should be read literally. in the headlines this tuesday russian doctors who treated opposition activist alexei navalny dismissed germany. poisoning as fictional so doing it would have killed him within hours. points out berlijn has yet to provide any factual proof. most british doctors plan to quit the national health service using government failures in handling coronavirus according to a new study. thank you nothing yeah they are. a number of assaults known as spit on british police doubles during the pandemic.

from moscow thanks for joining us today r.t. international and daniel walk in this welcome to the program. russian doctors who initially treated alexina valley have questioned german colleagues diagnosis of knowledge of poisoning at a news conference the medics pointed out the opposition politician would not have survived let's go straight to our burden correspondents live in the studio piece all over thanks for joining us peter keep in the loop one of the reaction we have coming in hello. right well the doctors that 1st tried to lex in the valley when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing with him in clear distress he was making his way from siberia to moscow he didn't make it there the plane landed in homs that was where he received treatment 1st they've dismissed claims from here in germany in berlin where he's currently being treated that he was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent they say that had he been poisoned with such an agent he

would have died hours after the poisoning and been administered they say that they've carried out over 60 tests on alexina valmy while he was in their care they found no trace of any toxin now they say they've shared or made available the data from those tests they carried out they've made that available to the german colleagues they now saying the time has come for their german colleagues to share the data that they have that claim that it that he was poisoned with this nerve agent. of those but you know it's not a diagnosis it's not even a version but a sort of fiction of fantastical suggestion or conclusion with no proof documentation or clinical evidence he would have died within hours 6 to 10 pm he would have been dead because it's a severe poisoning going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexina of army recovers here in berlin the diplomatic fallout from the allegations of

poisoning are rumbling on with quite a lot of force the north stream to gas pipeline is seemingly coming under threat this is a multinational energy project that would. see russian gas pipes under the baltic sea directly from russia into germany now what we've seen previously is a lot of pressure and threats of serious sanctions from the united states on that project we've also seen criticism of the project from some of germany's european partners but in the past the message has always been this is an economic project it's something that sets aside from everything else that's going on in the world now what we're starting to hear coming out of germany is the likes of friedrich metz who's got a very good chance of being angle americal successor as chancellor when she steps down next year saying that if he had power right now he would put in place an immediate 2 year moratorium on nord stream to we've also heard in the last week

senior voices in the german cabinet as well as voices that speak directly for the chancellor saying that if things go a certain way the project could be halted or stopped altogether basically what was previously on thinkable now being discussed possible. is this i left my internet tough to 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 not really too should be completed. for folks i think would be room to room from the beginning but what is happening now it could have an impact on the project and the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong to rule that out. well the russian foreign minister is also being commenting on the lack of information being sent from germany to russia on monday we heard from heiko mass the german foreign minister saying that the greenlighted being given for information to be shared

we've now heard from maria's account of the foreign ministry spokesperson in moscow saying no information is being received and we understand that the german ambassador to moscow is being invited to the foreign ministry there to discuss this matter further. and marie is a kind of a pulling no punches really she went on to suggest that if evidence wasn't provided that this looked like no more than a a dirty political hustle is how she referred to it in the most recent statement but what she said is that so far no information from germany regarding the allegations made against russia concerning the poisoning of alexei navalny have been forthcoming. no nonsense has been given to any official requests from the russian prosecutor general's office or to any of the requests from our talk to nothing. well alexei in the valley is out of the coma that he had been in for a couple of weeks that was announced on monday he's understood to be starting to

breathe by himself as he continues to receive treatment at the shot at a hospital in burlington booked away from his medical condition say a big diplomatic spot is developing and growing and growing and growing it would seem concerning what happened to him and how he ended up in the condition he was there so many years and no shine of ending any time soon prints all over there live from berlin thanks for keeping us in the loop with an update. now as peter mentioned in his report just there the north stream 2 gas pipeline project is now in the crosshairs over these poisoning got to go despite a lack of definitive proof so far the u.s. government and the u.s. president has already blamed the kremlin and advised germany to end the going to project with russia. but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one to work with up you know heard of north stream towards our drug ever well when i came along i said wait a minute we're projecting germany from russia. russia's foreign ministry

has given further reaction to washington's call for bird interdiction or stream to moscow believes europe should stand up for its own interests unless it was so quote end up being america's property because it will commentator harm i told us stop in the project would 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 prime ones you want america we want american business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on her way from a possibility from poland because 'd 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 scrapped the death sentences of suspects in the killing of dissident journalists ashaji 5 people were given reduced terms of 20 years jail 3 others received from 7 to 10 years a top u.s. official has condemned the move. saudi persecutor performed one more act today in this parody of chao states 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. well and make a short use family so they forgave his murderous which cleared the way for the revised sentences on islamic law the journalist fiance has not commented on the trials calling it a complete mockery of justice because she 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 never found those sentences believed to have been part of the hit squad sent to turkey from riyadh political analyst alexandra bruno says the spot to her if it could 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 the 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 i do technical level there will be no sanctions or other penalties that will impede saudi arabia from working with other countries.

a majority of british medics planned to quit the government the danish su to government failures in the pandemic that's according to a shocking new survey. and you just doctors have come out of this battered bruised doubt that large number of medics you say they will leave is a shocking indictment of the government's failure to value our nation's doctors who have put their lives on the line time and time again almost 2000 doctors took part in the 2 in 3 say they are more likely to leave the national health service you to poor treatment from the government through a new code response most planned to go out of the n.h.s. within 3 years poor working conditions are high on the list of complaints the main reason given for wanting to resign is the lack of real time pay rises and protective equipment such as masks and gloves and others know they've been gagged

from speaking publicly about concerns but it's also warn they've had promised benefits revokes and working on the front lines of the pandemic is having see serious effects on their mental health. was he since we had in may depend demick and we've had these incredible time with moving dying struggling we've been separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years. it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about. surviving on charitable donations and how to stop just because it came in just pretty crap we deserve a profession and a home and it kept better and that was what. was really me with the government insists its 3 percent pay rise is good enough and prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital restructure over the difficult winter period well let's go live now to samantha but rawdon president of the doctors association u.k.

some other thanks for joining us the programs that are good to have you with us. so quite shocking this majority of doctors actually planned to quit i mean how bad must the situation be. thank you daniel and same to you very much for having us on this arsenal and i think what you have 0 remember is there are and it has colleagues has been feeling burned how in broken for many years now prior to them have demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our workforce including absolutely ruinous junior doctor contract changes to our training that mean doctors move every 6 months or year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions tax crisis which has forced many of our most senior an experienced experienced oxys interest highlands and what my colleague there one

of the nurses that you interview said was absolutely right in the video just before that nurses are having to rely on food banks and are really struggling and all of this was prior to us going into the air national crisis 1 7 7. and the government has said they've promised significant pay rises benefits more equipment protective equipment for frontline workers doctors nurses have people received or have these been empty promises. so the government have courage to an n.h.s. pay rise unfortunately and inexplicably that is not included junior docs it is frontline nurses paramedics and general practitioners who have mans the front lines of the n.h.s. during this crisis so we have not seen that pay rise across the board and you can imagine for and it's just after i have put their lives on the line who have been working every single hour of every single day to keep patients safe that really is a slap in the face and any morale that was remaining has has just been completely

decimated by that. there was a number of issues raised in the survey which which doctors and nurses had concerns with had issues with what's the brim the boasts the particularly difficult thing to deal with for british doctors in the pandemic has it been that lack of support the lack of protective equipment what's been the standout issue that they've struggled with. so i think what we can see from our survey is that a lot of doctors are talking about not being valued in that they haven't been included in that pay rise in that promises that were made to them such as being able to park at work or access to tea and coffee or even access to hot food out of hours and all of those things are already being taken away and this is despite the fact that we know the personal impact the true human cost of the huns amec on commissions is only just coming to the fore and now we really feel that our staff

must be more supported and looked after especially because we feel that there may well be a 2nd spike in the u.k. and so that's that's really where the profession is at the moment i think the other thing that came out of our survey was the number of doctors that have been really impacted by not being able to speak out publicly the pandemic now we've seen in this country that actually many journalists were not allowed to film in hospitals we're not allowed to see just the hospital staff in that doctors were being actively told not to speak up and social media and indeed to the press so there was a bit of a disconnect between what the public was seeing and what frontline n.h.s. staff are seeing and i think that's meant in many cases that frontline doctors and indeed nurses who were struggling did not have that support from the public and perhaps didn't have the support from well meaning family and friends who wanted to help but we're just not aware of how how truly bad things were on the front line in

some ways there she was a sort of always been outside politics in the sense that everyone supports an issue as was to protect the n.h.s. values the work you do and the government has applauded them as well remember the support of doctors campaign it was a few weeks a few months ago the uproar that cetera given what's happening in reality what you're saying is this a case of more sort of words than actions to score political points do you think. i think that's exactly right daniel n.h.s. staff found it very very difficult to see the government having a way every thursday on on the steps of number 10 while not putting their money where their mouth is so to speak and we've seen not just a few months ago doctors and nurses were being called n.h.s. heroes as though it's happening every weekend all of a sudden all of that has just seemingly be forgotten and i think many doctors and nurses feel very abandoned by the government's decision. if so many doctors actually do plan to quit or at least are seriously considering quitting the us what

sort of impact is that going to have on the national health service. well clearly it's a very we know that the n.h.s. was very much understaffed and under resourced going into this pandemic and i have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this fire s. we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for frontline and it's just stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many docsis leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans alisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more of a worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd said maybe coming within the u.k.

so what we're asking is that the government can sit is the hard work of those troops within the n.h.s. they show them how much they're valued and they really are carted them to retain them in the n.h.s. especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the. such an important issue to resolve especially given circumstances samantha but wrote i'm president of the doctors association u.k. thank you for coming on the program today and thank you to your colleagues for the work you do thank you. making profits out of the pandemic now brussels wants them to pay more tax that's just what we have lined up for you right after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday

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the program the bush police suffering for more laws rise in horrific assaults lowness cough and spit attacks suspects are taking advantage of fear of contamination with offices in the middle and county of leicestershire complaining they call and do their jobs properly. thank you nothing. yeah they are there. 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 now the number of such attacks has doubled in recent times there have been hundreds of cases in just months in leicestershire alone that's up on barely $100.00 incidents in the same period last year that's not

just spitting cough attacks though assaults on law enforcement of shooting up across the border leaving staff nervous there have been a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during blocked are almost $8000.00 cases have been registered in just 3 months before police officer peter kirk a war that covert 19 has given suspects new weapons against the authorities coded academic has provided. another way of people who would assault police by whatever method is available and other why 'd for them to get in 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 government gleefully repeated by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just if i believe so. the police have been criticized to every turn 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 in severity. or the covert catastrophe has been a boon for some with home video streaming companies reporting a massive surge in subscribers and profit the head of netflix even admits the pandemic has been a lucky break for the company in fact every major tech player has a vastly increased earnings in the lockdown hours and revenue is in the 2nd quarter is up 40 percent making almost $90000000000.00 from online shopping apple's revenue

increased 11 percent to almost 60000000000 meanwhile streaming services such as netflix have doubled subscribers in just 3 months. well face a backlash from authorities from 2021 the e.u. is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers want tech firms should subsidize economies damaged 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. professor richard wolfe believes that taxing texture at sea is just the 1st step to raising rights for own 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 if they exploit 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 highly monopolized and overly wealthy corporations. or thirty's i've ordered the evacuation of the entire area of all worry california i made that record wildfires.

sweeting the struggles with growing gang crime in the pandemic police want to expand wants having to everyone even at non 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 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. now at the moment swedish law only allows tapping the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison proposed changes would let law enforcement eavesdrop on people who are yet to be suspected of a specific crime or if it gun crimes of shocks would have society with even

a 12 year old girl dying in a mafia crossfire citizens though are divided over whether wiretapping everyone is the solution. i think it is good that the police have increased opportunities to catch this criminal gangs that are ranging 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 interview 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 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 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 earlier however serious the rising gun crime wiretapping innocent citizens is not the arts. it's. reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this year we have in sweden about the same number of killings. community secret. those we had entirely bias here and also in the year previous to that so to produce heaters however are not pretty matter really in my. minister to see the leader of the sort of the relation. relation we from prices devise majority of the rents in sweden. and that has nothing to do we grieve given them behaviors on

and on they're going to deny these you or. criminality and won't even. ask for a median 2 percent public study sticks where is this is the of their perpetrators of criminal and biden would be. up next thought a documentary a 2 year investigation documents and decipher the growing powell international arbitration courts and multinational companies back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines join us again that.

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