today used to get extra benefits for your business. headlining this hour prominent russian opposition activist. out of an induced coma its alleged nerve agent poisoning has seen a wave of accusations directed at the kremlin also ahead. as protests against police brutality in the united states. we look at how the unrest has led to a surging. extradition trial gets underway in the wiki leaks founder is wanted in the united states to face espionage charges.

monday evening here in the russian capital. with the south headline news 1st for you then the prominent russian opposition activist alexina valmy is out of an induced coma the hospital treating it made the announcement but it said it's too soon to say if he suffered any long term effects the russian ambassador in london was summoned to the u.k. foreign office over the case he told them nothing but unfounded accusations against russia over reports from berlin. of the statement put out by a shot at a hospital here in berlin says that alexei navalny has been woken from the induced coma he's been in for just over 2 weeks that he's starting to breathe on his own and he's responding to verbal stimuli the patient's artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off mechanical ventilation he's reacting to being spoken to but long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out or berlin claims that alexina volunteer was poisoned

with the deadly nerve agent novacek those claims at least have caused real tensions globally early on monday at the german government press briefing around lunch time there was a question upon question upon question about whether the only case would affect the north stream to gas pipeline in fact almost every other question about that multinational infrastructure project the line from the german government at the moment is that that is an economic project and it separate from anything to do with the case for now they say that could change in the future but ultimately it pretty much echoes what we've heard coming out of the kremlin to me to the press golf the kremlin spokesperson said that it's far too soon to be lumping together in a volley with north stream to moscow had been accusing berlin of dragging its feet when it came to handing over crucial information relating to alexina vonnie particularly the evidence germany says it has that he was poisoned with

a military grade nerve agent or we've heard from the foreign minister germany heiko mass saying wheels are in motion to send information over to russia pursue does increase of we've already agreed to russia's request food legal assistance with all the russian ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that in there was a request a legal assistance who would agree to says there was no reason not to greeted. well dan you seem to produce a brighter mood from the kremlin spokesman to me to the press corps of you to a new minister and we have certainly noted the german foreign minister 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 we've heard a different tone from the british government just last week boris johnson the prime

minister pointed a finger squarely at russia saying they were to blame for alexina vollies illness this week we're seeing the foreign secretary dominic robb wheeled out in front of the cameras to say it's far too soon to proportion blame and let's be really clear about this we're not yet in a position to attribute any use of novacek it doesn't matter the state actor in non-state actor is a violation of international law 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. ok where do we go next then let's go live to dr john dombrowski who's the c.e.o. of the washington pain center welcome back to r.t. . i know you're on the other side of the atlantic but from what you understand does that improvement in the valleys condition mean that he's out of danger. just create a new number one he stuff made a couple milestones or one he is now breathing on his own so they've taken away or

lessen the mechanical ventilation which is or you know respirator and other letting him go which is great positive sign is that he's responding to viable stimuli this is a pretty high function squeeze my hand with your feet things like that really great news so i'm cautiously very optimistic about this patient if not was used against me surprised at how quickly he now seems to be recovering. well i think 2 things about it i think you're looking at 2 factors number one is how much dose he was given so might have been a very you know a minimal dose or whatever the case might be perhaps you get medical attention fairly quickly so if i'm present but i get medical treatment very quickly i can probably survive the poisoning or if the amount of poison i've been susceptible to sublease low dose or whatever the case might be that perhaps i can also survive it so there are 2 factors are how much was given and also the appropriateness of the medical care that the patient received now this is another crystal ball talk

question but in time for the long term consequences what can mr neville now expect . is a crystal ball question again every day goes by it will be for a positive i think again he's breathing on his own and demanding answers about its kind of ability but as i mentioned before squeezing someone's hand he goes on a very basic i mean that does take a good amount of cognition and consciousness to do that so i am very cautiously optimistic about the station in terms of the medically induced coma that i mean obviously things have to be extremely serious for that treatment to be applied what are the effects of their being in a medically induced coma for that length of time. well we do this from time to time to stress to let the ventilator preserve us don't fight the ventilator and most likely use something like propofol which we use an anesthesiologist all the time as an infusion of medication to keep the patients sedated stronger on their own we can

then back off the sedation and bring the medical do score and bring it back to consciousness so it's done all the time and returns of side effects and in terms of long term is very minimal if at all in terms of how this all might have happened with british prime minister boris johnson squarely pointing it think with kremlin his foreign secretary believes it's too early to point the finger of blame just yet in order to get to the bottom of what happened how pivotal is it the germany shares what it knows in order to absolutely categorically find out what happened to mr novelli. right show that is the smoking gun if they have something in the patients you know most likely laboratories in terms of maybe trace elements of the chemical itself well most likely you would have a high level of what's known as acetylcholine which are molecules that are normally in our body but for this poison to be using would be exceptionally high very very unusual but also kind it is a smoking gun i dealt with that point to some sort of agent voicing. as you say

good news the midst of all news out of the well the worst of the words let's talk to john dombrowski from the washington pain center really appreciate your time on r.t. thank you. my pleasure. next 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 the address that began after video emerged showing police placing a spit on dangle proved one officer placed his hands on print head another put his knee on pruett back which led to his suffocation death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meanwhile on saturday the city of portland mult. 100 consecutive days of black lives matter rallies for goodbye the death of george floyd.

59 arrests in the city over the weekend but the protests showed no sign of relenting american journalist and author daniel is our belief that the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. but i guess breaking down we're seeing 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 fighting endless lawsuits and

indeterminate no one knows. meanwhile in the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of marched through louisville lives now to campaign as converged on the city demanding saturday's iconic kentucky derby horse race be counseled but it did still go ahead the activists were also denouncing police violence policemen also marched through the city but they were confronted by b.l.m. protesters. who want to merican company seems to be cashing in on the rest of leading firearms makers smith and wesson has seen sales jump 140 percent this year that's around $134000000.00 in extra sales daniela's are again believes that 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 net 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 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. a nationwide unrest against rationing just as likely to stretch all the way to november's presidential election one side is warning that only a joe biden victory can stop the vile democratic party think tanks insist that anything other than a win for them and will just bring more chaos we've got that story ahead for you in this bulletin. next a surge of new coronavirus infections in france is seeing restrictions returned in some areas 7 regions have been put on a red list while some schools have closed again barely a week off the reopening so to do penske has more details. 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 been closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. out of the 12 establishment colleges and schools were closed the main line france considering there are 60000 establishment in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region

we closed down that makes 22 and told on your function function well there are now 7 new zones in france that have been declared a 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 and 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.

exactly 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 big it's founds 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. 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. the 1st day of an

extradition hearing for the wiki leaks founder julian assange has wrapped up in london it had been postponed for months due to the coronavirus lockdown shaadi hardwoods daschle sent this report from outside the court. 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 at 19 pandemic it was postponed until now well very early in the morning i saw for myself the very van that blacked out down i was now able to massage into the criminal court but here outside we heard from his father but also from his partner stella morris also a mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so did they really does open up the new it's chapter in almost

a decade long a temp. to prosecute judean or 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 of 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. limit. that to julio's lawyers 'd. with the witnesses away or pursuant to. choosing limiting

julio's your use of privilege to to question the witnesses there's no mention of that would be any limitation with cross-examination for 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 have some key developments firstly the noise have informed the court that they have not been able to see judas' are just the 1st time in 6 months we also understand that you're in a santa 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 cheeriness songes 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 15 week sentence at london's. well marsh prison visiting 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 to 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 doing a soldier's 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. u.s. extradition treaty but the prosecutors will take a different approach they will try to establish that a soldier's actions were not political they 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 campaigners outside the old bailey here today say it's not just doing the sergeants in the dock today but also sat behind to criticize him is the fundamental tenants of the freedom of press and the rights of the public to access information as well they say of genocide is extradited it might only silence him but it will gag other journalists worldwide so for press freedom the stakes are

really that high. well renowned scholar and social commentator norm chomsky told r.t. he's going on the ground that he believes it will be illegal if the u.k. hands the songs to america. it would be a criminal act on the part of the british alderman to exceed to the us event for extradition assizes of sense is not sane bail. now if he had good reasons not to because it would have been extradited if he but not paying bill requires a tap on the wrist not torture in a high security prison train up to the point where he's not even a leader is allowed to receive books i'm in mass murderers or being treated like in a way beyond the worst issues criminal ok and if he's extradited it comes up for trial on the us espionage laws which even carry of attentional death.

it's trial is being troy because he committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know and that powerful states don't want them to know. israel's imposing cafes in 40 cities following a recent spike in covered 1000 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 have also had to shut. the professional elements were given the situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself at any moment with a dangerous addition of severe cases and deaths and the danger to the teams of doctors treating corona in the hospital could collapse the initial plan had been to impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities but following pressure from local mayors it was scaled back to evenings only although with an additional 10 cities added to that

list there's been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month with daily cases now reaching almost 3000 meanwhile protests against the government's handling of the pandemic have now entered the 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 benyamin netanyahu to quit not just because of the coronavirus but also over his current corruption trial the head of immunotherapy therapy laboratory about a land university explains why the number of cases in israel is on the rise. after reopening around june schools enabling. places of gathering to thrive where as we have seen basically the slow rise in the number of people being infected there is a crisis of confidence in the public meaning people do not feel the need to

always abide by the regulation people willing to comply is essential to prevent the further spread of the virus the 2nd thing is that there are a 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 2nd main problem we have is a lack of efficient trusting right now we are not able to correctly tracing every single case because our a lot of case. and the 2nd thing is that because we are still in we are still trying to implement our new system for tracing and that is taking too much time again another reason why we see a rise. maybe claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the us but rival democratic party think tanks say another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more

violence on the street and more pins be 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 fire exercises reach the brink of catastrophe with massive disinform ation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfit sinking along these lines hawkish 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 in 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 marches 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 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 rush a 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. if that's the way it looks from moscow the south thanks for watching it x. well that they from a they are taking statins i just have a half an hour from now i have to say that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see a. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every

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are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and it's called the cloak ism 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 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. there is gus this and more i'm joined by my guest in bristol she is. the deputy leader of the workers' party of britain as well as an author of the drive to war against russia and china her forthcoming book is identity politics and class and in budapest we have george samuel he is author of bombs for peace nato's humanitarian and.