the kremlin expresses concern about an investigation into the poisoning of opposition activists the. president's spokesman claims there are no grounds yet for any criminal probe as a range of different medical theories haven't been ruled out. meantime one of the doctors who treated me in russia says threats have been made against him and his family. my personal it my family my children have received dozens of physical threats but god will judge those people with. those threats were not just. held in a better russian capital with no sign of tension says the country's opposition leader who fled to lithuania address the european parliament once again claiming

the presidential election was rigged. and in the u.s. reuters in wisconsin said shop some cars on fire and attack police officers shot a black man in the back. live from moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. the kremlin has dismissed as info noise claims that opposition activists alexina valley has been poisoned the presidential spokesman dmitri said no substance has been identified and a number of different medical theories haven't yet been ruled out this comes after the german clinic now treating the russian activist said it had found a toxin in his system. we cannot take seriously the accusations that russian authorities ordered in the valley to be poisoned these are accusations which

combine no means be true and are likely what i would describe as info noise my german colleague was quick to point to poisoning but he should have mentioned the possibility of a 2nd 3rd 4th version to all those possibilities which our doctors were looking at you can't single out one version at this point to me to be fair scoff went on to say that the findings of the clinic. were grounds on their own just started a criminal investigation that's very much a difference of opinion and we've heard from the high representative for foreign affairs your sober elf who's called on moscow to try and get to the bottom with a clear and full investigation of what happened to alexei navalny. it is imperative that russian authorities initiate an independent and transparent investigation on the poisoning of nivelle neat russian people as well as the international community demanding the facts those responsible must be held to

account. if the division is identified it was determined that it was an intentional act of poisoning then of course that would give grounds for an investigation no doubt so for there are also many other medical versions as to what could have caused have on these condition. calls for an investigation of also being coming from german chancellor angela merkel and german foreign minister. and what we understand coming through on tuesday is that the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is preparing a briefing for president trump on the situation regarding alexina violently all of this coming after the clinic here in berlin released a statement on monday saying they found a toxic substance during tests on alexina valmy the clinical findings indicate intoxication by substance from the group of active substances called mr ray's 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 all of that seemed direct contradiction to what we heard coming out of the hospital in russia in the city where he was 1st treated they said they found no traces of any synthetic talks in in his system and that they are willing to share all of that information with the hospital here in berlin as we try and get to the bottom of what happened to alexina vilely who remains in a serious but stable condition here in berlin in an induced coma. senior research fellow george someway from international affairs think tank the global policy institute believes we may not see many solid facts presented in the case. the question is are the germans prepared to share their findings all of the. findings they pull all the medical tests that they undertook on the ball in the are they prepared to share them with the russian doctors if they're not if they tried

to do what to reason made did with discrete palls and offer no cooperation whatsoever with the russian with or it is that the russians could make an independent assessment as what the german scientists have found then it's hard to see why the russians are any under any obligation to conduct the full investigation as they look we don't know that he was poisoned ah doctors say that he wasn't so why should we just accept what the germans say when the germans refused to provide us with any scientific basis to assess their findings a russian doctor who initially treated of ali when he 1st fell ill says he's received online threats this comes off the russian medics claim they could find no trace of any toxins in his body. i personally my family my children have received dozens of physical threats you know i'm not hiding my personal life and of course it didn't affect anything god will judge those people who treated me about an obviously those threats were not to support. the streets of the better russian

capital have once again been thronging to the sound of demonstrations this comes more than 2 weeks of the president looking claimed he'd want to get another term in office the opposition says he stole it both pro and anti-government rallies were held in minsk protesters against the president clapped and chanted slogans calling for him to quit at the same time a protocol shanker rallies took place in a different location where demonstrators waved the national flag or that weather didn't deter supporters from both sides making their voices heard. around $200.00 teachers their supporters along with journalists and bloggers protested against the movement out of the government outside the education ministry in while the country's opposition leader spoke to the european parliament claiming elections were rigged. the current crisis is since you know what in the week with the election organise 9 by the opinion of the major a to observe us the electoral process was deeply. the election itself

was marked with thousands of violations well the most respected observers of the electoral process the end ization for security and cooperation in europe when not invited to observe the election. this visual results of the election was defied and rejected by the bill and worse and people and the majority of the international community. well known oscar fled to neighboring lithuania shortly after the vote she claims her life was in danger and in a speech she was so slow of the police brutality seems during the massive demonstrations and insists the protests have been peaceful. or security forces though claim that's not the full picture and there are 2 sides of the story it was done of this report. when it comes to protests in belarus you must have seen footage like this all like this all like this that was an infamous day as

news junkies around the world stooge shocked by the brutality of belarus police at the. at the. at the. this picture went viral at 1st many assumed wrongly the man on the ground was dead so what happened that day but well we found the officer who is in this picture and he told us his version of events. it turned out later he had a severe alcohol and drug overdose we had the guy when he felt really bad but no matter how badly he behaved that evening we tried to get him to the ambulance which was 100 meters from us he was unconscious he just lay down i tried to wake him up

and once people standing not far from me started screaming let him go let him go i told him that i was trying to provide medical assistance but they didn't hear me and screamed let him go i stood up showed my hand saying i let him go so what and he still on the ground and they don't know what to say my colleague brought medics they helped him right there and took him to the hospital. the man turned out to be ok and went on to become a media favorite dishing out interviews pretty much that i don't know probably 3 maybe 4 people surrounded me my brother was there with me to it all happened so fast one photograph 2 very different accounts at 1st glance it may look like a meme something being made light of on line but in reality it's a metaphor for how polarized the media war all the. protests in belarus has become anti government demonstrators enjoy the support most of outlets from every continent in many languages offices from the security forces are telling me they

feel that the world is deaf to their words like when their families and children are getting death threats. we were facing how parents in kindergarten taught their children such phrases your father is a murderer your father beach people and the children come home and ask their mother a question is it true that our father is a murderer how can you say this about a man who protects his people constitutional order and territorial integrity. i ask them about all the videos showing the men in full riot gear severely beating peaceful protesters they say they aren't proud of but insists that the big picture matter is that. the use of force doesn't make us look good especially if we use forced you to emotions we shouldn't do it but it was that time when people came at

us with sticks and rocks and we had to end that mess at the. people did not come to peaceful rallies with molotov cocktails with sticks and stones and they don't try to run over military and internal affairs officers with their cars last sunday suit tens of thousands of anti-government protesters making their voices heard peacefully from the sleeve no one was arrested or detained it seems there's finally a truce between loon fools mint and protesters but a fragile one i'm being told it seems both sides will need to keep their emotions in check and we've done of reporting from. r.t. . reuters and the u.s. have set stores on fire and throwing bottles at security forces in a 2nd lot of violence and closure in wisconsin. a massive cleanup operation is now on the way in the city which has been left. 6

with just this software a black man who was shot multiple times in the back by police on sunday which left him power lies that's according to the family attorney the incident was caught on camera and soon went viral demonstrators also torched cause and set of follow at least responded with tear gas is a political commentators in the u.s. have been telling us. from the riches that you believe that he was just going to check on his children that he was a hero and he broke up a fight with 2 women unfortunately c.n.n. although they didn't broadcast this part and i haven't heard it anywhere else they did write a story online where they spoke to the guy who shot this video that we've all seen the gentleman said i came in with a video camera in the middle he said when i got there what i 1st saw before the camera roll was this suspect rolling around cops on the ground also

police dispatch said that the suspect jacob black lake did not belong there and police dispatch said that he took the put the complaints keys away this is all in the c.n.n. report so these are things that are not being reported when a cop tells you to do something you do it but we have the issues of institutional racism in this country i mean i remember back originally when black wives matter 1st started were trayvon martin and then you know you had mike brown or gardner and you had case after case of these shootings of young men and women across the country were officers were never really held accountable for that and you had protests who had these kind of false you know. dog and pony show styled fixes of the institutionalism without really addressing it without really. you know taking it. the task of really changing that culture and that nature in this country that that allows these things to happen so no it doesn't surprise me that we're seeing once again george floyd now this man in wisconsin and it it's

a pattern that's not going to change until there is real actual honest change in this country and that doesn't come from just you know politicians getting on t.v. and promising reforms that never happened it was a closer look at the republican convention in the united states and more news after this short break. seems wrong. to me. to see. these things become active. and engaged in the trail. when something by themselves well it's a part. of the common ground. is

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going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. pretty. much the program donald trump has been formally nominated to run for a 2nd us president at the republican national convention. the man who puts america 1st and will keep america great president donald john troy i come from the great state of montana we are affectionately calling it trump hand we believe in promises made and promises kept louisiana probably casts its 46

votes for president double trouble and we know that the best is yet to come the opening night of the convention drew plenty of power tells the trumps time on reality t.v. and i'm open explains. because the man who fired people on reality t.v. and now own donald trump is setting up a reality t.v. show to make sure that he won't be fired from the white house by the american people this november each episode during the republican national convention features donald trump and members of his family it's all called honoring the great american story. land of heroes. great. to see over the next 4 nights and light the next chapter. share our vision is the greatest country with the greatest citizens taint the greatest achievement.

so with each day having a theme and nightly surprises the donald is looking to trump joe biden's performance with the democrats' convention but over the last week the democrats held the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in american history it will be the most boring repetitive dull mean spirited convention in history and of course we all get a heavy dose of hatred and raging cold like madness psychosis has stereo against all things donald trump this year's convention of the republican party has been dubbed the people's convention and the people have chosen for speakers at their convention on the opening night the couple who pointed their guns at black lives matter protesters as they walked outside their mansion now that 1st taste of media spotlight has gotten this couple felony charges donald trump calls it a disk rates and the couple says they're thirsty for more at this moment in history

if you stand up for yourself and for the values our country was founded on the mob spurred on by their allies and the media will try to destroy you president trump will defend their god given right of every american to protect their home. and there for more years the themes are coming thick and fast tuesday is the land of opportunity wednesday is the land of heroes and thursday it is the land of greatness yes you heard that right that's the night when donald trump will be accepting the nomination of the republican party at the white house surrounded by supporters now many people are lapping it up but not all of them for the same details for example c.n.n. says that it's whoring over the details and it will cut away from the reality t.v. show if it strays too far from reality and the television networks going up interesting choices to make interesting decisions to make about whether to cut away

if there's this stream of december mation happening live seeing as they did not do this at the democratic national convention outrage about cnn's announcement is certainly not hard to find on the internet. 3 episodes of this reality t.v. show convention are left no doubt they'll be moments of pure cringe drama and high comedy but republicans are really hoping that this is a reality t.v. show that won't prove to be a turnoff it will mop and artsy new york various green parties michael o'neill believes most media coverage of the big conventions is biased. i think that each. corporate cable news network has their own constituency and their own marketing

demographic that they are catering to and so you will have fox news which will be very aggressive about reporting on allegedly wrongdoings on the part of the democratic party and then you'll have m s n b c or c.n.n. which will be very aggressive about providing documentation on the wrongdoings of donald trump and the republicans meanwhile c.n.n. and that sunday see will ignore the rank injustices and undemocratic practices of the democratic party so they're not really engaging in news they just have a market that they've identified that they are catering to and the idea of a complete objectivity i don't think is useful but also the idea of just tailoring your news coverage specifically to make your particular slice of the american people feel good is also

a negative trend. modern center and all these there's a leak is being blamed for local spike in covert infections more than 200 people of course coronavirus of a form of military barracks and through the last 2 weeks it's been considered a covert free city as the situation is a healthful. negative in what happened inside the serene ex-military barracks a structure directly managed by the ministry of interior is a paradox the structure didn't work fine in normal conditions and it showed all its gaps during this health emergency we call it health bomb because there were 256 people confined into the same structure and they don't want to separate between covert 1000 positive cases and negative one. so a prosecutor is this month to launch the probe off of the positive cases were discovered in the modern santa monica is growing fast. i don't drop too many migrants together it was inevitable now the danger is young people who do not

distance themselves but viral or just say that the virus has weakened back sort of the workers are not the problem is not just inside the barracks it seems to me that the situation is out of control more serious and correct measures are needed but right now they don't know how to deal with it. and there is some concern it's a shame that our politicians have left is in disarray without solution i thought i would go back for younger people in migrants aren't taking it seriously we all need to be conscientious and be more careful and i'm going on. is better not to talk about the serenity it was bad management it continues to be bad the root of the problem must be solved move the migrants and give them a chance to leave a decent life. and very worried were free from coverage and now there are all this new cases the fault lies with those let in the migrants in they should be sent back home. it comes as for moderates arrested this month for allegedly starting over all the claim some refugees escaped quarantine which may have contributed to the new

covert crisis immigrants have also been accused of attacking health workers wish triggered an angry response from politicians. the virus must not leave the barracks for me the barracks remain a red zone from a health point of view and guests must comply with rules established by law if someone who tests positive leaves quarantine they must be fined and criminally charged. the guests are rioting they're refusing to stay in quarantine and destroying the infirmary it is corsten calculable damage to the image of the trivia area to tourism to businesses those who commit acts of violence must not go unpunished i support the decision to jail for guests of the former serina barracks who attacked health workers and vandalized the rooms. raising wildfires in california and now known to have killed 7 and forced almost 60000 others to flee the area more than 14000 firefighters from various u.s.

states have been battling the blaze across a 1000000 acres for the past week. this is one of the worst outbreaks in recorded history with 7000 fires already this year it was sparked by something called the lightning seeds when thousands of lightning strikes hit the region and of foreigners firefighting agencies sheen was tweeted the worst is not yet behind us. crosstalk coming away just a few hours time the team when i was back at the time to bring you the latest global news updates. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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the spiral down word depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but it does it the commanding heights controlling the financial system the media and the business world are loath to admit it it's the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest jason nichols in l the con city is a professor of african-american studies and in new york we prosecute margaret kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president's all right process. rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it was 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race

always trumps class and if you look at mainstream media particularly the liberal media that is the message you get over and over and over again that worse remarkably we actually are still in the middle of a pandemic. tens of millions of people have lost their job we've seen acts of congress and the inaction of a president the people that have the most money are protected and now we have this horrific death of george floyd which i think it was very i was very pleased that there was a universal virtually universal reaction to this this is this was an atrocity but that seems so long ago when we think of the the riots and continued protests and the actions of the president here but that message is always on race and i think that's misguided because at the end of the day this is a class issue it always is a class go ahead well you know in the end the u.s. race.