we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the show because it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching. the two russians accused of poisoning surrogates for powell and his daughter speak exclusively to our tease of a tear in cheek interview saying as much as the media and many british politicians into overdrive the men'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 donald trump 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. very warm welcome you are 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 a former russian spies for powell and his daughter on british soil gave a global exclusive to r.t. claiming they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt 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 said their claims only make the ukase case stronger. we. need a minimum of been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you

are a slum bullshit of the looks on the patrol do you send it off with one. we but you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. as it is but then in the difficult. next year you're with us on why you. and we are those who are shown to you in the pictures with a slump a sheet of. and i would say under powered through the russians are those your real names national yes they are real names and. 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 in 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 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 everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry well arty's editor in chief says 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 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 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 is hard to see. it wasn't only the media quick to react to the interview some british politicians and most notably former foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mince their words either. well you see that you see what's happening now with these 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 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 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 that 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 so 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 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 foreign ministry spokesperson maria zahar of earth was unimpressed with downing street's response questioning why london immediately dismissed petroff account forty minutes after that interview was

first to add dmitry 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 is received is that your guilty or 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 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 is the u.k.'s version of events prompt some questions. on the times given by the booze government and showing the misuse of t.v.

footage they could not produce to scruples host if they weren't there was no evidence they did but if they were they could have not got there before noon the earliest. known fifteen and it's never previously been suggested they were brought before this little. known fifteen when they left the host the car was spotted. northeastward 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 did the they manage to touch their door knob which could come to be inflicted before noon so really doesn't that go with the dog story. the russian military claims that stream ists in syria is it live province have staged and filmed

a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad ass 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 president bashar 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 an 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. donald trump's signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in the us elections which he described as a national emergency on wednesday the president issued an executive order which focuses on any attempt by individuals or countries to influence or alter 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 it was done of takes a closer look. trump has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement weapons free. to the assessment shall identify it to the maximum extent ascertainable the nature of any foreign interference and any methods employed to execute it the persons involved and the foreign government or governments that authorized directed sponsored or supported it don't be thrown off by the formal word government the us president understands that in a very abstract sense everyone and anything can be a government of sorts an actual authority a political party and even an individual all are designated targets.

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. so is the twenty sixteen election meddling case now closed after all the u.s. intelligence all agree long ago that russia meddled in that vote but of course trump 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. you. the framework which may be classified in whole or in part should focus on ensuring the . agencies for fill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency the shroud of secrecy around the forensics might as well conceal the lack of it the executive order allows an appeal in the century a gut feeling assigning blame although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any united states election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system trump didn't sign an executive order he created a magic bullet for himself marketed to the public as something that will protect

them and which allows the white house to target whoever it wants. legal and media analyst lionel believes the executive order is vague particularly in contrast to previous documents of his 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 candidates 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 it was interfering 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 in effect so it's very concerned if it concerns me for vagueness in ambiguity it coeditor of b s news micron he believes such an approach to the conflict in syria by the u.s. it could lead to a far greater war. electronic 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 will three or the final world wars should be called in the not addressing the syrian are barmy they're not even addressing the syrian government of president assad they're addressing the proxy armies are affiliates in italy and effectively what they're saying is the hotline is open you can call it your own air strike or you need to do is provide

a pretext however lame that pretext maybe give us something we can sell to our publics back home and we'll have the cruise missiles in the. well more of this week's top stories coming up after this short break stay with us.

two thirds of american whole schools do not have five hundred dollars if you lose it so you can. as crazy go by your population doesn't have money and money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the world why why would you change your policies and do something that is good for the legacy. and good will make in the long room. welcome back now a tax on teaching arabic in more 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 assays that

saudi been ski gauge reaction in paris to the latest suggestions here's a reminder over the ambitious promise president might call made to lawmakers. a few months ago the total reform of islam in france and with the groundwork in place by the autumn. there is a radical and aggressive interpretation of islam that sets as its goal questioning the norms and laws of our free country and free societies by autumn we will clarify this 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 them or taking 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 educational system the idea is that by offering arabic in schools fewer children would find themselves in dubious institutions linked to settle a fee indoctrination and 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 chant anything learning several languages good anyway the think tank also suggest creating an official and

independent muslim association for islamic fronts with the idea that it could help stamp out any underground fundamentalism. but it suggests the funding for such a body should come from a tax on her love of food products and 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 and if you can find food that is 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. and make sure you find food. that's for taxes the funds are used properly then why not we need to look at the possible advantage use it to help some groups of people division over both suggestions from the report may have merit thinking that he's

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 a doc said this week found that seventy one percent of respondents now thought negatively of him and when it comes to how his government is handling terrorism previous polls showed that more than hoff 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 charlotte r.t. paris debate on r.t. france reaction ranged from calls for closer scrutiny of our moms and mosques to fear is french muslims will be further alienated. i look at this with interest yet 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 least we also need to stop illegal immigration but 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 other issues for example with those who are inclined towards islamophobia unfortunately this will strengthen their beliefs and their will not bring about a spirit of national unity and social cohesion. a russian protest artist is notorious for staging some eye watering stunts has found playing to france to claim asylum hasn't gone quite to plan to his latest piece that went a little too far.

russia it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case of that probably and we already know and there's just been arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. to publish the price of his own actions is the loss of his freedom . filmmakers sponsors actors in the world of culture and citizen outraged about the situation. and opposition illegally incarcerated the russian.

daily life in french prison is like every day a prison guard names incarcerated and reaches a arrest warrant out loud the prisoner then grabs his things and matches from the cell says his goodbyes his prison mates and leaves in florida for example five to ten prison guards. and slam them to the floor. he shows fred twist his hand and then lead him out was squeezing his neck. obviously the administration here is just torturing me.

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