Reality age huge 8 pm on wednesday it is 6 pm in germany thats where were starting this hour the countrys announced that its made to 2 Russian Embassy employees persona nongrata in connection with the murder of a Georgian National back in august attorney general says theres evidence that moscow may have been behind the killing its a claim that russia vehemently denies evangelos sepsis picks up the story. 2 employees of the Russian Embassy are to be expelled and are declared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin a last august with seem to be an Asylum Seeker in the country germany has taken this action against the russian employees and or to russia because they believe that russia has not done enough to help the authorities in germany looking into this investigation and they also say that berlin is taking this stance because they say that there is some sort of russian state level and for women in this word or the federal Foreign Office today declared to employees of the Russian Embassy in berlin to be persona nongrata with this step of the federal government reacts to the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high ranking and in fact it requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k. 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In berlin zoo there are sufficient real indications that the killing is either on commission or done by state agencies of the Russian Federation or such of the autonomys chechen republic as part of the Russian Federation germanys prosecutors say or they have enough evidence linking the murder to moscow in article recently posted by the Investigative Group in the pointing finger is that there is a link between the kremlin and the murder of the chechen ethnic last august here in berlin but lets talk about a little bit of what this group the link what we know about them so far is that they are of course ties to western secret services and they have played a major role in major cases that involve the moscow case and the delany of h. 17 in Ukraine Russia has come out with their own statement about the reaction from berlin saying that this is groundless this is absolutely groundless speculation this topic is being somehow whipped up by german media but it does not mean a this is how things are. There was also been a reaction by german politician of from the freedom of chronic party alexandre graf alam store who spoke to the news agency a. F. P. Hes asking for more information to be clear shown to people why is berlin doing this we all i would like to point out here that next week in france the president of Russia Vladimir Putin and the german chancellor Angela Merkel will be meeting in the normandy summit earlier from london today the chancellor Angela Merkel said that this would not affect in any way the talks between the countries since this has to do with ukraine but what she did leave over any of that its possible that the valar by a lot of relations between the 2 countries and why it is that its somehow. Enjoined you know miller earlier to discuss the victims background. 40 year on phil in Congress Village he was killed in what was described as an execution style killing he was shot twice in the head and this is a murder case that quickly became highly politicized in the media with headlines point in this thing there were russia drawing comparisons to the script poisonings in the u. K. Calling it the script pal 2. 0 in fact the media were less interested however in delving into the history of the victim which makes quite an interesting read his c. V. Is is quite so its quite a checkered history lets say hes an ethnic chechen georgian citizen he was an islamist a former soldier he fought against russia in the 2nd chechen war he has connections to some very high profile terrorists many of the fighters the force alongside went on to move to syria and join Islamist Groups there and he sought asylum in germany in 2015 it was after a failed assassination attempt was that the 1st time someone tried to kill him. He was actually on a terror watch list a quite some time here. He was described as a person who potentially posed a threat to the Public Safety he was taken all started. Paralysed only last year in this one right in 28. 00 he was removed from that list now needless to say is passed however interesting however check it may be does not justify his killing and the perpetrators must be brought to justice but perhaps to give a fuller picture its worth highlighting that this guy was not joe bloggs you know he was not your average everyday guy he was a man with connections to some very questionable individuals with some very extreme ideological tendencies. Leaders of nato Member States would be meeting for a 2nd day in london to mark the 70th anniversary of the worlds most powerful military alliance despite attempts to put on a show of unity divisions within the crisis stricken coalition have been laid that is of hes been following the gathering in london. This summit is going to be defined not by the unity shown on the surface at least by all the leaders but by all the very very big and apparent cracks between many of those coming into this summit one thing World Leaders have regularly seems to be agreed on is that russia is always the bad guy however the nato generally general secretary himself saying that what was needed was a more confrontation but dialogue with the major eastern neighbor nato essentially road all over the shop because russia is our. Closest neighbor our biggest neighbor we need to strive for a better relationship with russia. On even if we are head not able to. Get a better relationship with russia in the near term we need to manage a difficult relationship and elsewhere as well weve also been hearing from a man well macron whos been saying that russia too does need to be dialogue on that fronts now while they advocate more dialogue with russia the reality is of course that war games continue to take place on russias borders with those eastern Member States and of course that expansion of nato to the east continues to be a cause of National Security concern for russia while any of the nato members such as take you for example who do wish to engage with russia even buy weapons from them will find themselves soon be out cos by other members Russian Air Defense system d s. 400. 00 would never be integrated into nato it will never be part of the nato integrated air missile Defense System it was already tetchy in contentious going into this summit and it would appear that things got even worse 1 last night many of the leaders of the leaders were invited to Buckingham Palace for a reception with the queen and some of them were caught on the microphone on the hot mike. Listen. If you see the. This is where hes a great politician with were not here she was. At least to face today i find him to be a very nice guy but you know the truth as. I told him out of the fact that hes not paying 2 percent. And i guess you dont really have to donald trump not happy he had canceled scheduled a press conference it was due to be held at the end of this and will be leaving the summit early in fact hes been meeting with other leaders folk all 8 plus one who he says are the 8 countries other than the u. S. Who have met the 2 percent spending target for military targets and so mr trump making it very clear that certain countries canada and particular are not welcome not impressed with what he had overall a very very divisive conference here in london. Impeachment proceedings are gathering steam in the United States after the House Intelligence Committee released what democrats are calling a damning report the document claims the President Trump abused his office for personal gain by soliciting interference from ukraine for the 2020 election Donald Trumps brand of the allegations a joke reporting next to his column open. Well the report from the House Intelligence Committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his Reelection Campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here of donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president id states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the pleasure of the president s political dirty work and he was willing to sacrifice the National Security of the United States by withholding military aid and diplomatic recognition in the form of that white house meeting in order to get what he wanted now before departing the country on monday donald trump dismissed the allegations that were expected to be leveled in this report this is what donald trump said prior to leaving the country before the report was released by the radical. Democrats decide what im going to set up a year ago that what im going to that was. One of the most important. Thing. For them to be doing saying putting it at the end of the table which. I grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders the lenski also dismissed these allegations about President Trumps behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo thats not my thing i dont want us to look like bagus now many witnesses testified during the impeachment inquiry hearings but observers wondered if they really. You made a strong case that donald trump had been inappropriate in his dealings with ukraine this is some of the testimony that was heard there was no mention of withholding aid on the call correct thats correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery no there was not any reference or quid pro quo no there was no you have any information regarding any criminal activity the president of the United States has been involved with pedal. Now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that was released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u. S. President donald trump saying that his dealings with ukraine had not been appropriate and had not violated the law fact that donald trump is out of the country celebrating the 70th anniversary of nato the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that many have pointed to the timing of the report as being somewhat suspicious however while some are looking at the report and saying it shows very very damning evidence against donald trump others are looking at the report and saying its simply a rehash of long discredited allegations different views from different sides of the political spectrum here in the United States. The British Government facing a massive backlash after the release of a heavily redacted report on the fracking industry british authorities never intended it to see the light of day but greenpeace won a lengthy legal battle against london under the freedom of information act out of the 48. 00 pages 37. 00 would totally blacked out what remains of the one secret document shows a concerted plan to develop a positive image for the controversial gas Extraction Method among the general public. The conservatives have taken money from Oil Executives dresch the rights of communities and enabled for i can companies to threaten their local environment the fact they have tried to cover the sub by rejecting pages of critical information for the illustrates this governments contempt for the public this is the conservatives idea of being open about their failed franken experiment forced to release their report theyve heavily censored it. This heavily redacted government report shows reference to secret plans to run a processional complain used by the weight of Scientific Evidence and strength of Public Opinion against reichen i dread to think what we havent been allowed to see with more on the fight against fracking in the u. K. Heres a live. They high tech god knows what sticking out of the grounds that earns some people cash and literally shakes other peoples homes those other people for years have been teaming up with green activists to win a war against fracking in britain. And believe the voters you can believe. In finally last month came the victory at least for the timing the controversial method of shale gas extraction was banned in the u. K. Under the Prime Minister who once called it glorious news for humanity and now that it seems there is no more need to come out and protest the Cabinet Office has at last released a secret report on the fracking industry despite these lines on the paper no parts of this report shows appendices is to be released under the freedom of information act so you want to rate something that the activists were trying to get a glance at for almost 2 years theres a little problem heres what it looks like from the 48 pages seen by the guardian 37 are entirely blacked out and only one the very front is left uncensored so if youre still keen to get to know about the skeletons in the industrys closet good luck why would so much stuff remain hidden looking at this black wall of redacted pages people will be wondering why theres so little the government is willing to reveal about fracking and so much it wants to hide if ministers have really dropped their support for this polluting industry why not publish this report in full and come clean about whats been going on behind closed doors. For years still though theres enough to scratch your heads over after reading the uncensored bits in there heres a gist of a few ideas there are issues with the fracking industries progress the main one is public opposition to fracking it needs to be dealt with the government should develop a pro shale narrative and spread the word the department for energy and Climate Change is already undertaken crucial work on communications to increase public acceptability of shale for example creation of objective information Material Development of pro Show National and regional merits of shall champions and among other useful moves that whitehall needs to take is finding ways to speed up planning in response to operators concerns which is also sometimes an obstacle planning times need to be shortened and process needs to be predictable which all makes you wonder why would the guys in charge ban fracking at all in such a document there are always going to be sensitive parts that are embarrassing to the government that are sensitive that could harm you know the industry potentially in the future or that could show the government being too cooperative with industry that might show motives. That are the public would not see in a good light its to protect their their image and to protect their ability to move forward and continue to do what they think they need to do for the nation which is different from what they tell the public of course because they tell the public whatever narrative suits them in terms of getting elected and so on but typically its for domestic political reasons that you would ban it theres no other reason that i can think of depending on how things develop geopolitically there might be a big impetus to develop u. K. Shale and in which case theyll want to do. As quickly as possible. Russias envoy to the world chemical weapons watchdog says a new investigation is needed into last years alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma it comes after a number of o. P. C. W. Employees disputed the official findings suggesting they were deliberately manipulated the organizations report was compiled following the april 28th attack which was blamed on the Syrian Government the alleged atrocity prompted retaliate 3 air strikes by britain france and the United States on a number of targets in damascus. A year later whistleblowers began to cast doubts over the findings claiming the report was heavily redacted and scientifically flawed to suited to conclusions. Most of the duty in ferguson reports on the instant the interim report and the final report were scientifically impoverished procedurally regular and possibly fraudulent and while the o. P. C. W. s objectivity has been called into question a number of academics claim the medias been blinkered in its coverage one of those claiming that now joins us live lets talk to max abrams whos a political scientist of Northeastern University in the United States welcome back to r. T. Mr abrams the might of been a number of differences of opinion within the o. P. C. W. About this attack but is there any reason to believe that the organization manipulated its investigations findings so as to blame outside forces. So im actually have a son time span i give respect sounds and the reason why this very important chemical weapons watchdog exists is because good to pull this very credibl