in the stories that shaped the week claims in germany being cooperative in the. case of berlin said it was irrefutable the russian opposition leader had been poisoned with the nerve agent. a month to the day since the disputed presidential election. to the streets in protest we hear. this is a. people running take cover in the sprayed all over the fools people shouting jones but there's no actual aggression from the crowd. it's ready

to move ahead with large scale testing of its coronavirus vaccine scientists here publish more details about the job and its effectiveness. the french satirical magazine reprints its controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammad reigniting debate. terror trial getting underway 5 years after the. publications offices in paris. with big stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well welcome to the weekly an international i'm going to know neal. berlin and moscow are locked in a diplomatic row over they allege nerve agent poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina volley on sunday they russian foreign ministry question ultimatum to

provide an explanation for what happened suggesting it's the german side that's not being forthcoming if the german government is sincere in state months it should respond to their quest of the russian general prosecutor's office as soon as possible that it was passed along on the 20 sounds or 4 guest it is the german side that really less urgency by not sending a response berlin is slowing down the very investigative process it is calling for is that on purpose ultimatums do not help anyone move forward but if never explanations follow from russia in the coming days we will have to discuss the response with our partners we have high hopes for the russian government to solve this serious crime. meanwhile a group of russian doctors have offered to set up a joint commission with their german counterpart to investigate the case it comes as global pressure continues to build against russia with more in the tears are europe correspondent peter all over. there have been international calls for

transparency from russia in an investigation into what happened to alexina valmy the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov of has said moscow has nothing to hide when it comes to mist in the found me he says russia is still waiting though for requests for information to be answered. but it's we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide the soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures rumi julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old scenario we hear public accusations against russia in the fischel requests to berlin from our prosecutor's office have so far gone unanswered we were promised today that we would soon receive response as soon as we get the facts we will react accordingly

this is all reminiscent of what happened with this group poles nato secretary-general again stoltenberg has his mind made up though he says international action needs to be taken however he stopped short of saying what form that should take we strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of international law so it requires an international response. but i will not speculate about exactly what kind of international response but we're seeing at the moment is warnings and demands flying backwards and forwards the french and german foreign ministers issued a joint statement on friday evening in which they. and an attack against mr novelli we've also heard from the german federal president. he said being a volley case has the potential to cause real problems in the relationship between pearl in moscow and in vienna we've seen moscow's representative summoned to the

foreign ministry to discuss the novelli case i consider the demands russia conducts a quick open and comprehensive investigation in appropriate in the absence of any information facts or specific data from germany or any response to the russian prosecutor general's request made on the 27th of august it's over a week since moscow requested information from berlin regarding the tests that were carried out on alexina volley on friday the german government confirmed that they had received that request however getting that information over to russia might not be as simple as all out. had to write at their request was forwarded by the minister of justice to the justice department in berlin today in the morning to geisha. does that mean russia has not received anything from the ministry of justice or any other responsible oath already as they have already just sad the

federal government has approved their quest for mutual legal assistance. or speaking in plain language no other information has been given is that right. i regenerate what i have just said moscow has requested this information because the tests that were carried out in the russian hospital where lex in the valley was 1st treated showed no trace of any toxin in his system and tests for poisons all came back negative. back to investigative measure assure being carried out and if the information about the presence of a poisonous substance from the patients biological samples is confirmed then of course we will open a day jury investigation it's 2 weeks since alexina valmy has been here in berlin being treated the shot at a hospital physicians say there is nowhere cute risk to his life at the moment however there is the potential for a long term effects from this illness. it's exactly

a month since the disputed election in belarus triggered unprecedented scenes of protest in the country and for a 5th consecutive weekend thousands of once again taken to the streets of cities on talons nationwide decrying what they say was a rig result of thora these have confirmed over 100 people were detained today are minsk based correspondents report from the scene. since quarter of so at this point just seems to me that everything will be over soon people are beginning to disperse it some pleasant to stay here in the rain and there's no talk or details about what's happening here. let's move over here to this building and i want to talk about it this is a multistory car park near the hotel when it started raining people so there's a running take cover in there spread all over the floors people shouting chometz but there's no actual aggression from the crowd there is a project called voice that was created for fair elections they have a new version of bullets in the telegram app called i walk you need to send

a message to it so your presence would be registered anonymously but that ronnie stasi did say 120000 people were expected i don't see that many here maicon say that on lots of people but just a few of them before the august him. behind the fence there is a car with a very loud speaker on the roof playing some patrick belorussian music you can still hear it kilometers away from here and from afar it sort of sounds like some kind of a pet rabbit party but in fact this car is drowning out any chance and slogans its music is being played death loud other than yes the much demand in the prison here is the most tense place right next to the barbed wire there are water cannons over there and walls that prevent the crowds from entering the independence palace the crowd is very dense here and it stretches for more than 100 meters. protests broke out immediately after the outcome of the vote when it was announced on august 9th was when long time president alexander lukashenko won another 5 years in office

although initially marred by violence and police brutality the demonstrations are now largely peaceful world leaders have called for talks between the government on the opposition the latter is the monday in a fresh vote on full constitutional reform. mark the 100 consecutive day of block lines motor rallies in the u.s. city of portland triggered by the death of george floyd those protests show no sign of relenting. yeah you're seeing here i'm on desperately trying to the flames on his shoes after a molotov cocktail london near him tensions between demonstrators police remain high officers used tear gas to break up the crowds and they've made several arrests the rallies which begin in may have frequently been marred by violence. meanwhile

in kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groupings have marched through louisville black lines moderate campaigners converged on the city demanding the state's famous kentucky derby horse race be counseled that it cried police violence and racial injustice earlier in the day pro police militia had marched through the city and were confronted by some of the b.l.m. activists. well in all those developments i'm happy to say they've done the author and journalist joins us live on the program always good to see you don you know as you well know donald trump is pitching his whole fight for the presidency in november on law and order as specially more and more as the scenes continue whether or not that connects with voters is the situation as you see it is it getting out of control. you know it is getting out of control i mean america is breaking down

we're seeing a street fighting street fighting going on growing levels involving both the leftists and rightists. it's a kind of a slow wilting civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well end up infighting endless lawsuits indeterminant out no one knows you've got the largest one gun maker in the u.s. smith and wesson just reporting record sales as well what do you read into that is that cause for concern or does this happen in the build up to election is this something you know that we need to be keeping a very close eye on. well it that this is not normal in terms of a normal presidential election but this one is marked by growing social breakdown and both sides are arming i mean there are guns everywhere when if you go to one of these protests and in places like the met midwest or the west you'll see guns on

both sides and it's very dangerous and because people tend to use these weapons and so but the but there's no force capable of stopping these these these these this fighting because i'm it seems to have taken a life of its own and it's just part of the whole political structure which is in an accelerating breakdown i mean america is a is a failed state and it's failing ever more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these the street fighting is a symptom of the one thing i've noticed in. the decade in the live being presenting dunny when i when i talk to people on the left and the right increasingly as the years go on in the u.s. it seems that the increase the vision that there seems to be no middle ground and we're seeing that on the streets in the clash between right and left wing and

you're either on one side or the other that's going to be the middle ground trying to get back to some consensus that come some kind of negotiation it's going to be harder and harder the longer this goes on isn't that. yes but it's impossible because as i said all the political mechanisms are broken. i mean america is it's incapable of holding a a a standard election something other countries take for granted but which is beyond us capacities america can't handle the kofa crisis in any kind of rational civilized way. corruption is out of control economic up polarization is out of control and people are very angry and since they have no politike. outlets as the system is so on response of all they can do is take to the streets and throw punches that's what we're seeing i mean we've seen other countries go down this road and now the u.s. is going down this road as well and it's not as if when november 3rd comes around

the next morning when you get the election result this is all going to magically disappear there's no hint that that's happening right oh yes i mean i mean november 3rd or november 4th when you know in the in the day after the elections will probably seem we're almost certainly see more turmoil more uncertainty and more anger and conflict as to what the result will be because there's a member america doesn't hold one election. in november it holds literally thousands of elections run by local officials who are not answerable to anybody else their confidence varies wildly and so therefore you will see any disputes especially with an avalanche of mail and ballots as to what the accurate count is and there is no authority america does not have an election commission for example as most other countries do so there is no authority with the with the ability to to

count the ballots in any kind of neutral objective fashion so therefore it's a it's a recipe for disaster unless i'm almost i mean almost certain that that more conflict will come out of the election rather than less just as we look at some of the scenes as you're speaking done it looks like a militarized zone really the more it continues 100 days 101 days not in portland oregon you've got to helmets gas masks armored clothing being picked up by police you know they're becoming more armed on both sides you've got a stream of groups attempting to take advantage of the situation it feels as if things can break out anywhere. and there's nothing really can stop by that this stage yet it really is the weimar is ation of the united states and i'm referring to weimar germany in the 1020s which sort of more and more if street fighting

between between nazis and communists which eventually culminated in the declaration of a state for emergency and and hitler's accession as as chancellor and shiny 130 threat i'm not saying that history will repeat itself exactly exactly but there is unquestionably that this is out of these disorders are leading to an authoritarian crackdown and that what we'll see is will be the desk of democratic norms as they are generally understood america is a country and deep trouble its most basic institutions are breaking down and there's really no mechanism for reconstructing them we appreciate your time at this hour thanks for talking to us on the program down the less our journalist and author from new york thank you friends had to recall magazine surely abdul has reprinted controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad ahead of a terror trial reigniting debates over freedom of speech and subtler

a closer look at that after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. lead.

to. a low again russia says it's ready to move ahead with large scale testing of its new coronavirus vaccine last month the country became the 1st nation in the world to register a jump fears were expressed in the west that corners must have been cut might end up doing more harm than good but details of the potential cure are helping published for the world to see scott taylor reports on the. at the start of trench

28 good news it was hard to come by but as we move that autumn it seems that find us not unpleasant to report on as many will now but russia practices the what fast track to give great advice but all the results are now on friday it was announced that the notice that nicotine has introduced a strong immune response i am to point out that in 100 some of those images a page in trials now this comes just after eating just about one of the oldest one of the most respected in the land. that's a subset of the findings of the trials because it is a part of the clinical trial results of the sputnik the vaccine published in lancet the world's leading medical journal shows that russia is leading the way in developing a corona virus vaccine and it answers a lot of questions from western critics specifically the journal report concluded that there were no serious adverse consequences among volunteers that took the vaccine and there was a very strong in time moon response due to the development of antibodies it found

that a vaccinated person produces $1.00 times more antibodies than an average person infected with corona virus so no serious side to the desired antibodies and of course a good safety profile it's also worth noting that the head of the musket clinic which developed independently said he thought that those heightened place would actually protect individual for at least 2 yes so that i'm not for what he did right in basketball and there was this article in the lancet really bulls direct their arguments next the suspected nest not this unusual undoubtedly with those who decided to take the plunge to leave the fund got to get themselves back in it and we can take you to the minister of defense against like who the leader of the liberal democrat party who by the way actually appeared on a t.v. show makes wrong in the day that the last i met. so now we're now told president

putin about this via video conference he said you know what i'm feeling fine knows that i will say i did have a slight headache for a few hours so these latest announcement some doubt reassuring but also maybe a way to counter the one of the better word through suspicions like people initially you said that maybe russia has this process in order to declare itself winner of that race for so what now well on our side and if not of what actually basis for russian citizens will start in september. that process could be done within 7 to 12 months in fact. we can explain it in the capital muscovites obviously we're in a hot sauce and have been given a bit of a head start so doses for most things people at home but that there will be read to you and it seems there is demand from. apparently more than 20 foreign governments have already seen the hundreds of millions of doses so immersed like sputnik the

spread. or after of a peer reviewed study it was published by u.s. secretary of state expressed skepticism like pompei or accuse russia and china of hurrying their vaccines to market for political reasons we discussed the russian vaccine on the findings in the lancet journal with lawrence young professor of molecular on college in the u.k. . i think it's a very important step in the way to develop an effective vaccine it's a very interesting study like many vaccines studies it's still relatively early days but it does demonstrate that the vaccine is safe and it doesn't juice a very good immune response this study published in along by light some very important developments particularly in the ability to what we call crime boosts the response to give 2 doses of slightly different baxi does that give you an even better response and that is something that this article reports on which i think is

a very important development but again we have to be slightly cautious because it's relatively small numbers and we look forward obviously to seeing more data particularly as this dark scene goes into phase 3 where i understand there are going to be something like $40000.00 volunteers vaccinated but we're working together as an international group of immunology a symbologist to fight this vaccine and this is a very important step in that part. 14 suspects went on trial in france this week over there are alleged involvement in a series of terror attacks in 2015 the satirical magazine was one of the main targets alongside a jewish supermarket in commemoration of the victims the magazine has republished the controversial islamic cartoons believed to have partly motivated the attack the move triggered a furious reaction from the iranian foreign ministry but president freedom of

expression as part of. as the trial into the january 25th deen attacks begins to be french means to defend the right to make people live in freedom to mock to ridicule and to caricature which voltaire claimed was the source of the rest to be french means always to be on the side of the freedom fighters well charlie hebdo is back in the spotlight here in prague. and that's because as the trial is underway that important trial it's decided to take a bold decision according to some some of described it perhaps as being more idiotic and that is to republicans some of its most controversial cartoons which depict the prophet mohammed the muslim prophet now it was those types of cartoons that were published by the magazine that initially put a target on its back and led to that attack back in 2015 in which 12 people were murdered back then the world came out in support saying 3 sharlee saying they

supported the right of the magazine its freedom of speech to publish cartoons like that but by republishing these cartoons again a montage of them it has reignited the debate here in france over whether or not it's ok to blast beam this is a poll that's been done by the french institute of public opinion now it found when it asked the french people in general what they thought was this the right thing to do and that the majority of people supported the freedom of speech of charlie hebdo but when you norse that question to french muslims there was a very different response with 69 percent responding that they didn't think it was right to publish those cartoons everybody seems to be getting involved in this issue from the president right the way across through social media everybody has an opinion and those opinions are polarized. through samples of course i support the right to caricature 100 percent of historically in france we have

a great tradition of caricatural after how far can a good tool has the right to go that's another debate. your got. the muslim world it's the muslim world or started it and if it's to provoke it's a knife through a tooth for some a little thing. so i said to myself i'm going to go by surely it will be a little. bit of money for them so they can continue their work and it's the art of respect because they have incredible courage. and he sets. the scene birds. who have the right to express ourselves to bless feel is not to kill now this trial is hugely important not just because it's about the attacks but it's also about the attacks that took place a few days later on a kosher supermarket here in paris where more people were killed and what the national anti terror prosecutor here in france are said while this might not be

about the men that carried out those attacks because they are dead this is about that why do web individuals who supported them who perhaps finance them or shielded them in the aftermath of those attacks and this also comes as font says interior minister warns that while this trial is about the historical event an event that is still something that is poignant in french memory there is also something that we must remember he talked about and that is the fact that there is still a huge threat of terror here in france it is the internal threat within our walls which has become the most significant and the strongest one which mobilizes the most attention of the intelligence services. also talked about more than 8000 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose a security threat here in france and he said that their full attention was needed

on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as islamic state and he also mentioned the number of individuals in prison that are connected to islam is threats and talked about the radicalization in prisons he said that the majority of those individuals who were radicalized in prisons have then gone on to come. their own terror offenses when they've been released now the trial is about those 2 messages that surely abdo and the kosher supermarket here in paris and they heralded in a new wave of terror that has and compassed france now for more than 5 years.

i am so many people are now looking at what surely there was done with the republication of those controversial satirical cartoons was this about sort of standing up for freedom of speech was this about remembering those who was slain at its offices or is this something that could really radicalize islamists across the world and incite a new wave of terror. the most heavily bombed country in the world is not well not near immediately spring to mind half a century ago laos was the location of the largest covert cia operation in u.s. history under still dealing with the remnants of that period today our documentary this little minds begins in moments.

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