oh. the netherlands claim it for a russian intelligence led cyber attack on the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons. baseless claims hypocritical bodies and used to show on just prosecution damages the cause of human rights the latest in a series of u.s. withdrawals from international justice commitments sees washington take measures to protect itself from being sued at the u.n. top report. and in france butchers have written to the president amid a wave of attacks on slaughterhouses by animal welfare activists pleading with him to help prevent a possible civil war. this

is our chief international coming to you live from the russian capital with your global news update this hour welcome to the program. dutch security services expelled for russian nationals over an alleged cyber plot in april they allege that the attack was intended to target the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons in the hague. thirteenth of this year and carry out an operation to district. operation targeting the organization for the prohibits prohibition of chemical weapons b. c w the. we're joined live now by polly borger in london for more polly what further details can you tell us about this development. well investigators said that the russians that had been expelled from the netherlands were in fact hackers with the g r u that's russia's military intelligence agency and the cyber plot that

they're legend took place it was in april that's notably around the time that the investigation into the poisoning of again his daughter yulia script powell was taking place and it was targeting this cyber attack the o.p.c. w which is of course russia is a member of the laptops that dutch investigators seized from the group they said had been used in brazil switzerland and malaysia as well and investigators even provided images of these four russian suspects they said that they had diplomatic passports among them i.d. experts and supporting agents and they'd hired a car and was scouting locations from where to tap into this network from the british ambassador for the netherlands to the netherlands rather also said that one of the seized laptops contained evidence of attempts to hack the investigation into

the downing of flight m.h. seventeen as well so these revelations allegations from the dutch and british appear to have been coordinated the u.k.'s defense secretary gavin williamson also had some harsh words for russia today take a listen this is not reactions of a great power this is at the stage and we continue working with our allies to isolate them and make them understand they cannot continue to themselves in such a way. gavin williamson was speaking in brussels while meeting jim mattis his u.s. counterpart the u.s. defense secretary and other nato defense ministers and the harsh rhetoric comes off the back of a statement released overnight by british authorities which says that the u.k. government's national cybersecurity center had attributed a number of major cyber attacks and hacks to the g r u again that's russia's

military intelligence agency and the u.k. cyber agency said it had assessed with high confidence that the g.r.u. was almost certainly responsible for cyber attacks against wada that's the world anti-doping agency that that was the the doping scandal the d.n.c. raid said that was which resulted in those leaks leaked clinton e-mails before the u.s. election attacks against ukrainian and russian infrastructure and institutions and to hack against a small t.v. station here in the u.k. and some of the hacks have been attributed to russian groups before but this is the first time that the british government had said that actually all these groups such as the fancy baz and pom storm they say they're all part of the g.r. used hacking apparatus and it's orders they say comes directly from tragedy putin's

kremlin interesting that some of the hacks are alleged to have occurred against russian businesses and russian infrastructure and russian citizens the russian foreign foreign ministry spokesperson there is a horrible has been speaking already today and she's reacted to this plethora of accusations vary from the netherlands and the u.k. by labeling them depending on how you translate whole words in russian a cocktail of diabolical accusations take a lesson before you go to a border everything is being mixed indiscriminately. as if in a bottle of nina ricci perfume russian military intelligence cyber spies kremlin hackers it's all just one big witches brew the imagination of our british colleagues knows no limits who could come up with all this i'd like to take a look at these hans christian andersen and. the russian embassy here in london has also weighed in they've called the british allegations crude disinfo mation but the

british prime minister to reason may has released a joint statement which is quite unusual with her dutch counterpart the dutch prime minister mark rutte saying that the actions. disregard for the global values and rules that keep us safe and the action today reinforces that the message from the international community is that they'll up hold the rules based international system and defend international institutions from those that seek to do it harm and also important to note one last thing is that the dutch government has summoned the russian top diplomat in the netherlands as the russian shower stuff. to the dutch foreign ministry to talk about these allegations of cyber attacks. saying across that story for us thank you. the u.k. defense minister stated determination to expose russian cyber attacks told a similar pledge by theresa may she was speaking in light of

a belling cat report which claimed to establish the true identity of one of the men implicated in the salisbury poisoning earlier this year gavin williamson also reacted to the findings of that report after details from it emerged he quickly took to twitter to praise those who had worked on it though his tweet was deleted twenty minutes later without any explanation. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has announced that america is pulling out of an optional protocol to the vienna convention a move that could prevent the u.s. from being sued at the international court of justice it's just the latest of several international judicial commitments that washington's pulled out from just this year. the united states will withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c.

baseless politicized claims are brought against us hypocritical bodies and institution i'm just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be worthy of its name we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice artists american takes a closer look at the reasons behind washington's decision to quit this part of the vienna convention national security adviser john bolton tried to justify the withdrawal by portraying the provision as a violation of u.s. sovereignty citing a case brought on by palestine protesting the decision to move the u.s. embassy in tel of new to jerusalem pearlie or pompei or announce to the world the u.s. was leaving a friendship treaty with iran that established diplomatic ties with the country back in one nine hundred fifty five it was apparently a response to the international court of justice ruling that ordered washington to

lift iranian sanctions on humanitarian goods which pompei are described as iranian propaganda. or as attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a lawful actions necessary to protect our national security. and iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes this leaves one question how will the us or any western country be kept in check without an effective international governing body it looks like this will revive a some of those discussions as the mayor just mentioned earlier on wednesday the un international court of justice order of the us to partially lifted sanctions on iran which were imposed in may in july interim filed a lawsuit against washington demanding it drop sanctions and compensate the damage it cost the remaining economy artis roughly video agency asked people to round up what they think about the international court's ruling on doing on the world knows that the us is while eight of the war they don't have an all of their own were they

signed the nuclear deal and now they've changed their mind even those that have problems with our country accepted that this act is a legal donald trump a scrape really crazy what is the same when he doesn't understand what his same. officials and even civilians say we should stand up against america's excessive demands this ruling will not please mr trump and his friends and we will see their reaction but it will be futile of record that in the us acted against human rights the hague rule in is completely sound food medicine thirty was old go towards people's livelihoods they should never have to leave them. we got reaction to the latest u.s. moves from political experts. this is the another example of the united states talking about the rules based democratic order and expecting everyone else to follow it but when it comes time for the united states to follow what you know they just simply change the rules and i'm certainly not a fan of the united states being governed by world bodies and accountable world

bodies but the issue with the palestine issue and also with the iran issue is that at the iran specifically you know we signed this agreement in one hundred fifty five agreed to be adjudicated by the international court of justice and then when they rule against united states we say ok we're going to take our toys and go home it doesn't look good it sets a bad precedent in it also makes the united states to look look look like someone you can't do business with overseas the u.s. warrant to lay sanctions idea i.c.c. as well as a prosecution of its judges would be on the way by the u.s. actually because the u.s. believes that it's an exceptional state president trump is a real manifestation of this wrong idea that the u.s. is exceptional all other nations should abide by the rules and regulations except for the united states so therefore the u.s. is adamant to the rule of the law it has proved to be an irresponsible actor.

after examining a report from the f.b.i. probe the white house has reportedly found nothing to support the sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh but a scrutiny around the scandal intensifies questions about. protesters putting pressure on republican senators to reconsider their support of cabinet have arisen artist on quarter takes a look. since brett kavanaugh his controversial supreme court nomination we've seen a number of political confrontations in the u.s. by concerned citizens who have been looking to give their elected representatives and earful so let me get some accountability what. are you. but the u.s. says that other countries should have shared the financial burden more equally. when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty million in january we made it clear that the united states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of

u.n. costs that we had assumed for many years washington's withdrawal of funding has also faced a backlash at home one hundred twelve members of the u.s. congress signed a letter to the secretary of state demanding he reverse the decision they say the move threatens to destabilize the region we spoke to the head of the u.n. agency in gaza but he says that funding is just one part of the issue. we're able predictable funding arrangements so all the countries that help does this year need to continue this next year and and hopefully we will get more of the problem is not the u.s. and its government the problem is that the international community including the you is from my perspective speaking on behalf of the refugees is not putting enough effort into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have

a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. coming up in the program francis famous cuisine and its butchers are under attack to the point where they're calling on the president for help the details on that story and much more after this short break. what holds an institution to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president enjoy. yourself want to be rich. but you're going to be the person that's what the three of the people that. interest are always at the water's edge.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. this is our two international welcome back to the program animal welfare activism under the banner meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in france which has seen a recent spike in attacks on slaughterhouses we spoke to one french butcher who

says the windows official off were smashed by beacons. the incident happened around three in the morning i came down and saw that the door had been hit in three places they also painted the species it was here on the enemy . i took pictures of the police arrived i was sure you would have you know that there is the picture of the damaged door. these are the marks on. it is where it says it was species it was and these are the rocks they used to smash the glass. and his case is only one of many including splattering shops selling meat i think blood setting slaughterhouses on fire and defacing a butcher's with graffiti the incidents have prompted worried butchers to send a letter to the french president emmanuel mccrone in a bit prevent more violence this is a civil war this gang go on mr president should workers take up arms to defend

themselves and their businesses. and i believe these people should be punished as what. is their lives to define our country he's further dividing us and i'm really concerned about whether this could spill over into the streets. however a new study argues that deep political division in america predate trump by quite some time it looked at the number of bills in congress that were co-sponsored by members from both parties and found that since the seventy's when nixon was in office and divisions were already bad factionalism has only gotten worse and that this hasn't depended on who's in charge this is one of the new study have released a video to illustrate their findings. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the democrats mostly worked together and the republicans mostly worked together but they still sometimes worked across the aisle to passed important legislation here's what it looks like now the democrats and republicans almost

never work together. we discussed the issue with political scientists horst cooper who claims the term political division is currently being exploited by those on happy about the outcome of the last us presidential election the idea that america is divided the way that it is because president is in office is just simply not true what we see instead are a number of activist groups that are very disappointed with the election outcome and just as they were frustrated in the year two thousand and even just as they were frustrated in one hundred seventy two these people on the left side of the political aisle. worked with the move to create the question of disarray that group has been round for more than fifty years the only difference is

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quite frankly i think only just in the season to be have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have a new digital mysie over presidency that has the votes of the debian people people who have aspirations like freedom indeed to have aspirations like living in dignity and quite frankly to deny them the right to vote with the pretext that oh it's not time yet or you don't have bread so you should not be asking for the vote you should vote for people who will provide the bread and who would provide the services. this is bombast broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on all of us i'm part children in washington thanks for

being on board we're glad to have you with us coming up. today as saudi arabia is opening up with reforms many aimed at millennia old player also appear to be shutting down on dissenters as a journalist from the washington post may be being held in a saudi consulate in turkey steve mauls burke joins us to discuss and we've questioned more about the real competition from china artie's dan colon gives us the answer and it's not from chinese high tech as claimed by the trumpet ministrations plus the dow jones industrial average hits a new high and there's lots of auto news we'll be joined by our friends to see you all of the stocks melissa are mo and we've met with so many great and interesting entrepreneurism in boston at the forbes under thirty some of these last few days but we didn't have time to bring them all to you we'll show you one of those today about an interesting start up that is literally out of this world all that directly

ahead but first we get to some headlines let's go to. the u.s. government has been ordered by the united nations international court of justice to lift sanctions on iran that would have interfered with the importation of humanitarian aid the court ruled today that the u.s. government must lift the sanctions that impact iran's ability to import things like food medicine and even airline hearts the court said that any limiting of things like food and medicine would have a serious impact on the health of the people who live in iran while the sanctions on airline and aviation parts would endanger their own.