we'll have the latest reaction from moscow as well. also tonight... we are three friends, we're also bloggers, we all have one thing in common — we all have or have had cancer. the bbc 5 live presenter rachael bland has died aged a0 less than two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer. after last week's so—called scallop wars in the channel, talks to prevent further clashes between french and british fishermen. and gearing up for his last test match, alistair cook, england's most prolific test batsman, tells us there may be tears at the oval. and coming up on bbc news... ian poulter will make his sixth appearance at a ryder cup. he's one of the european wildcard picks, alongside sergio garcia, paul casey and henrik stenson. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. two russian military intelligence officers have been accused of carrying out the novichok attacks in salisbury. alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov have been named as the suspects in the attempted murder of the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. po

embodying russian foreign minister lavrov with requests to vote in favor of it russia didn't do it moscow helped israel in that case so the resolution didn't pass you'd have thought israel would be grateful or at least appreciate the effort but fifteen russian servicemen and now dead killed in the crossfire of israel's preemptive vendettas which means one of two things either the israeli government has no care to all for all that russia has done or that the israeli military leads a very separate life the director of think tank focuses on the middle east told us earlier it's clear from the timeline now why moscow is pointing the finger at israel. they say it was deliberate that these really pirates chose to take refuge in in a plane or around a plane with the laura shore a much larger footprint on the radar screens i.e. the i l or the illusion twenty. he says that this was deliberate it's not clear and i don't think anybody can go as far as determining the intentions of these really pilots i.e. did they do chris hughes in this plane so that the syrians don't shoot or they took refuge in th

straight to moscow that when we join our correspondent and we show welcome emily is russia really likely to retaliate against israel. unclear whether they actually will retaliate but those statements that we heard the fact that they reserve the right to retaliate really shows the level of anger i think in the defense ministry we saw that as well and other statements made today at a briefing today a representative from the defense ministry called the israeli actions hostile and in a telephone call the defense minister sergei showing who told his counterpart that israel is fully to blame for the death of these fifteen people on board the plane and understandably perhaps this is also caused a huge stir in the russian media and in russia itself you have to understand that up until now under one hundred people were killed in the three years that russia has been involved in this conflict so this really is a huge amount of people that were killed in one go as it were and understandably perhaps the level of anger is high here in russia so this seems to be the most serious incident between israel

of moscow under sabean have no power says his challenger. his opposition party a just russia objects to the mayor's leadership style. says it reflects the political system across russia that one person decides everything if you have the biggest problem in moscow is that people here feel that local authorities don't represent their interests and are not a conjugal to them. it's as though you live next door to officials who decide how to spend your money without asking you what you really need. in one example new paving is being placed on four million square meters of moscow's sidewalks at a cost of more than one hundred million euros even though they were resurfaced only last year. critics of mayor sabean in suspect corruption they're asking why new schools and hospitals aren't being built instead. and they add that the real problem of moscow's mayoral election isn't the questionable business of sidewalk renovation at the mayor's pleasure it's the lack of real political competition in this vote. that's because of a complicated process of choo

are going to moscow headquarters are located in the apartment of alexei's parents. in his childhood bedroom. the thirty one year old has devoted his life to political activism which he sees as the jews. stand has received a call for help from a number of slave labor of. the cooler says he's working on a farm alexei asks if he knows his location. he's told by the man on the phone that there are two of them alexei wants him to take photos and send them to him so he can post them on the social media platforms to collect donations for their travel costs. alexei has voltaire and other revolutionary role models on the wall standing for freedom of thought even if alexei's himself dependent on others is sixty five year old pediatrician mother supports him financially. prudent. and basically a positive person who says he should help others i just worry about him because he doesn't have a wife or children he has nothing no income fortunately i have a pension and i'm still working to. rashmi you have a i'm still working at sixty five that's how i manage to care for myself and

moscow has said it doesn't recognise the names of the men accused. the british government acknowledges there is no real chance they will be extradited, but it will be hoping that today increases the pressure on moscow. gordon corera, bbc news. as we heard, more than 250 detectives have been working on the investigation, and they combed through 11,000 hours of cctv footage to identify the attackers. in the process they have also taken more than 1,400 statements. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford looks at the scale and depth of the investigation. this was the moment on the first friday in march that two men, calling themselves alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov arrived at gatwick on a flight from moscow. after six months of painstaking work, detectives believe the men used this hotel in east london to spend their first night in britain before travelling by train down to salisbury on a reconnaissance mission that saturday afternoon. detectives want anyone who saw them that day between 2:00 and 4:30 to come forward. the next day, sunday, t

letterman putting a revealed on wednesday that moscow has identified the two men suspects as by the u.k. of poisoning this cripples with a nerve agent back in march the russian leaders speaking out said that the alleged hitmen are civilians and not criminals are. reports this is an absolutely groundbreaking follow up for a lot of my post to you last week statement by british authorities on the suspects in the script al case the russian leader says that moscow now knows for sure who the two men are here is what exactly mr putin said we finished we've seen the pictures we know who they are we found them. hopefully they will turn themselves in and tell everyone about themselves there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians last week exactly six months after the attempted murder in salisbury british prosecutors named two suspects as russian nationals alexander pad and. they also pointed out that these days could have been fake another claim was that the two men were active members of russian intelligence now here's the evidence that london put fo

moscow has said it doesn't recognise the names of the two men accused. the british government acknowledges there is no real chance they will be extradited, but it will be hoping that today increases the pressure on moscow. gordon corera, bbc news. our correspondent in moscow, steve rosenberg, has the reaction from russia. what we do see today was moscow putting its hand up and admitting, yes we did this, yes we carry this out. quite the opposite. russia today portrayed itself as innocent and pointed the finger back to britain. the kremlin said that from the outside —— outset moscow to london it was willing to take part into a joint investigation into the poisoning and that offer was met with silence. the foreign ministry today accused return of manipulative information and called for practical cooperation. but that is not going to happen. it is clear the british government is at determined to increase diplomatic pressure on moscow, britain has called for a meeting of the un security council tomorrow, there is talk of trying to push group new eu sanct

minister of defense in the in moscow said that they are going to integrate a defensive. system be diff syrians it means that. the russians sorters. be syrians operating as three hundredth and that would make it extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system then knowing that the russians are going to be implicated and so all of that to say. in the absence of any kind of russian agreement to let the israelis do basically what they wanted to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obvious need any interest in syria disunion government and his well known and consequently we limited i believe the margin for the israelis to men who are as they used to the israelis do have some considerable leverage with the russians mr ramani how much action you know can russia take against israel given things like we had from israeli minister. earlier this year who was very quick to remind russia that. you know isr.

government moscow called the arrest politically motivated. and human rights alert dent holic says that the sex allegations were an attempt to destroy britain his reputation i think in order to bootstrap a pretty weak claim against or they originally had the salacious claims of her offering sex firm ploy i mean which frankly would rise to the level of case anyway. but frankly in order to destroy her reputation which they probably have the fact that we done it at this point and out of the land think the case will be dismissed and there's nothing here i think this was a political gambit frankly to deal with the bigger geo political issues to try to ruin you know the outcome of the summit between trump and putin she's being used as a political pawn by the united states and these cases this should these charges will be dropped but in the meantime the life will be destroyed. this week a british authorities released photos of the two men charged with the poisoning of russian double agent sergei scream paul and his daughter in march the suspects are

and i welcome his five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. murderess having a holiday from hell only strengthening the case against them just a taste of the risk. bonce the scream to the interview to r.t. with the two russians accused of carrying out the nerve agent poisoning in the u.k. city of seoul the interview even sparked reaction from the former british foreign secretary and reportedly a contender for the next prime minister boris johnson but you know you see the you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city to recruit by putin only russian t.v. these ludicrous actually question making a mockery of the whole thing and it really makes my blood boil. ok we can cross live now to london and our correspondent. quite a reaction there was in it for mr johnson what else to be have to say. yeah he was talking about his blood boiling at an event in washington and that was where he also called alexander petrov the share of murderers in fact he said that they can sue him in court if they want to dispute that fact a

daughter moscow says the remainder inconsistences this version of events. of a violent escalation and the potential chemical attack serious people have parents about intense debate in the u.n. security council. and today's news voting is underway in sweden's general election as survey suggests there's been a surge in support for right wing parties in the country by the great. morning from moscow this sunday september the ninth review of the week's biggest stories as covered right here first off winding back to wednesday british authorities released photos of two men they claim are responsible for the poisoning of russian double agents against his daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian intelligence officers and were acting on direct orders from moscow. many british media outlets were quick to seize on the claims accepting the authorities version with headlines branding the two men as putin smiling assassins moscow says there are major inconsistences in britain's version of events as my guest you have explained. we're sure but we are sure it's

now moscow has been saying the the assassination the killing. basically threatens the whole minsk peace process itself now these are comments that have come today from a lover of the russian foreign minister the same he says that this is an open provocation aimed at hindering implementation of the minsk agreements that have not been implemented according to moscow by the kiev authorities he says under current circumstances it is of course impossible to speak about upcoming meetings in the normandy format as many european partners wanted this is a serious situation which must be analyzed so the russians certainly are saying that minsk as a way of settling this this crisis is ongoing conflict is in trouble. and what's been happening in eastern ukraine is as been off to the international headlines for the most part. the last few months what is the feeling in russia about it at the moment and the support for continuing to support russian separatists there. it's a it's a murky issue this and it's always difficult to tell quite what the mood is in mos

deputy prime minister silvio will be soon and moscow is been already in moscow officially at the end of a soccer championship by the way a great success or russia organization and i'm sure i'm sure all the members of government share the opinion that russia has to be concede their good partner on addressing how to fight terrorism stop belies the middle east in addressing libya krises because a less we have russia cooperating with us is absolutely illusionary to get together with the rican c.d.'s should the government in libya since the political leverage or russia own and c.z. of easy on off is one of the keys to succeeding leak and of course that's when. mrs alving is not being photographed with tony blair you when you went to the un an internationalist should look at it it went to carol salvini he said to kidal we want to cooperate and then he said we support the prime minister's but we have to discuss we all the components and i meant i meant him at tony blair you know it really really bad if any intervention is tony blair it was the line of the promoter of the war in iraq frank g

moscow 17. drill is a form of rap. stabbing and murder. overlap between drill crews and known criminal groups. by the age of 16, rhyhiem had created a rap persona called gb. says her son was never in a gang. care, because i will always refer to rhyhiem as rhyhiem. by april last year, moscow 17 were becoming a big deal. and caught the attention of former radio1 dj, tim westwood. let's go. like — 'cause i knew the dangers behind that. a neighbouring drill crew called zone 2. # them boy there are tramps. when sayce discovered it, he went straight to rhyhiem's mum. final straw was the music video. going to get himself hurt. like he needs to get rid of this, this is so negative. to send him to jamaica, and get him away from this. pretana sent rhyhiem to jamaica in may last year to protect him. his uncle shaun looked after him during his ten month stay. so we're gonna go to the studio now. and not go back to england as yet. 8, to keep him safe. on the streets. of violent crime. because you have some

of two men they claim carried out poisoning a former russian spy so the case crippled his daughter moscow's says that a major inconsistency and that version of their. concerns of a violent escalation and a potential chemical attack in syria is it lived province by ted's debate for the week just gone at the u.n. security council. and happening right now a developing story voting well under way in sweden general election as polls predict a surge in support for the country's right wing parties. sentiment. and a very good afternoon for me kevin now in stroke or leaving as it is here no moscow just turned seven in the evening this is the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last seven days first that wednesday is where we start in this bulletin then british authorities released photos of two men they charged with the poisoning of russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian intelligence officers acting they said on direct orders from moscow. wow so. many british media outlets were quick to accept russia was to blame despite no direct ev

russia and turkey both have direct strategic interests in syria moscow has strongly backed syria's president bashar assad's regime with troops on the ground but turkey too has intervened in the syrian conflict carving out a zone of influence near its border in recent days turkey has increased its military presence in the region the risk of a confrontation between russia and a nato ally over it live grew as fighting increased. a low have you. sensed the beginning of the month dozens of people have been killed and wounded in air raids and attacks by the syrian government and the russian air force reports from it live have been growing increasingly dire with more and more people fleeing to turkey. there's always the sound of war planes and there are attacks on many areas and. people can't sleep because of the air raids all day and night. but now two of syria's major players have pledged an end to the killing and led. but they still have to ensure the deal is honored. so could distil become a reality correspondent yulia harness for us and hawkeye that's right on the turkish border with syria is

week's top stories british authorities named the two suspects in the screwball poisoning case while moscow points to inconsistency is in the u.k. that version of events. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow and the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. right wing sweden democrats party has won its largest ever share of the vote in a general election dominated by concerns over immigration with ninety nine percent of the ballots counted in the sweden democrats have almost eighteen percent of the votes and it has been a disappointing night for the ruling social democrats they have just twenty eight percent of their worst result in more than one hundred years swedish moderates are in second place with nearly twenty percent with no clear leader emerging as a result paves the way for lengthy negotiations on forming a governing coalition the leader of the sweden democrats jimmy has hailed the result as a breakthrough for his party. you'll be at those were the only people i know who has won this election is the sweden democrats that's how it is we

after rhyhiem's murder, moscow 17 were interviewed on an online show. here we have moscow 1—7. the man you're about to hear from is moscow 17's lead rapper, siddique kamara, known in the group as incognito. i'm shocked, still in shock, don't believe it. don't believe it's happened still. it feels like he's on holiday. # my team unruly still ride onjuvey. # some say i changed... this is incognito's tribute to rhyhiem. # this is the new me. # still love a beauty. do you think drill music incites violence? you see with the crime that's happening right now, music does influence it. you?‘ve got to put your hands up and say drill music does influence it, innit? but knife crime and gun crime‘s been happening before drill music. way before drill music. so if we wanna talk about ten years, twenty years back, people still getting cheffed up. but this summer, the police have taken action against some drill groups. they've asked youtube to take down dozens of drill videos and some of moscow 17's videos were removed from the internet. drill artists feel they're being unfairly targeted.

hello good evening this is art international at the weekend live with me kevin owen here in moscow for the next thirty minutes i'll bring you round up of the big news stories of the last seven days or begin stay with me we start with this that russia's defense ministry says israel bears full responsibility for the downing of that russian aircraft off syria's coast this week which killed all fifteen servicemen aboard in a statement to the media the russian military presented the details timeline of the incident earlier today concluding that the actions of the israeli air force led to the tragedy. at twenty thirty one on september nineteenth the russian survey aircraft it was twenty started its patrol mission in a deescalation zone and in syria's northwest around the same time four israeli f. sixteen fighter jets left israel's air space they flew over neutral waters of the mediterranean and took up a combat ready position ninety kilometers from syria's port of latakia at twenty one thirty nine the israeli air force informed russia its f. sixteen s were to carry out an air raid in norther

the drls, moscow insists, purely defensive. some expertsuspect the russians have inflated troop numbers. but the show of strength was indisputable. we weren't the only ones watching. vladimir putin followed the drills and then pledged to makee russia's forces even stronger. pres. putin: russia is a peaceloving country.ve we don't ny aggressive plans. but we have a duty to the motherland, to be read defend russian sovereignty, security, and a national interests. steve:he message russia wants to send with all this is pretty clear, thait has a powerful army, powerful allies in the east, and that moscow has no intention of givg in to pressure from the west. and that is where china comes in. presidents putin and xi have been cooking up a strategic partnership as a counterweight to the west.ee moscow scloser ties with beijing as a recipe for surviving western sanctions. >> russia always wanted to be integrated into the west. now this era is over, and russia needs a very strong external partner which can provide technology, nemarkets,

from moscow, thank you very much. a former governor of the bank of england has condemned the uk's brexit preparations as "incompetent". lord king, who was in charge of the bank during the financial crisis, said ministers had left themselves without a credible bargaining position. our business editor, simonjack, is with me. he is of course a brexiteer, what has he said? he was sympathetic to brexit and i talked about what happened to him during the financial crisis ten years ago but the conversation turns to brexit and we spent time talking about it and his view that with six months to go and the risks of a no deal rising, the government saying they are uncomfortably high, he says things like stockpiling medicines and using the 20 as a car park, emergency energy matters reflected very badly on those responsible for planning for that eventuality. it beggars belief that the sixth biggest economy in the world should get itself into that position. if the government cannot take action to prevent these catastrophic outcomes

by we're going to even just turned six pm here in moscow my name's kevin knowing this is r.t. international first i'm from moscow tonight syria seems to be on the verge of defeating the last remaining terrorist stronghold in the country but the situation in several areas remains unstable one of them is the hama province. soon. i heard a roar and now there was dust everywhere and i grabbed my daughter is trying to cover the world with my body we lost part of our eye when told to find him and saw he with a corridor there was a pool of blood coming from his head. out of sight of the cinema and several days ago a rocket landed in front of my house my mom wife and three children died i remember how i called home no one picked out. how low some people died young lady and little girl and two teenagers also a day. besides hammer province al qaeda affiliates and also active in aid lib right now to where tensions continue to mount another big story potentially happening right now russia's military says terrorists there have started their final preparations for a possible false flag atta

military analyst and retired air force general in moscow alexei of a middle east expert of the russian international affairs council and in london had hired a consulting research fellow on syria chatham house welcome to you all these seem to be quite significant moment in syria. do you think that a final push to recover. is just a matter of days or weeks diplomacy is working right now with the negotiation also with the militant but the question is whether their friends will start or to see the summit in that iran which is going to be next week and. this is the gift and this might lead to. i could say diplomacy might be truly free but i think there is some strategic point. is really want to get back. just a short south. and the merely the highways the ought to start in five and four these are very strategic for him so it's highly likely we might see a very limited attack getting this area back. to you might give some concession with the end the standing with don meeting i think to get this sent to. the border with this either of course. but it's highly likely we might see some attacks o

moscow sees as a counterweight to the west. moscow sees closer as a counterweight to the west. moscow sees closer ties with beijing asa moscow sees closer ties with beijing as a recipe for surviving western sanctions. russia always wanted to be integrated into the west. now this era is over and russia needs a very strong external partner that can provide technology, new markets and investments. and that is china. russia is slowly drifting into china's embrace and ignoring the bigger picture and ignoring the tectonic shifts between the two. i think it is very dangerous and shortsighted. bite in courting china, will russia and up thejunior partner? it is determined not to. russia continues to ce itself as a military power. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers. that's coming up after the headlines at 11:30pm. now it's time for the weather with sarah keith lucas. it isa it is a very active spell of weather across the pacific and the atlantic in terms of typhoons, tropical storms and hurricanes and we might see an ex— hurricane influencing the we

live from our international news center here in moscow this is r t hello and welcome i mean o'neill our top story the u.s. president has signed on executive order or through rising sun chin's against any foreign governments or individuals following to have meddled in u.s. sanctions let's get straight into it and cross live to see your account who's in washington d.c. has been following developments to tell us about the new executive order what's the implications. well the order will authorize sanctions against the entities charged with election meddling this applies to a companies organizations and even invent individuals now if they impose these sanctions will block assets limit access to the u.s. financial system and ban people from entering the country now in the order trump admitted that no foreign power has ever successfully influence a us election but he signed the order anyway wants check let's check out what he said. although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome of a vote to be lation in any united states election foreign powers have historically so

stop moscow. park was open ninety years ago it was considered a symbol of the soviet quality of life today it is impossible to imagine life in moscow without the screen oasis the paf in russia's capital is a reflection of the country's history. for aleksandra valley area there's no better place in all of moscow even in the rain. corky park is in the center of the russian capital and it's at the heart of countless stories of this proposed to her here when we were skating for the ball oh that's right i forgot. that. corky central park of culture and leisure as it's officially known has just turned ninety. but. the park has twenty six million visitors every year and has long become part of the fabric of people's lives here in moscow the classic. it's not slate classic for the apes to meet here for a look at the swans and imagine that everyone is as loyal as them that they can see disappointed they aren't have a heart and. asleep on your arm why despite kissing a click on the museum in the park shows

the drills, moscow insists, purely defensive. some experts suspect the russians have inflated troop numbers, but the show of strength was indisputable. we weren't the only ones watching. vladimir putin followed the drills and then pledged to make russia's armed forces even stronger. translation: russia is a peaceloving country. we don't have any aggressive plans. but we have a duty to the motherland to be ready to defend russia's sovereignty, security and national interests. the message russia wants to send with all this is pretty clear, that it has a powerful army and powerful allies in the east, and that moscow has no intention of giving in to pressure from the west. and that's where china comes in. presidents putin and xi have been cooking up a strategic partnership as a counterweight to the west. moscow sees closer ties with beijing as a recipe for surviving western sanctions. russia always wanted to be integrated into the west. now this era is over and russia needs a very strong external partner hich can provide technology,

i will have twelve and i love it as any thanks so much for that fun if you moscow has celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of one of its most beloved places gorky park or a challenge to take a look takes a look at its role in shaping the city and its history. ninety years old and looking pretty good for its age gorky park has firmly reclaimed its position as one of moscow's most popular attractions like the city as part of gorky has been reinvented numerous times through communism and post soviet decay to its current sleeker more modern face but it is. the park appeared and nine hundred twenty eight it was designed for their proletariat the new and young state need in a new and young place where their protests could relax there was an idea to create a park of culture and leisure where people could get educated and take a rest. it's energetic director betty glam invited the u.s.s.r. most talented artists and architects to shake the park even during world war two the park stayed open but when the soviet union collapsed in the early ninety's parts crowned slipped to it hosted some of ru

maxim that may have contributed to the downing of the russian reconnaissance plane over syria now that moscow amir as this approach of the back of israel can do to preserve the mode of accommodation they were once so proud of well to discuss that i'm now joined by him but he comes to know the director general of the russian international affairs council mr carter enough it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for an argument now one of the reasons russia and israel of president putin the prime minister netanyahu have been getting along so well is because they both are hard core realists with very strong i would say unashamed focus on security and in good times that could lead to a better understanding but in bad times that could also provide a basis for a very sharp collision is the latter are likely. well i think that it is getting a little bit more difficult to plea its traditional role in syria which is their role often known as broker. has always been proud of being able to preserve good relations with all the size of the continent including shia and sunni inc

the suspects in the script case the russian leader says that moscow now knows for sure who the two men are here's what exactly mr putin said to me from ashton we've seen the pictures we know who they are we found them. hopefully they will turn themselves in and we'll tell everyone about themselves there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians last week exactly six months after the attempted murder and british prosecutors named two suspects as russian nationals alexander and. they also pointed out that these days could have been fake another claim was that the two men were active members of russian intelligence now here's the evidence that london put forward it was basically a summary of the men's movements around the u.k. . so these comments by the russian president are no less groundbreaking compared to what we heard from london last week and now i guess once again it is their turn to say something it was. representative for the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons he believes this cripple case was a provocation to disrupting

israel crossed the line of civilized relations so i sense this is an hostile act is considered to be in moscow russia accuses israel israel blame syria underground do you think blame can be attributed at all here. well let's just make it clear had it not been for the israeli operation or the bombing operation none of this would have happened so it's the easiest thing and the more and the clearest thing is to most straightforward thing is to blame israel for the whole debacle now the in there are other interesting analogies in the in the russian analysis where first of all they say it was intentional this misleading about the theater of operations it was a deliberate miss misleading then they say it was deliberate that these really pirates chose to take refuge in in a plane or around a plane with a large or a much larger footprint on the radar screens i.e. the i l. or the illusion twenty. he says that this was deliberate it's not clear and i don't think anybody can go as far as determining the intentions of these really pilots i.e. did they do chris hughes in this plane so that the syrians don'

men they claim carried out the poisoning of the former russian spy sergei scriptural and his daughter moscow though says the major inconsistences in that version of events. concerns were violence escalate the potential chemical attack in syria is it live in spark ted states in the un security council in the week is gong . on so they were tracking right now this weekend voting still underway in sweden's general election as polls predict a surge in support for the country's right wing parties propelled by anti migrant sentiment. a welcome to our weekly review some of the stories that made the news headlines of the last seven days i'm kevin owen here in moscow with you this sunday were of your children around the world good to have you company wednesday than first off that was the day the british authorities released photos of two men they've charged with the poisoning of the russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter of march the suspects is said to be russian intelligence officers acting on is the accusation direct orders from moscow. so many british media outlets were quick to a

sasha comes from a community just three hundred kilometers from moscow but without registration papers he wasn't allowed to work in the capital he was the perfect victim for a traffic and no money no education young and unmarried sasha drank a beer with a stranger then everything went down and the next thing he knew he was in an illegal brickyard he'd been drugged and kidnapped. sasha had been enslaved like an estimated one million other people in the russian federation. yes that's a by was get they'd kill me if i ran away when i arrived in the brick yard i realized there was no point trying to escape. their vehicle. and there were mountains all around us yep snow shut down or in the locals only know each other very well without them i see the world the flat the styling of the coalition as an outsider without knowledge of the area you can forget about escape was his last meal as a chuckle up to his red zone who doesn't have a fixed address he sleeps at friends' homes and is borderline homeless man like him are a such ideal targets for those wanting to exploit them they work without con

doing this are in conflict with always in the every stage and in every here we saw such groups and from moscow's perspective. ninety five percent of those groups are not inclined to negotiate and to talk her to pursue political process so. i think it don't matter for talk about the summit what matters here is russia turkish relations and their partnership. in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can't just push it and impose its own wheel on on its partner well i was partially both agree and disagree with you because i do think their relationship with turkey eric strongly is extremely important and we will talk more about that but i also think russia genuinely. cares about what happens to the people of that province and i think this is one valuable thing that we got out of the summit a very explicit declaration by all the three leaders that they will try to take a lot of care in trying to protect the civilian lives and we are talking about more than three million people living there but from what i understand it doesn't mean that russia s

the drills, moscow insists, purely defensive. some experts suspect the russians have inflated troop numbers but the show of strength was indisputable. we weren't the only ones watching. vladimir putin followed the drills and then pledged to make russia's armed forces even stronger. translation: russia is a peace—loving country. we don't have any aggressive plans but we have a duty to the motherland to be ready to defend russia's sovereignty, security and national interests. the message russia wants to send with all of this is pretty clear — that it has a powerful army and powerful allies in the east, and that moscow has no intention of giving in to pressure from the west. and that's where china comes in. presidents putin and xi have been cooking up a strategic partnership as a counterweight to the west. moscow sees closer ties with beijing as a recipe for surviving western sanctions. russia always wanted to be integrated into the west. now this era is over. russia needs a very strong external partner which can provide technol

and there in the morning from moscow this sunday september the ninth on a clean break the biggest stories as covered right here over the past seven days first off winding back to wednesday british authorities released photos of two man that they claim are responsible for the poisoning of russian double agent so gay script holidays daughter in march the suspects are said to be russian intelligence officers and were acting on direct orders from moscow. on thursday the u.k. called a special u.n. security council meeting where the british and russian representatives crossed swords over the latest allegations. the u.k. government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police investigation i mean fact officers from the russian military intelligence service also known as the g u z with a well known level of confidence which is highly likely it is stated that they have connections to the russian security forces their real names are known however it is known that they work for the g.r.u. how you can detect that not knowing their real names is a mystery to us the names may be fake but

i get off in two pm friday afternoon here in moscow this is the us international meet cavanagh and first then china fear is lead to new sanctions imposed washed. for buying russian military hardware it's one or more of america's allies are considering similar purchases from moscow to let's get the details on what reaction this has been from r.t. is it goes down of a there what exactly is beijing said because most responses are normally pretty muted early well indeed kevin but to analyze what beating has said we have to see we have to look at what washington's doing and essentially it's playing a double game it is targeting russia mostly with its new round of sanctions but also launching a blow that is well which intention is to damage beijing everything revolves around the russia's weapons russia's heavy weapons like the su thirty five fighter jet on the earth's four hundred surface to air missile defense system and so china bought some of those units and now it is also coming under fire for that and while beijing let me tell you was not impressed when it found out that it is being dicta

moscow has said it doesn't recognise the names of the two men accused. the british government acknowledges there is no real chance they will be extradited, but it will be hoping that today increases the pressure on moscow. gordon corera, bbc news. as we heard, more than 250 detectives have been working on the investigation, and they combed through 11,000 hours of cctv footage to identify the attackers. in the process, they have also taken more than 1,400 statements. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford looks at the scale and depth of the investigation. this was the moment on the first friday in march that two men, calling themselves alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov, arrived at gatwick on a flight from moscow. after six months of painstaking work, detectives believe the men used this hotel in east london to spend their first night in britain, before travelling by train down to salisbury on a reconnaissance mission that saturday afternoon. detectives want anyone who saw them that day between 2:00pm and az30pm to come forward. the next day, su

for aleksandra there's no better place in all of moscow even in the rain. corky park is in the center of the russian capital and it's at the heart of countless stories of this proposed to her here when we were ice skating for. oh that's right i forgot. that. corky central park of culture and leisure as it's officially known has just turned ninety. but. the park has twenty six million visitors every year and has long become part of the fabric of people's lives here in moscow the classic. it's not classic for dates to meet here for a look at the swans and imagine that everyone is as loyal as them that they can see disappointed they aren't have a heart and. asleep on your arm quite surprised because you could look at the museum in the park shows how it all began in one nine hundred twenty eight gorky park quickly became known around the world as a symbol of socialism it was part of the soviet drive to create a new athletic ideal event a new man does most of the blue it's the it was founded it's the punk showed off the epitome of soviet lifestyle but most of hi

in moscow has been summoned to the russian foreign ministry those millions because quell so naturally a couple of other measures will be debated at the russian security council missional security council women and russian leave this world definitely. there so i. make practical some of the measures. to retaliate because from a user i only saw it despite its. refusal to accept the. guilty. will be punished. good good to see you there because really not sure there is i'm so i would like to just get in. russia says it is determined to respond to what is called the israeli provocation watching this from the outside it does look more as though this was down to the incompetence of syrian armed forces. no it was gone firm by the russians. the russian illusion twenty surveillance aircraft has been kid by syrian. defense system s two hundred but. israel has used for f. sixteen s fighter interceptor to. act as a kind of a booby trap for syria and friendly fire against the russian aircraft there's the problem so it's a kind of a combination of. sit in the pity is so to say. but nevertheless the b