seeking to find out more about. charlie and his brother. is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything. for a presidential election run off. political experience the first round. rival the current. struggles with an influx of illegal migrants the people smugglers are cashing in on the crisis. of. two thousand. four thousand dollars for

a few. posing as a refugee the amount of been issued with a prepaid debit card. bringing in the biggest stories over the past seven days in the moscow newsroom welcome to the program a victim of last year. in the u.k. to meet with the russian ambassador in an attempt to find out more about the nerve agent attack. put all of his questions to alexander a mystery. just in the town of amesbury in june last year and the police suspected a drugs overdose but then conclude that the couple had been poisoned after coming into contact with the toxic substance. in the russian embassy. london and he has

a favorable. 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 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 year by what was said to be even if they didn't 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 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 nov 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 daunce 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 very 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. 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. and thirty's have done needs rechecking including how these people were treated moscow was accused of and house repeatedly denied any involvement of the events last year and offered to cooperate with british authorities many times something that london has rejected now the u.k.

government is still made little to no evidence public meanwhile though charlie riley says he just wants to know more details. mr ali's case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents ok script and his daughter in the city of salisbury march twenty eighth in both survived though mr scobell has not been seen in public since ukase blamed moscow for both incidents russia though claims no evidence has been produced and the flatly denied any involvement political analyst alessandro bruno believes the media's failed in its reporting of 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 what they did 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 building cat website that claims to use open source whatever that is information techniques to find out what's going on from ukraine to discrete parts of the u.k.'s mirror newspaper published an article on sunday about the meeting with the russian ambassador to the paper says mr rowley asked the ambassador why did your country kill my girlfriend and that he'd received only russian propaganda in response because envoy says that he and mr rohani did find some common ground with another topic didn't want to tell him russia's position on the case t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg 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 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 why they wouldn't post the meat you know that the meat and potatoes part the the story line i don't know so we have to take what they say as as the story because there's 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 but i would have to feel. if you are severely misrepresenting what what he said to the ambassador 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 runoff in the presidential election it's after the first round so comedian and political newcomer have a lot to me it's a lengthy surge ahead in the polls of the current ukrainian leader petro poroshenko left trailing in second place the second vote poroshenko has been calling on his

rival to hold a public debate so then he added in one condition though a drugs test both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre to bait blood giving as really a preventable. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy of all of them are zelinsky 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 while look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. we did you know. we will

bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like in the 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 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 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 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 this year's presidential election in ukraine seems to have gained less attention in the west the name twenty fourteen countries also received less financial assistance from the united states than it has in previous years political analyst martin some a says that significant. the open amounts of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in their puppets in ukraine. 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 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 you know independent people who go

a bit and independent that achieved 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. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with many of them reportedly help the cross by people smugglers or human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lawrence southern he described how lucrative trade works how do you get to spain very people have to get to spend a lot of money they spend two thousand you know. 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 have the totality fifty person you have to go fifty person to fifty of course and everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five.

hundred but. we also spoke with lauren southern who from an interview with the moroccan 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 receive to stop patrolling certain areas so that the 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 and spain is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants have arrived by sea in twenty eighteen about sixty thousand made the crossing believes that 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 up 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 you're watching the weekly from r.t. this controversy is hungry says a suspected eisel fighter and captured living in the country of generous e.u. handouts it's all next story after the break.

in the world of political much making 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.

again the hungarian government says it's detained an islamic state commander who entered europe posing as a refugee and is suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria there's also discovered the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of a migrant assistance program his idea of correspondent peter all of. 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. artes dealt another blow because lapse 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 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. later celebrated its seventieth anniversary this week but a big part of its special day was devoted to supposed russian aggression and the alliances new strategy in the black sea. but him or putin harbors dark dreams of imperialism he wants to split our alliance and weaken our democratic result 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. just agreed. huge and we just agreed to package with more surveillance exercises on all the issues which we. strongly believe or real live and for the black sea

region on of course of the working with opener's georgia ukraine and they say he's chief continues to brown russia a global threat with the unspoken but claiming the country has made the world a more dangerous place u.s. secretary of state might bump a lack of those remarks while demanding russia remove its military personnel from venezuela that the ongoing political crisis that former american congressman ron paul thinks 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 even watch out we might put on sanctions or bomb your country and and i think there's too many countries especially the european countries say well we can't defend ourselves or 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 i so called the fans in case anybody would ever attack us so i think it's detrimental to them but it's sort of like

a spiral spoiled kid you know they don't take care of themselves so they think they're getting a good deal but all of mentally 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. thank you it's us involved in badgers other countries and pressures them to support us in the what we do around the world weather center afghanistan or iraq or libya or syria our wherever certainly in ukraine we were looking for support so they gave us token support for us managing our empire our. for this our next week eof the world the party is about the risks of the being left behind us competitors like china rice said.

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all. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going on for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense offices we're going to attack and destroy their governments and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those. with lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort. for. you know world of big new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made

stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for them for watching the hawks. are. low and welcome to worlds apart in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long claimed to put values about 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 credo still satisfying for the own members to

discuss that i'm now joined by as i hear the president of the european economic and social committee mr year it's good to talk to you thank you very much thank you so much for the musician you often talk about the idea of a really unique 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. many. historical periods of. being totally lost. and they need to. make. 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. 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. element has been. to the technological. 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. be done . and the exactly what happens. in these middle age with the innovation.