in the headlines this monday moscow and berlin trade kids ations over the condition of prominent russian opposition activists alexina valmy has russia questions why the german side has yet to reveal key information amid those poisoning claims. protests against police brutality in the u.s. show no sign of easing we look at how the arrests helping bring huge profits to american gun manufacturers to. dozens of social media accounts from a washington lobbying firm suspended for attempting to manipulate elections in venezuela bolivia and mexico. $22.00 french schools are already shut

down again just one week into the academic year as the country suffers another coronavirus. hello there just midday the 7th of september here in moscow so good afternoon for me live from marty's world news h.q. my name is kevin 0 in welcome to the program 1st 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 top position activists alexina valmy artie's berlin correspondent peter all of a 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 at risk it does seem like that may be changing now ultimatums do not help anyone move forward but it's 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 the serious crime well 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. it should respond to do christine 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 bill it is 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 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 information. with russia said no no no only 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

out he was poisoned then will initiate a criminal case to date 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 so 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 perlin and moscow over his illness here next tracking trouble over night in rochester new york thousands gathered there demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man the unrest there began after a video emerged showing police placing a spit on daniel fruit one officer placed his hands on proves head while 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 marked 100

consecutive days of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of another black man george floyd. 59 arrests have been made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel is our believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. but it's breaking down we're seeing our street fighting street fighting going on our growing levels valving both the

leftists and rightists. as a kind of a slow will think of all war that probably will continue until action 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 fighting endless lawsuits in determining no one knows. meanwhile the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of marched through louisville blacklegs matter campaign is converging on the city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be council though it did eventually go ahead the activists were denouncing police violence and demanding justice for the police killing of the taylor in louisville propellants militia also marched through the city and were confronted by b.l.m. protesting. all this is happening one american company seems to be cashing in on

the unrest seems leading firearms make it smith and wesson has seen sales jump 140 percent this year that's around 134000000 dollars in extra sales. 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 in places like the net 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 an excel orating breakdown i mean 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. but as we heard with nationwide unrest against racial injustice than

likely may be stretching to november's election day one side is warning only a biden victory can stop any of the violence democratic party think tanks insisting anything other than a win for them is going to bring chaos bring more that story in just a few minutes. but next more covertly france is returning covert restrictions are for another surge of cases it is 7 regions to its red zone list and 22 schools have been closed just a week after reopening leaving parents frightened. and ski has the story. this is the 2nd we cope 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 being closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. to the small 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main one france considering there are 60000 establishment in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we closed down that makes 22 and told on. well there are now 7 new 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 $28.00 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 a red zone is to impose something such as the obligation to wear a face mask here in 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. 3. examples 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 it's begged 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 happens democratic party think tanks already predicting the consequences if their opponent wins apparently they know that anything other than a joe biden will will lead to violence caleb maupin examines the claims. 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 outfit sinking 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 haze a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that 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 mail and voting already happening. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already 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 the legitimacy 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 concede we don't want to 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 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 they take hell it up come with us all on its own i think the long awaited hammering on julian assange just extradition to thank us has started after a decade of legal wrangling our correspondents say we check in with a senior what's going to happen today right after this break.

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again the crucial extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange in london's begun it's had been postponed for months because the coronavirus locked down leaving a song time waiting in jail let's go live to sharjah it was dusty was out so the cool. thing you said you saw may be mistress songs going behind you in the quarter earlier on so we think it's all started today all eyes on this year. absolutely it is a beach day just found that you know sarge is on today here at the central london for this hearing proceeding ultimately decide whether or not he is extradited to the united states now that hearing was a. much earlier this year but a push back to. make these say just a few minutes to. carry signs and into the criminal court as mine is that we must see to decide to come and. see the back entrance of. his body

that mark just recently become very vocal in the campaign just a. couple she was leaving for his. like noisy outside the old bailey central london many might not give up eating his immediate relief so to take really other things he knew it's a challenge to nominate a long time mom in the united states to try to keep the. one of the largest compliments of that my information in the history of the united states inside the us at night time to 880 s. b. i don't want him to face problems by publishing. more in a rock star not a person. to publish these documents so it's just it's important it's been a very tough ultras one or 2 to start to turn back into the public eye

a bit but you know it was in for the sake of. it my business page but it was political asylum that he then because of if to me of the belmarsh prison system. even though he's now said that sentence he was still kept in belmarsh prison it might want to. look at it evidence was a bit presented in court so this is going on vacation of imprisonment as one of 2 of us on this nichols. point all defense not just one obstruction of justice but also to the serious over the prostitute is in and out of the water out belmarsh prison so the team would get to the subject not in a fit state to face trial in the united states they will also contend that the u.s. is seeking to prosecute. a political offense as a whole that was september attacks addition to that u.k. u.s. extradition treaty however prosecutors would actually argue that these political

aspects of the. laws by publishing these classified documents is a very complex case of the. this case of. the week that was mentioned those are going to college despite the campaign is outside the old bailey a day that we've been saying that the. campaign of the truth justice they all feel that it's not just you know such an adult to. read about. right let's all take him down as well that right that i'm sat in that mason indiana contacts and i could not find it but it was often gag on the john a friend of mine and there are 10 of the media that well might as well think of freedom they think coming right at me ha yeah so what's his take on either side of it is now and how noisy is that let a day all right come back to us if it kicks off let us know what's happening from the day i shout if i'm mad to by. how we spoke or rather he spoke to us american

political activist and author noam chomsky told r.t. he's going underground show that it would be damed illegally things if the u.k. said the same to the u.s. and of all this. it would be a criminal on the part of the british government to exceed to the u.s. to the street issue astonishes offense is not saying bill 'd. now if he had good reasons not to because he would have been extradited if. but not paying bill requires a tap on the wrist not torture in a high security prison. up to the what reason not even a leader is allowed to receive books i'm in mass murderers or being treated like in a way beyond the worst vicious criminal ok and if he's extra good it comes up for

trial on the u.s. espionage laws which even carry a tensional to. its trial is being troyer because he committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know that our full state still want them to know our teams redfish project looks at the development of the assads case in small detail to. do you think i want to see the free press as a real threat to. their son jason is only the biggest act of investigative journalism the we've seen certainly this century. did the police and how it can be used like that against journalists i think is horrifying despite boris johnson's claims about the u.k.'s respect for journalists

and media freedom many disagree 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 email 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 all acts designed to 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 about 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. final for now facebook suspended the accounts of a washington based lobbying firm linked to attempted manipulation of elections in venezuela bolivia mexico the us government link company had a party gained more than half a 1000000 online followers taylor has been finding out the myth used to be the

birds of prey in the streets of russia but nowadays it's trolls the russian internet trolls prussian trolls and u.s. investigators believe he was directed from the so-called troll factory a suspected russian internet troll of russian trolls the misinformation effort on the part of russian trolls to look through the trash there what did you find is part of styrene. wrappers for some sort of. electronic stuff and you were bought by facebook there reveals the c.n.n. didn't need to send its employees half way across the well 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 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 fortune and an opposition leader why don't has declared himself the legitimate president and who is chairing him on from the sidelines bravo 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 contant praising applied to and co painting him as the savior leading a furnace way to freedom this kind of content came especially easy to those in our staff 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 excellent senior advisor marc face was part of a d.c. think tank which last april gathered you as a latin american army man to discuss a military assault on the finest 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 that 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 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 you need 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 poses as a fact checking operation and at least once smears a true story as fake news on other pages murat is denounced as a mobster a coward not like the st 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 act i mean as 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 zaw miles away. sus to tell roughing up this bulletin for now then that's it so far it's midday 30 moscow time teams at aussie dot com and social media have become a 247 if you get a sec to check it out with more less than half an hour from now for me kevin though and the rest of the team have a great monday. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation

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