survivor charlie rowley meets russia's ambassador to the u.k. seeking answers on the nerve agent attack that killed his partner. charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from. ukraine it prepares for a presidential election run off after a comedian with no political experience wins in the first round and getting almost twice as many votes as the current ukrainian leader. has spain struggles with an influx of illegal migrants a people smuggler reveals how gangs are cashing in on the crisis. people have to get off the spirit of the book on. how to spend two thousand. dollars or new

four thousand new to open for a few. and hungry says it has captured an islamic state commander posing as a refugee the man had received benefits under an e.u. scheme to help newcomers. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is international and a survivor of last year's nobel poisonings in the u.k. meets 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 and his partner dawn sturgis fell sick in the town of amesbury in june last year and initially police suspected a drug overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned after coming into contact with the toxic substance star just died

a week later in the hospital now charlie rowley met with mr van gogh at the russian embassy in london parties and he just said he has more. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie really has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london now he's lost his partner and is suffering from the terry writing health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say in your script last chaired by what was said to be the night 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 in their 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 tells 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 dorm sturgis and that the charlie rowley have not been adequately informed as to what happened to the pain amesbury and what happened in seoul's ri before they never received any official. for many months now mr rarely and dylan's family received very little information about the course of the investigation so listen. that don't some center of 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 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. and the points 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 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 woody and says the russian ambassador on the other hand says there's so much that i don't say it but i wish we have plenty of questions regarding the cremation of ms sturgis because it destroyed all proof thank you 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 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 rightly says he just wants and i'm going to tell. mr always the case came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agents are discreet pole and his daughter in the city of solsbury in march of two thousand and eighteen both survived but mr screwball has not been seen in public since the u.k. has blamed moscow for both incidents russia however claims no evidence has been produced and has flatly denied any involvement. u.k.'s mirror newspaper published an article on sunday about the meeting with the russian ambassador the paper says mr rowley asked of the ambassador why did you 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 the no child victim wanted to hear

russia's position on the case we asked two political analysts for their views on the case and the way it has been presented by the mere. the thing here is we have to rely on the newspaper and their account there was a video posted along with the story so in 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 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 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 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 disinform asian 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 round two in the country's presidential election the first round song comedian and political newcomer blood amir zelinsky surge ahead in the polls leaving the incumbent leader petro poroshenko trailing in second place ahead of the second vote has been calling

on his rival to hold a public debate so lansky added in one condition though a drug test both candidates invited journalists and photographers. to the pre debate blood giving has more on the two rivals. 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 and funny guy dimmers alinsky aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box well look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for

a political background. and we get him to. bring back crimea. and you can use islam. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like maybe he never even thought of it and maybe his sensation came about because someone once randomly told the man why don't you give it a try in real life anyway world leaders should probably start watching out for comedy shows or at least avoid petro poroshenko mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep petro poroshenko came to power after the my down

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 but russia 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 be getting less attention in the west than in two thousand and fourteen the country has also received less financial assistance from the u.s. than in previous years political analyst martin summers says that is significant. the open amount of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the populace in ukraine. 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 you know independent people who go a bit and 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 and human traffickers from morocco spoke to an investigative journalist lauren southern he described how the lucrative trade works . how do you get to spain very people have to get to spend a lot of morning day out 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. you have to get fifty person to fifty of course then everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five

. hundred. earlier we also have a chance to to speak with lauren southern who filmed that interview with the moroccan smuggler she told us more about the scheme. now the moroccan man we assess you at the moment is someone that would have connections within the more. the government or be able to ensure that the coast guard would leave 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 can 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 in two thousand and eighteen about sixty thousand made the cross 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 in 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. all right hungary says a suspected islamic state terrorist has been receiving refugee benefits in the e.u. that story much more after a short break this is the weekly and i to international. 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 them at all. in a world of big movies. 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 the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

and welcome back this is the weekly on r.t. international now the hungary and government says it has detained an islamic state commander 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 systems programmer t.p.o. oliver has more. imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist a senior eisel commander 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 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 fact it's 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 empty 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 amounts 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. 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 to run intelligence operations or trying to identify those unknown terrorists that are potentially coming into europe. and elsewhere in the world. anti vaccine activists in the u.s. claim they are being persecuted like jews during the holocaust and have been wearing the star of david to make their point that is after unvaccinated children were banned from entering certain public places in a new york. county following a measles outbreak how are we going to do it you know how are we going to rescue. you would do to say well we did the last time so for you. bro the cynic jews in new york right now they never thought this moment will come i'm still

are you still with you i don't think that there's a need for quarantine for things like chicken pox or mean or moms these are all illnesses that pass in a few days they have very very very low death rates the death rate of measles was one in ten thousand people that contracted measles in the ninety's sixty's the poor bax who came along just because the pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of a vaccine that protects against the measles and they run a campaign trying to make us terrified of a disease we should not be terrified of those not want to point it polish the holocaust museum says the star of david is being misused by the anti-vaccination to world war by the nazis and the museum accused the activists of belittling one of the darkest pages of history. instrumental lighting the feet of jews who are persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in the vaccination that

saves human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration util stara for the jewish people is about remembrance for us you know it's too much people because of what they are we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of the so you know style drew another jew you don't you have no right to use the political i would say game you make them becoming cheap we cannot forget when children women and people were worrying what happened to them what happened to them to have this too has to be built doing so even though dru's doing it to the stake for me it's a terrible abuse and i think it's it's a bit that's would be punished by law. according to the us government agency dealing with diseases in two thousand and eighteen the country suffered seventeen outbreaks of measles the number of cases this year has rocketed to almost four

hundred and is expected to rise further the cases were registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the orthodox jewish community resulting in some jews in the state of new york being quarantined. del big tree again says he used the star of david to show solidarity with the jewish community and had no intention of offending anyone. well i did not use it as a symbol for anti-vaccination i use it as a symbol of solidarity with the the city jewish community in rockland county new york that have been quarantined in america they cannot for the next thirty days go into any public places i think that there is the chance that those jewish people have not actually seen my speech there's a been a real misrepresentation of what i said by people who are always against the perspectives that i share so obviously there's always going to be different perspectives but i only appreciate perspectives that actually listen to the speech

that i gave that does it for me more of the weekly and thirty four and a half minutes stay with us this is our to international. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go.

by the way what is that that's like here. u.s. veterans who come back 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 they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular adventures officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government 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 then surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only closely and going to exists i they'll see how that

strategy will be successful very critical diam time to sit down and talk. when lawmakers manufacture consent to consistent of public wealth. when the roman classes project themselves. in the famous merry go round there's only one person. doing all middle of the room signals. the room. is. the world.

grano it was hard but you gotta make the best of how you. come up and live so i mean having graduate and i showed up. my mother was a crack she's to do crack when i was a kid or when she had me or whatever she's she don't belittle him or my dad he was like a just a thief so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad childhood from first grade i was

a cool kid i mean i really was a first grade to middle with us when i left my childhood which was bad and love with somebody else i was a family my mom's friend and from like. every since i left the house that i like and i went to another person and i swear i started doing bad stuff you know it's being sneaky and i jot down a line down the remember i like tenth grade so i'm on say you don't have to go to school if you don't want to so i said i'm down that never wore my school and i never want to go back to school i guess is in my blood so. i mean i was always. just a big kid and i always wanted to be better. i mean my mind's made up i want to do this for the rest of my life so you know i mean it's what i've.