twenty fijian. games until. you've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. but you russians accused of poisoning surrogate script powell and his daughter

speak exclusively to our t's editor in chief interview sounds much of the media and many british politicians into overdrive saying the men's claims are drug. terrorists film scenes of a false flag chemical attack to send to the un post online with the hope of discrediting the syrian government as according to the russian military. donald trump signed a new executive order aiming to defend all future u.s. elections from foreign meddling less than two months prior to the country's midterm vote. a very good morning to you you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines on the roundup of the stories the shape the week. first on thursday the two men accused of. carrying out the poisoning of

former russian spies the case for powell and his daughter on british soil gave a global xclusive to r.t. claiming they had nothing to do with the assassination attempts their interview to artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan prompted such headlines in the british press as murderous and having a holiday from hell while others set their claims only make the u.k.'s case stronger. than even in them 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 at all. if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. doesn't mean that if. and. when the someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would throw at the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names nor does

he just called 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 or when your life was turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the g.r.u. at work and you meet normal 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 accuse us of that by your colleagues you mean journalist 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 who everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short if you were in the fitness industry. artie said of her and chief said she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it up to the viewers to

decide whether to believe the man or not here's what she had to say following the interview i knew they were nervous and sweating a lot i had to turn up the air conditioning a lot higher than usual and still they were sweating and wiping their foreheads which obviously happens when people are nervous there could be a lot of reasons for it i understand this was the first interview in their lives but they could have been nervous for other reasons as well that's also possible they refused to show their i.d.'s on camera because they didn't want to be pursued and identified further but they showed them to me 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 videos what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see. but it wasn't only the media quick to react to the interview some british politicians or most notably former foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mince their words i. you know you see the

you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city through kuwait. only russian t.v. asked 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 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 caustic mistake of trying to engage with moscow i mean the concept classic mistake of thinking it was possible to have a reset with russia and. then it just became clearer and clearer to be

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'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 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 their time also. the current lead to resume

a prime minister her spokespersons rubbish the interviewee 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 that foreign ministry spokesperson maria's the horror of was unimpressed with downing street response questioning why london immediately dismissed petrol for account forty minutes after that interview was to add dimitri 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 russia's foreign minister commented on the issue saying each

time mosco has reached out to london the only response it receives is your guilty all we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident so a lot of rob said it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing russia's still ready for a serious dialogue based on the rule of international law rather than the highly likely principle journalist and writer neil clark believes the quest for truth has to take a back seat to politics in this case. only about two or three days ago the government why this was echoed in the mainstream media was that these two may be dead by now but that interview i think that. the critic who said that the russians would have meant kill they want to talk that was the official narrative here three days ago and then what happens these men. contact are seen on our interview and then of course it's often got that we were told that there was a story then changes to of course what they're talking is

a pack of lies so i think it's quite interesting really that whatever they had said . i think because we're talking really about geopolitics of propaganda coming before anything else. the russian military claims extremists in syria's atelier province have staged and filmed a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow says the militants will send select to the u.n. and circulate the rest on line and all with the help of the controversial rescue group the white helmet following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmets and terrorists. out of the nine videos from the two were approved to be sent to the u.s. and b. or b. c w the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality . according to the russian reconciliation center preparations for the supposed attack were made near the syrian town of colon shake that's where an alleged

chemical assault took place on the fourth of april last year it's claimed filming took place in a nearby village where there is also a chemical stockpile washington has rejected the warnings from russia that the white helmet saw directly involved in staging the attack saying there is no evidence to support that claim and as the province looms the u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than ever before contrary to earlier pledges to leave the war wary country jacqueline looks into how washington's approach in syria has zigzagged over the 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 near 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. our 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 the 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 join 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 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 is 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 the u.n. estimates there are around ten thousand al qaeda terrorist sons there affiliates in it live in syria for me us congressman ron paul believes washington is willing to use these terror groups as long as the time to benefits u.s. policy in the country. the evidence is out there we are playing too many games with

their card or they because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and. it is it's a haven there and we're on their side. the pragmatic reason for this is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he described as national emergency on wednesday the president

issued an executive order which focuses on any attempts by individuals or countries to influence the. results the crucial midterm elections in november as the primary reason for the odor coming in now in the event that meddling is proven steinke sions would be imposed targeting sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense it was done off takes a closer look. from has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement weapons free. to the assessment show identified to the maximum extent ascertainable the nature of any foreign interference in any methods employed to executed 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 medaling 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 in 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 that . agencies for fill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency the shroud of secrecy around the forensics might as well conceal the lack of it the executive order allows an appeal in the century a gut feeling assigning blame although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any united states election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system trump didn't sign an executive order he created

a magic bullet for himself marketed to the public as something that will protect them and which allows the white house to target whoever it wants. legal and media analysts leinil believes the executive order is vague particularly in contrast to previous documents of its kind. whenever we look at any statute any statute law or regulation executive order p.t.d. you name it anything that is written one of the tenets that we always look to is are the behaviors are the prohibited actions are those intended activities spelled out accurately enough and with specificity enough so that you were able to read that particular executive order read the statute and comport accordingly meaning may i read this and say oh i know what to do i don't even understand how you would even know why this because normally when you look at the

statute sir it. is different shall move this it means it does not mean this the dissemination of an idea discussion debate what is that what when any country has any discussion i think there is in effect so it's very concerning concern to me for vagueness in ambiguity what it is is the u.s. presidency responding to the domestic media and any doubts that people might hear of foreign interference in the election the substance of it really is not material because there are not going to be any measure of all indications of foreign interference in the elections setting up with rigging over tampering in any event so basically this is a public relations exercise from the white house. still to come this hour france's divines they have

a new proposals to cut islamic fundamentalism we'll tell you why after the break. two thirds of american households. do not have five hundred dollars emergency cash. that's crazy you know your population doesn't have money and you're burning money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the room why why did you change your policies and do something that is good for the legacy. and good for america in the long run. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want. to do right. this is

what. three of the people. interested in the why. should. welcome back i how loud tax teaching arabic in most schools are being proposed in france as ways of coping the spread of radical islam there among some of the measures put forward by a think tank and come as the government is considering its own moves so it depends gauged reaction in paris to the latest suggestions here's a reminder over the ambitious promise president might call made to make this

a few months ago the total reform of islam in france and with the ground work in place by the autumn. there is a radical and aggressive interpretation of islam that says this as its goal questioning the norms and laws of our free country and free societies by autumn we will clarify the situation by giving islam. a framework and rules that will guarantee that it is practiced in accordance with the laws of the republic so far it's only words but continues to chew over how to bring in those changes help is that turned a liberal think tank the more tame institute has released a report with its own suggestions it is essential to have an alternative muslim religious discourse in french that is parallel to the mainstream discourse prevalent on social networks today meaning the salafist discourse france must equip itself with the means and important networks to disseminate this counter-narrative

who can do that only muslims the report also has some concrete suggestions about how to achieve this one is to incorporate arabic into the education system the idea is that by offering arabic in schools fewer children would find themselves in dubious institutions linked to settle a fee indoctrination to radicalization. it's not going to fight anything the terrorists will remain terrorists i don't see why we can't learn arabic is a very interesting language and it would help us to open ourselves to the people we meet on a daily basis i'm not for it i don't think it's going to change anything learning several languages good anyway the think tank also suggest creating an official and independent museum association for grants with the idea that it could help stamp out any fundamentalism but it suggests the funding for such

a body should come from a tax on how love food products earned other services for muslims yet again that hasn't gone down well with everyone. not for the prices keep on rising and rising it's a crisis. in our religion if you can find food that is all you can still eat just not. pork you just need to pray for what you are eating can eat almost anything you want so i don't think it's a solution if it's. not too much it's all right to. make sure you find food. that's for taxes the funds are used properly then why not we need to look at the possible advantages it could help some groups of people division over both suggestions from the report may have my thinking that is bitten off more than he can chew especially with the fact that recent polls are hardly sliding in the president's favor one carried out by adults that this week found

that seventy one percent of respondents now thought negatively and when it comes to how his government is handling terrorism previous polls showed that more than hoff but they weren't doing enough many are waiting with bated breath to see how much will keep those promises over here but the early signs are not positive. altie paris. well in a debate on r.t. france reaction range from calls for closer scrutiny of our moms and mosques tooth is it french muslims will be further alienated. you know. i look at this with interest one of the projects to try to introduce even more arabic in schools and colleges i don't think that this communal attitude is consistent with the principles of secularism we need to regulate the moms who come from abroad and we need to close down the mosques that cause problems that we also need to stop

illegal immigration. this report risks irritating the very people concerned french muslims and foreign citizens who live in france and who are also muslims because it does go into storage debates within their community second there will be debates with others for example with those who are inclined towards islamophobia unfortunately this will strengthen their beliefs and their will not bring. the spirit of national unity and social cohesion. thanks for joining us on r.t. international this hour we'll be back with the latest at the top of the hour. when the let me just manufacture to sentenced him to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final

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hello and welcome to worlds apart the christian history is full of kids in the senate looks like maybe another one coming that's three hundred million strong global orthodox community may soon be forced to take sides as the patriarch eats up the stench and all pull and moscow wrangle over the fate of baseball in your brain because it already has been a point of no return call to discuss that i'm now in joined by metropolitan hilarion how to foreign relations at the russian orthodox church your eminence it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time just a few days ago constantinople petra kate and in pretty stark terms its decision to eventually ground the sufferer to the ukrainian church whatever it might be revealed discuss it now and i say to the ukrainian church keeping in mind that it is public primarily a political process but because of the politicians the state dept lobbied for that

what do you make of this very tight association between state and religious affairs first of all i think they should explain what it means because not everyone would understand how to sell for the course of the tradition means independence the orthodox church unlike the roman catholic church consists of fully independent local churches they are not subordinates to one and so there is no single he had of this church is except for jesus christ himself and yet from what i understand the constantin ople church gay does claim the bride of five determining which church is supposed to be. independent and which is not yes exactly as a pitcher of constantinople acts as if he were the pope for the orthodox church but it has not been the tradition of the horse of the exchange to have such pope and we do not.