Calls for an investigation into the Saudi Crown Prince over his possible role in the brutal murder of journalist. Its 10 oclock here in moscow and youre watching live from our studio with me welcome to the program. Russia has firmly rejected accusations that its military was in any way involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight m h 17 thats after dutch prosecutors on wednesday charge 4 suspects with murder over the alleged roles in the 2014 disaster which claimed 298 lives moscow says the case against them relies heavily on falsified video footage supplied to investigators. Joined in the studio with more on the days developments. Its the 1st time were hearing names its the 1st time were seeing photos so its 4 names of 4 photographs that we have been shown at the Media Conference just today weve also learned plenty about the intentions of the investigation now theyve announced their intention to charge these people with murder and also they are putting them on the International Wanted list now an interesting detail that all these 4 suspects have in common is that none of them related have any connections to a Russian Military brigade that is accused by the same investigation of smuggling the book Missile Launch system into ukraine that eventually brought down the mh 17 whats russias reaction been to todays that well of course its a big accusation that russia has said that they feel that russia feels nothing but regret over this case and thats because according to the Russian Foreign ministry the joint Investigation Team takes into account information that it received from questionable sources this is how the Foreign Ministry put it now some information is known to have they have known to have gathered some information for instance from social media some of the of the information came from ukraine a biased side a a side with a horse in this race and russia also once again reiterated its readiness to cooperate and also underline the fact that more school already has done so quite a number of times that that it has provided plenty of information has been knocking on many many doors but it has been sort of ostracized and kept away from the investigation thats an important point is that moscow has provided with data done in the years as you say what did the investigation there for doing well absolutely and i mean the accusations against russia have become sort of a major line like a highway the mattick highway if i might put it this way at todays Media Conference but the investigators were a bit they sent mixed. Signals because at 1st they were saying that they received no information from russia no corporation whatsoever that russia didnt explain anything and then admitting that they did indeed received plenty of information and they had they even looked at it well have a listen yourself at the foot of the train if you look back you can establish that from the 1st day after the 17th of july the Russian Federation hasnt disclosed anything about what happened and that is a slap in the face to all the relatives of the victims and i call on them to start cooperating to tell us what happened there we received the information for murder Russian Federation for motion about the missile and the documents about the missile there we also received the rod or other that wasnt clear enough to say exactly what what happens with the missile given this and didnt give us the right picture we prepared a short clip explaining what they what they received and what they are now saying wasnt clear enough doesnt paint a clear enough picture have a look the previous investigation so many triumphantly shouting accusations at russia but instead of trying to out yell its critics russia showed original documents raw data and experiment results which poked holes in the investigation exhibit a. Russias Defense Ministry dug into its archives and deep it traced the missile based on the pieces discovered among the debris of m. H. 17 the ministry determined its tail number revealing the full life cycle of the project tile manufactured back in the days of the soviet union in 1986 the missile was shipped to a military base in ukraine it never left the territory of the soviet republic and then after the breakup of uses of the country according to the ministrys data the book missile was moved only. Within the borders of ukraine and in 2014 it was set up and stored at a base in the west of the country mole asia has repeatedly criticized this probe even having access to it saying that it was made into a political fast accusing russians of. But what is the evidence you could even be the Ukrainian Government because the 2 have disappeared we do norway we excluded from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in it the idea was not to find out how this happened with all that but you seem to be concerned that it did need to been on russia here we have but these who have some political interest in the matter and the examine so the judge will have to have a look and to weigh the information the evidence presented by both the prosecution and by the defense so if well see how that fares in court how the evidence provided by both. Russia and if anything new comes up how that will fare. Well with the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption of little document appear to reveal that officials from one bite is that movement had been embezzling aid funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. Humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too thousands of dollars from each other thousands of dollars raised from an aid concert on the colombian portable power spent on how tells prostitutes and actually good bye to members of quite as party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid heres our senior correspondent. Sex drugs and rocknroll arent something youd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly it seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what theyve uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into that to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly selfproclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. To the armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they scared to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current Living Conditions we do not know. How could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government 2 hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for except they didnt according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of this a month ago. When we couldnt allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans thats why as soon as we had the information about the Ongoing Investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial or thorazine the people who did this bear in mind were appointed by do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already Public Knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesnt cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. This huge drop in corruption to divert money that we could use both children instead of being spent including medicine that has been used to pay for the whole prostitutes expensive Shopping Trips and Luxury Hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze and live a concert that Richard Branson has led along with others in the us pro a chant of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure of plan why those forces inside of bennetts well and columbia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury staying in 5. 00 star hotels and therefore theyre really showing what theyre about its about wanting to power for personal enrichment the Corruption Scandal is just one small part of what the us is engaging in in this enormous assault and genocidal assault against the people of it well its hundreds of millions its chance of billions of dollars that the u. S. Is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people. And report out today says theres credible evidence that the crown prince of saudi arabia is liable for the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october. Remember the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi the saudi journalist who was killed in his own countrys embassy well the u. N. Human rights expert is now calling for a criminal probe into the Saudi Crown Princes possible involvement agnus column ards 100 page report suggests its inconceivable that the defacto ruler wouldnt have known about the well planned assassination the 1st Important Message i think my report time light is the fact that the execution of mr cash was the responsibility of the state. A report thats focused on a number of high level officials including the crown prince conflicting turkish and saudi reports immediately followed death in istanbuls Saudi Arabian consulate back in october he was 1st declared missing amidst reports that he was actually chopped into pieces in the building saudi officials said he left but there c. C. T. V. Evidence showed an eyebrow raising body double dressed in clothes after a joint turkish saudi investigation the turks reported tampering of evidence that pointed to murder and all the while saudi authorities continue to claim they didnt know anything that is until 18 days after the investigation when turkish authorities said because shoji died of strangulation saudi arabia then came out saying it was a rogue operation his 100 has nothing to do with this issue. The National Security adviser in the u. S. Said this. This was pretty sure we have a better sense of what happened this was individuals exceeding their authority and going beyond that and then beat these individuals made a tremendous mistake. With this mistake they will pay a price and their cases are not in the quote system saudi government vehemently denied any involvement from crown prince mohammad bill psalm on but new information from columbine. The report definitely hasnt been the only reason for skepticism turkish president has specifically said the order came from the highest levels of the saudi kingdom germany because. The evidence that we have so far indicates the. Slain of issues while in murder all those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level will be brought to justice and will give the partridge when they deserve the incident was not a momentary result would rather of the result of a planned operation so far the saudi government has been tight lipped about what came later we know arrests were made and 11 suspects face trial back in january with 5 death penalties dished out but a new criminal investigation into the crown princes involvement could mean the 1st trial wont be the last. Month after sudans president was asked to by the countrys armed forces the african nation is now trying to find ways to visit all of the resulting constitutional crisis president bush has removal after decades in power led to a struggle between the military government and groups pushing for turn to civilian rule as well as internal efforts to resolve the impasse theres also help lining up from abroad the u. S. Is increasing its involvement 2 weeks after a major crackdown by the sudanese military on protesters washington is the Security Forces to end attacks on civilians and to investigate the recent violence. Washingtons appointed a new special envoy for sudan a better and diplomat who on paper has a wealth of local knowledge and experience of the region 65 year old donald booth has not only u. S. Ambassador to liberia and ethiopia but was also the obama administrations envoy to sudan and south sudan now hes back in the role. Births appointment as not being universally welcomed the u. S. Base dollar for Women Action Group has doubts but the vision having suffered years of conflict including genocide and ethnic cleansing. Not only did both want to normalize relations with the murderous regime he actively in the glick to those being murdered booth failed to put forth any statements regarding the atrocities committed we cannot trust him to speak up now internally displaced individuals who took to birth during his visits were quickly erast it without any prevailed by booth to grant them release all protection hes a boyband will once again silence those who have been suffering in darfur for 7. And has done all both can stand to work ok with more pain has been taking a look at his track record. As the situation in south sudan continues to spiral the United States has appointed a new special envoy to save the day the department has appointed ambassador down on the eve booth as special envoy on sudan his appointment demonstrates that the United States has a Firm Commitment to the sudanese people and efforts to advance a peaceful political solution now the white house says that its his experience with south sudan that makes him qualified however it is long record with the country that is the source of all the outrage donald booth was the special envoy to both sudan and south sudan under the administration of barack obama from 2013 to 2017 under his watch the civil war and human rights abuses escalated. The. Braids the angry sexual mutilation abductions and sexual slavery as well as killings that have become commonplace in south sudan there is no doubt that these crimes are persistent because impunity is so entrenched that every kind of norm is broken now the role of donald booth in this mess hasnt exactly been good in 2011 the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on sudan however the United States didnt start abiding by it until 20163 years after the war was already in full swing despite what seemed like Strong International consensus favor going to bargo for several years the United States withheld support and an embargo was not put on the Un Security Council agenda. Seems like a pretty big. And of the u. S. And israeli aligned regime of south sudan he actually worked to get them or waiver from the white house over their use of child soldiers and he seems a little bit partisan when it comes to internal strife in the country heres a statement he made about the ousting of the Vice President we do not believe it would be wise for him ashore to return to his previous position in juba so this is the man whose task it is to restore peace however if you look at his record he seems to have plenty of experience doing the opposite us never really carried out sincerely so sudanese didnt really care or couldnt really follow a policy from us because the us was against the very survival because actually in this state there was made by the United States and most a mistake made. Because you cannot ignore the suffering of people during your whole period of. Us didnt lift a few tried to go the country even though or the break up with south sudan in 2000 well u. S. Government did nothing but keep punishing people you keep going youre for sheer keep Foreign Policy to. The daughter of Nelson Mandela south africas ambassador to denmark has caused outrage with controversial tweets about color and land ownership. Ever tried apologists your time is over you will not rule again we do not fear you finally but a statement was condemned by the countrys opposition and a south African Trade Union group both a calling for since it mandela to be dismissed from us at oriel post but the Economic Freedom fighters party say they fully support mandela branding her critics racist she defended the comments saying that shes entitled to have her own opinion. Behind the argument is the controversial land reform bill in south africa and the expropriation of plans from overwhelmingly white farmers the idea of that is to restore justice after apartheid according to the government and white farmers will also be asked to help mentor black farmers we spoke to saren gong policy fellow at the south African Institute of Race Relations about the controversial tweets. She is the investor to a significant european country which so therefore has had very good relations with and that her behavior is entirely on diplomatic and it raises a very big concern for us in so their race has been used as a. Political tool by various parties to either act as a stand in for not doing enough of the right thing or 2 hours. Tried create a split between whites and blacks the redistribution of lead isnt actually it took as legislation without. Go to resolve the problem the problem is largely in administrative work its got a lot of catching up to do it i think this is why it has taken this particular store of relying on the. Past instead of saying look its a its a 2 to achieve a decent effect for people we achieve each do it properly. But short list to become britains next Prime Minister has now been cut to 4 candidates boss johnson is still leading the pack ahead of thursdays vote which will decide the final 2 parties poly biker looks at whos still in the race. But contest is hot enough and the field has been whittled down one blonde bombshell remains the front runner and these are the politicians whos made it through to the next round at the conservative partys game of knock out a deal that is very scary no youre really thinking to get off the plane taishan sounds like how there was that we had a quest for a new leader has got the country poring over the contestants of dirty laundry. Gordon brown as Prime Minister would be utterly rageous not just because you dont popping interfering high tax in complicated of life but mainly because hes a scot and government by a scot is just not conceivable in the current constitutional context. My wife is japanese and i was telling the story. Here with a preview of her. Steve you say that the man that you were back in germany im so sorry jeremy hunt ive never said that before in my life its usually men who say that so i really really want to apologize im sorry can you guess which politician took which drug in their preponderate ix days Michael Goves was a front runner but his campaign was marred after he was forced to admit he dabbled with cocaine in the 1990 s. It was a crime it was a mistake deeply regret it should you have gone to prison. While i was i was fortunate in that i didnt with all this dirt on offer youd expect those competing for a chance to move in here in a couple of weeks time to engage in some good Old Fashioned political mudslinging but at this stage of the contest Boris Johnson is so far ahead that the other conservative candidates appeared to have come down with a case of problem lightness perhaps looking into the future and vying for top positions in an all but inevitable Boris Johnson cabinet. Is the reason for a war between iran and the United States and thats the message coming from tehran the statement comes out of washington and i was the deployment of 1000. 00 additional troops to the middle east causing a further increase in regional tensions. There will not be a military confrontation between iran and america says there is no reason for war coups in other countries has turned into a common practice among u. S. Officials as they try to pressure other countries that we are there to deter aggression president does not want war here and we will continue to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region but we cant do that without making sure that we have the capability to respond if iran makes a bad decision the military deployment follows an attack on to all tankers in the gulf of oman last thursday which the United States was quick to blame on iran u. S. Central command sought to provide evidence for the accusation by releasing images allegedly showing an iranian navy removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels tehran has strongly denied that it was responsible the deteriorating relations between the 2 rivals have led to growing concerns that a conflict could break kept International Relations expert dr told us americas unpredictability is calm pouting the situation. I seem to be in a position in these areas. I very much doubt it. Although only embrace a need. A confrontation with the United States particularly at this very very very sensitive situation for the regime or when there are a lot of economists parsons on the government when it comes to the position. And his government to be honest i dont know what you see at the moment in the white house is the climate of. Confusion there are so many mixed messages coming from washington sometimes on the bases one day donald trump is threatening actually to send more troops to the middle east for international conakry a coalition against the on the other the he says that actually he doesnt want any so basically what we see at the moment these theyre basically on univision and their lack of consistency. In their white box. Around ambassador to the u. K. As a guest this week a lot is going on the ground in haiti discussed the escalation in the region with Afshin Rattansi can watch the full episode a lot of calm on channel and also right here in about and minutes time. They know themselves that these pictures. Dont to proof what they are claiming in fact they or they are saying that we have an assessment but the question is the suspend should be based on facts and evidences these pictures that have been released very distorted and you cannot get any conclusion out of it we as iran would be very delighted to be part of an International Investigation that we would in fact professionally. Get the matter in fact considered and to really look at the evidences so we would be very much supporting. A neutral and thought only investigation into the issue but as we have said this is unfortunately part of a dirty politics. Assignees and ill be back in the round of 30 minutes time with more global appetite said to stay with us. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Want to. Have to go right to the press this is what the 3 of the people. Interested in the waters are. Joining me every thursday on the alex im im sure ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics. Im showbusiness ill see that. Hello and welcome the crosstalk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle is trump winning can he be reelected based on his record there are many other questions as trump seeks to remain in the white house will the democrats run against trump as opposed to challenging his record in office have the democrats learned anything from the electorate so instead of crushing defeat in 2016. Across talking trump im joined by my guest Richard Goodstein in washington he is a democratic strategist and a former Campaign Adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton also in washington we have any merit he is a Congressional Republican candidate for the u. S. House of representatives and in St Petersburg across to Scott Rickard he is a former american intelligence linguist are joining cross