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. is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british. for a presidential election run off after a comedian with no political experience wins the first round getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival the current ukrainian leader. the same struggles with an influx of illegal migrants a people smuggler reveals how gangs are cashing in on the crisis. for. posing as

a refugee with a prepaid debit card. revealing the week's biggest stories out's covered right here on international welcome to the program. of last year. has been to meet with the russian ambassador in an attempt to find out more about the nerve agent attack charlie rowley put his unanswered questions to alexander mr reilly. just fell ill in the town of amesbury in june last year initially police suspected a drugs overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned the coming into contact with the toxic substance died a week later in hospital. charlie rose with misty in the russian embassy in london . reports feeling this. 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 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 in your script lost it by what was said to be the end of agent no we talk meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable they're ordinary people reading british newspapers because they know only 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 pals three hours

prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this note of 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's it charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the payne amesbury and what happened in solsbury before they never received any official report 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 once first and foremost to see the investigations conclusions russia wants the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results what led charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british authorities another point missed to really raise. does

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 would he insists that the russian ambassador on the other hand says there's so much left unanswered but almost we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of miss sturgis because it destroyed all proof make it impossible to examine the results of those investigations that have been carried out by the british authorities reading the you can thirty's 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 and i'm wanting to tell mr rowley's case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents i guess crippled and his daughter in the city of seoul to bring in march twenty eighth both survived though mr script has not been seen in public since the u.k. is playing moscow for both incidents russia though claims no evidence has been produced and has flatly denied any involvement political analyst alessandro bruno believes the media's failed in its reporting of the case. that british media is for tomorrow for the most part complete the. going along with the official narrative after all crowley 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 clear they had all the answers who did what they did and there were we don't know what the police investigation is this is this requires a real police investigation the biggest or. all in all fair to me that's caused

by the building that website claims to use open source whatever that is information techniques to find out what's going on from ukraine to discrete parts the u.k.'s mirror newspaper published an article on sunday about the meeting with the russian ambassador the paper says that mr rowley asked the ambassador why did your country kill my girlfriend i received only russian propaganda in response moscow's envoy though says that he and mr rosen found some common ground and the overtones victim wanted to hear 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 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 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 train is preparing for a second round runoff in the presidential election itself the first round so comedian and political newcomer polygamy is selenski surge ahead in the polls in the current leader. left trailing in second place head of the second vote has been calling on his rival to hold a public debate so that he had it in one condition the drugs test. both candidates

invited journalists and photographers to the pre-debate blog giving it a try 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 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 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 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 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 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 russia has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years crane is under the threat of fools going to war 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 election in ukraine seems to be getting less attention in the west than in twenty fourteen countries also receive less financial assistance from the united states than in previous years political analyst martin summers says that significant. open amounts of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the 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 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 have got to be an independent that cheated and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years

we'll have to say it's not clear. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with many of them reportedly helped across by people smugglers human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lawrence southern described how the lucrative trade works. how do you get this thing. people have to get to spin the look of morning how do you 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. the totality fifty person you have to go fifty person to fifty of course then everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred.

more. than who from an interview with the american 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 of arrive that by sea the whole of twenty eighty about sixty thousand made by crossing believe 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 of with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps in morocco in the reason they do this is so that once they set foot in spain they have no way of being deported but what this also achieves is that there is no way of processing these migrants they can't be imagine how long it takes to process a person that has offered all of their history their passport their work their banking records it still takes five six seven years to get citizen citizenship in a country a person rocking up with not even a passport how are they supposed to get processed how are they supposed to get a job or become a citizen or even be seen as a refugee so the police can't deal with this influx of people because they can't even identify who they are and the migrants cannot become a part of the european system because on the advice of these traffickers they threw

out their passports assuming they would be entering a europe that is far more they imagine is far more wealthy and far more like paradise than it actually is the reality is these people end up on the streets in france they end up on the streets in italy and spain unable to get a job unable to join the actual society because they can't be processed as citizens so the police can do what they want but there's not much they can achieve when these people cannot be identified as controlled as he is hungry says a suspected fighter captured was living in the country of generous e.u. handouts next door when the weekly returns after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. very dramatic to follow only. exists 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 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. to potential pockets. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will be mailed to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what

all. government says it's detained an islamic state commando who entered europe posing as a refugee and is 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 a migrant assistance program is our europe correspondent peter all about. imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist. command and not just any money. taxpayer money and it gets worse reports say that he received a monthly payment of five hundred euros on his debit card that's well over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards are issued to a joint project between the united nations and the european union 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 this status on a monthly basis so hungry is wondering why did brussels not know that they were funding

a suspected terrorist this not only creates another pole factor it also raises serious security concerns the citizens of europe have a right to know the problem of how to provide much needed funding and aid to refugees in europe isn't an easy one to solve but it's cases like these that fuel the popularity of anti immigration parties across the continent and with new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment parties dealt another blow ups of the territory that so-called isis was holding it will generate more people trying to get in through 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 now 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 known just how to sort of coming through and to run intelligence operation. trying to identify those terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. the french president insisted that protecting the environment is a top priority for the country but along picture perfect results started coastlines artesia to do bensky finds the pollution is still a critical problem. this is for so many on the one hand it looks like an idyllic seaside town in the south of france but you don't have to look very far to see the whole area is overshadowed by one of europe's largest industrial and port zones for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and noxious cocktail a few residents say that plague the health problem or the main problem comes from

industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles that get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause diseases the cancer rates here is ten percent higher than the average in france and aspirin diabetes levels are also elevated this could all be avoided if the waste from the factories was processed properly daniels' not mean himself he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems i shouldn't complain about having diabetes when some people here have several different types of cancer is an enormous problem just fifty kilometers from here none of this is happening so we can clearly see that it's a local problem with a local source french government reports have a good knowledge that residents here are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like alzheimer's while women who participated in a study were almost three times more likely to have or have had cancer compared to the national average even claims that citizens benefit from some of the highest

environmental standards in the world and has pledged to continue cleaning up the continent but despite taking countries like france to court over air quality standards many people here believe that the actions. just don't go far enough. they're too weak they say that they need to protect industries and of course we need industry but they need to stop cutting corners and do more to reduce pollution levels the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and it knows that poor air quality accounts the premature deaths of four hundred thousand people every year with less than two months before e.u. citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns like those in force so now are climbing the agenda meanwhile president michael has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead

to three it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage. of done for this world it is not a few queue we want for ourselves ma generation will do the best in order for your generation to us the choice to choose. but it will be the duty of your generation to do the job environmental campaigners have accused him of all talk and little action people in for so many seem to feel the same way you know you are now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. if nothing is done then in future years the situation will become very serious. i think there's still plenty of work to be done you know about the yellow vest movement and one of their conditions is improving the environment people here say that without immediate action the future

remains for their children a bleak prospect so it didn't ski r.t. for some that. celebrated its seventieth anniversary this way but a big part of its special day was devoted to suppose russian aggression and the alliance's new strategy of 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 all the issues which we. strongly believe or religion for the black sea region on of course of the working with opener's georgia ukraine. continues to brand russia a global threats within still claiming the country has made the world

a little dangerous place u.s. secretary of state might pompei of those remarks while demanding russia remove its military personnel from venezuela and that the ongoing political crisis that former american congressman rahm pole 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 you better 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 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 that gets us involved and badgers other countries and pressures them to support us in 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 gave us token support for us managing our empire. so for this edition of the weekly next if you find us a little creepy the next thirty minutes might change your mind as we meet a real rodent lifesaver. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

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to lose the real news is. from war often tell the same stories. were going after 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 defenses officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for.

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