rushes in racing is competition in the extreme whoever follows the specified route between the lines with the fastest time just. really should be there really for you. every morning moscow time in the headlines this monday moscow and trade accusations over the condition of prominent russian opposition activists alexina valmy as russia questions why the german side has yet to reveal key information that was poisoning to a. protest against police brutality in the u.s. show no signs of easing coming up then as well we look at how the unrest is helping bring huge profits to american gun manufacturers. dozens of social media

accounts from washington lobbying firm was suspended for attempting to manipulate elections in venezuela bolivia and mexico. $22.00 french schools already shut down again just one week into the new academic year as the country suffers another coronavirus. late morning here in moscow the 7th of september hi there good morning live from artie's world news h.q. my name is kevin irwin welcome to the program. germany's foreign minister has threatened sanctions on russia if it fails to clarify what's behind the sudden and so far still unexplained illness of problem at opposition activist alexina valmy berlin correspondent peter oliver has more. 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 a senior member of the german cabinet talking about this about the future of the north stream 2 gas pipeline previously started being put to one side even anglo-american 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 without 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 since you need statements it should respond to do question the russian generals prosecutor's office as soon as possible it was

passed along on august 27th it is the german side that really lacks regency we're not sending response really slowing down to being just a gate of process that 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 emergency landing in the city of bombs quaid 1st received medical treatment doctors there found no traces of any talks ins 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 in. from ation with russia has been

a winner only the russian national medical chamber has addressed 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 out he was poisoned then will initiate a criminal case today russia does not have such evidence alexina volley 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 alexina valley but also surrounding the diplomatic route that erupting between perlin and moscow over his illness. trouble in rochester new york overnight more than a 1000 5 people gathered there demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man. the other arrests there began after

a video emerged showing police placing a spit hood on daniel proved one officer placed his hands on approach there was another put his knee on prudes back leading to a suffocation death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meantime on saturday the city of portland oregon mark 100 consecutive days of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of another black george floyd. i. was. 59 arrests made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of

relenting journalist and author daniel is a believes the rest could continue to into election day and beyond. but breaking down we're seeing a street fighting street fighting going on growing levels both on 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 american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and. lawsuits indeterminate out no one knows. meanwhile this to the state of kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups marching through louisville to campaign is converging on that city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be cancelled but he still went ahead despite the demands of the activists were denouncing police violence and

demanding justice for the police killing of briana taylor in louisville pro police militia also march through the city they're confronted by the b.l.m. protesters. on top of all this one american company seems to be cashing in on all the unrest leading firearms make a smith and wesson has seen sales jump 140 percent this year and 134000000 dollars in extra sales daniel is are again believes the gun boom is symptomatic of the country's political stalemate at the moment. both 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 or america is a is a failed state and it's failing ever more rapidly and these are these demonstrations these are these the street fighting is a symptom of that. with nationwide unrest against racial injustice like you stretching as would say in there just no into the vendor's election day one side is warning only a body even victory can stop the violence democratic party think tanks insisting that anything other than a win for them and is going to mean chaos bring chaos will bring the story very shortly. but not before this code it again france now returning covert restrictions of for 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. and skis got 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 hundreds of classes have also been closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. out of the 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main one france considering there are 60000 establishment and the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we close the town that makes 22 and told on new function function well there are

now 7 zones in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of 19 it means 28 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 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. and spain to italy.

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 is making its way through the country at the moment its beg 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. 2 months before the u.s.

presidential election even her democratic party think tanks are already predicting the consequences if their opponent wins apparently they know that anything other than a joe biden win will lead to violence caleb maupin examines those claims them. in november the us public 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 of our 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 outfits

thinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work 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 lou played donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot 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 reuss to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it 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. 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 as are humans fraud violence mailing voting already happening. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already caring for how to handle the results will be the bill 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 which it in a sea of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum well it 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 to rush the gate for 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any supporter

be smart to not be in there if they learn a liberal city it's not be there on election night they are going to burn the place 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 gay part to who knows. so strokes will follow it i can tell you that no head in the program on a big news story unfolding today we're going to tell you about the long awaited hearing on judas and his extradition to the us starting in london pavement played today after a decade of so much legal wrangling i can tell your correspondents that we check in with her right after this break.

and enters financial planning i don't buy a i'm with you. on the friday as a last some advice from the future trucker watch kaiser. seems wrong. but i'll. just tell all. and. yet to shape out this day comes after. and it again equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development that only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time

to sit down and talk. again so as mentioned before the break there the crucial extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange in london has just begun to get underway to perspire for months because of the coronavirus leaving his son's waiting in jail wrote it let's go live to shut it was dusty she saw the cool morning tell us more about the hearing and why it's so important here it's been going on for so long to get to this point and that. absolutely so the wiki leaks founder julian assange will be back here in court later on this morning at the old bailey here in central london for the latest hearing proceedings of course he is due to be extradited

according to the united states to the united states as he is wanted because for his allegations against him now the hearing was supposed to be much as he had this year but of course it was pushed back to the 19th pandemics and today reopens the latest chapter in the u.s. attempt to prosecute you and son in his what they call one of the largest compromises of classified information. in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted he could face a sentence of 175 years behind bars of course the u.s. have now indicted him under 18 counts of the espionage they want him to face trial there for spying and publishing classified information over to the war in iraq and afghanistan plus one of conspiracy to hock a government computer to publish these documents for the journey to court today has been a very tumultuous one for judas' songs of course he was there back into the public eye last year in april of 29 when he was infamously pulled out of london's dorrian embassy he then began serving

a 15 week sentence out belmarsh prison for skipping back in 2012 he has sentenced but he is still being holed up in the belmarsh prison and that is the creation of around one and a half years in prison still to date no evidence being presented in court today is a really really important day for julian assange one of which the legal team is offensive to this assertion i say not just this in obstruction to justice but also his health is at the will of this very case because he has been in belmarsh prison for such a long time he's been in and out of the medical ward besser it's a huge part of the legal defense there in fact that they will also say that he is unfit to travel to the u.s. to face trial and contend that the u.s. is seeking to prosecute. for political offenses and therefore he would be exempt from extradition according to the u.k. and u.s. extradition treaty but prosecutors on the other hand trying to stop this that the crimes which the united states seeks to consolidate also equipment here in the u.k.

and that judas are just options would not political and therefore he should face trial over that plus of course they say who has endangered lives by publishing these classified documents now and this hearing will go on for the next 4 weeks and will eventually decide the fate of the song but campaigners say today that genocide is not the only one in the door hit but also the freedom of press and the puppets right. installations also in the doctor's wealth are the stakes today a very high indeed very noisy outside already isn't it i think you said just now you may have seen him do this sarge going into court where yeah. absolutely we believe that he may have just been driven and we've seen quite a few running after a train a van that was going directly down here so that's up to the jury a lot of concerns about his health or it will keep us posted turn and let us know what what's happening the coming hours is that as that case kicks off again thank you. american political activist north a note chomsky told r.t.

he's going undergrown show that it would be deemed illegal if the end of all this the u.k. does send him to the us with the approval of the order of the british. to 'd see the us their tradition or soldiers. is not built. no she had good reasons not to as it would have been extra do it if you're not saying bill requires a pat on the wrist not torture in a high security 1st day up to the what reason not even a 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 he's extradited it comes up for trial on the us as you know those laws which even chariots tensional did.

it's trial is being true would it were committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know and that powerful states still want of the know. facebook has suspended the accounts of a washington based lobbying firm linked to attempted manipulation of elections in venezuela bolivia a mexico the u.s. government link company again to parity more than half a 1000000 online follow as assess catania reports the met used to be that bears a friend the streets of russia but nowadays it's trolls the russian internet trolls crushing trolls and u.s. investigators believe it was directed from the so-called troll factory a suspected russian internet troll the russian trolls the misinformation effort on the part of russian trolls you look through the trash there what did you find part of styrene. wrappers for something. only electronic

stuff and never will i face that there reveals the c.n.n. didn't need to send its employees have quit cross the well to take food out to 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. for 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 amassed over half a 1000000 followers so what exactly was c.n.n.'s telling them. it's january 29th teen nicholas mature has begun his 2nd presidential term critics are calling

it actually fortunate and an opposition leader why do has declared himself the legitimate president and who is chairing him on from the sidelines 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 patent your field of veterans of venezuelan 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 mad to discuss a military assault on venezuela. 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 reelected the order that is later found to be misleading slush falls 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 cheering her on from the sidelines with 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 any 9 years in bolivia as 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 political job poses as

a fact checking operation and at least once smears a true story as fake news on other pages more as has denounced as a mobster a coward not like the saint jean 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 is you as foreign is wrong ok fair enough the client to come from inside the country but it was not other than the outside fact i was government who coughed up big bucks to ensure the next elections are on the right way foreign interference a tough market for interpretation when your the one shuffling the cards from falzon

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle we are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and it's called the focus them at the moment in that short history its goal is to end racism why well everything is now considered racist the believers in this cult demand obedience insult criticism but we're really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people of all colors. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest john breaux.