no joke survivor charlie raleigh says he is being kept in the dark on the british investigation into the poisoning that killed his partner last year he met with russia's ambassador to the u.k. . his brother. is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive any. massive fire sweeps through an apartment block in central paris after an explosion believed to have been caused by gas stored on a balcony rescuers say there are no serious injuries. wiki leaks obtains what it says is a press strategy agreed to by ecuador and the u.k.

to be used in the event with the leaks founder julian assange extradited to the u.s. fueling rumors that the whistleblower is about to be expelled from his embassy refuge in london. and more than forty. are arrested in france during a twenty first consecutive weekend of civil. broadcasting a live director of this is. thomas glad to have you with us we start with news from central paris a powerful explosion has hit an apartment block causing a large fire near the rosa parks railway station if they say there are no serious injuries but at least twenty seven apartments have been destroyed the blaze is now under control a spokesman for the fire brigade says the blast may have been caused by gas containers. stored on

a balcony. which in gears now a man who survived another child nerve gas attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dark on the country's ongoing investigation charlie rally whose partner died in the incident last summer spoke to the russian bassett or to the u.k. alexander go honey she reports. feeling so many of his questions well that's set by the u.k. government charlie really has reached out to you and met with the russian ambassador to the u.k. he's lost his partner and is suffering from the terry orating health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say any ascript how lost it by what was said even though of agent to be charged meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. literally eighty percent

of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable they're ordinary people reading british newspapers what could they know and what they're offered by the press so it's good to have an alternative point of view and understand rush's line of reasoning charlie rowley and his brother had virtually no info on the questions we directed at the british authorities over the script case they don't understand why we're not allowed to make this group files i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group tells three hours prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this nerve agent it was all news to charlie and his brother most of the information they had they had read in the newspapers and i got the impression that both the family of dawn sturgis and that of charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the pain amesbury and what happened in solsbury before they never received any official reports for many months now mr rowley and dawn's family received very little

information about the course of the investigation so little that don't some center latta to the russian president saying that he felt let down by the u.k. government and you're the family of the late dawn sturgis once first and foremost to see the investigations conclusions russia wants the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results what led charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the. british authorities another point missed a very racist is that he felt his reputation was affected by u.k. press describing him as homeless when he was simply a british citizen charlie and his brother very nice people the first thing they told me was that the british press misrepresented them. this is not the case charlie wants me to get this message across to russian woody and says the russian ambassador meanwhile says there's so much left to announce it but i wish we have

plenty of questions regarding the cremation of misjudges because it destroyed all proof make it impossible to examine the results of those investigations that have been carried out by the british authorities everything the u.k. authorities have done the needs rechecking including how these people were treated now moscow was accused of and house repeatedly denied all involvements to do with last year they've offered to cooperate with british authorities many times but that's something that's constantly tonights by london and the u.k. government to still made little to no evidence public charlie rose lee on the other hand says that he just wants to die. a quick recap of the two novacek cases in the u.k. charlie rowley and his partner don sturgis fell sick in amesbury in late june last year initially police suspected a drug overdose star just passed away a week later and in march two thousand and eighteen the screwballs were poisoned in the city of solsbury in that case both survived u.k.

blamed russia for the two attacks although no evidence was produced russia denies any involvement and last mark mccauley believes that riley will not get any help from the british government. well you could thought it would say that they did not poison him they will say we are not guilty of that we believe that the poison came from russia and therefore it's very regrettable and probably want to do british government point of view we were not the instigators of his illness and unfortunately he's dial it in a poor state of health. and he has every reason to complain but a country how it can really go any forward in a way forward now because the british authorities say we were not responsible for the well the poisoning. a powerful explosion has had an

apartment block in central paris causing a large fire the authorities say there are no serious injuries but at least twenty seven apartments have been destroyed fire crews say the fire is now under control a spokesman for the fire brigade says the blast may have been caused by gas containers stored on a balcony the moment of the explosion. a moment of part of the explosion was caught on camera. ah. had. crossed alexander's a generous offer who is in here the scene of the fire alexander what can you tell us. well i think leaders say and for a last hour days that near new signs of spring meet in the basin of water fires you can see the situation we want to control now the whole area is still blocked by the police and that's still a lot of the problem in the area i can clearly see that but it's the elite and then

chief on the third shift and probably a good six four and on there's all of the building because the firefighters are still looking for the source of the initial the commission and probable thought source of the explosion now on the fish information from the spokesperson for the firefighters we know that that's possible that it was a low point of the gas tank used for the barbecues in the balcony. i think slowly this is even possible but. thank you new year's. victims there is no. great we can remember the previous gas explosion. back in january and it was actually people. which. also wasn't. being injured. so now we know we can see the situation

seriously but it's wayne wider watched. all right thanks for keeping us updated on the story if anything develops we'll come back to you so that switching gears now wiki leaks says it has obtained a press strategy agreed upon by ecuador and the u.k. in the event wiki leaks founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. the whistleblower was granted asylum in ecuador as embassy in london in two thousand and twelve rumors are circulating that he is about to be expelled and potentially handed by britain to america according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim a song broke the terms of his asylum within the u.k. giving assurances it will not let in the u.s. sentenced him to death. now u.s. officials have repeatedly called for a songe to be prosecuted for publishing classified material including intelligence and military files but assad has supporters say he is doing crucial work and must be protected. but it was the obvious it's not possible to mistreat someone this way

just because he revealed news that by their village and powerful people and as a publisher he has revealed all kinds of human rights violations war crimes are misinformation needs to get out united states says that they're defending democracy around the world and they're not doing democracy at all really the united states is is. trying to silence people on the good of who are revealing what's happening and julian assange is just the person who made it possible for those people to be heard. now much has changed in ecuador since assad was granted asylum almost seven years ago including relations with washington. story. thank you for the gracious welcome you showed to be my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are huge. tree ice. and what a beautiful video what

a beautiful welcome maybe that's the reason the u.s. vice president was pacified enough not to call out names when he brought up the dark times in the u.s. ecuador friendship while visiting president lenin moran oh in quito price your election our nations did experience ten difficult years were up people always folk loose but our governments drifted apart though that was clearly a jab at someone who proudly stood up against america's whip cracking hand while in charge of the small south american nation just think of how rafa korea sheltered joy in a songe what a slap in washington's face that was imo though with given diplomatic asylum to do in the sun softly exhausting all means want to guarantee that he's not extradited to the third country which could put his life in danger to life of misters sons is a true it's

a life sentence which is being dead or alive under lenin maranoa who was are radically praised by outgoing leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly changed mr carette even ended up calling his successor a traitor absolute. to the united states is doing. what it is let's look at what he could have meant by that. the first signal joyous could soon be shown the door at the embassy in london was when the american media reported president moran oh had once met donald trump's former campaign boss paul man afford it was claimed mr moran no was trying to negotiate concessions from the u.s. like debt relief and exchange for. kicking the whistleblower out back then would lead to nothing but today it's clear he's not a fan of assad yet us bases so you know that too many times mr sanchez violates the greenman we keep gauges and so he and i was unhappy with him. as

a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafa carette was known as a staunch ally of it as well as nicolas maduro while for ecuador's current president someone else quite well known as the true leader in caracas i have spoken with president hu on i've invited him to ecuador to receive the affection and support of a people he loved more chrissy. mr chorale was on a mission to rid his country of uncle sam's folks step by step he first refused to extend the lease of an ecuadorian air base to the americans beyond two thousand and nine and then told all u.s. military attaches to leave the country and two thousand and fourteen only a few years later sam is coming back the governments of ecuador and the united states decided to resume bilateral military cooperation training and assistance to

contribute to ecuador's ability to combat shared threats. wonder corrals moves were annoying those in charge in d.c. to say the least so starting from two thousand and fourteen millions of us aid cash stopped flowing ketones way under mr moran the box of freedom are slowly starting to find their way back today i'm pleased to announce that the united states who support that effort to root out corruption merely want to have million dollars to support your efforts. to end corruption and strengthen civil society in ecuador it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in. our human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes a songe is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the us. i would suggest it's highly likely that the us government has been putting pressure on the government of

ecuador and we know that president moreno in ecuador himself is under huge pressure his popularity has slumped to about seventeen percent the new york times reported that president moreno had offered to handover a sanch to the u.s. in exchange for debt relief so i think there is something much deeper going on here and it would be a great great shame if ecuador bowed to american pressure and gave up the important principle that a citizen of its country a political refugee who'd been granted asylum should be handed over to a foreign power to face draconian charges cooked up by a secret grand jury the content of which is not known to anyone that would be a very very grave step to take. more news after a break to watch more to international.

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this is r t international now more than twenty thousand yellow vest activists have been rallying in cities across france for a twenty first consecutive weekend riot police were out in force using crowd control weapons in paris at least forty three people were arrested ahead of this. country's constitutional council an old government plans to ban certain individuals from protesting saying the measure would grant police excessive powers but other parts of a crackdown on the rioters were approved as are too strong. bensky explained a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional

council has ruled that named yellow vests protesters card to be banned from taking part in the continued demonstrations the council the last word on this said plans to give the power to authority would give officials excessive latitude the provisions leave therefore it is too much leeway in assessing of the reasons that may justify the bad so called anti breakers' law was passed here in france as part of measures to try and control the week the protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and fierce clashes with the police so much so that some cities have banned them.

the streets destroyed buildings set alight causing motorcycles torched the damages costs of two hundred million euros to the french economy with businesses tearing their hair out even french banks waded into the debate calling for an end for more than four months hundreds of local branches through central links and local life has been targeted vandalized pillaged and bank offices physically threatened it is time for everyone to condemn acts committed against the bank we must quickly put a stop to this unbridled and unjustified violence and it's not just the destruction of towns and cities that has made the headlines since november seventeenth thousands of people have been injured some suffering life changing injuries. oh. oh. the

front feet if you keep it he gets to feel the need to feed it up. while some protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music to there is the council about held other controversial elements of the break is your meaning that more severe penalties for organizers of north weiss demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right to search individuals and vehicles in the demonstrations in a bid to prevent objects being brought in that could be used as weapons. arty paris. the yellow vest movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and a decline in living standards philosopher. believes the aims of the protesters are

too vague to succeed. let's not fall into these oh. we don't eat. yes they protest. three flow deemed view we. need to go to the open who really. we should never forget that they were the. most oh oh look all of the people that were steve and steve is this thirty year old the. israelis are gearing up to elect took their next prime minister and as polling day looms one predominantly arab party is begging people not to vote for those who have blood on their hands something some contenders have been boasting about in their campaign videos.

luckily he was like yeah that's mary and government that are sort of her usual and i'm not going to buy us on the again little thing they've got now mythic i. know they didn't know they certainly. know that people in the polls. yes you know that. one of the runners in the race to be prime minister is former chief of the israeli defense forces benny gantz he released a series of short videos under the slogan only the strong when in them he boasts about killing more than thirteen hundred terrorists including a hamas military chief and talks of how he returned parts of gaza to the stone ages the two thousand and fourteen bombing campaign and this comes at a time of heightened tensions but. in israel and palestine last week gaza marked the first anniversary of the so-called march of return protest movement since the

demonstrations began in march two thousand and eighteen one hundred ninety five people have been killed and almost twenty one thousand injured israel maintains that casualties arise because of the actions of hamas or in self-defense. the. professor of political science at zeit university in the west bank assad says the shift to the right in israeli politics is being facilitated by geo political factors. the whole israeli public is demanding more to us that i hate that i tunes

out of florida sheen and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around between seven hundred thousand two hundred thousand settlers in the west bank and those that have a huge influence on the israeli parties and all disarray to society itself so the tendency towards the right tendency for more violence against the palestinians is a quite natural thing know what days we got this with elections or not the elections but with elections it would appear more to gain the support of the right wing and set the votes so they have to show that they are tougher than even the government this is part of sometimes the hypocrisy of the international community is quite clear that when we are talking specially about europe they said it quite clearly oh what interest as europeans with the americas is far more important to us than the human rights embody stein so it's quite quite you know a huge message to meet with the israeli public that you can do whatever you like

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