{"id":352013,"date":"2018-03-13T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-prime-minister-delivers-ultimatum-to-russia-heightening-war-danger\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:47:56","slug":"uk-prime-minister-delivers-ultimatum-to-russia-heightening-war-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-prime-minister-delivers-ultimatum-to-russia-heightening-war-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"UK prime minister delivers ultimatum to Russia, heightening war danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK prime minister delivers ultimatum to Russia, heightening war danger<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Laura Tiernan<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons that Russia was \u201chighly likely\u201d to be responsible for deploying \u201ca military grade nerve agent\u201d against double agent Sergei Skripal, which she declared \u201can indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s speech followed a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss Britain\u2019s response to the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, just over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as Novichok,\u201d May claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Her speech follows a wave of anti-Russia hysteria unleashed by the media, political and military establishment, including the mobilisation of 180 military personnel in the cathedral city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>May did not provide a shred of evidence to support her claims that Russia had developed the chemical agent used in Salisbury. She simply asserted that because Russia can produce such a chemical, and because of \u201cRussia\u2019s record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations; and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations\u2026the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May said, \u201cthere are therefore only two plausible explanations for what happened in Salisbury on the 4 March. Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country. Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/13\/russ-m13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK prime minister delivers ultimatum to Russia, heightening war danger By Laura Tiernan 13 March 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons that Russia was \u201chighly likely\u201d to be responsible for deploying \u201ca military grade nerve agent\u201d against double agent Sergei Skripal, which she declared \u201can indiscriminate and reckless act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}