in headlines issues to launch time russian opposition activists alexina vile needs out of a coma but no prognosis or proof from doctors of his claim poisoning still the at the kremlin is already being blamed with pressure to do it should give joy gas project. headlining to saudi arabia commutes the death sentences of those convicted in the 2018 murder of journalist jamal khashoggi rights groups are outraged noting those who ordered the killing aren't being punished at all. think you know they are. and the vast number of disgusting assaults the honest spits and often british police doubles during the

pandemic we've got a report coming up. then good afternoon it's just turned 18th of september here in moscow for marty's world news h.q. my name is kevin owen warm welcome to the program. first prominent russian opposition activist election of elm is no longer in a coma we can report 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 us president from already blaming the kremlin and hinting germany should end its project with russia the big north stream to gas pipeline. but i was in support of there was the 1st one to work up you know heard of it or stream to it or truck 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 into pressure on north stream to at the moment from berlin our correspondent there peter oliver next. blong before alexina 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 burleson 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 under 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 potential for least halting all stalling the project basically what it previously been on thinkable is now being talked about as potentially possible. into 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 . i think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening now it could have an impact on the projects the federal chancellor also sees it as room to rule that out 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 calm to

the moment because evidence and data that germany says it has regarding the poisoning of a lot of the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny hasn't being transferred to moscow without. that they can proceed no answer has been given to any official requests from the russian prosecutor general's office or to any of their 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 or 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 the bl stimuli meantime russia's foreign ministry has reacted to washington's call for berlin to ditch north stream to moscow believes europe should stand up for disown interests unless it wants to end up being america's puppet political commentator told us stopping the project is

going to hurt germany it's a catastrophe if this is being abolished because energy is the main cost for everything you do so if you increase the cost for your most vital product you need then you have disadvantaged in the rural economy so german economy will have no chance on competing in the world economy and that's exactly what crime once you want america 1st you want american business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on. possibility from poland because if the gas. 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 that is exactly what the americans with their polish partner once. a saudi court to scrap the death sentences of suspects in the killing of

distant journalists come on 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 islam the move. the saudi persecutor 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 in making sure g.'s family said they forgave his murderers much changed a lot had cleared the way for the revised sentences under islamic law but the journalist fiance knows commented on the trials calling it a complete mockery of justice the shoji was seized in 2018 while visiting the saudi consulate in turkey reportedly to get papers for his upcoming marriage the journalist was allegedly dismembered 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 other sons of bruno says despite the riff it make sure of the crime the west won't ensure justice. the fact that no official was tried. actually 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. only proves it or at least goes further into that direction countries that deal with saudi arabia diplomatic and business levels won't have any technical formal reasons to hold 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. to spread a mystery will try to unravel it a high profile member of the better russian opposition has been arrested on the

border with ukraine over an incident where a patrol agents life was put into range and it follows claims by his supporters that maria kolesnikov of the opposition's coordination council had been kidnapped by belarus security offices r.t. saskatoon it breaks down the conflicting versions of the events of the last 24 hours. well this is a somewhat strange and confused the story on monday news came out the red collapsed because of one of the horses opposition figures and a campaign partner of light last who will remember was defeated at the recent presidential elections was abducted in medics snatched from the street bundled into a van by ordinary madness many will say not in the evening the police filed a missing persons report and started an official lots of people one article came out consigned to 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 the. continued 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 2 others the southern border into ukraine are routes or. a video that about showing a car in which is claimed kolesnikov and 2 others were pulling up to the border i had to do that documents for inspection speaking to a border guard but that kind of rumor started that the 2 she was traveling with did manage to make it into great class because the didn't that she was arrested at the border something was florentines denied they say instead the class nicola never

crossed the border instead that she was thrown out of the car shown up there to go to the 2 others carried on into ukraine without apparently at great speed to drive dangerously mean luck classical that 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 on the better russian side have been arrested in ukraine though that has not been confirmed by. people who are regular contact with the 3 say none of them responding to messages don't know i say they have no idea about 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 talented to come last who fled to lithuania 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. so i can tailor

the british police this is pretty gross suffering from a large rise in the riff cough and spit attacks suspects are taking advantage of fear of contamination with offices in the midlands county of leicestershire particularly complaining they can't do the job properly because of what's been happening. you know what the court may intervene ya. the rise in assaults has 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 or the number of attacks has doubled there's been hundreds of cases in just months in leicestershire alone. barely $100.00 incidents in the same period last year but it's not just these spit and cough attacks as gross as they are assaults generally on law enforcement

a shooting across the board leaving stuff obviously nervous and unable to do the job as we've been saying this but a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during the lockdown almost $8000.00 cases nigh on have been registered in just 3 months for a police officer himself peter kirk and warns that covert nineteen's given suspects the whole new weapons against authorities. has provided. another way of people who would assault police by whatever method is available another 'd wife for them to get in into into offices. you know why i 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 in offices that we're seeing with the covert epidemic and the problem is the decades 10 years of an anti police narrative by the

government gleefully repeated by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just to follow up we saw . the place of being criticised to every turn a symptom of a problem this country is hard to develop in for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both number and in severity. this is art international face check in this lunch to know how does that hard to understand proverb go it's a nail when the blows nobody any good case in point tech giants are making profits out of the pandemic but now brussels wants a paid tax where across it after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be

successful very critical. to sit down in. i guess the covert catastrophe has been a boon for some with home video streaming companies reporting a massive surge in subscribers and profit they had a net flix even admits the pandemics been a lucky break for the company in fact every major tech players vastly increased earnings in the log amazon's revenue in the 2nd quarter up 40 percent making almost $90000000000.00 from online shopping apple's revenue increasing 11 percent to almost $60000000000.00 meantime streaming services like netflix talked about just now of doubled subscribers in just 3 months but the now face a backlash from the authorities from 2021 the e.u. is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers warm tech firms should subsidize economies damaged

so badly by these months of locked. 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 of economics professor richard wolfe believes that taxing tech giants is just the 1st step in raising rates for all big corporations. i think you've 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 that's what

a little take the tax the tech giants now 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 14 cities after a spike in coded 1000 cases that the new restrictions require businesses to close by 7 pm every day and ban people from venturing far from the homes in the evenings schools and colleges also have to be shut. the professional elements were and 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 treating corona and the hospitals 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 10 more city tailored 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 lead time protests against the government's handling of the pandemic of now and their 11th week over the weekend police officers were seen lifting literally protesters off the road and carrying them away as people gathered near the prime minister's official residence they're calling for but he will quit not only because of the coronavirus thing but also will result in going long running corruption trial the head of the immunotherapy lab at the university explain to us why the number of covert cases in israel is on the rise now. after reopening. 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 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 away beings 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 of efficient trast single right now we are not able to correctly tracing every single case. because are 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's again another reason why we see a rise. as sweden struggles with growing gang crime in the pandemic police want to expand wiretapping now to everyone even norm's suspects to detect potential going

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 they give there's 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 the proposed changes though would let law enforcement eavesdrop on people who are yet to be suspected of a specific crime or if it going crimes of shocks we do society and even a 12 year old girl dying in a mafia crossfire recorded but citizens are divided all that said 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 today 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 or else is too big a step to take there 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 that 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 what a ploy is 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 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 so mixed views their human rights expert told us that however serious the rising crime wiretapping innocent citizens is not the answer. criminality is when it's. reasonable concern i mean it 1st time for this is we have in sweden about the same number of killings. communities to create. those we had entirely bias here and also or in the year previous to that when so the problems here however are not pretty matter really in my opinion the minister or the civil liberties of the population 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 their gorman has trained to deny the seal or. community and won't even remember for

instance it has for media 2 percent public study sticks where it needs city of the perpetrators of criminal and vitamin d. it's could be. nasty seen say authorities have ordered the evacuation of the entire area or break california now made record wildfires. to the states finally found us clashes of racial injustice have become increasingly used by both presidential campaigns with protest is arming themselves for riots the

commons thing but both the donald trump and joe biden teams now even remind some of the cia style tactics as don't call to rick's planes. back in 2019 few could have even imagined that the run up to the presidential election would look like this. at 1st glance these protests might resemble scenes of random political violence but take a closer look and they seem like something right out of the cia playbook guerrilla warfare is the sensually a political war more specifically the cia's psychological operations in guerrilla warfare manual it was written back in the 1980 s.

to help anti communist fighters in nicaragua called contras their goal to overthrow president daniel ortega as pro soviet government and the cia recommended tactic on how to do it was to achieve a psychological victory through guerrilla warfare take a look at the slugging match is going on between the trump and biden camps and you get a similar picture. to me. watching we are not safe and down on the promise of america the hard truth is. you won't be safe with joe biden. and what does the cia say such stunts will accomplish. propaganda or improves the behavior of the population towards its author and it's not achieved by force this means that unarmed guerilla units in

a rural town will not give the impression that its weapons are a force that they hold over the peasants but rather that they are the strength of the peasants against the repressive government basically people don't usually mind if the armed to guerrillas are on their side which could suggest we'll keep seeing streets of rage for some time we have the one side. that will prob 11 after i trump maybe some other group of there who are there you thing with the means to put down the police you say bashers their race. and if you would in that direction on the other side supporters are looking at the rest. the violence that the during the bond out of the building that home. and the struction. thing this is

a means to control of manipulate people. to get people on their side i think if you change both sides both sides are used i think it's creating more division. more unrest unfortunately we don't have a real 3rd party to vote for and i think it going to go on till the election that unfortunately it may continue after the election. done hawkins is here just over half an hour it seems without coleman social media 247 you get a minute to check him out today reporting from moscow for now kevin i was signing off did whatever you do in this choose day i hope the day goes great. the world is driven by shaped by.

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