and the u.n. in the forty's let's take a quick look does the u.n. believe that this in any way violates the u.s. the gripman with the u.n. of nine hundred forty seven the host country agreement given the sensitivity of the matter which is ongoing we will not comment further at this stage u.s. mission says that and i quote our actions are consistent with the united nations headquarters agreement do you agree with the statement we were informed of the u.s. decision to take action under section thirteen b. of the u.n. u.s. headquarters agreement. you can you can look at our tree section and read section thirteen be for yourself and evaluate it for yourself or if one you told us to read thirteen b. and see whether what we thought it said was like the secretary general think to for the reasons i just explained i wouldn't venture an opinion on that for just out of sheer niceness inconvenience to you i will read to you section thirteen be at the stage bear with me because it is long. as the united states need to provide evidence of this espionage to the un

the u.n. representatives on the ground in east new to praise the russian and syrian efforts in relieving the situation they're providing food and at the age of fifty civilians in need they also say that armed groups in east ghouta as well as islam itself express their desire to leave and leave east good to live for other locations once their sponsors give the green light. well we've requested comment from the u.s. military on the russian general staff claims and are still waiting for a response at the briefing russia's military chief described the civilian evacuation from eastern kuta as an operation unique in its scale over forty eight sawzall people have managed to flee so far in the biggest single exodus since fighting escalated that last month russia's defense ministry says the first to make it to safety where women children and the injured they were given basic supplies when they reached the government controlled side of the car here's how they described life under militant all. i think i

u.n. ambassador nikki haley made one thought that maybe there was a shift of late very clearly certainly in the words of secular tillerson were back to assad must go as i said earlier i think for prodi now should not be assad stays as it goes we all could have our views and whether he is the right person to lead syria at this time the party for international crisis group is not let's not focus on that now let's focus on ending the war and let's not make intermingle the humanitarian concern which is the bombing of hospitals or bombing of civilians the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's not and obviously the bombing by the regime as i was mentioning earlier the son makes it that with the political objectives which some people may still have we need to put those aside the political objectives of those need to be resolved at the negotiating table they're not going to be resolved on the battlefield at this point so so i think that's the i think the position of the state department toda

envoy speech at the u.n. security council i think unexpected nobody thought that she was going to be delivering threats. well we think that this is because the united states is trying to change the nature of its engagement in syria towards becoming more offensive i think everybody and we've heard a lot of calls in the west most recently the british foreign minister saying there is no hope that we can give to the people of east in order that the west is going to come and do some military engagement in order to you know change the position to a more favorable towards for them. so in a sense they're telling the people of eastern hotel we're not going to come and save you so we think this sort of threat is. we'll you know it be i would say limited but actually connected to other areas in syria that are respected to face the same. military operation perhaps north and homs and southern how mother sort of inclusive. or even northeastern circe of the united states what they're saying is that we we are willing to use

says that your president and your government violates human rights what have you been saying at the u.n. human rights council this week about the sanctions against your country by the european union these sanctions against venezuela violate not only international law but our human rights today it's difficult for us to get to our oil paid back you know with the liver chips with oil and then the companies either in the u.s. or in other parts of the world cannot pay back the money and we have more than one thousand million dollars in europe in europe clear which are blocked and banks are blocking and we have to buy in to import medicines and food and raw material for our people and it doesn't it's difficult today because of these sanctions do you discussed sanctions with your russian counterpart sergey lavrov in geneva this week yes i must say that the russian government president putin and all the government have been very helpful with us we are trying to build different routes different paths to avoid to bypass the sanctions with russia with china with thirty and with other allies in the

and the u.n. in the forty's let's take a quick look does the u.n. believe that this in any way violates the u.s. agreement with the u.n. of nine hundred forty seven the host country agreement given the sensitivity of the matter which is ongoing we will not comment further at this stage the u.s. mission says that and i quote our actions are consistent with the united nations headquarters agreement do you agree with the statement we were informed of the u.s. decision to take action under section thirteen b. of the u.n. u.s. headquarters agreement. you can you can look in our tree section and read section thirteen be for yourself and evaluate it for yourself story funny you told us to read thirteen b. and see whether what we thought it said went to the secretary general think to for the reasons i just explained i wouldn't venture an opinion on that for just out of sheer niceness inconvenience to you i will read to you section thirteen be at the stage bear with me because it is long. does the united states need to provide evidence of this a spin off to

good advise it doesn't have that kind of power because that's kind of against the u.n. but as you've written about i understand john ball doesn't believe the united nations exists exactly in the past i was actually in a debate with him back in one thousand nine hundred four and he said at that time there is no such thing as the united nations when the united states leads others will follow when we choose to leave we might do so when we don't it nothing will happen and he went on to say the remark that's now been quoted in a lot of the articles about his current new position which is a very powerful position where he said you could charge half the top ten floors of the united nations and it wouldn't make any difference because it doesn't do anything he has shown an absolute disdain for international law and in that context saying the u.n. doesn't matter international law doesn't matter all that matters is u.s. power u.s. might it's kind of trumps a version of america first on steroids but of course it was trump who surprised the world with this idea of negotiation with p

i don't you have to provide evidence to the u.n. and i think i just answered that but i don't know the answer to that if i can get an answer for you i would speak happy to provide while answering now or basically admitted that washington hasn't seen any proof but somehow they've still decided to take london's claims as gospel now i had the rare opportunity to ask a question and i mentioned that the o.p.c. w. or the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons hasn't released the results of the investigation as yet and she said that russia wasn't cooperating we look forward to the o.p.c. of you completing its investigation we also hope at the same time that russia will return to the un security council and well agree to some sort of a mechanism like the joint investigative mechanism that they had stood in the way of and in fact defeated numerous times while now or blatantly ignore the fact that russia has been saying it's ready to cooperate with british authorities since the day of the assassination attempt so it seems that w

see so and a day off to all the heated exchanges about u.n. security council meeting it looks as we just wrapped up only two states among the fifteen supported the accusations against russia it seems the majority therefore have big reservations about it what do you think. well i have to agree with russia's position that we have to prove presume innocence here until. we know for sure through an investigation. who was responsible for killing scriptable who. had been a double agent he was a spy and that being a spy for the u.k. he ended up in the u.k. on a spy swap by the way that in russia has never killed anyone it is given up in a spy swap and it makes sense because no one would ever swap with them again in any case i think we we need to investigate first six and then make charges later based on that investigation the u.k. is accusing russia of breaching the international chemical weapons convention that's a serious allegations what repercussions could that possibly be over that well again i mean you know there could be serious sanctions again

u.n. aid convoy enters the syrian rebel enclave of eastern good a despite being shelled by all nusra terrorists. a russian men convicted of spying for britain reportedly falls critically ill in u.k. after a suspected poison of. broadcasting my direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now italy is heading for a hung parliament after an election that fails to produce an outright winner sunday's vote surge for the euro skeptic five star movement. it was. about was the party leader reacting to the exit poll results which gave five star the largest number of votes luigi who is just thirty one years old says he is now ready to find coalition partners to try and form a government and weeks of deal making a lie ahead and several other parties will be seeking to form an alliance the anti immigration league party is seeking to form a center right coalition has teamed up with former prime minister silvio berlusconi who from go ita

a u.n. aid convoy has entered the syrian rebel enclave of eastern good outside damascus thousands of civilians are trapped inside the besieged area but i gotta say it has more. the first batch of u.n. aid has gone in food and health supplies medicine as many as forty six trucks with enough food for twenty seven thousand people this is by the way the first time this has happened since the u.n. has called for a month long truce in syria the aid it self was delivered during a cease fire a daily unilateral ceasefire established by the syrian government and russia its purpose was to provide a safe window every day for civilians to flee guta by a special crossings but it seems is the missed rebels had different ideas they're doing what they did in aleppo they aren't allowing any civilians out at all and the shelling those crossings therefore the syrian government has allowed this aid to go in but the u.n. says it didn't get to take everything it wanted certain items like field first aid kits the s

so let's get right to this so at the u.n. security council only two states among fifteen supported the accusations against russia why such a lack of support there i think. it's obvious there's no really no proof right now and if you look at the situation there saw the o.p.c. w.'s got set procedures in place that need to be followed through with some of those are not being followed. those procedures investigation and formal steps are not being followed and and i think most of the world realizes. it. this is a very political. situation and it really really so far that we're not going through there needs to be rigorous an investigation to find out what's going on.

u.n. estimates the fighting in eastern gaiters resulted in more than a hundred deaths in two days the u.n. also called on all parties in the conflict and the violence from the red cross says that people on the ground require a wide range of basic supplies the need to remain massive the need. two four three four etc you have medical needs you have need for access to a good source of food you need also access to clean water you have all sorts of needs inside the water today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with people inside all day and food aid as well what happens when it's seven thousand five hundred people which the trucks on monday and today were able to provide humanitarian aid to just a little percentage of what who of the people who need the military aid inside. also on saturday syrian officials have warned on the possible provocations by militants against the government with the use of chemical weapons the alleged attack could happen they say on sunday look a

comes after his meeting with the renowned jurist the u.n. independent expert only promotion of a democratic and equitable international order professor alfred does a as he joins me now from geneva in switzerland elfin thanks so much for coming on the show wouldn't call please them or tell you in the past few days before his arrest by german authority that we were discussing mediation you may recall that switzerland altered mediation back in august september two thousand and seventeen they tried it central government didn't want to i myself i offered myself as a mediator and no one has thanked up on it i've written to. written to the secretary general i think that this is the classical case in which international mediation would be useful what did you include you tell you because you said the order of his news was a credibility lancer that they don't want to get involved the internal affairs of member states but they don't get involved in the internal affairs of poland and of hungary and of slovakia and cetera so that argument doesn't hold an

ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley lambasted moscow for how it's handled syrian cease fire negotiations at the u.n. russia will stop at nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield it's the charlotte aside from even the faintest criticism this should be a day of shame for every member of this council if you watched closely during the negotiations we could see our russian friends constantly leaving the room to confirm with their syrian counterparts. the possibilities for what was going on are only two. either russia was informing their syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations or russia was taking directions from the syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations when the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations convened we heard from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley she accused russia of deception hypocrisy and brutality but from there her remarks took a rather interesting turn she went off on kind of a tangent in her remarks referring to what she said was dipl

and the u.n. in the forty's let's take a quick look does the u.n. believe that this in any way violates the u.s. agreement with the u.n. of nine hundred forty seven the host country agreement given the sensitivity of the matter which is ongoing we will not comment further at this stage u.s. mission says that and i quote our actions are consistent with the united nations headquarters agreement do you agree with the statement we were informed of the u.s. decision to take action under section thirteen b. of the un us headquarters agreement. you can you can look at our tree section and read section thirteen b. for yourself and evaluate it for yourself story fun you told us to read thirteen b. and see whether what we thought it said was like the secretary general think to for the reasons i just explained i wouldn't venture an opinion on that for just out of sheer niceness inconvenience to you i will read to you section thirteen be at the stage bear with me because it is long. does the united states need to provide evidence of this espionage to the un and

and u.n. aid convoy has entered the syrian rebel enclave of eastern good outside damascus thousands of civilians are trapped inside the besieged area artie's by god save us . the first batch of u.n. aid has gone in food and health supplies medicine as many as forty six trucks with enough food for twenty seven thousand people this is by the way the first time this has happened since the u.n. has called for a month long truce in syria the aid it self was delivered during the cease fire a daily unilateral ceasefire established by the syrian government and russia its purpose was to provide a safe window every day for civilians to flee guta via special crossings but it seems is the mist rebels had different ideas they're doing what they did in aleppo they aren't allowing any civilians out at all and the shelling those crossings therefore the syrian government has allowed this aid to go in but the u.n. says it didn't get to take everything it wanted certain items like field first aid kits the sort t

also to a u.n. aid convoy enters the syrian rebel enclave of eastern despite being shelled by terrorists we hear from children who just about managed to escape from that area coming up. as. the philippine story to tell you tonight a russian man convicted of spying for britain reportedly falls critically ill in the u.k. after a suspected poisoning. by the just turned one of the morning this is really tuesday morning in moscow welcome to this latest live thirty minute news update with me kevin though in the hot seat today headlining first in part of southern europe how did say the weekend quite a few ramifications from an early indications from italy's election show that voters have dealt a blow to the establishment party with the five star movement in line to become the single biggest party than now. this you see it went down well with them as well the five star movement leader reacting to those exit results shortly after the polls closed last night and clearly ecstatic luigi's of my only thirty one

why was it so difficult you know we've got reports that the u.n. has said that the syrian government prevented medical supplies from being loaded on to the trucks just one example why was it so difficult who was present preventing the u.n. from delivering the aid. i'm afraid that access has been an ongoing issue for the humanitarian team here in syria and in this case we were informed this morning by the government of syria u.n. and partners were told that that many of the plan to help the buy intended for duma would not be allowed to be loaded in addition to that we were not permitted to replace these items with other lifesaving items so these included things like truck like it other basic medicines and lifesaving assistance lifesaving supplies that are needed in in dumas i spoke to. a mother who had been working for the red crescent and she told us that the road eyes of i'll go to to the als office in camp that was just long way out and that was causing problems because the road itself was dangerous with the insurgents causing problems sniping at

security council by some of the opposition and rebel groups saying that they would honor this u.n. resolution however at this point always three hundred civilians. have been prevented from leaving due to the tax they've experienced as they try to escape now the russian representative pointed out that these kind of humanitarian concerns and outrage were not being raised while the liberation of rocket was taking place because it's doable and so where were you when the us coalition were leaving rocco's where was you and cry it's been months since the terrorists were forced out of the city and it's still unfit for life that you would need. the security council because the circuit digital clicks producers to send the mission this is that in news that there was quite clearly a gap in the international media in the way the different situations have been portrayed when the syrian city of raka and the iraqi city of mosul were being liberated by the u.s. led coalition and a lot of bombing was taking place so we heard u.s. leaders saying making statements to the effect that civilian casualtie

and you know building the u.n. security council. yes intercepting the domestic and office communications of the six nations that was sitting on the un security council at the time in order to bribe them all intimidate more you know embarrass them in however way possible to vote for that second u.n. resolution that would have given the u.s. and the u.k. that legal cover for a preemptive strike and that that does not exist even to this day there is no legal cover there's no justification for a preemptive strike i was aware of the fact that iraq was not a threat to the u.s. and the u.k. you know it was a country that had suffered years of war years of sanction and they were struggling to pull themselves together again and just finally advice to anyone watching you if you were a military installation or any government in the world to go out into the country living here in britain. if they're thinking about it right now what should they be focusing on as to whether to go public it's obviously it's a very personal decision and it's a very

on friday a u.n. humanitarian convoy finally managed to and used in ghouta the aid supplies have been delayed by heavy fighting as government forces battle terrorists the u.n. refugee agency representative assad recently visited the area here's what he had to sign. various part of these. groups inside they need to to convince that security assurances that they can come in and those who are outside need to give us that get into that would be peace during that period when we call in and bring assistance in the. groups inside who are resisting in fighting there are groups that are fighting amongst themselves and there's pressure from onset from the military so civilians who are caught in this in the situation they have nowhere to go according to the latest u.n. estimates the fighting anything has resulted in more than one hundred deaths in two days the u.n. also called on all parties in the conflict when the violence red cross or regional spokesperson. for leave but people on the ground require a wide ra

of the blue posts did so members of the u.n. security council preferred to spend time on passionate speeches and allowed to make and shaky claims towards russia and that's broadwood to come up with the room to do a new thing with the implementation of resolution one to pull. no one we're starting to believe that someone. losing interest in supporting people from the region switch and falling on the syrian government control really gets any signals from some capitals there's a need to help opposition and. it's unclear what will happen next but it it's pretty clear that the position of russia is that the united states should be using these meetings for the purpose of trying to actually help the civilians who are in harm's way and not for making unproven and shaky accusations against different countries and placing blame when so many civilians are in danger and do need the real assistance and attention of the security council will the region of eastern do so which ones had a population of four hundred thousand recently been the top

the u.n. representatives on the ground in east praised the russian and syrian effort in relieving the situation there providing food and other aid for civilians in need they also say that armed groups in east gud as well as easily mists of express their desire to leave to leave east goot of. other locations once their sponsors give the green light. i have a force requested comment from the u.s. military on those claims made by the russian chief of the general staff will of course let you know if that response comes back. where the briefing russia's military chiefs describe the civilian about curation from eastern ghouta operation unique in its scale over forty eight thousand people have managed to flee from the region so far numbers rising every day in the biggest single exodus since fighting escalated there just last month russia's defense ministry says the first to make it to safety were children women and the ill and injured they were of course given basic supplies when they finally reached

preventing civilians from leaving the besieged district the situation was heatedly discussed at the u.n. security council meeting because artie's kellett more than explains. the assad regime and their supporters have been pummeling eastern ghouta where four hundred thousand people live under siege and constant bombardment needs to be understood and still legitimate targets of military operations they are asking civilians to leave eastern good to on the false premise that they can then attack anyone left in the area as much as they would like to set up temporary settlements the civilians ambulances are there because we've been through this before we know what russia will say today when you know you don't know they will say that there are terrorists in eastern guta so the assad regime can bomb as ferociously and discriminately as it wants i want to ask you what do you do to implement the resolution did you consider a moderate opposition did you persuade them to stop shelling and say can people hostage it was a heated meeting in the halls of the u.n. security council we heard from differen

the war even further just finally i mean this talk here in mainstream media kicking russia or of the u.n. security council because it doesn't vote britain's way john bolton doesn't believe the united nations exists could the u.n. come to the rescue against all the dreams of john bolton i think one of the big reasons that the u.s. did not go to war with iran in two thousand and seven was the the strength of the global protest movement the civil society level and the level of governmental opposition and the refusal of the united nations to sign on all of those factors together made the price much higher for george bush to consider when he was thinking of going to war against iran so it prevented that although it did not prevent the initial war against iraq those things don't get forgotten so quickly the problem is john bolton doesn't care about any of that he doesn't care about public opinion about civil society certainly but governmental opinion no other government manners and certainly the united nations does not matter to this man who once called himself the ambassador to the united nat

security council by some of the opposition and rebel groups saying that they would honor this u.n. resolution however at this point always three hundred civilians have been prevented from leaving due to the aid.

held by terrorists in syria that's what the role of the u.n. in the geneva process and the formation of because additional commission. i wouldn't want to make any hasty the assessments. just a month and a half past couple of months have passed since the syrian national congress and sochi of course the un needs to play the leading role in the process but this should also be done in agreement with the three get into states and the un basing its decision on this syrian national dialogue congress needs to make its decision decisions that would be very inclusive and include all the groups present. and to taking part of the political process in syria we have discussed this issue with our soda friends. when they have presented their initiative to create the. they have presented their mission to of to. combine the area the moscow and other groups. i know that. to be more effective so maybe it will take some time to start the consideration all. this is the decisive phase of the political process because once the congress. the syrian national congress is

had softened if you go back and look at some of the statements that secretary of state tillerson or u.n. ambassador nikki haley made one thought that maybe there was a shift of late very clearly certainly in the words of secular tillerson were back to assad must go as i said earlier i think for already now should not be assad stays as it goes we all could have our views and whether he's the right person to lead syria at this time but the party for international crisis group is not let's not focus on that now let's focus on ending the war and let's not make intermingle the humanitarian concern which is the bombing of hospitals the bombing of civilians the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's not and obviously the bombing by the regime as i was mentioning earlier there's an exact with the political objectives which some people may still have we need to put those aside the political objectives of those need to be resolved at the negotiating table they're not going to be resolved in the battlefield at this point so so i think that's the i think the position of the state department to

inspector report or will the u.n. inspectors report. whenever i worked with the united nations on them i'm not knocking them in any way shape or form but because every country in the world is a member the united nations we close we used to recognize google as having a higher classification than united nations intelligence so what's the point of your b c w being i will shoot it well with. our bringing in a set of independent spector's they can either use the facilities important on to examine the agent and they probably will there and see what's going on and look at it as much as they possibly can to. try and examine the assessment has been made and come up with their own conclusions. and then the public take a sample of it away to their own laboratory so they can independently. look at the engine that's been used and apportion their own view as to where they think it's come from and that's very important to get the sort of independent oversight that you think is political pressure that caused a razor blade to jump the gun as it will i t

ambassador to the u.n. going on saying the same jibberish the same rubbish and you have the russian ambassador to the u.n. austin the same questions making the same points and it seems like no one's really listening. i mean the people of us see that the free people of the well the people who watch the real light intelligent news yes there are they're listening but the bulk of the people are sheep they they don't really seem to care they just seem to like listen to what the law is the b.b.c. comes out with with the b.b.c. knows that there are no there is no evidence that the syrian government or the syrian army used any sort of chemical weaponry in eastern ota but you know they have to keep saying that oh it must be you know it is the syrian government that's using this is just flagrant lying this is not journalism on the part of some of these organizations and it reminds me of what happened during the whole siege of aleppo where you had every two minutes you had people saying this is my last hour or last mi

well it's a tense scene here at the u.n. security council now this is an emergency meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations and it was convened by britain and we it began with the u.k. ambassador and he made some very strong statements about russia he essentially accused russia of carrying out what he called an unlawful use of force this is the u.k. representative. as the president for more of this we can conclude that russia is in serious breach of the chemical weapons convention through its failure to declare the no visual program this fact alone means you should discount any arguments you hear about the possibility of of a countries having inherited this technology. now the u.k. representative who called the emergency meeting was then followed up by the u.s. representative nikki haley now nikki haley not only made reference to allegations against russia about the recent incident but she further fit it into a wider narrative she made allegations against the syrian government she even mention north k

place the fifteen member body leads the u.n. will be assembling francis saying that the resolution has not been implemented so people are waiting to see what will take place and what will happen as the security council meets to discuss the conflict in syria and more specifically the situation in eastern guta yeah ok a lot to taken and we do have to wait and see what happens up meeting kind of both in the reporting from new york. the former russian policeman labelled the siberian has been jailed for life for a series of grisly murders which have shocked the nation the fifty two year old has been described as a model employee and a perfect husband but had been living a sinister double life for almost two decades. here with her school bus you know it's. going to be a mistake to. let you you. know . even you didn't you know the dealers knew when to be. true was not the. truth with. which i would just want you to see them do you know. present time wants to help american jobs an industry that is a protectionist plans could already be

is happening over at the u.n. doesn't even matter and recently while there's nothing we have eight hundred bases around the world we have wars going on for fifteen years you wondering where are society's violence problems from when you look at the u.n. they the united nations the united states behind closed doors has a very different opinion about saving women and children. than they really do outside and part of that was that there was the u.n. anti-violence resolutions that came up with this idea to sort of curb violence against women and children and anonymous european told foreign policy that we had a pretty absurd discussion on the convention for the rights of children they want to speak of unlawful forms of violence against children implying there are a lawful forms of violence against children and you want to know why that is because corporal punishment hitting your kids is legal in twenty states and they're going after bitter games this is absolutely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous. international women's

invoked the memory of when calling powell representing united states in dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding the vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against different countries regarding chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction from the united states and the u.k. . we are living in a very special time in front of our eyes incredible things are happening the process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the presumption of guilt has taken place with this criminal law principles being transferred into international relations and void as an experienced chemist has talked about crimes committed by russia we've known for years that for you in order to determine the guilty party no investigation is needed today the best kind of proof is suspicion it's no longer necessary to show to the council. cubes with an unknown white substance in it it's enough to send a letter displaying an egregious attitude to real to sovereign state. from the