in the stories that shaped the week carter is editor in chief speaks exclusively to the two russians accused of poisoning so clear powell and his daughter sending much of the media there were many british politicians into overdrive calling the men's claims a joke also to terrorists fill a false flag chemical attack to send to the un and post online to the hope of discrediting this syrian government that's according to the russian military and donald trump signed a new executive order to defend all future u.s. elections from foreign meddling less than two months before the country's midterm.

for the welcome you watch in the weekly here in r.t. international it's just come six pm here in moscow. now on thursday the two men accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian double agent could have powell and his daughter on british soil gave a world exclusive to r.t. stating that they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt that interview to r.t. said 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 you case case stronger. we. was the new to me and i been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are a slum bullshit and the looks on the patrol you found it 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 are shown to you in the pictures of muslims. and i would say under petro 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 your 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 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 if you were 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 man or not this is what she said after 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 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 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 that 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 his words 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 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 often 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 true that was very sad 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 fools that there is a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than ever before contrary to earlier pledges to leave the country. now looks 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. 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 buy so when the controversial white how much 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 rich cities 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 pretty. i. doubt that the beaches be cleared of hypothetical mines you've got the big boys

that's literally the big marine ship translation from russian and it's about to discourage its contingent to take the beach in force. don't expect a show like this every year it's tremendously expensive that money and that's what but the experience knowledge gained is invaluable. more aghast and reporting there is still plenty to come on the weekly including donald trump moves to prevent foreign interference in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections we'll have a look at that plus of the stories just after the break.

you should. put themselves on the. big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to be close as it was before three of the more people. interested always at the water's edge. there should be. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the weekly now 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 has issues in the executive order which focuses on any attempts by individuals or countries to influence votes the crucial midterm elections in november seen as the main reason for the order coming well in the event that meddling is proven sanctions will be imposed targeting sectors of strategic importance like finance or defense 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 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 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 whoever it wants. legal or media analysts leinil police executive order is a 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 know why this because normally when you look at the statute it says. 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 ambiguity. my wife farmers in south africa are accusing the government there of discrimination after tabling constitutional changes allowing it to take land from the white community without compensation but those are the descendants of dutch settlers who came to the

country in the eighteenth century they currently own seventy percent of private farmland for present ramaphosa says taking it back would undo a grave historical injustice well the future with the future unclear that some farmers have found a solution in russia or chen of a south african family looking to resettle. after almost three hours of driving we finally got to this farm and what we see here is just vast amounts of land. everywhere.

you can see because i know. at this exit quality two generations of the do twat 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 twat family have their mind sat in a preemptive 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 the fall fathers and to hannah'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 laugh with the country straight away i myself believe that there is a future in russia for my family personally gives me a siberian winter rather then

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