we are in it together. says that it has not received any concrete evidence of poisoning after germany confirmed traces of chemical nerve agent were found in russian opposition figures alexina valley. also on the way the united states says that it will not take part in an international co-operative effort to develop a vaccine because it says it is led by the world health organization. by their very good morning to you and thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. the german government says that it has confirmed that

russian opposition leader like cinnabon he was poisoned by a nerve agent that belongs to the group comes to weeks after the activist fell ill on a flight to moscow before he was airlifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin so let's go straight to berlin 'd the german capital of the peter oliver is based there and is following this story for us good morning peter we know at this point there has been a response from russia to those claims what russia had to say. well russia has reacted to claims from germany that alexina valmy was poisoned with a novacek nerve agent both the foreign ministry in moscow and the embassy the russian embassy here in berlin have criticized the announcement. what we do but that only in liverpool if there is any day doubt we will work it

there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy because there voiced by a foreign ministry that many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to say diversion doctors in arms share their conclusions with the public and provided facts and data that's not something we see here the ambassador of the russian federation was invited to the foreign office and informed about the contents of the german government's declaration in the so-called nevada only case however no fact based documents were given to the ambassador well chancellor angela merkel said that germany had clear and unambiguous evidence that a novacek nerve agent had been used to poison alexina volley this was after tests were carried out at the institute of military laboratory that certified by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o p c w chancellor merkel said that this was an attempt to silence alexei navalny and it

represented a crime against the values of society chancellor merkel and german foreign minister heiko must also put out statements saying that they demand answers to what happened to alexei navalny. since bush took to the informant soon it is obvious that one of the leading opposition figures in russia has been poisoned a specialist aboard 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion and that i would say never in a was poisoned with a substance from the novacek he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up the aisle following up with the sleep we demand an investigation into the poisoning of aleksey now while we condemn this boy's next and in the near future will hold consultations and how europe can adequately respond to it it will also depend on russia's response to the case. of peta there's been international reaction coming in from other countries what's been said. well chancellor

merkel also pointed out that the eyes of the world were watching the case and not certainly being represented in what we've seen both leaders of the united kingdom and e.u. leaders voicing their concerns over the situation it's outrageous that a chemical weapon was used against. we have seen 1st hand the deadly consequences of novacek in the u.k. the russian government must now explain what happens mr we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done i was informed by chancellor merkel that russian opposition leader in a vase it was attacked i dunno the agent it is our country this is a despicable in cali act once again that the traitors need to be brought to justice . conspicuous by his absence when it comes to international reaction with u.s. president donald trump however his democratic opposition in the upcoming u.s.

presidential elections joe biden did say that the lack of a response from president trump showed that he was weak on russia something that biden promised he wouldn't be and that the case was just another example of that alexei the volley took ill 2 weeks ago on a flight from siberia to moscow he's been here in berlin since the 22nd of august doctors say that he's in no acute danger has no acute danger to his life but he remains in an induced coma at the shot at a hospital here in the german capital reporting live from berlin the southeast peter all of us thank you. and while many questions around election of on this poisoning remain unanswered western politicians have already put forward their version of events pointing the finger clearly at the russian government who are moscow says it had no response from berlin to any of its requests for information despite they say being fully ready to cooperate on his blog as the of has more on

the story. nuvi choke again they say the notorious talks and that has heaped infamy on russia over trucks a group of toxins by the way with slightly different variations of liquid gas powder one of the deadliest substances known to man rebel solves the huge operation launched their hundreds of people in full hazmat gear everyone afraid of exposure and here is apparently exposed to this new variation which by the way can evaporate and become airborne at room temperature and he's flying in a jet where he feels sick scores of people crammed together and no one else reports feeling the thing including the people he was with if the germans had got clear evidence of no virtual something like being used they should give that information over to the russians and the russians and that didn't happen with scruples on the

soles and i doubt whether or happen again and there's many questions like you know he was on the airplane and then he landed why isn't anybody else i mean again another echo of the script as far as i can see we need some transparency here before we start escalating this into any kind of sanctions trade war. any kind of military conflict there are a lot of questions now speculation and rumors and thinks this is a time to wait to let investigators collect the facts unless you want to use the moment the confusion the hysteria the anger to tear up russian german ties to stop a pipeline for example hope to the north stream to pipeline to hold the russians accountable. the obvious murder attempt by the mafia like structures of the kremlin can no longer just worry us it must have real consequences that is why a very clear answer is needed here north stream 2 is nothing that we can promote

together with russia germany says it will share its lab results and 5 deals with e.u. nations and get this nato new response to russia's offers of vote legal assistance and medical corp russia will learn that the value they had been poisoned not from the german government but from the new opening games as early as august 27th their russian general prosecutor's office addressed the german justice ministry with an official request for legal assistance the office also expressed its readiness to present to the german side the test results and research carried out after missing a man's hospitalization the german justice ministry confirmed it had received a request but so far that's it whenever such a thing which started diplomatic reaching the hazards there you always have to us. who is benefiting who does something was benefiting and we have as we have already heard this equation that there are heavy forces will go warm and

a closer relationship between russia and germany is especially according to north korea to project but we're also there the that you have to ask what could the russian government 1st of such a thing with this of poland politicians there was no danger for the russian government would be. they're already talking about sanctions guilty by default which is remarkable given the circumstances so the russian government out of the blue decides to poison an opposition politician who has been after the kremlin for years using one of the world's deadliest substances. which russia has said repeatedly it doesn't have so they do this improbable and highly stupid thing and these survives it he goes to a russian hospital where the doctors do everything to save his life get him stable

and they succeed the russian government which just apparently tried to kill this fellow greenlights a private jet to said him to one of europe's best clinics to get help his body apparently wouldn't evidence locker treaty banned substances so far that they're best version. the trouble ministration as announced that the u.s. won't participate in a joint global effort to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine because the world hope organizations involved in follows the white house decision this july and to withdraw from the organization over its handling of the pandemic president trump also allege the agency is under the sway of china in a more protects a look at recent developments the united states will not be joining international efforts to produce that scene due to political concerns many see this is yet

another blow to health diplomacy the united states will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt world health organization and china the global vaccine initiative known as oh that x. is co-lead by the world shelf organization 170 different countries are participating the goal is to get global distribution for several different vaccines after they've been licensed and approved by the end of 2021 the world health organization has repeatedly warned about the dangers of global just unity and nearly a pandemic warning about the need to oppose vaccine nationalism and above all national unity. and global solidarity. this virus thrives when we are divided when we are united we can defeat

to win a successful new vaccine is found there will be greater demand then that eases supply because the mind and competition he's already creating bucks in nationalism and risk of price gouging relations between the united states and the world health organization have been strained for quite some time despite his praise for the organization at the beginning of the pandemic donald trump made. and all the united states out of the global watch dark because they have failed to make their requested and greatly needed reforms we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs latest decision from the united states to pull out of efforts for a global vaccine have raised a storm of criticism or ologists and politicians have spoken up so that down

throughout this essentially shooting himself in the foot trumps go it alone strategy has already given us the highest death toll in the world at his inaugural he spoke of american carnage and now seems to term and to make it a reality. america 1st doesn't apply to condemn excess viruses don't observe national borders if anyone is at risk we all are refusing to cooperate with other countries on vaccines will kill people this latest decision from the united states lobel vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of donald trump's ambitious america 1st policies however i found to a situation like this it might not be wise to put fried in politics over your population it would mock them artsy new york washington to slap sanctions on the international criminal court to which has been looking at alleged u.s. war of choice cities more on the story after this break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and obviously going to get out of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back into his impose sanctions on senior officials at the international criminal court so this statement pompei or says the i.c.c. is corrupt and has no authority the international criminal court thoroughly broken in corrupt institution. the united states has never ratified the rome statute that created the court and we will not tolerate is illegitimate steps to subject americans to its jurisdiction washington's unhappy with the i.c.c.

current investigation into alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan the court is also investigating america's close ally israel of a possible crimes relating to jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem neither the us nor israel belong to the i.c.c. the court itself has condemned the sanctions. these coercive acts directed at any international judicial institution and its civil servants around president did and constitute serious attacks against the courts and the rule of law more generally secretary of state compares announcement today marks a stunning perversion of u.s. sanctions devised to penalize rights abuses and kleptocrats to persecute those tasked with prosecuting international crimes the trumpet ministration has twisted the sanctions to obstruct justice not only for certain war crimes victims but for atrocity victims anywhere looking to the international criminal court for justice.

human rights lawyer danke of olic says international law should apply to all countries with no exceptions the us for many. has taken the position that because it has the mightiest military in the world. it doesn't have to be. subject to international law. it's above international law and i think trump is just frankly taking that to its logical the united states's been a posed to the international criminal or it least as to the extent that the i.c.c. could prosecute western countries from the very beginning and now trump is sanction because it wants to investigate u.s. war crimes in afghanistan and israeli work rhymes in power. it would be fair for other countries to say look us you know what's good for the goose is good

for the gander the international law doesn't apply to you it doesn't apply to me. the republican russia says demanding japan pay damages of $34000000.00 it wants the money to support its fishing industry after tons of oil spilled from a japanese ship last month the demand comes after a mass demonstration in the capital of russia's over the government's inaction in dealing with the crisis protesters called on the island's leader and other top officials to step down the locals a few reassess the spill and cleanup operation resulted in irreparable harm to the bio diversity.

i am a. journalist all of a tickle he says that too much time has been wasted. the japanese government does seem to want to put a line on the incident. but. it falls short of taking full responsibility no one has acted. with integrity with urgency there was a precious time window of 12 days between the original accident taking place on the

25th of july and the boat breaking up and releasing oil on the 6th of august and 1 has to wonder why you know why was all that time allowed to pass in some kind of marine rescue could have taken place and is only really the local people of the richest people in the fishing communities that have been affected by the oil spill who really seem to have done everything that they possibly could in order to put this damn it right and who deserve the highest prose for what they've done. google and apple have announced the new code with 19 contact tracing system that will run on smartphones their ideas to help users find out when they have come into contact with an infected person and the tools are integrated into the i o. s. and android operating system so there's no need to download an app as the next step

in our work with public health authorities on exposure notifications we are making it easier and faster for them to use the exposure notification system without the need for them to build and maintain an app so here's how it works the new system called exposure notifications express will work like a notification till the users bluetooth signal some spark phones that have opted in if someone tests positive for kevin 19 push notifications are sent to other phones informing users that they might have been exposed to the virus but there are fears the new updates may pose a threat to people's privacy we asked people what they think. kind of that idea again it's invading privacy and if it's just another form of china check that. i know you can have all your privacy by you care about other people you know it so you know for the benefit of the success of the city you're going to feel like apple and google probably could use it for profit but like in the case of call of it i think it would probably be helpful and i just don't feel comfortable with big

brother knowing everything that i do you know it's that that's the 1st step to controlling people you know what we've got to do a got to do to get this virus under control. and we spoke about the change through the co-founder of messaging and social networking service. it is small amounts of data it's being transmitted but 'd i think what's more important to focus on here is not the size or thing how to ringback transmit it but the potential for abuse that exists there and even if you trust your public health officials no system is an honorable or my biggest concern would probably be more. to transparency when users opt into the service they know what they're on were during any potential privacy concerns i still have some issues where i'm not entirely sure this is something that's going to be beneficial essentially what this is doing is increasing the rate at which we can share information and misinformation could

potentially be included in that whether or not it's intentional and then the other point of it is how reliable are the tests that we're using to the game itself or to know that if someone's tested positive but if there happens to be a high false positive test rate i'm not sure it's beneficial in this area which is spread on permission around. the humanitarian disaster in yemen has had a brutal impact on the country's younger generation after 5 years of civil war many children have been forced to drop out of school and money just to feed their families situation's only been made worse by the pandemic and aid groups are saying urgent help is needed. this is a good thing i was forced to go to work because my father is sick is back he can't

work any more. than i was lucky to find this job i'm working to support my family but the wages aren't enough started. getting up on mine and we don't have anything to eat sometimes we receive some donations we live in a small place inside a mosque where the rent is $60.00 a month but i can't afford it. for that yet children are definitely the most affected by the war in yemen those

who survived the direct effects of war such as sniping and discriminant bombing now have to survive the suffering menial labor. ok you're out of today to overturn it half an hour with all the headlines in the meantime you can check out plenty more news stories if you had told website dot com . said she stressed to. this man the british and the bill of the internet that it

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welcome to the alex i'm unsure what we examine the performance of covert 19 test interest systems across the u.k. and compared it with applying used in tiny islands. 6 months into the pandemic and criticism is still widespread on the failings of testing trees that have been many false dawns back in march prime minister boris johnson hailed a coup which unto body chess as a game changer in the battle against a deadly virus millions of tests were purchased and subsequently found to be totally useless even no approved antibody tests are not to be able to the general population unless they buy their own private yet another game changer in the testing regime was to be the contact tracing out launched by english hung called amid great fun fair as a trial in the i love light in me it was subsequently abundant in june and now

a new up has been launched on the same island in the london borough of new and criticism still continues on the results of the present manual system in england with the guardian reporting last week that the tracing results are being hit by delays and home test failures meanwhile the scottish press last week was full of stories of anxious people seeking a local test and instead being referred to testing centers in england or northern ireland so why is it the 10 the u.k. the country which pioneered community health protection from infectious diseases in the 19th century it has been so it's a focal to operate effectively in the 21st. today we ask health expert dr khan come here what on earth has been going on then return in contrast to an example of effective testing trees not to fight east asia but off our northern shores with a tiny feeder islands of concord called into one and now you're well on their way to doing it again arch and so what lessons can be learned from our tiny island

right all that later in the show but 1st alex with your tweets messages and emails and last week's show on the end of the american. well lots and lots of comments this week a new way davis an interview and that was about his article in the rolling stone magazine article that went viral for the 1st couple of girls for watching from cambodia says thanks for the great show wolf thanks for writing and remove them jeff wait says about the way davis article i read the article is spot on and. an interesting comment about the end of the american which was the argument the way davis was putting forward she says as regards the u.s.c. it's logical to assume that china would have taken to its historical dominance soon without but the genocide of the guards no democracy persecution of christians massive environmental humanitarian disasters over the years expansionism all good keeping on stonily huge population and rising living standards

a high level of peace for law and order a vast capability to address health energy environmental issues officially who knows says louise we are all that will eat just lean says unemployment over covered as a killer really says a good interview allowing comments and opinions to be expressed and the foreign writing from the comfort of a kenyan house appreciates the global issues tackled in the show john forbidden says they speak about america don't deserve to be leaders of the free world they gave up that right years ago in english says america's imploding trump was the beginning of the end for them and. says not just america the whole world will never be the same again this is just the beginning side they have the strength exactly the opposite point if she sticks up for the american press that don't belong say the 1st street trump has made every politician look like incompetent idiots he created 3000000 jobs in.