breaking news this hour on our international austria's vice chancellor resign video emerges of him allegedly offering government in exchange for political support before elections in 2070. also ahead on the program today house a leaked document appears to contradict the global chemical weapons watchdogs probe into last year's chemical attack in syria russia's envoy to the un accuses the o p c w of becoming highly politicized. and away from. the state of. the most restrictive abortion laws in the. the need to make a choice you make

a choice. it's going to work please don't like some of the comments. made about women but i also have respect for life. in one minute past 2 pm this afternoon here in moscow the i one welcome to our national. our top story and we begin with breaking news austria is vice chancellor has resigned following a corruption scandal heinze christian struck it was reportedly caught on video offering lucrative business deals in exchange for political support he said he's he's the victim of a legal entrapment. this is coming. so after talks with the cancer sebastian kurtz i made the decision to resign from the post of vice cancer. this story just

breaking within the past hour a so i'm keeping us up to date well what we know we've done quarter in the studio i . suppose the obvious question why did the vice chose to resign do we know much about the meeting who filmed it while we don't know exactly who filmed it or how it was done but certainly this video has created big scandal around the right wing freedom party and this vice chancellor it depicts him and another party politician cutting a backroom deal with a woman who claims to be russian all of arks daughter just before the austrian elections in 2017 and they were speaking about taking money from very wealthy people for the party itself who apparently kept their paper trail with the money hidden through a charity organization. the woman also offered allegedly to buy a 50 percent stake in a major austrian newspaper and then flip the editorial line in favor of the freedom party so apologized for what he called discrediting people with his actions and he

said it was dumb and barassi let's take a look at a couple main parts of this video to understand how this huge corruption scandal was formed. and we're going to. see he's willing to. night he's. done the big question here isn't it this. it's a coalition government i was already having issues we know between the cheshire and the vice chancellor what next for austria well actually just just recently snap elections were called sickly so we could see a complete reform ation of the political landscape chancellor sebastian kurtz already said he wouldn't work with this guys trust me it's not clear when they absolutely he's pulling out of the coalition and as for structures replacement reports are saying that the transport minister no burke hole for is lined up to

become to become the next vice chancellor and this scandal is a serious step backwards in terms of the freedom party's political power there they took power back in the 2017 and it was based on this coalition between the 2 parties we've already seen one resignation so there's definitely to be even more political changes in the near future yeah as i say this story just really breaking a lot of questions still to ask what was this operation was a sting operation will have authentic we really don't know you know we don't have that information well thank you very much for bring us right up to what we do know double quarter. ok moving on is a busy news day this saturday this week the u.s. state of alabama approved the new abortion law it became the most restrictive in the country it criminalizes the procedure even in cases of rape or incest and punishes doctors with up to 99 years in prison a similar heart beat bill was signed in the bring george earlier this month it is

true although you know ortiz killed. alabama and georgia have passed their widely decried heartbeat bills these laws ban the terminations of pregnancy after 6 weeks even if the woman has been raped even if the fetus is not viable they make no exception and not surprisingly these bills have been rather controversial this is the most extreme abortion ban that's ever been passed so there's a higher penalty for doctors who perform these operations then for most rapists this is a travesty and i pray for all these women and young girls who will suffer at the hands of the system these are the eat it's making decisions for women in america governor i.v. shame on you celebrities are now speaking out actress alyssa mulatto is pulling a page from the old greek comedy list strata and calling on women not to have sex with men until the laws are overturned and certain voices are calling on big corporations like amazon delta airlines and coca-cola to boycott antiabortion

states i think that if a woman doesn't want to have an admissions to have the option to be decided as a mayor here in the seventy's to pass through persuade because women were still going to force a just and say but it's not just the pro-choice side that is getting fired up anti-abortion activists are furious about new laws in new york and virginia now these bills allow for a doctor to take into account physical emotional and even a woman's age when making the decision to terminate a pregnancy at any point and. needless to say conservatives have gotten fired up by the implications of these laws i'm asking you is why is it that a bill banning abortions after a woman has been pregnant for 6 weeks is not a return to the dark ages what's your answer my answer is something called science human life exists at conception it ought to be protected abortion has never been popular in the state of alabama it applies only in a state where a strong majority agrees with it were reflects that communities values well i was

rigid i think anyone who cares about the end born would have been it is inhumane it is immoral in my opinion and this is what i'm fighting against the anti-abortion side is now calling for drastic action it's time the millions of commonsense pro-life americans canonically boy called new york virginia new mexico rhode island and all the other insane states that will not protect the turn babies native new york pro lifers gather outside life in new stations with bright life signs show the world your numbers boycott new york boycott new york seriously don't go there if everyone who is pro-life refuses to visit there we could cripple the tourism industry i decided to find out how new yorkers feel about these new laws they're awful they're terrible for people men and women you need to make a choice should be at the ability to make a choice if you don't have that ability it's not going to work i have mixed

feelings i could see both sides i don't like some of the comments that were made about women and rape but i also have respect for life and do you think there is a point where we need to be more mindful of when we're doing certain things this is an old fight in american politics between 2 groups that just won't see eye to eye and it seems that the powers that be have picked this longstanding divide among the american people and said ready set fight could go all the way up to the supreme court again caleb up and r.t. new york. document cust dykes on the global chemical weapons watch dogs report on that deadly incident in syria last year let's have a brief reminder of what happened in a city just 10 kilometers from the capital damascus.

while the newly leaked document contradicts the o.p.c. w.'s official conclusion issued more than 2 months ago that report claimed that cylinders probably containing chlorine were dropped from the air on the city of duma western governments use those findings to blame the syrian government for the attack however the newly leaked o.p.c. w. report reportedly written by one of its experts say it's unlikely the 2 cylinder for were dropped from. rather it appears as if they replace their money our senior correspondent the of elves deeper. this was a comprehensive study and you way you look at it iis engineers experts accounted

for almost everything apparently visited the locations saw all the images the videos simulated the physical properties of the canisters concrete steel supports rebars everything they could account for they did it seems is what they found at one location in the creator and the chemical canister simply put didn't match instead the crater appears the being caused by an explosive shell before or after and the canister in the impact crater just don't match when a metal can falls through a concrete roof and steel supports you'd expect it to leave marks in dents but no consistent marks were found another location canisters say the authors simply couldn't have fit through the impact crater with the valve still intact the only

explain nation for all of this the experts state is that they were placed there. observations of the scene of the 2 locations together with subsequent analyses suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed there is $2.00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft now one would think their findings are incredibly important that they would change the entire narrative is findings completely contradict what was later put in the official o.p.c. w. report on the chemical incident and duma narrative the acid's helicopters drop to these canisters that was established hours after the incident with no investigation or questions and narrative that enabled the narmada of cruise missiles to be launched at syria u.p.c. w. has admitted that documents had been leaks and say they're investigating how it happened which into the veracity of these documents they didn't deny their

legitimacy worryingly u.p.c. w. has issued no comment on what the specific report found there were many other reports which the u.p.c. w. compiled for their final version on how these leaked findings fly in the face of the u.p.c. w.'s official report the documents turn the entire story down and bear in mind these aren't just random nobodies we don't know whether this team was part of the u.p.c. w. staff members or outside consultants experts and the u.p.c. w. is saying nothing other than it looked at all versions and sub investigations and compiled them asked for comment a week ago with a list of questions and there's been no response why did they meet this report why did they go for one version of events and not the other why are they taking so long

to comment on this so far silence but with the story gaining traction so for. as sooner or later. well professor appears robinson who assess the early reports for a think tank on syria seems the o.p.c. w. has to address whether there is a cover up going on over the dinner report what kind of political pressure might have been brought to bear on your p.c. w to lead to a what would appear to be the case to to suppress will not use a report which one of the messed up members of being involved in producing and to rely upon engineering reports from some unspecified external companies those are the kind of questions 3 really need to be asking and really you know the c.w. has to address this i think more broadly than that he's got a proper investigation into the o.p.c. w. and how it has been operating because if it is the case that it's organization has

been subjected to political pressure and that has led to a distortion there investigations then that is an incredibly serious matter whole number of reasons quite aside from the fact that we did what happened in duma civilians were killed and we need to get to the bottom of who killed them ok this is a war crime has occurred and it is in any way some kind of coverup going on and that's a very very serious matter and it's something which should be people should be pushing for a proper investigation an international inquiry into what has been going on how do you easy w.b. not writing and critically and investigation to try to understand what has been happening in syria in relation to all of these events new allegations regarding chemical weapons attacks. meanwhile the united nations security council has met to speak on the situation in the middle east including the syria conflict the security

council focused on earth strikes which took place earlier this month according to western countries they were carried out by the syrian government forces they cause civilian casualties destroyed hospitals under pharmacy russia the u.k. on the united states all had a great deal to say only a solved. neither the syrian army nor the russian air force have been waging military operations against civilians or civilian infrastructure russia and the regime's decision to launch air strikes sends a terrible signal of disregard toward the u.n. political process where we refuse to consider terrorists as an untouchable and will continue to fight them despite the objections of some of our partners russia has claimed this so-called return it strikes surgical i quote surgical in their precision i hope i do not need medical treatment in moscow if surgical accuracy

means what we've seen usually i hope you never need a hospital but there are good medical facilities in russia if you ever need it lets us know united states reiterate that any escalation in violence in northwest syria would destabilize the region. we have our own view on who's destabilizing the region after the break wall of the stars of a massive t.v. series game of thrones known to found us rumsey bolton author carter he was comes on an adventure of his own right here to russia we grab a chat with him coming up. next as a special survival. let's learn. let's say i'm

a troika. of the fight. thank you for. the story 6 that's right. slavery. i am reluctant to give credit to the president trying for just about anything but by action in a way when he said at the beginning of his presidency that he'd be open to it to a one state or a 2 state solution whatever these rising balloting is going to i think that was actually a smart thing to say given the legacy of american support for israel the expansion essentially over the decades given the kind of political culture and political system that israel has developed there really isn't a way to negotiate something between palestinians and israel and.

you know it's a big weekend ahead for a found something hugely popular t.v. show game of thrones after 80 years the very last episode is almost upon us the series by the way is also the subject of many news articles sure you're aware some trying to draw parallels between the plot on the real political situation in the world especially tensions between a run the u.s. poly boy in you and. case you missed it. in case you missed it u.s. forces are on the move when talent could be coming for iran hold on a 2nd is this a game of turns up to say it. is just that this stuff in the middle east is really important. but honestly who would be stupid enough to compare

something as serious as this to a t.v. show about boobies. is that real. imagine if the latest us iran showdown was actually a game of thrones i'm not wearing the. t. golden head donald trump variant is the only thousands of both dragons dragons are a metaphor for nuclear weapons try and stay with me here ok ito isn't one round this is to how many just a few of the great houses are allowed the ability to tell an entire city's into smoldering ashes but only one species dead now trump guerin's forces are gathering outside the iran this stronghold he sent in his ion fleet and popped one of those peace loving at a craft carrier is just off the coast he's even threatened to send 120000 sunday

troops there as well but he doesn't want to you may be confused by that part of the whole list stash here tonight bolton says using the intelligence indicating that the iran distance is all planning attacks against trump garrion forces there is reports coming from the little the virus netanyahu the middle east the monster of wispa is all of this makes the iran a state is for a dragon of their road more than ever and they're threatening to try and breed one again soon because the trunk guerin's pulled out of an ancient pact which stopped them during that the stocks of europe a warning that a conflict could stop accidentally but when it comes to the climates they're likely to scatter in different directions when the fighting begins and at least one will probably be. the problem for the around nest as it is that they have no idea if they're dealing with the seasons $1.00 to $7.00 trump area or the season 8 version

. i haven't heard. polly would like this next story because our correspondent daniel hawkins actually got to speak to one of the big stars all of game of thrones known to fans as rumsey bolton he was on an adventure of his own coming here to russia for the 1st visit of his you can watch the full interview on our website. channel here's a snippet. give a wonder what would have happened ramsay if you had the sort of gristly and in season 6 yeah i don't know. i don't know how we would have felt but the nearest i think it probably would have been to be on your side in a stupid she's got dragged it was but i don't think the way the narrative of the show's played out that it would have been as good with ramsey they i think. i think he needs to sort of be gotten rid of in order to install the stocks back to create the drama and the and the intrigue between the nearest and. and jon

snow obviously because what else are you going to do just use in so many awful things that you just you know who'd just been a you know was going to do now as you've described as well sort of nothing's black and white there's no villains you know playing those sorts of roles i've never been romeo you know i mean in. so i guess i'm. something else. i really enjoy playing the more complex roles because there's just more to it. and it's often yes more interesting i think donna well that says about me as a person. or maybe you know i think you need a specific kind of actor to play those roles and in order to make them not be sort of just face value and have depth and to be 3 dimensional and maybe you need a specific kind of actor and we had a person obviously no getting away from

a game of thrones is that is the big thing right now that the hype surrounding that . could ask what's in this is a let me follow you yeah absolutely yeah what's your thoughts of somalia i think one of the great things about it is it just doesn't matter what you people could sit around and discuss in and have all these ideas and for they just no matter what you think they always seem to find a way to twist i thought coming into the series there was no way around it being the nearest but now i was thinking in lost and. so i don't know if she's but i kind of saw the upcoming i'm very interested to see the scene between. you going to settle off the author it goes away something is epic because that which is you know really. defined you at least in the last couple of years as a an actor yeah of course i'll miss it but it's also it's everything's got to come to a close and i think it's quite exciting that it sort of finishes as you know has just fizzled out going out with the buying in. yen and then on to the next thing and.

the collapse of the european union is a realistic possibility in the coming decades a poll ahead of the european elections suggest that's the view of many in the bloc it also comes with statistics showing that 3 in 10 voters believe there could be a war between e.u. countries. as the story. with less than a week to go before the e.u. heads to the polls it seems that you are files have found something new to panic about and i'm not talking about an upsurge in support for you or skeptic parties according to one thing tank this is the european council on foreign relations there are just 7 days to save the union now that may sound drastic but when you look at the results of a survey that they've just released beginning to understand why the e.u. has been described as the world's best known peace project but it seems a surprisingly large number of voters across the block off fearful war may break

out between member states here in france that was the greatest pessimism with 34 percent saying that it was a realistic prospect so we've been putting this to people here in paris to find out if this scares the bejesus out of them i have to say that we are scared but i hope that this will not like more consequences like rex either so i think you're dreaming. is like oh nightmare they will never happen. in the suppose in the future to think you wouldn't think so we have for the 1st thing. in the. always we we need to always try to move move on we're not really afraid of. economy very open economy. we're dependent on foreign investment. in 20 years lots of things could happen and there could be

a war we could see a repeat of the 1st of the 2nd world wars i'm not actually worried about that but we never know i would think all of that's happened over the course of history but europe would not want to do that again because i think it's a problem for the future and that's why it's important to though to elections perhaps just as worrying is that something. 58 percent of respondents here in france thought that the e.u. was likely to fall apart in the next 10 to 20 years reflecting a general trend in other member states including germany italy and poland maybe a bit late in the day but i think tank e.c.s. far is now looking for inspiration as how it can encourage more true e.u. voters to cast their ballots next week to safeguard the future suggest taking a leaf out of the book of protest movements like the yellow vests here in france or even extinction rebellion basically the penny has finally dropped many voters are turned off by traditional politicians and there is huge apathy towards the e.u.

parliament and its institutions so is it too late to save europe or to save it from itself. r.t. paris ok stay close for more great program starting in moments live from moscow this is our international c.e.o. 30 i mean the mic. when we all make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the right wing pluses and protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. doing the rounds being real need.

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a long time you can be really a civil war that continues for 4 months time. her through her. thank you. welcome to redact of the night this is a county show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. now you've probably heard of vice news rights in a region 8 it is vice magazine it started out as a fun nihilistic hipster media outlet it was a cow that you go to to find out how best to have sex with someone you don't know all injecting heroin in your ass. you know the quote the cool kids did but a funny thing happened on the way to counter culture stardom the corporate pro-war powers

that be bought up vice and at the prospect of switching gears and becoming a hipster propaganda outlet for our us empire vices management responded who gave them rather money to get a. this came as quite a shock seeing as vices motto since its earliest days has been who gives a crap about it again i am we were all floored. in order to find out why vice has collapsed into a pile of bull let's start of again vice was co-founded by all rights hero gavin mcinnes who have to leave in vice in 2008 founded the proud boys considered by many to be a racist a massage an instinct neal fascist group and sure enough the charleville terrorist to kill kill the has a higher was a member of the proud boys so even from the beginning life was run by really upstanding people i mean. come up with

a lot of people you'd introduce your grandma.