it. was. common russian opposition activist alexina around the is out of an induced coma his alleged nerve agent poisoning is seen a wave of accusations directed at the kremlin also ahead. as protests against police brutality in the u.s. showed no sign of easing we look at how the unrest has led to a surge in gun sales. and julian assange extradition hearing gets underway in london the wiki leaks founder is wanted in the u.s. to face as to be an ass charge it's.

a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me in a chair and our top story the prominent russian opposition activist alexina valmy is out of an induced coma but the hospital treating him in berlin says it's too soon to say 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 the 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 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 in the valley 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 in there was a request a legal assistance who would agree to assist there was no reason not to greeted. well don you seem to produce a brighter mood from the kremlin spokesman to me to the press golf treated and even used to we have certainly noted the german farmers the statement 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 alexei no 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 don't yet in a position to attribute any use of know but york doesn't matter that state actor in non-state actor is a violation of international law so that latest news alexina volley 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 at his thoughts on the valley's recovery. 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 pleased and but i get medical treatment very quickly i can

probably survive the poisoning of the amount of poison i've been susceptible to is though sublethal 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 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 new so i guess i'm cautiously optimistic about. at this station. 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 be unrest that began after video emerged showing police placing a spit hood on daniel proved one officer placed his hands on prudes heritable another put his knee on pleads back which led to his suffocation or death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meanwhile unplanned today the city of portland marked 100 consecutive days of black lives mass rallies triggered by the death of george floyd.

thank you thank you was we were we were thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you there were dozens of arrests in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. burkas 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 building civil war that probably will continue until action and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and fighting endless lawsuits of indeterminate outcome no one knows meanwhile in the state of kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups of marched through louisville black lines monthly campaigners converged on the city demanding saturday's iconic kentucky derby horse race be canceled they still went ahead the activists were also denouncing police violence armed propylene militia also marched through the city and were confronted by a bank black lives matter protesters. one american company is doing well out of the unrest leading firearms makers smith and wesson has seen sales jumped 140 percent this year as around $134000000.00 in extra sales so analysts are again believes the

gun being missing to matters 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'll see guns on both sides and it's very dangerous. because people tend to use these weapons and so but the but there's no force capable of stopping this fighting because i'm it seems to have taken a life of its own and it's just part of the whole political structure which is in an excel orating breakdown i mean america is a is a failed state and it's failing ever more rapidly and these are these demonstrations these are these the street fighting is a symptom of their. with nationwide unrest against racial injustice likely to stretch all the way to november's presidential election one side is warning only a joke by the big 3 can stop the violence democratic party think tanks and see if

anything out of that other than a win for them on will just bring more chaos that story is still ahead. a saudi court overturned 5 death sentences on monday in the case of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi is killing 5 people were given reduced sentences of 20 years in prison while 3 others received from 7 to 10 years but decisions were met with criticism from one u.n. official who denounced the proceeding as without legitimacy. the saudi pursue cuter performed one more act today in this parody of justice but these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy they came at the end of a process which was neither fair nor just or transparent. and make a show g.'s son said they forgave his murderous which cleared the way for the revised sentences under islamic law but generalists fine fiance has commented on social media calling it

a complete mockery of justice so she was murdered and in october 2800 more paying a visit to the saudi consulate in istanbul here's a quick reminder of how things unfolded. let's bring in sandra perino from gulf state analytics for more reaction well thanks for joining us on the program what do you think of the saudi cause verdict in the case or ji case he would agree with the new sentences. thank you for having me. i don't necessarily agree with the new sentences but i think they are

legitimate in the sense of where they took place. how the court decided to to hand out the sentence and there was an agreement between the family and the state on commuting the sentence from birth to believe 20 years in prison imprisonment total for the 5 suspects. now. that is the idea of commuting the sentence of the family. greece is granted under the load that said the entire case. becomes even more suspect. who gave. the order. to kill and. clearly the sentences were commuted because. there was also an agreement tacit agreement. between the the employees of the state and

who or and the people who ordered the murti assassination if you. if the sentences being death sentences had been carried out it would have. been very significant. stain on the entire. saudi monarchy and government at home as well as internationally and right now and a situation in the gulf is. evolving in different directions some of them favorable directions. we have the agreement between the united arab emirates a strong saudi ally and israel so it's not the timing certainly demanded some kind of action from the government and i believe the sentence commuted ation

of the sentences came at the end of ramadan as is customary but critics are saying that the most basic questions about the matter remain totally onset is that if you sad. yes i mean when we go and we examine the murder itself 1st of all the complexity they could. if they really wanted to get rid of the journalists there were much simpler and cleaner methods available instead sending a team of hit men to the. saudi consulate in turkey with the potential that that consulate was observed particularly in the situation the relations between turkey and saudi arabia will already teetering at the time of the murder in 2018 so the saudis would have known something suspected so the idea that. is often presented that crown prince

bin solve money is involved. but there's still questions about how someone so savvy. and connected. could have taken such a silly decision just from the pure dynamics of the of the assassination so i believe the trial and unfortunately has left that question of the mandate completely open and we won't have another trial i believe i think this is done. in saudi arabia so unless turkey which where the murder took place decides to. conduct its own an investigation and present more evidence but we won't hear any much much more about this trial.

here but an official has responded saying the course decision lacks legal or moral legitimacy and how do you expect the welsh caminos community to react to this. well i think. for the world community the opinion won't change the idea that the saudi government was behind it remains in fact if anything the sentence only proves that or at least goes further into that direction. and internationally however there are no formal legal. restrictions in other words countries that deal with saudi arabia on diplomatic and business. levels won't have any technical formal reasons to halt. relations so whether while public opinion will certainly be negative and technical level there will be no. sanctions or other.

penalties that will impede saudi arabia from working with other countries on top of that. today or at least yesterday the saudi king solomon called trump urging for a solution to the middle east peace solution for the palestinians so that is a signal that the saudis are willing to move diplomatically as well as the emirates have if. some kind of comprehensive peace is pushed forward so while this it's almost as if the sentence came on the heels of a major. initiative from the saudi government to clean it so to speak its image at the international level i saw and i pray and i from cal

state analytics thank you for your time. thank you. donald trump may be claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the u.s. but rival democratic party think tanks say another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets kell of more pain 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 with massive disinform ation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfit sinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work for the democratic national committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that and the rush it 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 haze a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella reuss to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only biden's. victory can save the country from chaos don't buy it and let's not forget another factor being thrown ian allegations of russian interference the allegation is that russia favors trump and denigrates biden so russia must be preemptively punished before the elections even happen to prevent meddling with us to draw upon the conclusion of the intelligence community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference including any actives within the government of the russian federation and the russian act is determined to be

directly responsible and those acting on their behalf providing material financial support for their efforts russia is also accused of spreading rumors about mail in vote in order to undermine the us elections but it's not really russia that's doing that unless of course the kremlin controls american t.v. networks there are cases from just this last spring or were ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best as are humans fraud violence mail and voting already happening. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already 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 which it in a sea 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 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 russia gate maybe russia gay part 2 who knows. extradition hearing fall that we can make subtle julian assange has begun in london that had been postponed for months due to the coronavirus lockdown so he had woodstock state reports from outside london central 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 6 from his

partner son of morris also mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so today really does open up the newest 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. limit. that to julio's

lawyers 'd will have to work with the witnesses the way your perception of what is . choosing limiting julio's your use of privilege to to question the 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 is it 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 santa 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 cheered 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 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 to the shower to hospital in berlin why doesn't it make the same offer to the seriously ill to get a song on the key point for journalists are 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 a staunch 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 endanger 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 today 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 should i did it right only silence him but it will catch on all the journalism worldwide so the press freedom for stakes already that high. we're now scholar and social commentator noam chomsky told us he's going underground he believes it would be illegal if the u.k. hands the songs to america but with the approval on the part of the british government to exceed 'd to the us so there is a rich tradition of sizes of sense is not being bill 'd. that she had good reasons not to as it would have been extra do it if. it not being built requires on the wrist not torture in a high security 1st. up to the right reason not easily jewish allowed to receive books i'm a mass murderer sure being treated like in

a way beyond the worst vicious criminal ok and if he's extra good at it comes up for trial on the us espionage laws which even chariot to actual death. it's trial is being. committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know that our full state still want of the know. israel has imposed curfews in 40 cities following a recent spike in coded 19 cases that are 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. 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 that the teams of doctors treatment grown in hospitals could collapse the initial plan had been to

impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities but following pressure from local lairs 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 reaching almost $3000.00 meanwhile protests against the government's handling of the pandemic is now into 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 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 bahrain university explains why the number of cases in israel is on the rise. after reopening around june schools and 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 that 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 a lot of gatherings like for example weddings at night that 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 lack of efficient trast seeing right now we are not able to correctly tracing every single case because 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 tracing and that is taking too much time that again another reason why we see a rise. is joining us here on r.t.

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