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more stokes says it will discuss reinstating the russian anti dating agency as a member after it was to noncompliance in twenty fifteen. russia's foreign minister. willingness to cooperate with britain on the script poisoning case notes on the principle of the seems guilt soft to some trenchant criticism from u.k. politicians do you see that you see what's happening. with these could produce. british m.p.'s in mainstream media or explode into
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a frenzy off to the two russians accused of carrying out the neighbor agents talk in the u.k. come forward and speak in chief denying any involvement in the case. for the potential presence of french troops in syria off the fate is released by the us army appeared to show a french military vehicle in the background. you're watching all see international welcome to the program the top story the well done to date has said it will consider reinstating russia's on today paying agency as a member after it was declared noncompliance in two thousand and fifteen knaves allegations of state sponsored day. the compliance review committee of the station anywhere in the world mentions a russian athlete they say they made mention of the fact that they threw years in
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exile because some go in violation it's a reality of course every sporting nation on the planet is engaged in some kind of doping violation it's just that they've been a big clever about it the russia or the russians simply been singled out as a kind of scapegoat which would be my view frankly but i don't moment we're not about to go into that we're about to deal with the facts as they confront us and if they will know the truth seven days from now but my feeling is that russia will be really. completed as much as possible and far more than a new order doping agency in the history of water have been able to do and achieve so in all fairness they should be reinstated should be brought back into the family and given an opportunity to prove themselves however i think politics might yes play a bit of a role but then again the i.o.c.
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the international committee are on russia's side in so far as they want to see sport progress and by exclusion of segregation on the drug sport down into a very very dark place i think for people within that system within the you k. within you card they need to sort of look a little bit closer to home they are very right to look for a clean sport but they need to start at home because the russians it doesn't matter what happens newquay or in the usa or in ireland russia has been trying to clean up its own house and i think if we all did that and helped each other out and were a bit more understanding i think that we would finally maybe get to something that . might be called king's court. matter as having a holiday from hell any strengthening the case to get them. just a taste of the response that's greeted artie's interview with the two russians accused of carrying out the nerve agent poisoning in the u.k.
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city of seoul three russia's foreign minister spoke on the issue for the first time since our exclusive during a joint news conference with his chairman counterparts here's what they both had to say. on the ship all our official requests receive 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 this group case from the u.k. and we have no doubts about it but we're also interested in an investigation of what's happened is everybody is ready to exchange information on the issue to clear up the situation nothing more than prevent an investigation interview even sparked reaction from the former british foreign secretary and reportedly
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a contender for next prime minister boris johnson. see that you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city through kuwait. only russian t.v. these ludicrous she questions making a mockery of the whole thing and it really makes my blood boil typically boris response really you hear him using vivid language about his blood boiling and he said that alexander patrol found respond to share of all murderers and that they're welcome to sue 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 kasik 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
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possible to have a reset with russia and. then it just became clearer and clearer to be that was before. 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's errand and to quote something he once said about his own views in europe his view on russia appears to have been 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 not so well but he is widely tipped by the to be
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intentionally the next to the conservative leader so please. his views are getting a lot of air time also the current lead to resume a prime minister her spokes persons rubbish the interview that alexander trough and fresh air 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 petroff account forty minutes after that interview was first to add the latest development from moscow comes from dmitri peskov the spokesperson for the russian president vladimir putin
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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 to remind to the two suspects accused by british authorities of poisoning former double agents a case compel came forward on thursday and spoke to r.t. said her in chief margarita simonyan they denied any involvement in the incident. was one of them in them 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 floor. you really look like the pictures strong to us by the uki. who are you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i was under paid through the lessons are those your real names yes they are
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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 and just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the g.r.u. and you me know and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the gerry used but you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse us of that by your colleagues you mean journalists you are being accused by u.k. authorities and yes that's the scariest thing where do you work when 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 when everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short if you were in the fitness industry. ts as a tear in chief says she didn't get heavy on purpose preparing to leave it to the
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of us to decide whether to believe the man or not here's what she had to say following the end. 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 but 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 and that they feed the photos and videos what was going through their minds early and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see. former british diplomats craig mary says immediate rejection of the suspects story is a concern. some of the things which were being said they widely in the u.k.
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plea by the beatles 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 time souls blue city center snowed under and stonehenge closed and came back and tried to convey next day is perfectly possible those were the weather conditions of the day i found the straightforward rejection of the story by the british authorities very troubling indeed given that this is meant to be a criminal case there's meant to be. a possible trial and we're 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 this did before to just and isn't hard evidence of anything except to people walking around false because that's all it shows plainly
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of a british government predetermines this investigation on day one the day after the attack the script of attack happened stood up in parliament and said russian government to done it and they've been trying ever since then to fix the evidence. around that conclusion which is not the way an investigation should be done. medics in garces say that israeli soldiers killed three people including a twelve year old boy during anti occupation protests along the perimeter fence on friday at least two hundred forty eight others were reported wounded scores by life fire. by the ease with. i was going at it was you. know.
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was the. was with. the gazans great march of written protest campaign began at the end of march that's a month in the right to return to lands in israel that relatives were displaced from and nine hundred forty eight and nine hundred sixty seven and ends to the devastating blockade of gaza israel has killed one hundred seventy seven protesters and wounded more than eighteen thousand since the rally started as. the israeli military defended its actions on friday claiming they were and they were and they said city to disperse the almost thirteen thousand palestinians who were protesting
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along the fence is also said the some demonstrators were burning tires and throwing stones and firebombs us soldiers one officer is reported to have been wounded the i.d.f. said it positions belong to one mass the militant group that rules the strip siebert from the crime and from the palestine chronicle told us he thinks the international community needs to be tougher on israel everest's actions. mainstream media is constantly twisting facts in hebrew is that. it just to be presumed israel to be a victim or in a position of self-defense the fact is you have hundreds of. the snipers and the single jurors sitting quite comfortably. hundreds of meters away from the fence and shooting at the one children women the one children women men media personnel who are anywhere close to the bins even by
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a hundred feet without any real mechanism coming from the united nations to actually enforce some sort of punishment or take any kind of measure to make israel realize that there are consequences and question for this kind of blind behavior that we are seeing that just in jewish settlement gaza but the west bank as well i do think this is really behavior is going to end anytime soon. it's a las couples break out between palestinian demonstrators and this rainy forces in the occupied west bank israel is preparing to race a better when village that after the may have got to go has from the country's high court it claims the buildings in the village which is home to two hundred people do not have the right permits european parliament said on face say that this demolition would be a grave violation of international law. new
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pictures released by the u.s. army appear to end if that's an expose a much larger french military role in syria than previously thought a french army they call can be seen in the background of the photo from tarasov where the u.s. is fighting most last of islamic state terrorists in the area the picture there was quickly deleted it has charlotte dubinsky with the details. well we know that the u.s. army released this photograph on wednesday to show its special operation joint task force on the ground in syria in this particular region. 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 military vehicle in the
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background of 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 hardest 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
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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 that 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 syrian ground so now with their troops seemingly absolutely on the ground in this area. has acknowledged previously perhaps france is raising an even bigger warning flag. meanwhile reports of cessed in the german media suggesting that washington has been pressuring beilin to get more militarily involved in syria
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as well the news prompted the reset service of the german parliament to remind us or to such me it would be unconstitutional unless approved by parliament to self have a solely from the left gave us his own intervention in the conflicts it would be totally illegal under international and german law remember there is no indication towards germany to participate in military action in syria the only forces in the fight in syria of those that are invited by the syrian government of bashar al assad and no other forces have been authorized if germany wanted to participate in that conflict all the us or the french troops for that matter then they should seek authorization by the un security council under chapter seven otherwise they must stay out of the conflict if they have proof of chemical attacks that why don't they put that proof to the test by bringing it to the un security council where the
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world can look at the troops and see for themselves if it's really true or just did evidence like when they started the iraq war. they impartiality if google has once again been called into question. the company's executives expressing disappointments back in twenty sixteen at donald trump's election when times cool picks up the story. google's always tried to maintain 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. you because of the election and i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and i know many of you do too this is none
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other than surrogate brin google's cofounder 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
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rise of fascism and also to the communist revolution i think it's worth be 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 sergei 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 president is draining the swamp dime it is going to be both enough to make it
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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. . persons mass of
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a lens and public data collection may she prevailed by whistleblower edward snowden privacy rights and freedom of expression the european court of human rights has ruled. the court found that there was inadequate independent oversight of the selection search process is involved in the operation furthermore there were no real safeguards of political will to the selection of related communications data for examination even though this data could reveal a great deal about the person's habits and contacts in the first major legal challenge against the massive operation conducted by the ukase g c h q intelligence service fourteen human rights groups including amnesty and big brother watch contested the regulation of investigatory powers act also known as reaper snowden's expose the u.k.'s vast surveillance operation back in two thousand and thirteen he praised the judgment tweeting that for five long years governments have denied that
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global mass of aliens violates your rights today we want the u.k. government says it will give careful consideration to the findings insisting it has now bought new privacy protections as well as quote independent oversight but its campaigners say the judgment will force questions to be asked about the new legislation as well the chair of the u.k. cyber security research institute p to war and told us that snowden revealed the public state is being used in frightening and legislated ways. problem with all of this is the moment truth is always given if you have nothing to do you have nothing to fear but if you don't fundamentally what is being used for the new do have things to fear one of the things that came with all the slow documents was that you tube was being more and in lots and lots of different ways there are things that you can do that certainly appear to you but of course those are legislated for because those new discoveries that you've made so the potential for
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what you can do is one of the biggest issues of all. u.s. officials say at least four people have died since tropical storm florence made landfall on the east coast and began battering north and south carolina florence was downgraded from a category one hurricane on friday afternoon but is still causing widespread devastation bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain. among those who have lost their lives or a woman and an infant they reportedly died when a tree fell on their house currently six hundred thousand homes and businesses are without power and it's expected that there will be catastrophic flooding over the weekend officials say that around one point seven million people in carolinas and virginia have been told to evacuate their homes it's not known however how many
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have actually left. don't forget there's more on any of our stories discussed today at r.t. dot com see when thirty minutes time.

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