the crisis started on british soil with accusations that moscow was behind the poisoning of a russian double agent in salzburg earlier this month the british foreign secretary calls the expulsions a turning point. and what will seem in these huge diplomatic expulsion is a desire to correct that and to say right russia enough is enough. russia denies having anything to do with the poisoning and insists the u.s. is coercing other states to join its lead. or the way to do this or that country tells one or two diplomats to leave as well whispering apologies into our ears. we know that this is the result of colossal pressure colossal blackmail which is now unfortunately the main tool of washington on the international arena ocean to let this little. and on the streets of moscow people also express belief their country is being victimized even more so he said i think the russians have annoyed everyone because they're secretive and don't share everything of course it's not possible to know who carried out the poisoning. you know i've said this book would i'm concerned that europe is treating

over the poisoning of a form of double agent continues to escalate on saturday moscow announced it would expel twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar move by the u.k. so because colin powell and his daughter were poisoned two weeks ago in the southern u.k. town of salzburg artie's jacqueline who got looks back at how the scandal has developed. in a span of less than a week u.k. russia relations have been pushed to the point of an all out diplomatic war with no one looking ready to back down the screwball poisoning has created this massive divide between the two countries and despite the fact that the investigation is ongoing and scotland yard themselves have said that it may take weeks if not months to complete the politicians were much quicker it is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder is cake is culpable our quarrel is with putin's kremlin and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision moscow was quick to bite back slamming the ultimatum put forward by theresa may and calling the

moscow residents in particular enjoy taking day trips here unaware that a huge portion of moscow's trash also ends up here. of your stuff would be remiss family lives in a two room apartment in a prefab apartment building i think she's had less time for her family in recent weeks because of her work fighting the landfill expansion her mother helps out by taking care of the kids. couldn't assume you know everything i'm doing is for my family. especially my daughter. we bought this apartment for the view of the field and the cleanup is the world now they're trying to take that away from us. is all over to get there we really have fears that the landfill will expand quickly because it's cheaper for moscow to dispose of its trash here rather than separating it. what about the political situation the city administration is a ten minute drive away but the residents don't vote for their mayor themselves. in twenty sixteen the government mosco appointed the administrator of the city. the issue of trash disposal is being highly politicized by a certain group remember it was one that invited you h

luckily no trouble from moscow. after three hours the demonstration slowly disperse through people listen to the speakers for alice many brought their friends partners and even their children with them. to the organizers mishap afterwards and they're relieved there were no arrests the government stood back. as proving a. lot of people came to the rally we collected a lot of signatures. on wednesday or thursday will turn them over to the russian president everything went very well. out of. the expansion of the landfill site has caused heated debates on social media now the mayor is willing to speak with arena and her friends in their eyes the rally was a success. but. if you look at you. you must remember you were in the moment of. journey through time. and. regarded has returned from a voyage with musical discoveries on the red. meat. on his new album. garvey back. in. good shape infections good news in his. influenza tuberculosis and countless other as many that with you want to be eradicated are now back we'll dis

moscow residents in particular enjoy taking day trips here unaware that a huge portion of moscow's trash also ends up here. the stuff would be remiss family lives in a two room apartment in a prefab apartment building. she's had less time for her family in recent weeks because of her work fighting the landfill expansion her mother helps out by taking care of the kids. soon you know everything i'm doing is for my family especially my daughter the most. but also we want this apartment for the view of the field and the clean out. the world but now they're trying to take that away from us. as well order to get there we really have fears that the landfill will expand quickly because it's cheaper for moscow to dispose of its trash here rather than separating it. what about the political situation the city administration is a ten minute drive away but the residents don't vote for their mayor themselves. and twenty sixteen the governor in moscow appointed the administrator of the city proper off the issue of trash disposal is being highly politicized by a certain group remember the one that invi

sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. scotland yard has given further details about the movements of sergei skripal and his daughter yulia in the hours before they became critically ill. counter—terrorism police say the investigation will take many weeks, but the prime focus is discovering exactly how the poison was administered. our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, has the latest from salisbury. this evening, with nerve agent contamination still a huge concern, police were working at the pound where sergei skripal‘s car was found after being towed away from salisbury town centre. britain's most senior counter—terrorism detective warning today that the complex operation in the city will last many weeks. we are sifting and assessing all evidence available and we are exploring all investigative avenues, this includes extensive cctv footage from across the city and over 380 exhibits so far. detectives now believe yulia skripal arrived at heathrow airport from russia on the afternoon of saturday, third march

if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really gory to deliver a strike against moscow a year m.s.e. war not their city yukio but a mess of war was the most likely outcome therefore any kind of reduction in tension is a good news for russia however talking about a possible negotiation than moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have cells and summit or say assignments be to be in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe there's a city of moscow where you are still because of on the full seated tour they can be sure or maybe in my native fitters be a way not maybe not moscow but not now. said truth is right now russian issue is very big in the united states probably it has never been the case that russia attracted so much of the favorable attention well since maybe as a hundred fifty years since their anticommunist here and the communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if russia is too much involved in this negotiations not now in the long run yes but now it's probably safer to ju

luckily no trouble from moscow. for example recently after three hours the demonstration slowly disperse. people listened to the speakers for alice many brought their friends partners and even their children with them. to the organizers mishap afterwards and they're relieved there were no arrests the government stood back the living room is proving to be. going out on the lot of people who came to the rally we collected a lot of signatures. on wednesday or thursday will turn them over to the russian president everything went very well you. could have some of. the expansion of the landfill site has caused heated debates on social media now the mayor is willing to speak with the rena and her friends in their eyes the rally was a success. but. if you look at you. you're assuming the utility is proof of. climate change. which. pollution. isn't it time for the good news that africa people and projects that are changing our environment for the better it's up to us to make a difference let's wish. you could be farming maga

eleven days ago moscow denies any involvement lavrov. added that moscow had stopped paying attention to comments from britain after the u.k. defense minister told russia to quote go away and shut up live now to moscow and our correspondent lawrence lisa lawrence the tit for tat thing has now well and truly kicked off when do they start packing their bags. well the i mean they haven't said so and in fairness what's the level of said today is only really repeats of what the russian ambassador to britain was on the. had said several days ago and it's entirely to be expected it's a normal procedure when there's when there's a scandal of this sort and one side expelled diplomats the other side to do exactly the same it's called tit for tat the reciprocity so so so that's not new it was an iteration of some of the already been said by the things that were there they also said in some senses were new and more interesting first of all this extraordinary right how this now develops between mr love rolph who is with the ring the rude when he feels

last week moscow denies any involvement or off added that moscow had stopped paying . attention to comments from britain after the u.k.'s defense minister told russia to quote go away and shut up in a moment we'll go live to barnaby phillips who's standing by for us in london first let's talk to my colleague john hall who's in the russian capital moscow when this is may was talking about the twenty three expulsions from the u.k. she was talking about people engaged in espionage the identifying or labeling similar people in moscow john. peter they're absolutely be bound to be doing just that the foreign ministry and the kremlin of course they're not telling us the media about any of that a lover of the foreign minister has all but conceded that they will be diplomatic expulsions they're likely to be mirrored mirroring the u.k. expulsions when we'll hear about them though is unknown if you know it becomes extremely difficult really to guess what the kremlin is likely to do next in any given circumstances you'll know if the kremlin anything if it is anything rather is not

hall is live for us in moscow so john a we are still starting to get more reaction from moscow it seems the rhetoric is getting amped up tell us more about their response from moscow. well still nothing on a concrete response concrete measures that moscow may be prepared to take in response to to reason may's announcement of the expulsion of twenty three diplomats traditionally with diplomatic expulsions there's a sort of tit for tat response so i think it's highly likely when we do hear from moscow that twenty three british diplomats here in moscow will be packing their bags just as twenty three russian diplomats are packing their bags in london we did a short while ago hear from the foreign ministry spokes person there is a car over who we thought might have outlined a firm response instead she said that the accusations against russia were pure insanity she talked about the hostile measures in acted by the united kingdom and she said counter measures were in the planning as we speak but the point that she did make which seems to be the position that russia is settling on at this stage

moscow residents in particular enjoy taking day trips here unaware that a huge portion of moscow's trash also ends up here. remus family lives in a two room apartment in a prefab apartment building. she's had less time for her family in recent weeks because of her work fighting the landfill expansion her mother helps out by taking care of the kids. their confidence in you know everything i'm doing is for my family. especially my daughter. but also we want this apartment for the view of the field in mclean now is the world now they're trying to take that away from us. all over to get there we renewed fears that the landfill will expand quickly because it's cheaper for moscow to dispose of its trash here rather than separating it. what about the political situation the city administration is a ten minute drive away but the residents don't vote for their mayor themselves. in twenty sixteen the governor in moscow appointed the administrator of the city will probably go up over the issue of trash disposal being highly politicized by a certain group remember it was the one that invited you her

or i want to go now to europe our moscow bureau chief good evening to you so why did moscow choose the consulate in st petersburg to close. some because there is a second capital of russia the u.s. consulate there is big and into the fact that it now has to close is obviously of great symbolic importance bigger than the consulate and because brooke is only the consulate in moscow but if you close the consulate in moscow then you really cut any diplomatic relation between the u.s. and russia and you'll reach the real and of all. and the u.s. we know was not the only country to expel russian diplomats so what can washington's allies now expect. well according to his russian foreign minister it will be a batch of countermeasures russia is going to take first told diplomats from all countries that expelled the russian diplomats who will also be expelled from russia but mr lavrov said that russia will not only provide a so-called to mirror response to west steps but even more than event that means the kremlin actually will continue fighting with the west without rules old of its own rules a

it remains to be seen what moscow will say about this it is planned that there would be a nato russia council coming up in the near future discussions were underway as to the agenda and the date and i suppose it's very possible russia will say that it doesn't want to speak to nato now if it's going to take what it will consider of a very hostile acts like this but secretary general stoltenberg was very careful to say that he hoped that dialogue would continue he pointed out that nato considers it important to keep a dual track approach that is to take stringent measures against russia for its aggressive behavior while in the same time leaving open the path to two to talk but there was another message in stolzenberg stilton berg's words and that is that he mentioned specifically intelligence work done by russia so this is certainly a message that won't be lost on the russians that stoltenberg said specifically reducing the mission was done to reduce the ability of russia to do intelligence work in nato countries so this is certainly a very strong message perhaps even stronger than it a

we always single out moscow but it happens to be moscow who does all these terrible things i find this kind of the pattern of thinking very dangerous because it's very much a cold war thinking and we live in a very different world and i think maybe we're going to try thinking isn't dangerous poisoning people is dangerous i mean that's for sure that poisoning people is dangerous but still i think it would be helpful to really to see russia not always as a continuation of the soviet union which is even if there are certain. things happening where there could be that the kremlin is behind it i wouldn't exclude us but i think it's very important also for british people that you have more in your hands than the british government head and i mean we have only now people coming in really looking into this thing and in about ten days we will know what it does about ok one thing we do know that we still a lot of work to do to clear up the crucial details on the attack on school script one thing is clear as well is that it's reminiscent as we've already mentioned. over a similar poisoning poison

also this hour moscow expelled twenty three british diplomats mirroring the step taken by the u.k. in response to the kremlin's alleged poisoning of a former spy and his daughter. says i want. my son donald trump the behavior of my family my parents. because of pressure i left my village for. all who. say they've been forced to move away from their hometown because of a fierce backlash from neighbors and relatives. to live with me. now in moscow wherever you are welcome to today's program russia's defense ministry has said rebel groups have been armed with chemical weapons in syria they say they are preparing to stage false flag attacks as a pretext for the us to carry out airstrikes against bashar assad's government one of the details. representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have intimation and reason to believe that the united states it's as talent base in syria has been preparing squads of rebels fighting is to stage a chemical provocation a chemical weapons attack in the south of syria in doubt which borders jordan and israel they've been provided allegedly a

moscow residents in particular enjoy taking day trips here unaware that a huge portion of moscow's trash also ends up here. irina's family lives in a two room apartment in a prefab apartment building. she's had less time for her family in recent weeks because of her work fighting the landfill expansion her mother helps out by taking care of the kids. couldn't assume you know everything i'm doing is for my family. especially my daughter. but daughter we want this apartment for the view of the field and the clean out. the world but now they're trying to take that away from us . as well over to they really have fears that the landfill will expand quickly because it's cheaper for moscow to dispose of its trash here rather than separating it. what about the political situation the city administration is a ten minute drive away but the residents don't vote for their mayor themselves. and twenty sixteen the governor in moscow appointed the administrator of the city. group or the trash disposal is being highly politicized by a certain group remember it was the one that invited you here today i p

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last few minutes she has welcomed the coordinated response which she says sends a strong signal to moscow day eighteen countries have announced their intention to expel more than one hundred russian intelligence officers probably. this includes fifteen e.u. member states as well as the united states canada and the ukraine and this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence offices in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the salzburg incident and let's get responses from muslim and young here in clare richardson in washington the major had got storage in moscow as well as ben we got in brussels that welcome all we'll start with you simon young and then what is germany been saying about the four diplomats that it is to expel. well fool the german government has told the russian embassy here in berlin that four of its people of course a leave within the next seven days and it says that this is intended as a strong signal of solidarity

what moscow is thinking. this is a very confusing story and i think it is important to listen to what the russians are saying. they have a range of arguments. and i think then i have to use my experience of living and working in russia and i have been here the 23 years, not with the bbc all that time, but to use my experience to examine what the russians are saying and to try to cut through all of that and give a interpretation, opinion about what is going on here. as i say it is a confused story but i think it is important to present the russian perfect evolve it. we saw you on the campaign trail asking quite a tough question vladimir putin. was it difficult, even scary, to do?” would say it was a scary decision, it was quite a challenging thing to do because normally question and a nswer do because normally question and answer sessions with president putin are heavily controlled. we were covering him on the campaign trail, we found ourselves in a position physically but we were able to pop the question to

take a flight back to moscow also on the show. the united nations accuses turkey of massive human rights abuses following a failed coup in twenty sixteen the report says on corrupt tortured and killed political opponents turkey slams the un says it sympathizes with terrorists. would . play. well all right thanks for your company everyone. russian diplomats expelled by the u.k. are on a flight back to moscow as we speak this as international weapons inspectors have begun analyzing samples of the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of solsbury well russia has hit back hard at british allegations that it is behind the attack the kremlin condemns all accusations demands to see evidence or an apology. a bitter farewell for russia's expelled diplomats in london followed from the diplomatic standoff. as russia demands proof or an apology the british military is carrying out forensic tests on the car used by sergei st paul's daughter after she came from moscow to earlier this month. hours after yul

petersburg is only the consulate in moscow. but if you close the consulate in moscow you would really cut any diplomatic relation between the u.s. and moscow and it would reach the end of all. brent: the u.s. was not the only country to expel russian diplomats. so what can washington's allies now expect? yuri: according to sergey lavrov, the russian fororeign minister, it will be countermeasures that russisia is going to take. first, diplomats from all countries that expelled russian diplomats will also be expelled from russia. but mr. lavavrov said russia wod not only provide a mirror response, but give momore of an effect. that means the kremlin will continue finding the west under its own rules, so what measures could come next? the bbc bureau in moscow could be shut down. our rt bureau -- our deutsche welle bureau in london could be shut down. germany has expelled for russian diplomats as well. theoretically would also be possible to gut the german cultural institution which has several branches in russia, or the french cul

has announced moscow will deport u.k. diplomats what more do we know well not much at this point love off was actually responding to a question by a journalist at a meeting about syria an author not in kazakhstan he was asked directly about the expulsion of diplomats and whether russia would be expelling u.k. diplomats and he said of course we will so we don't at the moment know how many people will be expelled and we'll have to wait and see until now it seems as though russia is kind of waiting to see what the full response from the u.k. and its allies will be this morning the deputy foreign minister city of course said that moscow expect expects new joint measures from the u.s. the u.k. and its allies and the kremlin had said before that putin will actually be taking the final decision on what measures to level in response to what the u.k. has has leveled at russia so we'll kind of have to wait and see to find out more details. so we're looking at a number of options here but in terms of measures so far britain has expe

the kremlin steve rosenberg joins me now on the line from moscow. you do give us the kremlin‘s side of the story, as we saw in the e—mail, some viewers fear that it gives them credibility, how do you answer that? i consider my job as the bbc moscow correspondent to tell viewers in britain and around the world what moscow is thinking, this is a very confusing story and it is important to listen to what the russians are saying. they have a range of arguments and i think then i have to use my experience of living and working in russia, and i have been here for 23 yea rs, russia, and i have been here for 23 years, not with the bbc all that time but to use my experience, to examine what the russians are saying, and to try to cut through all of that and give my interpretation, my opinion, about what is happening here. it is a very confused story but it is important to present the russian perspective on it. saw you on the campaign trail, asking quite a tough question, often, was that difficult, perhaps even a scary thing to do? not a scary decision, it

central moscow studio . very good morning to you from home for the next couple of days we're bringing you our special coverage of the russian presidential election for red square one hundred million votes as of twelve hours to get the number one job in that building right behind us. fundraise. to bring you all the latest from the voting. has been a fact all weekend that means campaigning as well as news coverage of the candidates on that manifesto. so until the polls close on sunday evening won't be able to give you much information about those vying for the russian leadership we can tell you about is the organization of the process of the vote which is more and more of the regions joined. on top of that a record number of foreign observers a present of this year's elections about fifteen hundred have registered in this use only the first round as well as more than one hundred forty thousand to observe it. from across russia so keenly watch you though you don't have to be at the polls to see what's happening

there's been a constant stream of ambassadors at moscow's foreign ministry several e.u. countries were told some of their diplomats were being sent home in response to russian diplomats being expelled the german ambassador stressed the importance of bilateral relations. in view of the diary invention salisbury also the russian government has called on to do everything it can to create clarity and transparency and answer session and unresolved questions. for german embassy staff have to leave russia the same number of diplomats berlin has expelled. the united kingdom is being hit harder the crisis began on british soil by the poisoning of sergei screwball and his daughter in salisbury britain holds russia accountable for that and has convinced twenty five western nations to expel a total of one hundred fifty russian diplomats out of solidarity with its position . is the use of a chemical weapon on the streets of the united kingdom that is threaten the lives of a number of people in my country we also questions of the russian state and we have still not received adequate p

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. the bbc‘s diplomatic correspondent james robbins says the uk prime minister faces a tricky choice when deciding what to do next. to interpret the expulsion of 23 britons from russia is a simple tit—for—tat parity or do they think the russians have gone too far but adding the closure of the consulate in st petersburg and perhaps actually more significantly the com plete actually more significantly the complete closure of british council operations in russia. that is significant because it is the way in which britain tries to export its values as well is the english language in the rush hour. —— into russia. it has a huge reach, it reaches a lot of young russians, teenagers and young adults, and it's seen as a way of appealing to the post—putin generation, trying to export to them values that they may miss at home. so losing the council is a major blow. how will britain response to that? earlier, i spoke to james sherr, an associate fellow for the russia and eurasia programm

our correspondent is in moscow. this deadline is approaching, we have had a sense of response in moscow. what is your reading of things there? well, i think there is no sense that russia is planning to comply with that deadline. we have heard unless london hands over a sample of nerve agent it says was used, then russia will ignore this deadline. if there are any lights on there in the kremlin, it is not people worrying about that deadline. but what we have heard is if there are sanctions from the uk, then russia will respond to that. specifically on one thing, the foreign ministry said that if the pro—kremlin rt were to be closed in the uk, no british media would remain working in russia. now, beyond that, she was also on television here tonight reminding viewers of vladimir putin's recent speech when he revealed all the new nuclear weapons that russia has in itarsenal after that russia has in itarsenal after that it said no one should issue rush with ultimatums. thank you. now live to downing street and our dipl

moscow promised swift retaliation to britain's decision to expel russian diplomats. well it's all starting to feel very cold war this isn't it let's get more from the chief political correspondent. and only showing and moscow and cost and fall down and no washington welcome all cost and phenomena that start with you president trump seems pharma now in his support for britain's position against russia why the turnaround . well it seems that british prime minister to reason may has managed to impress on president trump the importance of this matter for the u.k. and showed so has been able apparently to convince the u.s. president that the evidence that russia was behind this poison attack on former double agent in england on british soil was very convincing and you're right the president trump in the past has often been rather cautious or even reluctant to blame russia and president putin for anything made be meddling in the u.s. elections or other misdeeds that seems to have changed on as we've seen he now says it looks like russia was behind this and he is taking it

moscow residents in particular enjoy taking day trips here unaware that a huge portion of moscow's trash also ends up here. review stuff would be remiss family lives in a two room apartment in a prefab apartment building i think she's had less time for her family in recent weeks because of her work fighting the landfill expansion the mother helps out by taking care of the kids. couldn't assume you know everything i'm doing is for my family. especially my daughter. this apartment for the view of the field and the clean up is the world now they're trying to take that away from us. all over to get there we really have fears that the landfill will expand quickly because it's cheaper for mosca to dispose of its trash here rather than separating it. what about the political situation the city administration is a ten minute drive away but the residents don't vote for them by themselves. in twenty sixteen the government mosco appointed the administrator of the city. but the issue of trash disposal is being highly politicized by a certain group from gridlock the one that invited you here today i

quite a lot of unplpleasantness for moscow. and frankly, there was nothing like that ever meted out to saddddam hussein o or the kim fy in north korea. it is a very significant diplomatic humiliation. brent: konstantin von eggert giving us s valuable analysis tonight. thank you very much. tonight, the ceo of facebook mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before a u.s. congressional committee. it is not yet known when such a hearing would take place. reports say sometime in april, perhaps. earlier today zuckerberg refused an invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee. lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic want to question n him about how millions of user's details got into the hands of a firm that was hired d to influee voters. >> our next focus is building community. reporter: he is the public face of the world's biggest social network. but mark zuckerberg is not feelelg sociablele when it comes to taking questions, especially not from european politicians. as inquiries mount about how facebook u

moscow has its own message for the west. don't push russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. as we heard there, doctors are seeing a rapid improvement in the condition of yulia skripal, who was poisoned alongside herfather. here's the bbc‘s daniel sandford. it's been a great 2a hours for this police investigation. this afternoon came the frankly amazing news that yulia skripal has responded well to treatment. don't forget, it was only a week ago that a judge said she was unconscious, unable to communicate in any meaningful way, and it was unclear to what extent she would recover any capacity. and i understand that, beyond the official nhs update, she is both conscious and talking, and will therefore be able to give her account to counter—terrorism detectives of what happened on that sunday, 3.5 weeks ago. whether she'll be to explain how it was that she and her father became contaminated is less clear. i understand she had nerve agent on her left hand, herfather had it on her right hand. and that does go along with the current theory that the novichok nerve agent had been

we always single out moscow but it happens to be moscow who does all these terrible things i find this kind of put on a thinking very dangerous because it's very much a cold war thinking and we live in a very different world and i think many want to try thinking isn't dangerous poisoning people is dangerous i mean that's for sure that poisoning people is dangerous but still i think it would be helpful to really to see russia not always as a continuation of the soviet union which is even if there are certain. things happening where. there could be that the kremlin is behind it i wouldn't exclude us but i think it's very important also for british people that you have more in your hands than the british government head and i mean we have only now people coming in really looking into this thing in. ten days we will know what it is about ok one thing we do know that we still a lot of work to do to clear up the crucial details on the. script one thing is clear as well is that it's reminiscent as we've already mentioned over a similar poising poisoning incident back in two thousand and six h

with nato joining the expulsions of russian diplomats the alliance's secretary general said moscow had it coming. this sounds a clear message to russia that there are costs and consequences for it's unacceptable and dangerous path on all behavior the crisis started on british soil with accusations that moscow was behind the poisoning of a russian double agent in salzburg earlier this month the british foreign secretary calls the expulsions a turning point. what will seem in these huge diplomatic expulsion is a desire to correct that and to say right russia enough is enough. russia denies having anything to do with the poisoning and insists the u.s. is coercing other states to join its lead. to a blow with a group this is over that country tells one or two diplomats to leave while whispering apologies into our ears. we know that this is the result of colossal pressure colossal blackmail which is now unfortunately the main tool of washington on the international arena ocean to let this little. band on the streets of moscow people also expressed belief their country is being victimized an

i want to go now to europe our moscow bureau chief good evening to you yuri so why did moscow choose the consulate in st petersburg to close her and well because brooke it is a second capital of russia the u.s. consulate there is big and into the fact that it now has to close is obviously of great symbolic importance bigger than the consulate and because brooke is only the consulate in moscow but if you close the consulate in moscow then you'll really cut any diplomatic relation between the u.s. and russia and you'll reach the real and of all. and the u.s. we know was not the only country to expel russian diplomats so what can washington's allies now expect. well according to a sergei lavrov russian foreign minister it will be a batch of countermeasures russia is going to take first and told diplomats from all countries that expelled the russian diplomats who will also be expelled from russia but mr lavrov said that russia will not only provide a cycle to mirror response to west steps but even more than vent that means the kremlin actually will continue fighting the best result throu

the british ambassador was called into the foreign ministry in moscow and given a list of measures moscow and given a list of measures moscow intends to take in retaliation for british actions against russia which russia —— london holds responsible for the attack. he had been expecting the telephone call and today it came. britain's ambassador was summoned to the russian foreign ministry. and in the skyscraper thatjosef stalin built as a symbol of a superpower, the ambassador was told how moscow would retaliate to uk sanctions. a note of defiance when he left. we will always do what is necessary to defend ourselves, our allies and our values against an attack of this sort. which is an attack not only on the united kingdom but upon the international rules—based system on which all countries, all countries including russia, depend for their safety and security. thank you. the ambassador headed into work, to tell embassy staff about the russian sanctions. moscow says they are a response to british provocation, russia has expelled 23 british diplomats. the uk had expelled 23 russians ov

leave the russian embassy in london and head back to moscow also on the show the united nations accuses turkey of massive human rights abuses following a failed coup in twenty sixteen the report says ankara tortured and killed political opponents turkey meanwhile slams the u.n. says it sympathizes with terrorists and it's a sad day for conservation as the world's last meal northern white rhino dies in kenya only two females remain the last hope against the species extinction. well mark thanks for your company everyone. diplomats expelled by the u.k. are heading back to moscow and they have left their embassy now in london while this is international weapons inspectors have. gun analyzing samples of the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of solsbury russia has hit back hard at british allegations that it is behind the attack the kremlin condemns all accusations demands to see evidence or an apology. a bitter farewell for russia's expelled diplomats in london followed from the diplomatic standoff as russia demands proof or an apology the british m

we always single out moscow but it happens to be moscow who does all these terrible things i find this kind of pattern of thinking very dangerous because it's very much a cold war thinking and we live in a very different world and i think maybe want to try thinking isn't dangerous poisoning people is dangerous i mean that's for sure that poisoning people is dangerous but still i think it would be helpful to really to see russia not always as a continuation of the soviet union which is even if there are certain. things happening where there could be that the kremlin is behind it i wouldn't exclude us but i think it's very important also for british people that you have more in your hands than the british government head and i mean we have only now people coming in really looking into this thing and in ten days we will know what it is about ok one thing we do know that we still a lot of work to do to clear up the crucial details on the attack on the circuit script one thing is clear as well is that it's reminiscent as we've already mentioned. a similar poising poisoning incident back in

moscow has its own message for the west — don't push russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. as we heard there, doctors are seeing a rapid improvement in the condition of yulia skripal, who was poisoned alongside herfather. here's the bbc‘s daniel sandford. it's been a great 2a hours for this police investigation. this afternoon came the frankly amazing news that yulia skripal has responded well to treatment. don't forget, it was only a week ago that a judge said she was unconscious, unable to communicate in any meaningful way, and it was unclear to what extent she would recover any capacity. and i understand that, beyond the official nhs update, she is both conscious and talking, and will therefore be able to give her account to counter—terrorism detectives of what happened on that sunday, 3.5 weeks ago. whether she'll be able to explain how it was that she and her father became contaminated is less clear. i understand she had nerve agent on her left hand, herfather had it on his right hand. and that does go along with the current theory that the novichok nerve agent had

and moscow expels twenty three british diplomats nearing the step taken by the u.k. in response to the kremlin's alleged poisoning of former spy service with pal and his daughter. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. russia's defense ministry says rebel groups in syria have been armed with chemical weapons and are preparing to write attacks as a pretext for the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against bashar al assad's government what i guess the of as the details representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have intonation and reason to believe that the united states it's as times they use in syria has been preparing squads of rebels fighters to stage a chemical provocation a chemical weapons attack in the south of syria in doubt which borders jordan and israel they've been provided allegedly as when used twenty tons of norene israel is dead today it is disguised as disguised as cigarette packs and this attack is imminent the feds officials have said that this attack will be blamed on the sy

ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow and the results of that conversation are as follows twenty three british diplomats same number as russian diplomats being surveilled from the u.k. have just one week to leave russia in addition moscow has revoked permission for britain to operate a consulate general in st petersburg moscow has also stated that the government could take further action if britain takes any more unfriendly moves towards russia here's how the u.k. ambassador reacted we could do for the opportunity to explain all the material. we are russia to where the material but it will keep you with music. but he's neither. an old superstar moscow today has denied any involvement in the attempted murders of survey and scribble and russia's representative to the chemical weapons watchdog explains how russia has never run another top program that's the nerve gas allegedly used in the poisoning since the collapse of the soviet union. russia has no connection to what happened in salzburg as far as novacek is concerned the russian federation i stress that the russia

quite a lot of unpleasantness for moscow. and frankly, there was nothing like that ever meted out to saddam hussein or the kim family in north korea. it is a very significant diplomatic humiliation. brent: konstantin von eggert giving us valuable analysis tonight. thank you very much. tonight, the ceo of facebook mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before a u.s. congressional committee. it is not yet known when such a hearing would take place. reports say sometime in april, perhaps. earlier today zuckerberg refused an invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee. lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic want to question him about how millions of user's details got into the hands of a firm that was hired to influence voters. >> our next focus is building community. reporter: he is the public face of the world's biggest social network. ciable when it comes to taking questions, especially not from european politicians. as inquiries mount about how facebook uses the data of its 2 billion users, he tol

petersburg is only the consulate in moscow. but if you close the consulate in moscow you would really cut any diplomatic relation between the u.s. and moscow and it would reach the end of all. brent: the u.s. was not the only country to expel russian diplomats. so what can washington's allies now expect? yuri: according to sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, it will be countermeasures that russia is going to take. first, diplomats from all countries that expelled russian diplomats will also be expelled from russia. but mr. lavrov said russia would not only provide a mirror response, but give more of an effect. that means the kremlin will continue finding the west under its own rules, so what measures could come next? the bbc bureau in moscow could be shut down. our rt bureau -- our deutsche welle bureau in london could be shut down. germany has expelled for russian diplomats as well. theoretically would also be possible to gut the german cultural institution which has several branches in russia, or the french cultural

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. in a moment we'll speak to our north america editor, jon sopel, but first to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, at the foreign office. james, what is your reading of relations between london and moscow right now? well, huw, in recent days there have been harare shall words between russian and british politicians. comparing vladimir putin to adolf hitler probably tops the list. to realisejust putin to adolf hitler probably tops the list. to realise just how incendiary the comparison is you have to remember millions upon millions of russians died fighting adolf hitler's nazis. now the foreign office here has been keen to keep this an international confrontation, they have been marshalling allies against what they see as russia's international pattern of aggressive material. that is why the british government hasn't retaliated against russia's decision to expel 23 british diplomats. they wa nt to to expel 23 british diplomats. they want to keep it from being seen as some kind o

announced new sanctions over moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election is nineteen people and five russian entities have been targeted the trumpet ministration is threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior. turkey's foreign minister has warned that syria's eastern is heading towards disaster and has called for the violence to stop talks have been taking place between turkey iran and russia and kazakhstan in the latest round of negotiations to end the conflict has more now from a start at the end of the day these three players are championing their own peace what is their peace and they are not ready to discuss any political transition for example what they want to discuss there is about rewriting the constitution some reforms and the opposition is refusing to accept anything that doesn't involve political transition so it's not really clear what they can achieve if they don't have the united states and the west on board at least illegitimate peace deal elsewhere in syria at least thirteen people ha

we always single out moscow but it happens to be moscow who does all these terrible things i find this kind of the pattern of thinking very dangerous because it's very much a cold war thinking and we live in a very different world and i think maybe the next guy thinking is dangerous poisoning people is dangerous i mean that's for sure that poisoning people is dangerous but still i think it would be helpful to really to see russia not always as a continuation of the soviet union which is even if there are certain. things happening where there could be that the kremlin is behind it i wouldn't exclude us but i think it's very important also for british people that you have more in your hands than the british government head and i mean we have only now people coming in really looking into this thing and in about ten days we will know what it is about ok one thing we do know that we still a lot of work to do to clear up the crucial details on their time circa script one thing is clear as well is that it's reminiscent as we've already mentioned. a similar poising poisoning incident back in t

a crime one spokesperson has called that statement by boris johnson shocking and i'm forgivable moscow continues to deny any involvement in the attempted murder it says it has launched its own investigation on friday russian foreign minister sergei lavrov accused britain of violating international law by expelling russian diplomats and threatening further punitive measures he said moscow was preparing to expel british diplomats from russia in turn he also wished the scruples a quick recovery so that light can be shed on what happened. and earlier i spoke with alec lun who's an independent journalist in moscow i began by asking him about moscow's move in opening their own investigation into the poisoning of service cripple and his daughter. well i think this is more of a political move really the only thing else. moscow has been complaining since this scandal first broke since the poisoning was first reported that it should have access to the case materials british authorities suspecting the russian government have of course been reluctant to provide them with that access to case materi

this is deja vu news live from berlin british russian relations deep breathes moscow says it's to expel twenty three british diplomats as a round for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter escalates further also coming up. another scalping in washington former deputy director of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe is fired the dismissal ending the veteran official's career came just before he was due to qualify for a pension was his removal politically motivated we'll have a full analysis. by michelle henery thanks for joining us the dispute over the poisoning of a former russian spy in britain is deepening russia says it will expel twenty three british diplomats in a tit for tat response to measures the u.k. has taken against moscow over the case the british consulate in st petersburg and the british council cultural organization will also be closed britain says it will consider its response in the coming days so today our ambassador in moscow was informed by the russian government of the action they are taking in response in the eyes of their previous behavior we anticipated a response o

i want to go now to yuri rachet a our moscow bureau chief good evening to you yuri so why did moscow choose the consulate in st petersburg to close. well some because brooke it is the second capital of russia the u.s. consulate there is big and into the fact that it now has to close is obviously of great symbolic importance bigger than the consulate and because brooke is only the consulate in moscow but if you close the consulate in moscow then you really can't see any diplomatic relation between the s. and russia and you'll reach the real and of all. and the u.s. we know was not the only country to expel russian diplomats so what can washington's allies now expect. well according to a sergei lavrov russian foreign minister it will be a batch of countermeasures russia is going to take first atoll diplomats from all countries that expelled the russian diplomats who will also be expelled from russia but mr lavrov said that russia will not only provide a so-called to mirror response to west steps but even more than vent that means the kremlin actually will continue fighting with the wes

from moscow with me. nine pm here in the russian capital welcome to the program. russia's defense ministry has confirmed to rebel groups have been armed with chemical weapons in syria planning to stage false flag attacks as a pretext for the us to carry out a strikes. the details. representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have intimation and reason to believe that the united states it's as talent base in syria has been preparing squads of rebels fighters to stage a chemical provocation a chemical weapons attack in the south of syria in doubt which borders jordan and israel they've been provided allegedly as when years twenty tons of norene this one is dead today this disguised as disguised as cigarette packs and this attack is imminent the fed's officials have said that this attack will be blamed on the syrian government and will be used this excuse by the united states and its allies to strike could push al assad to his government did his military directly then they broke up the provocations mention to be used as a pretext that the united states