you why ecuador and officials took those decisions in from outside the embassy odysseys anastasio churkin of reporters. according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police teluk tronic jammers inside vehicle dorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the equipe dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issues specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader a carlist which demands in germany earlier this week according to this source close to wiki leaks is that julian assange and his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others in one nine hundred forty the elected president of catalonia louis compare miss was captured by the gestapo and executed today german

and also deleted the tweet attributing blame for the attack on russia with the details his honesty churkin westminster game of he said she said is unraveling in london this comes as the foreign office indeed has denied that u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson had confirmed that experts at porton down confirm to him that russia was behind this group paul incident now this comes following of course yesterday's huge developments where we saw the chief executive of porton down say that while they have determined that what was used was a military grade nerve agent however they were not able to determine the source of where this came from and afterwards a video of boris johnson giving an interview prior surface to that certainly garnered lots of attention where he says that there is no doubt left for him after talking to those same experts that russia was behind the incident let's take a look at that we know verify the for say source but we provided to the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish porton that this was made in russia as i said it's our job

donald trump is trying to drum up support in europe for his push to strike syria the senators here churkin air has details. we do know that british prime minister theresa may has initially made it clear that she is not a fan of any rushed action when it comes to this and that she would like to see proof of assad's involvement and this at this point seems to have shifted somewhat all the indications are that this was the responsibility of the syrian regime and we will now work with closest allies to see how we can ensure those responsible are held to account and how we can prevent deter the humanitarian catastrophe just the use of chemical weapons in the future because the continued use of chemical weapons cannot go unchallenged well here in westminster right now debate is right about whether or not parliament needs to be involved in this discussion with many m.p.'s saying that britain has been here before and they need to be able to vote on any major decisions like this of course let's keep in mind that westminster saw something similar when back in twenty thirteen the parliament did not g

that the united states isn't getting enough thanks for defeating islamic state parties honest to say churkin has been following the reactions of european leaders to the crisis. but what we're seeing donald trump stirring up suspense with yet more tweets we're seeing his allies across the atlantic trying to figure out exactly what they themselves are going to be doing next and here in the u.k. we know that british prime minister theresa may is meeting with her cabinet ministers this afternoon to figure out if there's going to be any military action and clearly we don't have to look far to understand that the questions that are going to be discussed as a whether or not they're going to get involved militarily at all and via whether or not there is going to be a vote put in front of parliament on this issue and all of this is happening while we're seeing the british media discuss reports of typhoons torpedoes submarines being pretty much on standby and ready to go if that decision is made and it has to be clear that technically theresa may does have the capability of going ahead with any milita

certainly lots of questions to be answered right now we'll be following that closely artie's anastasio churkin i thank you so much for the update former u.s. diplomat jim told us trump saber rattling is part of a strategy to undermine russia and iran in the region this has nothing to do with the alleged use of chemical weapons this has everything to do with a jew political agenda that wants to put the iranians in the box wants to confront the russians and syria that is really upset over the thought that the effort that's been going on for seven years by western powers that are local friends like the like saudi arabia has failed and that the assad government will remain in power they've been seeking a pretext to try to change that so this really has nothing to do with the truth or fall short of the allegations about duma. military aircraft has crashed in algeria killing two hundred and fifty seven people according to the country's defense ministry these are pictures from the scene the illusion seventy six plane came down shortly after takeoff from an airbase around thirty kilometers from the co

and this is said churkin or as the latest. the starts to look like a puzzle that potentially the u.k. had pieced together a little bit too quickly as now some of the key pieces of it despite some of the denial seem to be falling apart now some may have hoped that this would be the spy story of the decade with some russian involved in immediate conclusion immediate accusations and of course the media and the court of public opinion had shaped their opinions pretty quickly given the fact that politicians here were repeating the same words over and over like a mantra it's highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia koku culpable culpable for the attempted murder but is kate is culpable for calling putin's criminal as a woman you're likely to do with his decision well of course the the attempted murder conversation is now potentially going to take on a different shape now that yulia screwball indeed has released her first official statement where she said that she's been feeling ok for a week now that she's woken u

unnoticed by others online with some seeing it as a damage limitation exercise now as honest as syria churkin a part of our team in the u.k. reports from westminster the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted on march twenty second which read that analysis by world leading experts of the laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue there they're sure of. the chalk in russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly but when i look at the the evidence from the people from from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt well it seems that all of that was going well until yesterday when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the sour

here so we'll be watching what happens next so much still left up in the air is under stress here churkin i think you for bringing us that report middle east expert all the risk things that president trump wants to avoid hitting russian positions in syria. so this time there is pressure for trump to go ahead with an escalated response now a will he go ahead and do that and risk or i'm not sure i think that trump is very intent on not doing anything which would cause the loss of lives of russian soldiers in syria that is something completely sure but would he go ahead for example and target somebody rainy and personal. just a couple of days ago that's a possible scenario of some attacks maybe in damascus some. sensitive locations and that's also something which is possible as i said to the juice of the pressures which are piling up on the trumpeter ministration not just to do something but to do something which was more than what he did last year when he launched those tomahawk missiles approach from page went viral on facebook find itself what are the details on that and more after a shor

questioned about russian online activity around the time of the bracks it vote artie's an associate churkin a report. russian brock's it could have been potentially a hot topic here in westminster this thursday however that did not go quite well as a grilling of a top facebook executive didn't seem to go and produce too much we did look several times to understand connections between. russia and the brits a referendum that you meant in two thousand and sixteen we found one dollar of spend so this is the extent of what we found which is you know almost nothing because of the ways i think it was and that if we had it happen to look good if it did that it was doing it this way that says you know i can't prove a negative that was facebook's chief technology officer who to add insult to injury was sent by mark zuckerberg to answer m.p.'s questions depart despite repeated pleas to have the facebook c.e.o. appear before this committee himself and we have to be clear that this is far from the first time one attempts to connect the dots between russia's use of social media and brags that have failed

with a statement saying london always knew russia had a hand in these crippled case and this is said churkin has got more. well most immediately we're seeing some damage control taking place from the foreign office who have come out with a statement that says that this is only part of the intelligence picture they said that over the last decade russia has worked on ways to deliver agents quote probably for assassinations that russia has a record of assassinations and that it is quote our assessment that russia was responsible for this brazen and reckless act and as the international community agrees there is no other plausible explanation this despite the statements that have been now made here in the u.k. today and of course it's important to remember that this whole time all we've been hearing is that russia is to blame russia is culpable that it's highly likely that it went too there's no question that it's not russia still with no evidence proof or real facts or samples even provided to russia that it's been asking for however the accusations really have been harsh here in westminster is