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when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in the headlines this monday morning moscow and berlin trade accusations over the condition of russian opposition activist alexei the volley as russia questions why the german side is yet to reveal key information amid poisoning claims. protests against police brutality in the u.s. showed no signs of easing coming up we'll look at how the unrest is helping bring huge profits the 2 american gun manufacturers. to the program dozens of social media accounts from a washington lobbying firm has suspended for attempting to manipulate elections in venezuela bolivia and mexico. $22.00 french schools are already
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shut down again just one week into the academic year as the country suffers another coronavirus. morning it's not i am the 7th of september here in moscow life marti's will do sage q. with a brand new update this morning kevin 0 in here so will welcome to the program. first germany's foreign minister has threatened sanctions on russia if it fails to clarify what's behind the sudden and so far unexplained illness of prominent opposition activist alexina valmy artie's belling correspondent peter all of us got the latest this morning. the german foreign minister has demanded answers from russia over alexei navalny wants those answers in the coming days or you says talk of sanctions is back on the table he's also hinted at the 1st time certainly the 1st time we've heard from
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a senior member of the german cabinet talking about this about the future of the nord stream to gas pipeline previously started being put to one side even angle of merkel the german chancellor saying that wasn't it risk it does seem like that may be changing now 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 or the russian foreign ministry say any delays in an investigation down to berlin not giving the information that moscow has been requesting if the german government is sincere in its statements it should respond to the quest of the russian generals prosecutor's office as soon as possible that was passed along on august 27th it is the german side that really lacks urgency by not sending response brylin is slowing down the very investigative process it is calling for is that on purpose alexei navalny took ill on a flight from siberia to moscow on august the 22nd his plane how to make an
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emergency landing in the city of bombs quaid 1st received medical treatment doctors there found no traces of any talks in his in his system and they shared that information with physicians here in berlin where he's been receiving treatment for just over 2 weeks however the german doctors and officials here in the german capital haven't being as forthcoming when it comes to sharing information as their russian colleagues we understand numerous requests for information to be shared have gone unanswered and we now know that a russian world health organization expert and renowned pediatrician has got involved appealing to berlin to share this information. with russia. the russian national medical chambers address the german medical chamber a similar organization that unites german doctors with the request to create a joint commission to find out whether novell me was poisoned or not if it turns
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out he was poisoned then will initiate a criminal case today russia does not have such evidence alexina vali remains in hospital here in berlin doctors say there's no acute risk to his life right now but there is the potential for a long term illness are we keeping an eye on any more information coming out regarding the the status of alexei navalny but also surrounding the diplomatic route that erupting between lynn and moscow over his illness. track in this nexus morning more than a 1000 people gathered in rochester new york overnight demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man there the on rest began after video emerged showing police placing a spit on daniel prude one officer placed his hands on prudes head while another put his knee on prudes back leading to suffocation the death which happened back in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meantime on saturday the city of portland oregon marked 100 days
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consecutive now of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of another black man george floyd. boise and their footage emerging from portland showing a man trying to put the flames on his shoes it seemed allegedly after a molotov cocktail he was holding exploded 59 arrests were made in that city so far but the protests show no sign of relenting officers have used tear gas to break up the crowds which threw fire bombs and rocks back at them journalists north believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. perth breaking down we're seeing. street fighting street fighting going on are growing levels valving both are leftists and writers. as a kind of a slow wolfing civil war that probably will continue until action and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these
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are so broken down that it may very well and. lawsuits of indeterminate doubt no one knows. the model of the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of march through louisville black lives matter campaign is converged on the city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be cancelled it did go ahead. with announcing police violence and demanding justice for the police killing of briana taylor in louisville but police militia also marched through the city to they were confronted by the b.l.m. protesters one american company he said seems to be cashing in on the unrest we can tell you about leaving firearms make a smith and wesson has seen sales jump 140 percent this year that's around $134000000.00 in extra sales daniel is are again we saw him just now believes the gun boom is symptomatic of the country's political stalemate at the moment. both
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sides are arming i mean there are guns everywhere what if you go to one of these protests and in places like that midwest or the west you'll see guns on both sides and it's very dangerous. because people tend to use these weapons and so but the but there's no force capable of stopping 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 and like celebrating break down what 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 that. but with nationwide unrest against racial injustice likely stretching that into developers' election day one side warning no biden victory can stop the violence democratic party think tanks insist anything other than
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a win for them i will bring more chaos we'll tell you more about that coming up in a few minutes time. but next the news everyone expected but nobody wanted to hear france returning code restrictions after another surge of cases it's 7 regions to its red zone list and 22 schools have been closed just a week after reopening leaving parents frightened seashell the dubin ski has the story. this is the 2nd week of school in france and already some of those schools have had to be closed down because of covert 19 within the institutional last week more than 12000000 peoples went back to the classrooms and that was with some parents and teachers expressing concern about the transmission rates of the virus because they have been really creeping up here in france last week several days there were more than 7000 cases wedged in a 24 hour period 22 schools have been shut in the last week but hundreds and
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hundreds of classes have also being closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. out of the 12 establishment colleges and schools were closed the main line france considering there are 60000 establishment on the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we closed down that makes 22 and told on function well there are now 7 in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of $900.00 it means $28.00 regions in total are considered rent in the french area and this allows authorities to impose extra controls to try to cool the transmission of the virus one of the measures that authorities can take when they're in
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a red zone is to impose something such as the obligation to wear a face mask a public such as we have in paris which means every street you're in you have to wear a face mask but there is a backlash against such measures like that anti mask sentiment also being shown elsewhere across europe with protests over the weekend from places such as the u.k. in spain to italy. and it was and. it. was. meanwhile here in france there are some calls for people to wear face masks specifically from the riders of the tour de france which
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is making its way through the country at the moment it's beg it to its fans who are coming out to the streets to wave them as they pass by to be responsible and to wear masks so it seems there is a huge divide still over the measures that are being used to try and curb 19 whether that's wearing a mask whether that's a quarantine or whether that's imposing lockdowns local restrictions the methods being used to remain highly contentious. facebook has suspended the accounts of a washington based lobbying firm linked to attempted manipulation of elections event as well or bolivia mexico the u.s. government link company had gained more than half a 1000000 online follows to it seems sas containers got the story the misused to be the river the streets of russia but nowadays it's trolls the russian internet trolls prussian trolls and u.s. investigators believe it was directed from the so-called troll factory
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a suspected russian internet troll of russian trains the misinformation effort on the part of russian trolls to look through the trash there what did you find part of styrene. wrappers for some of the electronic stuff and you were bought by facebook there reveals the c.n.n. didn't need to send its employees halfway across the world to dig for secrets turns out there are plenty of those right under its nose. we removed 55 facebook accounts 42 pages and 33 instagram accounts for violating our policy against foreign interference this network originated in the us and focus primarily on venezuela and also on mexico and bolivia. the digital footprint that back to c.e.o.'s strategies a washington based p.r. firm this unmasked a den of trolls splashed out over 3 and a half $1000000.00 on facebook ads a figure the network says stood out for its generosity altogether their accounts
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amassed over half a 1000000 followers so what exactly was c.n.n.'s telling them. it's january 29th teen nicholas major has begun his 2nd presidential term critics are calling it actually fortune and an opposition leader why do has declared himself the legitimate president and who is chairing him on from the sidelines bravado of stay with you mr president the time is now to support the venezuelan people to recognize the new democratic government led by interim president gore though joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela one boy though it is for backup though c.l.r. strategies posing as vocal political parties sit organizations and media outlets chimes out content praising up quite a and co painting him as the savior leading a furnace way to freedom this kind of content came especially easy to those in our start who as a stanford university report into pendent your field of veterans of venezuelan
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politics having previously worked on political campaigns for the opposition by the way x c.l.s. senior adviser mark face was part of a d.c. think tank which last april gov the u.s. and latin american army man to discuss a military assault on venice way into. a bit further south see it as is recycling its strategy its december 29th t. a western back to what it finds out it's a ford in the bolivian elections which saw evo morales as we elected the alter is later found to be misleading slash false but never mind it does its job but rather than resigned frees the country in the south to janine i'm. proclaims herself president and sharing her own from the sidelines we pledge our support to the believe in people and to the transitional government led by president janine and yes as they prepare for these elections we support you need 9 years in bolivia as
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she works to ensure a peaceful democratic transition through free elections as in venezuela so too in bolivia c.l.s. strategy is doing its thing one of its pages wonderful cardo poses as a fact checking operation and at least once some is a true story as fake news on other pages moreover this is denounced as a mobster a coward not like the saint janine and yes but according to c.l.s. all this is very different to foreign interference. importantly our past client work in latin america including opposition to oppressive regimes was not conducted on behalf of foreign entities the work was funded and directed by clients inside each country this makes c.l.s. his work very different from the foreign influence activities reported by facebook and any characterization of c.l.s. his work in the 3 countries it's you as foreign is wrong ok fair enough they're trying to come from inside the country but it was not other than the outside act
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i'm as government who coughed up big bucks to ensure that next elections are on the right way foreign interference said tom up for interpretation when you all the one shuffling the cards from falzon zones miles away. so ask a tailor that reports 16 past the oh good morning this is our take coming up the long awaited hearing that all julian assange has extradition to the us start see in london later today after a decade in spain of legal wrangling or across it among the stories after this break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who
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again morning the crucial extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange jokes later monday it's been postponed of course for months because of the coronavirus lockdown levy a son's all the time waiting in jail last year sons was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail terms in 2012 but despite having already served the sentence he stayed behind bars because prosecutors say they worried that he was a flight risk maybe the u.s. has indicted the wiki leaks founder on 18 counts mostly on espionage charges he faces up to 175 years in prison indeed if he is the extradited to america will know more after this hearing but according to human rights activists in the sciences lawyers the 50. 2 weeks in jail of already done serious damage to his health sanchez legal teams officially complained to the u.k. government on the prologue ation of his imprisonment join a pandemic they say suffers already from respiratory problems and mental health
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issues that follow psychological torture american political activist north another chance king told us artie's going on the ground show that it would be deemed illegal indeed if the u.k. does eventually after all as send him to the u.s. . it would be criminal on the part of the british. to accede to the u.s. so then strict issue aside issues of sense is not sane bail ready. now if he had good reasons not to as it would have been extradited if he but not paying bill requires a tap on the wrist not torture in a high security prison. up to the went reasonably the leader is allowed to receive books i'm in mass murderers or being treated in a way beyond the worst vicious criminal ok and if his extradited it comes up for
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trial on the us as spinoza's laws which even carry attentional death. it's trial is being troy it were committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know and that our full states don't want of the know. he's redfish project looks the development of your son's case in more detail. do you think i want to see the free press as a real threat to. their son jason is only the biggest of investigative journalism the we've seen certainly this and just. do the police and how it can be used like that against journalists i think is
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horrifying despite boris johnson's claims about the u.k.'s respect for journalists and media freedom many disagree the u.k. ranks 35th out of 180 countries in the 2020 world press freedom index released by reporters without borders the job of 2 places since 2019 i think the u.k. government likes the idea of media freedom as long as it doesn't impinge on the power so it likes to give the give the course about freedom and democracy and press freedom but in fact in reality if there's any journalism that impacts on their ability to project power at home and abroad then there's a problem passed in 26 days in the investigatory powers act or snoopers charter as it's known by its critics that's the state monitor everybody's web history e-mail text and phone records and hack computers phones and tablets it prevents journalists it prevents n.g.o.s use it for bents anybody who is actually investigating state power from doing their job these are role acts designed to
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clamp down on anybody trying to expose corruption and wrongdoing at the state there are an estimated 420000 c.c.t.v. cameras in london because of our 48 cameras 1000 people this is more than any other city in the world according to a 2017 report by the brookings institution i worry about the use of surveillance cameras also with life facial recognition which is almost entirely unregulated but is now being. rolled out alive by the metropolitan police again that could be used to track down journalistic sources and there are no safeguard whatsoever. 2 months before the u.s. presidential elections even how democratic party think tanks know already predicting the consequences if their opponent wins apparently they know that anything other than
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a joe biden win will lead to violence caleb maupin examines the claims of the. in november the us how it will get to vote on who becomes president for the next 4 years and figures from the media and political establishment are now preparing the public for possible outcomes something called the transition integrity project created in 2019 is planning for things that could go wrong during the upcoming vote and subsequent transition of power they've been playing out war games and some rather interesting scenarios have been dreamed up with the exception of the big biden win scenario each fire exercises reach the brink of catastrophe with massive disinform ation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfit sinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work
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for the democratic national committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that and the rush it looked like donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hoch fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump. refusing to step down and that's rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing a pattern here well the new york times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly his a few marches in the streets will not be an adequate response there may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella ruse to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it
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trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only biden's victory can save the country from chaos don't buy it and let's not forget another factor being thrown ian allegations of russian interference the allegation is that russia favors trump and denigrates biden so russia must be preemptively punished before the elections even happen to prevent meddling with us to draw upon the conclusion of the intelligence community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference including any actives within the government of the russian federation and the russian act is determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf providing material financial support for their efforts russia is also accused of spreading rumors about mail in vote in order to undermine the us elections but it's not really russia that's doing that unless of course the kremlin controls american t.v.
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networks there are cases from just this last spring or were ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best out there humans fraud violence mailing voting already happened. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already quick pairing for how to handle the results. will be the hero and how they will tell you to react they're already setting a climate where there's going to be massive speculation about rigidity of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum were is not going to do you could see the election if you loses and then what happened oh the democrats didn't concede hillary didn't can see we don't want russia gate for 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any job supporter be smart to not be in there they learn a liberal city it's not be there on election night they are going to burn the place
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to the ground they know they're going to lose and so they're already setting up the game to further damage his presidency and to damage his 2nd term should he win so it'll be another scandal it'll be another local i'm absolutely conspiracy theory like russia gate maybe russia gave birth to who knows. well from coming up to what the saudi happened he said towards a month now since disputed presidential elections in belarus triggered unprecedented demonstrations there over it for a 5th consecutive weekend thousands of taken to the streets of cities nationwide the crime what they called rigged results authorities have confirmed more than a 100 people were detained on sunday raid also disrupted a major rally in the center of the capital a correspondence and minsk filed these reports for us. to have throughout the sequential people the beginning to disperse it some pleasant to stay here in the rain and there's no talk or details about what's happening here but i have a job i don't know that the bomb let's move over here to this building and i want
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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 chums but there's no actual aggression from the crowd there is a project called. a voice that was created for fair elections they have a new version of boats in the telegram called. me to send a message to it so your presence would be bridged it enormously and that ronnie started today 120000 people were expected i don't see that many here i can say that on lots of people who just fewer than before the i'm that huge behind the fence there is a car with a very loud speaker in the room playing sympatric belorussian music you can still hear it kilometers away from here's and from afar it sort of sounds like some kind of a pattern at a party but in fact this car is drowning out any chance and slogans its music is being played out other than yes the much demand in the petition here is the most
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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's straight just for more than 100 meters to recount those protests broke out immediately after the vote results were announced oldest the 9th with a long time president alexander lukashenko winning another 5 years in office the demonstrations were initially mobbed by violence and police brutality but are now largely peaceful world leaders of call for talks than between the government and the opposition the latter is demanding a fresh vote though and full comes to change the reform keep you posted. it's 929 moscow time the morning hi there well that's the way things look in so far as dawtie dot com social media i've got it covered 247 if you get it but it's check it out about with more in just over half an hour for that for me kevin 0 in on the rest of the morning team on duty here at r t h.q. have a great monday and thanks for watching the program. problem
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