despite germany saying it's irrefutable the russian opposition figure was poisoned with the russian doctors who 1st treated him that's pure fiction demands proof. a senior figure of the opposition is arrested on the border with ukraine but amid differing versions of events president lukashenko shares his understanding of what happened in an interview with russian journalists. british government's handling of the pandemic has forced the state health service doctors to consider voting for a new poll and. think you know they are. so-called spit and cough attacks on

british police doubled during the covert health crisis. hello and thanks for checking in with the south your world news on called moscow in the headline stories this hour alexina valmy could not have survived if he'd been poisoned with novacek that's the claim of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he felt severely ill any 3 weeks ago peter all of a has the details. the doctor's the 1st threat 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 bombs that was 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 being 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 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 the german colleagues to share the data that they have that claim that it that he was poisoned with this nerve agent. of those when you might is not a diagnosis is 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 we're going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexina 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 an 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 angular merkel success so when she steps down as german chancellor next year he said that. 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 the north stream to pipeline that would have to be a decision taken at the pan european level at an e.u. level but what we are seeing is previously what had been unthinkable now being talked about as potentially possible is this i left my into tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do go with us 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 know 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 novelli 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 russians. it 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 results and the evidence in possession of the german foreign ministry it's time for them to show their cards because it's obvious to everyone that the n 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 berlin receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore it was just mention the nord stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning of a geisha and bottle trunks repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one of the earth up you know heard of the north stream to absorb drug able when i came along i said wait a minute we're projecting germany from russia right russia's foreign ministries weighed in on that side of the road as well claiming that europe should stand up for its own interests not become washington's puppet german political commentator i

gave a 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 maybe possibility 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 their polish partner warns. high profile member of the opposition about

a roost has been arrested on the border with ukraine and follows claims that maria kolesnikov a had been kidnapped by been a russian security officials people have been protesting on the streets of minsk this tuesday of a call and ask for those arrest crowds again waving the symbolic white and red flag of the opposition chanting let her go proclaiming kolesnikov a hero however there are differing versions of the events that led to the arrest of xenia patrik and i explained. 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 who are 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 op. the president decided to speak out in fact he was giving an interview to russian t.v. journalists and our editor in chief but get this in my now i was there so let me just say that on tuesday russian officials began saying that the authorities had to detain maria kolesnikov our as she was trying to escape the country through bell 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 the only could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov or 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 are 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 on our side customs officers border guards let them through further on is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts they were 8 to 9 kilometers and that our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped before 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 her hands would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the border office and the car 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 that they return them to us. what for they left they relatively speaking were released from booth you know they could not be detained they travelled legally with

documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint. border guards and customs officers did their job and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hit a 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 or lithuania not hungry as they usually go to but someone's relatives decide to leave them i can't claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we also 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 bell russian 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 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 bell russian president is saying that they are now detained there but like i've said connection with all these activists house 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 that the state will. continue to intimidate or allow intimidation of its citizens in increasingly lawless way and crudely violate both our own 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 our t.v. stay tuned for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with maria kolesnik and her fellow opposition activists. next physical assault on british police officers known as spit and cough attacks are on the rise with

suspects said to be taking advantage of fears of covert contamination. the court may intervene yeah. thank you. because 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 on the county of leicestershire alone the number of attacks doubled during the lockdown with more than 200 recorded in just 3 months that's up from barely 100 incidents in the last year but it's not just the spit and cough attacks assaults generally are shooting up across the board in fact there's been a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during the knock down of 2020 or most 8000 cases have been registered for the london police officer peter kirk i'm says the coronavirus is going suspects a new weapon against the authorities. has provides its. no of the

why of people who would assault place by whatever method is available another wife for them to get in insert into offices. in a 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 to follow every side of. the place of being criticised to every turn a symptom of

a problem this country has had to develop in for some time which is the sack someplace on growing rapidly in both number and in severity. all covert about a cloud over the silver lining for some the world's tech giants are making bumper profits out of the pandemic and the e.u. wants a slice of the pie we're going to take you through that after the break in about 90 seconds from now. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit. in.

seems wrong but. just don't. get to shape out the answer. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again the global pandemic has been described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix its profits have surged to cheering lockdowns it's not the only one either all the major tech plays

a vastly increased their earnings in the last few months imus and revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost $900000000000.00 apple reported an 11 percent increase to almost $60000000000.00 meanwhile the streaming services have doubled their subscriber base in just 3 months but these huge profits have not gone unnoticed the e.u. is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say firms like this should be subsidizing 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 like a the fin and of the web for economics professor richard wolfe he believes that targeting the tech giants 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 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. polls found a majority of british state health service doctors are considering quitting over the government's handling of the pandemic but the president of the u.k.'s doctors' association says issues have been building for a long time. i think what you have 0 is are and it has clearly been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them ham 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 contracts changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months or a 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 finance all of this was prior to us going into the end national crisis where the $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 today portrayed when they say from the government during the covert response most of them plan to get out within 3 years there's poor working conditions that have been highlighted in the list of complaints most specifically the main reason cited a considering quitting were a 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 have also been a warning that they have promised benefits have been revoked over the past few months and also that it's had a major impact on doctors mental health. ever since we've had in may depend on me and we've had these incredible times where people living 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 months it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about nasa if you were surviving on charitable donations and food banks but how to stop just because crave it came and just as you clapped for we deserve back as a profession and your home in a tax to serve better and that was what state that was really me the government though insists that its 3 percent pay rise office is good enough the 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 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 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 doctors 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 to 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 set. may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that the government considers the hard work of those true key kids within the n.h.s.

that 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 u.k. . fires are continuing to wreak havoc in parts of california with the state currently entering a wreck or he wave a district have now declared states of emergency as they battle the crisis. u.s. clashes over racial injustice being increasingly used by both presidential election campaigns but what's playing out in the streets is reminding some of old school cia tactics that on

a cold i explained. 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. during the war phase the centrally 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. it is happening under donald trump's watch we are not safe and downall from america the hard truth is. you won't be safe when joe biden is in there and what does the cia say such stunts will accomplish. propaganda 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 guerrillas are on their side which could suggest we'll keep seeing streets of rage for some time we have the one side. that are. pro b.l.m. an aside from maybe some other group of there who are there you thing with the means to put down the police and say from bashers their rage. and if you would in that direction on the other side supporter are looking at the rest. the violence that the during the burned out of the building and home. and the struction using this with a means to control and manipulate people. to get people on their side i think it's dangerous 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 ok that's it for me nikki erin's here in the coming hours with the stories we're tracking here an international she'll have your next updates in a little of the now from that for now that from a column right thanks for watching. the. problem drugs $10.00 come from unscrupulous dealers the from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it's invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain

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