austria's vollies chancellor resigned after becoming ensnared in a corruption scandal christian struck it was secretly offering government contracts in exchange for political support in the run up to the 27th the. coming off a leaked document calls into question the world chemical weapons one. alleged chemical attack on the outskirts of the syrian capital last year. in the u.s. state of alabama is the country's most draconian abortion laws fruiting widespread public. you need to make a choice you make a choice. it's not going to work please don't like some of the comments.

but i also have respect for life. 247 us live from moscow this is your r.t. international good to have your company today i'm you know o'neill our top story austria's vice chancellor has resigned after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal video emerged showing heinze christian struck offering lucrative public contracts to a woman protecting to be the niece of a russian oligarch in exchange for political support he say's he's the victim of an illegal job. yes it was stupid yes it was responsible yes it was a mistake but at the same time it was a victim of a targeted political attack that if used illegal means so after talks with the chancellor sebastian court i made the decision to resign from the post of

chancellor. breaking the big news no double quarter r t correspondent joins be in the studio a very high profile resignation talk us through what happened here while you and it all started with this video that came out of what was very clearly a sting operation it's caused quite the scandal around the right wing freedom party and its former vice chancellor he and a party member johan good in this were shown cutting a backroom deal with a woman claiming to be the daughter of a russian all of dark back in the 2017 right before the austrian elections now they spoke about the party taking money from several wealthy donors who apparently kept their paper trail hid in the through a charity organization and the women also the woman also allegedly offered to buy a 50 percent stake in a major austrian newspaper and to flip the editorial position to help the freedom party struck it also apologized for what he called discrediting people with his

actions he said he was dumb and he embarrassed himself but he also said that he was the victim of illegal entrapment and he denies receiving any compensation from this woman as does his party actually coincidentally this video. was from 2 years ago surfaced only several days after the austrian president met with russian president vladimir putin we don't know where that video came yeah no from nobody knows where it came from nobody knows who set up the camera but it's no doubt stirring up you know anti russian sentiments across the world again so let's take a let's take a look about at some couple major points of this video to see what's called syria's controversy. he saw. me he saw. me he said. now earlier today the other guy in the video goodness also resigned

from his position in the party and 2017 these those elections they were a big step forward for the freedom party actually they took 26 percent of the vote their best results since 1999 so the scandal in these ragged resignations they could put an end to some of the gains from those elections in which they took power only through the coalition with the austrian people's party yeah they were the junior party in the coalition weren't they so that will mean the senior party especially kurtz's party the chancellor will he now look for early elections and yeah well austrian media is reporting that snap elections have been called actually chancellor sebastian kurtz like you said he already said he won't work with straka and he's pulling out of the coalition he wants full power yeah well absolutely yeah maybe as for struck his replacement reports are saying that the transport minister no but hole for is lined up to become the next vice chancellor so we already seem to resignations in the span of only several hours you know so what we're seeing

here are some big changes in the political landscape in austria yet big story this summer double quote r t correspondent bring us right up to date thank you. the u.s. strengthened its fleet in the persian gulf by sending 2 more of its guided missile destroyers to the region the ships apparently with its incident in the hormuz straits join the other warships and earlier this month there is currently growing tension between the u.s. on the run with washington accusing its street of plotting to attack american interests while polly boyd goes online series in case you missed it has its own unique they go on the situation there. in case you missed it u.s. forces on the move in town could be coming. on hold on a 2nd is this a game of turns out to say it. is just that this stuff in the middle

east is really important. but honestly who would be stupid enough to come pass something as serious as this to a t.v. show about boobies and. is that real you know wow imagine if the latest us iran showdown was actually a game of thrones i'm not wearing the. t. golden head donald trump darien is the only thousands of both dragons the dragons are a metaphor for nuclear weapons try and stay with me here ok either one be honest as 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 carians forces are gathering outside the iran this stronghold he sent in his ion fleet and parked 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 sasheer tonight john bolton says he's seen 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 star is in for a dragon of their own 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 doing that the stocks of europe a warning that a conflict could stop accidentally but when it comes to the crunch they're likely to scatter in different directions when the fighting begins and at least one will probably be. the problem for the iran desk as it is that they have no idea if

they're dealing with the seasons $1.00 to $7.00 trump carrion or the season 8 version. i have no idea. ok staying with the game of thrones theme the much anticipated finale to the epic fantasy t.v. series errors on sunday night and more than a few people might just skip work to watch it know get ready for this an estimated 27000000 in the u.s. alone might do that according to one particular study the actor who plays ramsay bolton in the show has been on the adventure of his own with his 1st trip to russia he's been talking to daniel hawkins a little bit where spoiler alert if you're not up to speed. give a wonder what would have happened ramsay if you had the sort of gristly and in season 6 yeah i don't know. how we would have felt but the nearest you probably

would have been to be on your side in a stupid she's got a dragon but i don't think the way the narrative of the show's played out 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. jon snow obviously because what else are we going to do he just isn't so many awful things that he just you know who'd just been archived 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 as 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 depth and to be 3 dimensional and maybe you need a specific kind of actor and we had a person obviously getting away from a game of thrones is that is the big thing right now that the hype surrounding that . could ask you thoughts of this era it's a let me follow you yeah absolutely yeah what's your thoughts of i think one of the great things about it is it just doesn't matter what you people can 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 that i thought coming into the series there was no way around it being the nearest but now i was thinking in june last. so i don't know if she's but i kind of saw up coming i'm very interested to see the scene between. little after after it goes away something as epic as that which is you know really. defined you

at least in the last couple of years as a as a as an actor yeah of course i miss it but it's also it's everything's got to come to a close and i think it's quite exciting the sort of finish is as you know has just fizzled out going out with the buying in. yen and then on to the next thing in. a leaked document has cast dots on the global chemical weapons watchdogs report on a deadly attack in syria last year it happened in the city of do you know which is about 10 kilometers from the syrian capital. as government forces were advancing towards opposition militants who had occupied the brief reminder of how the situation unfolded back in.

well a newly leaked document contradicts the o.p.c. w.'s official conclusion issued more than 2 months ago the report claimed that cylinders probably containing chlorine were dropped from the air on the city of duma well western governments use those findings essentially to blame the syrian government for the attack however this document reportedly written by one of its experts say it's unlikely that the 2 cylinders were dropped from america rather it appears as if they were placed there manually or senior correspondent rocco's the of brings us more. this was a comprehensive study and you way you look at it iis engineers experts accounted for almost everything apparently visited the locations saw well 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 dense 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 it 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.b.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.b.c. w. has issued no comment on what these 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 answers sooner or later the professor appears robinson who assessed the document

for a british academic research group sees the weapons watchdog has to address whether there is a cover up going on over there doing a report. what kind of political pressure and mine to be brought to bear on your p.c. w to lead to what would appear to be the case to to suppress will not use a report which one of the messed up members has been involved in producing and to rely on engineering reports from some unspecified external companies those are the kind of question 3 really need to be asking and really you know p.c. w. has to address this i think more broadly than he's got a proper investigation into the o.p.c. w. and how it has been operating because it is the case that it's organization has been subjected to political pressure and that has led to

a distortion their 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 creating uncritically an investigation to try to understand what has been happening in syria in relation to all of these events need allegations regarding the chemical weapons attacks or meanwhile the u.n. security council has met to speak on the situation in the middle east including the syrian conflict they. focused on earth strikes in syria earlier this month according to western countries that were carried out by syrian government forces

the strikes call civilian fatalities destroyed hospitals and a pharmacy russia the u.k. and the u.s. all heard a great deal to say of the assaults. neither the syrian army know the russian. military operations against civilians or civilian infrastructure russia and the regime's decision to launch air strikes sends a terrible signal of disregard towards the u.n. political process. and will continue despite the objections of some of. its safe return it strikes said. medical treatment. good medical facilities in russia if you have

a new. united states reiterates that any escalation in violence in northwest syria would destabilize the region. we have our own view. in the region. still to come this hour a defiant yellow vests protesters headlights on the streets of france for a $27.00. there are more all the more after this. most people who manage public pension funds don't know anything about them they're just the clerks that they just signs in this job they give them a bunch of money and wall street guys come around and they take them out to lunch that thomas marty is and then they sum up back a war some a lot of garbage most toxic risk on wall street is sold into these public pension funds where it goes to die that's why the returns are so.

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 agree on i think that was actually a smart thing to say a 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 israelis. this week the u.s. state of approved

a new abortion law the most restrictive in the nation it criminalizes the procedure even in cases of rape or incest and punishes doctors with up to 99 years in prison while a similar heartbeat bill was signed in neighboring georgia earlier this month artie's came up and as the story. 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 morano is pulling

a page from the old greek comedy list the strada 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 anti abortion states i think if a woman doesn't want to have a bad thing that should have the option to be decided as the mayor here in the seventy's to pass through versus wade because women were still going to worship just and say but it's not just the pro-choice side that is getting fired up anti-abortion activists are furious about new was 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 that a bill banning abortions after a woman has been pregnant for 6 weeks is not to 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 the state where a strong majority agrees with it were reflects that communities values will. i was rigid i think anyone who cares about the unborn 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 cannot make a boy called new york or genia new mexico rhode island and all the other insane states that will not protect them they turn babies native new york pro lifers gather outside life in new stations with bribes signs show the world your numbers boycott new york boycott new york seriously don't go there if everyone who's pro-life refuses to visit there we could cripple the tourism industry 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 think there is a point where we need to be more mindful of what 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 it could go all the way up to the supreme court again caleb up an artsy new york. ok just before we go to break i want to bring you to france where yellow vests protesters are demonstrating in cities across the country for a 27th consecutive week and these are live pictures right now from the french

capital the latest series of rallies coming in spite of the problem government's attempts to address the growing swell of popular writer for falling living standards as you can see a massive police presence there just in front of the media the protesters going through some of the main streets in. in the city so far it's been peaceful place a light in what we say will become a very close eye the day on our team international. you know world's big partisan movie lot 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still war here. put me in the neighborly is that i'm still in the middle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took part in this today over 5000000000 dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

now i'm actually retired so we're going underground on the day of arguably the most controversial eurovision song contest final in history coming up in the show former mayor of an occupied town in the west bank author of trump of the jews david rubin on how your vision promoted by both madonna and the u.k.'s b.b.c. politically validates israel and its the prospect of the most devastating war in middle east history and we ask whether britain should have taken part in all the other is filmed proof of interference in u.k. politics by the israeli embassy in london last not only you're a vision hip hop artist and activist loci tells us why we should be boycotting tonight's final all the more coming up in today's going on the kind of 1st to your

vision in a week when more than 22 children were shot by israeli forces someone who will be watching the madonna and b.b.c. promoted competition is the former mayor of shallow in the contested west bank david rubin joins me via noisy skype link from new york david welcome to going underground so what does having the euro vision song contest in tel aviv mean to you it's very very important clue for the country you know israel. there was controversy over this. israel wunderlist your vision and as you know there's a tradition that the country that wins the or vision owes the eurovision in the following year but of course having didn't israel is is a recognition that the maybe the world busy is becoming a better place for the spite the objections of some of the it's and will be people like roger waters and others. there is absolutely no reason why israel should

not be the host it's obviously pink floyd's our front man roger waters deny that he is an anti-semite absolutely and for all of what you're saying i'm happy you are you know only too well about security issues presume we'll have to be very tight just remind us the story that you don't resign. they have how the militants nearly killed you and your 3 year old son sparing you to create the shiloh israel children's fund 17 years ago driving home from jerusalem would lead to their old son sitting behind me in the b.b.c. . they were happily old a mess a terrible terrorists who are the road these terrorists were the pals the little authority they were. terrorists. and they were shooting 47 assault rifles found out that my son had been shot in the head the bullet had gone into his head and necklaces brainstem by one knee when there is

a current that israel aims that military institutions where they are saying that israel does not as a launching pad for your sake is or doesn't target children absolutely not god forbid. but sometimes a little bite in there are innocents that are heard and that's the reality of war ok i mean obviously the united nations disagrees with you completely and they're the most recent report said that they integrate much of return obviously i.d.f. responsible for deliberately targeting children the origin song contest is on and it wasn't long ago that. known as in the wall street journal the murdoch wall street journal reported that netanyahu the israeli government were facilitating medical treatment for militants linked to al qaeda the people responsible for 911 which happened in the town you're in right now israel is that a humane country it is true that israel has 3.