russia's ambassador to the u.k. seeking to find out more about the nerve agent attack that killed. charlie and his brother. is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from. ukraine prepares for a presidential election runoff with no political experience when the first round getting almost twice as many votes as his nearest rival. the struggles with an influx of illegal migrants people smuggler reveals how gangs are cashing in on the crisis. people have to get up this morning. four thousand four thousand. captured an islamic state come on the posing

as a refugee man had been issued with a prepaid debit card. to help newcomers. with a look at some of the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days they say is the weekly. poisonings in the u.k. 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 . sturgis in the town of ames prix in june last year initially police suspected a drugs overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned after coming into contact with the toxic substance status died a week later in hospital met with mr crowe of the russian embassy in london and

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 and now he is 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 your script last year 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 they're ordinary people reading british newspapers because they know what they're offered by the press so it's good to have an alternative point of view and understand rush's live reasoning. only and his brother had virtually no info on the questions we directed at the british authorities over the script ok so 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 three hours prior to the poisoning we had no chance to examine this nerve agent it was all news to charlie and his brother most of the information they had they had read in the newspapers and i got the impression that both the family of dorm sturgis charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the pain amesbury and what happened in solved before they never received any official. 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 son center letter to the russian president. the family of the late don't students the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results or lead 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 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 the russian ambassador on the other hand says there's so much that announces it but we have plenty of questions regarding the core mission of misjudges because it destroyed all proof make it impossible to examine the results of those investigations that have been carried out by the british authorities everything the you can thirty's have done the needs rechecking including how these people were treated most k. was accused of and house repeatedly denied any involvement in the events last year and 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 and i'm going to tell. mr rove his case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents and his daughter in the city of souls brain marched to find the aid of both survived mr script being seen in public since u.k.'s play moscow for both incidents but russia claims no evidence has been produced in this flatly denied any involvement of the 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 that he received only russian propaganda in response to moscow's envoy though says that he had mr rowley found some common ground and that the mother told victim wanted to have russia's position on the case we asked to political analysts for their views on the case and the way it's been presented by the merit. the thing here is we have to rely on the newspaper and their account there was a video posted along with this story so the video we see first the ambassador then

we see charlie rally and his brow. other 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 they know 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 you are severely misrepresenting what what he said to the ambassador that we will hear from him saying wait a minute i never said that so i guess time will tell the british media is for tomorrow for the most part completely. going along with the official narrative after all crawly is just another victim in the hope of this information that this

case involves the british prime minister within less than twenty four hours from the poisoning which was unclear they had all the answers who did what they did and there were we don't know what the police investigation is this is this requires a real police investigation. ukraine is preparing for a second round runoff in the presidential election itself the first round so comedian and political newcomer have a lot to me as an end to the surge ahead in the polls and the current ukrainian leader petro poroshenko left trading in second place ahead of the second vote publishing has been calling on his rival to hold a public debate and then to get it in one condition or the drugs test both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre-debate blood building he has more than poles apart presidential candidates now slugging it out. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x.

soviet republic somewhere new the result right. 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 selenski aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box well look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. we going to. 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 my dad revolution he was loved in america and europe ukraine was then desperate for a strong new leader what did the people hope to get from mr poroshenko a country with no corruption less poverty a proper alliance with nato and the you and to the civil war in ukraine's east at hold men abroad he lost

a lot of support by failing at all that with 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 threats of fools going to war with russia the tactic did really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it probably won't help mr poroshenko in the run off either almost fifteen percent is just too big of a margin even in round one all the hugs and kisses from nato's most powerful people have a sell by date this year's presidential. election in ukraine seems to be getting less attention in the west than in twenty fourteen the countries also received less financial assistance from the united states than in previous years political analyst martin summit 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. is clearly a busted flush and they don't particularly want to waste any more time and energy trying to keep him in power no doubt they will be beating a path to zilinskas door 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 that go be an independent and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to see it's not clear. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with many of them reportedly helped across by people smugglers human trafficking from morocco spoke to investigative

journalist lauren southern and describe how the lucrative trade works. how do you get very very people have to get to spend a lot of money how to 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 and everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. more. with lawrence southern film 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 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's one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants arrived by sea in twenty eighteen about sixty thousand made that crossing nor in southern 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. and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps in morocco when 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 was hungry says a suspected i sold five hundred captured was living in the country of generosity you hand out it's all next story on the way he returns off the break. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this most interesting if you can't really distinguish them at all. but think the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion

dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich with six percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred thirty three per second per second and it really rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know ford the mid one and only boom but. come back government says it's to taint an islamic state commander who went to europe i was in as a refugee and as suspected of carrying out terrorist attacks in syria i was also

discovered that the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the ag it was part of a migrant assistance program here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist a single i saw command 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 is supposed to be a strict screening process in place to make sure that only those eligible have access to the funds but this wouldn't be the first time that a suspected terrorist hiding among refugees inadvertently being given taxpayer money.

the european commission insists that the prepaid debit cards are not just handed out to anyone that they know exactly who these cards are being distributed to and check up on 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 because laps 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 no with. so-called isis and with al qaida is we're seeing a time of transition they will transition into something different this is a very very dangerous and very difficult period we need to monitor the transition very closely to be able to identify and track known just how to sort of coming through and to run intelligence operation. to try to identify those unknown

terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. nato 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. pratima 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. see we just agreed with the ducks huge and we just agreed to package with more surveillance exercises on all the issues which we. strongly believe are relevant for the black sea region and of course also in working with our partners georgia and ukraine. the natives chief continues to brand russia a global threat with ian still claiming the country has made the world

a more dangerous place u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of echoed those remarks while demanding russia remove its military personnel from venezuela amid 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 you better watch out we might put on sanctions or bomb your country. and i think there's too many countries especially 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 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 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 in badger's 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. that's informational thomas has your next week off to his about the risks of the e.u. getting left behind as competitors like china race ahead. breaks

it down tonality. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i'll see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their 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 or uneasiness for. our. own welcome to well their part in the world of political matchmaking the european

union has long claimed to put values about value creation and that worked well for a. 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 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 for the rejection you often talk about the idea of. 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 the tools to come back to a more long term. been enormous successful as many. historical periods of. been totally lost.

and they need to a new start so. at the end of the middle age. you know the. many i used to say that the middle age was age it was exactly the opposite it was a. period . and there was a change of the east. changed. today with the u.k. . and the leadership of a country that. 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. he was the need to come back to come back. to the. bank in the public space of the debate. was

a positive. change and the symbol of the scene. for us. 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 three conciliation 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 . deal and exactly what happens. in these middle age with the amount of innovation cross with the other two element of innovation because the

good the good in them and creation of the two plus technology should have been closed in a close region by region and the influence. of the society that i believe this time was a medicine and the second. for the new world order mystery or you know that it happened many times in history that something that once was a blessing suddenly becomes a curse everybody agrees that it's certain point of time the consensus model that the e.u. has served it well but now it takes china less time to set up a whole industry for the european union to come up with a coherent policy don't you think that this mechanism of making decisions by consensus in this day and age when everything.