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

and hungry says it has captured an islamic state commander posing as a refugee the man who had received benefits under. to help newcomers. broadcasting live. recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. a survivor of last year's 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 rowley and his a partner. in the town of amesbury in june last year an initially police suspected a drug overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned or in the hospital met with. at the russian and. so many of his questions were left unanswered by the

u.k. government charlie riley 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 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 what could they know and what they were 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 piles i told them that there was no mobile service connection with this group three hours prior

to the poisoning we were 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 newspaper and i got the impression that both the family just imagine charlie or ollie it was not been adequately and formed as to what happened to the pain a mystery and what happened in souls real force they never received any official. for many months now mr rarely and dawn's family received very little information about the course of the investigation so a little that don't some center letter to the russian president. the family of the late donor sturgis once first and foremost to see the investigations conclusion of russia was the same thing it's been a year now and we still haven't seen any official results that led charlie and his brother to contact us is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive anything from the british authorities. another point missed a very. he raised is that he felt his reputation was affected by the u.k.

press and describing him as homeless when he was simply a british this isn't charlie and his brother very nice people posting they told me was that the british press misrepresented that. this is not the case and he wants me to get this message across to russia and what he and the russian ambassador on the other hand says there's so much that announce it but we have plenty of questions regarding the court. because it destroyed proof thank you to impossible to examine the results of those investigations that have been carried out by the british authorities every day in the u.k. authorities have done a needs rechecking treating 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 the 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 says

he just wants and i'm going to tell. mr all these cases came just a few months after the poisoning of russian double agent sergei screwball and his daughter in the city of solsbury in march two thousand and eighteen both survived though mr screwball has not been seen in public since u.k. has blamed moscow for both incidents russia however for its part claims no evidence has been produced and has flatly denied any involvement. ukase 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 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 the child victim wanted to hear russia's position on the case we asked two political analyst for their views on the case and the way it has been presented by the mirror. 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 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 my 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. ukraine is preparing for round two in the country's presidential election the first round saw a comedian and political newcomer volodymyr 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 zelinsky added in one condition though a drug test both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre debate blood giving it a try to have more on the two rivals. 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 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 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. and 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 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 holdman abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that would probably want to 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 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 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 and then 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

a significant open amount 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 candidates and i think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation 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 held across by people smugglers or human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lauren southern he described how the lucrative trade works how do you get to spain very people have to get to spare look look of more new 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 two thousand factories or four thousand you get to italy to fifty person. fifty person you do fifty of course and everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. earlier we also spoke with lauren southern who filmed that interview with the moroccan smuggled she told us more about their 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. 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 crossing law in southern believes that the authorities are unable to deal with the crisis. there's not much the authorities can do i don't doubt that some want to do something about this however most of these migrants and this causes chaos for both the spanish and for the migrants themselves on the advice of traffickers are told to throw their passports into the sea or destroy them before entering spain and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps and morocco 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 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 hungary says a suspected islamic state terrorist has been receiving refugee benefits in the vestry much more after a break this is the weekly international. in the world of political much making the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable and tribute. to the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry. to potential partners. 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

melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish them at all. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. here in dramatic development only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. this is the week we're not international now the government says it has detained an islamic state commander who entered europe posing as a refugee and a 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 peter 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 monthly payments 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 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 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 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 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 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. trying to identify those unknown terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. and

vaccine activists in the u.s. claim they're 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 spaces following a break how are we going to do it you know how are we going to arrest you. if you want to just say we did the last time so for you. to cynic jews in new york right now 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 to contract it measles in the ninety's sixty's before

a vaccine 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 a polish holocaust museum says the star of david is being misused by the anti vaccine activists the ancient symbol of the religion was used to label jews during the second 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 extermination camps like auschwitz with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that save human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration yellow star for the jewish people is about remembrance for us you know it's to mark people because of what they are

we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of the say you know star drew another jew you don't you have no right to use these symbols because you make them becoming part of political i would say game you make them becoming cheap and we cannot forget when children women and people were worrying what happened to them and what happened to them to have this too has to be burns to be sent to a guest chambers so if people are doing so even though dru's they are doing a terrible mistake on for me it's a terrible abuse and i think it's it's a view that should be punished by law. according to the u.s. center for disease disease control and prevention in two thousand and eighteen the country suffered seventeen outbreaks of measles the number of cases this year has rocketed it to almost four hundred and it is expected to rise further the cases

that were registered mainly among unvaccinated people in the an 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 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's 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 all right i'll be back with more of the weekly and it's a thirty four and a half minutes you're watching our trash. 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 defenses office says we're got to act and destroy the governments and 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 surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness

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their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain branches off that says we're got to act and destroy the governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harms way. and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for. you know world of big part of the new lot things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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

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