the washington. politicians you know on the go ahead. please airlifted to germany where the russian opposition figure will receive emergency treatment he's been in a coma since critically ill on thursday. example the russian opposition leader. says that she won't run for president again if there is a rerun of the disputed presidential election report from a rally in support of the incumbent president and. we are right. western. are stepping up the people some of them want change. but no one listened radians an hour ago to be played out in the public. and amid criticism of its approach to the pandemic sweden registers a significant spike in deaths in the 1st half of 2020.

other you watching our team to national thanks for joining us this morning. first this hour a plane carrying alexina valley has left for berlin where the russian opposition figurehead will receive medical treatment the family's been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday russian doctors have previously deemed his condition as too unstable to be safely lifted joining us live on the line now from the german capital is artie's correspondent peter all of it peter good morning as we understand the. way to the country should be close to landing by now you're. in the valley is on his way here to berlin right now doctors in the russian city of all men. agreed to release him into the responsibility of german doctors and his

family medical professionals in russia had previously said that he was too weak to the journey however they relented at the since of his family. were doing but we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family we will help organize the transportation. of election of they have done well on a flight from siberia to moscow he's been in a coma in since he was taken into hospital after being in klia distress while on that plane.

but doctors who have been treating him in say that they found no traces of any toxins in either his blood or him this year and. if you will for the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered an attaboy disruption with a reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off . well this case has received an awful lot of attention french president to manual mike on the german chancellor. and the people i represent are in affairs josefa all wished him well as said and said that they are following the case also pay close it is the russian government they rushed through the paperwork that would allow him to travel he had to do it and they say that any delays in that transportation was down to stones that were raised by the doctors now despite all of the work that's being done there. a number of theories abound about what was

behind mist in the family taking so ill. 70 is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spies on his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector alexander litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist glad amir khan was poisoned twice and survived hooten the torrijos for allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target double agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin. last year lex in the family was hospitalized imprisoned his team at the time had claimed to be being poisoned it later turned out it had a severe allergic reaction there is much anticipation to find out exactly what happened to see in a case that is already looking to turn political reporting live from berlin peta

all of. a political analyst to read about his claims however that the poisoning allegations don't stand up to scrutiny. of course his supporters will not be convinced they will believe that this is a poisoning. i am at a loss who would be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty it's a it's a cliché for their western media the western news agency is to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions unanswered and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia personally i want to speculate if it could be done by russian government agents without which inseparable with potence approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because it's much more dangerous to really investigate and to see broadly where all of our the exodus both in the story or. in the story

of. the russian opposition leaders from london says she won't run again for president if the government agrees to a rerun of the disputed election the outcome of which led to 2 weeks of political unrest in the 1st media conference since fleeing to lithuania reiterated that all she was seeking was a fresh vote she also called on other countries to respect the sovereignty of belarus and to let its people decide the future of their country the more president alexander lukashenko has revealed that he facilitated her regs. yeah you weaves it was i who transport of course with when i just don't want to go into details but she was the one who requested this to me she was begun to be allowed to go to her children in the she loves them but she's just thrown under the bus do you help her and then foreign ministry and intelligence services reached out to her and now she starts making statements up to rallies in support of the president to be held

across the country home of the biggest was in the city of precious time teasing to stop the facade. it's really really loud here what it's playing behind me right now is the national anthem of the republic of the us a little bit of context we are right so what's the name of the country in the city of brest that seem a lot during the time the 2nd full. the great feel sick boy your guess is it's good it's mine here when it comes to scale but i would say this about the stephanie thousands of people maybe close to 10000 basically people here have to look up to a number of them and their message is some of them would change some don't want to but none of them want to listen ukrainians and to be played out in their public also a lot of people are making a huge point about the flag you can see how many better russian flags official by the russian flags are behind and just around me essentially they have been saying

that whites red and white black colors chosen by the opposition they resemble. the. elaborate security 2nd. they have a huge problem with that because a lot of people in. history. and the future movement here can not see your will. they take it seriously so even those who may have to. know what. century the flag the colors of. what's what. i came here because i want to keep belarus the way i don't want to underestimate i'm the mother i have a small child i want him to grow up you know peaceful and beautiful nobody forced us to come here everyone has their own opinion and we should not prevent each other from expressing our views. for

a peaceful i'm 60 years old and i've been working as a driver all my adult life and i've traveled to europe to read not seen the best the country's been salary and i was outraged that your position provoked our security forces to violence i saw it myself i'm for peace in our country and we just need to start talking to each other i. think they are. an example. to come here. to the city. now the sort of. people from the ground can get in the spotlight can be in the center stage and speak. meanwhile this was the scene in minsk people gathered along side the highway carrying the red and white flags of the countries opposition the demonstration began outside a detention center where protesters were held is what people are saying on the

streets of the belarusian capital. nothing yes certainly when you see that you are not alone it helps to keep the spirit tap and stops you becoming said a move until it used to grease that these 3 crosses we wanted to call volts or sponsible for the evil and humiliation of the brain over several last days to confess their sins and that was the challenge the bill whatever great thing cause us to get the beginning now people are saying that the protests are common down people that this a mistake but i have to remember that there is generally 26 years it's impossible to overturn it in 10 days. moscow based political scientist are taught them check told us how he thinks the kissing can seek to end the crisis. in such case it's bad talk to i'm dissipate future demands of the opposition that dissipate crisis and to try to. set up some instruments for dialogue maybe like public dialogue or round

table discussion about the future of develop deloris apology cannot develop into both social and political development and somehow to incorporate. moderate opposition to political process try to maybe not sharing power but drive to allow them to participate in decision making at the local level of regional level at the national level so that they can express the ideas and interests of those who are intending to do or the present well he doesn't want to maybe too are here for direct negotiations with the council because they are self appointed people so all these legally they do not represent the present population so it's not clear who they are representing in this and this can include guards a lot i think that he is a very large container agreed to have dialogue with the labor unions. local

local leaders legacy to me. local officials. the international community has largely condemned president bush and get the whole to go into power but despite the pressure he's under been teased not going anywhere it's a situation that's reminded some of another later this auntie's double culture explains many are noticing the ways in which the unrest and valorous is similar to the ukraine uprising or political upheavals in other acts soviet states the latest example though is halfway across the world one leading dissident is now citing the venezuelan scenario calling on the west to recognize the opposition leader as the legitimate president. given the. kids the ties to federal state and local police departments across the nation i find their newfound distaste for law enforcement to be insulting at the. issue certainly no continue to count on any sizable revenue from the very profitable police and military divisions in the future wards but he was and there are clearly

a few parallels like the situation in venezuela started with massive protests following contested elections and a defeated opposition claiming the results were rigged. western leaders didn't recognize the election results in either case and of course they decided to throw their support behind the protests the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must and it must. indicate that you do these are dictatorship trying to survive for the coast of unprecedented humanitarian distress of flooring ideological radicalization when the resources of the country remain considerable to those who continue to oppress the good people of venezuela you know this. all options are on the table so what is moral support from foreign powers done for the

opposition in both countries well in venezuela they were confident enough to form their own so-called interim government and there's still essentially a system of dual power to parliaments one promo doro the other program things are heading that way in belarus where an opposition coordination council has been formed this is it called the nation council believes that the only way to overcome the political crisis is to meet the stark negotiations and one count mechanisms to restore the rule of no rule and hold new elections it's not exactly clear what the function of these institutions are though in venezuela it's hard to tell what quite though has even gained from washington steer leading so apart from a little chain rattling and protest organizing what is quite those political maneuvering actually achieved as well people never supported in any numbers whatsoever you had rallies where very few people showed up you could leave military one as well and it was totally loyal to nicolas maduro had no interest in following

this guy was a pretender and the whole thing was just of course if you ask of the united states to back someone who had no support really to begin with and then to try to calm this off to the rest of the world that he was rejecting the president have him travel to washington to be said we're going with donald trump his speech was there in the public gallery of the u.s. capitol i mean it just didn't fly because there was no support for him so as far as belize goes we don't know what the real support is for the opposition because the election results were probably tainted on really no i mean how much support he has but we know the guy girl did never got that kind of support because he was in the country and trying to make speeches and have around him and they found. a laughable figure there no doubt some key differences between the 2 countries after all venezuela has been suffering from hyper inflation widespread crime and a tanking economy all intensified by u.s. sanctions that's not the case. let's hope it stays that way. since the start of

unrest in belarus there's been speculation about a possible military intervention by its neighbor russia some claim to spotted russian military vehicles headed towards by the roofs we went to the border to check for signs of invasion. what i see is this is probably could be a little set up though some yes the missiles are some they're going to need to cut those or. cut those ability to search national i am there kalama but do you really even yet. on the need to do is go down. that's. a bit silly. we suited us he's got to me when us is

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a moment. walking back to congress to report the summer solution siri was stacey harbor and today we're going to be talking about the pending selves of money soccer team self custody and soft reliance joining us very quickly will be jamison of key stock cost a. small seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out these days to come out today and in the game from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back sweden seen a surge in deaths in the 1st half of 2020 government statistics suggest 15 percent more people died compared with the same period in the previous year the revelation is really not a criticism of stockholm's approach to the pandemic like most european countries sweden did not go into lockdown the majority of public places remained open throughout all so there was no official recommendation to wear face masks. it is very dangerous to belief east masks would change the game when it comes to 19 face masks can be compliment to other things when other things are safely in place but

to start with having face masks and then think you can crowd your buses or your shopping marks that's definitely a mistake. we spoke to a human rights expert. who says that economic considerations were behind the government's decision. but we're told it was to keep. the health services. at the certain level i mean not fully overbite in order to take care of all of that . but of course they where are how being. deceived get units not completely depleted big course they were were politically not at the meeting in those health care units on the end to leave that warehouse being. belief that they had the neat care and then you can join with us then we have a list. by now we're doing it so where we are means that we are

yeah we are doing better than adopters but behind this is you know. then it's big decision again that the senate put on the game it was a one off that day makes the economy of the countries will be. so we're going to be in a better position to compete exceptional but define that the economy of stood in this suffering as much as the economy of film and on the right amount of countries so we're. not only like students also the economy still totally failure is a complete failure. a gas explosion in an apartment block in the russian city of yaroslavl has killed 3 people including a child by the evening's blast calls 3 floors the collapsing one section of the building destroyed several homes residents have been evacuated from the building rescue work has now finished a criminal investigations been launched into potential violations of gas safety

rules. u.k. council leaders are calling on doctors to be more upfront with patients about obesity they saying concerns about offending people will bankrupt the health service the local government association says that those living with severe obesity cost council funded social care twice as much as a person with a healthy weight are also far more likely to require long term care over 2 year period according to the government's own figures obesity is costing society billions of pounds and your spending on obesity and diabetes is greater than on police the fire service and the judiciary combined the local government association says things need to change unless we tackle the stigma and serious challenge of obesity the costly and debilitating major health conditions it causes could bankrupt adult social care and n.h.s. services health professionals need to start having frank conversations about

people's weight if it could be an underlying cause of their condition and routinely record it individuals need to take responsibility for their own decisions and the government needs to support them to do so. nearly a quarter of other simpered not classified as obese with that rate expected to rise to a 3rd by the a 2024 since the mid 1990 s. the number of obese men has increased 7 fold triple for women it's put a human rights campaigner peter tatchell in columnist andre walker about the right approach to the issue. of the city is it human rights issue because people are overweight often get dealt with a lot of stigma prejudice and discrimination that shamy will not work we have a partnership between health authorities and people who wait so that together they tackle this problem i don't think that we should we should be forcing people to do anything thought i do believe that these arguments that we hear all the time

which is so people culture thoughts freak out the late you know what if you want to lose weight that's more tricks you obvious are going to do its biggest gains in overweight people seem to be in economically deprived areas there are not many it or any fresh fruit and vegetable shops and if there are they're very expensive so we need a whole whole whole lot wrote this issue the idea that fresh produce is expensive. you know 8 to protect so it is cheap at the back of chips that i walk around university kept assessed and every girl i see is because of course you know we've got to change start states by state law i'm sorry you eat too hot and we need to stop doing it we also have to separate different people that there are some people are overweight because of. it and a product rule. that is in the constitution it's not that they can help it it's not

that there are easy it's that their body metabolism and ended crimes are not working correctly out in a normal healthy person. so we need to understand this some people genuinely cannot help but be overweight on a serious note basis an incredibly dangerous situation and every time i say pictures of people in the n.h.s. who died died see a doctor out of our wrists you know very often that some white folks and so i think it creates a real danger and i just think that we should be always with people that states that you know if you close all white doctors don't have that it's a cult the facts do not bring you out of today depreciate joining me this morning this is r.t. international a day's coming your way in half an hour. has

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coming up the race for a covert 19 vaccine continues to heat up as some. major american pharma giants are headed into promising late stage trials plus boeing is back in the spotlight as it looks to rebranded following at 737 max saga but will the make over help it take to the skies and the later lesser taking the fight to apple over fees in the app store look at the long term impact of the decision mean moving forward to the facts show today let's dive right in. and we leave the program with the latest in the race for a coke at 19 vaccine american drug maker pfizer and german biotech firm bio intact said the vaccine they are developing is on course to face regulatory approval as early as october advanced trials of their latest vaccine known as b. to have shown the drug was well tolerated among participants across the age spectrum resulting in a moderate fever in fewer than 20 percent of participants the company said in a statement although they added they will continue to analyze data from the trials

last month the 2 companies made a $2000000000.00 deal to supply $100000000.00 doses of the vaccine to the united states meanwhile johnson and johnson is planning a late stage trials of its experimental vaccine in september the latest trial would include up to $60000.00 volunteers and would be conducted at nearly $180.00 sites across the united states and in other countries according to u.s. government the u.s. government's database of clinical trials now earlier this month johnson and johnson also made an agreement with the united states government to provide $100000000.00 doses of a possible vaccine in a deal valued at over $1000000000.00 with that said let's go ahead and take a look at the trends and spread of the virus globally with our t. correspondent so where are we right reverend right now more than 22000000 people have been diagnosed with kobe 1000 around the world now some 15700000 people have recovered and more than 800000 that you heard right we are now reaching over

800000 that's and as of friday afternoon in the u.s. . there's been over 5700000 come from kay says and almost 180000 deaths right here in the u.s. but taking a closer look at the daily case numbers in the u.s. now the u.s. reported more than 49000 new cases on thursday right over here now that's a 11 percent drop compared to the last 7 days so it's an improvement but not much because if you look it just keeps going up and lower and it's this trend what we needed for it to go is to flatten out but it keeps going up and down so that's not good now deaths in the u.s. 'd there are still well below their peak spring levels and they're averaging about a 1000 deaths per day and that's more than double than the average in july because if you take a look here we were averaging about $500.00 deaths per day now we're averaging about a 1000 that's still much better than where we were marge april there were 2.