in the stories that shaped the way karen r.t. r.t. said her in chief speaks exclusively to the two russians accused of poisoning sergei script and his daughter sending much of the media and many british politicians into overdrive calling the man's claims a joke. terrorist film scenes of a false flag chemical attack to send to the un post online so you with the hope of discrediting the syrian government that's according to the russian military. and 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

mid-term. hello there the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now on thursday the two men accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian double agent surrogates clear powell and his daughter on british soil gave a world exclusive to r.t. stating they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt their interview to r.t. said in chief margarita simonyan prompted such headlines though in the british media as murderous and having a holiday from hell while others said their claims only make you case case stronger . we. are the new to me and i've been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are a slumber and the looks on the patrol that all of us are. if you

really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. and that if. and. when the someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures but muslim. and i would say under petro of the russians they are those your real names national yes they are real names and would just give them 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 jews are you 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 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 well arty's editor in chief there said she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it up to the viewers to decide whether to believe the men or not although this is how she commented after 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 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 say but it wasn't only the mainstream media who were quick to react to the interview british politicians notably the former foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mince their words either . well you see that 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 beloved 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 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 true 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 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 has spokespersons rubbish to the interviewee that alexander traffic 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 marias the horror of that was unimpressed with downing street's response questioning why london immediately dismissed petroff account forty minutes after that

interview was for us to add and 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. there were russia's foreign minister has commented on the issue saying that each time moscow has reached out to london the only response it received was you are guilty all we need from you is to explain whether it was an accident we're no order so he said it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing that russia is ready still for serious dialogue just not based on the presumption of guilt human rights advocate craig murray told us the u.k.'s version of events does raise questions though and. almost time was given by the british government to c.c.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 went back to before the. nine fifteen when they left her car was spotted heading north east would have sold. for the different. it was spotted coming back into souls but one fifteen pm. from the north westerly direction so how did the they manage to touch with a door knob which could can't have been inflicted before noon so really doesn't add up with the dog store that. the russian military says extremists in series province have staged and filmed a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow adds the

militants will send select footage to the un and then circulate the rest online and all the help of the controversial rescue group the white helmets following but filming on the evening of the seemed 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 kanchi coon where an alleged chemical chemical assault took place on the fourth of april last year it said that filming took place in a nearby village where there is also a chemical stockpile washington though is rejected the warnings from russia that the white helmets are directly involved in staging the attack insisting that there is no evidence to support that and as the battle for it looms the u.s. is pouring troops into syria warning that if there is

a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than ever before contrary to earlier pledges to leave the country. looks now into how america's approach in syria is exact. 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. in syria right now you go to 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. 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 us when i went there i talked to the civil sorry the national defense forces and they spoke at length about how the village has been pummeled by missiles from terrorists in the outskirts of the heart a just a few kilometers away and it's been on a daily basis over the past many years and they've said you know they've been suffering nobody is talking about it and they're looking forward to the liberation of it because it will ease their suffering it will it will mean the cessation of these terrorist attacks on the. commander told me that one hundred seventeen civilians in this small town have been killed by such attacks over the years and fifty two additional syrian soldiers have been killed and of course then on september seventh there was a major attack terrorist fired nine grad missiles i was told six of which were.

fitted with cluster munitions and they fired at this village killing eleven people and injuring twenty some of whom were critically injured so these are the kind of things that the media which is busy talking about corporate media which is busy talking about the are completely negating happening on a daily basis in one day and there's a nearby village which my colleagues and i simply went to and it's called. in on september ninth i believe that was the latest attack by terrorists factions in which they fired according to. ten grad missiles on this village so it's a similar situation where these civilians have been suffering to the silence of the international corporate media on i know you spoke to people didn't residents there let's listen to an interview you did with a father who'd lost his family in a terrorist.

you should. be. obviously a very traumatic time for him. did you get a sense of how often the shelling attacks happened on notice that he was starting to happen continuously but is it every day every other day can you or is it pretty random. i would say it's more than pretty random but maybe not every day on a daily basis and i talked to one man he was a volunteer in a committee that works to help families that have martyrs or injured people in the families and he was saying you know some days there was more than seventy shells so

certainly it is a disastrous situation and that man who i interviewed. i had a he lost three young children his wife and his mother in this terrorist attack and it wasn't the first time by the way that his house was hit it was targeted twice before in his neighborhood in general has been targeted ten times by such attacks what do residents say there about the looming battle in. what they say and what syrians i've spoken with around the country. on previous visits and currently say they want a restoration of all of syria to peace and they want an end to the terrorism that's been plaguing them. or as we saw formerly in eastern before that in aleppo and it's their right to live in peace and it's also their right and the syrian government of syria's right to fight such terrorism is we're not talking about the mythical

moderate rebels we're talking about al qaeda we're talking about. and these are terrorists that have been torturing civilians and executing civilians wherever they happen to occupy so most people i've met now everybody is looking forward to the restoration of peace and security and. the all can we hear all familiar is that you know it is a problem to three million people there are only ten to fifteen thousand. we could be a huge humanitarian disaster if there is a full onslaught from the government how do residents feel afraid of the human cost. if you mean residents in the back can't speak for them but i'd like to know each case where there's been a pending liberation of an area occupied by the terrorists i just mentioned we hear such such cry such crocodile tears from humanitarian agencies in western leaders and western media. usually the numbers are highly inflated i cannot say personally

the number of civilians in but i will recall i will remind people that when eastern aleppo was being liberated even the united nations was saying three hundred thousand civilians in eastern aleppo and in the end it was half that number or less so that's one point i have no doubt that even the pope has joined in this frenzy of calls about humanitarian crisis and he may well be neutral but i'm concerned that his wording didn't mention the terrorist factions and. the timing of his wording. particularly his call for the use of tools of diplomacy while the syrian and russian governments have been using tools of diplomacy if you'll recall they've opened humanitarian corridors they've offered amnesty and reconciliation to terrorist who will wait on their weapons but on the contrary it's these factions within the lives that are saying we will kill any terrorist who will militants rebels that take whatever they want to call them we will kill them if they

participate an amnesty and reconciliation so clearly yes there is a desire for a peaceful resolution to this and the syrian russian government has been offering tools for such a peaceful resolution and the other thing i'd like to note is just i can't attest to the numbers of the different terrorist factions in live at the moment but we must recall that with all the previous reconciliations most of those who decided not to take amnesty and go back to their peaceful lives in syria and instead decided to join the foreign terrorist they went to so i believe there is a highly greater number than simply ten thousand of these terrorists in the what do you view. the russian government at the moment in the syrian. potential chemical attack. i think there are there fears are well based we've had a number of western officials declaring them basically giving the nod to al qaeda

and other groups but if there is a chemical attack they will retaliate with force so basically terror groups in the are being told we have your back you can stage a false flag attack and then we're going to attack syria illegally as they've done before in many occasions but i think also note that the russian reconciliation center in syria and the russian military have seen for example militants transferring barrels and canisters of chlorine to areas of live where it's believed a false flag attack will occur i think that's one important point and the russian military has also seen the. that's involved in the delivery and the other thing we have to recall is that children have been kidnapped from areas of aleppo and countryside and again i'll refer to my colleague next to believe because she was just in an eastern area that was liberated and she was speaking with a family whose whose son was kidnapped about a year ago and this family is very concerned that their son will be here with along with other kidnapped children and adults in such

a. stage video and she was told that in the last year over six hundred adults and children have been kidnapped so i think there's grounds to be very concerned that the white helmets which are known to be not the neutral volunteers themselves out and the terrorists that they co-habitate with will stage and other possible chemical attack even look good to talk you're going to have to leave it there but it was even an independent journalist in damascus thank you. know another news donald trump has signed off on tackling alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he described as a national emergency on wednesday the president's issues an executive order which focuses on any attempts by individuals or countries to influence or vote results the crucial midterm elections in november are seen as the primary reason for the order coming in within the event that meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed

targeting sex is of strategic significance like finance or defense you were shown of takes a closer look. trump 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 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. 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 won't 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 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 who it wants well legal media and this line will please 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 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 a poor why this because normally when you look at the statute it is 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 in

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