swedish prosecutors seek an arrest warrant but julian assange is off to reopening a rape investigation setting the stage for an extradition tussle with the u.s. . testing the limits of iran's reportedly quadrupling production of low enriched uranium as tension with the u.s. ramps up on the nuclear deal unravels. and a leaked document raises questions about the global chemical weapons watchdog assessment of last year's chemical attack in the syrian city of duma. observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money pledged to locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.

it's 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching out international line from a student with me nativity into welcome to the program. swedish prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant of wiki leaks founder julian assange they reopened a rape case against him last week the ecuadorian embassy in london meanwhile has started the whistleblowers possessions to u.s. authorities who are also seeking asylum seekers extradition breaking down the latest developments his polly bucko. today is the start of these sort of formal proceedings whereby ecuador hands over someone just personal possessions in order for us prosecutors to get their hands on them it's expected that there's 2 police officers and a prosecutor from he says that i can then be going through his things presuming is accumulated quite a few possessions and 70 is holed up inside and according to wiki leaks julian

assange nor his legal team nor u.n. representatives have been allowed to be for this process in the wiki leaks that it's a question of frost's and has said that what's happening today is illegal on monday before. the embassy officials in london for their masters in washington the transport minister ation. to behave like it's the wild west so u.s. authorities have until mid june to potentially expand the charges against a songe at the moment his extradition request from the u.s. says that he's wanted for conspiracy to hack and government computer but there's concern from wiki leaks that once the u.s. prosecutors get their hands on someone just computers and hard drives that charge could be handed out and made much more serious now julian assange just supporters have been head you can see they're still outside the embassy they've been heckling

people that go in and out there's been a few police officers they are very unhappy with what's happening and we spoke to a few of them it's a disgrace that the british government should be attempt to persecute you really and he's done nothing but tell the truth he had to be a witness of the. travesty of justice. things belong to julian assange and he doesn't give him any commission. that would just wonder if the u.k. has reached. the intent to commit a crime. so you can take a local police officer is coming and going all day we're watching both the entrance is the main entrance to the embassy but there's also a back exit which there's no traffic now so i can show you but there's a police van there and a police officer walking past a side exit i straight to the full month. the ecuadorian consul here in london he

said he was actually dismissed by the new leadership when lenin miranda came to power because of his support for julian a son. illegally these abuses what is happening is basically stealing things from a person who cannot defend. talked to today. the . way today. today. by the front door. basically. coming. as for the money shot that picture potentially about salinger's computer being taken out and handed over to u.s. prost prosecutors are just taken out well according to the former console that i spoke to that he says that after video agency court my son is being dragged out of

here against his will last month the authorities the ecuadorian officials inside are going to make it their priority to try in a raid the cameras this time around on time supporters julian assange we spoke to says this may come as a blow to the legal. disgraceful way for an independent sovereign nation to behave but that's what they're doing i don't know exactly what they want to find but they're going to get an awful lot they're going to get. judy and legal notes from the legal meetings what should have been private legal meetings that he's had in the embassy obviously i think that's of great concern to those who are preparing to fight is actually in case here i think that the 7 years that julian spent in the embassy war very hard on him he's an incredibly resilient person but i did see the cost exerted on him i don't think that you should have served any time at all for his enormous achievements in reinventing journalism.

inspiring not just chelsea manning but all of the whistleblowers we've so show since been in a measurable benefit to the world we should be extremely grateful to julian and what has happened to him is a travesty. as we mentioned prosecutors in sweden have requested and the arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder if granted it would be the 1st step to have a song extradited from the u.k. where he's currently serving a 15 week prison sentence for skipping back in 2012 last week stockholm decided to reopen a rape case against him after it's been previously in 2017. it's been reported in iran that the country has quadrupled its production of low enrich uranium pushing the limits of the floundering 2050 nuclear deal is the latest escalation with the united states which pulled out of the deal more than a year ago and so iran to suspend its commitments earlier this month live now to

our middle east correspondent for this for more information paula how significant is iran's move. well as you say iran has quadrupled its production of low in which you raney and this comes against the backdrop of an increase in tensions between tehran and the united states and also the unraveling of the nuclear deal that was signed back in 2015 the american president donald trump has warned iran and to quote him better will face its official end if it ever threatens the united states again the iranian foreign minister zarif has dismissed what he calls trump's genocidal taunts and has warned not to threaten iran. if iran wants to fight will be the official. never threaten the united states again iranians have stew troll for millenia while aggressors all gone economic terrorism in genocidal taunts won't and iran.

now this follows an increase in tensions between the sides that was sparked by the american administration's deployment of bombers and also an aircraft carrier to the persian gulf and this was because of pursue. moved threats from to read now the iranian president has responded by saying that he is open to holding crisis talks with international partners but he has said that iran will not respond positively to any kind of threats to any kind of attempts at hostility or any kind of attempts at coersion having said that the position of washington has remained consistent for some time. more we welcome to go situation good we do not negotiate with a party that behaves like a bully and takes a knife out of his pocket and forces and don't we do not hold such negotiations with anybody around their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we

go in the middle east it's a rare honor and major destabilizing in their influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran our record here's the world's largest financier of international terrorism behind every problem is already we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal ration. now the united states has been imposing a maximum pressure campaign against iran ever since the nuclear deal collapsed and at the same time has been imposing crippling sanctions earlier this month however in iran did warn that it would begin enriching uranium to higher levels and this it said was the remaining signatories to the deal did something to offset the american threats and also protect them from american penalties now europe is a pains to do this but it's far from clear whether or not the europeans can actually succeed in this now washington claims that iran is really aiming at

developing nuclear weapons to iran has consistently denied this and it's worth pointing out at the same time that the nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency has never found iran in violation of any stipulations of the deal what we are seeing now. however is an increase in some 3.76 percent enriched uranium now a spokesperson for iran's nuclear agency has said that this does not mean that iran will increase the number of centrifuges in use which is one of the terms of the agreement but however in weeks it could reach the 300 kilogram limit and that is a term that was set out in the 2015 deal they have informed the nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency and as of yet there's been no response from the us so the real concern is that iran will go beyond the limitations there for sit by the nuclear deal and although the public statements from both to random

washington are that neither side wants to see them but 2 countries go to war the concern is that any kind of miscalculation at this particularly tenacious time could result in the whole situation spiraling out of control. thank you middle east correspondent paula slowly for the update. the syrian government is denying a rebel reports that chemical weapons were used in the recent attack in the western coast of the turkey a province the reports came as the syrian army advances a re taking main highways and trade routes around the rebel held province the government branded the reports as media fabrication insisting that syria has never used chemical weapons before and will not use them now adding that it will not stop its battle against terrorism. a few days ago a legal document raised questions about the global chemical weapons watchdogs report of last year's chemical attack in the city of duma just 10 kilometers from

the capital back then blaming assad's forces the u.s. britain and france carried out air strikes against syrian government facilities there is yet to respond to a request for comment off has the background. we saw petrified children. we listened to the righteous indignation very terrible regime we read a scrupulous investigation into what happened by the un chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. report was meant to pose an indisputable and to speculations over what happened in duma in syria in spring 2018 except that it really. the 60 newly revealed pages challenge of the bag bone of the official conclusions.

after passing through the ceiling in impacting the floor of the lower speed the cylinder continued in altered trajectory until reaching the position in which it was found. observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those $2.00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft the engineering teams account is well structured it includes pictures from the side of the incident blueprints and images of the test cases studied to deliver their verdict it's unlikely the project tile fell from above which would in that case mean one thing the assad controlled air force had nothing to do with it and while the sky was dominated by the government of the ground at that time was in control of the insurgents so the question is now who else could have placed the cylinder on that bed now the revelation at the o p c

w concerned except not the substance of it but the fact that someone in their ranks when grow and exposed something they tried to bury as. deep and far away from the public eye as possible the bottom line in this is that the documents have been passed to us as i said before we've had we have confirmation from multiple sources which clearly shows that there has been an investigation carried out from within you. an investigation which is not found old to muttley into the fire do not report and use your proper investigation into your p c w and how it has been operating because it is the case that is organization has been subjected to political pressure and that has led to distortion their investigations and that is an incredibly serious matter. but this

engine airing analysis is not the 1st blow to the official version of what happened in duma now this video purported to show the harrowing aftermath of the chemical attack resonated across the airwaves and was hyped by many channels horrific images of syrian children fighting for brownfield and suffocating in their homes and their emergency shelter many with foam in their mouths disturbing reports of a chemical weapons attack chemical attack carried out by the acid regime except later people in the video said they had no recollection of a chemical attack some people barged into the hospital hosed people with water instigated panic and vanished even a producer with the b.b.c. a broadcaster that gave major airtime to the clip said he believed the hospital video was staged. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without

a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital. in 20 teen the allowed us to voices on the world stage were quick to deliver their verdict and punishment these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead the nations of britain france and the united states of america have martial their righteous power against barbarism and brutality. but with this new information it's not that obvious anymore and although it speak the interest of the politically engaged classes in light of the new evidence from our no p c w engineers report i hope the guardian newspaper will have the good grace to print a man reserved apology for their scurrilous ad hominem attack on me after i

denounce the white house potently concocted story for what it was we may have just discovered to major piece of the puzzle explaining how seemingly independent international organizations how deceive us into consent into wars and regime change interventionism around the world there's a deafening silence from the great and good the entire body of evidence for that particular attack is questionable the o.p.c. w. would. or is designed to lay blame on this particular party or that particular party obviously they are going to be abused by element on the ground because they know that we have russian and syrian air. planes in the air and there they have nowhere to go or they would desperately need some help by american planes where british planes so they could fabricate everything or anything and the interesting

part is that the united states and and its allies weren't even there and wait for the investigation to take place whenever there is a hint of something they would just immediately go and bomb movie they change the narrative we don't know it really depends if you ask me the question on what the a.b.c. doesn't make of the nie report but. he's a really high possibility i really doubt it. was his freedom party has said all of its ministers are going to resign from their positions in the country's coalition government when it comes after the chancellor sebastian kurtz asked the president to fire the interior minister who is also a member of the right wing nationalist party it follows an undercover video scandal showing apparently now resigned vice chancellor offering lucrative public contracts to one tended to be the niece of a russian oligarch in exchange for political support heinz christian a striker says he's the victim of an illegal job. yes it was

stupid yes he was responsible yes it was a mistake but at the same time it was a victim of a targeted political attack they refused to legal means so after talks with the chancellor sebastian court i made the decision to resign from the post to watch chancellor of the european elections just days away politicians across the bloc of i meant for a fresh wave of calm condemnation of the euro skeptic right here's our europe correspondent peter. it's been quite the weekend for austrian politics the government in austria has collapsed over the weekend following on for what's being called the beith of video or gate what we have seen is angle america and others come out and say that what this shows what the sting operation shows is that well you can't trust the populists the far right there's a lot of scandal involved in this and it's certainly being used by those that would like to see those parties suffer frankly when it comes to the european elections we

haven't to deal with populist movements that in many areas a contemptuous of this values who want to destroy the europe our values it has long been known to try to win populist destabilised our press freedom and democracy far right populists are the enemies of freedom strikers is only the 1st domino to fall getting ready for savini le pen or brown and other extreme right wing puppets of moscow's leash but this doesn't look good for those on the right and particularly when you're looking at the likes of. italy who on saturday the same day the. resigned as vice chancellor held a giant rally in milan in which the idea was supposed to be getting together all of the anti establishment organizations and political parties across europe under one banner if we look at the projected results for the european elections that are coming up $250.00 out of $751.00 seats are expected to go to those that would be

described as either populist or far right it doesn't look good though what's happened in austria but the timing of this sting of this hit piece however you want to call it well it coincides in the lead up to these european elections in which the mainstream parties were set to lose quite sconces are still set really to lose quite considerably to those parties that have been termed populist or right wing in the past. hundreds of undocumented migrants occupied france's busiest airport on sunday demanding to meet the prime minister over asylum policy it was all witnessed by a migrant support group courting itself the black vests who were protesting against deportations 7. moved up there 7. this happened around lunch time on sunday off they're not shown to go live which as you may know eased the biggest hit in france in terms of international capacity and

the 2nd largest in europe with this group of my colleagues around some 580 votes a close call to the airport down as the they did it to make their claims to denounce the deportation of people in the regular situations here in france and also to the actions of air france in aiding the deportation of undocumented migrants most of those individuals were said to be undocumented migrants and they've now described themselves as being the black vests they were shouting at parts of times at the airport some people who had them saying certain clips that france doesn't belong to the french that everyone has a right to be here let's take a little look now at what happened at the airports you know you look you know you get you you you you you you well that

situation became heated enough and they're all reports that police used tear gas to trying to those undocumented migrants to try and get them out of the time willing to try and bring things back to normality here and asylum policy has long being something that many people are unhappy about here in france we know that there's a big government crackdown that's been taking place. gratian bills last year which haven't gone very well and we heard at the end she. figures in front of the number of deportations of illegal aliens france has actually increased by 20 percent so that has really riled people up and that's one of the reasons why the so-called black press rush. yesterday. as saudi cargo ship believed to be carrying 2 consignments of military equipment with rights

groups fear could be used in yemen has talked to the italian port of to now it's been met by protests and. have reportedly refused to load any moment tails on to the vessel. but you know this she's on the scene there in p.r. general or is taking to the streets because of the city's pacifist tradition i should the docks in our port to load equipment that could be used during a war like the one being fought in yemen where many have died among the civilian population can be a part of this. this morning unfortunately we had confirmation that even here in general they plan to load military equipment we called for a strike because we did not want to be accomplices of the war in yemen inside the ship has been making the rounds of ports around europe it was reportedly loaded with arms in belgium it's on sale to france where it was prevented from collecting any more called on to legal challenges after that the vessel had it. picking up military hardware and officials inside complied with all the norms. the saudi flag

. is a $50000.00 tons its european trip has caused alarm among antiwar activists and rights groups who alleges is a real possibility that weapons could be used against yemeni civilians riyadh for its part and denies ever intentionally targeting competence in the conflict and claims all i'm saying used for defensive purposes. not so nice and i'll be back with more global updates around 13 minutes so don't go away. there's an petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has

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action or times you were going on the ground as the un security council was briefed on threats associated with groups linked to british backed syrian rebels isis and al-qaeda coming up in the show is washington about to add more to the hundreds of thousands of children killed by u.s. sanctions or the war in the middle east we get baghdad's view of u.s. policy after violation of international war and deployment of military attack aircraft to the persian gulf and with world nuclear powers threatening iran we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb with daughter allegedly dr strangelove director stanley kubrick all this more coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st today one of the most influential companies on earth host its annual general meeting stand by for flashing images. this is the only decision.

yes twitter which still can give me a blue tick but is arguably so powerful it may be used to announce the end of the world talks about money today that's perhaps will be said about it's all well ian powell or that the company is linked to this last night the state department ordered all non-emergency u.s. employees in iraq to evacuate the country workers at the embassy in baghdad and the american consulate in or b.l. have been ordered to leave immediately seen by many as a prelude to a u.s. military attack on iran the world will get its news through twitter and his twitter linked to none other than they need to be group dedicated to overthrowing the government of iran twitter has been turning to the atlantic council for advice on what to sense and what is the atlanta council according to its c.e.o. frederick kemp it is glue somebody has to be the glue that holds us all together. we're dramatically remaking our institutions for the future 6 of our 10 programs

and centers have been created in the past 5 years and are aimed squarely at this challenging world these are new developments recognizing that the atlantic community can't just be about itself any longer it has to be about reshaping the world and working with our global friends to reshape the world yes that atlantic council lobby group will allege the gatekeepers of what news may be acceptable on twitter no surprise then that a group that hosts alleged war criminals like henry kissinger those forums are already talking about reinstalling ashar in iran after the usa presumably launches a military attack and i think. popularity has gone up not that people are nothing i really think and monarchy would be a solution but when you look at the ron's leadership he's the most prominent person on outside everyone and i think within iran too that's a former rand policy analyst talking at the atlantic council about how popular the

installation of a shar in iran would be.