into russia political. men they know as bad wolf. says he's been kept in the dark on the british investigation into the poisoning 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. elsewhere ukraine ready for a second round of presidential elections after comedian but no political experience with. getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival the cover he played in the. space struggles with the influx of illegal migrants a people smuggler reveals how gangs cashing in on the crisis people. have to

spin. you know. four thousand four thousand you don't want to talk for a few hungary says it's. posing as a refugee the man has been issued with a prepaid debit card. to help newcomers. hello good afternoon just turned midday here in moscow life marty's main studio h.q. . news review of the week starting with the story today back in the headlines nearly one year on a man who survived a novacek nerve agent attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dog on the country's ongoing investigation into it charlie rowley put all his unanswered questions that to the russian ambassador to the u.k. . mr. in this part of dawn sturgis fell ill in the city of

a mystery in june last year and michelle a police suspected a drug overdose but then claimed the couple had been poisoned by novacek just passed away a week later charlie really met with mr vent her in the russian embassy in london artie's an issue ceci reports. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london now he has lost his partner and the 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 end of 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 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 files i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group tells three hours prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this nerve agent it was all news to charlie and his brother most of the information they had they had read in the newspapers and i got the impression that both the family of dawn sturgis and that of charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the payne amesbury and what happened in sol's ri before they never received any official reports for many months now mr rowley and dylan's family received very little information about the course of the investigation so little that don't son center letter to the russian president. the family of the late don't sturgis once

first and foremost to see the investigations conclusions russia wants the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results what led charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british authorities. another point mr very raised is that he felt his reputation was affected by u.k. press describing him as homeless when he was simply a british citizen charley and his brother 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 left to announce it but i wish we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of mr jess 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 needs rechecking including how these people were treated

moscow was accused of and house repeatedly denied any involvement in the events last year and offer 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. mr rove his case came just a few months off the poisoning of the russian double agent scrip over his daughter in the city as souls were nearby on march twenty eighth seen both survived the screw polish not being seen since the u.k. is consistently blamed moscow for both incidents though no evidence has been produced russia denies any involvement and says the case failed to cooperate and he joins investigations political analyst alessandro bruno says the media is failing to ask the tough questions surrounding this big case. the british media is for tomorrow for the most part completely. going along with the official narrative

after all crawly is just another victim in the hope of 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 or talk of the way the media spinning this this weekend you can use paper the mirror published an article following mr rowley's meeting with the russian ambassador it alleges that the novacek victim confronted the envoy with a direct question did you kill my girlfriend and the sidonie quote russian propaganda in response however the ambassador says that mr rowley came in search of

only of missing information and to hear russia's line of questioning t.v. host and political commentator stephen morse mottola 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 of was it 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 have 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. you craig is preparing for a second a decisive round of presidential elections due to take place on april twenty fifth the current ukrainian lead to petra poroshenko his second place on friday both candidates took drug and alcohol tests as part of preparations ahead of a debate they invited journalists and photographers to the lab said a witness had told it to trying to reporters.

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 is baffled for them choosing between. someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy 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 well 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 will bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand 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 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 holdman 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 that was the essence of his campaign but 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 did 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 elections is of going to less attention in the west than they did in twenty forty two the countries also received less financial assistance through us than in previous years political analyst martin sommer says that significant open amounts of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in their puppets 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 achieved 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 say 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 and now one human trafficking from morocco spoken to investigative journalist laura southern describe just how lucrative this trait is. how do people get the space very people have to get have to spend

a lot of money or they they how to spend two thousand you know four thousand four thousand you know 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 thousand everybody and by two thousand and five on their do two thousand five hundred and then into your head a lot of money and earlier we also spoke with lauren southern film the interview with the role can smuggle tell us more about what she 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 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 the big picture is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand milligrams of arrive the boise did in twenty eight to sixty thousand made the crossing laura sullivan again believes the authorities simply don't know how to deal now 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 and morocco in 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 lauren southern there on the plight of the people being trafficked over to europe still ahead this sunday here on r.t. as we recover more the stories you brought you from the week just gone controversy is hungary says a suspected eisel fighter it captured was living in the country of generous e.u. handouts we'll tell you all about it. breaks it down. 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 values that's attractive to potential pockets. 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 them at all.

in the us claim they're being persecuted like jews during the holocaust building a star of david to make their point itself vaccinated children were banned from entering certain public places how are we going to know if you're not vaccinated how are we going to arrest you. if you would do it. we did the last time so for you. to use in new york right now there never thought this moment will come i am still i still with you i don't think that there's a need for quarantine for things like chicken pox or means ols or. these are all illnesses that pass in a few days they have very. very very low death rates the death rate of measles was one in ten thousand people that contract it measles in the ninety's sixty's the poor bax who came along just because the pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of a vaccine that protects against the measles and they run

a campaign trying to make us terrified of a disease we should not be terrified of does not want to point. but a polish holocaust museums 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 will was genocide by the nazis the museum accuse the activists the belittling one of the dark as pages of history instrumental lazing the feet of jews who were persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like almost wits with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that saves human life is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration the big tree again says he used the star of david to show solidarity with the quarantine stewards 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 the city 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 banking 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 eighty the country suffered seventeen outbreaks of measles the cases are registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the orthodox jewish community the number of cases this year though almost four hundred expected to rise livia rough of its jewish community advisor told us

the way the star of david was used by the anti vaccine activists cheapened 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 a you know style jew or no jew you don't you have no right to use these symbols because you make them coming cheap we cannot forget when children women and people were worrying what happened to them and what happened to them to have this to has to be burns to be sent to a gas chamber so if people are doing so even jews they are doing a terrible mistake for me to a terrible abuse and i think it's. it's a view that should be punished by law. government says it detained an islamic state

commander who entered europe as a refugee he suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria it was also discovered that the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of help for refugees peter all of our reports imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money will command and not just any money taxpayer money and it gets worse reports say that he received a monthly payment 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 is 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.

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 pole factor 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 new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment parties dealt another blow ups 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 known just how to 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. well

there are several stories as reported by us over the last seven days here on the weekly from the international. have ever. been a good place. to go mock not. the other side of that office. but i know. now. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to do like the press it's like them before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. bad this should make. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for uneasiness

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