a german clinic treating the gravely ill russian opposition activist alexina says it's found traces of a substance that affects the nervous system that's despite russian doctors saying they could find no toxins in his blood. the weekend of huge rallies part of peacefully 2 weeks after the disputed election and faced with tens of thousands calling for him to quit president thanked riot police for their support. of. the austrian ambassador as someone to the russian foreign ministry in moscow after vienna said it expelling a russian official for breaking the rules of diplomacy. by

their life or marty's world news center just 1 in the morning this tuesday the 25th of august i'm calling bray with those headline stories for you 1st then a german medical clinic says it found traces of a substance that affects the body's nervous system in alexina valmy the russian opposition activist who fell seriously a lot of flight to moscow last week. the clinical findings indicate intoxication by substance from the group of active substances called cluny needs to raise inhibitors the outcome of the disease remains uncertain and long term effects especially in the area of the nervous system cannot be ruled out at this point in time while the statement was put out by shutting hospital here in said that they have found a toxic substance in alexy system that this substance it being verified by several different laboratories they could. identify exactly what it was but it

belonged to a family of toxins that could attack the nervous system now this is very different to the news we had coming out of the russian city of homs where lex in the valley was treated after his flight from siberia to moscow was forced to make an emergency landing with him in great distress they said that they're willing to share all of the details from the tests that were carried out in almost with the medical staff here. that say that they carried out numerous tests and found no such toxins the tests on the well known for a wide spectrum of synthetic substances including inhibitors were negative also on admission to the hospital there was no clinical picture specific to the colon mystery's inhibitor group following the release of the statement we also heard from german chancellor angela merkel and the foreign minister heiko must they issued

a joint statement in which they wished alexina vilely a swift recovery but also called for a full investigation to find out what happened to him in view of mr numberless prominent role in the political opposition in russia where it is we call upon the authorities there to investigate every single detail of this incident and do so in full transparency those responsible must be done to fight and how to countable while the german chancellor of foreign minister were calling for investigations to determine the facts it does seem that trial by media has already pointed the finger of blame directly at the kremlin so. does a lot of showing. you don't need a security clearance to know that the kremlin has a track record of poisoning its critics alexei mithali remains in a serious but stable condition here in central perlin while the the statement that was released says that there is no acute risk to his life at the moment it does say

that there could be long term health effects for him. as you heard there the substance in question is found in the family of colon ashtrays inhibitors there are a group of chemicals that affect the nervous system they are used as drugs for treating illnesses such as outsiders and also of forms of dementia let's now bring in senior research fellow george summer rally from the international affairs a think tank the global policy institute in london welcome back to r.t. . over the past 24 hours then we've had the german doctors saying they found traces of poison the russian doctor saying they didn't this stage given the rumor mills been wearing anyway what are the dangers in too much speculation at this stage especially the higher up the political chain you go. well of course it's highly a reckless what the germans are doing because the german government shut its mouth off earlier today before the doctors made any kind of formal finding. issuing the ridiculous statement that it was fairly likely.

that it was poisoned well fairly likely means absolutely nothing it just means what it might have happened it might not have happened who knows but given the incendiary nature of such a charge namely a russian citizen an opposition leader has been poisoned then you know this is a very serious and reckless charge to may now in terms of this finding by the german doctors we really have to be very careful because this inhibits the your correspondent was talking about yes it's used for to treat alzheimer's but incidentally it is also used to treat. patients with diabetes and from what we heard from arms of the doctors in arms that they were under the impression that not only had had diabetes attack so it's quite possible i

don't know you know you know i don't want to speculate so it's quite possible that the doctors in the hospital holmes had actually use this this chemical on the violin the fearing that he was suffering from a diabetic attack so therefore they could be a very good explanation as to why the german doctors found him but there's also the gates of the german doctors are now under political pressure given that the german government had already made this announcement that not only had been poisoned and demanded an investigation before anything to they even been established but the german government does say that only needs to be protected does it mean that they actually believe an attempt was made on his life because at the end of all this however this got into his system there is still a very sick man being treated they have to be cautious. well it makes sense to be cautious however the question is are the germans prepared to share

their findings all of the. findings their full all the medical tests that they took on the volunteer are they prepared to share them with the russian doctors if they know if they tried to do what to reason may did with discrete palls and offer no cooperation whatsoever with the russian with or it is then the germans will have behaved very badly and then i will have committed it as a serious diplomatic focus because of the role of the russian government allowed a russian citizen in a very serious medical condition to be flown out of russia and to be treated in germany now you do that. when you trust that the other country in this case germany would act in a co-operative manner and namely that it would share all of this medical information with the russian doctors the germans now refuse to share this information then they will have behaved very badly and i think the russians will

feel very aggrieved about this because of a precedent set during the investigations into the script case is that going to be a hindrance then finding out what happened to mr involving what it says it's looking like it i mean because the germans have jumped the gun and he said they're waiting for a full. investigation into. his medical condition what may have happened have rushed in and said oh there was a poison attack and a rational therapies must investigate now having done this you know this is but it becomes very difficult to to go back and and work with the russians in a cooperative manage because if they're if the germans refused to hand over any of their findings so the russians could make an independent assessment as well the german scientists of found then it's hard to see why the russians or any. under any obligation to conduct a full investigation as they look we don't know that he was poisoned doctors say

that he wasn't so why should we just accept what the germans say when the germans refuse to provide us with any scientific basis to assess their prime days still plenty more to learn for now though george separately from the global policy institute in london thanks very much and if you. expend a roost is now into its 3rd week of rest with protests both for and against the president showing no sign of declining now these are pictures from earlier on monday from independence square in the capital of minsk where a small the colorful crowd about to government protesters gathered you can see people waving their phones with their torches laidlaw singing. on sunday though it was a very different picture when the capital seoul tens of thousands taking part in an anti-government march waving red and white flags demonstrators demanded the president resigns over what they say was a rigged election. and

despite a heavy military presence there were no arrests and that demonstration passed off peacefully i examine the shanker thanks right police. that. is a. good purpose for simple. the head of sunday's rally the government advice program new to the crowds to stay home and to avoid any confrontation on saturday thousands took part in

a show of support from the 5 president meanwhile the group the coordinates opposition protests in belarus has been found posting questionable news on social media one post claimed a man found hanged after going missing was a protester who'd been beaten up the post was later amended with the identity changed from protester to just a man it also said claims about the injuries were not proven it's not the 1st such case of false information coming from the protests but i guess he has been taking a look at that. it is difficult for human beings to be neutral just the way it is biology our psychology makes us want to pick a side the to root for someone even if it isn't off fight so it isn't better us a huge divide neighbor against neighbor brother against brother journalist against journalist there are a t.v. personalities of great national networks and improve that's the gets the president gets the elections against the other side i have decided that my broadcast today

on bill or swan was the last one nobody influenced this decision i took it myself there are not manno virus but we exist. vera correct me cover hoost of good morning belarus sergei because lo which presenter to tiana brought kidda anchor and vladimir bercow who snuck in and try to claim the credit. until recently i presented the asking a military program in paris was i no longer a presenter of this t.v. project i resigned myself and it wasn't easy to people want justice the people don't want lazy people want freedom and you may have come away with a sense that he resigned over the elections like like others who sacrificed their livelihoods their income as an act of protest vladimir didn't know no that's just him trying to claim their credit. it is absolutely unclear from the message when

the prison to have the program and in my opinion this was done on purpose the t.v. company said goodbye to the dimmer a month ago the loaders the showman successfully got in on the act bottom feeders are nothing new they swamp everything in times of hardship of desperation you'll find them on television trying to wiggle their way into the spotlight when things are tough to play and profit in people's misery you'll find them on live and blogs in social media shouting the loudest pointing and screaming lying and misleading we live in an era of fakes of think heroes of fake opinions and think news she walked around spread men's legs and purposefully sadistically struck at the group she would heated their testicles and called them scum one man who looked

about 50 she beat in the group and while standing on his legs he later told me his hips were all blue kareena about 30 is blonde and not that 2 she was dressed in uniform and had a mask on her face remember what i said about 10. king sides you likely aren't from belarus yet hearing this story one can't help but feel revolted and many belorussians were hearing this the the witch hunt began soon they found this alleged corrina all christina and people went after her threatening to kill her to murder her family a reward was posted for her address they got the wrong woman. has been forced to record this because of harrison and threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of false information on the internet please help me share this so that lies don't spread further and don't tar me and my family. christina is a gym instructor at the interior ministry not

a guard at the jail where the alleged torture happened oh they apologized afterwards after terrifying and traumatizing and threatening to kill her and her family they said sorry they said sorry and then posted another picture of another christina who might have been the woman from the story and went after and let's not forget about the bear that's coming for better or worse for a while now into that users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards bellerose there are 2 plausible explanations why they still haven't arrived russian military trucks are just really slow like incredibly slow like walking speed you could walk for moscow to better us in about a week the other explanation is that there aren't any russian armies moving towards belarus. they recorded these videos with those realizing that they were below

russian armored personnel carriers not russian and they were moving towards the west and border because we decided that we needed to take additional measures to protect the sovereignty and independence we could go on and on thinks about preparing to free the country thinks about the opposition leaders i.q. been very low fakes stupidity reinforced with hysteria and decorated with the next steps then the european parliament's foreign affairs committee is to hold an emergency meeting on belarus on cheese day because shank his challenger in the disputed election where you met with the u.s. deputy secretary of state is also due to take part in that meeting in brussels the e.u. foreign policy chief compared the situation in belarus to venezuela. we do not recognize him as the legitimate president nor do we recognize nicolas maduro from this point of view murderer and lucas shanker in exactly the same situation we do not recognize that they have been legitimately chosen however whether we like it or not

they control the government and we have to continue dealing with them despite not recognizing their democratic which is missing this one is cynical to hear from you know people you know because we know what the position of the european union it is when it comes through a regime change policy that is well over hong kong. are there also in the past in ukraine. lately in serbia so all listen to all this isn't just a picture of seoul but if the whole bag of salt and on the stand. is one of maybe 2 last europe which is not taking. it from the west from nato from the us dollar from the european a b. and the union of the country is functioning of much better than most of.

what is. next for which it would fall into the european union of all of the west. diplomatic route broken out between russia and austria after vienna said it was expelling a russian diplomat media reports claim that it's linked to spying allegations more on that next from donald quarter. this was a marriage decision by russia to declare this austrian diplomat persona non-grata it came not long after the austrian foreign ministry declared a russian diplomat persona non grata on monday and gave him an ultimatum to leave the country before september 1st the austrian ambassador to russia was just summoned to the russian foreign ministry to discuss the issue the decisive protests was expressed to the ambassador of austria's unfounded decision to withdraw a critic taishan from russian diplomats and over the demand for the diplomat to leave the territory of the republic of austria acting in line with the principle of

reciprocity the diplomats at the embassy of the republic of austria in brusha has been declared persona non grata according to media reports the authorities believe that this russian diplomat was engaged in espionage activities collaborating with an austrian national in breach of the vienna convention on diplomatic relations but we have no evidence of any of these alleged spy activities his name wasn't disclosed and we have no official confirmation from the authorities so while this story has gotten a lot of attention very little can be verified at this point. you know without t.v. it's bad news for one of the minute 3rd parties in the u.s. presidential election has the green see red and end up feeling blue getting cold between the big 2 parties and a bunch about us it's all next story when we come back. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront

a shouldn't let it be an arms race in the case on all fronts very dramatic development only really going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. join me every thursday on the alex simon. and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. some other solution that's right we talk about problems all year and that summertime we come up with all solutions now today with being joined by banker turned big point entrepreneur simon. banks the future long term friend of this show.

the greens have been dropped off the ballots in the u.s. state of montana that comes off the democrats claim the petition to get the green party on the ballot was financed by the republicans to split the left wing vote the state court took the greens off the ballot based on north the montana democratic party green party members claimed they were left short of the signatures needed to register off the supporters were pressured by the democrats the green party says the petition should still stand. this was a valid petition that was filed people were asked if they wanted to sign a petition to have green party candidates on the ballot in the general election in november now we are not naive about republican motives for wanting to circulate a petition for a 3rd party or an independent candidate however. the logic of those republican

operatives is that a candidate can take votes away from another candidate and the greens reject that argument it's impossible to take away a vote from a candidate until that vote has been cast until the vote has been cast the vote belongs to the voter and so if these voters signed a valid petition of their own free will but they wanted to see green party. candidates on the ballot in november that petitions should stand and if we want to get dark money or misleading financing out of politics great let's have the public financed campaigns the way the greens have been fighting for for decades and the democrats and republicans as a cartel have fought against tooth and nail. in the continuing fallout from the devastating blast in beirut western african workers left jobless have taken to sleeping rough outside their country's embassies and consulates finding themselves stranded in lebanon many women abandoned by employers who could no longer pay them

in the country's economic crisis local activists to try to raise funds to buy them plane tickets home we've been hearing from some of the affected women. i'm pregnant and i'm in this because i want to go home. like right now. in the streets and my aim is to go home i came to lebanon. because i was coming. to look for i was going to be able to cover my family my own kids and my siblings as well. but what i came. to see when i came here it was different i came to have been known to work to. do to unemployment to make plenty so that's a came to 2 to support my family when they came he asked me money i met him and yes the stones he asked me 200 folks whose general inflow had dick fuld my last dollar in the $400.00 that is $1100.00 and what i told him i don't

have money in make a must. have the family i was working full they took me back to their fees they keep changing their houses and i was not getting my saturday for like 6 months. with massive chemical blast ripped through the capital this month leaving economic devastation and growing reports of people unable to feed themselves human rights activists told us that the west african women are essentially part of a modern day slavery system. i've been under street for a week now helping the kenyan women in baghdad who are facing their consulate. they've been here actually for 2 weeks but we didn't know about it earlier their problem they are facing in lebanon is due to the car fire system which is modern day slavery they are working with no salaries. no overworking sometimes they are abused and at the end of the day they were thrown

on the street by their employers facing the consulate. fashion designers in west africa are calling for a boycott of a colorful clothing called wax print which is closely associated with the region the problem is that much of the textile is actually made in europe with locals calling it a legacy of colonialism. different versions depending on the countries and not different but the me the muslims when who is the what's troubling people it's just a lot of it is not actually offering gotten something that is made in all it's. coming from indonesia in the region of the public so basically it has been adopted or likely not pick up every day like for parents like maybe or new ones.

it's very common in traditional sort of on one hand you've got to become part of the cut of the life of west african people to have those that will probably be on the other hand the more people who know the story behind it to leak implication belong to take a distance yet some people don't want to buy this but we can you know it was and still made it all and so it's maybe going to be for a company. can

sometimes loom 5 get the ball region wide just for the principle of paper to write quality but it was a little time just in this google who forwarded one solution. ok that's it from a diner as you covered in the coming hours all the stories were across here at all g. international is going next update in just the off an hour from now from a that and the rest of the moscow news to basic. truths seem wrong why don't we all just all.

get to shape out just to become educated and indeed trade because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population of tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to point these attacks was that the are you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent. to which the solution was involved in some

of those cases the killers would later be named. i think it went to the very very top i think if the phones cross the water where all the patients you know on the go ahead. 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 is it the end of us or germany in the western hemisphere now iranian time because of arrived in venezuela with support from nato member turkey and why

did boris johnson invite attempted coup leader one by doing to downing street as a freedom of information request revealed a secret unit in dominick grabs a foreign office to reconstruct a neo liberal venezuela let's go straight to venezuela's capital caracas to speak to the world's most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the united states threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u.s. government is threatening tankers from iran sailing to venezuela with sanctions what illegal threats have have you received arguably illegal for importing one and a half 1000000 barrels of gasoline from iran and other supplies during coronavirus we already use the threats and the sanctions and maximum pressure from the us a.