headline stories. hospital after being. critically ill. through. a large rally in support of. taking place and. are to speak with the president. i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during the critical period they were preparing for that they were going to. i was afraid that these people would have suffered. 3

. 150 years fuelling criticism approach. hello and welcome to our chief international live from moscow my name's union only 30 minutes of news and views started. russian opposition figure head. has been admitted to hospital for medical treatment he was airlifted 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 from the german capital. alexina volley arrived here at charlotte say 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 shot it's a hospital asking for patients 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 chartered 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 file me family 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 doctors who trace 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 a metabolic disrupt. with the reduced glucose levels during the drop in russia while the plane was taking off last year alexina vialli 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 form of spies on his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector alexander litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist glad amir was poisoned twice and survived the tory a spur 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 glad to meet 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 being 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. just to continue on peter's report their medical stuff in berlin say they are running extensive tests to establish what is wrong with nepali journalist martin sommer say's it is 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 links in the bounty it will be zone. maybe 8 looking with intelligence agencies in the west to create such an incident

as we're not 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. another story we're closely following today and all week in fact opponents of the bella russian leader are keeping up the pressure almost 2 weeks on from the disputed election at rallies were held throughout saturday condemning the brutal police tactics seen earlier on in the on ras crowds march through men scurrying their red and white flag that's become a symbol of the anti government movement many of the activists were carrying flowers too and you can see a pluck card here with the message love is stronger than fear for the past few days

people have been forming a human chain across the capital with passing cars honking 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. on saturday alexander lukashenko was there and gave a speech he reiterated his belief that the only going is being stirred up by external forces r.t. correspondent igor egypt on off was in attendance managed to speak to the president . what you see behind me is a few 1000. people who showed up at a pro-government rally and indeed this this meeting is very special and 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. short for the end of it during these fixed time over time 60 percent of people on the internet who showed bruises 60 percent of the stage 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 repaste sait own 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 has been quiet 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 there's 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 we literally caught him as he was leaving the stage yes no i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during that critical period they were preparing for that. they were going to where i came out i was afraid that these people 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 speaking to our team meanwhile about a russian opposition leader tick in the sky says she will not run for president again if the government agrees to a rerun of the election during her 1st media conference since fleeing to lithuania taken off sky said her only goal now is to secure a new election she called in other countries to respect the sovereignty of belarus and to let its people decide the future of their country meanwhile alexander lukashenko said he helped her leave the country. it was i who transported her truth when you i just don't want to go into details but she was the one who requested that she was begun to be allowed to go to her children she loves them but she's been thrown under the bus. and then foreign ministry and

intelligence services reached out to her and now she started making statements. we got the thoughts from a moscow based political scientist who believes the protest movement in belarus lacks a clear agenda. 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 has 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. well let's just expire not lusher point the european union has refused to recognise the result the belorussian election the us has called it not free or further but the spite the western pressure president lukashenko is out of it 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 and soon unique 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 know

this. all options are on the table so what is moral support from foreign powers done for the opposition in both countries while 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 and valorous 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 as 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 no i had 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 a president have him travel to washington to say we're going with donald trump his speech he 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 belarus 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 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 there are 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 and 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 already levy is renowned as being no stranger to bucking revolt. the united nations was set up. for me it's the war that comes a is too late. almost all default defensive operations target to 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 place called 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 only europeans you want the best of europeans. today in vilnius with the planet's economics going to 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 counterproductive for the image chichi to produce quite honestly most people who are now protesting at resort. peaceful brought us there do that city seeing horrible pictures or at least mildly and the same on the government's side now more and more people are protesting because they want to say that we are against any change and you know we want to preserve peace so those people are casting. the seringe an hour out of their own agenda and meeting at this meeting but you can also with anyone know any no in the world as you know lots of promoting some revolutionary ideas i don't think that me makes any any difference. turn the program now it's 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 residents defying police attempts to stop the procession and israeli media are reporting several clutches on at least 7 arrests netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery and fraud has been the target of demonstrations throughout the summer the latest rally comes ahead of tuesday's deadline for the coalition government to agree on a budget or trigger a new election. the local authorities in the u.k. are urging people to ditch the do not forget the. crisis could bankrupt the health service that story.

summer. solution siri was daisy harbor and today we're going to be talking about the banning cell funny stuff stopped seeing soft costly and soft reliance joining us very quickly will be changes the whole lot of key stuff cost. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. a look in 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 over last year and has reignited criticism of the country's approach to the coronavirus a like most european country sweden did not go into lockdown the majority of public places remained open through each also there was no official recommendation for face coverings to be used. it is very dangerous to belief face masks would change

the game when it comes to 19 facemasks can be complement to other things when other things are safely in place but to start with having face masks and then thing you can crowd your buses or your shopping mall that's definitely a mistake we got the thoughts of a swedish human rights expert on the situation he is of the view that economic considerations were behind the government's decision. goal was to keep. the health services. at the certain level i mean not fully obeidi nor did. all of that. but of course they were are being. geared units not completely depleted because they were. not at the meeting in those health care units on the now where. they

had the meet. with us then we have. now we're doing it so where we are means that we are yeah we are doing better on it but behind this is you know. again that the game there was a after. the economy of the countries will be. so we're going to. be the exception but the fact that the economy of this suffering as much as the economy. i'm out of countries so we're. not only sort of the economy still is totally failure is a complete failure. let's bring it to a story in a lot of people talking about in the u.k. leaders there 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 medic's the dull just need to share with potentially disastrous consequences for the health service it adds that those living with severe obesity costs console 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 poll lease the fire service and the judiciary combined 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 pretty staggering figures as well nearly a quarter of adults and britain are classified as obese with heart rate expected to rise to a 3rd by 2024 since the made in 1000 nineties the number of obese men has increased 7 full while it's tripled for women we spoke to columnist andrew walker and human rights campaigner peter tatchell about how they think the issues should be terrible . 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 that together they tackled this problem i don't think that 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 for life you know what if you want to lose weight that's a very small base trix you obviously i mean do its biggest gains in overweight people seem to be in economically deprived areas there are not many it or any even 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 these cheap at the back of chips now 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. it's died from codeine see a doctor out of viruses you know very often it's up to 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. a reminder roll is lots more news and views can be found in ortiz facebook page why not leave a comment there with your thoughts to more great programs get going here in moments i'll be back.

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i'm after a time when you're watching going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then we'll be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past star studded season stay safe coming up in this episode with all that civil war raging in the united states what now for the global movement for justice and equality sparked by the police murder of george floyd we ask one of the most important activists of all time former black panther angela davis about organizing in the face of armored vehicles and tear gas hand of anything is changed since she was one of the f.b.i.'s most wanted plus when the options of the 2020 presidential ballot box are you man using military style force against protesters or a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the u.s. having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new political party only a small coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st as protests continue today

around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the political movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis who's fight for equality in the sixty's and seventy's led then president richard nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor angela davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning there's a lot of quoting of the great writer james baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber well of course james baldwin was. not only. sent right.