russia children's families really. berlin for failing to provide any evidence for germany's claim that russian opposition figure head. was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent. if there was any do you know really to work with there is no danger there are only statements of nagging to megaphone diplomacy. also this hour the u.s. says it won't take part and international effort to develop a covert vaccine because it's led by the world health organization. and washington has imposed sanctions on senior officials of the international criminal court after it started probing alleged u.s. war atrocities.

this is r t international bring you your global news update straight from the russian capital this thursday afternoon thanks for joining us. we start this hour with the latest reaction from the kremlin on the onyx a number on the case it spokesperson says moscow fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that the russian opposition leader was poisoned by a nerve agent to me a skull of also reveals that the russian president and german chancellor haven't discussed the issue yet meanwhile the president has claimed that the country's security forces intercepted a call which casts doubt on berlin's poisoning allegations. we have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds it soulful sophistication. didn't take place. they have done it quo. to discourage

putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus so now the kremlin says it has no details on those claims coming from belarus and they have not been verified at this point we're not going to bring in peter all over joining us from the german capital live peter tell us more angela merkel has just spoken what did she say. well i'm glad merkel speaking here in berlin alongside the swedish prime minister stefan loven briefly touching on alexei in a vile me and saying that how germany would respond to russia depended on russia right now and how it responds to those allegations that came out on wednesday as it stands moscow is far from happy with berlin at the moment in the way that that announcement on wednesday was made what we've heard from there the fact that a press conference was called before the russian ambassador had been summoned to the foreign office before russia of being told that this was going to be this

announcement was going to be made. of the russian ambassador said that once he was summoned to the the foreign ministry he wasn't given any facts about the allegations being made now the kremlin spokesperson to me to the press gulf has said on thursday essentially they can't comment on what they haven't seen in relation to the the evidence to back up the claims that alexei navalny was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent while the foreign ministry in moscow has accused berlin of what it called make a phone diplomacy. i would be very cautious when talking about any accusations against russia in this case after all there is no valid reason to make any we hope that we will be able to determine what happened and why we are interested in that we want it and we need the information from germany for that. if there was any data we would work with that there is no data there are only statements amounting to

megaphone diplomacy because their voice by foreign ministry many were waiting to hear what did doctors have to see the russian doctors in arm 6 share their conclusions with the public and provided facts and data that's not something we see here. the why of why wouldn't a volley be poison has been raising a lot of questions in russia we've heard from the heads of russia's foreign intelligence service who said that the situation regarding the family raises more questions than it does and says the statements coming out of berlin raising more questions than they do and says he also said that the tests carried out in russia were there as far as he was gone sent the kremlin spokesperson 3 to the press corps of also saying that he's far from sure who would benefit it all from poisoning alexina volley. i can't answer the question of who would benefit from the poisoning i don't think anybody would benefit from it.

well. the german foreign minister heiko moss on wednesday said that they at demanding answers and they're looking to russia for those answers. it's still true that informant soon it is over there is that one of the leading opposition figures in russia has been poisoned as specialized laborde 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion that aleksey never in the was poisoned with a substance from the north he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up. we demand an investigation into the poisoning of alex he now while we condemn this boy's name and in the near future will hold consultations and how you can adequately respond to it would depend on russia's response to the case chancellor chancellor merkel has said that the eyes of the world are looking at the alexei navalny case right now alongside her on thursday speaking in the chancery was stefan live in the swedish prime minister he called for

a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr volley that's followed on from similar calls from british prime minister boris johnson. on the line the e.u. commission president also the french prime minister as well all saying that there needs to be a full investigation in condemning what's been alleged by germany as the poisoning of alexei in the valley we've also heard on thursday from the senior spokesperson for the of e.u. foreign affairs that's peter. he said that these the readiness of moscow to cooperate have pleased the foreign office so far also said that an investigation should be called doctored by moscow during that press briefing he wrapped up was asked a question about potential sanctions against russia from the european union over the election of on the case he said that any sanctions were down the line from now

that there needed to be an investigation 1st it was up to moscow to carry out that investigation and then anything further would be discussed once they had those results. here all of our thing across this story for us from berlin thank you. germany's claims about what happened to not only have seen western politicians demanding sanctions against russia including ones targeting a major joint energy project the kremlin however says it sees no reason for sanctions and doesn't view them as appropriate or just modestly of digs deeper into the allegations being thrown moscow's way. nuvi truck 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 bre the huge operation launched there 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 doubts reports feeling the thing including the people he was with if the germans had got clear evidence of. something like that 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 then he landed why isn't anybody else i mean again another echo of this ripple case as far as i can see we need some transparency here before we start escalating this into any kind of sanctions trade war or god help us 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 putin's regime is inhuman as the case of novell me and the support for again shows what's required is a clear and tough response that putin understands north stream too must be put up for debate anything less would only be a confirmation for him the obvious murderer to. by the mafia like structures of the kremlin can no longer just spurious you 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 hope for the north stream to pipeline to hold the russians accountable germany says it will share its lab results and 5 dinners with e.u. nations and get this nato new response to russia's offers of

a legal assistance and medical corp russia will learn that the value they have been poisoned not from the german government but from the news if the aim is to justify some previously prepared response measures that have already been agreed on it becomes clear why they're deploying megaphone diplomacy substitutes the normal corporation with an information campaign public appeals to the e.u. and they too and reference to the c.w. whenever such a thing which started diplomatic reaching the hazards they always have to us. who is benefiting who does something was benefiting and we have as we have already heard as it were a ship there there are heavy forces would god want a closer relationship between russia and germany specially according to north korea to project but where also that the that you have to ask

what could the russian government benefit of such a thing with this opponent politicians there was no danger for the russian government that he could be an election they're already talking about sanctions guilty by default which is remarkable given the circumstances so the recent 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 right. she 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 for evidence locker treaty banned substances so far that their best version. the trump administration has announced the u.s. won't participate in a joint global effort to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine because they world health organization is involved if all they want house is decision this july to withdraw from the organization over its handling of the pennant demick also allege that the agency is under the sway of china are to scale up and looks at the recent developments the united states will not be joining international efforts to produce a sack seen due to political concerns and you 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 will total can is ation and china the global banks senior should have known as oh that x.

is co-lead by the world health organization $170.00 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 world health organization has repeatedly warned about the dangers of global just unity and need a pandemic warning about the need to oppose vaccine nationalism and above all national unity. and global solidarity on the soon show. 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 there is supply excess the mind and competition for supply is already creating buxom nationalism and risk of price gouging relations between the united states and the world health

organization has been strained for quite some time this fight is praise for the organization at the beginning of it and damn it donald trump made. and all the united states out of the global watched are 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 the 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 now months around 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 to pull out local vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of donald trump's ambitious america 1st policy however one comes to a situation like this it might not be wise to put pride and politics over your population it would mark them are to new york. saying what the u.s. washington has imposed sanctions on senior officials of the international criminal court secretary of state my pump says the i.c.c. is corrupt and has no authority the international criminal court. thoroughly broken in corrupted institution. the united states has never ratified the rome statute that created the court and we will not tolerate is illegitimate have to subject

americans to its jurisdiction. washington is unhappy with the i.c.c. is current investigation into alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan a court is also investigating america's closest ally israel over possible crimes related to jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem by the us nor israel belong to the i.c.c. the court has condemned the saying since. these coercive acts directed at an international judicial institution and its civil servants around president did and constitute serious attacks against the court 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 dan kadlec says international law should apply to all countries with no exception the us for many decades has taken the position that because it has a mighty is military in the world. it doesn't have to be. subject to international law. it's above international and i think trump is just frankly taking that to its logical the united states's been a hose to the international criminal or it leashed as to the extent that the i.c.c. could prosecute western countries. from the very beginning and now trump is sanctioning it because it wants to investigate us war crimes in afghanistan and

israeli work crimes in palestine to be fair for other countries to say look us you know what's good for the goose is good for the gander if the international law doesn't apply to you it doesn't apply to me. coming up tech giants google and apple have rolled out a new coded 19 contact tracing system but critics say it may compromise privacy that's a longer story after the break. anyone else chose seems wrong. wrong just don't call me. let me. get to shape out. active. and engaged with. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those. who dares thinks. week here to ask. welcome back the republic of morris is demanding that 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 whorish just over the government's inaction in dealing with the crisis protesters called on the island's leader and other top officials to step down locals are furious as the spill and cleanup operation have resulted in iraq rable harm to the island's biodiversity.

i am we spoke to journalists all over to kelle who says too much time was wasted. the japanese government does seem to want to put a line on the incident. birds. 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 riches 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 dam in drudge and to deserve the highways pros for what they've done. apple and google have announced a new code 19 contact tracing system which will run on your smartphone the idea of the help is find out when they've 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're making it easier and faster for them to use the exposure notification system without the need for them to build and maintain an app here's how it works the new system

called exposure notifications express or work like a notification to or is bluetooth signals from smart phones that have opted in if someone test positive for cocaine 19 push notifications will be sent out to other phones and forming users that they might have been exposed to the virus however there are fears that the new updates may pose a threat to people's privacy we've asked people what they think. some a good idea again it's invading privacy and if it's just another form of china track. i know you care about your privacy buy 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 you would probably be helpful 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 what you've got to do to get this

virus under control we spoke with josh poem the co-founder of messaging and social networking service saif he says the new system could end up misleading people. it is small amounts of data it's being transmitted but i think what's more important to focus on your it's not the size or the how to treat it the potential for abuse that exists there and even if you trust your public health officials know system isn't there my biggest concern probably more earths to transparency when users opt into the service they know what they're on the board nor in 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 well

to know that if someone's tested positive but if there happens to be i felt just right i'm not sure it's beneficial and this is certainly just spread information around. russia is remembering the victims of the best one school feige 16 years ago a terrorist atrocity left over 330 people dead the majority of them children the jewels have been held over the last 3 days at how long the siege lasted people who lost their lives trying to save the children are among those being remembered on to in 2004 in the north ascent in town of beslan on the 1st day of the academic year chechen fighters stormed in local school and took over 8000 children teachers and parents hostage many of the young survivors were left with life altering injuries. that's been your global news update for the for further details on all the stories and countless articles head on over to our website r.t. dot com.

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during the vietnam war us forces also bombs in neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how my skin is officially mouth can rebound country per capita all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn we don't think it's happening. even today kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for that tragedy in laos what help do the people need in that little land of mines. by the demick no certainly no borders to nationalities. as americans we caught up with the we don't look like seen the whole world needs to

. judge. primary crisis is this is something. we can do better we should be doing anyway. everyone is contributing a general way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. greetings and salutations august 26th is women's equality day in america it was

created following a resolution proposed by representative bella as bug in 1971 and passed by congress 2 years later though this day is celebrated across america it's important to understand that we are still a far cry from achieving gender equality today women are for equal pay for equal work in a nation that values male contributions warden their female counterparts and punishes women for daring to work while being moms meanwhile a man can have a house full of kids and still be seen as capable of climbing the ladder. women overall earn 84 percent for every dollar a man earns black women earn just $0.62 for every dollar paid to white men and kobe 19 has made things worse women are more heavily employed in helping professions in the starbucks and history like retail restaurants hotels and their lines and those jobs have had the most layoffs and because childcare demands fall more heavily on mothers the ones lucky enough to keep their jobs either were forced to take time off or try to work their positions on nights and weekends to top it all off men are

leading the charge to eradicate women's reproductive rights. and turning to politics sexism is once again on the ballot democratic vice presidential candidate and senator camilla harris was dealt the hand of being black am female meanwhile daring to run for high office no racist and talk radio giant rush limbaugh appeared in attack on harris in a recent essay from the right wing news outlet the american spectator saying quote it is no secret but public knowledge that comma here is slept her way up into california political life by being a very public escort and matches for california democratic kingmaker willie brown amazon was even selling joe in the hope campaign t. shirts the civil rights movement and activists of present aren't immune from sexism either when.