police. 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. is precisely the fact that they haven't been able to receive any from . 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. has pain struggles with an influx of illegal migrants and people smuggler reveals how the gangs are cashing in on the crisis. people have to get. the. two

thousand. dollars. and hungary says it has captured an islamic state commander posing as a refugee had received benefits. to help newcomers. are broadcasting live director our studios moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our team international a survivor of last year's no a choke poisonings in the u.k. meets with the russian ambassador in an attempt to find out more about the nerve agent attack charlie really put his on answered questions to alexander. mr reilly and his partner don sturgis fell sick in the town of burry in june last year and initially police suspected a drug overdose but then concluded the couple had been. and after coming into

contact with the toxic substance sturgis died a week later in the hospital charlie rowley met with mr goh at the russian embassy in london artie's initial 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'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 nearly a script last chaired by what was said to be the name 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 what could they know and what they're offered by the press so it's good to have an alternative point of view and understand rush's live the reason. 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 newspaper and i got the impression that both the family just imagine charlie rowley have not been adequately and formed as to what happened to the pain a mystery and what happened in souls reinforced 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 little that don't some center of the russian president. the family of the late daughter 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. and the points missed a very racist is that he felt his reputation was affected by the u.k. press and describing him as hopeless when he was simply a british citizen charlie and his brother very nice people the first thing they told me was that the british press misrepresented that. this is not the case he wants me to get this message across to russia and what he insists the russian ambassador on the other hand says there's so much left to announce it but we have plenty of questions regarding the core mation to this 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 mosque a 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 you mr always case 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 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 ali asked the ambassador why did your country kill my girlfriend and received the only russian propaganda in response moscow's envoy though says 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 mirror. the thing here is we have to rely on the newspaper and there 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 have 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 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 round two in the country's presidential election the first round song 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 push and go has

been calling on his rival to hold a public debate selenski added in one condition though a drug test both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre debate to bloody giving parties the trunk o. 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 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 while look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for

a political background. we did you know. we will bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like 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 has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years and train is under the threat 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 is presidential election in ukraine seems to be getting less attention in the west event 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 publics 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 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 think that's hopeful for

ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need their independent people have got a bit an independent doesn't shoot 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 to cross by people smugglers and human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist lauren southern he described how the lucrative trade works. how do people get the space very people have to have to spend a lot of more knew how to spend two thousand you know four thousand four thousand you know over two thousand for a few how much money can you make. from the door to space where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand facundo four thousand. the

totality fifty. fifty person you do fifty seven everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five. hundred of my own earlier we also had the opportunity 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 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. 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

lauren southern believes the authorities are able to deal with a 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 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. the hungary and 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 and he's bitter all over as the story. imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist a senior eisel commander and not just any money a new tax payer money and it gets worse reports say that he received a monthly payment of five hundred euros on his debit card that's well over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards are issued to a joint project between the united nations and the european union that's supposed to be a strict screening process in place to make sure that only those eligible have access to the funds but this wouldn't be the first time that a suspected terrorist hiding among refugees that inadvertently been given taxpayer money.

the european commission insists that the prepaid debit cards are not just handed out to anyone that they know exactly who these cards are being distributed to and check up on their status on a monthly basis so hungry is wondering why did brussels not know that they were funding a suspected terrorist this not only creates another poll it also raises serious security concerns the citizens of europe have a right to know the problem of how to provide much needed funding and aid to refugees in europe isn't an easy one to solve but it's cases like these that fuel

the popularity of anti immigration parties across the continent and with a new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment. 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 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. how to sort of coming through and to run intelligence operations to try 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 are being persecuted like jews during the holocaust and have been wearing stuff the star of david to actually make their point that is after unvaccinated children were banned from entering certain public places following a measles outbreak. how are we going to do it you know how are we going to arrest you. if you want to just say well we did the last time so for you. to cynic jews in new york right now they never thought this moment will come. are you still with you i don't think that there's a need for quarantine for things like chicken pox or meads or or mom's 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 contract it measles and nine hundred sixty the poor vaccine came along just because the pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of a back seeing that protects against the measles and they run a campaign trying to make us terrified of a disease we should not be terrified of does not want to point. the 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 accuse the activists of belittling one of the darkest pages of history. instrumental lighting the feet of jews who were persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like oh sure it's with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that save human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration util star for the jewish people

is about remembrance for us you know it's to mark people because the four though we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of these you know style 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 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 burns to be sent to a guest. so if people are doing so even jews them 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 center for disease control and prevention 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 citic jewish community in rockland county new york that have been quarantined in america 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. the french president claims that protecting the environment is a top priority for the country but the pollution crisis on the south coast now threatens to shatter that image empty shell dubinsky report. 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 ports so 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 remain a problem comes from industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles that get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease is the cancer rates here is ten percent higher than average and from was an aspirin diabetes levels were also elevated this could all be avoided if the waste from the trees was processed

properly on the downhills not mean himself that he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems shouldn't complain about having diabetes when some people here have several different types of cancer it's 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 cancer while women who participated in a study were almost three times more likely to have or have had cancer compared to the national average the e.u. claims its 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 egg quality standards many people here believe that the evils actions just don't go far enough. to 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 nor. and knows that poor air quality accounts the permit your debts of four hundred thousand people every year with less than two months before the new citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns like those in books so now a climbing the agenda meanwhile present my point has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead to streets it's zahra's no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage done through this world. it is not the future we want for also of my generation will do his best. in order for

your generation to us the choice to choose. but it will be generation to do the job environmental campaign is happy accused him of all talk and little action people in for a man seem to feel the same way but it's only the promises he hasn't done anything yet. nothing is done and in future years the situation is very serious screwed. plenty of work to be done you know about the you know the best movements and one of the conditions is improving. people hey i say that without immediate action the future remains that children a bleak prospect so it didn't ski for. thirty two minutes and fifteen seconds that is when i will be back with more of the weekly you are watching our two international certainly glad to have you with us.

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well and welcome to worlds apart in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long claim to put value as a value creation and that worked well for a while but now that some countries counsel a whole new industry in the time it takes the e.u. to come up with a single policy decision is that credo still satisfying for the own members to discuss that i'm now joined by. the president of the european economic and social committee mr years good to talk to you thank you very much thank you so much for the musician you often talk about the idea of a reunion for europe while also praising the enormous success of the european project that's been so successful why does it have to be reborn. so

let me see that the you know tools to come back to the more long term historical view appears to be an enormous success for as many. historical periods of bust implied to being totally lost dead or disappeared by they could that i too and then they'd need to a new start so. to make also perform this song came exactly. at the end of the middle age. the. cage was exactly the opposite it was a. cage and there was a change of the. change.