it. the two russians accused of poisoning surrogate script powell and his daughter speak exclusively to our t.v.'s editor in chief the interview stands meant to the media and many british politicians into overdrive saying the man's claims are a joke. terrorists film scenes of a false flag chemical attack to send to the un and post online with the hope of

discrediting the syrian government that's according to the russian military. and startled tramp signs 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 and a roundup of the stories that shape the week but first on thursday the two men accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian spy a surrogate scrip our daughter on british soil gave a global exclusive to r.t. claiming bay had nothing to do with the assassination attempt they were interviewed to artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan and prompted such headlines in the british press as murderers and having

a holiday from hell while others said their claims only make the u.k.'s case stronger. we. need them in them i've been to one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are a slumber shooter from the looks on the floor. if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. doesn't mean that if. you know someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would say under powered through the russians are those your real names national yes they are real names would suggest of 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 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 if 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 when everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry he said it's her and she said she chose not to give her personal opinion living 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 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 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 and whether they were speaking the truth is hard to see. and it wasn't only the media quick to react. to the interviews some british politicians and most notably form of foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mean their words either but you know you see the you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city through kuwait by putin 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 on the murderous 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 kasik mistake of trying to engage with moscow 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 be that was before there 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 roster 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 create 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. tenshi the next conservative leader so clearly his views are getting a lot of air time also the current lead to resume a prime minister her spokespersons rubbish the interview that alexander the trough and respond by sharon 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 foreign ministry spokesperson maria zahar of or was unimpressed with downing street response questioning why london immediately dismissed petrol for the sheriff's account forty minutes after that interview was first to add dimitri peskov the spokesperson for the russian president vladimir putin he said that russia would consider any request to interview the man 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 has received is your guilty all we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident like a last robs that it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing russia is still ready for serious dialogue based on the rule of

international law rather than the highly likely principle human rights advocate craig murray told us the u.k.'s version of events prompts some questions. on the time it was given by the biz government and shown in the c.c.t.v. footage they could not have used to skip oz house if they went there was no evidence they did but if they were there they could have not got there before noon the earliest the script also 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 the car was spotted heading north and eastward out of soulsby by three different c.c.t.v. cameras it was spotted coming back into souls bit one fifteen pm. from the north westerly direction so how did the they manage to touch their door knob which could can't have been infected before noon so. it doesn't add up with the

door knob story the. russian military claims extremists in syria as italy a province have staged and filmed a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow's there is the militants will send select to the un and circulate the rest on line and all with the help of the controversial rescue group the white helmets following the filming on the evening of the same d. 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 conscious 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 well 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 is the province moves 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 jaclyn very good looks into how washington's approach in syria has exacted 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 linear 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 do not i thought when the controversial white how much group released a video claiming to be proof of

a chemical attack in april this year trope was able to pinpoint the culprit in hours many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area atrocities in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for backing animal assad big price. so the area's inaccessible and yet those responsible have been found out already no ifs ands or buts how does the guy do it the u.k. and france also joined the ranks of the striking government sites in syria after an investigation you ask well three months later the o.p.c. w did put out a report saying chlorine may have been found but on nerve agents and the case is still open so all proof of the last attack hasn't been found the us is again using its crystal ball to determine what no one else can and is ready to act at least

according to wall street journal sources brazil and bashar al assad 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 coeditor of b.s. nice mike roddy believes that such an approach to the conflict in syria by the us could lead to a far greater war. hasn't even happened but blame has already been apportioned so you know what more can we say apart from there it looks like very likely there's going to be a big strike and this could lead to obviously this could lead to a conflict with russia and what were three or the final world wars we should be calling the not addressing the syrian arab army they're not even addressing the

syrian government of president assad they're addressing the al-qaeda proxy armies al-qaeda affiliates in italy and effectively what they're saying is the hotline is open you can call it your own airstrike all you need do is provide a pretext however lame that pretext may be give us something we can sell to our publics back home and we'll have the cruise missiles in the. trump signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he described as a national emergency on wednesday the presidency issued an executive order which focuses on any attempt by individuals all countries to influence or alter the vote results the crucial midterm elections in november are seen as the primary reason for the order coming in now in the event that meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed targeting sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense a ghost on off takes a closer look. trump has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement

weapons free. to the assessment show identifier 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. 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 leagues outside of america would be interfering in the election. 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 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 who it wants legal and media analyst at lionel believes the executive order is vague it 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 apply this because normally when you look at the statute say it interference shall mean 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 an effect so it's very concerned and it concerns me for vagueness and ambiguity for the first time ever

the e.u. has voted to punish one of its own in hungary maybe stripped of its voting rights for preaching medians core values and even migrants on that off they so right. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you'd like to be close that's what. real people. interested in the why. there should be. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms

race based on off and spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back now a group of european lawmakers a voicing their support for hungary after the european parliament voted to slap budapest with the blokes most severe disciplinary action for breaching the union's core values of the migrants and dutch populist leader good field has called the decision a shame while the outspoken british n.e.p. nigel ferrars warned of an authoritarian grip but his piece all of the reports

hungary is not the only country bucking the e.u. rulebook. the european parliament has voted to put hungary on its official naughty list by starting article seven measures against budapest will you let it happen that a government that violates the values upon which this union was built with out consequences or will you ensure that the values of this union are more than just which is this the new the elections this year were held in an atmosphere of aggression and intimidation article seven of the lisbon treaty is the biggest stick member nations have with which to beat aren't members of the club not upholding the call values if seen through to its fullest and we are still some way away from that happening just yet it could result in a member nation having their voting rights suspended in the e.u. institutions essentially taking away their right to have

a say hungary is charged with breaking a wide array of e.u. laws but when you look at them as a group there are many many the states that aunt in breach of some of the same things being leveled at budapest individuals into government and rich themselves their family members difference from public funding from utopian taxpayers' money bulgaria is also down there at the wrong end of the table when it comes to corruption and conflicts of interest transparency international puts them bottom of the list when it comes to e.u. member states but also down there at the wrong end of the table of countries like rumania greece italy and croatia m e p's reserved a real tongue lashing for the government when it came to the rights for minorities the council of europe's commissioner for human rights indicated that he was concerned about the deterioration of the situation as regards racism and intolerance in hungary when it comes to discrimination against vulnerable groups

let's say for example here muslim i. grants from north africa it's a far worse picture in the netherlands where almost half say they've been the victim of discrimination italy and france don't fare well here either another area where hungry has crossed the line for e.u. parliamentarians arguably the biggest issue many had with viktor orban is the collision course the garion prime minister has been on with brussels over migrants we need more europe you know. i would like to raise the voice of the people all over in europe that they are full of fear we need more union in our refugee problem is not a european problem the need a fair and just distribution the problem is a german problem it is not a problem you create a new legal situation at the borders saw it to be even more free than it was but now we're hearing similar messages coming out of italy. it's over we will come goes

who deserve to be welcomed we save lives we save women men and children but italy will no longer be the european refugee camp hungry taked to many of the boxes too many times when it came to breaches of the e.u. core values and that is why any piece of voted to start article seven but what it may also serve as a reminder and a wake up call to some of those nations who also find themselves not exactly whiter than white that they could well be next peter all of a r.t. . garion government denounced the vote as a fraud and called it the revenge of promo politicians promise to open ended a decision will be made on monday on what legal action to take against brussels ruling was going to hit me p. david coburn warns that he used become a quote starlet is and such behavior will spark the breakup of the entire block i

think it is disgraceful that we. reach obama's treaty to the european parliament there's no way to treat head of government and quite frankly it was like a star on the show trial was not just slapping the the whole prime minister in the face it slapping the people in the feet i do something you keep on making enemies i think you will be long before the huggins maybe joining the british. and other countries as well had tremendous trouble with the european union real hunger is an appropriate tool they're not going to put up with this sort of behavior from the european union they don't want mass migration into their country and they have the right to decide who lives in hungary and that wasn't part of the deal when the join the european union of their country was going to be filled with with migrants from all over the world european union is a nineteen fifties idea which is past sell by date i think this is the beginning of the end of the european union well meanwhile john claude younker has delivered his

final state of the union speech he's not seeking another term as european commission president next successor is due to be appointed next may in his address young to summarize the results of his tenure and we did. also this is the last commission either we will succeed in bringing our citizens closer to europe or we will fail. in the european commission's papers migration is the medicine for certain problems for us it's poison me that. it. was.

in france. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process. i have a little black book. with for the past thirty years i have noted when someone has betrayed me. is this the beginning of the end of the european. i join it doesn't r.t. international will be bought with all the latest.

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