current russian opposition activists alexina valmy is out of an induced coma his alleged nerve agent poisoning has seen a wave of accusations directed at the kremlin also ahead. as protests against police brutality in the u.s. show no sign of easing we'll look at how the only rest is led to a surge in gun sales. and julian assange is the extradition hearing gets underway in london the wiki leaks founder is wanted in the u.s. to face espionage charges.

i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me. my top story the prominent russian opposition activists alexina valmy is out of an induced coma but the hospital treating him in berlin says it's too soon it to see if he suffered any long term effects meanwhile the russian ambassador in london was summoned to the foreign office where he said there had been nothing but unfounded accusations against russia paid to all of our 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 of 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 valmy 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 the 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 spokes person said that it's far too soon to be lumping together novell me with nord 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 and there was a request for a legal assistance who would agree to says there was no reason not to agree to that . well dan you seem to produce a brighter mood from the kremlin spokesman to me to be peskov true to any minister and 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 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 mobile chalk doesn't matter in this 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 and he is responding to verbal stimuli and starting to breathe on his own. the c.e.o. of the washington pain center earlier shared his thoughts on a found his recovery. i think 2 things about it i think you're looking at 2 factors no one is how much does he was given so might have been a very you know i'm no doctor so whatever the case might be perhaps you get medical attention fairly quickly so if i please and but i get medical treatment very

quickly i can probably survive the poisoning of the poison i've been susceptible to is those little ghosts or whatever the case might be there perhaps i can also survive it so there are 2 factors here how much was given and also the appropriateness of the medical care that the patient received positive sign is that he's responding to viable stimuli the supreme high function squeeze my hand with your feet things like that really create new so i think i'm cautiously very optimistic about this patient. more than a 1000 people gathered in the city of rochester in the state of new york on sunday nights demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man the young guys that began off the video emerged showing police placing a spit put on daniel proved one officer placed his hands on food head while another put his knee on foods back which led to his suffocation death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury and meanwhile on saturday the city of portland mark 100 consecutive days of black lives lost

a rallies triggered by the death of george floyd. there were dozens of arrests in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel as our believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. burgers breaking down we're seeing our street fighting in our street fighting going on growing levels involving both the leftists and rightists. as a kind of

a slow moving civil war that probably will continue until action and then no one knows what will happen with you election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well. mean one in the state of kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups have marched through in phil black last monday campaigners converged on the city demanding saturday's iconic kentucky derby horse race be councillors though it still went ahead the activists were also it denouncing police violence armed propylene militia also marched through the city and were confronted by a black lives matter protesters. one american company is doing well out of the un resto leading firearms maker smith and wesson has seen sales jumped 140 percent this year that's around $134000000.00 in extra sales daniela's are again believes the gun boom isn't sematic 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. 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 of their. nation mind on rest against racial injustice lying to stretch all the way to november's presidential election one side is warning only a joe biden victory in stop the violence the democratic party think tanks instead is there anything other than a win for them and will just bring more chaos we have that story coming up after

the break. as the new coronavirus infections in france easing restrictions returned in some areas 7 regions have been put on a red list while some schools have closed again just a week off the reopening so deep and ski 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 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 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

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. i. think. that he will send. you. to. the. 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 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. maybe claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the u.s. but why would an acrostic party think tanks say another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets kelly morgan 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 fire 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 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 ruse 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 were 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 where ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best out there humans fraud violence mail and voting already happened. 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 rigidity of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum 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 a gate for 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any supporter be smart to not be in there 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. without a on the way off the lengthy legal wrangling and a covert imposed delay the hearing finally gets underway in london for the wiki leaks founder julian assange which will decide whether he gets extradited to the

u.s. it's on that story after the break salable. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. we're entering into. strange phrase you know i think about in the ninety's in the beginning of perpetual copyright and so are copyright essentially laws become perpetual and intellectual creativity is dead and to

a large degree now after petrol live at home so the dynamism that would be coming with new household creation is dead and to a large degree. perpetual all money printing money and money prichard o'berg so we have this deadening of economic growth because the printing money keeps the zombie companies and the zombie banks alive so we're we're basically burying ourselves to them for perpetuity. welcome back the extradition hearing for the wiki leaks founder julian assange house begun in london and had been postponed for months to to the coronavirus loke down shortly after it's done she reports from outside london's essential criminal court. 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 chapter in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute jude 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 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 really points to the lack of justice in the

so-called justice system will be. limited. to julio's lawyers 'd will have to work with the witnesses away or preserve the. choosing limiting julio's lawyers appealing to 2 percent of witnesses there's no mention of that would be any limitation with russia so the issue for me here if you had to do 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 noirs have informed the court that they've not been able to see journalists 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 he 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 bail 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 song key point for genocide just defense team is they'll go down the medical

groups 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 saying 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. bailey heard today say it's not just airless art as an adult to date but also sat behind him on the site it is the

fundamental tenets of the freedom of press around the rights of the public to access information as well they say a genocide is that productive it might only silence him but it will gag all the journalists of world wide so the press freedom or stakes are really that high. one on scholar and social commentator noam chomsky told r.t. he's going underground he believes it would be illegal if the u.k. hunza songs to america but with the approval on the part of the british government to exceed 'd to the us their rich tradition of the soldiers of sense is not saying bill 'd. that she had good reasons not to as it would have been extra do it if you're not saying bill requires on the wrist not torture in a high security 1st. up to the what reason not easily jewish law to receive oh

i'm a mass murderer you're 'd 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 cherrypicked actual death. it's trial is being sure that it was committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know that our full state still wards of the know. israel has imposed curfews in 40 cities following a recent spike in coded 19 cases the new 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 out. the professional elements who are in there given the high my but it's a situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself to any moment with

a dangerous addition of severe cases and 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 following pressure from a local man as it was scaled back to evenings only although 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 waiting almost 3000 meanwhile protests against the government's handling of the pandemic is now into day 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 a calling for benjamin netanyahu to quit not just because of the coronavirus but also over his current corruption trial the head of the immunotherapy laboratory at bar line university explains why the number of cases in israel is on the rise.

after reopening around june schools enabling. places of gathering to thrive what we have seen basically is a 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 essential to prevent the further spread of the virus the 2nd thing is that a lot of gatherings like for example weddings. are taking place although they are 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 of efficient trusting greit now we are not able to correctly try 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 a new system for tracing and that is taking too much time again and then. the reason why we see a rise thanks to using r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines. while the pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just glad to nationalities. has emerged the turkey we don't look like seeing the whole world to. judge a. commentary close to sleep sometimes. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know

that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did go separate dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of .

the low unwelcomed across the uk 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 cult demand obedience insult criticism but we're really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people of all colors.

there's guys this and more i'm joined by my guest john de bar in bristol she is the deputy leader of the workers' party of britain as well as author wrote the drive to war against russia and china her forthcoming book is identity politics in class and in budapest we have george simu he is author of bombs for peace nato's humanitarian . war on yugoslavia across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to bristol jodie what do you do you make of this new secular religion because that it's kind of quasi christian you know a little bit compose there's a little bit a bit eventually mentalists style. and you know it has on with this ritual walls it has its humans it has its clergy it has its script sure. and it's making everybody miserable.