young specialists were. breaking news a prominent russian opposition activist is out of an induced coma is that nurture poisoning has seen a wave of accusations directed at the kremlin. as protests against police brutality in the u.s. showed no sign of easing we look at how the unrest has loads of a surge in gun sales. the extradition trial and julian assange begins in london but we can do is wanted in the u.s. to face charges.

live from moscow thanks so much for joining us today r.t. international daniel hawkins welcome to the program. and we start with breaking news this hour the prominent russian opposition activist that accent of ali is out of an induced coma or spittle treating him and brought in made the announcement in the last hour it's said to be too soon to say if you suffered any lasting damage germany said last week it would poisoned with another shock nerve agent a trauma is denied any involvement but international pressure against moscow has been building we're going to go live now to berlin and peter all of a to bring us the latest peter thanks for coming on the line there what more do we know so far about the violence condition. well the shot at a hospital here in the german capital put out a statement on monday afternoon in which they said that alexei navalny had been no woken from the juiced coma that he's been in for over 2 weeks now here in berlin the statement went on to say that he was slowly being removed from breathing

operators and that he was responding to verbal stimuli. the patient's artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off of mechanical ventilation he's reacting to being spoken to but long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out. and while there's good news on the condition of alexei in the volume the diplomatic situation concerning his illness continues to to rumble on on monday the government press briefing here in berlin was was dominated by nord stream to talk of the gas pipeline or questions about the gas pipeline petted the briefing given by german government spokespeople the message that came out of it was that the international infrastructure project this underwater gas pipeline was a economic project and that that was separate from anything to do with alexei

navalny in his case the government spokesperson did say that that was the current time and it could change in the future but what it does is it really mirrors the image the that we're seeing coming from moscow as well to me to the press corps of the kremlin spokesperson had said previously that it was too soon to be lumping together in the end nordstrom to all the future of that project right now well earlier moscow had be none too happy with burley in accusing germany of dragging its feet when it came to handing over or sharing information that moscow requested relating to the case particular blue when it came to evidence that germany said it had that alexina valley had been poisoned with a nerve agent well the german foreign minister has now confirmed 'd that wheels are in motion and that information will be being sent over to moscow. who does some very sort of we've already agreed to russia's request food legal assistance i'm

told the russian ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who taught. team that had there was a request for legal assistance who would agree to this there was no reason not to greeted. all news really seems to have initiated a change in tone from the kremlin we heard from a relatively upbeat dmitri peskov talking about the condition of alexei in the valley and the situation regarding information between germany and germany and russia and all of the other loose ends of the still surrounding this case. any minister and we have certainly noted the german farmers the statement and the glove that in the nearest timeframe the information will be delivered and that there are no reasons for this information not to be delivered bearing in mind the high profile of this issue we are counting on receiving the information in the upcoming days we very much awaited. meanwhile in the united kingdom we're seeing

a change in the approach coming from the british government last week boris johnson the prime minister was pointing the finger of blame firmly at russia on monday what we saw was the foreign secretary dominate rob wailed out in front of the cameras to say that it was far too soon to proportion blame when it came to alexina valmy. the use of mobile chalk it doesn't matter the state actor in non-state actor is a violation of international law and let's be really clear about this we don't yet in a position to attribute well that news that we have just this hour alexei navalny is awake from the medically induced coma he'd been placed in here in berlin he's responding to verbal stimuli and is being removed from breathing operators peter all over the live from berlin with the latest updates peter thanks for keeping us in the. live now to martha macauley author and russia analyst for more on this breaking story martin thanks so much for joining us again

on r.t. international obviously great news there for unavailing 1st family with that improvement this improvement in his condition what do you think that could mean for this case where could things go from here it all depends on how the nerve agent affected his nervous system because of it actually damaged his nervous system and of course the brain is linked to the nervous system. then. very difficult for him to explain and talk. and talk about the background and how he thinks he was poisoned and so on will lose things we have to wait for that we have to wait for the berlin authorities and medical authorities there to report on what they've actually sent to him and it is a communication with him completely logical he didn't take fluent and so on and do what is what extent has it never does it take to do speech and his body his liver

and specially his nervous system and therefore we're waiting for that and we can't make any judgment at present because he may in fact have no memory at all what happened to him but he may have you have some memory of it and we're waiting for that and we waiting for the german authorities to actually revealing part of the conversation presumably to some kind of conversation with new i'll meet. with him and then we can judge from that. if he's in fact in his speech and his command of language and his command of the subject are in fact all 1st class or are they still and they're still damaged. go back to some of the diplomatic to and fro that's been happening over the last few days the british prime minister boris johnson was confident the kremlin how was involved in this that a hand in this tragic incident the foreign secretary said it's too early to attribute blame why do you think there has been such mixed messages coming from the

u.k. . i think they're trying the very beginning because they have but when it was announced there was nobody joke which i don't. know well known that i wrote in britain from burroughs johnson down which sort of what the script woes and they were and take part in with no ritual to their floor and they judge the british government judge that was that was coming from moscow and it was the internet a russian attack attempt only screw plant life so therefore the automatically assume if you like it's a kind of. reaction without thinking really without the bit reacting and now don't rush is backing off and say well we're not absolutely sure because. first of all nevada moved not in britain in the valleys and berlin and the german authorities will have the prior say they will be in a position to comment on least they've said it is another one of the nova joke

group agents and there's over $100.00 of them so therefore there's any number of possibilities server the british government now if you like is becoming more diplomatic and saying we have to wait on events we have to wait for the germans to reveal more information and we wish to hear what nivelle only has to say when he actually starts speaking. and burning desire to find me share the data with moscow the results of the medical analysis the toxicology analysis often of ali does that suggest some sort of softening of the diplomatic standoff because both sides seemed quite reluctant at one point to cooperate. well i think building now. did moving on to stage one stage one was to identify the nerve agent stage 2 is to then examine the damage you know about only and they can now say right we did we determine it was one of the group and we would we will look communicated with it we

were provided the evidence that why we came to that conclusion. then it's up to the russian authorities they've been thanked examine the same material and say we don't agree with you we would come and we can come to a different conclusion so therefore from the german point of view they didn't want confusion that conflict in the beginning he just wanted a statement it is not which is one of the not because group and even a coma therefore leave it like that no you move on stage 2 you can you can share girl in can share the information with most go and there is not up to most of you to examine that information and come to a conclusion and see if they agree with the german diagnosis or the nerve agent. just in terms of the violence medical condition going back to that and how it's been over the last 2 weeks if not it was indeed used against him and given the danger it poses to those around him the airport staff the people on the plane the

doctors and nurses in the hospital is it a surprise that he's perhaps recovered relatively quickly from this and nobody else has seemingly suffered any lasting side effects that is one of the big questions that has been going run for the last fortnight because if you look at the script. a police officer was infected and a woman who didn't take her unfortunately she died and therefore it was very very dangerous everyone was really scared of coming into contact or having who was had contact with this or where was he and so on and now we have a situation where. where where or apparently. you know and then in tom's. didn't in fact effect infect anyone else what it was quite strange so that's why it may be a different nerve agent. from. a different number choke nerve agent

than the one which affected the script because the. you would expect was that total nerve agent to be very very contagious is very very deep apparently very dangerous to transport and deceivers waves through and through powder. and it's possible that if this is true if there's toga then one person greg to carry it. with jumps and so on and then administered to the drink which you know the only then imbibed now is that it's possible that that would be in the lakes region why i only knew that only a new one near him they were in contact will intrinsically come to him was also interested because their general. understanding of the group which is you know this you know who did it belong is that it affects other people as well the people around you and so on and they are in danger as well but this is different and this is one of the questions which has to be resolved in the

investigation to be investigated how is it possible that only one person trying to develop me was infected and not anybody else martha macauley author and russian analyst thanks for your take on that ongoing news story at an art international. thank you. all more than a 1000 people have gathered in the city of rochester in the state of new york overnight to demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man in arrest there began after a video showing police placing a suspect heard on daniel pruett one officer placed his hands on prudes head another put his knee on prudes back which led to his suffocation the death which happened back in march will now be investigated by a grand jury in wa on saturday the city of portland marked 100 consecutive days of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of a short floyd. i

. q cry cry cry cry. i 59 a recipe made in the city over the weekend the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel ozark believes the unrest could continue into the election day and beyond. but i guess breaking down we're seeing a street fighting street fighting going on growing levels valving both the leftists and rightists. it's 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 fighting endless lawsuits and determine no one knows we won in the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of march through still black gloves my campaign is converged on the city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be canceled the event still went ahead the activists were also denouncing police violence to pro police when a show also marched through the city and were confronted by black lives protesters . one american company seems to be cashing in on the unrest leading farms make a smith and wesson has seen sales jumped 140 percent this year that's around $134000000.00 in extra sales and again believes the gun boom is symptomatic of the country's political stalemate. both sides are arming i mean there are guns everywhere what if you go to one of these protests in places like that midwest or the west you will see guns on both sides and it's very dangerous and because people

tend to use these weapons and so 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 i mean america it's a it's a failed state and it's failing effort more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these this street fighting is a symptom of. nationwide unrest against racial injustice longer to stretch all the way to the members election one side is one. only biden victory can stop the violence democratic party think tanks insist anything other than a win for their man or just bring more chaos stories still to come here on r.t. in. a surge of new coronavirus infections and france are seeing restrictions returned in some areas 7 regions have been put on

a road zone last while some schools have been closed again just the week after reopening. has more details. 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 front's 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. out of the small 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main line 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 in total function and function well there are now 70 new zones in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of 1900 it means $28.00 regions in total are considered rent in that 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 some things such as the obligation to wear a face mask 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. and. it. was. meanwhile here in france there are some calls for people to wear face masks specifically from the reuter's of the tour de france which is making its way through the country at the moment it's 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 1000 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. donald trump may be claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the u.s. but rival democratic party thinks another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets there has been looking at 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 but 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 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 mail and voting already happening. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already put pairing 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 legitimacy of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shroom 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 concede we don't want to rush the gate for 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any shop 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 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 2 who knows. the extradition hearing if we can expound a tune in a songs has begun in london that had been spun from months into the coronavirus locked out and leaving a song stuck in jail it was dusty reports now from outside the court. day is of course an incredibly important day for both truth and justice as wiki leaks founder julian assange is back here in court at the old bailey here in central london for

the latest hearing proceedings which will ultimately decide whether or not he will be extradited to the united states of course this case was due to be heard much earlier in the year but you took over it 19 pandemic it was postponed until now well very early in the morning i saw for myself the very van the blacked out found i was carrying to massage into the criminal court but here outside we heard from his father but also from his partner son of morris also mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so do they really does open up the new it's trapped in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute judy in a silence for alleged playing a massive role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted he could go down for a 175 years as the u.s. has of course indicted him on 18 counts under mostly the espionage act so the u.s. really want him to face trial for spying

a publishing these classified documents all related to the war in iraq and afghanistan plus one of conspiracy to how could government computer to publish these documents as well now just a few minutes ago we heard from the wiki leaks editor in chief he's outlined a gross hypocrisy in this case and it really points to the lack of justice in the so-called justice system will. limit. that to julio's lawyers 'd. with the witnesses away or preserving. choosing limiting julio's lawyers appealing to to present the witnesses there's no mention of that would be any limitation with cross-examination of me here if you had to if that is why i did which it is very disappointing already on day one of the extradition hearing we already know. i have some key developments firstly the noirs have informed the court that they have not been able to see judas' are just the 1st time in 6 months re also understand that you're in a science has been stopped in

a glass box very similar to the proceedings earlier this year in february just before the covert 19 pandemic that time you said he couldn't hear properly and almost compared to myself to nothing more than a spectator wimbledon cheeriness arduous journey to court here today has been a very tumultuous one over the past few years as he was turned back into the public eye and april of 2019 when he was infamously holed out of london's ecuadorian embassy by british police he was of course seeking political asylum and was there for almost 7 years now he then began serving a 50 week sentence at london's belmarsh prison for skipping bell back in 2012 but he has spent over a year and a half at the belmarsh prison and in fact not once has been any evidence has been presented in court now at this 11th hour last ditch effort we've seen a german m.p. called on the german government to now provide you in a song for the political asylum i call in the german government also julian assange

political asylum in germany all within the european union and i ask my government if the german government can bring the russian alexina vanya to the shower to hospital in berlin why doesn't it make the same offer to the seriously ill to get a sandwich the key point for journalists are just defense team is they'll go down the medical very ground of course when journalist was at the belmarsh prison he was back and forth in and out of the medical ward he has been incredibly on well many people say his health has been deteriorating over the last few years and for many of the court proceedings he is not able to be there physically as well so his team would argue he's unfit to travel to the u.s. to face trial over in america on top of that the noise would also contend that the u.s. is seeking to prosecute julian assange for political offenses and that therefore exempts him from extradition under the u.k. . a u.s. extradition treaty but the prosecutors will take a different approach they will try to stop it a soldier's actions were not political but endangered lives for compromising these

classified top secret documents now we are just at day one of a 4 week hearing proceedings for the extradition of 2 massage it will ultimately decide his fate but campaign is outside the old bailey heard today say it's not just to the scientists in the dock today but also stop behind to the side to him is the fundamental tenants of the freedom of press and the rights of the populace to access information as well they say of june massage is extradited the right to be silenced him but it will gag all the journalists of world wide scope for press freedom the stakes are really that high. those so called work culture cause more harm than good fun up next on cross talk. about to bring you the latest see about that.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm 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 called demand obedience and so 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.