prosecutors charged. over their alleged involvement in the downing of malaysia airlines flight m h 17 over eastern ukraine in trenton 14 during today's media briefing representatives of the joint investigation team appeared to contradict themselves on the information they received. from russia. after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened. to russian federation. credits writers opposition party is accused of spending humanitarian aid money on lavish hotels and drugs and prostitutes. and

a newly published u.n. report calls for an investigation into the saudi crown prince over his possible role in the brutal murder. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. russia has firmly rejected accusations that its military was involved in the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 after dutch prosecutors on wednesday charge 4 suspects with murder over their alleged roles in the 2014 disaster which claimed 298 lives moscow says the case against them relies heavily on falsified video footage supplied to investigators. union o'neill in the studio with more on the day's developments. it's the 1st time we're hearing names is the 1st time we're seeing photos. so it's 4 names of 4 photographs that we have been shown at the

media conference just today we've also learned plenty about the intentions of the investigation now they've announced their intention to charge these people with murder and also they are putting them on the international wanted list now an interesting detail that all these 4 suspects have in common is that none of them related have any connections to a russian military brigade that is accused by the same investigation of smuggling the book missile launch system into ukraine that eventually brought down the mh 17 what's russia's reaction been to today's that well of course it's a big accusation russia has said that they feel that russia feels nothing but regret over this case and that's because according to the russian foreign ministry the joint investigation team takes into account information that it received from questionable sources this is how the foreign ministry put it now some information

is known to have they have known to have gathered some information for instance from social media some of the of the information came from ukraine a biased side a a side with a horse in this race and russia also once again reiterated its readiness to cooperate and also underline the fact that more school already has done so quite a number of times that it has provided plenty of information has been knocking on many many doors but it has been sort of ostracized and kept away from the investigation that's an important point is that moscow has provided with data done in the years as you say what did the investigation there for doing well absolutely and i mean the accusations against russia have become sort of a major line like a highway the magic highway if i might put it this way at today's media conference but the investigators were a bit they sent mixed signals because at 1st they were saying that they received no information from russia no call. operation whatsoever that russia didn't explain

anything and then admitting that they did indeed have received plenty of information and they had they even looked at it well have a listen yourself in if you look back you can establish that from the 1st day after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened and that is a slap in the face to all the relatives of the victims and i call on them to start cooperating to tell us what happened there we received the information for murder russian federation information about the missile and the documents about the missile there we also received the rod or other that wasn't clear enough to say exactly what what happened with the missile given this and didn't give us the right picture we prepared a short clip explaining what they are what they received and what they are now saying wasn't clear enough doesn't paint a clear enough picture have a look the previous investigation so many triumphantly shouting accusations at

russia but instead of trying to out yell its critics russia showed original documents raw data and experiment results which poked holes in the investigation exhibit a. russia's defense ministry dug into its archives and deep it traced the missile based on the pieces discovered among the debris of m.h. 17 the ministry determined its tail number revealing the full life cycle of the project tile manufactured back in the days of the soviet union in 1986 the missile was shipped to a military base in ukraine it never left the territory of the soviet republic and then after the breakup of uses of the country according to the ministries date of the book missile was moved only within the borders of ukraine and in 2014 it was set up and. steward at

a base in the west of the country malaysia has repeatedly criticized this probe even having access to it saying that it was made into a political farce accusing russians of. but what is the evidence you could even be the ukrainian government because the 2 have disappeared we do no way we excluded from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in it the idea was not to find out how did this happen when all that but you seem to be concerned that it needs to be on russia here we have but these who have some political interest in the matter and they're examining so the judge will have to have a look and to weigh the information the evidence presented by both the prosecution and by the defense so if we'll see how that fares in court how the evidence

provided by both. russia and if anything new comes up how that will fare. gave us his thoughts on the latest turn out lights some of moscow's main concerns about the investigation. one can only wonder why after all that the. jews. do conduct the main. investigations without the. necessary representational malise it was an investigation that. didn't have any evidence of an objective one why are a rush. offers to provide investigators and to provide

what they were evidence we were able to locate they will ignore it on the other hand for reasons that are difficult to explain ukraine became a full fledged member of their journalistic geisha team so it started on a bad food in their would say 5 years ago and continued along their troop until now it's certainly not finished we'll see what happens. in the coming months and i wouldn't exclude years russia has confirmed that it will it is their means openminded to go parading with the investigation provided of course what we. provide what we offer to the investigation is usually taken consideration of.

the russian of evidence that was provided proved there at the particular model of that book missile belong to a generation that was there has been longer of service in the russian armed forces but was still kept by the ukrainian armed forces so this is clear evidence which is corroborated by a 1000000 technical details. well russia indeed says that it won't abide by the by the ruling provided that russia is part of that investigation which unfortunately is not the gays so that doesn't. make russia responsible for accepting or rejecting. any old ground

that might be. produced by the british the if team that doesn't of the blue grass roots of. members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal new documents appear to reveal that officials from one movement have been embezzling aid funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole thousands of dollars from each other. and $5.00 raised from an aid concert on the colombian port of apparently spent on hotels prostitutes and lecturing good bye to members of quite as party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian here's our senior correspondent mark gauthier. sex drugs and

rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly it seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what they've uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into that to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly self-proclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. we gladly armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with

families some of the small children they scared to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march it were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current living conditions we do not know. how could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for except they didn't according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of this a month ago when we all got up and we couldn't allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans that's why as soon as we had the information about the ongoing investigation we decided to send it straight to every

impartial of dorothy. the people who did this bear in mind were appointed by why do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already public knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesn't cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. this huge drop in corruption to divert money that we could use. instead of being spent include a medicine that has been used to pay for alcohol prostitutes expensive shopping trips and luxury hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the

old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze and live a concert that richard branson has led along with others in the us pros a chance of february 22nd 23rd was a complete failure by those forces inside of venezuela and colombia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury stays in a 5 star hotel and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about wanting to take power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part of what the us is engaging in in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of venice well it's hundreds of millions it's chance of billions of dollars that the u.s.

is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people . and an apartheid today says there's credible evidence that the crown prince of saudi arabia is liable for them at a dissident journalist jamal khashoggi he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october. remember the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist who was killed in his own country's embassy well the u.n. human rights expert is now calling for a criminal probe into the saudi crown prince's possible involvement agnus column ards 100 page report suggests it's inconceivable that the defacto ruler wouldn't have known about the well planned assassination the 1st important message i think my report time light is the fact that the execution of the war was the responsibility of the state. a report that's focused on a number of high level officials including the crown prince conflicting turkish and

saudi reports immediately followed death in istanbul's saudi arabian consulate back in october he was 1st declared missing amidst reports that he was actually chopped into pieces in the building saudi officials said he left but there c.c.t.v. evidence showed an eyebrow raising body double dressed in clothes after a joint turkish saudi investigation the turks reported tampering of evidence that pointed to murder and all the while saudi authorities continue to claim they didn't know anything that is until 18 days after the investigation when turkish authorities said because shoji died of strangulation saudi arabia then came out saying it was a rogue operation who's written hundreds has nothing to do with this issue. the national security adviser in the u.s. said this. this was pretty sure we have what happened this was

individuals exceeding their authority and going beyond their mandate these individuals made a tremendous mistake in this mistake they will pay a price and their cases are not in the quote system saudi government vehemently denied any involvement from crown prince mohammad bill psalm on but new information from column a. report definitely hasn't been the only reason for skepticism turkish president earlier one had specifically said the order came from the highest levels of the saudi kingdom because. the evidence that we have so far indicated. we shoes murder those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level will be brought to justice and will get the punishment that is or the incident was not a moment to result but the result of the planned operation so far the saudi government has been tight lipped about what came later we know arrests were made and 11 suspects face trial back in january with 5 death penalties dished out but

a new criminal investigation into the crown prince's involvement could mean the 1st trial won't be the last. month after sudan's president was ousted by the country's armed forces the african nation is now trying to find ways to resolve the resulting constitutional crisis president bashir is removal after decades in power led to a struggle between the military government and groups pushing for a return to civilian rule as well as internal efforts to resolve the impasse there's also help lining up from abroad the u.s. is increasing its involvement 2 weeks after a major crackdown by the sudanese military and protesters washington is urging the security forces to end attacks on civilians and to investigate the recent violence . washington's appointed a new special envoy for sudan a veteran diplomat who on paper has a wealth of local knowledge and experience of the region 65 year old donald booth

has not only served as u.s. ambassador to liberia zambia and ethiopia but was also the obama administration's envoy to sudan and south sudan now he's back in the role this appointment is not being universally welcomed the u.s. based doll for women action group has doubts with the region having suffered years of conflict including genocide and ethnic cleansing. not only did booth want to normalize relations with the murderous regime he actively neglected those being murdered booth's failed to put forth any statements regarding the atrocities committed we cannot trust him to speak up now internally displaced individuals who took to booth during his visits were quickly iraq's it without any prevailed by booth to grant them release all protection he's a boyband will once again silence those who have been suffering in darfur for 70.

to work and caleb maupin has been taking a look at his track record. as the situation in south sudan continues to spiral the united states has appointed a new special envoy to save the day the department has appointed ambassador down on the eve booth as special envoy on sudan his appointment demonstrates that the united states has a firm commitment to the sudanese people and efforts to advance a peaceful political solution now the white house says that it's his experience with south sudan that makes him qualified however it is a long record with the country that is the source of all the outrage donald booth was the special envoy to both sudan and south sudan under the administration of barack obama from 2013 to 2017 under his watch the civil war and human rights abuses escalated.

the. braids the angry sexual mutilation abductions and sexual slavery as well as killings that have become commonplace in south sudan there is no die. that these crimes are persistent because impunity is so entrenched that every kind of norm is broken now the role of donald booth in this mess hasn't exactly been good in 2011 the united nations imposed an arms embargo on sudan however the united states didn't start abiding by it until 20163 years after the war was already in full swing despite what seemed like strong international consensus favor going to bargo

for several years the united states withheld support and an embargo was not put on the un security council agenda donald booth seems like a pretty big fan of the us and israeli aligned regime of south sudan he actually worked to get them a waiver from the white house over their use of child soldiers and he seems a little bit partisan when it comes to internal strife in the country here's a statement he made about the ousting of the vice president we do not believe it would be wise for him ashore to return to his previous position in juba so this is the man whose task it is to restore peace however if you look at his record he seems to have plenty of experience doing the opposite us never really carried out sincerely so sudanese didn't really care or could really follow policy from us because the us was against the very survival of the country the mistake that was made by the united states and most a mistake made by the students go because you cannot ignore the suffering of people

during that whole period of. us didn't lift 50 try to go the country even though before the breakup with south sudan in 2000 where the us government did nothing but keep punishing the sudanese people you keep going you're for sheer keep following policies that. u.k. appeals court is set to cave its verdict this legal battle launched by campaign is to stop britain selling weapons to saddam rabia the activists. the arms being used in this bombing in yemen in violation of international law ok partridge picks up the story. the court of appeal is due to give his judgment on the u.k.'s decision to grant licenses for the export of arms to saudi arabia for use in yemen this follows serious allegations that saudi forces might have used a u.k. arms in serious violations of international humanitarian law during the ongoing bombardment well the situation in yemen has been described by the u.n.

as the world's worst manmade humanitarian crisis the saudi led military coalition say it's fighting to free the country from hutu rebels and restore the exiled government riyadh also says it's doing all it can to reduce civilian casualties over 70000 people have been killed through fighting and famine since january 26th dean with $10000000.00 yemen is facing starvation millions have also been displaced the court is deciding on a legal claim against the arms sales brought by the group campaign against arms trade human rights watch says riyadh's actions in yemen amount to war crimes and has accused the u.k. of turning a blind eye while c. divil a t. you say the u.k. not only sells arms but also provides expertise to the saudis the u.k. government says it has very rigorous arms control yet weapons continue to be sold to saudi arabia despite considerable evidence of the saudi led coalition abuses in yemen the case is a key opportunity to make sure that the u.k.

rules on arms sales are being properly applied to saudi arabia. he has continued to support the tinier strikes in yemen and provide arms at this point overwhelming evidence of repeated breaches of international humanitarian law this is in clear violation of u.k.'s own guidelines on arms sales and european and international law it makes a mockery of the government's claims to rigorously control arms exports britain it doesn't just supply weapons it provides the personnel and technical knowledge required to keep the war going 6000 british contractors are stationed in saudi arabia to train saudi pilots maintain planes and supervise the loading with bombs meanwhile 2 candidates for the conservative party leadership have also played a role in september 26th seen boris johnson said the saudi led bombing campaign was not a clear breach of international humanitarian law while jeremy hommes who took over as foreign secretary in july 28 in said halting arms sales to side here rabia would

be morally bankrupt because the u.k. would surrender our influence the aerospace defense and security sectors provide the u.k. with a 1000000 jobs and boost the economy by over 74000000000 pounds the government says the u.k. has one of the most robust export control regimes in the world that control is regarding saudi arabia will not be decided by the court we spoke to a full politician for the british liberal democrats party he says the public a growing frustrated by the u.k.'s weapons deals with 3 at. there is growing public discontent about the whole situation of arms sales to saudi arabia and to a lesser extent to the u.s. because of yemen and because of the human rights record inside saudi arabia itself and it's significant that all of the opposition parties not trust the labor party but also the liberal democrats and the scottish nationalists and other smaller

parties have agreed really that this is not something that britain or to be supporting obviously there is a long historical good relations between britain and all of the arab states of the gulf region but when it's a moral issue such as this at stake the british public is increasingly very uncomfortable about what is happening. surely is to become britain's next prime minister has now been cut down to 4 candidates by us johnson is still leading the pack ahead of thursday's vote which will decide the final 2 parties probably bike that still in the race. but contest is hot enough and the field has been whittled down one on the bombshell remains the front runner and these are the politicians he's made it through to the next round at the conservative party's game

of knock out a video game is very serious i know you're anything going to get to play taishan side or how there is that we had a quest for a new leader has got the country poring over the contestants laundry. gordon brown as prime minister would be obsolete rageous not just because you don't popping into fearing high tax and complicated of life but mainly because he's a scot and government by a scot is just not conceivable in the current constitutional context. my wife is japanese most trying to. read the review the current. steve you say that the man that you were back in germany i'm so sorry jeremy hunt of never said that before in my life it's usually men who say that so i really really want to apologize i'm sorry can you guess which politician took which drug in their

preponderate ix days michael gove's was a front runner but his campaign was marred after he was forced to admit he dabbled with cocaine in the $19000000.00 ts it was a crime it was a mistake deeply regret it should you have gone to prison. while i was i was fortunate in that i didn't with all this dirt on offer you'd expect those competing for a chance to move in here in a couple of weeks time to engage in some good old fashioned political mudslinging but at this stage of the contest boris johnson is so far ahead that the other conservative candidates appeared to have come down with a case of problem lightness perhaps looking into the future and vying for top positions in an all but inevitable boris johnson cabinet. i'll be back around 30 minutes time with more global updates so do stay with us.

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