this truly has become a symbol of the current endemic in new york. hospital after being. critically ill. also ahead on the opponents of the belorussian for a human chain through. a large rally in support. has also taken place in western our team to speak with the president. i was afraid of skirmishes during the critical period they were preparing for that they were going. to.

sweep. a 6 month break in a 150 years fueling criticism approach to. just a few moments into a brand new day here in the russian capital sunday august the 23rd welcome to r.t. international russian opposition figurehead alexei navalny has been admitted to a berlin hospital for medical treatment he was earlier earlier today from the siberian city of he's been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday our europe correspondent peter all of the latest for us from the german capital. alexina volley arrived here at charlotte's a in a emergency vehicle a intensive care transport vehicle that was flanked by police motorcycles as well

as other police vehicles we've had a statement from the shallots a hospital asking for patience saying that they are going to be carrying out extensive diagnostic tests on him to try and determine what was the cause of the coma that he is being in it comes after a lot of wrangling between russian doctors in the city of almost the novelli family he was transported here to germany on a medical plane that was paid for and charted by his supporters that plane containing. specialists in dealing with coma patients however doctors in school weren't sure that he was in a fit in of state they felt he was too weak in order to make the journey however they eventually relented at the request of the new found a family which 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 alexina valley took ill on a flight from on thursday from siberia to moscow he's been in

a coma since then paramedics arriving on the sit when paramedics arrived on the scene of the plane which had to make an emergency landing in it was clear that no valley was in some extreme distress. there have been claims that that election of only was poisoned however the doctors who traced him in say they carried out a talk screening and that they that came back negative for any toxins in his system they say that they were treating him based on a different diagnosis the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered immense aboard disrupt. with the reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off last year lex in the valley was admitted to hospital from prison his team at the

time suggested he'd been poisoned however it later turned out he'd had an extreme allergic reaction but we have seen though is conspiracy theories and allegations of bound to that end vonnie is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spice 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 claims of any poisoning it being deny by the kremlin putin the russian president's press spokesperson to meet the press corps saying that they wished missed in the valley all the best and a swift recovery saying that any delays in his transport taishan from russia to

germany had been due to the concerns from the medical staff in fact the kremlin had rushed through documentation to allow him to make this trip what we are hearing is that the european union wanting to see a full investigation into what happened so missed in the valley in a case that is becoming increasingly politicized. medical staff in berlin say they are running extensive tests to establish what is wrong with not only journalist martin somers ses it's too early to jump to conclusions. well obviously if it's a case of poisoning there's going to be an awful lot of speccing boy western politicians and others but of course it's not clear who would have done the poisoning who has access to the lex in the bounty it will be zone. he's an entourage maybe eat looking with intelligence agencies in the west to create such an incident as we're now seeing now that sounds farfetched but it isn't really if you know the history of nato special operations going back many decades that

doesn't mean that they did it and it doesn't mean the russian state did it and it's not even clear that this is a policing so i would think everybody needs to take a deep breath and think very carefully about the damage that can be done wild allegations. or headline stories opponents of the bella russian leader are keeping up the pressure almost 2 weeks on from the disputed election rallies were health right saturday condemning the brutal police tactics seen earlier on in the unrest crowds march through minsk carrying their red and white flag that's become a symbol of the anti government movement many of the activists carrying flowers to . here you can see a pluck card with the message love is stronger than fear for the past few days people have been forming a human chain across the capitol with passing cars on their horns in support there

was no noticeable security presence meanwhile the president's backers are also making their voices heard a large pro-government rally took place in kabul on sunday alexander lukashenko was there and give a speech he reiterated his belief that the ongoing turmoil is being stirred up by external forces r.t. correspondent inforce adama was in attendance on monday to speak to the president. what you see behind me is a few 1000 people who showed up at a pro-government rally. this meeting is very special compared to others that we have that we have covered in the past couple of days not because it's exceptionally large because it isn't but because it's the 1st one that we've seen alexander lukashenko the president of belarus make an appearance and he made a speech. for over a year and over these fixed time over time 60 percent of people on the internet who

showed bruises 60 percent of the state's footage time will pass we will come and show you everything i have received information that there are private enterprises all over the country that are pushing people to strike some have become insulting to the point that if an unfortunate policeman arrives ripping a seat on car we have telephone conversations they say cross the corpse but why why will you do if crime returns to the streets who you call do not attack policeman these are your own people if they made some mistakes forgive them but the post-election period as being quite rocky for alexander lukashenko for instance a couple of times one factory workers boycotted production and he showed up there to try and calm them down he was essentially had killed and booed off stage so they didn't give him any any any any time they didn't really give him any slack if i may say so well here is a different mood here because here people are supporting him so that's what he's

thanked them for and essentially his message has been. it doesn't matter who's in power it doesn't matter the only thing that matters is that belarus should stay independent that it should let other nations meddle i had a chance to ask him a question it wasn't like a media briefing or anything will literally caught him as he was leaving the stage . i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during that critical period they were preparing for that they were going to wait for i came out i was afraid that these. who would have suffered that is why we took a break look at that there is a sea of people outside i did not expect to see that here on the western border we're being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out. it was very happy to see us journalists from russia as well what the mood like is here like a public celebration with some classic songs and some local local heads so this is

what's going on here. the better russian president and trying some questions from our team meanwhile russian opposition leaders settle on a ticket of sky has said she will not run for president again if the government agrees to a rerun of the election during their 1st media conference since fleeing to lift you in here to kind of sky said her only goal now is to secure a new election she called on other countries to respect the sovereignty of belarus sun to let its people decide the future of their country meanwhile alexander lukashenko has revealed he helped her leave the country. yeah it was i who transported to the truth when you i just don't want to go into details but she was the one who requested she was begun to be allowed to go to her children she loves them but she's just don't under the bus. and then foreign ministry and intelligence services reached out to her and now she started making statements. and we spoke to

a moscow based political scientist who believes the protest movement in belarus lacks a clear agenda. lest the belorussian authorities have managed to curb the strike movements and all the major enterprises a largely up and running the conveyor belts were never shut down and all the factories are producing their output the wave of strikes has died down so president lukashenko is personally engaged in with the workers and doing it quite effectively following the peak of the unrest last weekend i do expect we will see a spike again tomorrow but i don't think it will be large maybe 10 or 15000 people by and large bellerose to seen an outpouring of emotion rather than a revolution there is no clear agenda and there is unlikely to be one so i think everything will be under control soon and the government's domestic legitimacy will be restored when it comes to external legitimacy that will take time they need to learn from the many mistakes that have been made. or just all not lost her point

the european union has refused to recognise the result of the better rushed election the us meanwhile called it not free or for but the spite the western pressure president lukashenko is adamant he's not going anywhere it's a situation that's reminded some of another leader. 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. we are trying to convince the global community that he can all sky has to be recognized for example in venezuela there are 2 centers of power of course in better use so just know it will be different but it can be done and there are clearly a few parallels like bella reuss 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 must soon unique that you have to ease a dictatorship trying to survive for the coast of unprecedented humanitarian distress flooring ideological radicalization when the resources of the country remain considerable to those who continue to oppress the good people of venezuela 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 2 parliaments one promo doro the other program things are heading that way in belarus where an opposition coordination council has been formed but if that is if the coordination council believes that the only way to overcome the political crisis is to need to start negotiations and work out 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 were very few people shouted out you can leave the village as well and it was totally loyal to nicolas maduro no i have no interest in following this guy was a pretender and the whole thing was just of course to 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 seated where 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 don't really know 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 in valorous though let's hope it stays that way foreign support for the better result position has come from numerous quarters

including a prominent french intellectual bernard. is regarded as being no stranger to bucking involved. the united nations was set up. for me it's the war that comes 8 years too late. almost all default defense of operations targeted defense for prey sions to protect the civilian population at the request of the interim governing council i have the impression france could have envisaged that and it would have submitted it as part of a political plan the you will discover in the next few days. how

can we put rice who failed to act with regard to syria well by trying to imagine and perhaps to provoke a configuration such as that which has prevailed in libya. mind . you not so many europeans you want the best of europeans. today in vilnius would suit planets economics good the face of the blue russian revolution and the opposition to the tyrant actually think that you know it was a definite mistake on the part of the. team because given that it does have this reputation of someone who is behind sayings wait probably even taken off wants to avoid involving the nation the guy. given the fact that it became known to the media and it was right at least in some media it is

sort of counter-productive for the image chichi to produce quite honestly most people who are now protesting had resort. to peaceful brought us there do that at city seeing horrible pictures of police smile and and the same on the government's side now more and more people are protest and just because they want to say that we are against any change and you know we want to preserve peace so those people are casting out of their own in the seringe an hour an hour out of their own agenda and meeting at this meeting but you can also go with anyone who is no one in the in the war as you know lots of pro promoting some revolutionary ideas i don't think that may makes any any difference. so let's bring you to the middle east where thousands of people have gathered in central jerusalem calling on the israeli prime minister to resign over corruption allegations.

protesters marched to benjamin netanyahu is residence define police attempts to stop the procession is really media are reporting several clashes on the $27.00 arrests s. and yahoo is currently on trial for bribery and fraud don has been the target of the demonstrations throughout the summer the latest rally comes ahead of tuesday's deadline for the coalition government to agree on a budget plan or trigger a new action. still ahead in the program local authorities in the u.k. are urging people to ditch the donuts forget the fridays saying the obesity crisis could bankrupt the health service that story on more.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

let's start the program back in northern europe where sweden has recorded its highest death rate for a 6 month period over the past 150 years 20 twentieth's figure is a 15 percent increase on last year and has reignited criticism of the country's approach to the coronavirus all unlike most european countries sweden did not go into lockdown the majority of public places remained open throughout all so there was no official recommendation for a face coverings to be used. it is very dangerous to belief east masks would change the game when it comes to 19 facemasks 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 malls that's definitely a mistake. some of said sweden has done very well in comparison to other countries but a swedish human rights expert we spoke to say is 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 on that they had the meat of intensive 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 it countries but behind this is you know. then it's a big decision again that the senate put on the game it was a. day makes the economy of the countries will be. so we're going to be in a better position to compete exceptionally but define. the economy of this suffering as much as the economy and done right amount of countries so we're. not only lights you know sort of economies all totally failure is a complete failure. to the u.k. where council leaders are calling on doctors to be more upfront with patients about obesity and help them get their weight under control the local government association says concerns about offending people are causing medics to dodge the issue with potentially disastrous consequences for the health service it adds that those living with severe obesity cost consul funded social care twice as much as

a person with a healthy weight according to the government's own figures spending on obesity and diabetes is greater than on police the fire service and the judiciary combined and local authorities say 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 adults in britain are classified as obese without rate expected to rise to a 3rd by 2024 since the mid 19th ninety's the number of obese men increased 7 fold while it's tripled for women we spoke to columnist andrew walker and human rights campaigner peter tatchell about how they think the issue should be tackled. obesity

is a human rights issue because people are overweight often get dealt with a lot of stigma prejudice and discrimination that cheney will not work we have a partnership between health authorities and people who wait so 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 college of thoughts freak out like you know what if you want to lose weight that's a very small base trix you obvious i mean do its biggest gains in overweight people seem to be in economically deprived areas there are not many or any fresh fruit and vegetable shops and if there are they're very expensive so we need a whole whole whole approach to this issue the idea that fresh produce is expensive

this it's out so bad you know 82 percent so it's it's cheaper than a pack of chips now and i walk around university kept assessed and every girl i see is because of course you know we've got to change start by saying look i'm sorry you eat too much and we need to stop doing it we also have to separate different people that there are some people are overweight because of both and a product rule. that is in their constitution it's not that they can help it it's not that they're overeating it's that their body metabolism and ended crimes are not working correctly in a normal healthy person so we need to understand that some people genuinely cannot help but be overweight on a serious note space is an incredibly dangerous situation and every time i say pictures of people in the n.h.s. has died from codeine see

a doctor out of our wrists you know very often it's our white people and so i think it creates a real danger and i just think that we should be honest with people it states that a lot you know if you caught a white that is don't have that it's a cow the fact. this is our to international more great programs get going in moments take robes.

in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks on the population tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was that the or you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants and the burning of coal streets in belfast i think more than a 100 innocent civilians were. as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would lead to be named. i think it went to do very very top i think. the water

where all the taste and you. give the go ahead. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide. looking forward to a year that's without. yanks this is what happens defenses in britain. watch kaiser report. welcome to redact in the night this is a show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents the democratic national convention or well they say the democratic national

t.v. show or the democratic national zoo call it is moving it is a mode. i know it is a lot of republicans because the d.n.c. is just it's a big tent ok a big tent that is now so indecipherable from the republican party that speakers can appear at either convention and no one cares anymore it's convenient but let's begin by looking at the moving speech of governor andrew cuomo yes we will set up testing in tracing and do whatever we need to do to mobilize to win this battle because we are america we win wars and we are the greatest country on the globe. we will enforce like we did not. never mind on that one.