I live from russia this is r. T. International my names colleen brain its wednesday evening at 9 here in moscow it is 7 pm in germany thats where were starting this hour its announced that its made to Russian Embassy employees persona nongrata in connection with the murder of a Georgia National in august but attorney general says theres evidence moscow may have been behind the killing to claim that russia vehemently denies evangelos sepsis picks up the story. Through employees of the Russian Embassy are to be expelled and over to cleared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin allow us 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 when and this word or the federal Foreign Office today declared to employees of the Russian Embassy in berlin to be persona nongrata with this step with the federal government reacts to the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high ranking and in fact seek requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k. K. 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 on law school that there is a link between the kremlin and the murder of the chechen as nick last august here in berlin lets talk about a little bit of what this group the 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 an h 7 seen in Ukraine Russia has come out with their own statement of both 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 it is how things are the us also been a reaction by e. German politician from the Free Democratic party alexandre graf alam store who spoke to the news agency a. F. P. Is asking for more information and its a be clear shown to people why it is 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 house to do with ukraine but what she did leave open that its possible that the latter by a lot of relations between the 2 countries get affected somehow mccarran joint you know neal earlier to discuss the victims background. 40 year on filin khan hunger severely 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 pointing the finger at russia drawing comparisons to describe things 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 quite it shows a 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 he fought alongside went on to move to syria and join Islamist Groups there he sought asylum in germany in 2015 that 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 off that terror list only last year in just this right in 28 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 perpetrator 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 have been 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 a bit laid bare the past couple of days hes been following the gathering in london. This summit is going to be defined not by the unity shown on the surface not least by all the leaders but by all of them very very big and the power cracks between many of those coming into this summit perhaps one thing old leaders regularly seem 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 manuel 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 d the nato integrated air missile Defense System it was already tenchi in contentious going into this summit and it would appear that things got even worse 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 feel. This is more hes a great politician with were clear she was going. 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 saying 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 focal 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. Ok live to paris now then a political commentator professor welcome back to. Disguise vexation that weve seen over the past couple of days how serious is the internal crisis that nato is experiencing because lets be honest the leaders that now because of the g 7 theyll at the g 20 theyll snipe at each other on twitter how much of this is down to nato sexist and full crisis. Well the problem is that nato cause cancer why it has been how classes tend to run though is pretty pretty useless but you know it illustrates a sentence of the girl who trust being about the European Union you dont make omelettes with bold acts and the nation of nato like the nation of europe exist before you know their. So far long time nato is currently as well just the puppet of the United States and United States well being most of the expenses and socalled defense and said that now companies do that so they are spending and then hell breaks lose because the turks want to have p. Hand in syria which is something that the baltics they dont care about the Baltic States want motos again says you. Which is inexistent and so on and so forth and mccaw was better relations with russia you realize is that. The United States never going to be. And whether its time for some of the errors because obama was already asking for an increase will be very spending and it seems to me that the alliance can continue because bureaucracies have a tendency to continually do you have Union Democracy that is not working and sends in fact i would like to contrast the success of the center of the 57. With another 7 of the name to the founding of the peoples republic of china and those of 1990 now in 1989. China was unbelievably unbelievably backward basically living in the middle ages and now we have these days im not sure how you pronounce it. Evaluation of students which show that the journey students are the best in the world with math reading. So thats great is that i would call it success but when i see nato fighting in afghanistan for 18 years and not including the. Success. I disagree on how much a night out for calls where to put troops for the priorities should be they all seem to have very different ideas on thought one thing that they mostly tend to agree on is that snape was essential for ensuring europes ongoing safety and security how would you assess that plane. Safety against whom i only Program Released terrorism russia is not an enemy and are close i want to go there and then we say we want but the relation we treasure then we invent all kinds of problems like maybe these people are the reason they were in germany because we are going to do about syria when in fact russia is on our side because theyre fighting that. We have said weapons do. You know i mean it would be very easy to get into a peaceful relations with russia but then what do they want they want to extend that china is a threat and invented because they cant exist in trade thats apparent and it media and intellectuals and the politicians dont call them on that and thats a scandal and thats why the west is in decline and they. Because they have much more to this they do have a Police Station and if you want the end of the world the new news and then well work with you if you dont wildly one do it with you with the other the same thing to say its gaining because it uses diplomatic means and. Threats. And war which is what nato is doing. And theyre spending enormous amount of money and recall now to over there be a big stake in chance maclow should spirit be sent for the mystic polices and he doesnt because i mean you know these little planes spending even more money on the defense which is and this is a. Ok professor political commentator in paris thanks very much for joining us and your image. Still ahead with the trump impeachment saga entering a new chapter it seems its all water off the u. S. President s back youll be able to speed on that after the break. Up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them that is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of. My feeling with this world its right now as were so confused and hear from and the certain generation thats controlling all the Politics Around the world when that generation. And children that are brought all this. Materialistic dont really care about these things dont even more automobiles want to live by the side want to ride a bicycle this movement is global and its going the world is going to go in this direction and its going to change. Impeachment proceedings are gathering steam in the United States the House Intelligence Committee released what democrats are calling a damning report the document claims the President Trump abused his office the personal gain by so this thing interference from ukraine for the 2020 election donald trump branded the allegations a joke reporting next hes kind of been. 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 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. Democrat decides what im going to set up a year ago when im going that was. One of the most important. Thing. For them to be doing saying putting it in the front of the table which. I grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders the lenski also dismissed these allegations about president trying to 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 you know there was not any reference to quid pro quo and there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the United States has been involved with total. 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. Russias envoy to the world chemical weapons watch dog 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 raised concerns about the official findings the organizations report was compiled following the april 28th attack which was blamed on the Syrian Government the latest atrocity probe to retaliate and strikes by britain france and the United States on a number of targets in damascus he later whistleblowers began to coast out over the findings claiming the report was heavily redacted and scientifically flawed to suited to conclusions. Most of the duma team failed to see reports on the instant the interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent while the o. P. C. W. s objectivity is being called into question a number of academics claim the medias also be blinkered in its coverage we spoke to one of the academics behind the claim last hour max abrams who believes the mainstream narrative will have to change. The mainstream neeru going to keep to the conflict in a very simplistic way sexually by making it seem as if the sun was even more extreme than you actually captured firstly this pro regime change crowd made it seem as if the rebels fighting assad were more moderate than they actually what are the more time goes on the more evidence for merchants the more it becomes difficult to claim that you know assad is all evil and the rebels were all good at least 3 different scientists who were involved in this or who are officially part of this group. Did not but we know the one which is broadcast in the video accurately reflects the so