we're. going to go over. the morning 15th of august in the headlines but very in authorities a plane for the german states failure to warn 900 people that they tested positive for corona virus as countries across europe register spikes of infection. thousands of u.k. tourists are left furious having to race back home from france off to london slap the country on its quarantine list with only 24 hours warning it's created chaos for travelers we pay. there was no way any money. and they evolved to impose

sanctions on the heavy police crackdown in response to the unrest of the country's disputed presidential election as protests there enter a new phase now with demonstrators giving hugs and kisses to troops who lowered their shield. good morning for russia you know when you're watching out international at the weekend 1st this hour than a scandal over covert 19 testing has rocked the german state of bavaria some 900 returning to the region tested positive but they were left to bolivia to that fact because the government failed to deliver the results your correspondent peter all of picks up the story. there's been a huge blunder in the states if the very air with 844000 corona test backlog. $100.00 of those still waiting for their results and known to have

tested positive the man in charge of germany's largest state says he's sorry for the delay is to digs up shots for your relighting times state government is sorry that these mistakes happened both the minister and also me personally that many people are now unsure as to what happened to their test results the reason given is the sheer number of people coming into germany from holidays elsewhere and taking covert tests by the roadside and train stations in both the area this move was brought in very quickly by the state and the information had not been recorded digitally mistakes happen in such extraordinary times the officials say the bavarian health minister though had offered her resignation over the blunder bill and you. had to resign twice and then asked her whether she had the courage to continue to carry out these tasks with a she wanted to and could in both cases she said yes markets has made a bit of

a reputation for himself during the corona pandemic as a mr fix-it that internecine his name touted as a potential successor to chancellor merkel when she steps down ahead of next year's election opposition leaders have been quick to use the testing delays to twist the knife on claims he's all talk and no final product if a state premier is always presenting himself as a crisis manager and constantly patting himself on the back he also has to take responsibility of point suring that things were when announcing new coronavirus measures he doesn't miss a press conference and when something goes wrong he sends out the health minister i would have expected him to have the backbone to step up himself the advice for anyone who still waiting for test results is pretty simple just get another test done as germany and the rest of europe brace for a 2nd way you. of covert 90 peter oliver r.t.

early. well indeed countries across europe are now suffering from coronavirus spikes in france for example the daily infection rates shot up from fewer than 300 in mid july to almost 3000 now that's prompted the u.k. to include from some of the latest urgent additions to its quarantine list for the french government said that unfortunately the virus been going the wrong way there has been a 66 percent increase in the number of test positive tests in the last week alone and so on fortunately frances happened to be added to the quarantine list boy came in quickly london gave people until 4 am on saturday to return to the u.k. if they wanted to avoid quarantine france is hugely popular with british tourists and many flocked there after the lockdown this last minute announcements or thousands rushing back to beat the deadline creating queues and tailbacks for

a while of french transport hubs so anyone who missed the deadline will now have to self isolate for 2 weeks upon their return to the rule also applies to those coming from the netherlands to british holiday makers were given a say only 24 hours notice about these changes and it raged some travelers who note that indeed some of the french regions that they're coming from of got fewer cases than their particular part of the u.k. they were going to france is the 2nd most popular travel destination for brits some 160000 with when the country got put on that quarantine list not all those who wanted to return home have been able to though we caught up with some british travelers who are unhappy with how the u.k. is handle things. travel was allowed. so when where was allowed before it was safe to go where no one or late certainly gave way. so i think i made the wrong decision in the 1st oh yes we wouldn't get one minute away we pay everything all the facilities completely in the boat aunts and uncles assume

as the government and the gate way there was no way we could get any money back but we were well. very difficult. for anything in place really that's going to stop the spread should have been very general blanket ban on i mean based aid that says that we've got a quarantine or. i think testing is a better option we've already been knocked out for a very very long time. so with a spike in corona virus cases across the world russia is now registered the 1st vaccine it promises to make that available to its citizens in 9 to 12 months time and it's also offered to share its research with the u.s. but that's been rejected reportedly by washington donald trump has cast doubt on the russian vaccine. i don't know much about it. we hope it works we do we hope it works they've cut off certain trials and we just feel it's important to go

through the process we have numerous different vaccines that we think are going to work but we want to go through a system of. vaccine was made by russia's going to layer instituted took them over 5 months of work many critics say it didn't pass all the necessary trials it was rushed through we talked to the head of the governor institute alexander ginzburg he explained just how they managed to get a vaccine so quickly. proper but this vaccine was created strictly in accordance with russian law this allows a vaccine to be developed more rapidly during an emergency and the coronavirus pandemic is definitely an emergency we haven't reduced the number of tests required to prove that the vaccine is safe rather we are running tests in parallel but when the pandemic started we were working on a vaccine against mers which is also a type of corona virus and is more lethal than covert 19 this research had almost

completed the 2nd phase of tests so we had all the methodology in place. for over 3500 people have tried this vaccine without suffering any serious side effects just some minor ones that one gets with any type of vaccine for example a slight temperature which can be relieved with a dose of paracetamol and this will be made clear in the instructions for use. the. vaccine research is conducted in many countries across the world but the russian and soviet school of vaccine creation is a very serious one institute for example we have 4 generations of scientists working together so the knowledge we transmit is not just via papers and electronic devices but directly from one person to another when the young researcher comes to me i always know which of our scientists can give them appropriate advice someone

that's worked in the field for many many years. resonator absolutely and your both of course absolutely not the only feeling was to defend myself my relatives and our population and just to complete the task we had been given namely to find a vaccine and there was also this feeling that many in our profession have many micro punters the need to catch and liquidate it. protests in belarus over sunday's disputed election results show no sign of dying so far we've seen violence strikes and lines of solidarity but the latest scenes from the capital's independence square indicate the direction the protests may be going next is what happened when troops protecting the house of government as it's called lowered their shields in an apparent sign of solidarity with the demonstrators.

which is a serious swing in minsk something absolutely unique and interesting from belarus is happening here you can see the special police force no internal forces standing behind me with the courage in arms that's the house of the government on the other

side is where protesters have gathered everything is peaceful no provocations and says we can see officers put down their shields. that's the situation knows minsk tractor factory workers arrived here with their banners. and well nothing else is going on. people are chanting slogans let them go on leave. but all of this is going on thankfully without provocation as for now they thought law enforcement officers are just openly standing there look at this it's a unique picture i haven't seen anything like this before. demonstrations are being held all across the country what you're saying here these are scenes from the city of a place called grog no where protesters of unfolding huge flag championed by the country's opposition as a response to what's happening in the country president who examined shank has given fresh advice to police and troops. i cannot accuse or criticize anyone

because i see what's happening in the countries but i will insist on this we are slow and if a person is lying on the ground you don't beat them there are limits to other developments the ears top diplomats a proposal starting a dialogue now between the belarusian government and the opposition they've also agreed to slap sanctions on the country's officials are they believe are responsible for the violence and the alleged falsification of the election results we asked our guests how big of a stake it is though for the government in belarus. there are discussion with the european union because they are in a difficult situation because on one sacked. they would like of course some the need to get china to change is in in in they leave it in the same time they don't want us to. serve their interests most and western countries and especially i think germany wants to have that negotiation it was told a moment the sanctions they are talking about are mostly symbolic and not really

profound we will see how the situation will change but it was before the law in the president with the european commission said. president of the there should be more careful in the way the chicks the voters thank you work a spokesman said she was very concerned about the election result she says of what's happening is unacceptable from the european union point of view given a very very clear who has a very delicate situation they don't want it to. who else they don't want to call for the elimination the removal or pretty much. go instead of saying who else would take his place. the building of africa's biggest hydroelectric dam could worsen the situation with water supply in so dad and could aggravate another problem facing the country to so-called there's edification.

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a bed that in 20 years have passed since they got married and started living in this house my difficulties in life come from the approach with the sand our lines heard. the walls of our houses have fallen every year i use all the money that ac i need to move sand or build walls everything that earns we used to do that we make the last of the buildings higher but the sand continues on even towards us. this international good morning i'm kevin 0 in power for the break donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen the now promising things the president doesn't want you to read in his new book. after the break.

join me every. sport i'm sure. i'll see you then. hi good morning the u.n. security council is rejected a u.s. sponsored resolution to extend the arms trade embargo on iran washington only to support in the end from the dominican republic while russia and china voted against the draft and other members abstained a 10 year and bug expires in october under the joint comprehensive plan of action the tool for controlling iran's nuclear program caleb maupin reports this morning.

well the resolution put forward by the united states would have extended the arms embargo against iran now france germany and other countries have been very vocal about the fact that they oppose the united states' decision to unilaterally withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement and furthermore they have it posed putting new sanctions on iran now in the lead up to the vote at the u.n. security council u.s. diplomats were very adamant that they felt this arms embargo must be extended here's some of what we heard. i call upon all the cure to council members to wake up to the real world implications of allowing this arms embargo to lapse the security council central purpose is to promote global peace and security failure to extend the arms embargo would make a mockery of that sacred responsibility on which the united nations was created now prior to the vote in which this resolution failed mike taylor said the united

states feels that if this arms embargo is not extended as it was not that the united states will impose the snap back mechanism in the iran nuclear deal and snap back the sanctions on iran this is mike papantonio the us secretary of state i want to as i said i want to be too cute i were deeply aware of this that pac is an option that's available to the united states and we're going to do everything within america's power to ensure that that arms embargo is extended and i'm confident that we will be successful now the snap back mechanism in the iran nuclear agreement was essentially put in place so that if iran were to violate the chase c.p.o. a they would then face the penalty of an immediate snap back of the sanctions of this whole and so what the next confrontation which is about the united states seeking to impose so-called snapback inspections that are you know part of the joint comprehensive program of action which are to be implemented if iran is found

to be in noncompliance iran of course is not in noncompliance and the united states is no longer a party to this agreement but the united states is going to seek to take advantage of bad writing of the agreement to impose its will which will set up a crisis in the security council this vote is a meaningless vote it's really setting up the larger confrontation now currently mike pompei o is in vienna talking with officials from the international atomic energy agency they say that iran has fully complied with the nuclear deal i'm not. violated my fiance oh says however it doesn't really seem to be a down to nuclear deal anymore this isn't about the j.c.b. away this is about whether the world is going to permit iran to buy and sell weapons systems again it's that clear it's that simple so it seems that the trumpet ministrations policy of imposing maximum pressure on iran and ripping up the iran nuclear deal was essentially put 2 of folks at the body that meets the united

nations and it seems that this policy of the trump white house seeking to escalate tension with iran was overwhelmingly rejected the united states as you know has a maximum pressure campaign on iran they want the iranian government at least the way they put it to change its behavior radically in the region this is part of a much larger u.s. policy to help its friends saudi arabia israel and to her next enemies and to keep america paramount in the persian gulf the source of so much of the world's oil 50 percent of the world's oil supplies is about control of the international energy supply the main time the u.s. has conducted the largest embassy here of iranian fuel the news was confirmed in washington by the department of justice but 1100000 barrels was seized 2 full vessels bound from venezuela. the government announced today that it has

successfully executed the seizure order and confiscated the cargo from all 4 verses totaling approximately 1116000 barrels of petroleum while the news comes just a day after u.s. central command released video purportedly showing the iranian navy border and briefly sees an oil tanker off the coast of iran the d.o.j. claimed it was a counter effort by iran to recover some of its last fuel the confiscation of the iranian gasoline heading to venezuela follows a u.s. district court order it stated the cargo was shipped by the islamic revolutionary guard which washington reclassified as a terrorist group last year as part of its maximum pressure policy on iran professor saad mohammed marandi from to run university told us the seizure of radium fuel is closely related to the us presidential elections indeed. i think it has more to do with the election in the united states the presidential election and

the elections in general in the united states and that trump wants to show himself strong but again i think what it really does it sure is that it shows the lawlessness of the regime in washington and how petty they've become in their behavior they just simply behave like pirates they team them 17th century on the high seas they declare whoever they want to be terrorists or outlaws and they steal just like. you know the gold used to be stolen from ships in previous centuries and and this sort of behavior is going to have consequences because ultimately while the iranian government does not own the oil but iran will have to punish the united states in order to protect its the people who purchase iranian oil. donald trump's former attorneys released the forward of a book about his old boss a year ago michael cohen you may recall was found guilty of fraud and perjury and

sentenced to 3 years in jail he was released early and is known to house arrest well now he promises to dish the dirt on trump's own wrongdoings in his new book which the white house has already dismissed as than fiction.

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is responsible for everything for colvin for racism or sexism for dandruff the common cold veneer. billy's hate bad movies spoiled food everything is attributable to donald trump. a lot so i think looking so far this saturday morning 26 minutes past my moscow time thanks for watching out international reporting from moscow one is kevin now in for me in the team we're all wishing a great weekend. everyone else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to become active. and engaged equals betrayal.

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you push. yourself. the boom bust the one business show you can't afford to mask their montecito in washington coming up the federal reserve has that it's working on the next pair of mental digital currency and now they're partnering with a big university to test it they have a boom bust can all coming up and michigan failed its plan for the future of the auto sector but how long before we actually see the plant come to fruition you have a car float standing by several lots to get to so let's get started. with the news

of central banks around the world creating their own digital currency as well many have wondered if and when the u.s. might follow suit well now we have a better idea as the u.s. federal reserve has now partnered with mit to develop a hypothetical digital currency over a 2 to 3 year period. and other words this is a digital equivalence to cash that all reserve board governor brainard said given the dollar's important role it is essential that the federal reserve remain on the frontier of research and policy development regarding c.b.c.'s but many are questioning at safety and whether or not it will actually bypass central banks well for more on this we're joined by ben so on and christiane i ben let's start with you because this is something that we've talked about multiple times on the show that the fed will soon attempt to create its own digital currency now i think it's fair to say this move doesn't catch you as a surprise break down what this could look like what do we have

a digital wallet separate from your regular bank accounts well essentially that's probably what would happen i guess that's what they're trying to get in my teeth to take a look at what's fascinating about this is the fed's terminology i've been saying for well over a year the fed was going to do this at some point very soon in fact i think i even said it this week and yet here we are at this moment where the fed is saying well we're going to create a hypothetical digital currency is not hypothetical don't even talk like that right that's ridiculous terminology the reality is the fed knows that it's way behind the rest of the world in this way behind the cryptocurrency boom that has taken place since 2013 with the advent of big coins and then moving forward from there and so they're trying to catch up now while pretending what we're checking safety we're checking security no they're not what they're trying to do is they're trying to figure out how to develop a digital currency and then once they've created that currency to make it the only game in town because i guarantee you the fed has no interest in being a competing digital currency they were.