it is claimed an american born u.k. financier may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer sergei magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on a death which drew global attention nearly a decade ago. also this hour censorship policies put facebook back in the spotlight after a heinous bidding page sees a teenage bride from south sudan auctioned off for cattle and cash. and a popular russian cartoon is accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world.

this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now there's a fresh development in the investigation over the death of anti-corruption lawyer sergei magnitsky nearly ten years ago prosecutors are looking into whether his killing was organized by his former boss the british based financier william browder. expose. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of quantock poisoning with the toxic water soluble aluminum compounds taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research of these compounds have been conducted especially by the us france and italy we have to understand who is mr magnates and who is mr browder the latin america born u.k.

hedge fund manager had a huge business in moscow in the ninety's and early two thousand russia believes not very clean he was charged with nine years in prison in absentia for tax fraud so game admits he was his lawyer and top tax advisor and obviously russia considered him to be involved in mr browder criminal activity and he was arrested hand died in a pretrial detention under controversial circumstances william browder known for his decade long campaign against russian corruption accused russia of killing magnitsky who had testified against the country's tax authorities and police he used this case to lobby the so-called magnitsky act to sanctioning russian officials implicated in corruption and now prosecutor general office here in moscow ease practically forward mirror accusations saying that the death of that game against he was in fact in the interest of william browder covering his dirty

financial schemes and adding that they are opening an investigation into that it has been in the news for year is the trash it is accusing william browder of money laundering and fassel mint and now prosecutor general office opened a criminal case into organizing trans national criminal networks for these purposes let's take a listen. for a long time russia's prosecutor general together with the investigative authorities have been seeking to prosecute. william browder and other members of an international criminal network organized and led by him this network was created in russia in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven and continues to operate today to carry out serious economic crimes both on russian territory and abroad this is a very serious crime here in russia if guilty mr brough did may face up to twenty years in greece and it would be fair to mention that mr brough to himself believes

that all these is politically motivated he rita rated many times that tooting personally stop him prosecutor general office has also sad that russia will soon hostile mr brown had to be extradited since these type of crimes covered by the un convention it was also added that some time ago a huge file about mr brough those crimes by the thousand alone documents had been handed over to u.s. authorities but russia never received any on certain. human rights activists sources own during the alarm over a teenage bride auction that was held on facebook aren't usually about trying to has more it's twenty eight seeing we're well into the twenty first century but in south sudan you can still buy a teenage bride for a few hundred cals three jeeps and ten thousand bucks this isn't from a fresh ad on a billboard somewhere in the sudanese savannah the auction and wedding are done and

over with and guess where the bidding happened on facebook. any form of human trafficking whether posts pages ads or groups that coordinate this activity are not allowed on facebook and so they took the auction posts down good job facebook just one problem like i said the wedding dress had been worn and it took days and days for the tech giant to act now this is how the family tried to impress the bidders by pitching the girl's height the kids of the winner are guaranteed four n.b.a. slots and among the competing want to be husbands are said to have been local government officials they need to be suspended from their office and have risen full of it in this ng also lead to needs to be held accountable that a girl could be sold for marriage on the world's biggest social networking sites is

beyond belief. yes most of the activists fury was about how an entire online auction campaign could happen all facebook's radar so let me give you a quick reminder of some of the do's and don'ts on the network facebook is off limits to you got it fake news and it's up to some mysterious fact checkers employed by the tech giant in america to decide what's good for you to read and what's not also among the stuff that's been banned by zox people are posts featuring the paintings of peter paul rubens because of nudes in them even though he's one of the most remote artists of the seventeenth century or this story on the starving children in yemen by the new york times for the same reason in that case concerns over facebook's image posting policies at least for some while outweighed concerns over a disastrous famine in a war torn country well we'll see if they're as alert next time someone tries to

sell a teenage bride for cattle the response from facebook is oh we took it down as soon as we found out but clearly the implication there is that they still despite you know so many similar stories of things that shouldn't be on facebook being on facebook for too long as far as i can see so far there's been no concrete answer from facebook as to how they're going to show that this doesn't happen again and for it to have been out there for days while this whole gruesome process was completed. seems you know it's a mystery something that should take much more responsibility for and spend more of the profits are not actually making sure the foam is safe and is no abuse to the sake of human trafficking. sitting the kids in front of the t.v. to watch cartoons should be a safe bet to keep them quiet for a bit just make sure they're not being covertly programmed with propaganda some

western news reports claim a globally claimed russian series is trying to influence young minds his art his job. and that little sweetheart was matia from the cartoon in the bare originally russian the series has been translated into dozens of languages and won the hearts of millions across the globe but it turns out there may be a sinister side to the enduring little girl and her protective hat trying to. see now what russia has forgotten to mention there is that some cartoons are in fact evil putin propaganda yep according to a times u.k. article moshe is just another putin pop it is funny steep. but also a plucky she punches above her weight is no fun face to see is putin ask but it

seemed to be particularly worried about one scene and a single episode or moshe's seen wearing a soviet border guards hat. apparently that's meant to be a statement on russia's defense of its borders but even if we say that's true what kind of kid would pick up on that but hey it's best to start when they're young right the studio behind this propaganda masterpiece of course denies being influenced by the kremlin's hand saying they received no state funding but we did a bit of digging and found some ominous signs you simply can't ignore here comes the kremlin for all of two seconds that could easily be interpreted as a soviet red star described as an innocent christmas decoration and you may not realize it but the weird hat that must go. on here is a traditional russian hat now i know those examples aren't so much propaganda as they are just random russian things but that's all we could try but worry not it turns out the bear itself is a representation of russia as

a whole you see bear you think russia right the base symbol is russia it's a fact it's a struggle for the minds part of a hybrid exposure in which a negative image of russia is replaced by a positive oh the horror the horror that you know what your children are being exposed to and can protect them accordingly. the bear are not coming to invade your home. and the hybrid. british empire just sums up american decadence that's a. minute i want you to there you they don't seem to be particularly indoctrinated. are you really really want to read about how masha that is true to his property and. the like and i watched two episodes in there when i was nine and i suddenly became

a quitter he speaks russian. members of the world chemical weapons watchdog are locking horns over a plan to broaden its powers back in june of vote went in favor of allowing the o.p.c. w. to apportion blame but russia and china are among the countries against them of. opposition on the proposal made in june is that in downing the o.p.c. dubey with the functions is not meant to have would constitute an infringement on the un security council's powers. decision in front of us today and let's be very clear. what was agreed by suggesting it was not comply with the convention is simply not true coming from the russian federation. i might be euphemistic can say ironic but frankly it is pungent hypocrisy. what have they done for the last few years. but to connive with their syrian ally

trying to bury the truth of what has happened in syria alongside dad from the use of chemical weapons by the assad regime the delegations present at the conference are told to vote for everything proposed by the western group and a number of times those delegations of come under psychological pressure from the same countries this is ample evidence to the extent of hypocrisy it's open lies and hostility on the part of those delegations may be the united states side would like to ask questions about the lives of syrian people but i believe that they lie when they say they really care about victims in syria between the times terse diplomatic language used in the chamber it's fairly clear to see that there is a split in the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons right now and that's a place pretty much goes down the lines of the u.k. and united states on one side china and russia on the other and at the root of the

split is the proposal that was voted through narrowly in june of this year that was put forward by the united kingdom would give the o.p.c. w. extended powers that would give them the power to identify perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks now russia says this goes against the charter which created the the o.p.c. w in fact saying it would step on the toes of the the un security council which currently has those powers that in turn was described as a contingent he's called crissy by the u.s. ambassador the russian permanent representative to the o.p.c. . he said russia's western partners were doing their best to undermine russia's. proposals considering all the tricks our so-called partners use we understand they are really afraid but they do all this if they weren't afraid

unfortunately we see that our american colleagues are continuing their conflicting line and we're used to it they already left the paris climate accord the iran nuclear deal and now they're attempting to derail the whole p.c. w.'s of the russian ambassador calling for that vote means that they wrapped up on a monday evening with that vote hanging over us it will be sorted out on tuesday morning we're expecting to see everybody back here in the hague brighton early to try and get into an end of this current impasse trouble for a truce or may and of the brags that after a short break stay with us. i don't think the democrats are much mood to negotiate with the republicans or president so i think people are going to have to acknowledge that the united states over the next couple years is going to be consumed even more so by or internal our

turtle bickering in affairs and. the path of china as economy in the last fifteen years is different than other countries emerging that were once emerging economies that became big economies like united states did the same thing they were export exporting it with unfair advantages until they got big and then they transition to a consumer economy so china and britain before then did the same thing so china is just following history and now they want to become a big consumer economy and so far so good. join me everything on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back this is our team international now the british prime minister will head to brussels this week to try and seal the deal over brags that the u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth next year just over four months away after that two thousand and sixteen referendum that left the british public bitterly divided on the issue the other twenty seven east are expected to sign off on the so-called divorce papers and european representatives have been giving some positive vibes that the deal will finally be concluded this week. just to brief the ministers who do you twenty seven and agreement to reach the last week negotiators level and a draft to reach through or agreement as well as on the outline of the particular correction on the future ownership we are in fact at the decisive moment in this process no one no one should lose sight of the process the progress that would

mean a to brussels and you no longer. i am pretty that ministers today is too poor to overall package globally speaking this deal is fair and balanced we want an orderly exit of you came and to you twenty seven stand behind that united but theresa may is struggling to get support for back home where it has led to a raft of government resignations and party plans to oust her from ten downing street after one of her toughest weeks yet as pm may said that getting rid of her would not make it the braggs it talks any easier it's actually about what's right for the country and as far as i'm concerned i would be distracted from actually the important job in this critical week against the asians and making sure we do get that final good deal for the country but you know a change of leadership at this point isn't going to make and against nations uneasy and it's not going to change the parliamentary arithmetic. all right some of the biggest criticism of teresa mayes e.u.

divorce plan comes from within her own party at least twenty five a conservative m.p. say they have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister forty eight are needed to trigger a leadership vote. and it is taking a toll on the party of the tories are slipping in the polls as bridget supporting voters lose faith in the p.m.'s plan it's seeing the opposition labor party take a three point lead and ramping up pressure for a snap election we spoke to strategic and political analyst paolo who says the e.u. might be backing this deal simply to move on from bragg's. dealy itself is a sort of a program money deal so it says that they've agreed to to be done. that meanwhile nothing will open it is a major effect of the same merger is said that probably is everything will be postponed up to two thousand and thirty two so what happens between now and two thousand times to use a sort of a leg or insufficient in which the decision is due to take a it looks like. if the european union leaders in particular who is also his

own believe the last year ations was to get a treaty of these some of these the files and so say the job has been done and it really just been sealed and that's it sir let's move ahead and he can feel free to move to other positions as you know spies to do to say to the extent even in the u.k. there is this sentiment amongst these critics issues a sort of a daunting case for the entire structure of these decisions. so let's go to our breaking news story in the united states right now authorities in the u.s. city of chicago say that four people including a police officer are in critical condition following a shooting at a hospital on monday medical officials have said that the attack is over and that all the patients are safe according to police the suspect is dead however they have not released any information about the individuals identity it's also unclear

whether the assailant took their own life or was killed by police here's how witnesses describe the events. chaos you are seeing a very sort of that's what it was like we were sold as some have been terrible outside. and. our first goal was to start getting patients out of the rooms and i grabbed who i could took them to safety and locked them in. and that's when i just heard you know the noise from behind the doors and everything started. i never park in line not the not hospital so obviously those shooter or shooters had to retreat in the hospital because we will flock there we were barricaded near that sofa while playing a poor death out you go polies tarrant in the parking lot and they start soon at the police vehicle which caused the police vehicle to have the rebar they pulled around so the area where we were and then to detect those who are dealt with d.n.a. came in through the day gone but they had to keep ducking because the person is

still still not bill still should file then you could sell this morning. monday marks a milestone on the completion of a major black sea gas pipeline project with the russian and turkish presidents announcing a key off shore line has been finished artie's with has more. the completion of the portion of the turkish stream is in didn't of itself a milestone politically and economically this is the new chief object to be speaking nine hundred kilometers of pipes two pipes running together laid under the black sea at depths of up to two kilometers under the under the sea itself certainly this is done very quickly and let me put in expressed hoops that the land pollution of the pipeline will be made just as quickly as to with the pipelines themselves they have a fruit put a combined throughput of thirty billion cubic meters of gas

a year that is enough to keep twelve million european households heated supplied with energy with natural gas for a year so certainly that is a huge amount of energy that europe is now going to be getting from an alternative source the presidents of russia and turkey who met again to mark the occasion both expressed optimism that this is only just the stuff to talk them we and our russian partners have now come to the final stage of the project this is a project we've put a lot of effort into russia is a long term reliable partner and a very important natural gas supplier. but i want to thank the president of turkey it's good mr. gun. if. the but i. believe he just google you for his political will and courage why

because projects like this can't be realized without it under increasingly competitive conditions. over the last year was so glad to be a putin has been a frequent guest here with turkey whether it be face to face meetings with the president will try lateral meetings including iran. three countries have helped establish group b. c. spies in syria set up demilitarized zone and through their agreements their efforts a military invasion of. by the syrian government was averted were godless both leaders have remarked time and time again that russian and turkish relations are on the up and up that they're breaking new we leveled with the construction of nuclear power plants new gas pipelines multilateral agreements economic political and military and again they both hope that these relations will continue to improve . president donald trump has launched into

a twitter tirade against pakistan claiming that the country is continuing to take billions of dollars in aid from the us but giving nothing in return in one of his posts on monday the us leader pointed to the example of bin laden who took shelter in pakistan trump said that despite washington giving islam a bad billions america was never told he was living there pakistan's alleged unwillingness to fight terrorism led the u.s. to cut eight hundred million dollars in military aid this year. we're supporting pakistan we give you one point three billion dollars which we don't give them any more by the way i did it because they don't do anything for us they don't do a damn thing for us our prime minister has hit back at projecting the accusations that he has supported terrorism imran khan and tweeted that his country has paid a huge price for its involvement in america's war on terror he says tens of thousands of lives have been lost that its economy has taken a huge hit and if the us has only sent

a minuscule amount of aid despite that political analyst bruno told us that he believes pakistan is wholly reliant on washington support. pakistan needs american aid need american aid from the very day it was born in one thousand nine hundred forty nine or forty seven sorry. americans have lots of heat into pakistan since the fifty's so. it's very difficult for them to come to combine a strategy that gets rid of the problems of the terrorists and at the same time helps pakistan's bottom line but that means they have to think of themselves first i don't think trouble be able to keep up the semblance of cutting off aid for too long because pakistan is the central piece in this strategy even as big as it is we have a confluence of interests coming to play which will keep the americans. force the

americans to get back to pakistan. when it does it for me i'll be back in let's say thirty four minutes of the news you are watching are to international so it's. when lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent.

we can all middle of the room signals. to leave the room i mean real news is really. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to press. you to do right to be cross this is like the forty three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. sydney. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy 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 on the path and shouting past each other that

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. come. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle brags that and high drama the saga continues also the cia says it has high confidence they know who killed the shogi and it's at high noon for julian assange on.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have. a political analyst with international and we have glenn decent he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia are a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let's first go to brags that. it's everything is in flux right now we have a number of resignations we have the tory party that seems to be in chaos we will know more as the week progresses here but mark it seems to me and you know i'm i didn't read all five hundred plus pages here but what i did glean from it is that it appears mays' plan is not

a can it's still in but not completely out of the european union this is not what the people voted for what was your read without reading the full five hundred pages either myself or do you draw your conclusions from the fact that her own breaks that secretary has resided i mean this is her team is falling apart her team is in revolt her party is in revolt the other party you know the labor doesn't seem involved at all. jeremy corbyn. ship that they're perfectly willing to see mayes government go down in flames at this point and i don't blame of it at the same time she's sticking to her guns we'll see how this story develops right here but it's not i mean i think the most important point here is it here is that this is not what the electorate voted for it is a appears to be a halfway measure.