in the stories that shapes the week moscow claims germany is not being co-operative in the alexina valley case the berlin said it was there were a few simple the russian opposition leader had been poisoned with the north the chop nerve agents. a week since the disputed presidential election and by the use of thousands once again take the streets of minsk in protest this is a multistory car park near the hotel when it started raining people so if you're running take cover and spread all over the floors people shouting chance but there's no actual aggression from the crowd. rushes that is ready to move ahead with a large cow testing of its corona virus vaccine and despite western media skepticism

over its effectiveness we're now the british medical journal says the vaccine looks promising. and the french the terrible magazine charlie hebdo reprints its controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad reigniting debate based on some of the terror trial getting underway 5 years alter the bloody attack on the publication and offices in paris. a warm welcome to you watching the weekly with all the latest headlines along with a roundup of the stories that shape the week up 1st and most go along in a diplomatic row over the alleged nerve agent poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina valmy on sunday the russian foreign ministry questioned berlin's ultimatum to provide an explanation for what happened suggesting is the german side this not being forthcoming. if the german government is sincere in statements it

should respond to their quest of the russian general prosecutor's office as soon as possible that was passed along on the 20 sounds or 4 guest it is the german side that really lacks 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 the german foreign minister has responded to russia's request to share findings in the case saying such a move would take time as they're currently dealing with new information and it would also require permission from one of mr live on these relatives to pass on his personal data with more on all the weeks of elements his pace all of a. there have been international calls for transparency from russia in an

investigation into what happened to alexina valmy the russian foreign minister sergei a lover of has said moscow has nothing to hide when it comes to mist in the valley he says russia is still waiting though for requests for information to be answered . we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide as 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 a prosecutor's office have so far gone unanswered and 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 blatant violation of international law so it requires an international response. but i will not speculate about exactly what kind of international response 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 call a dent an attack against mr novelli we've also heard from the german federal president. he said being a family case has the potential to cause real problems in the relationship between burley 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

conduct a quick open and comprehensive investigation inappropriate 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. there right at the request was forwarded by the minister of justice to the justice department in berlin today in the morning as usual we can't comment on any cooperation regards an internal matters of the investigation but 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 retreat what i have just said moscow has requested this information because the tests that were carried out in the russian hospital where alexina volley was 1st treated showed no trace of any toxin in his system and tests for poisons all came back negative effect to investigative measures are 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 alexei navalny has been here in berlin being treated the shot a tape hospital physicians say there is no were cute risks to his life at the moment however there is the potential for long term effects from this illness. additionally the russian foreign ministry has stated if not the chalk was used it

doesn't necessarily mean it came from russia and next in a valley remains in a medically induced coma and lynn after falling severely ill on an internal flight in russia more than 2 weeks ago meanwhile a group of russian doctors have offered to set up a joint commission with their german counterparts to investigate the case evidence news of the instant 1st emerged much of the world's media have pointed the finger straight at the kremlin markel see it has been looking at the other various theories. germany declared the valley poisoned with military grade talks and 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 is an evolving and based on everything that they got wrong they demanded sanctions and then to the divisive german russian nord stream to pipeline there are there is a very strong anti russia in the west which typically specifically wants to sabotage the gas pipeline to prevent or 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 were showing through 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 the kremlin cynical spin doctors wanted to world to believe he was supposed to be killed with an insidious neurotoxin 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 neurotoxin 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 view of 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 kremlin spooked by the protests in 2 west embarrass and to the east inhabitants 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 in new york which is the nuclear option even in the world of nerve agents sending the volleys in germany where he could get tested for a new truck and russia would get sanction to jump to the conclusion that there

is one obvious to what happened to divine it it's very simplistic because if you look at who takes an advantage out of what's happened i think it's a huge liability for the kremlin and for russia to be seen to have launched an attack on one of the most colorful and interventional members of the opposition it reinforces as we've seen the. very negative image of russia in the west i think the relations between the west and sufficiently europe and russia were starting to warm up now all those things are certainly a risk because of what's happened and because of the way it's interpreted which is why i think maybe it's much more complicated why would the kremlin do this point. that into ward a month since the disputed election in belarus triggered unprecedented scenes of

protests in the country and for a 5th consecutive weekends thousands of once again taken to the streets of cities and towns nationwide decrying what they say was a rigged result authorities have confirmed more than 100 people were detained on sunday although no exact figure has been given a major rally in the center of the capital has now ended with crowds moving away from the areas blockaded by our police and on the vehicles our minsk based correspondents filed these will cause. quarter of sort as are going to 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 the level of idea over there but 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 started to run in take cover in there spread all over the floors people shouting chants but there's no actual aggression from the crowd there is

a project called the voice that was created for fair elections they have a new version of bought in the telegram app called i walk you need to send a message to it so your presence would be registered anonymously and that ronnie started today 120000 people were expected i don't see that many here my can't say that there aren't lots of people who just fewer than before that gas did. behind the fence there is a car with a very loud speaker in the room playing some patriotic bell russian music you can still hear it kilometers. we from here's one from a for it sort of sounds like some kind of a pathologic party but in fact this car is drowning out any chance and slogans it's music is being played down over the years the much demand in the petition here is the most tense police 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 a 100 meters. protests broke out immediately after the outcome of the vote was

announced on august the 9th with longtime president alexander lukashenko winning 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 and the opposition the latter is demanding a fresh vote in full constitutional reform. today marks the 100th consecutive day of blank lives mountain rallies in the u.s. city of portland triggered by the death of george floyd and the protests show no sign of relenting. is a man desperately trying to put out the flames on his shoes allegedly after a mullet of cocktail he was in self holding exploded tensions between demonstrators and police remain high officers use tear gas to break up the crowds with over 50 people reportedly arrested the protests have been ongoing since may and violent

scenes have frequently been seen. meanwhile in kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups of marched through louisville black lives massive campaigners converged on the city demanding the state's famous kentucky derby horse race be canceled it went ahead on saturday the activists decried police violence and racial injustice earlier in the day propylene militia had marched through the city and were confronted by some of the black lives matter protesters. one famous american company seems to be cashing in only on rest the gun makers smith and wesson has seen its sales rise by 140 percent compared to the same period last year that equates to around one $134000000.00 in extra sales journalist daniel is all believe the gun boom is symptomatic of the current political stalemate in the country but arcus breaking down we are seeing our street fighting the street fighting going on growing levels involving both the leftists and rightists.

as a kind of a slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because the american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well end up in fighting endless lawsuits and indeterminate outcome no one knows and both sides are arming i mean their guns everywhere when if you go to one of these protests and in places like the net midwest or the west you'll 'd 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 excel rating breakdown. for a satirical magazine charlie had doha's reprinted controversial cartoons of the

prophet mohammad and of a terror trial of the slaying of their employees in the 201520155 islamist gunman we have reaction to that and plenty more coming up after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to lose is i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with.

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it might end up doing more harm than good but now details of the potential cure have been published for the world to see saskia tale of a pause at the start of trench 20 years it was hard to come by but as we move it also use up behind us all. report on as many will now that russia practices that was the last great virus but. the results are now on friday it was announced back in notice that nicotine has indeed 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 that just about one of the oldest one of the most respected in the lawn set. with its assessment 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 empty bodies than an average person infected with corona virus so no serious side to back 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 individuals for at least 2 yes so that announcement from what he dropped in basketball and there was this article in the lancet really bulls direct their arguments for the suspected nest not this unusual i'm doubting that with those who decided to take the plunge to leave the front god get insulted when it's this and we today's youth include the minister of defense against like who the

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there is demand. parenting mortgage when people question foreign governments have already received hundreds of millions of doses so it looks like sputnik. 14 suspects went on trial in france this week over their alleged involvement in a series of terror attacks in 2015 is a terrible magazine charlie hebdo was one of the main targets alongside a jewish supermarket in commemoration of the victims the magazine has republic the controversial prophet mohammed cartoons believed to have partly motivated the attack the move triggered a furious reaction from the iranian foreign ministry that president emmanuel mccrone say's freedom of expression is paramount. as the trial into the january 25th deen attacks begins to be french means to defend the right to make people laugh the 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 france and that's because as that 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 fim 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 asked 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 now 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 god creates tensions in the muslim world it's the muslim world that's targeted it's to provoke it's and

therefore a tooth for tooth so i don't think anyone is going to let it happen so i said to myself i'm going to go by surely it will be a little bit of money for them so that they can continue their work out of respect because they have incredible courage. and he sets out to do president well i repeat the same birds we have to. have the right to express ourselves to bless for 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 did 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 are now also talked about more than $8000.00 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose a security threat here in france and he said. their full attention was needed on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as islamic state that 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 commit their own terror offenses when they've been released now the trial is about those 2 messages at charlotte 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 he's joining us here on r.t. international and we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour with the latest. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. trade and investment of become magic spells to conjure economic development. most

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