that. was. defined germany's saying it's a refutable the russian opposition figure alexina vonnie was poisoned with norbit charge the russian got to see 1st treated him claim that's pure fiction while moscow demands proof. ideas figure out on the bell every small position is arrested on the border with ukraine but a bit different versions of events president lukashenko shows his understanding of what happened in an interview with russian journalists. the british government's handling of the pandemic has forced many state health service doctors to consider quitting according to a new poll and. don't. think you know if they are. so-called fit uncalled for tax on

british police doubled during the covert health crisis. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me here. alexei no bound they could not have survived if he had been poisoned with norbit chalk that's the claim of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he found severely ill nearly 3 weeks ago piece all of us has the details. the doctors that 1st try 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 speak 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 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 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 of being 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. 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 the north 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 go because i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not just of. 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 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 he is a cut 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 to result 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 that the un is bluffing in the interests and the political right could well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday he's understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shuttle hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore. as just mentioned the north strain to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations donald trump has repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas projects with russia but others supportive of that it was the 1st one of the worst of you know heard of or stream to a dog ever when i came along i said wait a minute we're protecting germany from russia. russia's foreign ministry has weighed in on the wow claiming europe should stand up for its own interests they're

not become washington's puppet jim a political commentator i can hum a believe would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on the 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 have like 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 their polish partner once. a high profile number of people have been protesting on the streets of maids kolesnikov his arrest counts again waving a symbolic white and red flag of the opposition and chanting elect go and pick a man kolesnik over a hair out of however there are differing versions of the events that led to the of refs parties are trying to explain. 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 opposition the president decided to speak out in fact he was giving an interview to russian team. journalists and our editor in chief i 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 belle reve his 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 there are 8 to 9 kilometers and there 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 well 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 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. it's reinforced posts in here to ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is that ukrainian or lithuania not hungry as they usually go to someone's relatives decided to leave them i cannot claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we also the ukrainian border goes 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 bel roofs 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 this season balloons continue to intimidate or low intimidation of its citizens in increasingly lawless way and crudely violate both their own domestic laws and international obligations now just gone back to that interview with the bell russian president mr look at 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 tuned for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with maria kolesnik of our and her fellow opposition activists. physical assaults on british police officers known as spit and cough attacks are on the rise

suspects are said to be taking advantage of fears of covert contamination. of course but you know if they are. on. 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 in the county have less to share alone the number of attacks doubled steering lock down more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months found out from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year but it's not just spitting cough attacks assaults are shooting up across the board there's been a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during lockdown almost $8000.00 cases were registered were registered for a police officer from london or peter coke and says they can run a virus has given suspects

a new weapon against the operating base. has provided it's. not the work of people who would assault police by whatever method is available another 'd wife for them to get in. into offices. you know why even 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 coughing offices that we're seeing with the coded epidemic the problem the decades 10 years i have and i don't see 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 criticized to every turn a symptom of

a problem this country is hard to develop in for some time which is the sack someplace all growing rapidly in both. severity say. 20 has here on t.v. while tech giants are making a profit out of the pandemic in the e.u. but if it flies up the pie well that's how you know talking through that off the bike. is you'll be dia a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura made in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us in the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back the global pandemic has been described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix his profits have surged cheering lockdowns and the company's not alone all the major tech players

have vastly increased the earnings in the last few months i'm a zone's revenue in the 2nd quarter was up by 40 percent to almost $19000000000.00 apple reported an 11 percent increase to almost $60000000000.00 meanwhile streaming services have doubled subscribers in just 3 months but such huge profits haven't gone unnoticed the e.u. is looking to introduce the digital tax european law makers 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. economics professor richard wolfe believes targeting 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 x. y. or 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. the poll found that the majority of british state health service doctors are considering quitting over the government's handling of the pond demick but the president of the other k. doctors association say their sales have been building for

a long time. i think what you have 0 remember is that our and it has clearly been feeling and how in broken short 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 contracts changes to our training that mean doctors knew 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 oxes into retirement all of this was prior to us going into a national crisis. over $1700.00 doctors took part in the survey 2 out of 3 say they're now more likely to leave the national health service due to poor treatment from the government during the coded response most plan to get out within 3 years

poor working conditions were high on the list of complaints the main reasons cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment others know they've been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics also warn they've had promised benefits were vocal and working on the covert front line has also had a major impact on mental health. services since we haven't made a pandemic and we've had these incredible times where people living dying and 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 let alone months 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 crappy for us we deserve back a profession and a home and a tax to serve better and that was what today is about and that was really me. the

government insists its 3 percent pay rise offer is good enough and prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the 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 virus we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for a front line 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 of these so 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 so. 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 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 strike in the u.k. . wildfires are continuing to wreak havoc in parts of california with the state currently enduring a record heat wave a district have now declared states of emergency as they battle the crisis.

u.s. clashes over racial injustice are being increasingly used by both presidential campaigns but what's playing out on the streets is reminding some of the old school cia style time takes on culture explains. back in 2019 few could have even imagined that the run up to the presidential election would look like this. because. 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. it is happening under donald trump's watch we are not saved and downall promised america the hard truth is. you won't be safe your job buddies are and what does the cia say such stunts will accomplish. propaganda or improves the

behavior of the population towards its author and is 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 wrong. they all 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. whole b.l.m. and drum maybe some other groups from there to there you thing with the means to put down the police and say fascist that or rape. you would in that direction on the other side supporter are looking at the un ref. the violence that the during the burned out of the building and home and

and the struction using this with a means to control and manipulate people. to get people on their side i think if dangerous and both sides are you 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 i'm unfortunately it may continue after the election. or national we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines for you the. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers the from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people

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sparking another f.a.a. investigation we have a lot to get to so much get started. u.s. and european drug makers are now pledging to prioritize safety as the main focus in the corona virus vaccine development will mine a leading vaccine developers made a historic pledge to uphold the integrity of the scientific process as they work toward potential global regulatory filings and approvals of the 1st coated $1000.00 vaccines well the companies include pfizer johnson and johnson and astra zeneca to name a few this comes as americans brace for a 2nd wave as experts print.