oh. the netherlands claims that it followed a russian intelligence led cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog while london accuses russia of high profile hacks including on russia itself. baseless claims hypocritical bodies abuse situation unjust 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 un's top court. and in france butchers have written to the president amid a wave of attacks on slaughterhouses by animal welfare activists demanding help to prevent a possible civil war. you're

watching r t international bringing you your live news update this hour welcome to the program britain and the netherlands claimed they foiled cyber attacks by russia and international groups have been quick to join the accusations the has already expressed its concern along with nato chiefs. are you up for a show and targeting the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons today's announcement by the direction of the british governments have exposed russia's indiscriminate campaign. tactics around the world russia must stop this reckless. behavior by the russian government needs to. international law in this way that will be consequences that they will be.

live now to point out in london with the details polly what is russia accused of now. well investigators in the hague today said that the four russians that had recently been expelled from the netherlands were in fact hock is with the g.r.u. that's russia's military intelligence agency and the allegations excuse me related to applaud that was orchestrated back in april which is notably they said the time when the investigation into the poisoning of sergei powell was taking place and these hackers allegedly were attempting to hack into the o.p.c. w. and the laptops that they seized from them from the group had been used in brazil switzerland and malaysia previously to that and investigators provided images of these four alleged g.r.u. agents they say that they had diplomatic passports among them there was an i.t.

expert in a supporting agency they'd hired a car and they were scouting locations from where to conduct this alleged hijackers and the british ambassador to the netherlands also elaborated there and he said that in the wake of the script poisoning the g.r.u. attempted to hack porton down which is the u.k.'s military research lab they also attempted to hack apparently the u.k. foreign office and one of the cs laptops contained also attempts to hack into the investigation into the downing of flight m.h. seventeen so revelations or allegations as the russians refers to them from the dutch and the british appear to have been coordinated today and the u.k. is military defense secretary had some harsh words for moscow as well take a listen to what he had to say. this is the great. actions of the pariah

state and will continue working with our allies to isolate them and make them understand they cannot continue themselves in such a way that was gavin williamson speaking in brussels at a meeting with his u.s. counterpart u.s. secretary for defense to mattison nato defense ministers and the harsh rhetoric all comes off the back of a statement released by british authorities overnight where they say that the u.k. government's. national cybersecurity center has identified that the g.r.u. russian military intelligence is behind a string of major cyber attacks that have taken place actually cyber attacks that we have all heard of the big cyber attack against a wider that's the world anti doping agency they say that happened amidst the russian doping scandal they say that the g.r.u. is also behind the d.n.c. raids that clinton e-mails in the run up to the election of donald trump over in

the u.s. and also they allege that the g.r.u. is behind attacks against ukrainian and russian businesses and transport infrastructure and also hoc against a small u.k. t.v. station so this u.k. cyber agency says it assessed with high confidence that the g.r.u. was almost certainly behind all of those attacks and some of the hacks that have been attributed to russian groups in the past fancied back as porn storm some of these hacking groups but now the british government is saying that these groups are all directly linked to the g.r. use hacking operators and that its orders come directly from vladimir putin's kremlin and interesting that they even accuse the g.r.u. of hacking russian businesses and russian citizens as well. now the russian foreign ministry spokesperson has been speaking this morning and she's already reacted to

this plethora of accusations with some rather strong was of her. by labeling them depending on how you translated from russian a diabolical cocktail of accusations take a listen to what she had to say before you go to a border everything is being mixed indiscriminately as if in a bottle of wine or reach a 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 in london has also weighed in saying that these accusations are crude descended from a shed and also just to finish off the top diplomat for russia in the netherlands the showers affair for russia that has been summoned to the dutch foreign ministry

what is no doubt going to be a pretty uncomfortable chat artie's probably boycott reporting live from london thank you. now the u.k. defense minister stated determination to expose russian cyber attacks follows a similar pledge by theresa may she was speaking in light of a belling count report which claimed to establish the true identity of one of the men implicated in the solsbury poisoning earlier this year gavin williamson also reacted to the findings of the belling cat report after details from it emerged she quickly took to twitter to praise those who had worked on it but this tweet was deleted twenty minutes later without any explanation. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has announced america's 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 becomes the latest in a line of international judicial commitments washington's withdrawing from justice

here. 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 unjust 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 from tel of moves to jerusalem earlier pompei announced 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 iran is attempting to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a waffle actions necessary to protect our national security. iran is abusing the i suggest for political and propaganda purposes this leaves one question how 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 a severe mentioned earlier on wednesday the un international court of justice ordered the us to partially lift its sanctions on iran which were imposed in may in

july to run filed a lawsuit against washington demanding a drop sanctions and compensate for the damage caused to the iranian economy artis roughly video agency asked people in the uranium capital what they think about the international court's ruling. you and your world knows that the u.s. is wiling to build war they don't have the all of their own words they signed the nuclear deal and now they've changed their mind even those problems with our country accepted that this act is a legal donald trump it's crazy 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. this ruling will not please mr trump and his friends and we will see their reaction but it will be futile that if the us acted against human rights the hay grew and is completely sound food medicine fertilizer go towards people's livelihoods they should never have to leave the boat. 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 unaccountable world bodies but the issue with the with the palestine issue and also with the iran issue is that there are 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 you were warned 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 do rule of the law it has proved to be an irresponsible actor. after examining documents from an f.b.i. probe the white house has reportedly found nothing to support the sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee right kavanah but as scrutiny around the scandal intensifies questions have been raised about republican senators being out under pressure by protestors teleporter takes a look. since brett kavanaugh is 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 simic. mr mcconnell you know. what. i'd.

like to believe the reason why. you're becoming like that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on cavanagh a.s.a.p. he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an elevator i love you know you don't leave me i didn't tell anybody and you're coming all we need to get it done they don't matter what you want to tell you don't tell me that might have something down or down. i mean i don't think either you're the only. thing. a pretty awkward elevator moment there's also republican senator david purdue who ran for the restroom after he was confronted with a game project we are how can you not talk to women who have been assaulted how can

you ignore our pleas the thing is though these are not random incidents they were all organized by the very same angio the so-called center for popular democracy and its sister organization and harassing politicians isn't the only thing in their arsenal they've also organized a number of mass protests. that protest alone resulted in over one hundred arrests but liberal organizations aren't only taking direct action against their political opponents demand justice engages in similar activism making dramatic political advertisements the nominee to dismantle the u.s. supreme court accusing cavanagh of sexual assault when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth we can't let breast cancer not decide on our rights for a generation in the us is. wondering how they pay for all that well these organizations

all have one thing in common they're funded by the controversial billionaire george soros styling himself as a so-called philanthropist soros has given millions to liberal causes around the globe and democrats at home in the us. me. his organization has already given over two million dollars to these ladies alone and hundreds of thousands more to the fund that helps make and commercials donald quarter r.t. . still to come france's famous cuisine and its butchers are under attack to the point where they're calling on the president for help details on that story and more after the short break.

what the politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. yourself want to be rich. that's a great. that's what. people are. interested always in the water.

welcome back the united nations relief and works agency which supports palestinian refugees has withdrawn some of its staff from the gaza strip it came amid safety concerns after protests erupted when the agency scaled back operations in the region we spoke to the head of the u.n. agency in gaza who describes how angry demonstrators so. round of u.n. cars there was nasty. two days ago when i was meeting with some colleagues in the hotel here in gaza city because i can meet in my office and when angry demonstrators came and tried to prevent us from leaving that place one car with colleagues got stuck and was surrounded by angry

demonstrators for over an hour fortunately the situation was resolved peacefully that could have been a very nasty incident so fortunately so far no one has got hurt or directly attacked these protests come after weeks of tensions triggered by the u.s. decision to cut its funding to the agency known as the un r w a it now faces a financial crisis but the u.s. says other countries should have share the 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 un r w a's 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 have signed a letter to the secretary of state demanding he reverse the decision they say the move threatens to destabilize the region but the head of the u.n. agency in gaza says funding is just one part of the issue. work would be made

easier if they are stable 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 us and its government the problem is that the international community including the. from my perspective speaking on behalf of the refugees 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. animal welfare activism under the banner meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in france the country is witnessing a spike in attacks on slaughterhouses we spoke to one french butcher who says the

windows of his shop were smashed by vegans. 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. here on the enemy. i took pictures the police arrived i will show you what you want there is the picture of the damaged door. these are the marks on. it is where it says speciesism and these are the rocks they used to smash the glass. his case is one of many including splattering shops selling meat with fake blood setting slaughterhouses on fire and defacing a butcher shop with graffiti the incidents have even prompted excuse me worried butchers to send a letter to the french president emmanuel mccrone in a bid to 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 one of the large corporations only attack small businesses because the people who. does everybody have a snotty only because these. everyone has their own preferences and we must respect the choice. meanwhile but yours have already gained some support from officials with the head of the republican party saying two hundred thousand euro in compensation will be paid out to those affected we spoke to animal rights activists eve barn adel who has mixed feelings about the recent wave of incidents. it's that these activists think that animal rights must be protected similarly to human rights so it's not surprising that the attack slaughter houses and butchers shops if the law authorizes immoral acts then they think what they do is justified in

terms of morality anything that may stop the killing of animals for meat is acceptable but i am not sure whether illegal actions are the best way to promote animal rights the question we should ask ourselves is whether it is an effective way to raise awareness about animal suffering and animal rights if it's a good strategy then we should do it. a russian hockey teams concern for one of its injured female stars has resulted in something of an own goal after pictures it posted of her sparked a sexism debate the star herself though doesn't see a problem. the two the.

little. they are going to get along the way you came as a great surprise to me that this photo of a normal i'm sorry naked bottom the whole of instagram is packed with photos just like it i can't understand why it has triggered such a response the whole keep up posted it because they admired my fat bottom the idea was a simple as that. some

of us have for nexus of data very concept of sexism is not appropriate here parts are hard my child a little bit of sexuality to their predominant female team was the exploitation of my sexuality is approved by me people who like themselves often face a public backlash but what's the point of staying fit good looking and spending the most part of my life in the gym if i can display it no that won't change but. that's a global news break down for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like facebook twitter and instagram for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning. that's our. stock market training at all time highs the debt load peak everywhere as we head to

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of you up into a beautiful for the. on welcome to worlds apart act in haste repent at leisure that seems to be the international community's moto when it comes to leave having enforced regime change in two thousand and eleven some western countries lobbied for a stillborn political agreement in two thousand and fifteen and now push for nationwide elections by the end of this year is libya ready for yet another exercise in the export democracy to discuss that i'm now joined by. former

ambassador to the united arab emirates and the country standing candidate for presidency mr mayor that's good to talk to you thank you very much and welcome to moscow thank you very much and thank you for now you've put forth your account of this not only before the elections were formally announced but even before the legal framework of the constitution has been agreed upon realistically speaking when do you hope to see your name on the ballot. first of all i would like to say that the very act of unknowns in candidacy was a deliberate political act that was meant to encourage the holding of elections quite frankly i think legitimacy is in libya have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have a new digital mysie of a presidency that has the vote of the libyan people and that is why. i did announce the candidacy quite early in march as a matter of fact and if you hope that the elections felt. and i think that that was

agreed and agreed in public in front of heads of state and the whole world community the paris agreement was blessed by the united nations and i feel that the dates in that agreement should be respected and the tenth of that december is the day of the election and i think you would agree with me that holding elections as early as possible would perhaps serve you well politically but you also know that there are many observers. in libya and abroad with no skin in the game who say about the country's not simply ready for that kind of a democratic exercise not right a security wise but in terms of the legal foundations you still have don't have a full fledged constitution. are you putting your political ambitions before the abilities of your country first of all i don't think it is the right of any other nation to determine when we have our lections i think it is in the end as it is the french are a lot harder to know and we have to be very accurate about this it is for libyan

stakeholders the main players in libya who met in paris and it's a libyan agreement that was announced in paris but it's by no means a french agreement it is a libyan agreement and all four parties agreed to the date of december tenth no they also agreed that there should be a constitutional framework constitutional framework does not mean constitution because the temporary constitution the declaration that the. i have is a constitutional framework and as a matter of fact there is a decree number five for the year two thousand and fourteen that voted the whole house of representatives voted for which oppose presidential elections but postponed their date the date was set in paris and we should respect it because we only need deadlines in order to accomplish anything in life at. previous interviews i can see that you are very in a vast that in the concept of legitimacy that is very popular in the west and. a

lot of it here is if you live in the west as well but i struggle to understand what legitimacy really means and war torn countries are going to buy bread let along going to vote as it is a life risk still you know humans are not animals it is not by bread alone that we live and this is actually where it is important especially where. but to tell the people that they should just be content by eating bread and having the basics. not have the basics and leave it no they don't and people people do have aspirations like freedom and they do have aspirations like living in dignity and in a dignified human life and to have that they need to choose their own leadership 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 they should vote for people who will provide the bread and who will provide the services unfortunately we have a party of the status quo people who.