it is an affront to the program on the use of chemical weapons and it is an affront to the rule space system on watch which we and our international partners depend we will work with our allies and partners to confront such actions wherever they threaten our security at home and abroad and i commend this statement to the house . thank you mr speaker i would like to thank the prime minister for advance of his statements and echo absolutely her words about the service of our and if you re just joining us you ve been watching british prime minister theresa may addressing parliament on the case of a former russian spy poisoned on british soil a she was saying that the russian state is responsible for the attempted murder of the former spy service cripple and his daughter in the british city of solsbury and she said it was an unlawful use of force and she detailed a series of measures one of them being the u.k. expelling twenty three were russian diplomats we have correspondent berkut mass
taboo topics human rights violations harassment in the military terrorism the secret service first noticed mccool and when he interviewed a russian member of i.a.s. they accused him of justifying terrorism in general they took forty copies of this magazine as evidence. but it doesn t mention syria or terrorism. and apparently their only reason was that my brochure that dealt with completely different topics had a black cover. scoreboard tof was a news editor at the state owned broadcaster rosia one day he says his boss was drunk and beat him up when dmitri tried to take his boss to court he was fired. apparently the station wanted to cover up the incident dimitri feels betrayed and has started to fight back against a system he once supported. as an editor i get these so-called stop lists of people
russian amachree was found dead in the london and this is something that also the british and to tara police are investigating they say it s not something that they linked directly to the attack on saudi screwed palin s daughter bought just because of the connections that this russian emigre had that they do treated a suspicion that was an unexplained death and it s also an anti terror investigation so we ve got two major investigations concerning russian citizens that where the found out all were being attacked on the u.k. cell and of course for british people it s nothing especially for people in salisbury where the attack happened with a nerve agent people were very angry they felt that they were not so they were not properly informed by the u.k. government because it really took several days for the u.k. health of thirty s to urge people to well wash themselves wash their clothes if
when it comes to media there was talk about having measures against the russian state broadcaster r.t.e. this was met in russia with a lot of anger and they said that as a retaliation the u.k. media will not be allowed and you will russia but of course expulsion as as a of twenty three diplomats is definitely something that s going to cut their relations even further russian you can relations and the british prime minister saying that they will have all one week to leave very good charlotte coming to you know another one of those measures was suspending high level bilateral talks tell us more about that yes they said that she didn t want to break off all dialogue with russia but she was very clear that the relationship simply can t be the same after something like this now let s be very clear this is very serious what s the reason may has outlined here we haven t seen anything like this in thirty years i
standing by for us in london she has been following the theresa may statement for us there and we have our correspondent with us here in studio charlotte charles some pill good to have you brought both of berkut let s start with you what do you make of these measures that theresa may outlined. strong words from reasoned me in the house of commons and she describes the disdain and sarcasm of the russian government to the to what s happening here in the u.k. and the deadline and that she s given the russian government in order to explain what happened so of course twenty three diplomats expelled she says it s about espionage it s about having identified these russian diplomats as belonging to the espionage network and she wants to make sure the dots are destroyed or that this is hidden that other measures as well nothing that we thought might happen for example