Very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach to moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin and amid a spot over a murder probe teleporter picks up the story. The Russian Foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the German Governments decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 Russian Diplomats the german in boston has received a note of protest over the ground was decision to explode to Russian Diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the German Government made this decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats for the cut from the country and the official report said that russia was not being active enough in cooperating within vesta geisha into the murder of a Georgian National named zelin can Congress Really now the german prosecutors even say that russia moscow may have ordered the murder itself but russia denies these claims and even warned that there would be a mere response the federal Foreign Office today declared to employees of the Russian Embassy in berlin to be persona nongrata with this step the federal government reacts the to the russian authorities despite repeated high level and in fact requests to no sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k. K. In berlin zoo. Its incorrect to expel 2 Russian Diplomats who had nothing to do the mood im assured as full reciprocal measures which as you well know there are unwritten rules if you expel our diplomats we expel ules thats that. Now president putin has said that russia has asked for the extradition of Congress Really many times which the German Government is now saying never happened but to bring our viewers up to speed Congress Really was killed back in august and the media immediately blamed russia for this he was living in germany since 2017 and had connections not only had ties to chechen terrorists but also fought against russia in the 2nd chechen war so its not hard to imagine why there. Russian government would be interested in arresting him on charges of terrorism. The man who was killed in berlin was not your average georgian he was a militant he fought on behalf of the caucasian separatists he was on russias wanted list he was a very cruel man once he killed 98 people he was one of the organizers of bombings in the moscow metro i dont know what happened to him its a criminal sphere anything can happen there. So again moscow has always expressed its willingness to cooperate in this investigation but the initial expulsion of Russian Diplomats on germanys part doesnt exactly mark good faith from berlin. For further analysis we bring in author and russia analyst Martin Mccully the German Foreign ministry has called the reciprocal expulsions groundless what do you make of that well from the diplomatic point of view if you expelled 2 Russian Diplomats from berlin balloon realized straight away that 2 german diplomats would be expelled from moscow and declared persona non grata that standard diplomatic procedure so therefore the the russian the German Foreign ministry is in fact making a statement which everyone knows is not in fact exact where you say as you say this is the Standard Practice has also said that moscow is sending the wrong signals how is that possible then and what signals were they meant to send. Well berlin i suspect knew that once it declared 2 Russian Diplomats persona non grata then the same would happen in in moscow and. Chancellor merkel and the German Government would have considered very carefully what would actually be the consequences with this in fact home relations with russia doing that are normally a process was going to take place very very soon its now past and that it might harm german russian relations so therefore they calculated that it wouldnt really be a scandal it would not cause a breach a really deep breach between the 2 countries and that after the 2 german diplomats presumably there are members of the blunders definition dinged intelligence declared persona non grata after a while perhaps a week or 2 weeks or months everything would go back to normal so there from the the the the German Governments point of view they calculated doing this would 1st of all annoy moscow they would now it of course but eventually it would just calm down and they would get back to normal relations do you think theres any chance that this will ask late the russians have expressed hope that relations wont be affected pointing out that theyre really responding and not initiating anything on their side but does this have the possibility to get worse. There is the possibility that because Something Else might happen. And moscow might then be very annoyed by that but i think from the german side or they will be trying to play it all down making sure that nothing on toward happens which really annoys president putin and tiger nice of him because at the enormity meeting in paris and america asked him about this and he said i dont know about this he didnt make a big thing of it she didnt make a big thing of it but of course she was judy bound as. To bring the subject up and basically the agreement was in normal day. Lets get back to normal relations but in diplomatic in the diplomatic world something is going to happen which are unprecedented you cant really always judge was going to happen but i think the relations between germany and russia would get back to a normal state because both sides want in almost 8 after the normandy approaches they want a solution to the ukrainian problem they dont want problems between the 2 countries and both countries will realize that and hope that this will in fact gradually go away after the 2 german diplomats are have been expelled and returned to berlin. Author and russia analyst Martin Mccauley thank you for joining us on the program today thank you for. A u. S. Senate committee has approved a bill directing the country secretary of state to determine whether russia is a sponsor of terrorism if passed the state department will have 90 days to report back to congress the son or her table the bill is convince russia backs terrorism love them or put continues to try to cause grievous harm to International Peace and stability and im pleased the Senate ForeignRelations Committee advanced my critical legislation directing the state department to consider naming russia what they are a state sponsor of terror the proposed legislation will then have to pass the house and the senate before being signed by the president just a week ago the state Department Said that russia is not a state terror sponsor him up and looks at the absurdity of the suggestion. State sponsor of terrorism is a special designation under u. S. Law in which a country is subject to specific sanctions and treatment by the United States for allegedly supporting terrorism now the countries that currently have this label are iran north korea syria and sudan cuba had this label until u. S. President barack obama lifted that label against cuba as part of negotiations that took place during his presidency now the allegation seems to be that russia supports terrorism and is worthy of this state department designation however weve heard testimony from members of the u. S. State department making clear that russia does not support terrorists the state department has not at this stage determined russia is a state sponsor of terrorism there is a fairly complex deliberative process for doing that and i dont personally see the person as state sponsorship of terrorism terrorist attacks we also have to recognize russia is itself has been a victim of terrorism to make it safe to say that on the record as well now russia has long battled against jihadism extremists that have carried out terrorist attacks against the russian people the russian government has also cooperated with the u. S. Government in antiterrorism efforts the advancing of this bill comes in the immediate aftermath of the very important meeting between Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and us President Donald Trump now at his press remarks following that meeting the Russian Foreign minister emphasized that there are certain forces in the United States working very hard to do rail relations between the 2 countries. Congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy Us Russian Relations now relations between the u. S. And russia have been sour as it is and when u. S. President donald trump met with the Russian Foreign minister and took a photograph together there was quite a reaction from those who oppose it are critical of President Donald Trump trump is meeting with russias foreign minister in the oval office again on this hes invited in im always. It sounds last time they laughed about troops firing of komi today they can celebrate the success of russian propaganda regen wouldnt recognize this g. O. P. Trump lover of meeting in private this often what conspiracy of the cooking up today among the topics discussed at this high level russia u. S. Meeting where the issues of arms control Nuclear Proliferation as well as the issue of terrorism and it seems that in the aftermath of the meeting some efforts are now taking place to undo whatever progress was made the Russian ForeignMinistry Spokeswoman brand of the Initiative Like we spoke with the executive director of the Racial Center rest most and he says that russia has done more to combat terrorism than u. S. I am shocked i think this is going in the complete opposite direction the president. Would like to go in i think europe is also would like to be mending and rebuilding the tides to russia i dont understand how the senate even comes up with these this idea i mean if you look at terrorism russia is probably doing more to fight terrorism than the us i mean its clear that whether its intentional or not us funding us weapons us training have gone to just an example moderate rebels which one they are supposedly moderate and then the next day there isis russia as a state sponsor chip i mean these people are off in some other world and theyre not in not in reality. I feel very embarrassed i am apologize you know for myself a rough year for this going through what i just said in completely shocked that somebody would actually propose that. Say a commission has unveiled new plans to make europe the 1st climate neutral continent under the European Greendale emissions will be half by 2030 with Carbon Neutrality to be achieved by 2050 but the deal has already faced criticism from bloc members not just exactly why. There is no bigger challenge than saving the planet and europe wants to lead the way the new e. U. Commission leader wonderly in has proposed a new green deal aiming to make the continent climate neutral by 2050 the European Green deal is our new Growth Strategy for growth that gives back more than it takes away we will help our economy to be a Global Leader by moving 1st and moving fast by showing the rest of the world how to be sustainable in competitive we can convince other countries to move with us via bishan are there but making it happen is not going to be easy the plans were choir a revamp of almost every sector transport farming manufacturing power plants and many countries already pushing back on the day it was introduced one 3rd of the you countries blocked the finance underpinning the new green deal so for euro skeptics this might look like it another example of brussels making plans before getting the Member States on board most governments support the general direction of the new green deal but the trade off between saving the planet and protecting jobs is not going to be easy for the politicians electricity is a key factor in cutting emissions and us things then in europe most of it comes from either Nuclear Power or fossil fuels the Nuclear Power sector employs more than 1000000 people in the u. N. Another half a 1000000 people work in the coal industry so thats a lot of jobs that are at stake and france the continents biggest Nuclear Power producers are now questioning why that sector should be excluded from the Green Financing we cannot succeed in the ecological transition and we cannot achieve a goal in terms of combating Global Warming without Nuclear Energy meanwhile the renewable term it is are not always popular look at germanys wind power sector. Turbine installation here a slowdown due to legal disputes long delays and planning permission and alarm over a number of birds being killed by the blades e. U. Commission leader of underlayer calls her new green deal a quote man on the moon moments this is europes man on the moon moment but from down here on the ground you can see its going to be a long and difficult journey eventually. For our. Political commentators on bricmont says the deal will never be implemented is simple keen enough sources like wind and solar wind damage dent in their geezer where do you do at night when there is no wind then you know there is a hole the problem of back to that tens of problem helped us in europe theyre never going to agree these sorts of measures dont change anything and i think its going to be there everywhere you see you must understand that these are commies. The European Union they didnt 2001 are something the other planned to make use of you know. Knowledge economy looking. Good screw system is going to sing it with you can see that at least in western europe so where is this. Going to me going it seems to me that one has to be jailed be very wary when people are classes of just if they dont exist and are making these big plans in the palm uses which are not being kept in the end of course i wont be doing to 2050 to check it but they expect that the plan one being wont be fulfilled. Still to come teenage Climate Change activists quote a time or becomes times youngest ever person of the year some would rather she didnt grace the cover of the magazine details after the break. This is an individual i think very much i have to do what i think is right i have to fight to defend my values have to defend my principles and if i feel the state is not doing it according to what i think is the right thing than i have to stand up and say its not good enough and if i as a humanitarian feel that the next to me is not respected and treated in that dignified way then i have to also stand up in this regard so yes we have to do it despite that it is made a very long term fight and we are not necessarily winning. When the balance came in 2008 oh theres a lot of money printing going on people said wheres the inflation the government says theres no inflation you know and then a lot of people say well actually health care and education are skyrocketing in value you dont count those and thats why youre misreading inflation and this is been going on for years. Suggests. We found it we found the missing inflation. Come back Time Magazine has unveiled its choice for person of the year 16 year old climate activist got a ton bark well some do you are as a model of determination and praise her efforts to combat Climate Change others find her approach unscientific and accuse her of sowing worldwide panic artist and hawkins looks into the nerve the phenomenon. Last year she was just the regular swedish schoolgirl 12 months on and shes times person of the year rarely does a discussion on Climate Change today take place without her name being mentioned work has become a global sensation not just a prominent figure among climate activists but almost a messianic symbol to pulls no punches in schooling politicians about what they must do to save the planet the real danger is when politicians and c. E. O. s are making it look like real action is happening when in fact almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative p. R. She certainly does have a point but what about the growth of film book phenomenon itself its on the noise quickly and loudly drawn attention to Climate Change shes got people talking and even been credited with influencing european and National Elections but wants more than just talking she wants action from politicians or the critics question what useful action grettir inspired movements have actually taken a vote from strikes and protests which she herself says are unsustainable we cant go on like this it is not sustainable solution that children skip school we cant go on like that so now we dont want to continue so we would we would love some action from people in power her speech is resonated across the world it wasnt long before her fiery indictment of World Leaders at the un Assembly Became a meme now they followed a clear structure grave danger bad government and a need for immediate action she soon became a target for opponents who said her ideas it lacks substance and slated her style but that was quickly knocked on the head criticism was often swiftly silenced with those critiquing her justifiably or no. Not labeled as massage honest hysterical or being triggered the climate hysteria movement is not about science if it were about science it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and the mentally ill swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international glare you. Markku knows of daily want to just call gretz a phone beggar mentally ill swedish child she is mad and dangerous and she is causing the Young Children sleepless noise to move to the juicy gossip shes a she needs to go to school and show that i was fascinated by this school girl starting this strike for Climate Change awareness and i thought wow thats pretty gutsy it was all a little melodramatic it was all in the world of succulent dick i dont want millions if not believes of young people watching great to do that kind of speech and genuinely think the plan is literally about the way she is daring to express what so many young people are feeling and actually i find it remarkable that she can speak in such an honest way its truth to kathy is he speaking some of her actions a ridiculed like her transatlantic boat trip having sailed through storms to avoid Carbon Emissions from air travel she sailed into a storm of criticism when a fellow companions jointer flying in by plane not to mention the impracticality of adopting such measures on a wider scale this brings us back to growth as words about politicians creative p. R. World leaders from merkel to micron among others were happy to humor the latest global trend with a photo opportunity while rebuking some of our ideas so what does this leave the person of the year at 2019 which is certainly sent a message taken center stage and brought people into the streets with a call it is now time for civil. Disobedience its time to rebel but will this have the desired effect the only thing you want to see is real action and reaction has been happening so of course we have achieved. A lot but. If you look at it. From the point of view we have achieved nothing like. She has created a stir it may be difficult to understand the method behind a person of the year awards one of good as runner ups was donald trump maybe we can agree to hope that this years award isnt just symbolic isnt Just Creative p. R. But will lead to the real change the grosser seeks to create. Polls have opened in the u. K. Just behind me you can feel live pictures from one such polling station in london now this is the 5th general election and 5 years these are live pictures from the Police Station that i was just speaking about and london british voters have until 10 pm local time to cast their ballots once the voting is done well bring you all the results as they come in throughout the night. 10 people were injured after a fire on russias only Aircraft Carrier thats according to the countrys Emergency Services the admiral who is currently stationed in western russia has more months region a fire was contained with all crew evacuated from the vessel a preliminary report connects the place to repair work involving welding. More than 8 years ago an earthquake and tsunami hit japans fukushima Nuclear Power plant contaminating the surrounding area hundreds of thousands of people were about to eat it from their homes since then authorities have declared parts of the town closest to the plant say for habitation are 2 documentary visited the ghost town you can catch that film in full tomorrow on our t. V. March 20th live an earthquake and tsunami. A giant wave hits the fukushima one Nuclear Power plant. Flooding almost the entire facility. First the reactor cooling system is compromised then theres an explosion then another and another. Radiation rises to 5 times the normal level the situation is exceptional and its given the highest possible score for severity of Nuclear Contamination tend to make it a bit of. What they were on at the cook and saying do it in the well now as you had just done. Theres own thats what they call the part of the prefecture to which access is still restricted. 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So weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy to confront dacian let it be an arms race is on offense spearing Dramatic Development only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Join me every thursday on the alex. Im unsure and ill be speaking to guess of the world of politics business im show business ill see you then. Greetings and salutation there is nothing worse than a bad neighborhood walk watchers living next door to someone who is too noisy nosy and full of themselves is driven more than one tenant from apartments and neighborhoods across the country but who ever thought about what its like to be neighbors with the United States of america well apparently the answer is not good according to recent figures out of pew Research Mexico the United States southern neighbor is definitely not a fan in fact in mexico 56 percent say that you the United States is the greatest threat to their country while 27 percent cite the u. S. As their most dependable ally not surprisingly according to some of their most recent surveys numbers mexicans have almost no confidence in your host President Donald Trump and there is widespread opposition to his proposed border wall so i wonder you know it makes you wonder why why the mexican people would consider the United States to be such a threat to tell that the pew research. I bet it probably has something to do with headlines like this one. Doctors a restaurant while off were arrested while offering flu vaccines for immigrants in Border Patrol custody yes it appears that our good friends in the customs and Border Patrol who are running the immigrant concentration camps along our beautiful southern border are not a fan of flu vaccines despite the fact that at least 3 children ages 26. 16 died of influenza while in federal custody this last fiscal year this includes the tragic case of Carlos Gregorio hernandez muska a 16 year old who just last may died from influenza on the concrete floor of his Detention Center after Border Patrol agents chose to lock him up instead of giving him care its stories like those that remind us why we always d have to be watching the hawks. Because. Its. Easier to just sit. There like you know that i got. The. Welcome of all the watching the hawks i am tyrone and