dot com today use the promo code to get extra benefits for your business. for. breaking news this hour prominent russian opposition activist alex what induced coma is alleged that a nerve agent has seen a wave of accusations directed at the kremlin. as protests against police brutality in the u.s. showed no sign of easing look at how the unrest has led to. the extradition trial. begins in london we can expand or is wanted in the u.s. to face charges of espionage.

live from moscow you want your theme to national with me daniel hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. i will start with breaking news this hour the prominent russian opposition activist alexina valley is out of an induced coma the hospital treating him in berlin made the announcement in the last hour but it said it's too soon to say if you suffered any lasting damage germany said last week you've been poisoned with nerve agent these are live pictures we can bring you of the hospital where novelli is being treated just to remind you that the kremlin has denied any involvement international pressure against moscow has been building well live from the hospital we're going live to our studio in berlin with pizza all over peter thanks for coming out of line again what's the latest what do we know about the valleys obviously good news for him good news for his family as well the last thing we just don't know yet.

yes certainly good news for all x. in the valley and for his family the shallot a hospital here in berlin has announced that he's being woken from a medically induced coma that he's been in for well just over 2 weeks now the early reports are that he's starting to breathe on his own without machinery and that he's responding to verbal 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 the long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out. or berlin claims alexei navalny was poisoned with the highly deadly incredibly deadly novacek nerve agent that sparked well huge tensions internationally in fact early on monday at the lunch time german government press briefing almost every question was about the future of the north stream to gas pipeline in the wake of

the allegations made by germany against russia and russian involvement in the but what they call the poisoning of alexei in the fall and the now the government spokesperson stefan's i bet had said that the economic project that was not stream 2 was separate from anything to do with alexei nonviolently for now he did say that could change in the future but that's pretty much the same message as we're getting from the kremlin we heard from jimmy to the press corps of the kremlin spokes person saying that it was too soon to lump together nord stream to end the volley right now but there have been some well upset from moscow towards berlin that they felt that germany was dragging its feet when it came to responding to requests from moscow for information relating to the novelli case particularly information and evidence relating to the claims that he was poisoned with a nerve agent however on monday we also heard from the foreign ministry here in

berlin and the foreign minister himself piko mouse saying that the wheels were in motion in order to transfer that information over to moscow. who does increase of we've already agreed to russia's request fully go assistance with all the russian ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that if there was a request for legal assistance we would agree to says there was no reason not to greeted. well that new seems to have produced a new seems to a party. which brighter response from the kremlin we had forgotten from dmitri peskov he seemed pleased with the news coming out of berlin. and even used we have certainly noted the german farmers the statement and the glove that's 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 london last week we heard from johnson the british prime minister pointing a finger firmly towards moscow and saying russia was to blame for the poisoning of alexina valmy this week we're seeing a more cautious tone taken from the british government dominic robb the foreign secretary was wheeled out in front of the cameras to say that it was far too soon to proportion blame. the use of mobile chalk it doesn't matter the state actor of non-state actor is a violation of international law and let's be really clear about this we're not yet in a position to attribute. so that latest news alexina valmy is awake from the coma that he's been in for just over 2 weeks. he is responding to verbal stimuli and starting to breathe on his own. peter all of that live from berlin with that

update p. thanks so much for keeping us in the loop. and russia analyst amata macaulay says there are many parallels to the script our case in the u.k. in particular the fact that many questions remain unanswered. and we can make any judgment at present because he may in fact have no memory at all what happened to him but he may have they have some memory of it and we're waiting for that and then we can judge from that you look at the script out. a police officer was affected and a woman was infected unfortunately she died and that's what was very very dangerous everyone was really scared of coming into contact or having who was had contact with his sheep or where was he and so on and now we have a situation where medellin it didn't in fact anyone knows what it was quite strange so that's why it may be a different no there each and than the one which affected the script function there

is a general. understanding at the moment your group to which this nation admitted it belongs 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 this is one of the good new questions which has to be resolved the investigations be investigated how is it possible that only one person trying to deny me was infected and not anybody else. more than a 1000 people gathered in the city of rochester in the state of new york overnight demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man in rest there began after video showing police placing a split heard on daniel proved one officer placed his hands on prudes head while another put his knee on prudes back which led to his suffocation death which happened back in march will now be investigated by a grand jury in one on saturday the city of portland marked 100 consecutive days of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of george floyd.

i. i. 59 arrests have been made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author donors are believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. but i guess breaking down we're seeing our street fighting street fighting going on growing levels valving both the leftists and rightists. as a kind of a slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no

one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and fighting endless lawsuits and determined no one knows. meanwhile in the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of march through loose fill. campaigners converged on the city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be canceled events they went ahead activists were also denouncing police violence. police want to show also marched through the city and were confronted by a black large amount of protest 7. well one american company seems to be cashing in on the unrest leading far as make us with smith and wesson a scene sales jump a 140 percent this year that surround $134000000.00 in extra sales. again and 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 the midwest or the west you will see guns on both sides and it's very dangerous and 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 after more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these the street fighting is a symptom. with nationwide unrest against racial injustice likely to stretch all the way to november election one side is warning that only a bottom victory can stop the violence democratic party think tanks insists anything other than a win for them and will just bring more chaos moral not story just ahead.

of you corona virus infections in france is seeing restrictions were turned in some areas 7 reasons have been put on a red zone list while some schools have been closed again just a week off the reopening showed it 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 trying $1000.00 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. israel's imposing curfews in 40 cities following a recent spike of covert 19 cases the restrictions require businesses to close by 7 pm and ban people from venturing far from their homes in the evenings schools and colleges also have to shut. the professional elements were in there given the situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself within the moment with a dangerous addition of severe cases in deaths and the danger that the teams of doctors treating corona new hospitals could collapse the initial plan had been to impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities and so-called red zones but following pressure from local mayors it was scaled back to evenings only with an additional 10 cities

added to the list there's been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month with daily cases now reaching almost $3000.00. meanwhile protests against the government's handling of the planned have now entered their 11th week over the weekend police officers could be seen lifting protesters off the road and carrying them away as people gathered near the prime minister's official residence demonstrators are calling for benjamin netanyahu to quit not just because of the coronavirus but also over his current corruption trial. we can go live now to professor cheryl cohen head of the 3 of you know therapy university professor thanks for joining us today good to have you on the program what do you think is behind this spike in national covert cases . basically what we have seen in person to weeks. after reopening around june schools and enabling. places of

gathering to thrive where we have seen basically is a slow rise in the number of people being infected unfortunately point we thought that we were nearing the 1000 something cases then we thought that that was more of a stabilizing but as we have seen in the past 2 weeks we've seen a constant tries and as you say justly we are now around 3000 cases. for every day each day so now one of the reasons a few reasons we have again is there is a crisis of confidence in the public meaning people do not feel the need to always abide by the regulation the 2nd thing is does our lot of gatherings like for example weddings at night that are taking place although they're forbidden but people are actually organizing them in places private places so it's very difficult to locate them and to close them down so we have seen due to do. to this to

describe of behavior we have seen a rise 2nd main problem we have a lack of efficient trast scene right now we are not able to correctly train seeing every single case because our a lot of cases and the 2nd thing is that because we are still in we are still trying to implement our new system for tracy and that is taking too much time again another reason why we see a rise. do you think this new system of law and curfews has come too little too late so do you think this will be able to prevent a rise in infections or do you think as soon as that curfew is lifted if the number of actions falls it will then rise again i mean aren't we just playing catch up here. yeah no i fully agree basically i look at that mall like a bandaid because basically what we know is that no curfew or no

look down is efficient if you do not have a structure and neighbor. is a tracing of the people that are sick and the isolation of those people from the community so basically we might see a slow i would say slow. down fall or we might see a really reduced number of cases perhaps from 300-222-2500 but still that doesn't mean that we are over that unfortunately we need to take it is my opinion more drastic measures do you expect people to comply with these curfews we've seen protests already against the way the government's been handling them do you think people are going to stick to the rules. i think that the main problem is that people are there is a lack of confidence in the government mainly because every few hours the

decisions in some measure are being changed because of political pressure i think that's one of the problem one of the problems we have right now i think that people cannot understand why you can't allow for example demonstrations as you say a few minutes ago and then why you can't allow for example open air concerts or things like that so people are kind of confused and when you're confused and you can you will not collaborate you will not cooperate and we need the people to call abrasion because after all this is a virus. that is transmitted from one person to another so people are willing the will of the people people willing to comply censure to prevent the further spread of the virus professor cyril current head of the world tree of immunotherapy at the university thanks for joining us on the program today. thank you. may be claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the united states

a rival democratic party things x. though say another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets a lot more pain has been looking at those 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 of violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfits

thinking along these lines hawkish and 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 looked like 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 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 better 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 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 widget in a sea 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 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 shop

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 rush to get maybe russia gay part to who knows. dick cheney sharing of what could make saddam soon innocence has begun in london it's been postponed for months through to the coronavirus locked out shut it was testing reports 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 a mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so today really does open up the new it's trapped in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute judy in a sarge 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 the gross hypocrisy in this case and it really points to the lack of justice in the

so-called justice system will be. limited. to julio's lawyers will say with the witnesses away your perception of what. choosing limiting julio's lawyers appeal to to question 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. i have some key developments firstly the noirs have informed the court that they've not been able to see judas are just the 1st time in 6 months we also understand that you're in a science has been sucked 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 cheering us on just 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 julian 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 shard to hospital in berlin why doesn't it make the same offer to the seriously ill julian assange the key point for journalists are just defense team is they'll go down the

medical very ground of course when julian was silent 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 the soldiers' 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 during the sanchez in the dock today but also sat behind him beside him is the fundamental tenants of the freedom of press and the rights of the public to access information as well they say of june the sonship is extradited it might only silence him but it will gag other journalists and worldwide so for press freedom the stakes are really that high. up next in our to documentary a 2 year investigation documents and decipher the growing power of international arbitration courts and multinational companies it's even our backing off with the latest headlines. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

in europe people are taking to the streets to protest the lack of transparency in treaty negotiations such as the t.t. ip treaty with the us and the seat a treaty with canada. the use of arbitration tribunals a central and totally opaque part of these treaties is a serious threat to the future of democracies. giuliani consider 1430 on a. bed of on a cross bigger canada may. be very. limited nationalism.