in the stories that shaped the way the two russians accused of poisoning sergei screw powell and his daughter speaking exclusively to r.t. he's editor in chief however it sends much of the media and many british politicians into overdrive saying the men's claims are a joke. also to come terrorists filmed scenes of a false flag chemical attack to send to the un post online discrediting the syrian government pass 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

. hello welcome the latest developments a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching we can here an r.t. international. now on thursday the two men accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian spy service could have 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 media as murderers and having a holiday from hell while others said that their claims only make the case 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 or you can get over it with one bullshitter

. if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. doesn't mean that if. next year. when the sun go are you. we are those who are 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 now 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 is turned upside down in a moment and 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 jerry you 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 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 artie said her and she said that she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it up to viewers to decide whether to believe the men or not here's what she had to say though following the interview i mean you know 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 they 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 i see i saw those were the people i saw there. and that

the feet the photos and videos what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see you because well it wasn't only the media quick to react to the interview some british politicians most notably the former foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mince they were either but you know you see the you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city to recruit. only russian t.v. these ludicrous question 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 often respond to share of on 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 cahsee 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 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.

secretary why does the view of a former cabinet minister even matter well he is widely tipped here 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 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 foreign ministry spokesperson marie is the horror of or was unimpressed with downing street's response questioning why london immediately dismissed petroff account forty minutes after that interview was

for us to add dmitri peskov off 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 or russia's foreign minister commented on the issue saying that each time moscow has reached out to london the only response it's received is your guilty all we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident so a lever of said it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing that 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 also prompts some questions over time it was given by the british government to use a 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 of the

. earlier the skipper 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 car was spotted heading north eastward out of souls by police a different c.c.t.v. cameras it was spotted coming back into souls but one fifteen pm. from a northwesterly direction so how did the they manage to touch with a door knob which could can't have been infected before noon so really doesn't add up with the dog store the. other news this week the russian military claims extremists in series italy province of staged and filmed the false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow says the militants will send select footage to the u.n. and circulate the rest online and all with the help of the controversial rescue

group the white helmets following but filming on the evening of the same d. at a joint meeting between representatives of the white house and terrorists. out of the nine videos from the two were proved 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 well according to the russian reconciliation center preparations for the supposed attack were made near the syrian town of conscious where an alleged chemical assault took place on the fourth of april last year it is 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 helmets are directly involved in staging the attack saying there is no evidence to support that claim and as for the battle for province looms u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than they have ever before contrary to earlier pledges to

leave the war weary country jackley viggo now takes a look at 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 seems a national emergency when state president issued an executive order which does focus on any attempts 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 well in the event the meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed targeting sex is of strategic significance like finance with defense because she's done of takes a closer look from 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 strict 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 leaks 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 in the investigation will have to review all evidence within forty five days but chances are you won't see any of that. the framework which may be classified in whole or in part shall 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 analysts lionel 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 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 if it concerns me for vagueness and ambiguity times to come for you on the weekly hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of military vehicles have been taking part in the largest military trails of russia's far east since the cold war we'll have a look at that just after the break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development 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. something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close this is what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in

the waters about how. things should. come back now russia's far east around three hundred thousand soldiers and thirty six thousand men to feed vehicles have been put through their paces in the largest military. in decades. feel we are one of the most anticipated exercises of the boats talk two thousand and eighteen war games. we've seen almost everything from last ahmed formations rushing at simulated enemies to fried simply cultism and jets dropping that payloads and defense missiles crisscrossing

the sky with trails. a little naval action. comes last night. comedy formation during the battle with he called the support they need. to preserve speed pushkin the battle. what's remarkable here is the level of coordination required to keep everything running smoothly with sherman even with a tree branch said he called his jets as well as troops from multiple countries china from i'm guilty of from russia and in such a confined and small area of course that exercise is simulated but the difficulties

faced field will translate it's a real combat experience. now that the beaches be cleared of hypothetical mines here comes the big boys that's literally a big marine ship translation from russian and it's about to discord its contingent to take the beach in force.

don't expect a show like this every year it's tremendously expensive both in money and death but but the experience knowledge gained is invaluable. broadcasting if they're now environmental activists fighting to protect in one thousand woodland in germany clashed with police this week after authorities attempt to declare their camp they've occupied the site for years as part of a bid to block the building of a coal mine. this is one of the oldest the richest mixed chorus in central europe this being the

first day because we are deeply worried once in mind here. please. sir in this forest we see many of the contemporary struggles intersect the way that coal at st extraction cost us the climate change from merely infects people off the global south. before there were some one structural steel company in town with college fireplaces and a storage platform they had permission to clear the barricades and garbage strongly but they weren't we beyond that they completely destroyed shelters and took everything they could try and mix water containers bicycles tools and.

we cleared the barricades and vacated the treehouses we got people down from the trees all in all we're pleased up until now with how the operation has gone because it's been practically free of violence. and i. think it's good for us to scrutinize the resistance. to use this word or at least in. south africa's president is trying to diffuse the country could face sanctions over land being seized from white farmers in july units constitutional changes to enable the government to take land from the white man are minority boa community without compensation and immediately those sparked a backlash from is described as discrimination by the farmers while both of the

descendants of dutch settlers who came to south africa in the eighteenth century they currently own seventy percent of private farmland in the country south africa's president says taking it back would undo a grave historical injustice well with the future unclear some farmers have found an unlikely solution and russia. met a south african family looking to resettle. after almost three hours of driving we finally god to this car and what we see here is just vast amounts of land feel very very where.

when you take. your seat you can see because i know get out and this is extra quality to generations of the do twa family have a arrived in russia to see the farmlands that could be their future and after visiting here in the kaluga region they will have to south and russia they still feel that south africa is their real home but dire circumstances are forcing their hand and russia is offering them an olive branch we experience the pain in the hurt family members who have suffered ourselves if suffered crime i've made the decision that my children will not have to face that on a daily basis we've had family members who have been murdered we have had family members who have and friends who have had what they had stolen we have suffered crime it's a daily reality that is not what i want for my children the white farmers of south

africa have long been complaining of discrimination and they now live in fear that the state could pass laws to seize the lands they've owned since the seventeenth century and return them to the local black population without any compensation while the bill is still being debated some farmers including the do twa family have their mind sat in a prius. to move if the government starts saying that we can take land without paying for it because what has happened many centuries ago my children will not pay for the sins of their forefathers in johanna's case russia was not a random pick three years ago he met his wife daria who is from russia he followed his wife to her native siberia and says that he falun luff with the country straight away i myself believe that there is a future in russia for my family personally give me

a siberian winter rather than a summer in the kalahari desert i do not question the marty reporting from the kaluga region. you can watch the week here now is international back with more news in the headlines in just over half or. two thirds of american households do not have five hundred dollars emergency care. has crispe. via your population doesn't have money and you burning money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the world why why don't you change your policies and do something that is good for the lakers. and good for america in the long run. ministries police forces and city

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