surely the person has to be wrong or should stop them spinning. this hour's headlines stories russia's foreign ministry cold germany whatever information. about the russian opposition figure was targeted with a chemical nerve agent. if there was any did you know. that there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy. the u.s. will not join an international effort to develop a vaccine because it doesn't want to be constrained by the world health organization. and a u.s. court ruled harvesting of private phone records by the national security agency

was only lawful 7 years after the practice was revealed by. tuning in from across the world this hour welcome to international my names you know neal good to have your company. top german officials are calling for an e.u. wide response against moscow over the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma on a ventilator in a berlin hospital 2 weeks after being are lifted from russia berlin said on wednesday he had been poisoned with a novacek nerve agent russia is calling for dialogue stating it's still received no data from germany on the findings meanwhile the president of belarus has weighed in

alexander lukashenko claims that his security forces have information which casts doubt on berlin's poisoning allegation. we have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds it's all a full suffocation and the reasoning didn't take place they have done it quote to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. but within the last few hours the german government responded to mr version of events saying it's not true while the kremlin says it has no details on the russian president's claims reporting on the international fallout from the alleged poisoning all by lex in the valley here's our tease peter all over. well i'm glad merkel speaking here in live alongside the swedish prime minister stefan levin briefly touching on alexina valmy 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 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. 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 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 matter 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 many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to see me doctors in syria there's conclusions we the public employee guided fact indeed that's not something we see here the why of why would 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 lindh raising more

questions than they do answers he also said that the tests carried out in russia were there as far as he was gone 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 valley. 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 especially islip were 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion and that aleksey never in the was poisoned with a substance from the know which 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 on how you can adequately respond to

it 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 levin the swedish prime minister he called for a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr ali that's followed on from similar calls from british prime minister boris johnson 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 alexei in the valley we've also heard on thursday from the senior spokesperson for the aid of. foreign affairs that's no he said that the he's the readiness of moscow to cooperate have pleased the 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 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 we asked people in berlin where mr novell me is being treated for their thoughts on the novel poisoning story. it was good to bring him here but i don't know the details this is bijan is that he was poisoned and that his political opponents want to shut him down but on a diplomatic level of course it's complicated. we know what we would read in the news but if it's like there see you certainly poisoned charity hospital has who knows the background. i think they should apply pressure to clarify the case and

ask for sure but i would say they need to look at the details rather than just decided on a culprit they should investigate who was really moved. while the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has said the alleged poisoning of mr novell me is of grave concern and it is monitoring the situation last after several western politicians call for sanctions against russia or senior correspondent they have digs deeper into the allegations new york again they say the notorious talks and that has heaped infamy on russia now which rocks 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 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 couldn't.

become airborne at room temperature and he's flying on a jet where he feels sick schools of people crammed together and no one doubts reports feeling the thing including the people he was with. trig sam and alexina found these biological fluids the study was carried out with an american aspect trimeter which contains $240000.00 standard sets of substances that correspond to the electronic database. the u.s. national institute of standards and technology no liquids organic phosphorus compounds or drugs that inhibit colonist juries were detected and no traces of other unknown substances were found. organophosphates compounds are highly toxic substances and as a rule it is impossible to use them just to poison a single person if there had been any interaction with this substance on the eve of

the flight or during the flight then any accompanying persons were certainly have shown symptoms of poisoning that did not happen if the germans had got clear haven't of something like perhaps being used they should give that information over to the russians and the russians. that didn't happen with the scruples and were sold 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 got ill i mean again another echo of this ripple case as far as i can say 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 out 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 cars to stop

a pipeline for example putin's regime is inhuman as the case of novell me and the support for a game show what's required is a clear and tough response that putin understands nord 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 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 findings 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 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 substituting 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 this equation there. are heavy forces will go toward 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 whole and politicians there was no danger for the russian

government he could be. there 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 for evidence locker treaty banned substances so far that it's the best version. the trumpet administration has said the u.s.

will redirect phones it previously owed to the world health organization to other health programs it comes to months after washington pulled out of the w.h.o. accusing it of being controlled by china meanwhile the u.s. has ruled are taking part in a global effort to develop a krone virus vaccine as kill have not been reports. the united states will not be joining international efforts to produce a vaccine due to political concern 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 well told balkanization and china the global vaccine initiative known as kovacs 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 they are 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 . because the mind and competition for supplies already creating bucks emotionalism and rescore 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 pulled the

united states out of the global watch dark because they have failed to make the 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 that raised a storm of criticism for ologists and politicians have spoken out saying that the united states is essentially shooting itself in the court. 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 ics 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 of global vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of donald trump's ambitious america 1st policies however i comes to a situation like this it might not be wise to put pride in politics over your population and what martin r.t. new york. and you're watching are to international venue's continues after the shortest of breaks keep it here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical . to sit down and talk.

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courts ruled the national security agency broke the law with its mass harvesting of americans' phone records the scheme was exposed by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden he's welcome the ruling. 7 years ago as the news declared i was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth i never imagined that i would live to see our courts condemned the national security agency's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. back in june 23rd dean snowden who worked as a contractor for the intelligence agency released thousands of classified documents they shone the lights on the n.s.a.'s dragnet surveillance practices targeting millions of americans as well as foreign citizens snowden was charged with espionage and fled to russia where he was granted asylum. but after the phone surveillance scheme was on covered it continued to run until 2015 officials claimed

it was helpful in intercepting terrorist communications decided the case of 4 men who were caught funding extremists in somalia and convicted but the court of appeals for the 9th circuit ruled out the program played only a minor role in that case not it was a violation of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. let's welcome onto the program now former cia officer ray mcgovern for his take great good to see you just to sum it up the appeals court find the program was unlawful i'm not the intelligence officials who defended it were not telling the truth do you think those who broke the law will be brought to justice. unfortunately i think is only a small chance that will happen. these people and we're talking about big fish ok. which are you robert muller talk about john brennan

a talk about james komi which i heard james clapper these are the heads of the intelligence agencies under. obama and they proceeded with the feeling that they were immune to being held accountable for violating the law and the constitution and i hope they'll be proven wrong but i suspect that this will wither away and no one no one important will be held accountable for this grievous grievous violation of what in our country was the 4th amendment which prohibits explicitly this kind of thing where does this leave the n.s.a. ray is the path now open for legal action against the agency. well there are several court cases that this will help there is standing now from people who have been monitored and that the universe is pretty much all americans and even more there's

this curious procedure called parallel construction and that means you you collect information illegally on americans and you tell the cops that you know local police or the f.b.i. and they go get this guy because he's going to be here at a certain time but you don't tell him you don't tell them that the tipoff information came illegally and so you don't tell the judge you don't tell the defense attorney you don't tell anyone you construct a parallel case parallel construction had a chance to ask robert mueller about this just a couple of months after he left being director of the f.b.i. . and he studied it it was sort of like joe biden on steroids if you read them and then he said well in effect we were given special authorities to do this well now

those special authorities have been ruled illegal never will illegal from the get go given our 4th amendment to our constitution and of course there's edward snowden what about a charge against him the courts say is he exposed on lawful behavior in the n.s.a. so should could this lead to the case against him being drawl. well well unfortunately the powers that be in our national security apparatus it's are very very angry it would snowden and if it hadn't been for julian a son who pulled all the strings that he had to. enroll all his assets friends from southeast asia it's to get ed snowden out of hong kong would be in the bottom of a maximum security prison in united states right now so it's snowden is in russia

it's an accident of history. it was julian a sonnet that got him out a hunk by some miracle and then his passport was pulled on route to moscow and so he couldn't go on to latin america as he originally had intended and so it ended up in moscow and i have to say that it was an open question as to whether the russian authorities would allow this kind of person to to to get political asylum i mean think about it his sort of president and intelligence officer by a tree does he want to give an example to k.g.b. or other intelligence services that you can do this and seek asylum and escape come scape repr cautions so must have been a hard hard decision for putin and he said yes the law international law requires that a country give a person like this

a stateless person at this point. political asylum and so we will and we caught a lot of a lot of criticism for that but that was one of the things that indicated that he had a certain respect for instant action a law and the people how in our government as sorrowfully our attorney general for example eric holder at the time wrote a letter to your minister of justice and he said now please give us back it's not one torture room we promise we promise not to torture him. my god that's a low bar that's. this is the attorney general the highest law enforcement person in our government saying no if you give us we promise not to torture i tell you that spoke volumes to me and i am happy and i've seen it snowden in near russia a couple times since he sought refuge there i'm happy that he's able to to lead

a somewhat respect or a somewhat decent life now under the protection of his own security people and the russian authorities who are now going to not going to allow anyone toward thing happened to ed the particularly since as is now old and right now revealed by the 9th circuit court of appeals he revealed illegal activities which were all was unconstitutional the bottom line is it takes our courts several years often to to catch up with illegal activities and finally here after how many years now they've said oh yeah yeah it's illegal and it's you are in constant fear that well that has happened and that's good news indeed it's a story will be very closely following how it develops thank you very much for coming on the program former cia officer ray mcgovern. you're most welcome.

police bodycount video of a black man who died of a fixation after his arrest in march being released the incident happened in new york state we should warn you the following images are disturbing 41 year old danielle prude was detained by police after his brother called 911 saying danielle was behaving erratically due to mental illness mr pruett had run onto the street naked he stopped breathing after the police covered his head with a spit meant to protect police from body fluids knelt on him while he was handcuffed doesn't approve died after a week in a hospital when he was taken off life support. and after that he was released the rally was held in support of him an investigation into the months death is underway but so far the officers involved not being suspended rochester police chief on the merit have offered their condolences to the family. but there's

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