charlie rowley says he's being kept in the dark on the british investigation into the poisoning the killed his partner last year. to the u.k. . charlie and his brother contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive any from the british authorities for the big stories the week ukraine readies for a second round of presidential elections after a comedian with no political experience wins the first. twice as many votes as his nearest rival the current ukrainian leader. struggles with an influx of illegal migrants a people smuggler reveals. cashing in on the crisis. people have to get

up to spin the morning. four thousand four thousand. and hungary says it's captured an islamic state commanded posing as a refugee the man had been issued with a prepaid debit card hundred eighty scheme to help you come. over good morning for me kevin owen here at artie's main studio h.q. in moscow for a news review of the week and sunday morning starting with a story that's back in the headlines nearly a year on a man who survived a nerve agent attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dark on the country's ongoing investigation into it charlie rowley put all these unanswered questions than to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander. mr rowley in this part the dorm sturges fell ill of the city of amesbury

in june last year initially police suspected drug overdose but then playing the couple had been poisoned by novacek just passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr venter then at the russian embassy in london and his southie report. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie really has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london now he's lost his partner and is suffering from the terry writing health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say in your script last year by what was said to be the never agent no 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 in their 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 meet this group piles 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 pan 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 letter to the russian president. the family of the. just 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 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. and the points 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 a very nice people the first thing they told me was that the british press misrepresented them as 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 that to announce that. we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of miss sturgis 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. and thirty's have done needs rechecking including how these people were treated

most k. 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 some of these case came just a few months off the poisoning of the russian double agents in this daughter in the nearby city as soulsby that was in march twenty eighth both survived mr scruples open seem since the u.k. has consistently blamed moscow for both incidents though no evidence has been produced russia denies any involvement and says the u.k. failed to cooperate in the joint investigations political analyst alessandro bruno told us the media's failing to us 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 crawly 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 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 will talk of the way the media spinning this this weekend the u.k. newspaper the mirror published an article following mr rowley's meeting with the russian ambassador it alleges that the not a child victim confronted the envoy with a question point blank did you kill my girlfriend and received only quote russian propaganda in response however the ambassador says it was to roll in five came in

only in search of missing information and here russia's line of reasoning t.v. host and political commentator stephen walt spoke told us the headline raises some questions. 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 was in 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 the 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. you crane's preparing for a second decisive round of presidential elections which is set to take place known april the twenty first the first run so comedian and political do come up with him as a lenski lead the polls with the current ukrainian leadership petro poroshenko in second place on friday both candidates took part in drug and alcohol tests as part of preparations ahead of a debate they invited journalists and photographers to the labs that are witnessing the whole if we're trying to report. 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 all of them are selenski aka the 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. we didn't know any. we will bring back crimea. yeah 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 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 mud on 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 with probably one 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 the country for five years crane is under the threat 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 though to get less attention in the west that did twenty forty in the countries also receive less financial assistance from the u.s.

in previous years two political analyst martin sommer says that is ignorant that. the open amounts of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the public's 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 their independent people they've got a bit an independent that attitude 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. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with many of them help to cross by

people smugglers no one human traffic of from morocco has spoken to investigative journalist lauren southern he's described in detail how lucrative this trade is. how do people get the space very people have to have to spend a lot of money are they out to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand euro or two thousand for a few 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. fifty person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand and five on their deal two thousand five. hundred into your head to have a lot of money. only we caught up with lauren the son spoke to a direct she's the one who filmed an interview with the moroccan smuggler she told

us more about what she learned about the scheme. 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 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 and spain is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of the year more than five thousand migrants from the by sea and twenty eight sixty thousand made the crossing or southern again believes authorities just 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 spain and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps in 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 and 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. journalist laura sullivan there on the plight of people being trafficked over to europe still to come on the weekly internationalists recount more of the stories in the week gone by controversies hungary says a suspected i still fight it captured was living in the country of generous e.u. handouts we'll tell you about it when we come back.

in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable attribute. in the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry. that's trying to potential.

activists in the u.s. claim they're being persecuted like jews during the holocaust during a star of david to make their point it's after unvaccinated children were banned from entering certain public places. how we going to do it you know back to how we going to rescue. we will do the same way we did the last time. so for you. to cynic choose york right now they never thought this moment will come i am still are you still with you i don't think that there's a need for quarantine for things like chicken pox or means or mom's these are all illnesses that pass in a few days they have

a very very very low death rate the death rate of measles was one in ten thousand people that contract it measles and nine hundred sixty the poor backseat came along just because the pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of a vaccine we should not be terrified of does not want to point but a polish holocaust museum has lashed out at the use of the star of david by the anti vaccine activists the symbol was used to label jews during the second world war genocide by the nazis the museum accuse the activists of belittling one of the darkest pages of history instrumental lazing the feet of jews who are persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like it's with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that saves human life is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration. big tree again he says he

used the star of david to show solidarity with the quarantine jewish community in new york and had no intention of offending anyone. well i did not use it as a symbol for anti-vaccination i use it as a symbol of solidarity with the citic jewish community in rockland county new york that have been quarantined in america they cannot for the next thirty days go into any public places i think that there's the chance that those jewish people have not actually seen my speech there's a been a real misrepresentation of what i said by people who are always against the perspectives that i share i think if you listen to my speech i think you would be hard pressed to find a jewish people that disagree with what i said and in fact my e-mails my my my show that i do our facebook pages are filled with jewish people that are celebrating in thanking me so obviously there's always going to be different perspectives but i

only appreciate perspectives that actually listen to the speech that i gave according to the u.s. government agency dealing with diseases in twenty eighteen the countries have had seventeen outbreaks of measles the cases were registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the old docs jewish community the number of cases this year though is almost four hundred and is expected to rise further all of the rough of its jewish community advisor told us where the star of david was used by the anti vaccine activists chief and its meaning. you know star for the jewish people is about remembrance for us you know it's to mark people because of where they are we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of the say you know star jew or no jew you don't you have no right to use these symbols because you make them becoming part of political i would say game you make them becoming cheap we cannot forget when

children women and people were in visual style what happened to them and what happened to them to have this to has to be burns to be sent to a gas chambers so if people are doing so even jews they are doing a terrible mistake for me it's a terrible abuse and i think it's it's a that's to be punished by law. government says it's to turn to the islamic state commander who entered europe as a refugee you suspected of carrying out terrorist attacks in syria despite that though the syrian national it seems was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of help for refugees on his peter all of a report imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist a senior commander and not just any money taxpayer 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 inadvertently being given taxpayer money. 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 this 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 post to know the problem of how to provide much needed funding an aid to refugees in europe isn't an easy one to solve but it's cases like these that fuel the popularity of empty immigration parties across the continent and with new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment parties dealt another blow because of the territory that so-called isis was holding it will generate more people trying to get in through amounts why very carefully orchestrated an 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 now with. so-called isis and with al qaida 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. the sort of coming through to run intelligence operations or trying to identify those unknown terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. and i just a handful of stories as reported by our south internationally mosco from the week just gone if you don't have your senator then go to a website up the dot com the comments section it was good to hear from you for now for me kevin oh and thanks for watching this program for me on the rest the team want you to this weekend have a great sunday. 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

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