the austrian chancellor calls for actions after his deputy is inspired in a corruption scandal and forced to resign. document called into question the world chemical weapons that watchdogs conclusions about an alleged chemical attack on the outskirts of the syrian capital last year. and i'm going to erupt in the u.s. after the state of alabama passes the country's most draconian abortion rules. to make a choice you've got to believe. it's going to work i don't like some of the comments . but i also have respect for life.

it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from our studio as requested snap elections after his 2nd in command was caught in a corruption sting and forced to resign thousands of people have been protesting outside the parliament building in vienna calling for a new government in the wake of the scandal on friday undercover video was released showing heinze christian straka offering lucrative public contracts to a woman posing as the niece of the russian oligarch an exchange for political support despite having described his behavior as careless the former vice chancellor sought to portray himself as the victim of an illegal hit 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 had used illegal means so after talks with the chancellor sebastian court i made the decision to resign from the post

a feisty chancellor. all started with this video that came out of what was clearly a sting it's caused quite a scandal around the right wing freedom party and its former vice chancellor and the senior member of the party johann good denis were shown cutting a back room deal with a woman claiming to be the niece of a russian all a dark with lothian citizenship back in 2017 right before the austrian elections so they spoke about the party taking money from wealthy donors who kept their paper trail hidden apparently through a charity organization the woman also allegedly offered to buy 50 percent stock of a major austrian newspaper to flip the editorial line in favor of the freedom party . he said. he. now stretch

apologized for what he said he said he discredited people with his actions said he was dumb an embarrassed himself but at the same time he also did say that he was the victim of illegal entrapment and denies receiving money from this woman and as well as his party as party also denies receiving any money coincidentally this video from 2 years ago also surfaced only several days after there was meeting between the austrian president and russian president vladimir putin nobody knows where this video came from or who set up the camera 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 back. results since 1999 so the scandal in these reg 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 so what we're seeing here are some big changes in the political landscape in austria and

a political scientist at the university of havana predicts the corruption scandal will deal a major blow to the freedom party and its european affiliates. no matter. who is. likely to always. so if. he does. most of them say that's not what. the us has strengthened its fleet in the persian gulf by sending 2 more of its guided missile destroyers to the region the ships apparently past without incident in the only straits and join me at the warship center earlier this month is currently growing tensions between the u.s. and iran with washington accusing it said verse 3 of planning to attack american

interests probably because online series of case you missed it has its own unique take on the situation. in case you missed it u.s. forces are on the move when they become a lightning rod and hold on a 2nd is this a game of thrones i say it. is just that this stuff in the middle east is really important. but honestly it would be stupid enough to compare something as serious as this to a t.v. show about boobies. is that real you know wow imagine if the latest us iran showdown was actually a game of thrones i'm not wearing the. golden head donald trump variant is the only thousands of dragons dragons are

a metaphor for nuclear weapons try and stay with me here ok he doesn't want to be around this is so 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 eye and feet and popped one of there's 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 you may be confused by that part of the list stuff here tonight john bolton says using the intelligence indicating that the iranians all planning attacks against trump garrion forces there is your poll it's coming from the little the virus netanyahu the middle east mosque 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 use. 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 kerry and or the season 8 version. i haven't heard. staying with a game of thrones theme and the much anticipated finale to the epic fantasy t.v. series airs on sunday night and according to one study as many as 5000000 people in the u.s. could be set to skip work the following day meanwhile the actor who plays ramsay bolton in the show has been on an adventure of his own with his 1st trip to russia he's been talking to danielle hawkins although beware spoiler and that if you're

not up to speed ever wonder what would have happened ramsay if you had the sort of grisly end 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 the stupid she's got dragged it was 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 starks back to create the drama and the and the intrigue between the nearest 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 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 rules 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 i don't know what 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 getting away from a game with rose is that is the big thing right now that the hype surrounding that . could ask us that what's this is a let me follow you yeah absolutely what's your thoughts of somalia 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 are 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 june last and. so i don't know if she's but i

kind of saw up coming i'm very interested to see the scene between. are you going to sort all of 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 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 that sort of finishes as you know has just fizzled out going out with the buying in. yen and then on to the next thing in. a league document has raised questions about the global chemical weapons watchdog report on a deadly attack in syria last year the incident took place in the city of duma 10 kilometers from the syrian capital as government forces advanced towards opposition militants and occupied the area is a brief reminder of how the situation unfolded back.

new leaked document appears to be at odds with 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 western governments used those findings to blame the syrian government for the attack however the document reportedly written by the affiliated by an affiliated expert says it's unlikely the 2 cylinders would drop from an aircraft it claims rather that they were placed there manually our senior correspondent more and 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 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 crater 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 that canisters say the authors simply couldn't have fit through the impact crater with the valve still intact the only explanation 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 manually placed it there is 2 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 leaked and. 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 side 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 with the story gaining traction for

answers sooner or later. professor piers robinson he'll assess the document for a british academic research group says the weapons watchdog has to address whether there is a cover up going on over the director thought what kind of political pressure might have been 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 their star members have 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 that there needs to be a proper investigation into the o.p.c. w. and how it has been operating because if it is the case that this 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 be 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 chemical weapons attacks as division us out to lawmakers in alabama part of the nation's toughest abortion all as r.t. reports after this break.

most people manage public pension funds don't know anything about them they're just clerks that they just signed to this job they gave them a bunch of money and wall street guys come around and they take them out to lunch that marty is and then they sell me a bag of worms some a lot of garbage most toxic risk on wall street is sold into these problems 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 would you be open to work to a one state or a 2 state solution whatever these rising of belgium is going to agree on i think that was actually a smart thing to say given the legacy of american support for israel you 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. welcome back to the program this week the u.s. state of alabama approved a new abortion in all 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 while a similar heartbeat bill was signed in neighboring georgia earlier this month. and has 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 eating 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 antiabortion states i think if a woman doesn't want to have it i think that you have the option to be decided as a mayor here in the seventy's to pass through persuade because women were still

going to worship just one state 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 will. i was outrageous 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 canonically boy new york virginia new mexico and all the other insane states that do not protect the babies native new york pro-lifer gather outside like the news stations with pro-life science sure the world your numbers boycott new york boycott new york seriously don't go there everyone who's pro-life refuses to this is 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 i do believe 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 so fight it could go all the way up to the supreme court again caleb up an artsy new york. eurovision song contest is currently underway in the israeli city of tel aviv with $26.00 singers competing to be crowned champion here are some pictures from the year a vision village there are thousands of fans watching the show is the 64th your vision contest and for the time it has been israel this year the netherlands sweden france and russia are reportedly among the favorites it's not been without controversy they've been protests and calls for a boycott all the competition rides. advocates argue the event is being used to wipe wash and distract from crimes committed by israel in the occupied palestinian territories. and i'll be back in around 30 minutes with more world

updates so stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race to move his arms off and spearing dramatic

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you. want to talk about. what hopes and. i put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go on to be pros which is what before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. course. what is it calling the coin is magic a new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor.

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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 the euro vision hip hop artist and activist loci tells us why we should be boycotting tonight's final all the more coming up in 10 days going underground a 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 well 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 order of vision post your vision in the following year but of course haven't had ms real is is a recognition that the maybe the world 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's 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 recently of a. oh the militants nearly killed you and your 3 year old son spurring you to create the shiloh israel children's fund 17 years ago driving home from literal sunset in behind me the b.b.c.

. they were heavily armed the car was hit by a mess a terrible terrorists who are the road these terrorists were tells the authority they were. terrorists. and they were shooting 47 assault rifles found out that my son had been shot in the head a bullet into his head and neck misses brainstem by one knee when there is a turn for the israel aims that military institutions where you say israel doesn't know a soul or 2 pairs you're saying is or doesn't target children absolutely not god forbid. but sometimes in the fighting there are innocents that are heard and that's the reality of war ok i mean obviously the united nations just agrees with you completely and of the most recent report said that in the great much of a turn 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 are in right now israel is that a humane country it is true that israel has treated people who have fled the fighting in syria own who are needed medical care. we don't apologize for the very proud that. we are the main country on this topic of trump and the jews they have to you have to forgive me because i haven't read the book i will will take a look at the book you mention she'll obey you were you were the mayor of that now you know of course that that place that you were mayor.