those that would use of the be used with the. headlines this late tuesday morning the diplomatic route was surrounding the sudden illness of russian opposition activists elected she's the prevalent being upper terribly accused and despite the lack of definitive proof pressure now mounting today to punish moscow a ditching a major gas pipeline project. saudi arabia commutes the death sentences of those convicted in the 2018 murder of journalists. rights groups outraged over it noting those who ordered the killing are being punished at all and. so quickly you know they are. full of the number of disgusting assaults noticed spits in cough attacks on british police doubling

period of pandemic we've got a report coming up. a lot to talk about this morning one good morning just turned 11 am this 8th of september here in moscow life from marty's world news h.q. my name is kevin owen with this latest update for you hope you stick around maybe for the whole thing 1st problem a rough russian opposition activist alexina valmy we can report is no longer in a coma today the german medics treating him haven't given any prognosis yet nor have they presented any definitive proof or details as to what caused his illness but that's not stopped the u.s. president already from blaming the kremlin and hinting germany should now end its project with russia the nord stream 2 gas pipeline. but i was supportive of there was a 1st when the word got you know heard of it or stream to it or drug ever when i came

along i said wait a minute we're protecting germany from russia right as for germany it seems to be caving to the pressure on north stream to this morning latest from a burning correspondent peter all ever. long before election volley took a long flight from siberia to moscow and ended up here in berlin receiving treatment berlin has been under pressure to drop the north stream to gas pipeline project in the past despite threats and sanctions from the united states and criticism from some of its european partners berlin and always viewed this economic project as a separate entity to anything else now what we're starting to see is some signs of a different message coming out of the german capital we've heard from friedrich merritt's who stands a very good chance of being the potential successor to angola merkel when she steps down as chancellor next year he said that if he had the power right now he would

issue an immediate 2 year moratorium on the gas pipeline project and in fact in the last week we've heard senior voices within the german cabinet and some voices that speak directly for the chancellor herself saying that there is a potential for least halting all stalling the project basically what it previously been unthinkable is now being talked about as potentially possible is this i left my tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do i think that we should be coupled these issues and in our opinion north rim too should be completed. for folks i think would be room throughout from the beginning but what is happening now it could have an impact from the projections to the federal chancellor also sees it as room to rule that out of germany says the future of the gas pipeline depends on how russia responds to allegations of poisoning of the leg saying a volley with

a military grade nerve agent moscow says they're willing to play ball but contant the moment because evidence and data that germany says it has regarding the poisoning of all of the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny hasn't being transferred to moscow without. that they can proceed now once has been given to any official requests from the russian prosecutor general's office or to any of the requests from our doctors nothing 0 on monday we got an update on the status of alexei in the file in the he's being taken out of the coma the medics that kept him in for just over 2 weeks he's being weaned off breathing operators are starting to breathe on his own and we know that he's responding to visual to all double stimuli . meantime russia's foreign ministry has reacted to washington's call for berlin to ditch the stream to moscow believes euro should stand up for its own interests unless it wants to end up being america's puppet it says let's get thoughts on this

bring in german political commentator ike hammer is on the line i go there good morning right what are your thoughts on this 1st there's a whole economic side of it what it's going to mean for germany for europe of this pipeline this gas pipeline doesn't go ahead it will bring huge benefits but i suppose suppose the 1st question really is is germany mind being pushed around like this being told what to do from america potentially what's the thought. well let's 1st if germany is pushed around by america of course this is not only embarrassing but i think the time is over we have more than 70 years of occupation since world war 2 and i think it's time if europe wants to get together if europe wants to be in the future a common state or whatever it is time we have our own standpoint and from the own standpoint it's a catastrophe if this pipeline is being abolished for 2 reasons 1st the reason

is that germany loses or europe loses if so confidence in the world that they don't stick to contracts that they don't they are not reliable partners anymore that's number one number 2 it's in the more important germany and europe will be dependent on blackmailing possibilities from poland because 'd if the gas pipeline is not coming we are dependent on other routes and all the other routes are dependent on 3rd parties so we will always be able to be blackmailed by the other people and i think this is exactly what the americans with their polish partner wants and this is exactly what the transatlantic sabotage politicians like a british man and western and so on want they want or they have political reasons otherwise the weather's not here emotive as far as america's concerned as well that liquefied petroleum gas what we're going to come to a lot of minutes before we talk about the angle of merkel only last week was saying

no this pipeline is not going to be involved the tubes separate cases totally it's never going to be dragged into this why she changed her point of view to think oh how she changed her point of view considerably in a week well i think there are 2 reasons number one if you have a measure a tea of transatlantic. servants or secret service. however you call other people who have so tight transatlantic ties within the oldest arc within the i start with in german politics that they are apparently able to blackmail the government even against the vital german interests number one number 2 a german the german government has no serious economic advisers that they have no one who has economic understanding anymore and this is a huge catastrophe so you have some lobbyists from the big international congress

who tell merkel what to do and work on the 1st part the international advisers are in the interest of the americans because they're dependent on the american money and on the american courts just not times of it against a so you know on a practical level here ok trump's noted that germany's vulnerable it needs to keep the lights on is keep the heating going in winter at the same time as nuclear facilities are being shut that's the stated aim in germany coal industry is going to be wound down because they're not clean anymore so how is germany going to keep the lights on going to keep the heat on in theory if nordstrom to doesn't happen what's the big plan than where they have no plan that's the problem they are they are plan less clueless that's exactly where the problem was from going to do about it well he wants to blackmail germany to take the elegy from the us out of

a lot of the cars is that a viable prospect for now it is a catastrophe for the german economy because energy is the main cost for everything you do so if you increase. the cost for your most vital products you need then you have disadvantages in the whole economy the german economy will have no chance on competing in the. world economy and that's exactly what once you once america 1st rewards american business really briefly are is it just journey's going to say on this is you know is the rest of europe going to pitch in and try and twist merkel's are mere because there's a lot at stake that isn't just going to germany the rest of europe is going to benefit from it western europe where they would benefit of part of the polish or the polish government has a vital own interests i mean they not only want to vote on pipeline they want to be

able to blackmail and this is a multibillion business for the polish government because the european money that is collected from germany and needed works the other european partners is by the by the polish so the other partners are always against germany will follow is the great interest german political commentator like hammer thanks being on the program of a good day for your work and thank you. next news that saudi a saudi court rather scrapped the death sentences of suspects in the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi 5 people were given reduced terms of 20 years jail 3 others received from 7 to 10 years a top u.n. official has slammed the move the saudi pursue curator prefer md one more act today in this parody of justice but this verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy they came at the end of a process which was neither fair nor just or transparent. well they make it should

be as family said that they forgave his murderers which cleared the way for the revised sentences under islamic law it changed the law but the journalist fiance now has commented on the trials calling it a complete mockery of justice and showed he was seized in 2018 were visiting the saudi consulate in turkey reportedly to get papers for his upcoming marriage the journalist was allegedly dismembered you may recall his remains have never been found those sentenced are believed to have been part of the hit squad sent to turkey from riyadh political analyst alessandro bruno says despite the a rift the nature of the crime the west won't ensure justice. the fact that north was tried. actually it raises many more suspicions for the world community the opinion won't change the idea that the saudi government was behind it remains in fact if anything this only proves it or at least goes further into that their

action countries that the oil with saudi arabia diplomatic and business levels won't have any technical formal reasons to halt relations so whether while public opinion will certainly be negative at a technical level there will be no sanctions or other penalties that will impede saudi arabia from working with other countries. how this is put off you breakfast is certainly affecting british police they're suffering from a large rise in the riff assaults known as cough and spit attacks suspects are taking advantage of a fear of contamination and with offices in the middle as county of leicestershire particularly complaining that they cannot do their job properly because of it. we're going to know if they are. the rise in assaults as huge impacts on stuff both physically and mentally and it

has a huge impact on communities thousands and thousands of days of policing a lost because of these assaults. orrible in it the number of such attacks has doubled there's been hundreds of cases in just months in leicestershire alone 1st up on barely a 100 in service in the same period last year and there's more it's not just spitting cough attacks assaults on law enforcement a shooting up across the board generally leaving stuff nervous there's been a 21 percent rise in attacks on british police during the lockdown almost $8000.00 cases have been registered in just 3 months for a police officer himself peter kirkwood warns that covert 90 no these days is given suspects all new weapons against authorities. as provides it's. the why of people who would assault police by whatever method is available

and other why 'd for them to get. into into offices. you know why they feel will be more impact if just at the moment. it's just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting spitting and coughing offices that we're seeing with the covert epidemic and the problem is the decades 10 years of an anti police narrative by the governments gleefully repeated by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just to far beside. the place of being criticized to every turn so a symptom of a problem this country has had developing for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both number and do severity.

truck in this next a high profile member of the opposition has been arrested on the border with ukraine and follows claims by his supporters that miraculously cover of the opposition's coordination council had been kidnapped by belarus security offices could tell a breakdown what are conflicting versions coming out now today. well this is a somewhat strange and confused the story on monday news came out the red collapsed because of one of our says opposition figures and a campaign partner of satellite who will remember was defeated at the recent presidential elections was abducted in medics snatched from the street bundled into a van by ordinary man as many will say not in the evening the police filed a missing persons report and started an official such lots of people one article came out consigned to the whereabouts and this includes people beyond about a russian borders germany and britain for example so they were worried they demanded answers meanwhile brussels threatened sanctions and martin added to what it says is the arbitrary detention of those critical of alex article shango it is

clear that the states will thora these in belarus continue to intimidate or allow intimidation of its citizens in increasingly lawless way and crudely violate both their own domestic laws and international obligations. well a few hours later and it doesn't seem quite as clear cut as many and because now the multitude of this story has now according to the head of the better russian authorities calexico and to others the southern border into ukraine around us or am i on. a video that about showing a car in which claimed kolesnikov and 2 others work pulling up to the border had to give the documents for inspection speaking to a border guard but that of rumor started that the 2 she was traveling with did manage to make it into great class that the didn't that she was arrested at the border something florentines did not they say instead the classical enough across the border instead that she was thrown out of the car shown up there to go to the 2

others carried on into great without apparently at great speed to drive dangerously me marc klass ticket is confirmed now to be at the border in good health not in need of any medical assistance but the russian authorities also say that the 2 seemingly abandoned plastic up on the by the russian side have been arrested in ukraine though that has not been confirmed by. people who are granted a contact with 3 say none of them responding to messages the noise say they have no idea of their whereabouts but. they're also claiming that none of the 3 had any intention of leaving better us if they did so it is worth noting that they would be following in the footsteps of their candidate to cannot lead to with the wait a month ago after the elections i when there are so many unconfirmed conflicting versions of the story it's actually quite difficult to get the bottom of what actually happened perhaps time will provide some clarity on those that proverb go it's an ill with the blows nobody any good well coming up take joy and so make

a profit out of a pandemic brussels wants them to pay more tax over it stay with us find out more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by one person if there is.

no day or thinks. we dare to ask. a covert catastrophes been a boon for some it seems with home video streaming companies reporting a massive surge in subscribers and profit maybe no surprise there though they had netflix even admits the pandemic has been a lucky break for the company in fact every major tech player has vastly increased

earnings in the locked amazon's revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent making almost $900000000000.00 from online shopping there's apple's revenue increased 11 percent to almost 60000000000 meantime streaming services such as netflix have done . old subscribers in just 3 months but they now face a backlash from the authorities here it comes from 2021 the e.u. now is looking to introduce a digital tax lot of people said it was going to come european lawmakers warn tech firms should subsidize economies damaged so badly by months of lockdown it is not possible to accept the idea that those digital giants the winners of the crisis are not paying a fair amount of taxes in europe and we can't manage this problem with single digital taxation we need at least at the european union level a general measure economics professor richard wolfe told us he believes that taxing

tax giants just the 1st step to raising taxes and rates for all big corporations i think you seen it already we have a history here in the united states of taxing monopolies an oligopoly these are huge businesses but it always takes pressure from below it takes a movement of working people labor unions and others to be able to get the politicians to act and my suspicion is it won't be different x. y. little take the tax the tech giant out and once they go then the question will inevitably follow why are we not doing that for other our highly monopolized and overly wealthy corporations. israel's impose curfews in 40 cities following a spike in covert 1000 cases the nearest to require businesses to close them by 7 pm every day and ban people from venturing far from their homes in the evenings

schools and colleges are also shut. the professional elements were in there given the high mobility 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 treating corona and the hospital could collapse so the initial plan had been to impose a complete lockdown 30 cities but then following pressure from local mayors it was scaled back to leaving is only although with 10 more cities out into the list there's been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month the daily case is now reaching almost $3000.00 meanwhile protests against the government's handling of the pandemic have now entered their 11th week over the weekend police officers were seen lifting protesters literally off the road and carrying them away as people gathered near the prime minister's official residence demonstrators are calling for bernie when they're. not just because a coronavirus but also over his current ongoing corruption trial the head of the

immunotherapy but university to a small detail while the number of cases in israel is on the rise. after reopening . schools and enabling. places of gathering to thrive whereas 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 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 a lack of efficient trast seeing right now we are not able to correctly tracing

ever. single case because our a lot of cases and the 2nd thing is that because we are still in trial we are still trying to implement our new system for tracing and that is taking too much time that's again another reason why we see a rice. bran new in a developing news story authorities are ordering the evacuation of the entire area of allbery california amid record wildfires there. as sweden struggles with growing gang crime in the pandemic police want to expand

wiretapping to everyone even normal suspects to detect potential gang members right now we have at least 40 family based criminal networks in sweden so-called clans they have come soley for the purpose of organized crime we need a change in legislation that gives us greater opportunities to listen to encrypted phone people who are not yet involved in any criminal investigation without people who can be clearly linked to gang crime we know hope that all this telephone traffic leads to us clearing up more crimes than we would have done otherwise. at the moment swedish law only allows tapping the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison but these proposed changes would let law enforcement eavesdrop on people who are yet to be suspected of a specific crime or if it gun crimes a shocked swedish society even a 12 year old girl dying most recently in a math crossfire but citizens are divided over whether wiretapping everyone is the

solution. i think it is good that the police have increased opportunities to catch these criminal gangs for arranging freely in sweden they must find new ways to try can take them to court but i think a law that says the police can why it's a private interviews yours is too big a step to take this should be special reasons to eavesdrop on someone they don't see the risk for ordinary private interviewed salzberg intercepted in their private lives i do not think it affects our privacy we are already so monitored in any way with phones and other things so if this helps the police it's great not good not my style i do not like it it creates a great deal of uncertainty as to water ploys because you do not know when they can listen where when and how so i do not like that more power a state within the state integrity is most important because you never know what's going to happen in the future. i think it is quite good that the police have greater opportunities to incept i personally do not mind it but i think it can be

a great tool for the police to access a large part of the population and be able to stop some crime it's nothing that bothers me a human rights expert told us that however serious the rising gang crime wiretapping innocent citizens is not the answer. be not to use when it's. reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this year we have in sweden about the same number of killings. communities to create. those. kind of early here and also in the year previous to that so the problems here is how are we are not pretty mad really in my opinion the minister or this you believe it is sort of ablation it's a population which comprises device majority of the rents in sweden. and that has nothing to do we agreed giving them behaviors on and on they're going to strain to

deny these you or. community and won't even. ask for a meeting or 2 percent public study sticks where it needs to be of the perpetrators of the reno and vitamin d. it's could be. that's a wrap so far but with more just over half an hour check it out with get a moment to write a social media across the 247 to keep you up to speed with the latest for now kevin i would starting off for super tuesday. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that.

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