the stories that shape the way counties editor in chief speaks exclusively to two russians accused of poisoning surrogates cripple and his daughter sending much of the media and british politicians into overdrive calling the men claimed a joke. terrorist from a false flag chemical attack to send to the u.n. and post online with the hope of discrediting the syrian government that's according to the russian military. the new executive order to

defend all future u.s. elections from foreign meddling less than two months before the country's midterm vote. for joining us this hour this is r.t. internet. on thursday the two 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. they stated they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt interview with artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan prompted such headlines in the british media as murderous and having a holiday from hell while others said their claims only make the u.k.'s case stronger. than you to me and i've been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are on the next round of patrol. we if you really look like the pictures shown

to us by the u.k. . and. when the someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would. 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 in just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the g.r.u. at work and you meet a norm 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 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 if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you do everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short if you were in the fitness industry. auntie said that when she said she chose not to give a personal opinion leaving it instead up to the viewers to decide whether to believe the man or not this is what she said 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 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 say. it was none of the mainstream media who were quick to react to the interview british politicians notably the former foreign secretary boris johnson didn't mince words. well you see that you see what's happening now with these two 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 beloved 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 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 intentionally the next conservative leader so clearly his views are getting a lot of their time also. currently to resume a prime minister her spokespersons rubbish to be interview 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 it most korea's foreign ministry spokesperson marias the horror 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 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 versus foreign minister commented on the issue saying it's time. to london the only response of received was your good see all we need from you is to explain whether it was an order or an accident so he said it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level and stressed the russia is still ready for serious dialogue just not based on the presumption of guilt human rights advocate craig murray told us that the u.k. version of events does raise questions and don'ts almost times given by the british government and shown 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. at nine fifteen am 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 souls 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 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. russian military claims the extremists in syria ziggler province have staged an filmed a false flag chemical attack the intention being to frame president assad's government moscow says that the militants will send footage to the un and circulate the rest online all with the help of the controversial rescue group the white

helmets following before on the evening of the same d. at a joint meeting between representatives of the white house and terrorists. out of the nine p.t.o.'s from the two were approved to be sent to the us and b. or b. c w the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality according to the russian defense ministry preparations for the supposes attack were made near the syrian town of concha couldn't when alleged chemical assault occurred on april fourth last year that says filming took place in a nearby village where there's a chemical stockpile washington rejected russia's claims that the white helmets are directly involved in staging an attack they insist there's no evidence to support that and with the battle for looking imminent the u.s. is pouring troops into syria american officials warn if there is a chemical attack they'll be a much more robust response than ever before contrary to earlier pledges to leave the country on these jacqueline virga looks at the inconsistency of the u.s.

policy in syria. 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 common sense 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 so when the controversy a 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 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 on 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 elipse 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 you an estimate about ten thousand. terrorists and their affiliates it is a province only us congressman ron paul believes washington is willing to use these terrorist groups just so long as it benefits u.s. policy in the country. the evidence is out there that we are playing too many games with they are they because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and. it is it's a haven there and we're on their side. the pragmatic reason for this is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that

we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. which is far east around three hundred thousand soldiers and thirty six thousand military vehicles have been put through the paces they've been taking part in the longest military drill seen for decades. one of the most anticipated exercises of the boats talks two thousand and eighteen war games. we've seen almost everything from the last almost full missions rushing that simulated enemies to these helicopters and jets dropping that big and defense missiles crisscrossing the sky with trails. a little naval action.

formation during the time with. the support. serve speed pushed in the battle. live what's remarkable here is the level of coordination required to keep everything running smoothly with showmen even with a tree branch said he called his jets as well as troops from multiple countries china goalie of from russia and in such a confined and small area of course the exercise is simulated but the difficulties faced field will translate it's a real combat experience. live

. live . live. now that the beach is speed it is a hypothetical mine's here called the big boys that's literally a 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 both in money and death but but the experience knowledge gained is invaluable. so the trial moved to prevent foreign interference in the upcoming u.s. midterms. the details after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other 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 hawks. trump has announced plans to tackle foreign interference in u.s. 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 voting the crucial

midterms in november seen as the main reason for the timing of the order and event meddling is proven sanctions will be imposed they target sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense. 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 which of a medicine 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. very where. when you take. your seat you can see because i know. 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 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 of what has happened many centuries ago my children will not pay for the sins of the fall fathers in your hand as case of 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 then summer in the kalahari desert i did a question of reporting from the kaluga region so much for the latest and often.

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to. an investigative documentary. ghost war. two thirds of american households to a lot have five hundred dollars. that's crazy you know population doesn't have money and your money maintaining thirteen carious around the room why why did you change your policies and do something that is good for the lake and to school and good in the long run. previously on the great american pilgrimage little or right i wanted to fill our members we could own our own businesses let's learn how to forgive and let's find a way so that our children and their children have a better than what we have today. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin i want to ask

hollywood guy usual suspects every movie proud american first of all i'm just as george washington and r.v.'s to see uncle still enjoy the big boy because this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we'll she's a little bit different i'm honest i want to know now that they're willing to windows up last but not least my larger than life. peter knight and aspiring star rio with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have some fun. meet every day americans call it what's america. suffered the most and see how things got so crazy i was make and. keep my finger on hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.

our loan hero makes his way through the midwest in hopes to reunite with max and all. also continue on the pilgrimage of known max lost in chicago stephen has a new copilot look rio we're in chicago. and i'll tell you something else right now rio i like big cities brother for new yorkers read what i like come to chicago i've got a lot of old friends here we've got great deep dish pizza. and look at. it i think to both of us we need a little cleanup i'm going to have to find a partner shop and hope that your buddy can find something for you to do get all cleaned up nice and pretty sound good. in search of a barber shop stephen finds a cornerstone in the sell side neighborhood to get cleaned up and speak with the owner to get his perspective on what's happening in america. but after noon

also big brother thought i have to hurry home good sir love to get cleaned up if you have some availability i got a man standby ready for you but i got a young lady we're going to give you shampoo first if you're going to go free thank you to me a favor have a seat with your righty thanks. while waiting steven decides to vote.