man they know as bad wolf. the jokes of a child are roly says he's been kept in the 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 anything from the british authorities. in some of the news stories of the week just gone to ukraine ready for a second round of presidential elections after a comedian with no political experience one of the first for getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival the current. spain struggles with an influx of illegal migrants of people smuggling reveals how gangs are cashing in on the prices. people have to get up to the point

they outspent. four thousand four thousand people or two tons of. hungary says it's captured an islamic state commander posing as a refugee the man had been issued with a prepaid debit card for east skiing to help leave cover. good morning life marty's main studio h.q. your moscow this is old news review of the week with me this sunday morning starting more detail on a story this back in the headlines nearly a year on is just mentioned a man who survived a nerve agent attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dog on the country's ongoing investigation about it charlie rowley put all his unanswered questions then to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander. now mr rowley and this. is fairly well you may recall. the city of

amesbury in june last year and actually police suspected a drug overdose but then claimed the couple had been poisoned by novacek just passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr cohen the russian embassy in london artie's nisha sethi reports. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie has met with damaged out to the russian ambassador to london now he has lost his partner to suffering from the terry writing house and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say in your script lost it by what was said to be even if they didn't know we talk 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 because they know only 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 files i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group pals 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 report 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 letter to the russian president. 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. points mr berry raised is that he felt his reputation was affected by u.k. press describing him as homeless when he was simply a british this isn't 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 on the other hand says there's so much left to announce it but i wish we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of miss sturgis because it destroyed all proof making 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

moscow was accused of and house repeatedly denied any involvement in the events last year and offered to cooperate with british authorities many times something that london has rejected now the u.k. government is still made little to no evidence public meanwhile though charlie riley says he just wants and i want to tell you this really is case came just a few months after the poisoning of the russian double agent circus group of his daughter in the city of souls brainier by a march twenty eighth in both survived mr scruples not been seen since the u.k.'s consistently blamed moscow for both incidents though no evidence has been produced for its part russia denies any involvement and says the u.k. failed to cooperate in any joint investigations political analyst alessandro bruno says the media's failing to ask the tough questions surrounding this case. the british media is sort of mild for the most part completely. going along with the official narrative after all crowley is just another victim in the of this

information 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 the we don't know what the police investigation is this is this requires a real police investigation the biggest role in the whole affair to me that's 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 talk of the way the media spending this this weekend you can use paper the mirror published an article following mr rowley's meeting with the russian ambassador it alleges that another chance for you to confronted the envoy with the question did you kill my girlfriend and received only quote russian propaganda in response however says that mr rowley came only in search of missing information and he rushes line of reasoning t.v.

host a political commentator steve malzberg says the headline raise some questions there . the thing here is we have to rely on the newspaper and their account there was a video posted along with the story in the story of the daily mirror and so we could see part of the post meeting interview or press conference i wasn't many members of the press there so we have to take what they say as as the story because nobody else even sky news and others who have written about this quote that from that story it's not like they all had reporters there so the video we see first the ambassador then we see. charlie rally and his brother and it's limited it's only about two and a half to three minutes and it does not have what the headline says he said it does not have what the some of the things that the story says he said does that mean

that they're making it up does that mean they just didn't post all of the video why they wouldn't post the meat you know that the meat and potatoes part the the story line i don't know but i would have to feel that if they're severely misrepresenting what what he said to the ambassador that we will hear from him saying wait a minute i never said that so i guess time will tell. puff an explosion sit in a public block in central paris causing a large fire no serious injuries reported on the places in the control at least twenty seven flights were destroyed a spokesman for the fire brigade this is the blast may have been caused by gas containers stalled in a balcony after the fire started another big explosion was caught on camera two. you can see for situations to control the whole area is still lost one needs still

a lot of fun. initial admission probable. explosion. from a ship in the spokesperson. and it was a portable gas tank used for the barbecue on the balcony that exploded. thankfully there's no victims like we can remember the previous gas explosion. in pirates in general and it was actually people going in. and also doesn't. seem to be injured so no worries now we can see what the

situation could seriously. ukraine's preparing for a second decisive round of presidential elections which will take place on april twenty first the first comedian and political newcomer vadim is a lenski lead the polls with the current ukrainian leader petro poroshenko in second place on friday both candidates took drug and alcohol tests as part of preparations ahead of a debate they invited journalists photographers to the labs to witness it all too it was there as well. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy of all of them are selenski aka is a president is

a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box while look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. and we already know. we will bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like the way maybe he never even thought of it and maybe his sensation came

about because someone once randomly told the man why don't you give it a try in real life anyway world leaders should probably start watching out for comedy shows or at least avoid petro poroshenko mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep petro poroshenko came to power after the my dad revolution he was loved in america and europe ukraine was then desperate for a strong new leader what did the people hope to get from mr poroshenko a country with no corruption less poverty a proper alliance with nato and the you and to the civil war in ukraine's east at hold men abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that would probably want to exception ukrainians can stay in the you for ninety days without a visa the president did his best to cut off all possible ties with russia and that was the essence of his campaign it was russia has been waging a hybrid war against

a country for five years and crane is under the threats of fools going to war with russia the tactic didn't really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it probably won't help mr poroshenko in the run off either almost fifteen percent is just too big of a margin even in round one all the hugs and kisses from nato's most powerful people have a sell by date. this is ukrainian presidential election seems to get less attention in the west so that it back in twenty four taking the countries also received less financial assistance from the us than in previous years political analyst martin summers says significant open amounts of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the populace in ukraine. is clearly a busted flush and they don't particularly want to waste any more time and energy trying to keep him in power no doubt they will be beating

a path to zilinskas door at this minute hoping that if he does win that they will be able to influence in the directions they would like to see but they clearly clearly if they don't see him as one of their candidates think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need independent people have got a bit an independent data chaired and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to see it's not clear the subsidies are still faced with this ahead this morning we'll recap more the stories he brought from the we've just gone controversies hungry says a suspected i still fight to recapture the was living in the country of generous. after the break.

financial survival guide i don't buy any i'm on a future. of the flight. as a sum of my ex in the future crocker. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people. if you think. i'm going to talk about football not or else you can think i was going to do. by the way ways of that slide here.

again last year spain with just a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with one of them held across but people smugglers one human trafficking from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lauren southern to describe how the lucrative trade works. how do people get the space very people have to get have to spend a lot of money a day how to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand euro or two thousand and five you how much money can you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand factory to four thousand you the totality fifty person. fifty person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two

thousand five hundred and then linda but into your head a lot of money and a real spoke with lauren southern to direct who filmed the interview with the moroccan smugglers tell us more about the scheme that you learned. now the moroccan man we assume at the moment is someone that would have connections within the moroccan government or be able to ensure that the coast guard would leave because we were told multiple times by people on the ground that there is a cut that people on the coast moroccan coast guard receive to stop patrolling certain areas so that the boats can leave from spain so this is a quite. intelligent business this isn't just a few people fleeing their country desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to spain this is a very structured business and at times he's saying it's around five hundred to a thousand people imagine how much money you're making it's one hundred thirty

thousand euros per boat i mean you could ten boats in a day you're making one point three million dollars why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate it's crazy to me to to think that anyone has been portraying this as well certainly on the moroccan or turkish side of libyan side as a humanitarian aid crisis this is almost entirely a business and anyone you speak to on the ground migrant trafficker or otherwise will tell you this is a business they are not looking to help people they don't care if you're persecuted they don't care about your race religion your gender in fact women are turned away often in some of these camps spain is one of my gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants were arrived by c. twenty eighteen above sixty thousand made the crossing southern again believes the authorities don't know how to deal with the crisis there's not much the authorities

can do i don't doubt that some want to do something about this however most of these migrants and this causes chaos for both the spanish and for the migrants themselves on the advice of traffickers are told to throw their passports into the sea or destroy them before entering spam. and and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps of morocco and the reason they do this is so that once they set foot in spain they have no way of being deported but what this also achieves is that there is no way of processing these migrants they can't be imagine how long it takes to process a person that has offered all of their history their passport their work their banking records it still takes five six seven years to get citizen citizenship in a country a person rocking up with not even a passport how are they supposed to get processed how are they supposed to get a job or become a citizen or even be seen as a refugee so the police can't deal with this influx of people because they can't

even identify who they are and the migrants cannot become a part of the european system because on the advice of these traffickers they threw out their passports assuming they would be entering a europe that is far more they imagine is far more wealthy and far more like paradise than it actually is the reality is these people end up on the streets in france they end up on the streets in italy in spain unable to get a job unable to join the actual society because they can't be processed as citizens so the police can do what they want but there's not much they can achieve when these people cannot be identified. the government says it's to turn to the islamic state commander who entered europe as a refugee he suspected of carrying a terror attacks in syria despite the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of help for refugees of his people all of a piece of the story. imagine

a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist acing eisel commander and not just any money a new tax payer money and it gets worse reports say that he received monthly payments of five hundred euros on his debit card that's well over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards are issued to a joint project between the united nations and the european union that's supposed to be a strict screening process in place to make sure that only those eligible have access to the funds but this wouldn't be the first time that a suspected terrorist hiding among refugees that inadvertently been given taxpayer money.

the european commission insists that the prepaid debit cards are not just handed out to anyone that they know exactly who these cards are being distributed to and check up on their status on a monthly basis so hungry is wondering why did brussels not know that they were funding a suspected terrorist this not only creates another poll it also raises serious security concerns the citizens of europe have a right to know the problem of how to provide much needed funding and aid to refugees in europe isn't an easy one to solve but it's cases like these that fuel the popularity of anti immigration parties across the continent and with a new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the

establishment. dealt another blow ups of the territory that so-called isis was holding it will generate more people trying to get in through and that's why a very carefully orchestrated and internationally coordinated this is where international cooperation is key i think the threat for a period of time will grow because foreign fighters will start to come back but i think what we're seeing know with. so-called isis and with al qaeda is we're seeing a time of transition they will transition into something different this is a very very dangerous and very difficult period we need to monitor the transition very closely to be able to identify and track known just how to sort of coming through and to run intelligence operations or trying to identify those unknown terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. just a handful of the stories of the last seven days as reported by us international

here in moscow if you want more every story as it breaks down that are up or check out our site a dot com for that for me kevin i mean it's coming up to nine twenty four exactly the morning moscow time of a great sunday. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what all. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses officer says we're going to attack and

destroy the governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy mess for. our.

hello and welcome to worlds apart in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long claim to put value of value creation and that 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 own members to discuss that i'm now joined by. the president of the european economic and social committee mr years good to talk to you thank you very much thank you so much for the british and now you often talk about the idea of 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. so let me see that the euro tools to come back to the more long term historical view appears to be an enormous success for as many. historical periods of bust implied

the been totally lost dead or disappeared by they could that i too and then they'd need to a new start so. came exactly. at the end of the middle age. you know the. many i used to say that the middle ages age was exactly the opposite it was a. period . and there was a change of the. change of. the u.k. . and the leadership of a country that. but

it's interesting let me focus on this idea. because many historians. believe. 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. he was the need to come back to come back.

to the. bank in the public space of the debate. was a positive. change and the symbol of the. two for us. to the technological. exactly what and where i want to take this conversation forward because many critics of the e.u. have absolutely no issue with europe's past they recognize the enormous success of the european union you often say that reconciliation and peace are its greatest achievements most of the people agree with that they take issue with the ability of the e.u. as a system as a mechanism to move forward to be as efficient as it has to be in present times can you really do the reunion without changing the way the decisions are made. be done . in the exactly what happens. in these middle age with

the amount of innovation. to element of innovation because the good the good in them and creation of culture plus technology should have been closed in a close region by region and the influence. of the society that i believe this time was a medicine and the second. for the new world order mystery or you know that it happened many times in history that something that once was a blessing suddenly becomes a curse everybody agrees that it's certain point of time the consensus model that the e.u. has served it well but now it takes china less time to set up a whole industry and for the european union to come up with a coherent policy don't you think that this mechanism of making decisions by consensus in this day and age when everything changes by the minute is a bit.