for. survivor charlie rowley says he's 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. . you can hear the war charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british authorities. ukraine readies for a second round of presidential elections after a comedian with no political experience which is the first round getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival the current ukrainian leader. as spain struggles with the influx of illegal migrants people smuggling reveals how gangs are cashing in on the crisis. people will have to give up the spirit of the

book on. how to stand two thousand iu. four thousand four thousand you don't want to cover for. hungary says it captured an islamic state commander posing as a refugee demanded been issued with a prepaid debit card scheme to help newcomers. get off today my name is kevin i we live for marty's main studio h.q. here in moscow it's just one of the afternoon this is our news review of the week starting with the story at the top of the headlines that dating but not on a year now a man who survived a novacek nerve agent attack in the u.k. says he's being kept in the dog still on the country's ongoing investigation into what happened charlie rowley put all these unanswered questions than to the russian ambassador to the u k. alexander your convent co mr rowley in this part of dawn

sturges fell ill in the city of ames brain june last year and this surely police suspected drug overdose but then claimed the couple have been poisoned by novacek so just passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr vanko in the russian embassy in london artie's misha sethi reports feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie rarely has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london and now he's lost his partner to 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 nearly a script last shared by what was said to be even if they didn't know we talk. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable and 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 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 make this group piles i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group tells three hours prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this nerve agent it was all news to charlie and his brother most of the information they had they had read in the newspapers and i got the impression that both the family of dorm sturgis and that the charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the penn 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 late don't sturgis ones 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. 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 charley 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. 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 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 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 after the poisoning of the russian double agent sergei script pollin his daughter in the nearby city of souls in march twenty eighth both survived though this cripples not been seen since the u.k.'s 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 any joint investigations political analysts i was under bruno told us the media's failing to 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 probably is just another victim

in the hope 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 we're talking of the way the media is spinning this this weekend the u.k. newspaper published an article on the meeting with the russian ambassador the paper alleges the envoy was confronted with a question did you kill my girlfriend of that mr rowley received only quote russian propaganda in response however says mr rowley in fact came in search of missing information and here russia's line of reasoning t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg says the headline raises 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 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 that 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. the crane is preparing for a second decisive round of presidential elections which will take place on april twenty first the first round so a comedian on a political newcomer the dimension and selenski lead the polls with a current you try to lead to poroshenko in second place on friday both candidates took drug and alcohol tests as part of preparations for a big debate they invited journalists and photographers as well to the lab to witness what was going on reports. they counted on him gave them 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 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 didn't know to. bring back crimea. yeah you can use islam. 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 whole men abroad he lost

a lot of support by failing at all that was 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 has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years and train 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. issues ukrainian presidential election seems to have gained less attention in the west the did back in twenty forty two the countries also received less financial assistance from the u.s. 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 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. 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 now human trafficking from morocco has spoken to investigative

journalist laura sullivan each describe just how lucrative trade is. how do people get the space very people have to 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 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 person. fifty person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five hundred and then render but into your head a lot of money earlier we also spoke with laurenson too she's a native film but interview with the moroccan smuggler she told 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 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. is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of the ship more than five thousand migrants arrived the last year but sixty thousand made the crossing over and so on again police who thought he simply don't know how to deal with a 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 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. journalist laura the southern high opening description of what's going on the plight of the people being trafficked over to europe is out international head this sunday we recap more of the stories that we brought you from the last week including controversy in hungary the country saying a suspected i still fight or a captured was living in the country of generous e.u. handouts tell you all about it we're back.

nor make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. 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 partners.

again until vaccine activists in the u.s. claim they're being persecuted like jews during the holocaust during a star of david to make their point after unvaccinated children were banned from entering certain public places. how we going to do it you know how are we going to arrest you. if you want to just say well we did the last time so for you. broke the cynic choosing a new york right now never thought this moment will come i'm say 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 tracked it measles and nine hundred sixty the poor backseat 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 the polish holocaust museum has lashed out at the use of the star of david by the vaccine activists the ancient symbol of the religion was used to label jews during the second world wars genocide by the nazis museum accuse the activists of belittling one of the darkest pages of history instrumental lazing the feet of jews who were persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like auschwitz with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that saves human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration however in response tell big tree

again said he used the star of david to show solidarity with the quarantined 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 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 eighteen the countries have had seventeen have breaks of measles those cases were registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the orthodox jewish community but that number of cases this year is almost four hundred and is expected to rise living rough of its a jewish community advises is the way the star of david was used here by these vaccine activists cheapened its meaning. you know star for the jewish people is a bad 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 dolt 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

worrying what happened to them what happened to them to have this to has to be burns to be sent to a guest chambers 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 that's to be punished by law. hungary government says it's to turn to the islamic state commander who went to europe as a refugee he suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria it was also discovered the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of help for refugees as 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 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 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 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. this is international live from moscow i'm covering though in. with more of a recap of the big stories of the last seven days for you as the weekly continues and of course we want all the up to date news as well check out our site. with the rest of the team this lunchtime in moscow have a great weekend was left. alone

and welcome to worlds apart in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long claimed to put the value of value creation and that's worked well for a while but now that some countries council a whole new industry in the time it takes the e.u. to come up with a single policy decision is that criticism 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 musician 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 yo tools to come back to a 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. to make also perform this song came exactly. at the end of the middle age. you know the. many i used to say that the middle age was cage was exactly the opposite it was a. period . and there was a change of the. change in.

the u.k. . and leadership. but it's interesting let me focus on this idea. because many historians. believe that. it was. more. for. what i hear you saying is that. there was a need that. you are essentially driven by the. question is that.

has been. the first issue that has been. the need to come back to come back. to the. bank in the public space of. a positive. change and this. 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.