in the main stories of the week are things editor in chief speaks exclusively to the russians accused of poisoning. and his daughter sending much of the media many british politicians into overdrive calling the men's claims a joke also to terrorists film 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 signed a new executive order to defend all future u.s. elections from foreign meddling less than two months before the country's.

seven pm here in moscow you're watching weekly here on r.t. international. i want to see men accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian double agents 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. is editor in chief margarita simonyan printed such headlines in the british media as murderers and having a holiday from hell while others said their claims only make you case case stronger . was the new to me and i began to look one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are from the looks on the.

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 of the russians they are those your real names national yes they are real names and what 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 was turned upside down in a moment in 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 from 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 everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry well as he said to her and she said she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it up to the viewers to decide whether or not believe the men this is what though 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 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 to you know to be 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 to recruit. only russian t.v. these ludicrous she questions make 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 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 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 her spokespersons rubbish the interviewee that alexander the trough and did with r t saying that the account provided by the two alleged attack is an insult to the public's intelligence and outright lies so downing street wasn't having any of that foreign ministry spokesperson maria's the horror of 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 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. will russia's foreign minister has commented on the issue too saying each time moscow has reached out to london the only response was you are guilty or we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident so your level noted it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing that russia is still ready for a serious dialogue just not based on the presumption of guilt journalist and right in the or clarke believes that in this case the truth is less important to some in politics. only about two or three days ago the government why this was echoed in the mainstream media was that these two men would be dead by now it was. going to

be a thing of the. leading putin critic who said that the russians would be spent kill they want to talk that was the official narrative here three days ago and then what happens these men. contact are seeing our interview and then of course it's awful got that we were told that there was a story then changes to of course what they're talking is a pack of lies so i think it's quite interesting really that whatever they had said to be dismissed i think because we're talking really about geopolitics of propaganda coming before anything else. in other news this week the russian military says that extremists in series italy province of staged and filmed a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow adds the militants will now 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 the filming on the evening of the same day 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 well according to the russian reconciliation center preparations for the supposed to attack were made near the syrian town of kanchi killing where an alleged chemical assault took place on the fourth of april last year it said the 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 insisting there are there is no evidence to support that and as the battle for a province 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 which actually began our 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 deny the 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 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 the son 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 or the coeditor of b s news my crowd he believes that such an approach to the conflict in syria by the us could

lead to a far greater war. strike 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 they're not addressing the syrian arab army they're not even addressing the syrian government or president assad they're addressing the al-qaeda their 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 the pretext maybe give us something we can sell to our publics back home and we'll have the cruise missiles in the air. now in russia's far east this week around three hundred thousand soldiers and thirty six thousand military vehicles were put through their paces they were taking part in the largest military drills seen there in decades. he'll we are one of the most anticipated

exercises of the votes talks two thousand and eighteen war games. we've seen almost everything from last ahmed formations rushing that simulated enemies to police have helicopters and jets dropping that payloads and defense missiles crisscrossing the sky with trails. a little naval action. here comes. ahmed formation joining the battle with he's going to support them. to preserve speed pushkin the battle.

what's remarkable here at least 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 goalie of from russia and in such a confined and small area who is the exercise is simulated but the difficulties faced deal 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. i. 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. the weekly here and i say still to come few donald trump they have supervened foreign interference in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections we'll have

a look at that in more detail just after the break. there are walls already on the table which are directed at discrimination and marginal way zation of the ukrainian orthodox church one. if accepted will presuppose that the ukrainian orse of the church should change its name and that it should be a name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine it is something like putting the. halo. on the georgians the infield there's. two thirds of american households do not have five hundred dollars in

religion to care. as crazy. value of 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 making. and good for america in the long run. donald trump has announced plans to tackle alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he described as a national emergency on wednesday the president has issued an executive order which focuses on any attempt by individuals or countries to influence votes the crucial midterm elections in november are seen as the main reason for the timing of the order well in the event that meddling is proven sanctions will be imposed targeting sets 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. 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 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. i was sure who was dying of a so-called allowed tax and teaching arabic a more schools are being proposed in france to curb the spread of radical islam

they are measures put forward by a leading think tank as the government considers its own moves shallot been in paris gauge reaction to the suggestions here is a reminder of an ambitious promise president made to lawmakers a few months ago the total reform of islamic fronts and with the groundwork in place by the autumn media there is a radical and aggressive interpretation of islam that says this as its goal questioning the norms and laws of our free country and free societies by autumn we will clarify the 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 one continues to chew over how to bring in changes 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. and that was the weekly here in our

senior national thanks for your company this evening we're back with more news in the headlines in just. manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is really.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on very dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit. and

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months of political scandal and the end years of judicial pressure on one side defeat masquerading as victory three quarters of the group is sold and on the other a confession and admission to a decade of corruption.