by germany saying it sirrah fusible the russian opposition figure alexina valmy was poisoned with noble russian doctors who 1st treated him claimed that's pure fiction on moscow demands proof. the senior figure of the position is arrested on the border with ukraine but amid differing versions of events president shares his understanding of what happened in an interview with russian journalist and. british government's handling of the pandemic has forced many state health service doctors to consider quitting according to a new poll and. so forth cooper thank you nothing yeah. so-called spits and cough attacks on

british police during the covert health crisis. live on worldwide bases r.t. international welcome to his house headline news and reaction with me colum bright 1st alexina valmy could not have survived if he had been poisoned with novacek that's the claim of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he fell severely ill 2 weeks ago peter all about has the details the doctors the 1st trust the likes in the valley when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing with him in clear distress you was making his way from siberia to moscow he didn't make it there the plane landed in way 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. poisoned with such an agent he would have died

hours after the poisoning and been administering it they say that they've carried out over 60 tests all 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 well you know it's not a diagnosis it's not even the version but a sort of fiction 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 good because it's a severe poisoning we're going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexei in the valleys condition has improved he's been taken out of a medically induced coma that he'd been in for just over 2 weeks and we understand

that he is starting to breathe on his own again a diplomatic route over the whole incident continues to rumble on and is gaining momentum and right in the crosshairs of that diplomatic row is the north stream to gas pipeline the project that would see russian gas pump directly from russia into germany now this has been something this has had its critics for a long time the united states has threatened crippling sanctions against it some of germany's own european partners have been quite vocal critics of the north stream to pipeline project however as far as germany has been concerned in the past this is something that's in economic project and it's set aside from everything else that may be going on however what we are starting to see is perhaps that mood may be changing in fact friedrich metz who is a man who has a pretty good chance of being angle americal success so when she steps down as german chancellor next year he said. it's well if he had the power now he would be

placing an immediate 2 year moratorium on the infrastructure project while we've heard from senior cabinet figures here in berlin in the last week and also suggesting that the project may well be suspended or even cancelled angela merkel herself though has limited what she's have to say to this wouldn't be a unilateral german decision to pause or cancel an old stream to pipeline that would have to be a decision taken at the pan european level at an e.u. level what we are seeing is previously what had been unthinkable now being talked about as potentially possible is this i left my internal tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do as i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not. i think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening now you could have an impact from the projects the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong

to rule that out the german side of said the future of nord stream 2 depends on how russia responds to accusations of poisoning against alexei in the valley now from the russian side we've heard quite a lot on tuesday coming out of the foreign ministry we heard on monday that requests for information from moscow to berlin would be met that heiko must the german foreign minister had greenlit the process that would see information transferred over to russia however what we're hearing from the russian side is nothing is being forthcoming just yet we understand the german ambassador to moscow has been invited to the foreign ministry to discuss this matter further maria's account of the russian foreign ministry spokesperson says they've received no information so far from germany and the starting to really want some answers to their requests we expect burden to provide all the data they have to the bundeswehr about. and the evidence in possession of the german foreign ministry it's time for

them to show their cards because it's of this to everyone the is bluffing in the interest and due to political racket well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday's understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in receiving treatment at the shallots a hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore when i was just mention the north stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations donald trump repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia but others supportive of there i was the 1st one of the worst up you know heard of the north stream to absorb drug. when i came along i said wait a minute we're protecting germany from russia. russia's foreign ministry's weighed in on the route claiming europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washington's puppet german political commentator i go hey

about believes the berlin would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on north stream. it's a catastrophe if this pipeline 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 ones you want america 1st he wants american business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on many possibilities from poland because 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 the polish partner once. a high profile member of the opposition and by the roofs has been arrested on

the border with ukraine and follows claims that maria kolesnikov a had been kidnapped by better russian security officials people have been protesting on the streets of minsk over a columnist with the rest crowd began waving the symbolic white and red flag of the opposition and chanting let her go and proclaiming kolesnikov a hero however there are differing versions of the events that led to the arrest of the protests explains. bella is in turmoil after the election won by alexander lukashenko the opposition claims that the election was fraudulent and on monday a senior opposition figure maria kolesnik of all along with 2 other men of war opposition members as well disappear they couldn't be reached by phone and their whereabouts are unknown and after pretty much 24 hours of conflict reports many rumors then statements on behalf of the authorities and the supporters

of the opposition the president decided to do. speak out in fact he was giving an interview to russian t.v. journalists and our editor in chief but i got this in mind and was there so let me just say that on tuesday russian officials began saying that the authorities had to detain maria kolesnikov are as she was trying to escape the country through bel rufus's southern border with ukraine because she broke the law while trying to do that now what you are about to hear right now are the latest statements by the russian leader alexander lukashenko this is how he explained what he knows so i think that only could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov where is she. i probably cannot give you much detail due to the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends who were drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed

their passports and customs officers border guards let them through for their own is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts they were 8 to 9 kilometers and their border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped they froze the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move on the run. so they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out border guards of course detained has would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the border office and the co went across the ukrainian border through the ukrainian post and then as far as i'm now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so they returned them to us. what for they left the relatively speaking were released from the truth you know they could not be detained they travelled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the border

guards and customs officers did their jobs and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hit the ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is it ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to someone's relatives to said to leave them i cannot claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we asked the ukrainian border guards to return the others to our country we will investigate what happened so just let me repeat these were the latest updates from the bell russian leader alexander lukashenko who was trying to explain this very complicated story from the side of the bell russian government so once again the belorussian authorities are calling this an attempt to flee the country by maria kolesnikov after she was thrown out of the vehicle and they're saying that the people inside the vehicle

were not following the orders by the border guards but i can tell you that the a bill russian opposition have their side of the story and they are providing. a totally different version of events according to the anti-government activists america lessening of what the 2 other men were abducted somewhere else in belarus and then were deliberately taken to the border to. be kicked out of the country but in order for that not to happen maria kolesnik allegedly decided to tear up her passport and that made it impossible for her to go through the border to get into ukraine although as far as i understand the other men were able to enter ukraine the bella russian president is saying that they are now detained there but like i've said connection with all these activists house has been lost so again a very complicated story but what i can tell you is that the reaction from europe

house has been simple they do not trust the bell russian government and without hearing their side of the story they decided to come out with threats and here is one example of that it is clear the. continued to intimidate or allowance imitation of its citizens in an increasingly loyalist way and crudely violate both domestic laws and international obligations now just gone back to that interview with the bell russian president mr lucas shank oh i can tell you that there was a lot to talk about of course and soon that conversation will be available on r t stay tune for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with maria kolesnik and her fellow opposition activists. next physical or sold so on british police officers known as a spit and cough attacks are on the rise suspects are said to be taking advantage

of fears of covert contamination of some offices in the county of leicestershire claiming that they can no longer properly carry out that duties. according to enough yeah. thank you. thank you the reason is sold has huge impacts on stuff both physically and mentally and it has a huge impact on communities thousands and thousands of days of policing lost because of these assaults. well in a county of less this year alone the number of attacks doubled during lockdown more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months that's up from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year but it's not just the space and cough attacks assaults the shooting up across the board there's been a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during the lock down of 2020 almost $8000.00 cases have been registered for the london police officer peter kirk and

says the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon against the authorities. as provides it's. the why of people who would assault police by whatever method is available another wife for them to get. 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 and 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 the fall of. the place of being criticized to every turn a symptom of

a problem this country has had to develop in for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both. severity. 60 minutes past the hour good to have you with us plenty ahead here on our tape the wall tech giants are making a bumper profits out of the pandemic and he wants its slice of the pie we'll take you through that after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. we're entering into this strange space you know i think about in the ninety's in

the beginning of perpetual copyright and so are copyright essentially laws become perpetual and intellectual creativity is dead and to a large degree now after petrol live at home so the dynamism that would be coming with new household creation is dead and to a large degree. perpetual all money printing money and money prichard o'berg so we have this deadening of economic growth because the printing money keeps the zombie companies and the zombie banks alive so we're we're basically burying ourselves in perpetuity.

the global pandemic spring described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix its profits of surged to during lockdowns the company is not alone either all the major tech plays a vastly increased their earnings in the last few months revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost $900000000000.00 apple reported an 11 percent increase to almost $60000000000.00 meanwhile streaming services have doubled subscribers in the last 3 months these huge profits have not gone unnoticed the e.u. is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say such firms should subsidize economies crippled by lockdowns. 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 finance of the web for economic professor richard wolfe he

believes the targeting the tech giant is just the 1st step to raising 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 if that's what a little take the tax that 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. the ramifications of 2020 a poll has found that a majority of british state health service doctors are considering quitting over the government's handling of the pandemic for the president of the u.k.

doctors association says the issues have been building for a long time. i think what you have serious is that our n.h.s. colleagues have been feeling and how in broken in many years now prior to them how demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our trust including absolutely ruinous junior docs and contracts changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months so we hear around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions taps crisis which has forced many of our most senior inexperienced experience starts its interest high and all of this was prior to us going into a national crisis. $700.00 doctors took part in the survey and 2 out of 3 of them say they're now more likely to leave the national health service because of the poor treatment from the government during the copd response most plan to get out

within the next 3 years poor working conditions were high on the list of complaints from them as well the main reasons being cited for considering quitting the lack of pay rises and also a lack of protective equipment others know that they've been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics are also warning that they promised benefits over the past year have been revoked and also working on the code front line has had a major impact on their mental health. services since we've had in many different demick and we've had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling we've been separate for our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone well it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about math if he were surviving on charitable donations and fear that have a stop just because crave it came in just pretty crap we deserve back.

professionally a home and a tax to serve better and that was what today is about that was really me. the government insists that 3 percent pay rise offer is good enough prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the upcoming difficult winter period we know that the n.h.s. was very much just often under resourced going into this. i have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this fire s. we had 10000 vacancies forward doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for the frontline and it's our 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 that lisa 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 may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that the government considers the hard work of those true key workers within the n.h.s. they show them how much their needs and their greedy are carted them to retain them in the n.h.s. especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the u.k. a gang related crime has been on the increase in sweden during the pandemic and to fight back police there want to expand wiretapping to everyone 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. well as things stand swedish lauren allows the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison to be tapped the proposed changes would permit eavesdropping on those not under any specific suspicion horrific crimes of shock swedish society lately a 12 year old girl was killed recently after being caught in mafia crossfire but citizens are divided over whether wiretapping everyone is the right solution. i think it is good that the police have increased opportunities to catch these criminal gangs that are arranging freely in sweden to join the march for 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 the wiretapping innocent citizens is not the answer to growing gang crime. well you know. it's. reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this is we have in sweden about the same number of killings. communities to create. those entirely by sea air and all sorts in the year previous to that one so the problems

here however are not pretty matter really in my opinion i mean as to this you believe it these other populations it's a population which comprises device majority of the rents in sweden. and that has nothing to do we greet given their behaviors on and on they're going to strain to deny or. community and won't even remember 3 times for median 2 percent public study sticks where it needs city of their perpetrators of criminal and by then it's could be. before we go time to tell you about the fact that the wildfires that are continuing to wreak havoc in parts of california with the state currently entering a wreck or a wife a districts have now declared states of emergency as they battle the crisis. ok

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