latest developments as cross live to dr phil my garley a senior lecturer at st andrews university in the u.k. it welcome to the program dr matteo now anti establishment in your skeptic parties

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rew the u.k. has to match its total diplomaticnce here to a russian headcount in the u.k. this move is a clear s pn that vladimin is determined not to give in under pressure. >> expulsion looks so easy you don't have to pay a high price on either side for expulsions. it is not the case. i'm afraid that if the wholere fabric of thtionship gets thinner and thinner, we have a m al problem. sarah: that prob already here. western countries seem determined to show rus crossed the line, but the kremlin still called the accusations against it outrages -- outrageous, and i fis warning thther sanctions could follow. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. jane: a brief time ago i discussed this growing diplomatic row with president obama's senior director for european affairsn the national security council.

they need to prepare for such a scenario secondly you have the issue of a nerve agent attack in the u.k. so expect a strong condemnation here from e.u. leaders and finally to reason may is in town and she will get the sign off for a transition period that has already been agreed because tree negotiators it's the latest achievement in what has been a tough year of negotiations and i've put together the key events and here is what happened previously on brics it. forty four years after joining the european union britain's ambassador to the e.u.

very very weak it's about ten percent below the numbers that you see in germany for example or in the u.k. and therefore the average italian is having to work just a little bit harder to get to the same level of productivity as elsewhere in europe and that's obviously affecting their growth affecting their paid prospects and affecting sentiment as well and the issue as well of italy's public debt is still very much there i mean how is the new government going to have to deal with that very very carefully to be honest you look at the campaigns of most of the coalitions of most of the parties within they said sally election and all of them are basically talking about highest spending debt to g.d.p. is still very very high that's been as a result of the expansion of the expansion of the debt and also the slow run of

it's good to see you what do we learn from this speech in terms of may's vision for a post brags that u.k. . well mesa vision really is off a new partnership and something that doesn't exist at the moment she really does

unilever the anglo dutch consumer goods company is moving its headquarters out of the u.k. to the netherlands unilever says there will be a net loss of fifty jobs down from one hundred between the two current headquarter locations in the u.k. and in the netherlands well unilever c.e.o.

moscow convict him of spying on russia for the u.k. now he is critically ill after a suspected poisoning in england. we will have the latest on this unfolding stor e last, an aid convoy delivers supplies to thostrapped in eastern ghouta, but the shelling hasot stopped, and syrian forces could be close to their goal. >> i win -- and at the moment, that is the way it appears to be -- president assad will have scored a significant victory, because for the first time since the war started, he will have secured the capital. laura: going home with oscar gold -- the movies with something to celebrate afters hollywood'biggest night.

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told of the decision the moves in retaliation for a series of explosions of russian diplomats by the u.k. and its allies and russia says it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile defense ministry released a video of the launch from classics to the north west president vladimir putin says the new missile can strike targets and in the world and is difficult to intercept on the stock vice captain of australia's cricket team as apologize for the part he played in a ball tampering scandal in south africa david warner has been banned for twelve months and told he'll never again hold

and british elections and may have swayed the u.k. brexit boat . this is 3.5 hours. -- vote. this is 3.5 hours. >> welcome to our inquiry into disinformation and fake news, i would like to welcome christopher wylie to give evidence of this morning. before we start the media session, i would like to get an update on the invitation to mark zuckerberg to give evidence before us on the serious nature of the allegations made around the use of user data. mark zuckerberg has suggested that chris cox, the officer at facebook, who is coming to london to get evidence to the committee in the first week after the easter recess. we'll be happy to invite mr. cox to give evidence. however, we would like to hear from mr. zuckerberg as well. we will see if he is available to get evidence or not. if he is available, we would be

in a joint statement today, the united states, the u.k., france, germany, their leadership agreed that putin was behind it. to her great credit, prime minister may demanded an immediate response from putin and promised appropriate counter measures. she has already expelled 23 russian diplomats and i hope she takes additional action. 23 diplomats is strong action, but we need more. prime minister putin, he's a bully. i grew up in brooklyn. you have to stand up to them or they will keep taking advantage of you. that's how they work. let's compare prime minister may's action. prime minister may was quick and decisive about countering russia's aggression, president putin can hardly seem to utter a peep of criticism of president putin. a man who is trying to undermine the united states' power and the united states' very democracy, the beauty of america. it was on full display this week when instead of personally defending our ally britain, president trump didn't say a word about the attack, directing everything through aides or statements. now, president trump warns all the time that we nee

closure on sunday as the stand up escalates over the poisoning of former spy acetic a script now in the u.k. . and police spy water cannon until gas and protests.

closure on sunday as the standoff escalates over the poisoning of former spies started this clip in the u.k. . and police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters letting off flares during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of gold. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow on trips thank you for joining us. over a dozen palestinian protesters have been injured on the gaza border one day after seventeen people died and over a thousand were injured in clashes with israeli soldiers the u.n. secretary general is now calling for an independent investigation into the deaths local journalist who three has been at the scene. so today is the second day of protests demonstrations and praise for the palestinians palestinians from all over the gaza strip are coming to march through the fence and as you see we can still see this israeli soldiers night prayers trying to target all of the all of the protesters who are coming near the fence palestinians protesters are holding the palestinian flags and are trying to put them near the fence y

the attack in the u.k. is an attack on britain in western nations. the trump administration is getting on board and retaliating. president trump made his boldest move yet and expelling the diplomats. he gets criticism on not being tough on russia and not calling output in particular. racine that change in his administration rhetoric. a couple weeks ago the homeland secretary said during the meeting with various diplomats she basically said if any adversary tries to meddle in the 2018 elections or any upcoming election the u.s. will retaliate. the trump administration is sending a clear signal. however he hasn't specifically called out vladimir putin. it was reported last week that president trump and his call last week when he congratulated him he said if you want an arms race, we will have an arms race. >> molly: were always covering the shakeups. now bolton is in and he has been pretty hard line when it comes to russia both openly speaking and in some of the op-ed see as written. could that signal a direction the administration is going? >> absolut

in the u.k. . and police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters letting off flares during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of don't.

in the u.k. . the police fire water cannon and tear gas against protesters letting off the demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of.

and member of the u.k. committee for arms export control pauline lay firm about billions of pounds of taxpayer money subsidizing the selling of killing machines and. the like we speak to the father of sixty year old palestinian school go ahead i'll tell me in jail for our actions after you came back to israeli soldiers gunned down her relatives protesting illegal occupation in palestine while the grandson of a signatory to israel's independence israeli special forces veteran make up i led tells us what alchemy means to the struggle and why don't drums plans to withhold un aid money could ignite the entire middle east political going over today's going underground but first while the great and the good of neoliberalism like canada's justin trudeau and france's emmanuel might grow as well as our critics like u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell prepared to at ten the world economic forum in switzerland britain's entire nuclear program today is scheduled to be in trouble because of strike action while firefig

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the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by an additional fifty this is the number of russian diplomats in great britain and a number of british diplomats in russia seem to establish parity this is i suppose you could say a punitive measure for great britain's role in this entire affair it was london that launched this campaign that went to these countries and convinced them to kick out russian diplomats and russia sees this is unjust and unfair because there's been no evidence no proof of russian involvement in this attempted assassination attempt in great britain and this tension is extending elsewhere to isn't it i mean we had an incident involving an aeroflot plane in london yesterday also just tell us about that well this is this is all part of it part of this degradation in relations russian passenger jet that had arrived in london was unexpectedly without warning and without reason searched by british authorities at first there's confusion because nobody admitted the search the

sunday and move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a form a double agent in the u.k. . police follow water cannon into gas against protesters letting off flares this is during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of not.

it is about a secretive group in the u.k. trying to derail the plans for brexit. jason: i love that we are inside the room here. we going to talk to the editor, matthew philips. matthew: the de facto leader of this plot to stop brexit, they have been meeting in secret for months every week, and they are coming out of the woodwork, coming public with their campaign, because for the first time they actually feel like they have a chance to stop this thing. jason: where does the confidence come from? tell us about that. matthew: one, brits are starting to realize what this is going to look like. what brexit is actually going to look like. by most accounts, it is going to lower gdp, and two, prime minister theresa may suffered two very bad defeats. one, when she called the election last june and lost a lot of seats and two, when members of her own party in december turned against her. 11 members of the tory party went against her in a crucial vote in december that sets up this make or break vote in october. it allowed lawmakers to get a vote on the contours of this bre

have irrevocably altered the u.k. u.s. special relationship let alone killed a lot of people prime minister harold macmillan president eisenhower to sign an agreement that would change britain's relationship with america forever. but just days before a fire had broken out at windscale the country's fast you can react. on. britain was on the brink of an unprecedented disaster but could drop as it continues today about sellafield as well as an ongoing terrorism threat this was in just the past few months army bomb disposal experts are being called to sellafield to detonate potentially flammable chemicals discovered in britain's largest nuclear sites well it's outside the mark the birth of britain's weapons of mass destruction program now located on the river clyde in scorned britain is of course extorting weapons all around the world some believe the brics it may lead to a spiraling of u.k. weapons dealing so we caught up with a member of britain's arms export control panel outside parliament story in people in letham is als

the only victims in this situation are the two victims in the hospital in the u.k. right now. and the people who cannot go into the park, the medical workers, the first responders. molly: garrett tenney joins me now. garrett, this seems to all be happening pretty fast. >> reporter: well, mollly, it certainly is. u.s. officials say russia's response is about what they expected. moscow promised tit for tat responses after we closed their consulate in seattle and expelled 60 of their diplomats. russia announced it was closing the u.s. consulate in st. petersburg and kicking out 60 of our diplomats. today u.s. staff in st. petersburg, russia's second largest city, are rushing to get everything packed up and moved out. white house officials are suggesting they won't let russia's response go unanswered. white house press secretary sarah sanders said the tit for tat move, quote, marks a further deterioration in the united states/russia relationship and continues, russia's response was not unanticipated, and the united states will deal with it. in total, russia has dicked out more tha

sunday the move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. . police fire water cannon in tear gas against protesters letting off flares this during a demonstration of the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of not.

earlier my colleague andre farmer discussed the consequences for moscow's relations with the u.k. but our correspondent. this is part of russia's response to the tat mirah response for every russian diplomat expelled from great britain the united states and two dozen or other countries most of them either need two states or countries that are seeking to join nato for every russian diplomat expelled russia is expelling one of those countries diplomats from russia in the case with great britain twenty three diplomats have been expelled but it doesn't end there russia has also lost the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by an additional fifty this is the number of russian diplomats in great britain and a number of british diplomats and russia at the same to establish parity this is i suppose you could say a punitive measure for great britain's role in this entire affair it was london that launched this campaign that went to these countries and convinced them to kick out russian diplomats and russia sees this is unjust and unfair because there's been no evidence no proof of

sunday but the move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. . police fire water cannon and tear gas against protesters letting off during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of not.

stephen morris is here, u.k. banking reporter. so waiting to settle this case paid off of barclays, didn't it? >> that's right. most banks pay whatever the department of justice asked. barclays took a really vet decided to take us to court because we don't think we should pay any more money than this and it paid off. we reported in october 2016, that they wanted to cap the penalty a $2 billion. and that is exactly what has happened. so, a rare gamble for a bank paid off. ♪ ♪ abigail: welcome back to "bloomberg best." i'm on. francine lacqua down exclusively with imf managing director christine lagarde trading met in berlin were lagarde gave a lecture on strengthening the european union. she said the euro area integration is still short of what is needed. why has european integration been so slow? lagarde: i would not say that. in terms of crisis, when it was necessity, they moved fast. the euro area was clearly incomplete and needed to be strengthened and put up firewalls. they reinforced the banking close, and they came to ac

a series of diplomatic actions following the poisoning of an ex-russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. garrett tenney has more on this. >> great to be with you again. both countries sent a lot of folks packing this week. first, it started with the u.s. closing russia's consulate in seattle and expelling 60 diplomats. moscow returned the favor, expelling 60 american diplomats. you can see this weekend the u.s. staff in st. petersburg is busy packing up the consulate before closing up shop. the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, said this movie moscow, quote, marks a further deterioration in the united states/russia relationship. russia's response was not unanticipated, and the united states will deal with it. in total, russia kicked out more than 150 diplomats from roughly two dozen countries who had expelled russia's diplomats in a show of solidarity with great britain over the poison attack over a former russian spy and his daughter in england which the u.k. and its allies have attributed to russia. russia's ambassador to the u.s. on friday again denied moscow had any part i

sunday the move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. . police fire water cannon and to gas against protesters dressing all fledged during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squats it was in the french city of not.

on u.k. soil britain is so far failed to provide any evidence of russia's guilt nevertheless london blames russia for the attack and over twenty countries have expelled moscow's diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. in response russia has taken similar moves against those states let's get more information on what's happening here with. joins us in the studio we mentioned there particularly the u.s. diplomats but a lot of british diplomats on the way to where this is part of russia's response to the mirror response for every russian diplomat expelled from great britain the united states and two dozen or other countries most of them either need two states or countries that are seeking to doing nato for every russian diplomat expelled russia is expelling one of those countries that provides. from russia in the case with great britain twenty three diplomats have been expelled but it doesn't end there russia's also. the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by an additional fifty this is s

and u.k. remember, this app is the one that was designed by kogan, that was passed on to cambridge analytica, and therefore gave them 50 million users of facebook. of those 50 million, hardly any of them are from the e.u. or u.k., so maybe that is why mark zuckerberg feels he does not need to come in front of parliament. emily: meantime, facebook is getting its ducks in a row to lobby lawmakers. they are hiring for 11 different positions on capitol hill. talk to us about the extent of facebook's lobbying efforts, as of now, how it compares to other tech companies. sarah: the first thing we have budget is that facebook spent on lobbying in d.c. is so much smaller than the companies that have been doing it for years -- google, microsoft, apple. facebook is pretty slow to join this party. in the past, they didn't have a very contentious relationship with washington. they grew up in barack obama's presidency. now they are realizing that they need to make nice, they need to figure out how to get in

sunday the move comes amid an escalating standoff over the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. and police called the force are springing up in european cities that women are calling for a boy course with this summer's fifa world cup in russia we look at the group behind the campaign. hello welcome is five pm here in moscow you're watching international palestinian protesters have returned to the gaza border a day after seventeen people died and over a thousand were injured in clashes with israeli soldiers the u.n. security general is now calling for an independent investigation into the deaths local journalists and gadhafi has been following the clashes so today's a second day of protest demonstrations and praise for the palestinians palestinians from all over the gaza strip are coming to march through the fence and as you see we can still see this israeli soldiers nightmares trying to target all of that all of the protesters who are coming near the fence and palestinians protesters are holding palestinian flags and are trying to put them near the fence yesterday eight thousan

through a mutual contact which was previously in u.k. politics. the firm had an opening for director in part because the past research director died in his hotel room in kenya. part of the reason why i got chosen to become a research director was they were looking to expand digital capacity and keep up with developments that were happening through the military side. and about how information was spreading online. and developing new it that they could pass on to clients. >> and, could you --just to look into the records, could you explain how long he worked there and what caused you to leave the company? >> when i started in june 2013, cambridge analytica did not even exist yet. it is important for people to understand that cambridge analytica is more of a concept or a brand than anything else. we did not have employees. it is just a front company. i started a group in 2013 in july, that is when i told alexander nix that i did not want to continue working at them -- then at the time cambridge analytica, even though i scaled down my work until the 2

and british elections and may have swayed the u.k. brexit boat . this is 3.5 hours. -- vote. this is 3.5 hours. >> welcome to our inquiry into disinformation and fake news, i

also has an online petition against what it dubs the cup of shame and its site probably both that the u.k. has announced ministers won't be attending of course it fails to mention that britain's decision has nothing to do with the situation in syria whatsoever and it carefully ignores that moscow's presence has contributed when it comes to the fight against terrorism in syria including deescalation zones and humanitarian corridors but i digress i was an online global activism network is behind both the billboards and the petition and this is how they describe their aims this is a global organization with a simple demographic mission close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want their campaigns cover everything from saving elephants and bees to much more controversial topics like gun control in america and stopping the far right from taking power in europe so clearly they don't shy away from politics and when it comes to syria their position is chris. clear assad and by extension russia bad u.s. coalition and white helmets good and fact according to thei

stephen morris is here, u.k. banking reporter. waiting to settle this case paid off her barclays, didn't it? >> most banks pay whatever the department of justice asked. barclays was really contrarian and decided to take us to court because we don't think we should pay any more money than this and it paid off. the reported in october 2016, they wanted to cap the penalty at $2 billion. a rare gamble for a bank paid off. ♪ ♪ bigail: "bloomberg best." they met in berlin where lagarde spoke about strengthening the european union. why has european integration been so slow? >> i would not say that. in times of crisis when it was necessity they eventually moved very fast. the europe area was incomplete and needed to be strengthened. they put up a firewall. they reinforced the banking system. i think they came to close accountability, but it is still sort of what is needed. they need more trust, more accountability. i think most of the point is they need to strengthen three things. one is the capital markets. two is the banking union.

he was poisoned along with his daughter junia in the u.k. 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. i'm going the. interview of the diary inventions solsbury the russian government is called on to do everything it can to create clarity and transparency an answer justified on resolved questions in the fog about . board 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 more than 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 has threaten

even if w seem to be in line with at least the u.k. in this one case. robert: you look at thees pths ent's comments this week on syria and maybe moving tops out pretty soon. what message does that send to russia? andrea: he's been saying that privately we understand to hisd he wants out of syria. russia is now in crge, russia and the iranians. it makes no sense. it's alsoulling out the rug from our kurdishie all and that is pretty much to erdogan there. we are not only retreating fdem world lhip in europe but also in syria. shawna: it's tellingutz on the stick around in syria and see what he can get out of it. >> but there's some hope with in newional security team coming on board. mike pompeo, if he's confirmed and joh bolton as the new national security advor, that they will take a more hardline approach towards russiain and co the president to speak out on these issues more regularly. andrea: one points about bolton, there's a lot of concern even among some at the state department and at the pentagon. jim mattis has tried to show he's on board with b