us making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people needed in that little . nato says that moscow must cooperate on an international probe into the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figurehead i think. that as the kremlin and berlin remain locked in a diplomatic row over evidence in the cakes. also this hour russian scientists say they're about to launch the final phase of clinical trials for the country's 1st coronavirus vaccine aims but next week. and the american media raises the russian meddling alarm once again after a u.s. intelligence report is next last minute by the department of homeland security.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow let's get started with a live news update nato says that an international response is needed in the wake of the alleged poisoning of russian opposition leader unexplainable me it's also calling on moscow to fully cooperate with an international probe into what really happened earlier claims by berlin that not only it was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent we're joined live now by our from berlin peter nato had an emergency meeting today what exactly came out of that. what we heard from u.n. stoltenberg the nato secretary general on friday morning he said it's being presented to the alliance it being presented with proof beyond down to the let's say no volley had been poisoned using a no virtual military grade agent he said they would have to be a international reaction to this however he wouldn't elaborate what would be.

it's the use of chemical of that but it's so use of overunity chemical nerve agent which is violating the brew bishan of any use over chemical weapons and for nato we strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of international law so it requires on the international response. but i will not now speculate about exactly what kind of international response the german government also gave an update on the case today what did they have to say. well that's right there's been a lot of talk not only from germany but around the world about transparency coming from the russian side but on friday the german government confirmed that they have received a request from the russian prosecutors general prosecutor general's office for the sharing of test data from alexei navalny tests that were carried out on him for

that medical data to be shared with doctors and investigate is in russia now reading between the lines from the statement it might not be as simple a procedure as that makes it sound. if the justice ministry and the foreign ministry of germany usually consider each case on its own merit to see if there are any obstacles to the agreement. well russian doctors of asked for this information to be shared with them as part of the investigation because when they carried out on election the volley was tried of course 1st in russia or in the city of sc they found no trace of toxins and in fact they say that poisoning was the 1st thing they looked for and found no traces and that they need these results from the german tests in order to proceed with their investigation we've also heard from the kremlin spokes person to me to the press corps who said that the russian doctors had been far more forthcoming when it came to sharing information than their german counterparts he also said that statements and acetate sions should be limited to

the facts that are provided. this fact to investigative measure assure being carried out and if the information about the presence of a poisonous substance in the patient's biological samples is confirmed then of course the jury investigation. of the german federal president. has been speaking as well he said the case has the potential to cause problems in the relationship between berlin and moscow but if we look at the foreign minister of austria alexandre schellenberg he said that it would be impossible for the e.u. to put in place sanctions on russia over this before there was any proof before there was any investigation being carried out he was also asked questions about the nord stream to gas pipeline which the austrian foreign minister said shouldn't be put in any risk that that should be completed and that the nikkei should have an

impact on that. meanwhile the mainstream media are trying to dig deeper and to what happened to the russian opposition figure had though they are seemingly obsessed with only one version of events as broadcast he 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 the strongest possible terms on behalf of the entire german government there are very serious questions now that only the russian government can answer and must answer 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 reasoning the volley and beeston 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 with 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 were showing through to their readers so we'll just have to trust them now is the time so 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. to see this are 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 volunteer and you still want clinics well now is the time to write righteous and warlike articles to try and appear knowledgeable while the you know the professionals and 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 into west embarrass into 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 didn't 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 russian authorities must. questions about this etc etc 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 into being heard in all of the western media that of course it was the kremlin responsible then why if he had been. shot why then was the consent given for him to go to germany because if he had been poured over a truck then of course the killers would find that out so something doesn't quite add up 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 never and that 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 appearances on 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 one isn'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 the volley being banned and state television is alive he refuses to appear on state television has even declined to appear in the naughty when we asked him we've got out a video so we have video evidence of the guardian live at the end of the day what's the point there is a jar and if you change that these people existed it's full of profit oriented journalism intended to surprise and to upset and they will say anything to lose you into clicking on an ad filled article the fried or your attention.

russian scientists producing the country's 1st corona virus vaccine say they're ready to start final phase crippling a cultural miles and after an international medical journal concluded that the drug name sputnik be produced an antibody response and 100 percent of participants in early stage trials with no major side effects joining us now is our to saskia taylor with more of the details saskia that sounds like quite a breakthrough how close are we to seeing this vaccine get official approval i think it's an understatement to say that 2020 had a rocky start and good news was hard to come by but now isn't it and also that it's like finally something positive to report as many will remember russia right. coronavirus back on august 11th this is about one of the leading institute here in

moscow and now the results are in on friday it was announced that the fact you. introduced a strong immune response i antibodies had been produced and 100 percent of those who participated in the clinical trials now this comes just after. that is one isn't. set up publish an article with the findings of the fox news trials are 2 thoughts to tell her they care for about reports of. the russian meddling alarm is being raised again after the us department of homeland security council's a report ahead of the 2020 alexion story in full in just a few moments. join

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back to the program coronavirus is filling 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 once again our correspondent charlotte dubinsky 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 i asked has that been sleeping or were just summer vacation. and that is something that we see now we're all halls back to the number actually 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 household 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 transmission 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 mohammad munir a viral just at lancaster university who says spotting new outbreaks in

a timely manner is the best way to fight the virus i think the real test human at this moment with the increased number of cases is that we believe we could identify these small 'd clusters that autumn urging mainly indoors in top restaurants and indoor gathering and quicker we're going to fight these one better we were off 'd to allow not allowing them to merge into our own controllable outbreak 95 percent people did to follow all the regulations put in place and 5 percent don't swallow and those 5 percent and you produced the effort made by the rest of 95 i think the emphasis should be and has to be around controlling this infection 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 ospital would start to bulk up again. the search for possible survivors has been renewed in a district of beirut one month after it was wracked by the massive blast in the

city's port special audio equipment has detected a signal from under the rubble of a collapsed building sparking hopes someone may still be alive on these journalists altaf ahmad reports from the scene of the rescue operation. this district is one of the main this trick which were robbed of my siblings by a bag or black with nearly 109 people dead around 50 or more others missing and 6000 more than that actually answered and i we are off the ice away as rescue workers are still trying to cover it so there are survivors under the rubble of the building which vehicle which ocelot say on top of the 1st vibrant consist of the as the building therefore it is the bare facts on the process of the process for the rescue workers or the operation as been taking more time then you lose a lot mainly because of this issue because the building is very fast all they're

worried that it could collapse on top of the rescue workers talking to the rescue workers on the ground there are signs that said there are vital signs of their machinery their banners and we suspect there's indeed agitprop shingle a sign of life under the rubble today 30 days after the explosion they are saying that there are apps least 19 feet recorded for a minute and for the person who is under the table they don't know if this person is a child or an elderly person but as they are trying to do it there there was an awful awful because the longer this process takes or the saw friesen face the less chances this person actually cost of coming out of this alive everyone here on the ground whether it's social workers or actually this or just plain people who are just fending for the ice i hear it with a lot of hope and prayer as they are praying for a miracle that today even though i wonder if we can maybe have the full realigning

in lebannon especially out of the country the way they can on the crisis in its history was made with michael with 19 and by the august 4th little rock. it's election season and america and on cue russian meddling claims are running wild in the u.s. media. in the scene is learning that a warning about russian dirty tricks was polled 2 days before it was set 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 physical health to influence the outcome of the 2020 election she 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 trumps health the question of biden's mental health well 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 iraq is not working for an hour to try to meet in iran and here's may we try 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 u.s. 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

a certain 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 on the arms as of the. investigation of the beginnings 1870000 test to date so that's 1000000 870000 1000000 tests think of that 1870000 tests now trump in biden have both set records trump is the oldest person to ever been elected president and if joe biden defeats sam this november biden will beat 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 ylem up and artsy new york. hundreds of black lives matter protesters gathered in new york city's times square on thursday they were demanding justice for daniel pruett a 41 year old black man who died from a 6 ation during a police intervention in rochester new york on march 23rd the demonstrators were met by counter protesting trump supporters. then a prude was detained after his brother called 911 saying he was behaving erratically

due to mental illness as a parent had run out onto the street naked he stopped breathing after police used a special hood to prevent him from spitting and knelt on him while he was handcuffed on the ground crew was taken off life support after a week in hospital his daughter thinks the death was avoidable. and those painful to watch because it is a piece of of the devastation my father posed for it to nobody he was told to get on the ground he got on the ground he was told but as has he put his hands behind his back orders my father should not be there right now the people who are put on the streets to a protect and serve did not protect and serve. this this as he did a cure my father should have been met would have meant to help special and i have big children street he did not deserve big treated like an animal local media have shared an internal police report and which the officer's actions were described as appropriate and consistent with their training however rochester mayor lovely

warren announced on thursday that the policeman and vald in the death of daniel pearl have been suspended i am suspending the officers in question today what i saw in that video. was a man who needed help. a man who needed compassion a man who needed humanity. a man who we should have respected. a man who was in crisis. our response to him. was wrong. that's been your global news update for this hour for further details on all the stories and countless articles at our website r.t. dot com. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race and of his on off and spearing dramatic development the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. trade and investment to become metrics bills to conjure economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the invest for chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but what one investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all the environment. that means if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can be sued

multinationals are taking on the whole nation philip morris is trying to use i.s.t.'s to stop tour of the way from implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a french company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage democratic choice over trump corporate law joining us as we try to find don't want to. anyone who is a real careful as to say well we made it possible to rest our work and growth. in the world. yes but it hasn't been shared equitably and the answer is no the rich get richer the workers stay. at the old pay and the poor no one is taking care of joe characters and deserves criticism. basically on the

inherent in the gritty of the sharing of the gains. greetings and salutations you know things are things are looking mighty grim here in the land of milk and honey the bright shining city on the hill is no longer bright it certainly has lost its shine and that hill is looking less like a mountain and more like a knoll this is things directly to climate change and our lack of respect for the damage we have wrought on mother earth i mean california is burning the gulf coast is once again decimated by unprecedented and by unprecedented in their size hurricanes city after city across the.