another child victim charlie rose lee meets with russia's ambassador to the u.k. seeking to find out more about the nerve agent attack that killed his partner. charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they have been able to receive anything from the british authorities. ukraine prepares for a second round of presidential elections after a comedian with no political experience wins the first round getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival but the words ukrainian leader. has spain struggles with an influx of illegal migrants a people smuggler reveals how gangs are cashing in on the crisis the poor have to

have to spin the morning through their hard earned dollars and you. four dollars and you for four thousand little going for a few. and hungary's says it's captured it isn't captured in an islamic state commander posing as a refugee the man had been issued with a prepaid debit card underneath to help newcomers. a very warm welcome this is r.t. international with your sunday round up of the latest headlines and a recap of the stories that shapes the week but first a victim of last year's not a chunk poisonings in the u.k. has been to meet with the russian ambassador in attempts to find out more about the nerve agent attack tony rowley put all of these unanswered questions to alexander yeah. mr rowley and his partner dawn sturgis fell ill in the town of amesbury in july last year. and this will

a police suspected drug overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned after coming into contact with a toxic substance so just died a week later in hospital charlie rowley met with mr in the russian embassy in london and this is that they were. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie has met with them reached out to the russian ambassador to london was 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 year by what was said to be the never agent know we talk meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable they're ordinary people reading british newspapers 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 meet 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 pen 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 dawn sturgis once first and foremost to see. the investigation's 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 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. 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 we have plenty of questions regarding the core mission of miss sturgis because it destroyed old 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 to 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 really says he just wants to know what details. mr rowley's case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents a case where powell and his daughter in the city of souls brian march twenty eighth both survived though mr scott powell has not been seen in public since the u.k. has blamed moscow for both incidents and russia however claims no evidence has been produced and has flatly denied any involvement political analyst alessandro bruno believes the media have failed in their reporting on the 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 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 building 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 u.k.'s mirror newspaper published an article on sunday about the meeting with the russian ambassador the paper says mr rowley asked the ambassador why did your country kill my girlfriend and received only russian propaganda in response moscow's envoy says however that he and mr rowley found some common ground and that they not talk victim wanted to hear russia's position on the case t.v. host and political commentator stephen multiplier believes the article 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. you crane is preparing for a second round run off in his presidential elections for the first round so a comedian and political newcomer follows him is a lengthy search ahead in the polls and the current need to petro poroshenko left trailing in second place ahead of the second decided push and has been calling on his wife all to hold a public debate selenski ended in one condition though a drug test bust contest invited journalist sons to talk with us to play debate blood getting into trying to 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. and we get him going to. bring back crimea. ok. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just

a schoolteacher 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 would probably want 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 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 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 year's presidential elections in ukraine seem to have gained less attention in the west and in twenty four hours in the country and those who receive less financial assistance from the u.s. than in previous years and it's going to analysts most infamous say that thinking

if it. 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 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 seem as one of the candidates and i think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need their independent people that go a bit and independent doesn't change and maybe he's going to come up with a more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to say it's not clear. spain witnessed a record number of migrants arrivals by sea with many of them with them reportedly

helped across by people smugglers and human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lauren fathom he described how the lucrative trade works how do you get to spain very people have to get have to spend a lot of more knew how to spend two thousand you. four thousand four thousand euro 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 factories or four thousand you know the totality fifty person you have to go to fifty person to fifty person everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. mile away also spoke with lauren south and he found that interview with the american flag he told us more about the ski. 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 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 lauren seven 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 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 and as low as seven there on the plains that the people being trafficked have to europe and we have plenty more of the week's top stories right after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time to sit down and talk. in the world of political much making the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable and tribute. to 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 be mailed to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what all.

the hungary and government says is to taint an islamic state comando it went to europe as a refugee under suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria it was also discovered the syrian national was given a prepaid debit cards by the e.u. as part of a refugee assistance program pays all of a has more details. 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 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 a new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment. he's dealt another blow because of the territory that so-called isis was holding it will generate more people trying to get in through and that's 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 with. so-called isis and with al qaeda is we're seeing a time of transition they will transition into something different this is a very very dangerous and very difficult period we need to monitor the transition very closely to be able to identify and track. the sort of coming through and to

run intelligence operations to try to identify those unknown terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. they celebrated his seventieth anniversary this week but a big part of it special day however was devoted to suppose that russian aggression and the alliance is a new strategy in the black sea but a more potent harbors dark dreams of imperialism he wants to split our alliance and weaken our democratic resolve still russian aggression russia's attacks on western democracies and in the context of russian efforts all around the world so we are stepping up our efforts. see we just agreed with the ducks huge and we just agreed a package with more surveillance exercises on all the issues which we. strongly believe are relevant for the black sea region and of course also the working with

our partners georgia and ukraine. and he says chief continues to be a global threat with the end stilton by claiming the country has made the wilder more dangerous place the u.s. secretary of state money. will mock so demanding russia will move its military past now from venezuela and makes the clients this pitiful not american congressman long pull things nato is trying to promote u.s. interests i've argued that our foreign policy is designed to say if you do what we tell you we'll give you a lot of money if you don't you've got to watch out we might put on sanctions or bomb your country. and i think there's too many countries especially the european countries say well we can't defend ourselves we don't want to have to spend this money it's been a big benefit you send troops over here you spend money here you give us aid and you also provide a so-called defense in case anybody would ever attack us so i think it's detrimental to them but it's sort of like a spoiled spoiled kid you know they don't take care of themselves so they think

they're getting a good deal but ultimately i don't think they should because we're going to run out of the ability to take care of everybody and i think that's what gets to trump sometime as well he said this get out of nato but i think what he's tired of is maybe the bills piling up and trying to argue that other countries should pay more but i think it's the principle that i'm concerned about the principle of an international organization that gets us involved in badger's other countries and pressures them to support us what we do around the world weather center afghanistan or iraq or libya or syria or wherever certainly in ukraine we were looking for support so they give us token support for us managing our empire if you say with those stories by following us on station media and if you know comments that we're back at the top of the hour with the latest.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long claim to put values of value creation and that worked well for a while but now that some countries council a whole new industry in the time it takes the e.u. to come up with a single policy decision is that greed is still satisfying for the own members to discuss that i'm now joined by. the president of the european economic and social committee mr years good to talk to you thank you very much thank you so much for the british and now you often talk about the idea of a reunion for europe while also praising the enormous success of the european project that's been so successful why does it have to be reborn. so let me see that the euro tools to come back to

a more long term historical view appears to be an enormous success for as many. historical periods of boston pirates have been totally lost dead or disappeared by they could at itu and then they'd need to a new start so. 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. . 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 to. understand. that you are essentially driven by the. question is that.

the first issue that has been. the need to come back to come back. to the. bank in the public space. is 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 the ability of the e.u. as a system as a mechanism to move forward to be as efficient as it has to be in present times can

you really do the reunion without changing the way the decisions are made.