehenge and in order to go and see nearby salzburg feudal which is a truly wonderful building. so i didn't find that store the implausible in itself and i found the straightforward rejection of the story by the british involved is very troubling indeed given that

this is meant to be a criminal case there's meant to be. a possible trial and where you know potential defendants have outlined very defense and the government has immediately said that's a ridiculous and it's an insult to make that defense that's not how you'd behave in a democracy in criminal cases sure you made a couple of other points too and in the interesting ones a lot of people in the media saying look you know it's clear they're guilty because they were within the vicinity it's good pals but as you pointed out i think in your article well actually there were five hundred meters away and they had to make three direct ins to get there and there's no evidence that they actually made or took that route. that that's absolutely true. the closest they were filmed to a scruple size was several hundred meters away and there's no evidence they were ever any closer than that to the scribbles house and they were on the wrong side

will grow to be going in that direction so. you know really the evidence against them is circumstantial at best the clearest evidence which wasn't. touched on in that interview of course is the claim that nobody chalk was found in the hotel room. but they have the police say that what happened was a single swab was identified for minute trace of never talk and then they weren't able to repeat it so it could well be a false positive. but the key question here i think sure and another one to you that people don't seem to be asking too much is the timing of all this because u.k. police said that they arrived in a unsold spree on the sunday i think just before midday but the evidence was strip hours left there has only in the morning and didn't appear to come back until a lot later this is i know but that's absolutely key on the times given by the

british government and shown in the c.c.t.v. footage they could not have used to skip was house if they went there was no evidence they did but if they were there they could have not got there before noon of the earliest the skipper has had left the house at nine fifteen am and it's never previously been suggested they went back to the house again before they fell ill. at nine fifteen am when they left the house their car was spotted heading north east would out of soulsby by three different c.c.t.v. cameras it was spotted coming back into soulsby one fifteen pm. from the north westerly direction. if so how did the they manage to touch their door knob which could can't have been infected before noon. unless they somehow managed between noon and one o'clock to be back at their house and to have got there while avoiding all of the c.c.t.v. cameras to see t.v.

cameras that caught them on the way out and was easy t.v. cameras that caught these alleged tourists so it really doesn't add up with the door knob story. just finally craig were on the point which is rating to be very reasonable just briefly why do you think there's such a race to accept these many guilty when perhaps the only hard evidence we have see is c.c.t.v. footage. i guess in the city before too just and it isn't hard evidence of anything except two people walking around salzburg because that's all it shows. well i think you know plainly of the british government determined this investigation on day one the day after the attack the script of attack happened those stood up in parliament and said russian government to done it and they've been trying ever since then to fix the evidence. abounds that conclusion which is not where your members to go

should be wrong sure ok look craig very sorry on that point going to have to leave it great to have you on the run at a time craig married a human rights advocate and former british diplomat thank you. thank you. new pictures released by the u.s. army do appear to even adversity expose a much larger french military role in syria and previously thought a french army vehicle can be seen in the background of a photo from deities or where the u.s. is fighting what's left of islamic state terrorists in the area the picture though was quickly deleted with more his charlotte dubinsky. well we know that the u.s. army released this photograph on wednesday to show which special operation joint task force on the ground in syria in this particular region did but what the egalite members of the public clearly spot is a french military vehicle in the background now people have said they sure that it's a french military vehicle because this particular type of vehicle is only used by

french and saudi arabian forces and saudi arabian forces are not on the ground in this particular region now what it showed is that a military vehicle in the background and what's really interesting about this is that the french government the french military has never acknowledged that it has french troops on the ground in this particular area of syria now we do know that this area is where the u.s. backed fighters have been battling against the harvests and we also know that france has been part of a u.s. led coalition which has been cut. operations over syrian air space over the last three years but in particular it's been aiding forces on the ground as they fight against by some forces now and we know that france has pledged in the past full support to syrian kurds on the ground the president should the syrian democratic forces and the french support in particular for the stabilization of the

security zone in the north east of syria within the framework of an inclusive and balanced governance to prevent any resurgence of i saw it while seeking for a political solution to the syrian conflict well that support from the french military has been vegas to water actually means and what the context of that support actually is and there is actually a question of the legality of the french and the u.s. troops being in syria to all of course they do not turn off a u.n. mandate and they do not have permission from the syrian government. to be there we also know that francis repeatedly warned that if it believes a chemical attack has taken place it will seek retribution and retaliation for such an attack on the syrian ground so now with their troops seemingly absolutely on the ground in this area that nobody has acknowledged previously perhaps france is raising an even bigger warning flag shouted the reporting now you're watching our

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don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. impartiality google has once again being cold into question after a leaked video did show the company's executives expressing disappointment back in two thousand sixteen donald trump's election win with more on the story his own court google's always tried to maintain in a political front but recently tells a very different story and if true it outlines google's executives pick for president in the twenty sixteen presidential elections most people here are

pretty upset pretty sad for. because of the election i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and i know many of you do too this is none other than surrogate brin google's co-founder and if his assumption that every worker in the video was a clinton voter was upsetting it gets worse. that was the first moment entire really felt like we were going to lose and it was really doing all it did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest and that right there is the chief financial officer of google's parent company alphabet ruth poor at holding back tears at the thought of their election defeat but whose defeat exactly last time i checked google wasn't a wing of the democratic party nevertheless they seem to have a mutual understanding on why trump won zina phobia hatred and

a desire for answers that mean it may not be there here we have senior vice president for global affairs tend to walker looks like despite google's claim to objectivity walker's got some pretty partisan views on american politics but google maintains those are personal views ones that don't affect their product. to the rise of fascism and also to the communist revolution i think it's worth very vigilant in thinking about all these issues what can we do to lead to. maybe a better quality of governance decision making and so forth solid explanation of ideologies that shaped the twenty first century survey but fair enough google is looking for ways to make the world better but that hasn't stopped the flow of accusations that their strategy is politically biased like that time google removed a pro-life singers music video on you tube.

i had no. and you tube's move to hit popular users before conservative users especially presidents not draining the swamp dime with this it was going to be it bottles enough to make it a movie. but there are some at google who don't agree with the company's liberal leanings james to moore a conservative engineer wrote a memo just a memo to highlight potential bias in google's policy and he was fired for it google has several biases a new discussion about these biases is being silenced by the dominant ideology what follows is by no means the complete story but it's a perspective that desperately needs to be told and google google has always claimed its hands were cold lean when it came to political bias hate speech or other inappropriate content the company always claimed it had its reasons but with

insight into what the top brass at google is apparently thinking perhaps it's time for a better understanding of what bias really means quarter r.t. . he found the walk away campaign brand and found himself banned from facebook this week hit. as i said the ban however was lifted though shortly after. walkways a viral campaign on facebook encouraging liberal americans to leave the democratic party the movement involves over one hundred eighty thousand members brendan stracke a told r.t. this is spent devastated his ability to reach his audience. to lose my platform that way is devastating and essentially i think that what they are trying to do is to sabotage the walkway march on washington using this info wars word as the

catalyst to do it why should i be banned from using my social media platform for using the word info wars i wasn't even state i wasn't stating an opinion i wasn't being controversial i wasn't being provocative i was literally alerting the members of my group that i was about to do an interview on a website when i was a site hosted by alex jones it's racked up more than one and a half billion views on you tube however the platform was repeatedly criticised for promoting conspiracy theories and also especially using hate rhetoric donald trump has previously expressed support for him yet leading social network's ben jones and his media outlet for violating their policies in fact twitter recently announced he was being banned permanently. i think that based book is using its policies completely inconsistently because these bans and blocks and suppression only seem to affect people on the right they seem to only affect conservatives they never

seem to have any impact on liberals or people on the left i never see them getting banned or suppressed it's time for action and to push for freedom of speech i mean this is what this is really about with our suppressing free speech where we did ask facebook to comment on exactly why brandon struck his account was banned we haven't received a reply. you want to know i think the national thanks me company tonight we've got more news here in the headlines too and. i am trying to say that all in reality if we take action for seo through the like energy efficiency new energy. actually generate the ball money and the more draw and even higher economy growth so i want to change the storyline that playing with

extra is not a bad economy or your own money but claim it actually would be beneficial is good positive make you money people you. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon you i'm part chilled 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 the united nations anti-corruption agency 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 thanks to 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 to. 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 a spartan 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 consulate 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

a storm like this typically causes an increase in fuel purchases in the market motorist can expect spikes in 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 in the same time last year let's hope those stocks can help to tamp down regional market bottlenecks in potential price gouging in florence's wake and for more on hurricane florence we go to our g. correspondent sarah montez to oka what's the latest on the storm. hi bar i'm here in alexandria virginia just outside of d.c. where it typically floods for now d.c. is out of harm's way but millions of people aren't now given that the winds from hurricane florence went down from one hundred forty miles per hour to one hundred ten mph the storm weekend overnight to a category two but it's still

a lethal storm now given that the widening storm is that to flood the coasts for days of the carolinas it could cause some very catastrophic flooding now the ice storm is expected to hit early friday morning and could cause anywhere from twenty thirty up to forty inches of rain now the governor of north carolina roy cooper says catastrophic effects will be fell outside the center of the storm due to storm surge as high as nine to thirteen feet now that's a second story of a house tens of thousands of structures are expected to be flooded and many more by rising rivers and creeks airlines have canceled already almost a thousand flights and counting home depot and lowes are serving as emergency response centers with trash bags supplies like water bottles and generators and they really sent over a thousand trucks carrying some of these supplies now if you have not not yet evacuated you might want to check with your local authorities to see where you can go many gas stations are being emptied.