just. to see. just the answer. and in the game. trail. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. germany expels to russian embassy staffers in berlin saying there is a quote sufficient evidence to link russia or chechnya to the murder of a georgian national bosco denies any state involvement. in nato celebrations come to an end for its 70th birthday in the u.k. member states in the alliance struggle to find common ground. and donald trump labels the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to pin the president's.

i live from russia this is r.t. international my name's colleen brain it's wednesday evening at 9 here in moscow it is 7 pm in germany that's where we're starting this hour it's announced that it's made to russian embassy employees persona non-grata in connection with the murder of a georgia national in august but attorney general says there's evidence moscow may have been behind the killing to claim that russia vehemently denies evangelos sepsis picks up the story. through employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and over to cleared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin allow us august with seem to be an asylum seeker in the country germany has taken this action against the russian employees and or to russia because they believe that russia has not

done enough to help the authorities in germany looking into this investigation and they also say that berlin is taking this stance because they say that there is some sort of russian state level and for when and this word or the federal foreign office today declared to employees of the russian embassy in berlin to be persona non-grata with this step with the federal government reacts to the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high ranking and in fact seek requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k.k. in berlin zoo there are sufficient real indications that the killing is either on commission or done by state agencies of the russian federation or such of the autonomy's chechen republic as part of the russian federation germany's prosecutors say or they have enough evidence linking the murder to moscow in article recently posted by the investigative group in the pointing finger is on law school that

there is a link between the kremlin and the murder of the chechen as nick last august here in berlin let's talk about a little bit of what this group the what we know about them so far is that they are of course ties to western secret services and they have played a major role in major cases that involve the moscow case and the delany of an h 7 seen in ukraine russia has come out with their own statement of both the reaction from berlin saying that this is groundless this is absolutely groundless speculation this. topic is being somehow whipped up by german media but it does not mean it is how things are the us also been a reaction by e. german politician from the free democratic party alexandre graf alam store who spoke to the news agency a.f.p. is asking for more information and it's a be clear shown to people why it is doing this we all i would like to point out here that next week in france the president of russia vladimir putin and the german

chancellor angela merkel will be meeting in the normandy summit earlier from london today the chancellor angela merkel said that this would not affect in any way the talks between the countries since this house to do with ukraine but what she did leave open that it's possible that the latter by a lot of relations between the 2 countries get affected somehow mccarran joint you know neal earlier to discuss the victim's background. 40 year on filin khan hunger severely he was killed in what was described as an execution style killing he was shot twice in the head and this is a murder case that quickly became highly politicized in the media with headlines pointing the finger at russia drawing comparisons to describe things in the u.k. calling it the script pal 2.0 in fact the media were less interested however in delving into the history of the victim which makes quite an interesting read his c.v. is quite it shows a quite

a checkered history let's say he's an ethnic chechen georgian citizen he was an islamist a former soldier he fought against russia in the 2nd chechen war he has connections to some very high profile terrorists many of the fighters he fought alongside went on to move to syria and join islamist groups there he sought asylum in germany in 2015 that was after a failed assassination attempt was that the 1st time someone tried to kill him. he was actually on a terror watch list a quite some time here he was described as a person who potentially posed a threat to the public safety he was taken off that terror list only last year in just this right in 28 he was removed from that list now needless to say is passed however interesting however check it may be does not justify his killing and the perpetrator must be brought to justice but perhaps to give a fuller picture it's worth highlighting that this guy was not joe bloggs you know he was not your average everyday guy he was

a man with connections to some very questionable individuals with some very extreme ideological tendencies. leaders of nato member states have been meeting for a 2nd day in london to mark the 70th anniversary of the world's most powerful military alliance despite attempts to put on a show of unity divisions within the crisis stricken coalition a bit laid bare the past couple of days he's been following the gathering in london . this summit is going to be defined not by the unity shown on the surface not least by all the leaders but by all of them very very big and the power cracks between many of those coming into this summit perhaps one thing old leaders regularly seem to be agreed on is that russia is always the bad guy however the nato generally general secretary himself saying that what was needed was a more confrontation but dialogue with the major eastern neighbor nato essentially road all over the shop because russia is our. closest neighbor our biggest neighbor

we need to strive for a better relationship with russia. on even if we are head not able to. get a better relationship with russia in the near term we need to manage a difficult relationship and elsewhere as well we've also been hearing from manuel macron who's been saying that russia too does need to be dialogue on that fronts now while they advocate more dialogue with russia the reality is of course that war games continue to take place on russia's borders with those eastern member states and of course that expansion of nato to the east continues to be a cause of national security concern for russia while any of the nato members such as take you for example who do wish to engage with russia even buy weapons from them will find themselves soon be out cos by other members russian air defense system 'd s. $400.00 would never be integrated into nato it will never be part of 'd the nato

integrated air missile defense system it was already tenchi in contentious going into this summit and it would appear that things got even worse last night many of the leaders of the leaders were invited to buckingham palace for a reception with the queen and some of them were caught on the microphone on the hot mike. listen. if you feel. this is more he's a great politician with were clear she was going. to

face today i find him to be a very nice guy but you know the truth as. i told him out of the fact that he's not saying 2 percent. and i guess you don't really have to donald trump not happy he had canceled scheduled a press conference it was due to be held at the end of this and will be leaving the summit early in fact he's been meeting with other leaders focal 8 plus one who he says are the 8 countries other than the u.s. who have met the 2 percent spending target for military targets and so mr trump making it very clear that certain countries canada and particular are not welcome not impressed with what he had overall a very very divisive conference here in london. ok live to paris now then a political commentator professor welcome back to. disguise vexation that we've seen over the past couple of days how serious is the internal crisis that nato is

experiencing because let's be honest the leaders that now because of the g 7 they'll at the g 20 they'll snipe at each other on twitter how much of this is down to nato sexist and full crisis. well the problem is that nato cause cancer why it has been how classes tend to run though is pretty pretty useless but you know it illustrates a sentence of the girl who trust being about the european union you don't make omelettes with bold acts and the nation of nato like the nation of europe exist before you know their. so far long time nato is currently as well just the puppet of the united states and united states' well being most of the expenses and so-called defense and said that now companies do that so they are spending and then hell breaks lose because the turks want to have p. hand in syria which is something that the baltics they don't care about the baltic states want motos again says you. which is inexistent and so on and so forth and

mccaw was better relations with russia you realize is that. the united states never going to be. and whether it's time for some of the errors because obama was already asking for an increase will be very spending and it seems to me that the alliance can continue because bureaucracies have a tendency to continually do you have union democracy that is not working and sends in fact i would like to contrast the success of the center of the 57. with another 7 of the name to the founding of the people's republic of china and those of 1990 now in 1989. china was unbelievably unbelievably backward basically living in the middle ages and now we have these days i'm not sure how you pronounce it. evaluation of students which show that the journey students are the best in the world with math reading. so that's great is

that i would call it success but when i see nato fighting in afghanistan for 18 years and not including the. success. i disagree on how much a night out for calls where to put troops for the priorities should be they all seem to have very different ideas on thought one thing that they mostly tend to agree on is that snape was essential for ensuring europe's ongoing safety and security how would you assess that plane. safety against whom i only program released terrorism russia is not an enemy and are close i want to go there and then we say we want but the relation we treasure then we invent all kinds of problems like maybe these people are the reason they were in germany because we are going to do about syria when in fact russia is on our side because they're fighting that. we have said weapons do. you know i mean it would be very easy to get into a peaceful relations with russia but then what do they want they want to extend

that china is a threat and invented because they can't exist in trade that's apparent and it media and intellectuals and the politicians don't call them on that and that's a scandal and that's why the west is in decline and they. because they have much more to this they do have a police station and if you want the end of the world the new news and then we'll work with you if you don't wildly one do it with you with the other the same thing to say it's gaining because it uses diplomatic means and. threats. and war which is what nato is doing. and they're spending enormous amount of money and recall now to over there be a big stake in chance maclow should spirit be sent for the mystic polices and he doesn't because i mean you know these little planes spending even more money on the defense which is and this is a. ok professor political commentator in paris thanks very much for joining us and

your image. still ahead with the trump impeachment saga entering a new chapter it seems it's all water off the u.s. president's back you'll be able to speed on that after the break. up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them that is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of. my feeling with this world it's right now as we're so confused and hear from and the certain generation that's controlling all the politics around the world when

that generation. and children that are brought all this. materialistic don't really care about these things don't even more automobiles want to live by the side want to ride a bicycle this movement is global and it's going the world is going to go in this direction and it's going to change. impeachment proceedings are gathering steam in the united states the house intelligence committee released what democrats are calling a damning report the document claims the president trump abused his office the personal gain by so this thing interference from ukraine for the 2020 election donald trump branded the allegations a joke reporting next he's kind of been. well the report from the house

intelligence committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his reelection campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president i'd states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the pleasure of the president's political dirty work and he was willing to sacrifice the national security of the united states by withholding military aid and diplomatic recognition in the form of that white house meeting in order to get what he wanted now before departing the country on monday

donald trump dismissed the allegations that were expected to be leveled in this report this is what donald trump said prior to leaving the country before the report was released by the radical. democrat decides what i'm going to set up a year ago when i'm going that was. one of the most important. thing. for them to be doing saying putting it in the front of the table which. i grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders the lenski also dismissed these allegations about president trying to behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo that's not my thing i don't want us to look like bagus now many witnesses testified during the impeachment inquiry hearings but observers wondered if they really. you made

a strong case that donald trump had been inappropriate in his dealings with ukraine this is some of the testimony that was heard there was no mention of withholding aid on the call correct that's correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery you know there was not any reference to quid pro quo and there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with total. now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that was released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u.s. president donald trump saying that his dealings with ukraine had not been appropriate and had not violated the law fact that donald trump is out of the country celebrating the 70th anniversary of nato the north atlantic treaty organization that many have pointed to the timing of the report as being somewhat

suspicious however while some are looking at the report and saying it shows very very damning evidence against donald trump others are looking at the report and saying it's simply a rehash of long discredited allegations different views from different sides of the political spectrum here in the united states. russia's envoy to the world chemical weapons watch dog says a new investigation is needed into last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma it comes after a number of o.p.c. w. employees raised concerns about the official findings the organizations report was compiled following the april 28th attack which was blamed on the syrian government the latest atrocity probe to retaliate and strikes by britain france and the united states on a number of targets in damascus he later whistleblowers began to coast out over the findings claiming the report was heavily redacted and scientifically flawed to suited to conclusions. most of the duma team failed to see reports on the instant the interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished

procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent while the o.p.c. w.'s objectivity is being called into question a number of academics claim the media's also be blinkered in its coverage we spoke to one of the academics behind the claim last hour max abrams who believes the mainstream narrative will have to change. the mainstream neeru going to keep to the conflict in a very simplistic way sexually by making it seem as if the sun was even more extreme than you actually captured firstly this pro regime change crowd made it seem as if the rebels fighting assad were more moderate than they actually what are the more time goes on the more evidence for merchants the more it becomes difficult to claim that you know assad is all evil and the rebels were all good at least 3 different scientists who were involved in this or who are

officially part of this group. did not but we know the one which is broadcast in the video accurately reflects the song we should hear from those scientists exactly what the scientists was all about. the british government is facing a massive backlash after the release of a heavily redacted report on the fracking industry the british authorities never intended it to see the light of day but greenpeace won a lengthy legal battle under the freedom of information act out of the $48.00 pages $37.00 were totally blacked out and what remains of the one secret document shows a concerted plan to develop a positive image for the controversial gas extraction method among the general public. the conservatives have taken money from oil executives dresch the rights of communities and enabled for i can companies to threaten their local environment the fact they have tried to guard the sub by rejecting pages of critical information for the illustrates this government's contempt for the public this is the

conservatives idea of being open about their failed franken experiment forced to release their report they've heavily censored it this heavily redacted government report shows reference to secret plans to run the pressure complain used by the weight of scientific evidence and strength of public opinion against reckon i dread to think what we haven't been allowed to see. on the fight against fracking in the u.k. here's only a bitter anger. they high tech god knows what sticking out of the ground that earns some people cash and literally shakes other people's homes those other people for years have been teaming up with green activists to win a war against fracking in britain. that's the sharia law believable if you can believe. it.

and finally last month came the victory at least for the timing the controversial method of shale gas extraction was banned in the u.k. under the prime minister who once called it glorious news for humanity and now that it seems there is no more need to come out and protest the cabinet office has at the last released a secret report on the fracking industry despite these lines on the paper no parts of this report shows appendices is to be released under the freedom of information act so you want to rate something that the activists were trying to get a glance at for almost 2 years there's a little problem here's what it looks like from the 48 pages seen by the guardian 37 are entirely blacked out and only one the very front is left uncensored so if

you're still keen to get to know about the skeletons in the industry's closet good luck why would so much stuff remain hidden looking at this black wall of redacted pages people will be wondering why there's so little the government is willing to reveal about fracking and so much it wants to hide if ministers have really dropped their support for this polluting industry why not publish this report in full and come clean about what's been going on behind closed doors. for years still though there's enough to scratch your heads over after reading the uncensored bits in there here's the gist of a few ideas there are issues with the fracking industries progress the main one is public opposition to fracking it needs to be dealt with the government should develop a pro shale narrative and spread the word the department for energy and climate change is already undertaken crucial work on communications to increase public acceptability of shale for example creation of objective information material

development of pro show national and regional merits of shall champions and among other useful moves that whitehall needs to take is finding ways to speed up planning in response to operators concerns which is also sometimes an obstacle planning times need to be shortened and process needs to be predictable which also makes you wonder why would the guys in charge ban fracking at all in such a document there are always going to be sensitive parts that are embarrassing to the government that are sensitive that could harm you know the industry potentially in the future or that could show the government being too cooperative with industry that might show motives. that are the public would not see in a good light it's to protect their their image and to protect their ability to move forward and continue to do what they think they need to do for the nation which is

different from what they tell the public of course because they tell the public whatever narrative suits them in terms of getting elected and so on but typically it's for domestic political reasons that you would ban it there's no other reason that i can think of depending on how things develop geopolitically there might be a big impetus to develop u.k. shale and in which case they'll want to do. as quickly as possible get more from aussie by looking it up on you tube and facebook your next update from us in just about half an hour off the boom bust with the team in washington d.c. . and we're going to fulfill repeated promises oh politics to the people and promise

to be you know we've all bots the future is. pretty. much. how you want to work. no. no. big. coming. all the yes the euro the dollar they all refer to each other and they're all going

deeper and deeper into debt so there's no basic there or there there's no so there's no way to measure the dead against something that is could be considered money and never j.p. morgan said only gold is money everything else is credit or debt ok so without that there's no way to measure that debt and there's no at the moment you know my my view is that this is leading to a neo feudalism poor. we have just a few private equity firms owing 98 percent of all the assets and everyone else is living as serfs on the road heading back to the dark ages. you know world of big. market 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 back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. this is to bust broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century i'm going to bore and i'm christiane washington here's what's coming up today some people say once again the sanctions would be unacceptable we question the legal analysis by the u.s. to the already of just a national attack on digital john do you think u.s.

and france are waging a tariff war of words as the nation's leaders me in london tell a far left of the british american business association is on hands and dig into the details and how a tech tax is driving the escalation plus as christine legarde has taken the reins at the e.c.b. she has already made some firm commitments for the central bank professor of economics on patria and steve keen joins us from amsterdam to break down the bank's move and of the central. what central banks have come under fire around the globe we have a packed show today so let's get right to it. the trump administration is considering reviving a plan to kick qual way out of the u.s. banking system this proposal was previously is considered by the white house national security council as a nuclear option to sanction the company but was ultimately shelved due to the aggressive nature of the sanction this plan would put qual way on the treasury department's best so it actually doesn't need a nation's list and make it virtually impossible for the company to complete transaction in u.s. dollars the in minutes.