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

luckily no trouble from moscow. but you know what you're positive about after three hours the demonstration slowly disperse. people listen to the speakers for alice many brought their friends partners and even their children with them. to the organizers meet up afterwards and they're relieved there were no arrests the government stood back anyone else could have the. misfortune of 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. out 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. what would. you like to do. in this room until you live in a school of the. w terms diversity. of the world of science is at home in many languages. on the football program to go under either me show you. now with that our innovations magazine for. us from every week and loo

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

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

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

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

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

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

with nato joining the expulsions of russian diplomats the alliance's secretary general said moscow had it coming. sans a clear message to russia that there are costs and consequences for its unlike sept the ball and dangerous path on all behavior the u.k. welcomes the solidarity 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 you'll see 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. for the work of the diplomat this or that country tells one or two diplomats to leave well whispering apologies and to 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 in. washington on this level. and on the streets of moscow people also expressed bel

of moscow thousands demanded lvalues release. your bench of judges considers it necessary to set aside the verdict of the court in cuba off and to have alexei navalny and piotr of it sealed off to be released immediately. only a day later the bunning regained his freedom. amazingly it was the public prosecutor's office that had challenge the verdict. immediate arrest. behind this was the kremlin's calculation and its conviction that in a bomb they had virtually no real electoral support that is what the polls indicated here for the kremlin which it was important to show that's not army and the opposition had no backing but the sociologists were wrong shoot this fellow and next i will vote for years. for sank you know i can be useful see you then i'll thank you with you robert. the wave of public indignation triggered off by the verdict against an avanti even reached the youth forum which is close to the kremlin when putin visited the forum one of the participants asked him to comment on the situation. i will not deny that i found

vladimir putin did not attend the trump miss universe pageant in moscow but shortly after he returned from moscow, a billionaire russian real estate's daughter showed up at the new york city city office bearing a gift for trump from putin. it was a black lacquered box, inside was a sealed letter from the russian autocrat. what the letter said has never been revealed. if special prosecutor robert mueller didn't know about that letter before reading about it today in that excerpt of the new book "russian roulette," the special prosecutor will surely want to get his hands on that letter now. the book reveals a meeting in trump tower in january 2015, that was a pre-cur sor to the meeting in trump tower with russian officials during the campaign. in january of 2015, nearly a year after putin's invasion in ukraine, trump had agalarov and goldstone as guests to his office in trump tower, a meeting that was never publically revealed during the investigations that followed the 2016 election. while they chatted, trump was encouraging emin, who had performed at the miss universe pageant, maybe n

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

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

international broadcasting live from moscow and kate partridge. russia's defense ministry says rebel groups in syria have been armed with chemical weapons and are preparing to frame attacks as a pretext for the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against bashar al assad's government what i guess he of as the details representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have information reason to believe that the united states it's as talent base in syria has been preparing squads of rebels just fight as 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 glory in this one is dead today does this guys does this guys this cigarette packs and this attack is imminent the feds officials have said that this attack will be blamed on the syrian government and will be used this is the excuse by the united states and its allies to strike at bush al assad to his government did his military directly then leave. the provocations menti

welcome back to our central moscow studios get a roundup of the rest of the day and indeed the week's news more than twenty five thousand people have fled the militant controlled syria of eastern goods are on sunday thousands more are expected to leave the area through russia sponsored sponsored evacuation routes since the army launched its operation against militants the region near damascus has seen by far its biggest exodus of civilians. i left all my oil and i need a balance of civilians are living good right now by the humanitarian care dairy can see behind me and the passage has been recently opened by syrian forces it's allowing crowds of civilians may of them are children to leave in battle area. that's not. the wrists used people's human shields that they wouldn't let us fully they hid behind our backs we wanted to leave a year and a half ago of they wouldn't let us. if we did receive aid he would say that aid had arrived and that it would distribute it in a few days but then they would say they had to keep it for our times when they gave us twenty percent of it and the rest

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

eight o'clock monday night here in moscow hello welcome to the program my name's kevin zero in this is r.t. international indeed a lot to cover in this bulletin tonight starting with the weekend tragedy in central russia in the city of camera of sixty four people including many children and now known to have died in that huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex local authorities say ten people are still missing tonight and that the number of fake teletubbies may rise further video agency ruptly is obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside that mile showing the flames spreading and thick smoke rapidly filling the fourth floor it's been reported that the blaze began in the children's play area images showing the panic that ensued have also been emerging online. just first of that. i still didn't ask you could tell the almost two thirds of you will only do so why did not at this point you can do much. to his or to do more good with us because they take lost more weight than. we do do not cooperate. on you want to cross even you send many were able to escape that building some were se

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

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

after the long winter, moscow is melting. but in uk—russian relations, you can feel the chill. has sparked anger with theresa may. and is destroying international relationship. of course, it's the end of her career. it's a show. that was a political show. and this is not... it's not serious, it's not for the serious politician. while mrs may was announcing sanctions. former russian agent alexander litvinenko in 2006. moscow refuses to extradite him. to decide whether it can keep its uk licence. what do you think the chances are of rt being censored in the uk? if rt is censored in the uk. today to moscow. that the west is against russia. the territory vladimir putin annexed from ukraine. uk sanctions may help the kremlin leader rally support. tonight, moscow is showing no signs of buckling under british pressure. russia is promising retaliation soon. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. and he was also director for russia at the national security council. at the national security council. asked him what impact such expulsions

moscow promised swift retaliation to britain's decision to expel russian diplomats. so there's a lot to him back in this story to do that i'm joined here in the studio by our political correspondents all over salad and from washington tonight our correspondent carson phenomena carson let me start with you u.s. president trump today seems former in his support for britain's position against russia at least for today than he did let's say a day or two ago why are we seeing this turn around. well it looks like british prime minister to reason may has managed to impress on president trump the importance this affair has for the u.k. and she also apparently has been able to convince him that the evidence that russia was behind this attack is credible because as you've indicated in the past has been very cautious or even reluctance to blame russia or president putin for anything made be russian meddling in the u.s. elections or other misdeeds but that seems to have changed now and as we've heard president trump now says he believes the russians are behind this and he takes

moscow has its own message for the west. don't push russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. one of the two russians whose poisoning sparked this diplomatic row is now recovering in hospital. yulia skripal, the daughter of the former russian spy sergei skripal, is now conscious and talking, after being poisoned with a nerve agent. the british hospital where she is being treated says she has responded well to treatment. 0ur correspondent daniel sandford has this update. whether she will be to explain how 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 agent had been smeared in gel form on the front door of sergei skripal‘s house. daniel sandford there. also making news today: president trump has said he may hold up a trade agreement agreed this week with south korea until after a deal is reached with the north. "it's a very strong card", mr trump said in a speech in ohio. preparations are being made for an historic meeting betw

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

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

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

from moscow, here's steve rosenberg. it sounds chillingly familiar. russia under suspicion of planning and executing an attack 2,000 miles away in britain. in 2006, the target was former russian agent alexander litvinenko, murdered in london. the man britain believes poisoned him is andrei lugovoy. today, he dismissed claims that moscow had attacked sergei skripal as propaganda. translation: why do they say he was poisoned? perhaps he poisoned himself or had a heart attack. you talk about propaganda, but what about alexander litvinenko? the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimir putin. translation: there was no official investigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information "about what happened. "we cannot comment. " although he did add it was a trag

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

needs to disclose any evidence which implicates moscow in the atrocity. well it almost doesn't matter whether they're russian citizens or not i mean here we have an instance where someone in this case russia is being accused so the someone being accused is not being told what the evidence is against them in fact they've been denied sight of the evidence that they could then question investigate and contest so in in the british legal system in any western legal system that would be viewed as utterly scandalous but it seems that the british establishment thinks that that's the way to treat russia which clearly is illegal as the ambassador mentioned it's also immoral and it also prevents a proper investigation which may indeed be the point of making all the evidence opaque to outsiders the investigation into the attack of the former russian intelligence agent and his daughter is still ongoing in there are still many unanswered questions as daniel hawkins explains. and i tack by the kremlin on u.k. soil for downing street it seems the case is all but closed r

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. more than a million nhs workers in england can expect pay rises, if they accept a deal agreed between most trade unions and the government. the past five years have seen a pay cap and a pay freeze. the deal would see wages increase between 6.5% and 29% over the next three years, with the exception of doctors, dentists and senior leaders. the biggest rises would go to those on the lowest end of the scale — cleaners, porters and catering staff, who will see an immediate £2,000 added to their pay packets this year. the salary increases are expected to cost around £4 billion, but won't come out of the nhs budget, they will come from treasury funds. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg has more details. porters, paramedics, nurses, who care for millions of patients. the staff who keep the nhs going are finally to have a bigger pay rise. it's nice for us to be recognised for all that hard work. but obviously, it doesn't detract away from the last few years, where we actually haven't ha

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. after months of growing tensions on the korean peninsula north korea's leader, kimjong—un has hinted he is willing to start talks about dismantling his nuclear weapons if his country's safety could be guaranteed. he's agreed to meet the south korean leader at a summit next month, the first meeting of its kind for more than a decade. 0ur seoul correspondent laura bicker said today's announcements were extraordinary. not only is kim jong—un willing to discuss getting rid of his nuclear weapons but also to do so with the united states and he said he will hold any missile tests while those talks take place. these are extraordinary announcement will not they come from a dinner in pyongyang where he hosted prime ministers from south korea for the first time. they will brief the truck administration and the us president believes it is his policy of maximum pressure, that international sanctions that have forced kim jong—un kim jong—un to the table and it may be that gunn yang is runn

and moscow expels twenty three pushes diplomats mirroring the step taken by the u.k. in response to the clintons alleged poisoning the former spy's said and his daughter. kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. russia's defense ministry says rebel groups in syria have been armed with chemical weapons and are preparing to frame attacks as a pretext for the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against bashar al assad's government. because the 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 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 to date is disguised as disguise this cigarette packs and this attack is imminent the fed's officials have said that this attack will be blamed on the syrian gove

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

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 moscow correspondent, sarah rainsford reports. moscow took its time to respond. three days after london announced the expulsion of russian diplomats, britain's ambassador here was summoned to the foreign ministry. the meeting inside lasted just minutes, as officials handed over a list of names and informed britain of the additional measures russia was taking. the ambassador emerged to underline why relations with russia have plummeted to this new low. 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 including russia depend for their safety and security. the russian sanctions were then made public. the decision to expel 23 british diplomats was expected after britain expelled 23 russians from the embassy in london. shutting down the british consulate in russia's second city of st petersburg, though, is an extra step. and the british council, which fosters cultural and educational