it's a case brought by supporters with. the russian authorities over claims that they failed to open a probe into his alleged poisoning with a nerve agent because the kremlin says it's still waiting for germany to hand over evidence. back with a vengeance france because he's daily record for covert infections spain sees the virus spread faster than in any other. american media race is the rush of muddling along the us intelligence reports mixed last minute find the department of homeland security to.

have you with us midday here in moscow this is. a russian judge has dismissed the case looking into allegations that russian or thirty's to investigate claims alexina valmy was poisoned legal action was initiated by the opposition figures corruption foundation of on the remains in a coma and. quarter reports. where the complaint that alex say no vollies legal team filed against their russian government was just rejected i was filed after their request for a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of alex st of all me was left on and certain legal teams lawyer just said that the that the case should have been handled by the investigative committees head office instead of being handed down to the regional bureau wherein a volley fell seriously ill so the lawyer also announced he will be appealing the court's decision with moscow's top court now the police are still engaged in in

a long investigation trying to find out what exactly happened there it's part of their preliminary investigation a video footage and interviews at the cafe where alex saying of all need drank the tea that was allegedly poisoned is still under way over 20 forensic investigations are still ongoing of which 3 have actually already been completed and the prosecutor general says that there's still no evidence that someone actually tried to murder the opposition leader something that needs to be found before a criminal case can actually be opened meanwhile the russian doctors who initially treated. me are sticking to their original diagnosis that there were no toxic materials found in his blood or urine. will go to a new school which you mean it was heated triggs them and alex in the phone these biological fluids the study was carried out with an american aspect which contains 240000 standard sets of substances that correspond to the electronic data base of

the us national institute of standards and technology no liquids or going for stress compounds drugs that inhibit colon mysteries were detected and no traces of on the on and substances were found. and it's. now with the kremlin's cooperation of all he was transported to a german hospital not long after the russian doctors gave their diagnosis. but once he arrived there the german doctor said that they did find evidence of of some sort of toxic material in the opposition leader system now russian medics and the prosecutor general have numerous times already requested the evidence of this claim but have yet to receive a response now the last nevertheless novi chalk has already been declared in many places in the west as the culprit here and the kremlin wants to find out what has caused this claim. none of the tests biological samples

taken by specialists showed any sign of toys in the substances. says it m m big us you detected a toxic agent moreover they say that it is a military nerve agent if that is true and it is essential that our investigators know precisely what our german colleagues have established. so the russian investigation will continue as moscow awaits the results of the german doctor's findings hopefully once they become available this everyone will be close to finding out what exactly happened. after germany's claims regarding novacek the world's eyes are all wrong russia with nato arranging a meeting on friday to discuss the case and the e.u. considering new sanctions against moscow one option is to suspend cooperation with russia on a major gas pipeline project nord stream to some german politicians though say it's too soon to be speaking of sanctions. for me the question is who is really

responsible for this poison attack everything points to moscow and the whole west is pointing the finger at putin's i think it's a bit more complex than that and the speed with which questions regarding north stream 2 have come up the speed with which sanctions have been called for even though it hasn't been established whether the russian state is actually behind this whether it was criminals none of this has been made clear. that's in my name. as we move away from called will need more gas in the foreseeable future during the transition and we need to ask where will we get this gas from. meanwhile the mainstream media is trying to dig deeper into what happened to the russian opposition figure though they seem focused on just one version of events and i guess the of explains. 48 hours since germany declared the valley poisoned with military grade talks in a humorous crime she said that must be dealt with will turn it on i condemn

this in strongest possible terms on behalf of the entire german government. there is serious questions now that only the russian government can answer and must answer with a note that she didn't accuse russia of anything but within 24 hours everyone with a keyboard had somehow become an investigative journalist slash toxicologist slash foreign policy expert take build for example a german tabloid that specializes in yellow journalism and bashing russia build out did everyone they managed to mistranslate a russian official make up a conspiracy theory that russia was blaming germany for poor zooming in a volley and based on everything that they got wrong they demanded sanctions and then to the divisive german russian nord stream to pipeline there are very strong anti russia in the west which typically specifically wants to sabotage the gas

pipeline to prevent between russia and the e.u. a particularly close association russia and germany there isn't a change of course america wants to sell its natural gas to europe instead of the russians so there's a lot of money going on a lot of money is what at stake spiegel another german magazine has proposed tearing up german russian relations big student well apparently they have irrefutable proof that putin was behind this insane poisoning they won't show it though to their readers so we'll just have to trust them now is the time to hurt the man in the kremlin the german or thora jesus showing the alexina found he was not drunk or diabetic as a cry. when cynical spin doctors wanted to well to believe he was supposed to be killed with an insidious neuro toxin cynical spin doctors insidious neurotoxin and obviously aggravated by us. all going to

force 1st 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 the substance on the eve of the flight or during the flight then any accompanying persons would certainly have shown symptoms of poisoning that did not happen passions are high a lot of confusion about this is the best time to take advantage of people if you're a build pundit and you have no idea how a neuro talks and works or what happened to the volley and you still want clicks well now is the time to write righteous and warlike articles to try and appear knowledgeable while the you know the professionals and the experts a busy and quiet trying to figure out what's happened there is another version that you might like one popular theory is that the crime line spooked by the protests in the west embarrass him to the east. wanted mr nirvana out of the way to prevent him

from mobilizing discontent closer to mr putin and upsetting his plans for parliamentary elections next year after years of not winning elections after years of stagnant support somehow now novelli has become a danger i was in the kremlin spooked after the revolution in ukraine why did they try to remove him then and it doesn't explain use it in new york which is the nuclear option even in the world of nerve agents sending the volleys to germany where he could get tested for a new truck and russia would get sanction what's happened is that they just fall short of saying well you. say you know it or it is must. so questions about this etc so it seems that they've already discounted the idea that there could be other explanations for fault for what happened if the line is being pushed it would be in all of the western media that of course it was the

question of response or then why if he had been. shot why then was the consent given for him to go to germany because if he had the trial then of course the killers would find that out so something is why i doubt it does it really but you know many fantastic versions going around you can pick whichever suits you best put his reluctance to say the word novel now at cloud has led to comparisons to lord voldemort the villain in the harry potter sirius whom other characters do not name now i think has also been banned from his own state television and is mentioned there only rarely and in a negative light so putin's apparent reluctance to talk about a fellow who isn't a politician who wasn't elected to anything is somehow in direct proof that putin wanted him dead hell i don't remember putin ever talking about me could putin really want me dead as well by the way and of all me being banned in state

television is a lie he refuses to appear on state television is even declined to appear in the nazi when we asked him we've got out a video we have video evidence of the guardian live at the end of the day what's the point there is a jar and educate him that these people existed it's full of profit oriented journalism intended to surprise and to upset and they will say anything to you into clicking on an ad filled article the feed on your attention. current of us is flaring up in and around europe france has clocked up $7000.00 new infections for the 2nd day running while in neighboring spain the daily rate is now almost $9000.00 and just outside the e.u. turkey's authorities are now admitting that things are getting bad again our correspondent charlotte dubin ski reports. well e.u.

officials are warning that the rate of transmission the test so positive cases of 19 is now at a level that is almost equivalent to what it was back in march that was when many countries started imposing those severe restrictions which led to lock downs across europe in france this week we saw more than $7000.00 cases being registered in just 24 hours now much of that of course could be put down to the fact that there is widespread testing taking place across france and we've been told that some 50 percent of those who are testing positive for cocaine 19 are showing little to no symptoms but what health authorities are concerned about here is the fact that in recent days there has been an increase in the number of people who tested positive for codeine who have been taken to hospital and those who need intensive care ryan as has been sleeping over to summer vacation. and that is something that we see

now we are all halls back to the number that we have seen in march where lots of measures have been put in place to try and curb this rate of transmission including here in paris where we now have to wear masks in all streets across the capital and there's been talk that there could be closures of bars and localized lockdowns it seems nothing is essentially being ruled out at the moment although the measures in terms of mass don't yet seem to be producing any concrete results now spain and germany have also seen some of the highest cases they have recorded since the spring time and that's also been significant numbers of cases appearing in parts of the u.k. in the north of england for example where there are already tighter restrictions in place with housel still not able to mix in certain parts of the north they're seeing a very large rate of transmission of. 19 meanwhile in turkey the health

minister there has been talking about this 2nd wave he's been saying that the case is it going up and up every day and he says he knows who's to blame. we're experiencing this 2nd peak of the 1st wave our mobility and curiosity weddings and holidays which are important parts of our customs and traditions have brought us to this point well the turkish health minister also outlined the impact that 19 years had on health workers saying that now more than 50 health workers said to have died after contract ing the virus some countries are turning back again to quarantine measures to try and stem the rates of transmissions for example in the u.k. though quarantine sort of causing a little bit of a headache for holiday makers and for travel industry experts and that's because the 4 nations of the u.k. don't seem to have a consensus on where they want to impose quarantine measures so for example if you

live in england or northern ireland you can still holiday to countries such as portugal greece but if you will live in wales or scotland if you go to those countries you will now have to quarantine on your return there's so much criticism of this saying that it's causing a complete nightmare for holiday workers for holiday makers as well and it's confusing and causing anxiety consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria anymore on when to add or remove a country meanwhile other countries are talking about shutting their borders hungary is already done that to anybody who's not a normal resident the reality is though the economic issues stem form the 1st lock down a still impacting countries across europe so any further measures to tighten movement to add quarantines all lockdowns is only going to add to the very already very deep

of these european countries. we spoke to mohammed moneer virally just at lancaster university who says spotting new outbreaks in a timely manner is the best way to find the virus. i think the real testament at this moment with the increased number of cases is that we believe we can identify these small 'd clusters that are emerging mainly indoors in top restaurants and indoor gathering and quickly we had to fight these one better we were off 'd to allow them not allowing them to more again to add on controllable outbreaks 95 percent people did to follow older regulations put in place and 5 percent on follow and those 5 percent and you produced the effort made by the rest of $95.00 i think the emphasis should be and has to be around controlling this interaction before it's a proud level of community spread is common and the number of infection would go

significantly higher and the capacity in the all spittles would start to bulk up again. the russian meddling alarm is being raised again have to the u.s. department of homeland security council to report ahead of the 2020 election story in full in a moment. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic probably the only. talk. it's election season in america russia claims are running wild in u.s. media. in the scene is learning that a warning about russian dirty tricks was polled 2 days before it was had to go out to law enforcement dirty tricks oh no what is russia doing this time russian malign

influence sachs is likely to continue denigrating presidential candidates through allegations of poor mental or physical health to influence the outcome of the 2020 election g doesn't that sound an awful lot like what american media has been doing for the past several months there are some questions this morning about president trump's health the question of biden's mental health while will continue to be analyzed by the media frankly it is even hard to watch the confusion the inability to finish thoughts the never ending daily gas these speculations come out of thin air or perhaps out of biden's mouth we tried it in our in iraq is not working for an hour to try to meet in iran and here's me you're trying to ukraine covert is taken this year just said the outbreak has taken more than 100 year look here's the lives it's just it's if we think about it i am very willing to lead to american

public judge my physical mental fell my physical as well as my mental fitness some american media outlets have even suggested joe biden may not be able to finish out his 4 year term the main advocate of the idea that joe biden may be quote not all there seems to be us president donald trump he has suggested that biden take cognitive tests on multiple occasions i think he's the weakest mentally i like running to get people that are weak badly i think joe is the weakest up here and certainly way joe biden has an obligation to take a test now donald trump self has also been in the media spotlight with rumors circulating that trunk had a mini stroke now his doctor denies this as does the president now one has to admit that the president of the united states does not always sound like the most stay. genius i hope they now go and take a look at the oranges the origins of the. investigation of the beginnings

1870000 test to date so that's 1000000 870000 1000000 tests think of that 1000000 870000 tests now trump and biden have both set records trump is the oldest person to ever been elected president and if joe biden defeats him this november biden will be that record as well now it doesn't exactly take a vast russian conspiracy to speculate that perhaps old age is taking its toll on the other guy it with martin r.t. new york. a u.s. court has ruled that the national security agency broke the law would its mass harvesting of americans' phone records the scheme is exposed by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and he has welcomed 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 condemn the national security agency's activities as unlawful and in the

same ruling credit me for exposing them back in june 2013 snowden who worked as a contractor for the intelligence agency released thousands of classified documents they shine a light on the n.s.a.'s dragnet surveillance practices targeting millions of americans as well as foreign citizens so it was charged with espionage and fled eventually being granted asylum in russia. after the phone surveillance scheme was uncovered it continued to run until 2015 officials claimed it was helpful in intercepting terrorist communications he cited the case of 4 men caught funding extremists in somalia and convicted the court of appeals for the 9th circuit ruled the program only played a minor role in that case and it was a violation of the foreign intelligence surveillance act former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that despite the ruling it's likely no officials will be held to account it takes our courts several years often check 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 violation of what in our country was the 4th amendment which prohibits explicitly this kind of thing. you know to kingdoms looking to update his official secrets act the more commission that advises the government says that there needs to be tougher sentences for those who leak data and there are plenty of other changes on the way to skittle of explains. drops to create said double agents the cold war might be over but

espionage is still lucky in the shadows and to keep that state secrets close to its chest do you say is 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 reports 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 russian hackers and madness pushed 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 is to present bugs and saying that not getting what you want doesn't actually make russia guilty this is about pressure from the is going to remain

seized on this on this report i to 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 at 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 possible directed controlled by a foreign government though how will how far they must be directed isn't specified

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 was walked along the private walls but the local commission wants to widen the net even further the territorial am bits 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 that's up for negotiation now and if that does change times that someone like julian assange anja for example of a foreign national i mean revelations according to the u.k. threaten the country's national security could find himself legally an enemy as

would anyone who passes on classified information are brought even though many argue the such leaks remain 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 require 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. i think that makes the government accountable to the public to the people who elected it is unnecessary or part of it has to do with so in the past was sufficiently culpable so if you're not killed you're either someone still is up guilty yet done it no proof necessary just so you know as it's highly likely with such changes on the table one can ask how much safer out when i'd really be. the search for possible survivors has

been renewed in a district of beirut one month after it was wrecked by the massive blast in the city's port the signal using special ordeal equipment was detected from under the rubble of a collapsed building raising hope someone might still be alive rescue teams are digging tunnels to reach the location where the signal was picked up but on friday marks a month since the blast which killed 191 people and injured 6000 others with hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. have been dried up today to return with more on our top stories in 30 minutes.

hello and welcome to cross where all things are considered i'm peter all about the primary purpose of history is going to stay in the past as a guide to understanding the present and future history should not be seen as goodness. because a lot of history is painful and shame so how should we find the right balance is statue side the right answer. crossed knocking statues side i'm joined by my guest cleo voluntary in new york she is founder of the company there have been champion which teaches social emotional learning in schools as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and government

agencies and in las vegas because i love her it he is an assistant professor of african-american and african diaspora studies at the university of nevada las vegas all right crosswalk rules in effect that means you can shop any time you want right now is appreciate greatly let me go to you in new york how does taking down statues and we can talk about which ones changed the condition of people of color in the united states and does that something is that just a political statement because we're in a great recession we're in a pandemic and working people or people been horrendous lee hit by this and i just have to ponder is statues the 1st thing we should be bitching about go ahead well sure i mean i think i would defer to the former mayor of my state in new orleans mitch landrieu who courageously took down the confederate statutes in new orleans a few years ago and his argument was essentially that you know we are

a melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not.