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

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. german medical clinic says it's found traces of a substance that affects the body's nervous system in alexei navalny the russian opposition activist who fell seriously ill on a flight to moscow last week. the clinical findings indicate intoxication by substance from the group of active substances called clooney used 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 shouting hospital here and said that they have found a toxic substance in alexy in the system that this substance is being verified by several different laboratories this is very different to the news we had coming

out of the russian city of square lex in the valley was 1st treated after his flight from siberia to moscow was forced to make an emergency landing with him in grave 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 in. say that they carried out numerous tests and found no such toxins the test 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 coli mystery's inhibitor group following the release of these statements 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. yes a lot of chewing. particularly likes 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 in central. while. 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 where are the facts they just pretend that they know facts and intelligence agencies have fact that they cannot

this goes off track that the public is too stupid to understand so just lay out the facts and then we can make up our judgement on our own but all of those facts are hidden and they remain hidden and they probably don't even exist i think all media reports that are reporting that he was poisoned without basing that on any kind of evidence at all i just purely and to ration its theory most of the western media has been on a basically what is that trust saved and when you are on a crusade you don't need any facts they could be inconvenient or for your crusade against the russian government or the russian people have a substance in question is found in the family of mr rose inhibitors or group of chemicals that affect the nervous system they're used usually in drugs for treating illnesses such as alzheimer's and other forms of dementia the head of moscow state

university's pharmacology department told us the other substances can prove very dangerous. well in stories and keep it this. well known group obama called logical drugs for that inhibit enzyme. normal or destroy and to kill colon i think you'll call lion is in your immediate transmute information from one new rule there is nothing new or old and new are all still there is use that meant something out of course the more you read in some of those but as well the drug would be were they also belong to the chemical. agents legacy variant that warms our mom role known substances and oh. well they could be very dangerous because their consequences can last many a day so that what we know. but of course is now into

a 3rd week of unrest with protests both for and against the president showing no sign of declining or you can see some pictures now from earlier on monday from independence square in minsk the capital smee but colorful crowd of anti-government protesters gathered to see people waving their phones with torches let's singing and dancing. was a very different picture on sunday when the capital saw tens of thousands taking part in an anti-government march waving red and white flags demonstrators demanded the president resign over what they say was a rigged election. i .

will despite a heavy military presence there were no arrests this demonstration of passed off peacefully alexander thanks rob police at the scene. of the cut loose at least her look was not. going to. be. good for simple. this close up. and of sunday's rally the government advised crowds to stay away to avoid any confrontation saturday thousands to cause in a show of support for the under fire president. meanwhile a group that 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 their identity

changed from protest to just a man but also said claims about the injuries were not proven it's not the 1st such case of false information coming from the protests or guys they are spent taking a closer look. it is difficult for human beings to be neutral just the way it is our biology our psychology makes us want to pick a side that to root for someone even if it isn't our fight so it isn't better or worse a huge divide neighbor against neighbor brother against brother journalist against journalist there are a slew of t.v. personalities of great national networks and improve that's the against the president against the elections against the other side i have decided that my broadcast today on bill reese one was the last one nobody influenced this decision i took it myself there are not man novis but we exist vera correct me cover

hoost of good morning belarus sergey because low which presenter to tiana brought kidder and vladimir bucco who snuck in and try to claim the credit. until recently i presented the asking a military program on better research i'm no longer a presenter of this t.v. project i resigned myself and it wasn't easy people want justice the people don't want lies either people want freedom you may have come away with a sense that he resign. 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 the credit. it is absolutely unclear from the message when the prison to have the program and to my opinion this was done on purpose the t.v. company said goodbye to a dimmer a month ago as

a 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 groom 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 taking 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 but gad soon they found this alleged corrina all christina and people went after 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 week 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 done to her 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 internet users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards belarus 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 from 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 without realizing that they were below russian armored personnel carriers not russian and they were moving towards the west 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 thinks me divide stupidity reinforced with hysteria and decorated with. a diplomatic rouse broke out between russia and austria after vienna said it was expelling a russian diplomat media reports claim it's linked to spying allegations more on that next from donald quarter. this was a merit 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 boarding 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 coming up next it's bad news for one of the minnow 3rd parties in the united states election as the greens see red and the feeling blue votes they're getting caught between the big 2 parties in a botched bonnet about story just coming up in a few moments time. in

the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were 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 in the burning of the streets in belfast i think more than 100 innocent. if you can see in yours and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and the degree to which the collusion 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 if the. politicians you. give the go ahead.

the program the city of show in wisconsin declared a curfew until the morning over on the rest of the city triggered by the shooting of a black man you might find the following footage distressing. angry crowds gathered over a video appearing to show police shooting a black man in the back several times take a break is in a serious condition in hospital the police department has so far off a little information as to what exactly led to the shooting. protesters in the meantime have clashed with police in one instance a demonstrator even threw a brick as an officer whose collapse of the ground protesters have also allegedly broken into the local courthouse and looting has been reported in the area. and

there have also been huge demonstrations over the fatal police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana which is of the moments leading up to the death of trey for it has gone viral this video you might also find it just a. big clue. on friday according to authorities part of an was armed with a knife and tried to enter a convenience store offices. they said him but said it was ineffective so short 11 rounds killing the man you can immediately flooded on to the streets in protest. hundreds marched to the police station demanding justice the incidents over the weekend follow months of ronnie's against alleged racial injustice journalist daniel is shared his thoughts on the latest developments. they've achieved that certainly brought the dramatize the problem dave dave dave and pressed much of the

population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure isn't unresponsiveness that birth the chasm between the rich and poor is enormous and it's getting worse by the by the year american political institutions by certain measures are more racist now than they were 16 years ago for example so the american government is actually in some ways more just now from the needs of ordinary working class people than it was 60 years ago. wealth polarization through the roof and political instability is growing. the greens have been dropped off the ballot in the us state of montana this comes off the democrats claim the petition to get the green policy on the bonnet was financed by republicans to split the left wing vote the state court took the greens off the bottom based on a lawsuit by the montana democratic party reinforcing members claim the left short

of the signatures needed to register to supporters were pressured by the democrats . 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 want to see green party candidates on the ballot in november that petition should stand and if we want to get dark money or misleading financing out of politics great let's have fully public

financed campaigns the way the greens have been fighting for for decades and that democrats and republicans as a cartel have fought against tooth and nail. the continuing fallout from the devastating blast in beirut west african workers left taken to sleeping rough outside their country's embassies and consulates off to finding themselves stranded in the country many women abandoned by employers who can no longer pay them the country's economic crisis local activists are trying to raise funds to buy them plane tickets home we heard from some of the women. i'm pregnant and i'm interested because i want to go home. like right now i don't have a place to stay in the streets and my aim is to go home i came to lebanon. because i was coming. to look for i was come to out so that i can be able to cover my family my own kids and my siblings as well. but what i came

and saw it was not what i was speaking to see when i came here it was different thing i came to have been known to law to look for. green pastures due to unemployment in my country so that take him to rebel on 2 to support my family when they came here concerts he asked me my needs. met i see him again as the stones he asked me to had beautiful christiano and fought hard for that let me go alone in the $400.00 that is $1100.00 i thought he was able to have money and make a must. have in it being the family i was working for they took me back to the office in their fees they keep on changing me their houses and i was not getting myself ready for like 6 months. of the massive chemical blast to rip through the capital earlier 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 streets for a week now hoping the kenyan women in baghdad who are facing their consulates. 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 follow system which is modern day slavery they are working with no salary is. no overworking sometimes they are abused and at the end of they did they were thrown under street by their employers facing the consulate. fashion designers in west africa calling for a boycott of a colorful clothing called black spring which is closely associated with the region the problem is much of the textiles actually made in europe with locals calling it a legacy of colonialism.

different versions depending on the countries and not different for the me the muslims when it was the ankara it was fabric people it's just a lot of it is not actually offered gotten something that is made in all it's. coming from indonesia or region of the bible so basically it has been adopted or likely not pick up every day like for parents like maybe or newborns. it's very common in traditional sort of on one hand it does become a bump of of the life of west african people who have those that will probably be

on the other hand who look to build a little of the story behind it to leak implication belong to try to 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 people or a company. all . 'd 'd can sometimes loom 5 get the full regional one just for the principle of pay for the right well it's in the middle of her list in this bill her florida one solution.

up next thought a documentary investigates the effects of the opioid crisis in the u.s. we're back in 30 minutes time with the latest global news updates join us again but . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me.

yet to stamp out disdain because to advocate and engage equals betrayal. 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 loyalist attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands of forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was a fear 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 i thought craig more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review continues and we found out more. surprised about the extent and integrates which the inclusion was involved in

some of those cases the killers would later be named goodwin and we're getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is. the water where politicians you thought was going on and give the go ahead. israel media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. thyssen nation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is truth what is faith.

in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. do no harm and shatter charges will be shored up to. you in this episode we explore the ignorance and greed that led to our current crisis one of the 1st. medicine is do no harm. said that hypocrisy is was the 1st to say this and what that means is that the cure for any medical problem shouldn't be worse than the disease that you're trying to

treat a big chunk of america is in chronic pain and pain meds back pain pain arthritis events real and it affects people's lives and they would like a way to live their lives to take care of their families without being a misnamed what the brain is trained as the different brains in their brain that's not in pain people have it in their hear there's a feel for something gardasil whatever mountain iranians or something out there is going to you know there was this new miracle drug it's going to women ate all your brain inside the company and the drug came out they received so many letters from people who had been suffering for years with no relief you finally felt like through oxycontin they were getting to be alive again in a way they hadn't for years and that they considered a miracle drug is the best thing that happened to me if i wasn't on this vacation i just wouldn't be able to do the things that i'm doing now there's no question the best strongest and most of the opioids have serious medical side and for patients

or just a.t.m. machines some more you go back to the patient or you push buttons the more profit you can do the pharmaceutical companies all so we're not entirely transparent about giving the facts about the life and that peers were told they were non addictive when in fact they were and we don't get taught in medical schools. in juice we talk about. if you have a prescription it's. when we talk about opioid painkillers we are talking about. the drug companies. are the pushers and the pharmacists are the suppliers. 8 is. a city in the united states.