now. via the charlie rose lee 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. . u.k. little 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 wins the first round getting almost twice as many votes this is near is twice the current speed craney and leader. as spain struggles with an influx of illegal migrants of people smuggler avails how gangs are cashing in on the crime. before hard to get up to speed with the profit

warning through their open sprint dollars to. four thousand four hundred dollars review from the french. hungary's there's it's captured an islamic state come on the posing as a refugee the man had been issued with their prepaid debit card under an eighty year scheme to help newcomers. very well welcome to you this is r.t. international with your sunday roundup of the latest headlines and then wake up recap the news that shape the week but first a man who survived a navi chunk of nerve agent attack in the u.k. say's he's being kept in the dark on the country's ongoing investigation tony rowley puts all these unanswered questions to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander. mr rowley and his partner dawn just fell ill. the city of amesbury in

june last year initially police suspected a drug overdose but then claims the couple had been poisoned by novacek sturgis passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr yackety and co in the russian embassy in london initial 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'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 nearly a script last hit by what was said to be the navy 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 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 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 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 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. another point mr rowley 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 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 left unanswered which we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of mr jess because it destroyed a 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 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 rarely says he just wants to know more details. mr robey is case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents i guess where powell and his daughter in the city of souls were and large twenty both vive though mr scrip hour has not been seen since the u.k. has consistently blamed moscow for both incidents though no evidence has been produced russia denies any involvement in ses the u.k. fell to cooperate in any joint investigation is political analyst alessandro bruno say is the media is 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 crawly is just another victim in the 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 billing cat website that claims to use open source whatever that is information techniques to find out what's going on from ukraine to let's create jobs we're talking of the way the media is spinning this that this weekend the u.k. newspaper published an article in the meeting with the russian ambassador the paper alleges the envoy was confronted with the question did you kill my girlfriend and then mr o'reilly received only quote russian propaganda in response however the

ambassador says that mr lowy came in search of missing information and to hear russians line of reasoning t.v. host and political commentator stephen multiplier today's 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 or 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 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. and crane is preparing for a second decisive round of presidential elections which will take place on april the twenty first the first one so a comedian and political newcomer like them is a landscape the polls but the current ukrainian media petro poroshenko in second place had dealt a second load push and has been calling on his rival to hold a public debate selenski handed in one condition though

a drug test first candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre-debate blood giving it to trying to withhold its. they counted on him gave him all. and 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 old dimmers alinsky 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. we will

bring back crimea. ok. 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 holdman abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that with probably what 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 russia has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years crane is under the threat of food 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 runoff 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 well this year's ukrainian presidential election same sort of gains less attention in the west than it did in twenty four c. the country has also received less fun less financial assistance from the u.s. than in previous years is political analyst most infamous say is that significant. the open amount 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 anymore 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 it was one of their candidates think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need you know

independent people have got a bit an independent doesn't shoot 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 migrants arrivals by sea with many of them help to cross by people smugglers and human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lawrence that then he described how the lucrative trade works. how did people get this thing. people have to get to spin the morning they had to spend two thousand you know. four thousand for four thousand you know or put on for a few how much money can you make per boat. from the door to space where you know. you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred or four thousand. the totality fifty plus one. fiftieth person. to person everybody

by two thousand five hundred people two thousand five. hundred bought into. the phone well earlier we also spoke with lauren hutton who films that interview with the new rock'n smuggler she told us more 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 received to stop patrolling certain areas so about 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 or 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 the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants have arrived there by sea and twenty eighteen about sixty thousand made the crossing laurenson 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 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 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. lower in fat than there on the plight of the people being trafficked i see europe but i had this then they were not as we recap more of the stories be brought to you from the week to controversy as hungary says a suspected i still find it captured was living in the country of generous the e.u. handouts one that after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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. 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. welcome back and in fact seen activists in the us claim they're being persecuted like jews that during the holocaust and donning a star of david to make their point as off the unvaccinated children were bound for mentoring sets in public places. how are we going to do you know how are we going to rescue. you would do to say when we did the last time. so for you. to sit it jews in new york right now never thought this moment will come i'm saying

are you still with you i don't think that there's a need for quarantine for things like chicken pox or meads or or moms 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 contracted measles in the ninety's sixty's the poor vaccine 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 pour into a polish holocaust museum has lashed out at the use of the star of david by the anti vaccine activist haitian symbol of their religion 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 in history. instrumental lighting the

feet of jews who are 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 util starrer for the jewish people is about remembrance for us you know it's to mark people because of what they are we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of the say you know star drew another 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 worrying what happened to them what happened to them to have this too has to be burns to be sent to

a guest chamber so if people are doing so even though jews zero doing it deliberately stake on for me it's a deliberate abuse and i think it's it's a bit that's be punished by law according to the us government agency daily with diseases in twenty eight in the country suffered seventeen outbreaks of measles the number of cases this year has rocketed to almost four hundred and is expected to rise the cases were registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the orthodox jewish community resulting in some jews in new york being quarantined. the big tree again say he used the star of david to show solidarity with the jewish community on top 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 cannot for the next thirty days go into any

public places i think that does that 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 so obviously there's always going to be different perspectives but i only appreciate perspectives that actually listen to the speech that i gave. to hungary and governments as it is hanging the islamic state to monza who entered iraq as a refugee he suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria and so had discovered the syrian national was given a prepaid debit tot by the e.u. as part of helpful refugees on his patella of the house of the twelve. 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

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 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 no with. 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. the 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. well as always if you'd like to share your thoughts on any of all stories to get in touch by following us on social media join is again the top of the hour the latest.

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