so this day these russian personnel there and about 500 russian peace eepers in the this russian military personnel is not the main threat. transition army itself. army is equal if not higher in terms of personnel but better trained and equipped than moeld oafen army. with the help of the presence there would likely overpower the defense. major vulnerability. and there's a soviet military depot with tons of equipment which in the case of conflict could be used by the forces. military experts transeastern army and russian army as part of integrated military controlled from moscow. as i said russian presence in follow-up of the debacle and fact that ukraine has closed supply lines for russian presence, russians are forced to recruit from the local, making large-scale intervention less likely. and political perspective, it's not needed for russia. russian political interference in moldova is so high, makes military intervention superfluous. largest party in moldova, party of socialists, strongly backed by moscow and the president elected end of 2016, has the dubious honor of having met with

the russian embassy said, the russian embassy new... they knew everybody would start talking about our security position post—brexit, and that's why they said a probable assassination, was an m15 plot to distract us from brexit. all talking at once. ..we had the first statement by the quad, germany, france, the us and the uk for decades. there hasn't been any disintegration of the transatlantic alliance. all talking at once. again, it's about their track record. let's not forget the conservatives lobbied to dilute sanctions against russia in the past, on the basis it would damage the city of london, but if you look back to 2003 in iraq, libya in 2011, everybody said, ‘look how strong and commanded david cameron and tony blair are', and anybody dissenting from the government line was betrayed as traitors, cowards, stooges of the enemy. 400,000 people marched. i'm saying that the media and the new labour elite and the conservatives did that, especially with libya, where only about 13 mps voted against. we do have a foreign policy whic

the eu and russian delegation to the eu and russian delegation to the eu and russian delegation to nato and intriguing to see some of the countries that have not taken action explaining why, a tweet from the spokesman for the maltese prime minister basically saying their presence in russia is so saying their presence in russia is so small that if they expel russian diplomats from malta then russia could expel all of the maltese diplomats from moscow leaving them com pletely diplomats from moscow leaving them completely unrepresented there was no is to the ground at all other some might say it is more because of the influence of russian money on the influence of russian money on the maltese economy. the austrians do not want to expel anyone because they say they're about to take up they say they're about to take up the rotating presidency of the eu in the rotating presidency of the eu in the summer and they want to remain neutral. people will say it is more for political reasons and that is excuse. for political reasons and that is excuse. yes, a massive massive diplomatic effort we have

states have signed up to kicking out russian diplomats austria notably has announced that the russian diplomats can remain and also vogue area has said that it won't be expelling any russian diplomats that are currently stationed there also at the e.u. summit last week that you summit went to reason may so successfully argued for this collective european response well sean called younger the president of the european commission he advocated a rather different approach to moscow take a listen to what he had to say. didn't really lose. we need to move to discuss for sure although it is a question. so not all e.u. states on the same page and not all figureheads agreed to the extent to which to punish moscow or to cooperate with it perhaps instead nevertheless what's happened today is being billed as the biggest collective expulsion of russian diplomats in history all this while the investigations about police investigation and also the independent o.p.c. w one they are still ongoing and that's the view from london and europe it seems the complete unity of voices in europe from across the

there is a lot of russian money, a lot of russian investment in london. it would be a good thing... adam says they would not be because it's too essential to the british economy. yes but then there are moments in which, take brexit, in which the national interest and the economy have come after other considerations. the moment there is an attack... i would have to say some people would disagree and that economic prospects under brexit will be fine but go on. what ijust wanted to point out was if britain is under attack, a nerve agent used in british streets, is that more important are less important than economic interest? more for the uk to do but what about the allies, that was mother point adam was making, everyone in europe needs to step up and support, everyone needs to step up and rally the wagons? there are views in the continent that actually what happened in salisbury is the continuation of a strategy from russia in dividing britain from its allies. the reactions have been very lukewarm and this is for two reasons. one that putin is on the rise in europe, there is a lot of

you are russian we can see it but it's a process of consolidation of russian russian society russian citizens and. no. this is a. position. to try to restore our relations with to find new solutions for future. but future. mr putin for the next six years. i care. very much for joining us. this year the vast majority of polling stations were equipped with a web camera streaming everything that happened at any one anyone could be an observer without even leaving the comfort of their own first came at a cost of the twenty twelve presidential election this time around though that network was expanded and their keepers well because this time they've helped expose a number of electoral fraud cases. this year's presidential election was being monitored by a record number of foreign observers fifteen hundred had registered before the vote and as we were hearing earlier from the central election commission as well they came from all over from france from poland and the u.k. and their overall assessment of how it was conducted a mainly positive response. we have some team in moscow in cologne.

rights as the native russian population. during the german occupation of crimea in the second world war that status meant the car ites were largely spared the persecution that their fellow jews suffered during the holocaust . and says mobile killing units murdered almost all of the crimea's other jewish inhabitants the reemergence of a jewish community in the region is nothing short of remarkable. the fact that crimean jews recently acquired russian citizenship doesn't seem to bother anyone here on the contrary. look on the line and look at this list mentally and spiritually we have always remained cringe chon we were never ukrainians nor were we ever russians we have always been crimean jews and i don't wish to say anything bad about ukraine but like up and seeing the crimea it was as if we had been hung out to dry now legislation has been adopted to ensure that money's no longer siphoned off from crimea instead funds will be invested in regional development i get the feeling they are now pulling out all the stops to ensure

anglo russian really. are already pretty strained at the moment given the britain's already imposed sanctions of expelled diplomats what could the u.k. do to punish russia well this is where there's a big opportunity one of the things which the u.k. has a huge leverage in one area which is that the russian government officials and kremlin connected oligarchy come to london and buy properties in large sizes all over the most expensive districts of london and they value those properties they covet those properties and the one thing that can be done and is now possible to do based on the law is for the u.k. government to seize those properties and believe me the government doesn't care or the russian government doesn't care about a few diplomats being expelled they don't care about and on and exercisable extradition of their officials what they care about is if if their house on belgrave square gets confiscated and that's what the government should do and if they do that it will go immediately right up to put

people many russians have made this country. and those who abide by our laws and make a contribution to our society will always be welcome but we will never tolerate a threat to the life of british citizens and others on british soil from the russian government. i'm now joined by our correspondent yuri was chateau who's in moscow yury does this mark an end to the diplomatic diplomatic relations between russia and the u.k. or yes michel absolutely i think so but there's a really bad thing about of this scandal is that it's expanding more and more getting wider and wider look one is a conflict between russia and the u.k. but the other is a conflict between russia and the united kingdom with the united states france and germany these are all countries which stand on the side of great britain so you can really call it an international scandal and i think that in the kremlin here in moscow and in the russian foreign ministry there are very concerned about how to get out of it the fact that the kremlin hesitated before taking the coun

-- russian spy in england. mr. johnson suggested that english soccer fans may be asked about the world cup tournament, unless russia is able to guarantee their safety. he also spoke about foreign-policy challenges. >> thank you for coming. >>if we can -- if i can ask directly, going to ask royston to start. >> not entirely appropriate my opinion, i'm sure you agree. do you believe president clinton was directly involved in the order? it's exactlynson: right that we should begin with that subject. i'm grateful to the committee today. what the prime minister said week ago was very clear. we give the russians to alternatives. they could either explain how stocks could mysteriously escape . that has become -- that especially has come to be used. the attempt of murders that took endangeringeckless in this country, the first use of nerve agents on european soil in 25 years, was a direct response -- of the russian state. to get to your point, mr. smith, as we saw in the case of alexander litvinenko, the responsibility

it is up to the russians. it is up to the russians to guarantee the safety of england fans going to russia. it is their duty under their fifa contract to look after our fans. we will be doing everything we can in the foreign office to make sure that they have access to the best possible advice. there are updates on our "be on the ball" website and we will of course make sure that they have that. we are watching it very, very closely. at the moment, we are not inclined actively to dissuade people from going, because we will want to hear from the russians what steps they are going to take to look after our fans. i want to hear from russia how they propose to look after uk nationals coming to the world cup. i will give you one interesting statistic, which is that, so far, the applications from england fans to go to russia for the world cup are about a quarter of what they were at this stage for the rio world cup-so about 24,000 against about 94,000 for a comparable stage in the competition. so the numbers are wel

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian forward a former russian spy i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so it's not only disease part of a content and content that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this isn't what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city on daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same tim

sensitive networks media reports investigators still don't know the extent of the green each of the russian think tankers are believed to have drones the cyber attack and group that has apparently hit political targets in the school also coming up president of the repros union sounds an ambitious vision for russia pledging to kutch poverty in coffee and on the nation with nuclear weapons that can be intercepted the speech and opposition politicians in moscow published in moscow and police in slovakia detained drop suspects mean by a budget journalist to spot an article alleges games to the italian mafia at the highest levels of government music and look at the fallout after the explosive claims. i don't welcome ivan without she. coaches in germany say hackers have infiltrated south the country's most sensitive computer networks media reports say the cyber attack was discovered in december but it may have been going on for more than a year a group with links to russian intelligence is thought to be a responsible. the interior ministry has given very few details so far just a brief statement

i repeat today that we have no disagreement with the russian people many russians have made this country their home and those who are bad by our laws and make a contribution to our society will always be welcome but we will never tolerate a threat to the life of british citizens and others on british soil from the russian government. u.k. police have contacted several russian exiles over safety concerns after the killing of a prominent businessman cough was found dead in his home on monday police say he died from a compression to the neck a murder investigations underway to scoff was granted political asylum in twenty ten in the u.k. had blocked attempts by russia to extradite him. russians head to the polls on sunday for presidential elections the authorities in crimea have reportedly been told to make sure there is an overwhelming turnout in support of the president vladimir putin. who's the rebels in yemen say they would be prepared to hold talks with saudi arabia to end the three year long war there have been reports they've been meeting in secret both sides deny that the war has led

so this day these russian personnel there and about 500 russian peace eepers in the this russian military personnel is not the main threat. transition army itself. army is equal if not higher in terms of personnel but better trained and equipped than moeld oafen army. with the help of the presence there would likely overpower the defense. major vulnerability. and there's a soviet military depot with tons of equipment which in the case of conflict could be used by the forces. military experts transeastern army and russian army as part of integrated military controlled from moscow. as i said russian presence in follow-up of the debacle and fact that ukraine has closed supply lines for russian presence, russians are forced to recruit from the local, making large-scale intervention less likely. and political perspective, it's not needed for russia. ussian political interference military intervention superfluous. largest party in moldova, party of socialists, strongly backed by moscow and the president elected end of 2016, has the dubious honor of having met with putin about seven times in las

howard has she responded to the russian government's rick. quest for a song full of the agent used in the soles reattack to run its own tests. has high resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent and has that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators and can the prime minister update the house on what conversations if any she has had with the russian government and while. and while suspending planned to higher level contacts does the prime minister agree that it is essential to maintain a robust dialogue with russia. while low to this the british prime minister has basically said that it's not a question of diplomacy it's a question of russian capability she's described it as cover culpable for attempted murder and of course we have to keep in mind that this whole time russia has been saying that it has nothing to do with the poisoning of this man it's only asked for an official notice to be sent from britain it's asked for evidence and facts supporting the statements

and they're chattering in russian. >> old russian boys said -- >> the untold story of the eastern front. that's just ahead on "war stories." >> good evening. i'm oliver north. welcome to "war stories." this is fort wayne wright in fairbanks, alaska. during world war ii, this base was part of a secret operation. aimed not at tokyo but berlin. in this very hangar hundreds of u.s. military aircraft flown from the lower 48 by americans were delivered to soviet pilots. all part of a global multi-billion dollar effort to that one goal. keeping russia in the war against hitler. the soviet union was an unlikely ally. churchill once described russia as a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma. in europe, churchill and roosevelt agreed to deal with the brutal soviet dictator joseph stalin. tonight hear from american pilots who flew the treacherous route to this base, meet an american hero who fought with the red army and russians who defended their homeland against one dictator while living under the iron fist of another. it's the untold history of americans and russians in the titanic

we all remember flight mh-17 shot down by russian proxies supplied with russian weapons, and russia has shown in its repeated protection of assad's chemical weapons use that it has different standards when it comes to the use of these terrible substances. we have not jumped to conclusions. we have carried out a thorough, careful investigation which continues. we are asking the opcw to independently verify the nerve agent used. we have offered russia the chance to explain, but russia has refused. we have therefore concluded that the russian state was involved and we have taken certain measures in response. in taking these measures, we have been clear that we have no disagreement with the people of russia who have been responsible for so many great achievements throughout history. it is the reckless acts of their government that we oppose. mr. president, we are grateful for the support of so many countries around the world. we will come back to this council as the investigations make more progress and continue to keep you informed. we have already heard the attacks and threats that russia

consulate in st petersburg the move mirrors washington's expulsion of russian diplomats following the poisoning of former russian spy sergei script all and his daughter in britain british prime minister to resign may and much of the west now. say that moscow was behind the poisoning the kremlin denies. moscow hit back with a simple tit for tat sixty u.s. diplomats are to be expelled from russia matching the sixty russian diplomats thrown out by the u.s. . the retaliation against other countries will also be reciprocal that's in terms of the number of diplomats expelled from each country. usually it is that he's content seoul for the moment. for germany that's for diplomats who will be sent home some observers feared harsher measures after a spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry the immanently denied accusations that moscow was behind the swivels poisoning she suggested britain had failed to protect the safety of russian citizens there. whether these measures will stop the diplomatic escalation may partly depend on decisions made here in the kremlin. or i want to go now to europ

government has done to condemn the culprits in the seat of the russian. russian embassy here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that the dude deterioration of ties between russian and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia everything but if. you accept the way we perceive it to provoke each. we believe that the you know i do keep the full big international none of them under this obligations to him. if you give me the weapons we have to present the request to the organisation and we're happy to consider this within a few days this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk you know we will be ultimately the actions taken by the british government became really a crescendo of over a week of the spy saga in raveling where we saw what could have been a potential local incident unravel into a huge international diplomatic standoff. the white house has reacted to britain's have punitive measures saying it

russian federal stations they take. a tim lindsey graham's in the john mccain and everybody else that has something to say and they just let the russian viewer. absorb it themselves right there and it's not just instagram or drinking when you have the british prime minister he was in russia taking the u.k. audience hold soil or wage an came and go at that was something you know of course people react because these are some of the most powerful. people in the world didn't you that you are waging a war with no evidence you know when they're then america you know the most powerful americans say that they're sure russia meddled in the reactions when they see russia will pay a price when the british parliament openly discuss a cyber attack against russia or of course for important she plays a role here but it's really going to be with mark with one think you know i think it was an interesting complain because economic issues played a role but not in the way the west would like them to a lot of people consider the border or t

but i think yes like this lady in twitter saying at russians in a stone and also russian said a lot to me as they have rights if you'll want to have all the same words like six cents you have read you can go on and have all these things about janet almost no saying what's kind of impossible to do for them now there's a question of why is there done go on don't don't do this and it's kind of this historical perspective why else a bit of a variable be my answer when i think it's kind of on the dissolvable issue about integration because fifty years a lot to be aware and also estonia about on that occupation by russia it was called soviet union so a lot to me and so like no one point one million people still in families to me now family members who were deported to siberia there are still exists a sense a sad feeling so we feel like like a lot to be and feel like we are under strict and we still see as this russian people here as occupiers not so much as liberators meanwhile russian people who there are generations who have been who called being. warnin lot to say feel legs they add a lot

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian full of former russians but i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so certainly disease part of a content and content that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this is what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city and daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same time glory i

that there was some kind of malign russian influence here he says u.k. authorities have mostly approached moscow for any assistance yet but that of course there would be interaction given if such a request was received beyond that so the kremlin there's not really much to say because they don't actually have any more information there's been pithy response from elsewhere in russian official them the russian embassy in london has hit back the comments made by boris johnson the u.k. foreign minister now the embassy there says that one gets a strong impression that a sonar you have it yet another anti russian campaign has already been written also comments from russian parliamentarian calls lugovoy who says that britain's suffer from phobias if something happens to a russian they immediately start looking for a russian trial well if that name andre lugovoy is familiar to anyone in our audience that's probably because he is one of the two men that the u.k. has accused of being behind the two thousand and six poisoning the death of alexander litvinenko anothe

either this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or conceivably the russian government would've lost control of the military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others. mr. speaker, it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation, but the response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. >> hear, hear. >> they are provided no credible explanation that could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent. no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom, no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. >> hear, hear. >> instead, they have treated the use of military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm, content, and defiance. so, mr. speaker, there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr. skripal and his daughter, and for taking the lives of other british citizens in salisbury, including detective sergeant nick bailey. this represen

and estonia has a significant russian speaking population and both ethic russians and russian speakers and i make that distinction, because i think it's important to note that we are not only talking about the ethnic minority but others that speak russian in their daily lives that also get targeted by the kremlin and whom the kremlin tries to co-opt in their various efforts. i will give you numbers here so you get a sense, but they are all in the book. ethnic russians in estonias 24% of the population. they make up 37% -- but if we look at one region, on the border of the russian federation, they make 73% here and 82% in the city of narva, it's a small city, again, with the russian federation border. these numbers are illustrateive and certainly the russian speakers and the russian minority in estonia is general ly very well integrated, especially the youth. they are happy to live in estonia which has the highest standard of living than any other country that was formerly a member of the soviet union. and in fact, you know, high standards of living in comparison to new eu member states

she announced the expulsion of 23 russian diplomats from the uk and the revoking of the russian foreign minister to the uk. from the british house of commons, this is 50 minutes. >> statements. the prime minister. >> with permission mr. speaker but like to make a statement on reforms of the russian government to thef incident and salisbury. first on the half of the whole house let me pay tribute once again to the bravery and professionalism of all the emergency services doctors nurses and investigation teams would lead the response to this appalling incident and also to the fortitude of the people of salisbury and let me reassure them the ongoing risk to public health is low and the government will continue to do everything possible to support this historic city to recover fully. mr. speaker mr. scribner and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent developed by russia. based on this case combined with the record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations including against former intelligence officers who they regard as legitimate targets the uk government has concl

rush rush rush rush rush and russian russians russia crush russian russian russians and russian russian the russian the russian russia russia russia and the russians it was done for political purposes only and not as of careful civilians. the diplomatic row between russia and the u.k. over the poisoning of a former double agent continues to escalate on saturday moscow announced that it would expel twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar move by the u.k. so the case could pile and his daughter were poisoned two weeks ago in the southern u.k. town of salzburg r.t. correspondent jacqueline vocal looks back at how the whole 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 rus

so that the russian embassy in london they'll be packing their bags and low russian relations at their lowest point since the cold war but even now britain needs to keep open some lines of communication with moscow on so many issues from iran to north korea britain called to forward to ignore russia the measures which have been announced here would have been largely anticipated by the russians what would really hurt them would be further multilateral sanctions involving other western countries for that to happen britain needs to convince its allies that this is not just a bilateral spat between london and moscow but an issue which has the potential to threaten the security of many western countries to be phillip's al-jazeera westminster in central london. town hall as in moscow now so general what might moscow spots to all of this being. well we may in fact hear more about that imminently the foreign ministry spokesperson maria's are due to give a press conference as we speak she may well outline the measures that russia will take in response she promised an equal and opposite reaction

either a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent, and allowed it to get into the hands of others. this afternoon my right honorable friend, the foreign secretary, summoned the russian ambassador to the foreign and commonwealth asked asked him to explain who it is and how this russian produced nerve agent could have been deployed in salisbury against mr. skripal and his daughter. my right honorable friend stated that the russian federation muss immediately provide full and complete disclosure of the program to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, and he has requested the russian government's response by the end of tomorrow. mr. speaker, this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression. russia's illegal annexation of crimea was the first time since the second world war that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken at the from not a europe. worry ash fomented conflict, vote zoo lating the national air space

rush rush rush in russian russian russia crushed russian russian russians and russian russian the russian the russian russia russia russia and the russians it was done for political purposes only and not as it can for civilians we spoke to an expert from damascus university who said civilians in kuta are living in dire conditions on vats what the un security council should be concerned about. we know that there is a question when we are defeating terrorism in the media before they will leave this is the same story with these two bottles. we know from our experience a lot of evidence is a lot of be able to look at what happened with them with these terrorists they where the hostage is nothing but let me quickly hear the other side where is these western campaign why they are not to have been these people who are docked more than one week in a complaint that they are interested in. a diplomatic row between russia and the u.k. 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

attack as anti—russian hysteria. i think the biggest problem that britain faces right now is the way it's perceived by the kremlin, and it is perceived as a weak country. moscow hears british politicians huffing and puffing but doesn't believe they are capable of blowing the house down. in other words, taking strong measures against moscow. so i think the key question now, if london concludes that this was a state—sponsored act of force against britain, what measures are britain perhaps together with her allies, going to take against russia? the white house has made a statement condemning the incident in salisbury while press secretary sara sanders did not comment on the possibility of russian involvement she said the us government stood with the uk following what she called the outrageous attack. look, we've been monitoring the incident closely. takeit monitoring the incident closely. take it seriously. the use of a lethal nerve agent against uk citizens on uk soil is an outrage. the attack was reckless, indiscrim

this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country or conceivably the russian government could have lost control of a military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others mr speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they don't control of then agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm content and defiance. so mr speaker is. no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script powell and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick bailey this represents an arm all full use of force by the russian state a

the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know in any way what do what does the government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world would be expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's at a political mess right now. she doesn't have a memorable time in office here she's found this one issue she's really pushing it here i mean coming to conclusions before facts are presented not ever to the public by the way here i mean you know what is you know is this an internal domestic issue for her i mean she's found this one issue the kind of booster a little bit because she needs a whole lot of boosting go ahead and. well i think as you say she's in a very weak political position. and she will be under pressure from l i six because bear in mind this guy worked as an agent to m i six for a decade and was handed back to them they had a duty of protection to their sourc

the russian one gentleman raised. the right honorable gentleman raised a number of questions around the nerve agents that he had been used he asked if we we were putting together an international coalition to call on russia to reveal the details of its chemical weapons program to the o.p.c. w. that is indeed what we did we gave the russian government the opportunity through the day march that my russian befriend the foreign secretary delivered to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so. and it is he's raised a number of questions he asked about the corrupt elites and money going through london as i said in my statement led by the national crime agency we will continue to bring all the capabilities of u.k. law enforcement to bear against serious criminals and corrupt police there is no place for these people all their money in our country and that work is ongoing he talked about getting an international consensus to get out as as i have said i've spoken to chancello

but i think yes like this lady in twitter saying at russians in a stone and also russian said a lot to me as they have rights if you want to have all the same rights likes it sense you have read you can go on and have all these things about janet almost no saying what kind of impossible to do for them now but then there's the question of why is there done go on do and don't do this and it's kind of this historical perspective why else a bit of a variable be my answer to why i think it's kind of dissolvable issue about integration because fifty years a lot to be aware and also estonia about on that occupation by russia it was called soviet union so a lot to me and like no one point one million people still in families to me no family members who were deported to siberia that it still exists offends a sad feeling so we feel like like a lot to be and feel like we are under sweat and we still see is this russian people here as occupiers not so much as liberators i mean about russian people who there are generations who have been who called be in. warnin lot to say feel legs a lot to yes pe

russian market. >market. >> the bond between our people remain strong. the united states is ready to cooperate and forge a better relationship between our two countries. but that will only be possible when russia chooses to become a more responsible partner. reporter: president trump needs to do much more. he needs to toughen you have economic sanctions and hit putin's money, the oligarch's money and beef up the current forces along the russian border. reporter: dozens of american diplomats could be on their way back home. lou: a number of packages containing explosives have been found at military installations in the washington, d.c. area, including fort belvoir and fort mcnair and dahlgren. scanning facilities found suspicious packages. no injuries have been reported. the united states showing off its military might. we take up the message being sent to north korea. general jack keane joins us well, like most of you, i just bought a house. -oh! -very nice. now i'm turning into my dad. i text in ful

and canada by expelling russian diplomats suspected of being sponsor i'm from berlin this is the day. our actions reflect the serious security concerns expressed by all our allies russia does not share our interest or of aliens. this is a clear message to russia but there are costs and consequences for it's unacceptable i'm dangerous path on all behavior and it follows lack of construct a response to a cup and insults brooke this is an attempt to sow discord among our people to divide allies and to destabilize democratic institutions we cannot and we will not tolerate this. also coming up cambridge analytic says it did not use data harvested from fifty million facebook users today the whistleblower who used to work for cambridge analytic a told british lawmakers you were lied to. i think now that it is on its head to your committee were exceptionally misleading. and frankly i would i would say not only if they invite it which is honest. we begin the day with that list of russian diplomats told to go home and the countries in the organizations showing them the door and yet a nother sho

this on march eighteenth vote with your remote to zante for special coverage of the russian presidential election exit polls opinions real time results monitoring and much more. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a real a lot of excitement. you could you know whether it's none of us and others not playing and one million people and i'm. killed. even. now no one's from tooling a few families around and that said. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some of russia's new weapons. ok not to

serve an install of the russian mission to nato. the pending. request for three others so the secretary general has decided to reduce its russian mission to nato by a fit it really begs the question of how nato is going to prevent a cold war because this expulsion is anything but friendly the russian foreign minister has also responded to the wave of expulsion saying that russia won't tolerate these measures but that it will replied don't you worry no one would be willing to tolerate such berish was not either on monday more than one hundred russian diplomats were expelled from a number of countries it's the largest collective expulsion of russian diplomats in history now there are countries though that have said they will not be taking action and not expelling any russian diplomats monk this list austria greece portugal perhaps they want to keep an open dialogue with russia something that the president of the commission stressed in his summit last week but new zealand have come full though and after running a few background checks on that russi

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian full of former russians but i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so certainly disease caused the fatah tent and patton that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this isn't what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city on daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same time

seize those assets or ban these russians from the u.k. would be a significant blow to russia's alit another thing that was being discussed that the u.k. hasn't done is boycotting the world cup and i don't just mean the royal family but the actual england football team. when when it was said by theresa may that the royal family and the british would become of the world cup the response from the russian football union was well the important thing is that the england team is coming so obviously that's a that's another thing that the u.k. could do to really hurt russia but it hasn't so options on the table we'll see what they end of executing alex line and append a turn unless toothpaste in moscow thank you. and british police have started a murder probe involving a number of russian exile in the u.k. they say that nikolai cough who was found dead at his london home earlier this week died from compression to the neck but they say that as yet there is no evidence of a link to the attempted murder of the scribbles. in other news now german chan

is of russian spy. breaking john bolton's mr bush is a russian spy voters here in mr should different colors which makes him look like he's in disguise and just over two weeks bolton will officially take over as trump's national security adviser giving the media plenty of time to tease out any and all ties but may have to russia and speculate on exactly what they mean good luck guys. legal and media analyst lionel believes bolton's appointment sends conflicting messages we started off with hawkish responsible bellicose saber rattling all this be more circumspect it changes by the day i have to remind you of this one issue north korea still phase one president trump one to choose one them we can annihilate you are button is bigger than your button we have more missiles are new to watch it phase two. data great let's meet political stage three let's bring in bolton who wanted a preemptive strike if you can figure this out if you can see any pattern to this you're a better person than i am but we've got an

rights as the native russian population. the german occupation of crimea in the second world war that status meant the car its were largely spared the persecution that their fellow jews suffered during the holocaust. s.s. mobile killing units murdered almost all of the crimea's other jewish inhabitants. the reemergence of a jewish community in the region is nothing short of remarkable. the fact of crimean jews recently acquired russian citizenship doesn't seem to bother anyone here on the contrary. look on the one you look at this that is mentally and spiritually we have always remained crim chon we were never ukrainians nor were we ever russians we have always been crimean jews and i don't wish to say anything bad about ukraine but like others in the crimea it was as if we had been hung out to dry now legislation has been adopted to ensure that money's no longer siphoned off from crimea instead funds will be invested in regional development i get the feeling is there now pulling out all the stops to ensure that crimea doesn

the old notion of a russian-led communism-based philosophy with a whole new sense of 21st century russian nationalism. and, with that backing of the vast majority of his public, he began an ambitious program of reownerment. all with the aim, i believe, of challenging the united states and our allies. so while our gaze shifted away from russia, which we began to kind of write off and at a certain level dismiss as simply a regional power, russia really never lost its focus on us. its geostrategic aim remained squarely targeted on western -- on the western liberal order. and more specifically, on what is kgb trained leadership views as the main enemy, the united states. so russia diligently honed and updated its tool kit for a different kind of power rivalry. it couldn't match us in the old paradigm. russia needed a strategy that would allow them to compete with us on a new emerging battlefield. russia's chief of general staff, general valerie garamosov, gave putin what he needed. he outlined a new strategy doctrine the kremlin was more suited to fight, and then -- and in this strategy doctr

anglo russian really. are already pretty strained at the moment given the britain's already imposed sanctions of expelled diplomats what could the u.k. do to punish russia well this is where there's a big opportunity one of the things which the u.k. has a huge leverage in one area which is that the russian government officials and kremlin connected oligarchy come to london buy properties in large sizes all over the most expensive districts of london and they value those properties they covet those properties and the one thing that can be done and is now possible to do based on the law is for the u.k. government to seize those properties and believe me the government doesn't care or the russian government doesn't care about a few diplomats being expelled they don't care about an on on exercisable extradition of their officials what they care about is if if their house on belgrave square gets confiscated and that's what the government should do and if they do that it will go immediately right up to putin and

jacka said at the weekend you shouldn't tar anybody who lives in this country with russian of russian extraction with the same brush and secondly and secondly there are rules on party political donations and i can assure him that my party and i hope all parties follow those rules. he talked about the magnitsky powers this is an issue where being challenge previously before on this question where we do have already some of the powers that are being written proposed in relation to magnitsky law but we have already been talking with all parties about the amendment that has been has been down and we will work to others to ensure that we have the maximum possible consensus before the report stage he also raised the question of peace capabilities and resources not only our will to police involved in this but they have support from neighboring forces as would normally happen when an incident of this when an instant takes place which requires that extra capability but crucially at a very early stage it was decided that counterterrorism please to take over the responsibility for this because t

a russian-led communism,-based philosophy of russian nationalism. with that backing of the majority of his public, he began a program of rearmament with the aim of challenging the united states and our allies. away fromdays shifted russia, which we began to write off and dismiss as a regional power, russia really never lost its focus on us. targeted onins and on liberal order what its kgb-trained leadership views as the enemy, the united states. russia diligently honed and updated its toolkit for a different kind of great power rivalry. they could not match us in the old cold war paradigm, so russian needed a strategy that would allow them to compete with us on a new emerging battlefield . staff gavef general putin when he needed. he outlined a new strategy wasrine that the kremlin more suited to fight and strategy they believed they could win and bring russia back on par as a superpower with the west. he recognized in a way that very few within our government did, a blurring of the lines between war and peace, between direct conflict and in direct

structures as yet another example of the russian sentiment in the west hysterical. russophobe pick campaign from the united kingdom which has brought in gullible friends and allies of london and also i think that if there are no further measures measures that the russian elite are really worried about such as targeting of assets or financial centers around the world like london new york state cyprus if those don't materialize over the coming days then perhaps moscow will feel the u.s. is taking a diplomatic but it might have got off rather lightly and our other top stories yemen's heathy rebels have vowed to fire more missiles into saudi arabia unless it stops bombing that country a saudi military says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen early on monday including three targeting riyadh at least one person was killed and two others injured saudi arabia has let up on the campaign against who sees for the last three years. egyptians are voting in a presidential election that set to deliver an easy victory for carita abdul fatah the government is hoping for a h