surely the person has to be vocal or should stop them speaking. for failing to provide any evidence for germany's claim that russian opposition figure had. boys and that they kind of. there was any. there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy. also this hour the u.s. says it won't take part in an international effort to develop a vaccine because it's led by the world health organization. and washington has imposed sanctions on senior officials at the international criminal court after it started probing alleged atrocities and.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow with their global news update this hour. moscow says that it fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that russian opposition leader accent of all nick was poisoned by a nerve agent a problem spokesperson dmitri pasco of also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor haven't discussed the issue on wednesday berlin announced it had found traces of. me meanwhile the president of belarus has claimed that the country's security forces have intercepted a call which cast doubt on berlin's poisoning allegations. because. it's good we have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds it's soulful sophistication. didn't take place. they have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. the kremlin says it has

no details on those claims as of yet which have not been confirmed the german chancellor angela merkel also spoke this thursday about the case at all for has more. 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 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 berlijn at the moment in the way that that announcement on wednesday was made what we've heard from the head of the fact that a press conference was called before the russian ambassador had been summoned to the foreign office before. being told that this was going to be this announcement was going to be made so to. have 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 golf 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 view is by foreign ministry attacks many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to see the doctors in syria there. and

provided facts and data that's not something we see here is the why of why wouldn't the 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 raising more questions than they do answers he also said that the tests carried out in russia were there as far as he was going sir and the kremlin spokes person to me 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 the tool. the german foreign minister heiko muss on wednesday said that day at demanding answers and they're looking to russia for those answers it's an informant soon it is obvious 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 beach a group 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 will also depend on russia's response to the case 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 love in the swedish prime minister he called for a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr volley that followed on from similar calls from british prime minister boris johnson from the from 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 being alleged by germany as the poisoning of alexina valley we've also heard on thursday from the senior spokesperson for the of. foreign affairs that's no he said that the readiness of moscow to cooperate had pleased the e.u. foreign office so far also said that an investigation should be conducted by moscow during that press briefing he wrapped up was asked a question about spiritual sanctions against russia from the european union over the election of on the case he said that any sanctions would 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. the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has said the alleged poisoning of the money is a grave concern and it's monitoring the situation after several western politicians

call for sanctions against russia are his modesty after the allegations movie choke again they say the notorious talks and that his 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 and fool has made 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 on a jet where he feels sick schools of people crammed together and knew without reports feeling the thing including the people he was with if the germans had got clear evidence of no virtual. 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 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 or. any kind of military conflict there are a lot of questions now speculation and rumors and fakes 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 lucas again show what's required is a clear and tough e.u. response that putin understands north stream too must be put up for debate anything

less would only be a confirmation for him 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 rim 2 is nothing that we can promote together with russia hope the north stream to pipeline to hold the russians accountable germany says it will share its lab results and findings with e.u. nations and get this nato new response to russia's offers of 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 with such a diplomatic reaching the hazards they always have to us. who is benefiting who does something was benefiting and we have as we've 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 benefits of such a thing with this opponent politicians there was no danger for the russian guy. 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 send him to one of europe's best clinics to get help his body apparently for evidence locker treaty banned substances. so far that's their best version of. the term but ministration has announced the u.s. will not participate in a joint effort to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine because they world health organization is involved in falls the white house's decision this july to withdraw from the organization over telling

of the pandemic present donald trump also alleged 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 to jack seen due to political concerns so many see this as 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 x. 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 the world health organization has repeatedly warned about the dangers of global just unity and yet a pandemic warning about the need to oppose vaccine nationalism and above all

national unity. and global solidarity are essential. this virus thrives when we are divided. when we are united we can defeat it when 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 bucks emotionalism and risk of price gouging relations between the united states and the world health organization has been strained for quite some time to spite his praise for the organization at the beginning of the pandemic donald trump made. and told 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 latest decision united states should not participate in global efforts for a vaccine have raised a storm of criticism or ologists and politicians have spoken out saying that the united states is essentially shooting itself in the book. trumps go it alone strategy has already given us the highest death toll in the world at his inaugural he spoke of american college 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 pull out of local vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of donald trump's ambitious america 1st policy however i comes to a situation like this it might not be wise to put fried and politics over your

population it would martin r.t. new york. washington has imposed sanctions on senior officials at the international criminal court secretary of state my pump a i said 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. its current investigation into alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan the court is also investigating america's close ally israel over possible crimes related to jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem by the us nor is are all belong to the i.c.c. and the court has condemned. these coercive facts 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 pompei is announcement today marks a stunning perversion of u.s. sanctions devised to penalize rights abuses and kleptocrats to persecute those tasks 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 exceptions the u.s. for many decades 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 and i think trump is just

frankly taking that to its logical will the united states has been opposed 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 trust the sanction years because it wants to investigate us war crimes in afghanistan and israeli were crimes in the house 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. he still had tech giants google and apple have rolled out a new code 19 contact tracing system critics say it may compromise privacy he tells the story and more after this break.

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welcome back to the program the republic of moorish this is demanding that japan pay damages of $34000000.00 and 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 moorish us 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 the rubble harm to the island's biodiversity.

we spoke to journalists all over to tell who says too much time has been wasted already. the japanese government does seem to want to put a line on the incident and. who is. 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 it was all that time allowed to pass in some coma and to remain rescue could have taken place and is only really the local people of the richest people in the fishing community is 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 droege and to deserve the highways prudes for what they've done.

together google and apple have announced a new cove in 1000 contact tracing system which will run on your smartphone their ideas to help users 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 systems so there's no need to download an app 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 let's take a look at how it works the new system called exposure notifications express will work like a notification tool and use that blue to signals from smart phones that have opted in if someone tests positive for cocaine 1000 push notifications will be sent out to other phones and forming users that they might have been exposed to the virus however there are now fears that new updates may pose a threat to people's privacy we have people what they think. kind of good idea again it's invading privacy and if it's just another form of china check that. i

know you can value 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 going i feel like apple and google probably could do that for profit but like in the case of call of it i think it 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 a got to do to get this virus under control we spoke with josh poem co-founder of the messaging and social networking service saif he says the new system could end up misleading people it is small amounts of data it's be transmitted but i think what's more important to focus on your is not the size or thing how to transmit it but the potential for abuse that exists there and even if you trust your public health officials know system isn't there my biggest concern would probably be more

. to transparency in users into the service they know what they're on but 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 pick him it's helpful 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 and this is certainly just spread information around. russia is remembering the victims of the beslan school siege 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 that's how long siege lasted. people who lost their lives trying to save the children are among those being remembered as

well in 2004 in the north ascension town of beslan on the 1st day of the academic year just in 5 years stormed a local school it took over a 1000 children teachers and parents hostage many of the young survivors were left with life altering injuries. as been your global news update for this hour for further details on all the stories and countless articles and interviews head to our website dot com. the left is senseo lost in november election and they're trying to cause trouble for stirring the pot and they're trying to get a little bit of a civil war going but they can blame trump for that one way to do that is by saying

it's ok to live this while businesses and that is. common to stir social unrest looting and violence that's what the left is up to now. throughout its history with the self-proclaimed islamic state terrorist group have recruited up to 30000 foreigners from all over the world to find. sounds of russian citizens left their country to join the terrorists often bringing wives and children with them. what he's going to be done and i didn't post on you you see me on this and you could move. on you to the moon hundreds of children and widows were held captive all disappeared.

to. russia those children's families willing to search for. welcome to the alex salmond sure what we examine the performance of colbert 19 test interest systems across the u.k. and compared it with a plan used in the tiny thing to islands 6 months into the pandemic and criticism

is still widespread on the failings of taste in trees that have been many false dawns. back in march prime minister boris johnson hailed a call with un to 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 the by their own private yet another game changer in the testing regime was to be the contact tracing out launched by english hunk called amid great fanfare as a trial in the isle of wight in me it was subsequently abundant in june and now a new up has been launched on the same island and the london borough of new and criticism still continues on the results of the present mine your system in england with the guardian reporting last week that the chasing 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 that in 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 asked health expert dr khan come here what on earth has been going on then return in contrast to the example of effective testing trees not in the far east asia but off far northern shores where the tiny fatal islands of concord covered the once while on the way to doing it again and so what lessons can be learned from our tiny island we raise all that later in the show but 1st over to alex with your tweets messages and e-mails on last week's show on the end of the american era. well lots and lots of comments this week a new way davis interviews and that was about his article in the rolling stone magazine article that went viral with a fresh coat of girls from watching from cambodia says thanks for the great show

we're friends for right to go move a venture for he says about the way davis said. no i read the article is spot on and leasehold an interesting comment about the end of the american which was the argument that we 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 certain weather bad the genocide of the gods no democracy past the christians massive environmental humanitarian disasters over the years expansionism all good keeping on staunchly huge population and rising living standards a high level of peaceful law and order a vast capability to address him federal g. environmental issues officially who knows says louise we have all that will lead to jacqueline says unemployment will overtake covered as a killer really says a good interview allowing comments and opinions to be expressed in yvonne writing from the comfort to.