headline stories this hour russia's foreign ministry called germany over whatever information. claim the russian opposition figure was targeted. if there was any deal you know. there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy to. join an international effort to develop a. vaccine because it doesn't want to be constrained by the world health organization. the u.s. court rules not the. private phone records by the national security agency was

lawful 7 years after the practice was revealed by edward snowden. live from moscow this is r t international my name's you know neal 30 minutes of news and views start now. the e.u. foreign policy chief. poisoning of alexina only calling it an assassination attempt the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma on a ventilator in a berlin hospital 2 weeks after being or lifted from russia berlin said on wednesday he had been poisoned with a novel nerve agent russia is calling for a dialogue stating still received no data from germany on the findings meanwhile the president. alexander lukashenko claims that his security forces have

information which casts doubt on poisoning allegations. we have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw. and berlin that clearly sounds that soulful city and the violence boy's name didn't take place. they have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. the german government has since responded to mr lukashenko version of events saying it's not true and while the kremlin says it has no details on the bell the russian president's claims reporting only international fallout from the alleged poisoning although that's in the valley here's artie's picture all over. well i'm glad merkel speaking here in berlin alongside the swedish prime minister stefan levin briefly touching on alexina valmy 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 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. 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 novel 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 deal or we would work with that there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy. and ministry attacks many were waiting to hear what the doctor has to see the doctors in syria there's conclusions we deposit them provided facts and data that's not something we see. the why of why would novell need to be poisoned 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 spokesperson 3 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 well. the german foreign minister heiko muss on wednesday said that they at demanding answers and they're looking to russia for those answers it's an 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 alex enough money was poisoned with a substance from the north beach a group he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up. to sleep with him on an investigation into the poisoning of aleksey now while we condemn this boy's name and in the near future will hold consultations and 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 live in the swedish prime minister he called for a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr lee that followed on from similar calls from british prime minister boris johnson for. 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 being alleged by germany as the poisoning of alexina valley we've also heard on thursday from the senior spokesperson for the age of. foreign affairs. no he said that the readiness of moscow to cooperate had pleased the foreign office so far also said that an investigation should be conducted by moscow during that press briefing he wrapped

up we was asked a question about special 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. or your correspondent peter all of when we asked people in berlin of course where mr novelli is being treated currently for their thoughts on the norma chalk poisoning story. it was good to bring him here but i don't know the details the suspicion 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 read in the news but if it's like there see you certainly poisoned the charity hospital has but who knows the background. i think they should apply pressure to clarify the case that's

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. just some more reaction the global chemical weapons watchdog b o p c w house said the alleged poisoning of election of ali is of grave concern it is monitoring the situation after several western politicians called for sanctions to be made against russia our senior correspondent murat because the of digs deeper into those allegations new york again they say they're notorious talks and that has heaped infamy on russia now which oxer 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 scores of people crammed together and no one doubts reports feeling the thing including the people he was with. a laboratory examined alexina found these biological fluids the study was carried out with an american aspect trimeter which contains $240000.00 standard sets of substances that chorus. into the electronic database of the us 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's 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 and so that didn't happen with 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 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 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 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 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 that there are heavy forces will go on 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 elections 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 in 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 the evidence locker treaty banned substances. so far that's their best version. care to more news for across this hour the trump

administration has said the u.s. will redirect funds a previously owed to the world health organization to other health programs it comes to months after washington polled 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 coronavirus faxing and reports the united states will not be joining international efforts to produce 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 vaccine initiative known as oh that x. is how led 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 disunity and need 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 . 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 this fight 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 have 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 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

local vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of donald trump's ambitious america's 1st policies however i thought i was to a situation like this it might not be wise to ride in politics over your population and with martin artsy new york. let's move to the us where police spotted come video of a black man who died of a fix yeah after his arrest in march has been released the instant top of the new york state we should warn you the following images are disturbing 41 year old daniel crude was detained by rochester police after his brother called 911 saying daniel was behaving erratically due to mental illness mr pritchard run into the street naked he stopped breathing after police covered his head with a spit meant to protect police from being spotted out knelt on him while he was hunkered down in a pro died after a week in

a hospital when he was taken off life support. after that he was released the rally was held in support of the deceased an investigation into his death is on their way to date the officers involved have not been suspended the rochester police chief have offered their condolences to mr prince. go ahead in the program government and followers in the u.k. are calling for tougher of punishments for those who leak official secrets more than after the shortest. the leftist senseo lost in the november election and they're trying to cause trouble they're stirring the pot and they're trying to get a little bit of a civil war going but they can blame them one way to do that is by saying it's ok

to loot the small businesses and that is. ugly comment meant to stir social unrest looting and violence so that's what the left is up to now. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. week to ask.

a us court house rule that the national security agency broke the law with its must 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. yeah let's go through that back in june 23rd student who worked as a contractor for the intelligence agency release of plus a fine documents they shelled the lights on the n.s.a.'s dragnet surveillance practices to. being millions of americans as well as foreign citizens snowden was charged with espionage and fled to russia where he was granted asylum. after the phone surveillance scheme was uncovered it continued to run on till 2015

officials claimed it was helpful in intercepting terrorist communications now they cited 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 it was a violation of the foreign intelligence surveillance act former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that despite the ruling it is likely that no officials will be held to account. 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 at least people and we're talking about big fish ok and are 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. on a similar theme the u.k. is looking to update its official secrets act the law commission that advises the government says there needs to be tougher sentences for those who leak data there are plenty of other changes on the way to saskatoon or breaks down. drops to create said double agents the cold war might be over but espionage is still lucky in the sand and to keep that state secrets close to its chest do you guys looking into managing its official secrets act partly because some of the language could do with being brought into the 21st century data not secrets for example but with the whiff of deja vu also to defend itself against the red menace the urgency of this reform

was most recently and extensively articulated in the report on russia of the intelligence and security committee of parliament which was laid before parliament on the 21st of july 2020 the notoriously where a lot of us russians had there's a madness push london to increase the act which hasn't seen a single tape since $989.00 despite the prime minister himself boasting just how vigilant he has to credit and bugs and saying that not getting what you want doesn't actually make russia guilty this is about pressure from the is going to be remaining who seized on this on this report i did try to give the impression that the russian the russian interfering through somehow responsible for this is because that's what this is this is about the people of this took this country didn't vote to leave the e.u. because of pressure from russia the russian interfered but it appears that your commission disagreed and pushed forward with its proposed changes starting with the

beginning of the very wide and me having identified deficiencies with the term enemy we suggested that the definition of foreign power as adopted by the united states espionage statutes modernization bill might provide a more suitable basis for a modern espionage offense so who or what qualifies as a foreign power well really anything any company any entity any past and directed controlled by a foreign government that how or how far they must be directed isn't specific. i according to this vague definition that charities even partially funded by foreign governments could be enemies who are way would be an enemy and if they want already anyone who's ever been to russia or even worse walked along the private walls but the law commission wants to widen the net even further the territorial ambit of the offenses should be expanded so that they can be committed irrespective of the

individual's nationality the test should be whether there is a significant link between the individual's behavior and the interests of the united kingdom so one of the official secrets act as it exists now if you are not a british national and you do something hostile to the u.k. while out of the country it doesn't count but it's up for negotiation now and if that doesn't change by means that someone like julian assange mansion for example of a foreign national i mean revelations according to the u.k. threaten the country's national security could find himself in legally an enemy as would anyone who passes on classified information are brought even though many argue that such leaks are in the interests of the public not hostile to them but perhaps most sinister of all the u.k. parliament wouldn't even need to justify its decisions we recommend that the offenses that carney recross proof of damage should no longer do so this avoids the difficulties inherent in proving damage without disclosing further confidential

information in other words the very thing that makes the government accountable to the public to the people who elected it is unnecessary or part of it has to do is so that the person was sufficiently culpable so if you are not to killed your brother someone still is up guilty you've done it no proof necessary just so long as it's highly unlikely with such changes on the table one could ask how much safer out what i'd really be. left taking the program dollar to a strictly were pregnant one. in the state of victoria has been arrested in front of her children for allegedly inciting a legal protest police came to be house of 28 year old zoe bueller after that woman shared a facebook post calling for people to protest against local anti krone virus measures i was reading anything by you were actually. radical you.

decided to take the price down like. yeah police defended the arrest saying the officers acted appropriately and although they admitted that quote the optics of arresting someone who is pregnant is terrible so we buehler will be tried in courts in january she was among 4 people who were detained for initiating an upcoming anti locked on protest in the state more than 80 others have been given official warnings police are stressing that public rallies would ruin the entire lockdown strategy. we share the frustration that is shared by the whole community but the police here is that. leaving home to protest under the current conditions. dark coming into the city and on them on all the hard work and sector forces putting bought the majority of laura border citizens we heard from gideon rosner policy director of australia's institute of public affairs he sees no

justification for the way the police behave. this is not the why a free society should operate this is not the why a democratic society should operate this is really really scary even if zoe had broken the lord even if it was worthwhile to have that law enforced they must mean better why use the doing of doing it than what the police did on the video that we've seen they could have just charged her on summons without actually even going to him at all it seems like this wasn't just about enforcing the law it was actually about intimidating people people who are speaking out against the government. is that the suit will become the normal behavior in victoria the laws that are made not by the palm of but by government bureaucrats and enforced in extremely unfair and medic was odd to not want to see another emergency declared like these in victoria or anywhere in australia again. russia's far east has been marking 75 years since the final chapter of world war 2 on whedon's thing an

abandoned lighthouse was lit for the 1st time in 14 years the 31 metre high structure is on the southern tip off sakhalin island just a short distance from japan and was built by the japanese military during the war it was lit by enthusiasts who climbed to the top of the life on this plane a russian flank the southern half of 2nd was seated by japan to the soviet union under the surrender agreement that ended the war in 1045. just approaching half past 11 at night here in moscow this thursday we're all set to cross the some more great programs here in r.t.e. find out what's showing and your part of the world and moment. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. everybody has it this is the kaiser of port au. max this is the last week that i am allowed to wear white according to the fashion police so you know when labor day comes up we're not supposed to wear white after that so i'm going to wear as much white as possible hopefully i'm not blowing your eyes out you look like the good here or woman. delivering on ice cream in the good good humor woman truck. well you know what there's a lot of looting and.