and other citizens in the russian attack on the mh seventeen and even today as we re talking we re seeing russia supporting the use of chemical weapons and bombing of civilians by the hazard regime so we re seeing a very hostile very road russian regime that is using violence as a state policy and is using murder as a as a means of influencing outcomes british conservative m.p. tom to have had chairman of the parliament s foreign affairs committee thank you so much for joining us this evening thank you for. a while has bee mentioned as we discussed there russia goes to the polls this weekend on a big anniversary vladimir putin s got march eighteenth circled on his calendar as he looks set to cruise to a victory it was on the same day four years ago that russia annexed to the crimean peninsula from ukraine but all but a handful of countries have declared that annexation illegal for president putin it
back you re with g.w. news i m sarah kelly in berlin our top stories south africa s chief prosecutor has said that he will charge former president jacob zuma with fraud racketeering and money laundering presidency was marred by accusations of corruption and he was forced out of office last month. and british foreign secretary boris johnson has accused russian president vladimir putin of personally ordering the poisoning of a former double agent in a british city britain had previously said only that the nerve agent originated in russia. and let s get more now on that story we are joined by conservative m.p. tom toucan hot the chairman of the parliament s foreign affairs committee he joins us from tonbridge a town in the south of england this evening thanks so much for being with us tom good to be with you now as we just heard earlier today foreign secretary boris johnson basically saying here that it is likely that the russian president vladimir putin personally ordered this poisoning