u.k. defense ministry has been drawn into the scandal surrounding cambridge analytical just to remind you this firm allegedly harvested the personal data of tens of millions of facebook users and exploited that info for political goals now it's been revealed cambridge analytical parent company the s.c.l. group used to be on the payroll of the u.k. defense ministry it provided the ministry with so-called psycho social research at a cost of around two hundred thousand pounds and he was even granted access to secret government files chris nine am from the stop the war coalition says that these revelations are alarming. i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this see

u.k. defense ministry has now found it solved drawn into the scandal surrounding cambridge analytic and i just to remind you that firm allegedly harvested the personal data of tens of millions of facebook users and exploited that information for political gain now it's been revealed cambridge analytic is parent company s c l group used to be on the payroll of the u.k. defense ministry provided said ministry with psycho social research at a cost of almost two hundred thousand pounds and he was even granted access to secret government files is chris nine and from the stop the war coalition who says the revelations are alarming. i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information th

u.k. defense minister told russia two quotes go away and shut up john all joins us live now from moscow so jonah they're saying this will happen soon or do we have any idea what soon means. no look still not giving a definitive outline of moscow's response to britain's chucking out of twenty three diplomats lavrov made these comments as well on thursday saying yes i'll do it and i'll do it soon i promise you that and of course his ministry has already promised an equal and opposite reaction as is fitting with diplomatic protocol in these circumstances diplomatic expulsions are usually met with a mirrored response that may well come now after the election on sunday beyond that his comments at this conference in syria in astana did go some way towards highlighting the depth of ill feeling that's been generated by the scrip case between the u.k. and russia he was asked about those comments by govern williams in the u.k. defense secretary that russia should go away and shut up and mr lavrov put aside his diplomatic hat for a moment rather cuttingly replied that mr williamson may be trying to g

u.k. defense ministry it provided said ministry with psycho social research at a cost of almost two hundred thousand pounds and was even granted access to secret government files then harris county chairman of the conservative think tank the vote who joins me on the line to discuss the story in more detail but first of all the revelations do you consider these to be alarming or not. i do but i think they're alarming in there in a much wider context i saw some of the stuff that was going on in terms of social media mood tracking about five or six years ago and i don't really think it matters who is doing it whether it's governments whether it's companies. it is something that i think the public are not adequately aware of and it goes right to the heart of the debate on digital digital sovereignty that i think this is flacking up became journalistic of stories flying up the story about facebook's involvement and sharing with the barack obama campaign is is flying up and i think it's it's going to be one of the debates of our time it sounds like for example this is the sort exactly the sort of

u.k. defense ministry there provided that ministry with psycho social research all of the cost of around two hundred thousand pounds and it was even granted access to secret government files chris nine i'm from the stop the war coalition says that the revelations are alarming. i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on the. kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation. facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed personal details of millions of its customers were used to influence elections in a lengthy facebook apology so details exactly what went wrong with privacy policies a

u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson was asked whether he thinks the relationship between the u.k. and russia has reached cold war proportions again he's gone on to say that he hasn't used the term cold war but he described it as exceptionally exceptionally chilly certainly it will probably continue to be that with this kind of terminology being thrown around williamson also went on to really blame russia for quite a few events around the world let's take a listen to what is also clear is that the kremlin is ripping off the international ruble using its growing hybrid capabilities to undermine and influence countries around the world u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson today talked about how there is quote overwhelming evidence that russia was behind this cripple incident although however when he also was asked about his certainly a certainty on a scale from one to ten he described it to be at nine point ninety eight and he talked about russia being full of smug sarcasm we also heard from nato secretary general talk about this whole ordeal let's take a listen to those i'm afraid t

u.k. defense minister told russia to quote go away and shut up it is clearly impossible to remember who you people need to cool when the last time a high ranking official used such strong phrasing against russia i don't remember if it ever happened stop paying attention to this just as we've stopped getting anxious although we never have been about the new were and you were saying. that russia's promising to retaliate after the u.s. announced new sanctions over moscow's alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election but top of ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior at least fifty people have been killed and strikes and shelling by the syrian government and its ally russia and eastern ghouta rebel held on klav has come under heavy bombing over the past month forcing thousands to flee and the past day about fourteen thousand people have fled making it the biggest exodus of the war. this means significant progress on minimizing violence in the field but breaches of the ceasefire today are concerning particularly the s

u.k.'s defense secretary results one diplomatic language as tensions between moscow and london increase over the poisoning of the former spy sergei scriptural and his daughter. the investigation into the murder is yet to produce any concrete evidence with u.k. police no saying it could still take weeks to establish a suspect plus my comic ukrainian lawmaker. claims top government officials were involved in organizing the deadly my down the square shooting in kiev in twenty forty. nine in the evening this thursday moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin no in here with you thirty minutes latest live update and first significant development to tell you about in the syrian on clever eastern ghouta more than five thousand civilians is said to escape the rebel controlled area of a humanitarian corridor that's been set up by russia and syria is the latest pictures in earlier today from that area the russian defense ministry center for reconciliation in syria believes up to thirteen thousand are expected to reach saved by the end of today humanitarian corridors were set up as part of an eff

u.k. defense minister gavin williamson had this to say in response to russia's position is absolutely atrocious treacherous and outrageous will do it in soldiery we have responded to it frankly russia should go away should churchill up with no concrete evidence presented in the case against russia as of yet it seems the best u.k. could come up with today was an insult with a touch of undiplomatic behavior in washington on your part until r.t. . u.s. astronaut scott kelly spent in europe or the international space station even though he is a twin research conducted before after and during his time on the space mission show that bond returning to earth kelly truly is one of a kind now says twin studies sought to look at the long term effects of space on the human body always down to the d.n.a. and since scott has an identical twin brother mark who is a former astronaut with the space shuttle program the perfect major versus nurture tests were performed after three hundred forty days in orbit scott kelly's d.n.a. changed chromosomes that shortened as we age became longer he had shortened again aft

u.k. defense secretary addressing the situation that has been unraveling here with the script all case of course the major diplomatic standoff going on he was at one point asked whether or not he thinks that the relationship between russia and the u.k. is back to a cold war scenario he has said that will he doesn't use those particular words but he said it's exceptionally exceptionally chilly and certainly with words like russia should go away and shut up it's quite unlikely that this relationship is going to be warming up in the time to come let's said gavin williamson also talked about kremlin ripping apart the international rulebook doing things like using social media to muddy the waters he's talked about it's reckless attack on solsbury . of course use this opportunity to talk about how the u.k. is going to be investing forty eight million pounds into a new defense centrist sober timing is good for those purposes there and how it's going to be modernizing. it's defense program well taking that speech into account we've also been hearing from boris johnson given these latest developme

u.k.'s defense secretary results to diplomatic language as tensions between london and moscow increase over the poisoning of former spy surrogates cripple and his daughter. the investigation into the murder is yet to produce any concrete evidence with u.k. police saying it could take weeks still to establish a suspect. that. iconic ukrainian lawmaker. claims top government officials were involved in organizing the deadly my down square shooting in kiev in twenty forty. eight pm thursday night here in moscow you're watching out international hello my name is kevin oh is he with the latest thirty minute live update and first we have a significant development to tell you about from the syrian enclave of eastern ghouta more than five thousand civilians now are said to have escaped the rebel controlled area of a humanitarian corridor that was established by russia and syria these are the latest pictures from that area russian defense ministry center for reconciliation in syria believes up to thirteen thousand people are expected to reach safe zones now by the end of the day the humanitarian corr

u.k. defense minister. i think it was go away and shut up. oh my they don't tell it at this point look so of the foreign minister may be russia's chief diplomat but he's perfectly capable when he needs to have taking his diplomatic hat off particularly when confronted with that sort of language from a counterpart abroad he called this to williamson's comments where he called mr williamson a fishwife and he said that all his comments that whilst he may want to go down in history perhaps he didn't have much of an education and that was the end of that he made these comments in astronomy at a conference on syria where he also went on to say that look basically isn't taking any more notice of what the u.k. has to say about all of these accusations as far as russia is concerned the u.k. has acted out of order it has gone too far too fast it hasn't followed procedure under the chemical weapons treaties that both countries are signatories to they need to go via an established procedure at the open c.w. that's what russia wants to comply with anythin

u.k. defense ministry cambridge is now under investigation on has suspended its chief executive on the revelations have led to a trend that will concern facebook famous entrepreneur must believe in his profile as well as the pages of his company's many others are following suit to the hushed belief that facebook spreads across another platform twitter facebook said to mark zuckerberg apologize for the data breach and promise that the company will learn from the mistake meanwhile legal media analyst lionel told us all data online is mind then tired point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic is the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you well of that government it's a service you did it was conceived it through darbar through seed money this this phase and how do you think they use the information against their are you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information that we have well despite the two global giants up the center of the data scandal having roots in america on the u.k. the story has not been tied to russia in the medium ar

u.k. defense secretary isn't overly keen on hearing out the defense frankly. should go should churchill just after that gavin williamson announced forty eight million pounds will be invested in a new chemical weapons defense center why because russia of course the defense secretary is also going to deliver with anthrax vaccines for troops what does that have to do with the script poisoning no time to explain and it took france no time at all to change its mind on action and initially skeptical and calling it too soon to blame the kremlin paresis that to agree on and impose new sanctions on russia. if you don't. there's anybody so the plan is solidarity with the u.k. which apparently includes deliberately avoiding a russian stand at the paris book fair what we're seeing is a whole lot of act first and ask later and frankly we should take more time to find the answers. well earlier australian journalist and filmmaker john pilger said the west's campaign against russia's image is meant to excuse their own actions this is a catholic constructed drama it's part of

u.k. defense ministry cambridge analytical is now under investigation its offices have been raided and its chief executive has been suspended the company denies any and all wrongdoing the scandal has also led to a backlash against the social network facebook's share price plunged to a four year low and the company is now facing multiple lawsuits from shareholders over on twitter meanwhile the house to delete facebook has been trending with some high profile people joining in as the fear of breach privacy is at the front of everyone's minds the point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic it's the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and its. own it it was conceived it sued darpa to see. money this this feigned oh do you think they use the information against there or are you kidding me facebook app for everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information we have lionel despite the two major firms at the center of the data scandal having roots in america and the u.k. none the less a c.n.n. reporters try to tie the story to russia or

u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson speaking and he used quite unusual i would say language for diplomacy where he talked about russia needing to go away and as he put it shot what do you think this is conducive to the situation or is this kind of how things will be from now on was difficult to see but i have some reservations about the political culture and the way whole discussion is going on and of course the way how the minister of defense is putting. he's views. will quite. surprising for us but this is the new reality a new political culture in the united kingdom but we hear this kind of statements you know all the time in the parliament from the british. those for the russian either it's the europe we need to promote in the world it's a little bit shocking but when you leave you're in london you know for for a while you know you can get used to this when you first learned of this story because it this is only going on for just over a week now and it seems to have snowballed so much and events unravel so quickly when you first heard of you know the story with the double agent and hi

u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson speaking and he used quite unusual i would say language for diplomacy where he talked about russia needing to go away and as he put it shut up what do you think this is conducive to the situation or is this kind of how things will be from now on was difficult to see but i have some reservations about the political culture and the way whole discussion is going on and of course the way how the.

u.k. defense secretary is trying to do this because he wants to go into history books called him a handsome young man who perhaps lacks manners and education. thanks very much for the article. in kazakhstan this hour. moving on the u.s. central command has admitted it doesn't know how resources it gives to the saudi led coalition are being used in the conflict with yemen does sit com track the purpose of the missions that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of the mission sounder we do not ok reuters recently reported on a saudi coalition air strike in late february that killed five civilians is said come able to tell whether the u.s. fuel or u.s. munitions were used as part of that strike. or not i don't believe we are ok well last month a group of u.s. senators introduced a joint resolution on yemen it aims to limit the president's power to wage war without or thrice ation from congress it also wanes the cuts america's support for saudi arabia and disentangle it from saudi involvement in the yemeni civil war the vote on the resolution is to be held soon. well in twenty

u.k.'s defense secretary has told russia to quote shut up and go away of the moscow's alleged poisoning of former spice a case cripple and his daughter as the diplomatic fallout over the incident continues. it is absolutely atrocious precious an outrageous what russia did in salzburg we have responded to that frankly russia should go away it should shut up we've certainly raised eyebrows because it begins to feel a little bit surreal when this kind of language starts being used in this kind of language comes into play especially if you're expecting to be taken seriously certainly in the world of diplomacy or u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson today talked about how there is quote overwhelming evidence that russia was behind this cripple incident although however when he also was asked about his certainly a certainty on a scale from one to ten he described it to be at nine point ninety eight and he talked about russia being full of smug sarcasm we also heard from nato secretary general talk about this whole ordeal let's take a listen to those i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that i

u.k. defense ministry cambridge is now under investigation and has suspended its. chief executive the revelations have led to a trend that will concern facebook famous entrepreneur deleted his profile as well as the pages of his company's many others are following suit time to delete facebook spreads across another top form twitter facebook said mark zuckerberg apologized for the data breach and promise that the company will learn from the mistake meanwhile legal media analyst lionel spoke to us saying that all data online is mind the entire point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic it's the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy a few well of that government it's a surveillance you need it it was conceived it through darpa through seed money this this phasing this oh do you think they use the information against there are you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information that we have well despite the two global giants of the center of the data scandal having roots in america and the u.k. the story has n

u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson speaking and he used quite unusual i would say language for diplomacy where he talked about russia needing to go away and as he put it shut up what do you think this is conducive to the situation or is this kind of how things will be from now on difficult to see but i have some reservations about the political culture and the way whole discussion is going on and of course the way how the minister of defense is putting. he's views. will quite. surprising for us but this is the new reality a new political culture in the united kingdom but we hear this kind of statements you know all the time in the parliament from the british. those for the russian either it's for the europe we need to promote in the world it's a little bit shocking but when you leave you're in london you know for for a while you know you can get used to this but when you first learned of this story because it this is only going on for just over a week now and it seems to have snowballed so much and events unravel so quickly when you first heard of you know the story with the double agent

u.k. defense ministry it provided the government with so-called psych psychosocial research and a cost of around two hundred thousand pounds and it was even granted access to classified files chris nine him from the stop the war coalition says the revelations are alarming. i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation facebook founder mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the massive data breach and a lengthy apology admitted that the company's privacy policies have failed he added that the company will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward even though the scandal conc

u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson speaking and he used quite unusual i would say language for diplomacy where he talked about russia needing to go away and as he put it shut up what do you think this is conducive to the situation or is this kind of how things will be from now on was difficult to see but i have some reservations about the political culture and the way whole discussion is going on and of course the way how the minister of defense is putting. he's views. will quite. surprising for us but this is the new reality a new political culture in the united kingdom but we hear this kind of statements you know all the time in the parliament from the british officials for the russian easier it's for the europe we need to promote in the world. shocking but when you leave you're in london you know for for a while you know you can get used to this when you first learned of this story because it this is only going on for just over a week now and it seems to have snowballed so much and events unravel so quickly when you first heard of you know the story with the double agent and his daugh