know a child survivor charlie rally 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. is. a 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. and regular leaks obtains what it says is a press strategy agreed to by ecuador and the u.k.

to be used in the event wiki leaks founder julian assange extradited to the u.s. fueling rumors that whistleblower is about to be expelled from his embassy refuge in london. and more than forty yellow best activists are arrested in france and during a twenty first consecutive weekend of civil. broadcasting . this is arch international thomas glad to have you with us now a man who survived a nerve gas attack in the u.k. says he is being kept in the dark on the country's ongoing investigation charlie riley who was partner died in the incident last summer spoke to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander. and she said he has more. feeling so many of his questions whether or not. 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 once a day in a script how lost it by what was said even though i have aged i'll 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 russia'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 piles 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 into one's family received very little information about the course of the investigation so little that don't some center lattitude the russian president saying that he felt let down by the u.k. government you know 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 or lead 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. he raised is that he felt his reputation was affected by the u.k.

press and describing him as homeless when he was simply a british this isn't charlie and his brother a very nice people sometimes 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 russia and what he insists the russian ambassador meanwhile says there's so much left on the lancet but we have plenty of questions regarding the core mission of misjudges because it destroyed all proof thank you 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 and that's something that's constantly tonights by london and the u.k. government is 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 know which are 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 sturgis passed away a week later and in march two thousand and eighteen this group halls were poisoned in the city of salzburg in that case both survived the u.k. blame to russia for the two attacks although no evidence was produced russia denies any involvement analyst martin mccauley believes rowley 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 going to do that we believe that the poison came from russia and therefore it's very regrettable and from a british want to do british government point of view we were not the instigators

wealthy's illness and well unfortunately he's tao it in a poor state of health. and he has every reason to complain but i consciously how it can really go any forward in a way forward now because the british authorities are saying we will not respond well that's what was well the poisoning and the government is sticking to that the reading nothing else i'm not surprised that charlie really was not given any further information because the population in general i don't mean given any more information and the british authorities to this day have said nothing new and also no what is love to contact the script miles we presume they stay they are still alive but that's all we know but we have no details because the public would like to know how it was possible that these groups could be in fact poisoned. a

powerful explosion has had an apartment block in central paris causing a large fire authorities 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 after the fire started the follow up explosion was caught on camera. was. alexander doing ourselves i was near the scene for us. well last. year in the signs of meat in the basement. you can see. now the whole period we still look nice and still. present in the area. needs attention. if. your. over the.

waters and still looking for the source initially commission and probable source of the explosion now well the fish information from the spokesperson. we know that it's possible that it was a portable yes one of the balcony that exploded this is possible but. thankfully there's no. great we can remember the previous gas explosion at the bakery in pirates back in january where it was actually people getting whiter and. doing things and thanks and also dozens or so being injured victims so now right now we can see that the situation seriously but it's way wider and much better it was back in january. says it has obtained a press strategy agreed upon by agra door 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 embassy in london in two thousand and twelve rumors are circulating that he is about to be expelled and potentially headed by britain to america according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim the terms of his asylum with the u.k. giving assurances it will not let the u.s. sentence him to death u.s. officials have repeatedly called for us to be prosecuted for publishing classified material including intelligence and military files but supporters say he is doing crucial work and must be protected. but i want to see if it's not possible to mistreat someone this way just because he revealed news that by their beach 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. who are revealing what's happening and julian the signage is just so the person who made it possible for those people to be heard much has changed in ecuador since assad was granted asylum almost seven years ago including relations with washington are his pull up trying to pick up the story for us. thank you for your gracious welcome shot my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are going to. treat you guys. and what a beautiful video i have beautiful welcome maybe that's the reason the us 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 third countries which could put his life in danger to life of misters sons as it drifts to live sons and switches being dead while alive under lenin maranoa who was 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. who are related

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 in 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 to get out too many times mr sanchez violates the cream and we keep leaks and gauges an espionage and how cute. as a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafael corral was known as a staunch ally of it as well as nicolas maduro while for ecuador's current

president to someone else quite well known as the true leader in caracas i have spoken with president hu on going i've invited him to ecuador to receive the affection and support of a people he loved more crecy. 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 attash 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 tito's way under mr moran the bucks 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. right human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the us. i would suggest it's highly likely that the u.s. government has been putting pressure on the government of ecuador and we know the president. in ecuador himself is under huge pressure his popularity is to about seventeen percent the new york times reported that president moreno had offered to hand over 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 it could all bow to american pressure and gave up the important principle that a citizen of its country a political refugee would be 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 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 the head of this of the 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 dubinsky explains. a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional council has ruled that named yellow vests protest is can't be banned from taking part in the continued demonstrations they canceled the last would only set plans to give the power to authority would give officials excessive last city the provisions leave their foreign. 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 weekend protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and see as clashes with the police so much so that some cities have banned them.

the. streets destroyed buildings set alight causing motorcycles torched the damage has cost him 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 essential 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.

most of the drugs in the capital from it if you will just keep if you. need that help was was. was a great relief but while some protesters. may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music today is the council of held other controversial elements of the breakers law meaning that more severe penalties for organizers of north demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right to search individuals and vehicles near demonstrations in a bid to prevent objects being brought in that could be used as weapons.

arty paris. movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and a decline in living standards philosophers lovely she believes the aims of the protestors are too vague to succeed. lynch mobs fall into these oh. yes. it will be very slow growth you will. need to know who you. are we should never forget there. will be. more open. people but it. is the failure of the day. that israel is the opposition leader is vowing that new time to go actions in his latest

bid to oust president nicolas maduro won by those first move calling for more nationwide protests on saturday that's something that we have seen before however he has not gone into much more detail about what his new actions will involve here's local journalist northstar got from the capital caracas. we are here again where one of the most implemented took up positions sounds of protest today protesters are fighting against the blackouts that has been is striking venezuelans since march the seventh this was a called me by one way to earlier this week he called to venice once to protest every time a basic service fails in the country also earlier this week he created anti arson or surpassing committees he plans to tour the country and plans to gain more support from the venezuelan still he said costs also a u.s. made a new set of sanctions against. around one hundred and fifty one.

officials are sanction let's hear what mike pence has to say about the venezuelan situation at this moment the united states of america sanction venezuela state own oil company paid. and today. we're taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes well it is important to remark that also call for marches to support his government today also nicholas madeira said that this is another intervention and from the u.s. and other mental thing in the business as a band as well up the government of the bolivarian republic categorically rejects the latest us attack on the venezuelan oil industry and its economic sovereignty venezuela believes it's unacceptable cynical and criminal of donald trump's administration to take measures that violate international law as well as economic and commercial principles journalist paul dobson says the latest sanctions won't

actually make much difference be the latest round of sanctions sure what it would not have a great impact here in venezuela venezuela currently exports some of queen twenty thousand to fifty thousand barrels of oil a day to cuba a much more pressing measure from the white house would have been to apply the same measure to for example when as well an oil export to china we are increasing every day and have a serious impact on venezuela books more across the political divide here in venezuela military action it is merely rhetoric and it not seriously being considered by the white house however when you look at the history of the u.s. pressure in latin america and other areas of the world we can see that military action very overt but in definitely one and so would have to be taken in a very real threat by all of those who are looking at the venezuelan situation.

israelis are gearing up to elect 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. that's mary. government. i'm not going to but i will again i will pay in fact i'm not. i think about the day slightly since i have none of the iraqi. police force. has you know that. all right one of the runners in the race to be pm is the 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 in the two thousand and fourteen bombing campaign this comes at a time of heightened tensions between 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 nine thousand injured israel maintains that casualties arise because the actions of hamas or in self defense.

my professor of political science at preside university in the west bank decided namer says the shifted to the right in israeli politics isn't being facilitated by geopolitical factors. the whole israeli public is tending more to us that i hate and that i twins are flawed ashamed and the other reason which is equally important we're 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 on the israeli 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 sometimes votes so they have to show that they are tough on even the kind

of 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 it interests as europeans with the americas is far more important to us than the human rights in palestine so it's quite the quite the you know the huge message to the meet with the israeli public that you can do whatever you like with the best and it can violate however you want and no one is going to hold you accountable for that back with more news in about thirty four minutes stay with us. what you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you so much want to be rich. but you'd

like to be close that's what before three of the more people. interested in the water. there should. be. alone and welcome to world the party in the world of political matchmaking the

european union has long claimed to put values about value creation and that's worked well for a while but now that some countries council a whole new industry in the time it takes the e.u. to come up with a single policy decision is that credo still satisfying for the old members to discuss that i'm now joined by as i hear the president of the european economic and social committee mr year it's good to talk to you thank you very much thank you so much for the musician you often talk about the idea all for a reunion for europe while also praising the enormous success of the european project that's been so successful why does it have to be reborn. many. been totally lost.

and they need to. came exactly. at the end of the middle age. you know the. many are used to say that the middle age was age it was exactly the opposite it was a. dark age and there was a change of the. change of. the u.k. . and leadership of a country that simple. but it's interesting let me focus on this idea. because many historians.

believe that. it was. more. for. what i hear you saying is that. there was a need to. understand. that. you are essentially driven by the. question is that. the first issue that has been. the need to come back to come back. to the. bank.