surely we can risk some discomfort. for. charlie rose 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. . charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive any from. the. massive fire sweeps through an apartment block in central paris after an explosion believed to have been caused by a gas stored on a balcony rescuers say that there are no serious injuries. presses strategy agreed to ecuador in the u.k. to be used in the event wiki leaks founder julian assange was extradited to the

u.s. fueling rumors the whistleblower is about to be expelled from the embassy refuge in london. and more than forty activists are arrested in france during the twenty first consecutive weekend of civil unrest. or broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our two international thomas. be with this man who survived nerve gas attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dark on the country's ongoing investigation charlie rowley whose partner died in the incident last summer spoke to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander. said he reports. feeling so many of his questions well that's not said by the u.k. government charlie rightly so. stout's mess with the russian ambassador to the u.k.

he's lost his partner and is suffering from the terry writing house and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner once a day in lost it by what was said even that 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 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 newspaper and i got the impression that both the family of dorms just charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the pain amesbury and what happened in sol's ri before they never received any official. for many months now mr rowley intones family received very little information about the course of the investigation so little that don't some center lattitude the russian president. the family of the late dawn sturgis once first and foremost to see the investigations conclusion 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 mr verity raised is that things felt his reputation was affected by the u.k. press and describing him as highly. when he was simply

a british citizen 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 russian would he insists the russian ambassador meanwhile says there's so much left to announce it 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 involvement 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 to still made little to no evidence public charlie rose lee on the other hand says that he just wants to die. it quick recap of the two another child cases

in the u.k. and his partner dawn 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 scripts were poisoned in the city of solsbury in that case both survived the u.k. blamed russia for the two attacks although no evidence was produced russia denies any involvement. i reckon i'll bring in alexandra bruno who's an independent international affairs analyst thanks for being with us here on this story as it's unraveling now so as we heard charlie rally told the russian ambassador that he is being given no information on the british investigation it's been more than nine months since the incident so why do you think they're keeping him out of the loop. well they're keeping him out of the loop as much as they're keeping everyone else they informing after all russian. stories about what's going

on are they telling the public what's going on the media has almost always but been silent other than the frequent predictable accusations of russian involvement in this creep bouquets and frankly all kinds of other cases which i think this is part of so i'm not surprised at all that they're keeping him in the loop out of the loop and moreover there are all the other questions related to the. case itself that we don't know has for example the. cousin of. received any information from when she was so prominently asking for information during the. case when it. unraveled. last year so. he's just this is a normal procedure i wouldn't expect anything different so after the meeting the

russian ambassador rowley spoke to the sunday mirror now their headline reads no the child victim charlie riley asks putin's man did you kill my girlfriend that's a quote from their headline now as far as we know and as far as we're aware those were not his exact words to be ambassador and that quote is not really backed up in the article. perhaps taking it out of context what do you make of the way that they are spinning the story. well i'm sure that what happened the crawly had a good meeting with the ambassador and it's difficult for me to obviously not being there for anyone else to to really know what was said however what is clear to me given the entire case going back to us great pile and so gay people. is is that. there is a lot of pressure on people not to talk too much about this case. so crawley

obviously perhaps someone intimated it or he believed it himself given that the media attention and focus on russia's culpability in the u.k. that if he even hinted at believing the concern of the russian ambassador that he would be under pressure and ridicule perhaps he's already complained that he was described as a hobo when. and barely asked the ambassador i read that in the article that yes the ambassador tell the russian people that it's not over so he cares of the somewhat about his reputation and so he susceptible to pressure like anyone else and we know what happens just commenting. on an article in the western media that you don't believe the official narrative on this on a story regarding russia particularly russian involvement in anything from.

scandals in the olympics to syrian chemical attacks and so on if you question this you will be ridiculed so i think anybody under this in the same circumstance would probably be making the similar similar kind of double statements and contradictions well so the sunday mirror says it also helped arrange raleigh's meeting with the ambassador. which is interesting in of itself does it seem like possibly they are using him to fit their own narrative. of course they are anyone to particularly the mirror and if it was the independent i would be less skeptical but. we have a the british media is sort of mild for the most part completely going along with the official narrative after all this case i mean and we have to

question. crawley is just another victim in the disinformation that this case involves the british prime minister within less than twenty four hours from the poisoning which was unclear they had all the answers who did it what did it and there were we don't know what the police investigation is this is this requires a real police investigation the way it's been done so far is something of a cross between mr bean and inspector close. we don't know. you know others have. failed whether he succeeded i don't it's a real. it's a mystery to me and then of course and we haven't gotten into that the biggest role in the whole affair to me the biggest mess is caused by the belling cat website that claims to use open source whatever that is information techniques to

find out what's going on. from ukraine to illustrate parts well so the sunday mirror also calls raleigh is saying that he thinks russia carried out the attack and yet they do not include that in the video of the interview which they posted online so why would they not just post the entire video does it look i mean possibly they could be turned picking information and cherry picking quotes without the full context well that they definitely are but the cherry picking is necessary to continue the narrative particularly and i think we're going to see a lot more of this going on isn't it interesting that this story comes up now just two weeks i believe two weeks after mueller handed in his report that exonerated from from russian collusion and so now we need to bring up russia again and make sure we bring it up again and why not start with this people's after a lot of this and does this information does begin. in the u.k.

from. weapons of mass destruction in iraq and beyond. so i think we're going to see a lot more of cherry picking and to bring. against russia back into the mainstream this is just the beginning and this case the screen poses a case that keeps on giving because no one real investigation that's taking place at the answers were given within hours when and. much simpler cases are take years to so. simple criminal cases so the u.k. has accused russia of carrying out both poisonings in salisbury and amesbury they did so right off the bat before an investigation had even taken place still no evidence has been produced surely they would have shown their proof by now if they had it right. well you would think so but of course they can always claim that the

proof is top secret and that they need to use it strategically at the right moment well. i along with many other people are waiting now that said i have to be clear i don't know who this is i don't know who poisoned. or crowley girlfriend called himself. i just been reading and following and using my own skepticism and. history to to discern that a lot much more is going on behind the scenes here. and much we before we launch any accusations that the suitcase has to be. sought by a police. unit rather than stories of secret agents after all notice all the secret agent paraphernalia that's been thrown around in case we

have the g.r.u. . of all these acronyms the media will like it because the audience laps it up and makes it sound much more official. but then you have to find out who's determined who said that it was g.r. it was spelling the same people by the way who claim had solid proof. in syria the syrian government used chemical weapons against their people when people journalists on the ground like robert fisk years and decades of experience in the middle east determined that he could not find any evidence of chemical weapons but selling cat somehow could so we have to trust them you know that's a ridiculous farce i certainly choose the it's. a lot more questions coming to the table than are being answered in this. well that's for sure allison are burnell independent international affairs analysts interesting for being with

us here on our. a powerful explosion has hit 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. blast may have been caused by a gas container stored on a balcony after the fire started a follow up explosion was caught on camera. catches. me in the signs of need. now. police still. in the area.

of the. wire one still looking for the source initially commission and probable source of the explosion now well the mission information from the spokesperson. we know it's possible it was a well portable yes joint one of the balcony that exploded this is possible but. thankfully there's no need to keep going you can remember the previous gas explosion at the bakery in pirates back in january and it was actually people getting whiter and we like doing things and also dozens. to be in egypt. so now right now we can see what the situation needs. seriously what wayne wider watched. was.

really exists 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 headed by britain to america according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim massager broke the terms of his asylum with the u.k. giving assurances it will not let the u.s. sentence him to death and u.s. officials have repeatedly called for songe to be prosecuted for publishing classified material including intelligence and military files but a saga supporters say he is doing crucial work and must be protected. i'm under the theory of it it's not possible to mistreat someone this way just because he revealed but they're big and powerful people and as a publisher he has revealed all kinds of human rights violations war crimes

i'm this information needs to get out united states says that they're defending democracy around the world and they're not just bending democracy in. the united states is is. trying to silence people for the good of our revealing what's happening and julian the signage is just that the person who made it possible for those people to be heard right much has changed in ecuador since assad was granted asylum almost seven years ago including that relations with washington might easily be tranquil comet's. thank you for your gracious welcome that you have shown to my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are running. the place trip and i just. never knew 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. equity or friendship while visiting president logan moran oh in quito price your election our nations did experience ten difficult years where our people always felt but our government 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 raffle korea sheltered julian assange what a slap in washington's face that was among those. with given diplomatic asylum to do in the sunshine only. to guarantee that he's not extradited to the country which could put his life in danger. who wants of misters sons is a true is a life sentence which is being lived under lenin maranoa who was a radically praised by outgoing leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly

changed mr correia 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 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 van 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 to get out too many times mr sanchez violates the cream and we keep leaks and gauges and spin arjun hacky. 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 ketones way under mr moran help the box of freedom are slowly starting to find their way back today i'm pleased to announce that the united states will support that effort to root out corruption with nearly want to have million dollars to support your efforts. to end corruption and strengthen civil society in ecuador so it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in. human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes sanji 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 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. and 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 be proud 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 ahead of this 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 as r.t. strode 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 exceeds the preview. 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 weekend protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and see as clashes with the place so much so that some cities have banned them.

was that. was good. was. the streets destroyed buildings set alight causing motorcycles torched the damage has cost 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 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. look of the cab driver if you look at. the. top deck of was right. but while this. protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music to they is the council of held other controversial elements of the break is your meaning that more severe penalties for organizers of northwest 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. movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and a decline in living standards philosopher believes that the aims of the protestors are too vague to succeed. lynch mobs fall into these oh. yes but. i would be free flow of you would. need to know who you. are we should never forget that. the. more open our. people receive. is the failure of the day.

venezuela's opposition leader is vowing new tactical actions in his latest bid to oust president nicolas maduro won by those first move calling for more nationwide protests on saturday is something that we've heard before however he has not gone into much more detail about what his new actions will involve his local journalist north 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. venezuelans since march the seventh this was a called me by one way to earlier this week he called to been his ones 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 the u.s.

made a new set of sanctions against us one of these years 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 a visit. and today. we're taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes well it is important to remark that also a call for marches to support its government today also nikolaus madeira said that this is another intervention and from the u.s. and other mental ling in the business is up and as well up the government of the bolivarian republic categorically rejects the latest u.s. 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 right because paul dobson says the latest sanctions won't actually make much difference be the latest round of sanctions sure what i will 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 it's 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 minutes while i hope that military action is merely rhetoric and not seriously being considered by the white house however when you look at the history of u.s. pressure in latin america and other areas of the world we can see that military action very overt and covert indefinitely prominent so would a think.