i think. it's fine germany saying it the irrefutable the russian opposition figures like the nobel and he was poisoned with not a child the russian doctors who 1st treated him play non-secure fiction while most scary demands proof. that syria think of the bell or was opposition is arrested on the border with ukraine but of a differing versions of events president bush and co shares his understanding of what happened in an interview with russian journalists. supporters' government's handling of the pandemic has forced many state health service doctors to consider quitting according to a new poll also. the record thank you note that ya'll. so called spit and pop attacks on

british police doubled during the covert health crisis. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me and karen in our top story 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 nearly 3 weeks ago peter all of that has the details the doctors that 1st trust the legs 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 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 being 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 when you know it's not a diagnosis it's 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 feasible 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 until a miracle. 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 with us i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not just to. i think would be room through from the beginning but what is

happening know you could have an impact from the projects that the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong to rule that out the german side have 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 folk white 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 mass 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 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 burden is bluffing in the interests and due to political record well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday he is understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore. as just mentioned the old 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 and other supporters there was the 1st one of the worst up you know heard of north 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 route claiming europe should stand up for its own interests to

not become washington's puppet jim a political commentator i could harm or believe in 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 what 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 member of the opposition in belarus has been arrested on the border with ukraine and follows claims maria kolesnik over had been kicked out by then ever since security officials people have been protesting on the streets in minsk over kolesnikov as a rest to gain weight in a symbolic white and red flag of the opposition and chanting let her go and proclaim in kolesnik proclaiming kolesnik a hero however there are differing versions of the events that led to the arrest of trying to explain. belarus 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 kolesnikov 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 the. 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 t.v. journalists and our editor in chief but get 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 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 the relatively speaking of were

released from booth you know they could not be detained they traveled legally with documents but they. violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the 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 the ukraine and 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 not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to but someone's relatives decide to leave them i cannot 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 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 react. in from europe house 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. continued 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 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 kolesnikov 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. thanks to. 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 and a county of less to share 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 spit and cough attacks assaults are shooting up across the board there's been a 21 percent jump in attacks on british police during lockdown i was the 8000 cases

were registered for london police officer peter kirk i'm safe the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon a great seal 38. coheed epidemic has provided. another why of people who would assault place by whatever method is available another 'd wife for them to get in into into offices. you know why i feel will be more imperative just a moment. is just provided them with another weapon really the issue is why do than just the spitting spitting coughing offices that we're seeing with the covert epidemic 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 sound. the place of being criticised every. symptom of a problem this country is out developing for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both number of areas a. plenty ahead terror not taking clearing the world tech giants making bumper profits out of the pandemic of aids you want it slice of the pie or take you through that after the break. the global pandemic had been has been described as a look lucky break by the boss of the video streaming netflix its profits have surged steering lock downs on the company's loss alone all the major take players have a vastly increase that earnings in the last few months and muslims revenue in the

2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost $900000000000.00 apple reported an 11 percent increase to 2 almost $60000000000.00 or meanwhile streaming services have doubled subscribers in just 3 months this has huge profits haven't gone unnoticed a year 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. 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 x. well it'll 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. a poll found that 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 say this is a been building for a long time. remember is are and it has colleagues has been feeling burned how in broken short many years now prior to them harmed 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 move 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 inexperienced experienced oxes into retirement all of this was prior to us going into a national crisis have a 1700 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 covert response most planned to get out within 3 years or poor working conditions were high on the list of complaints the main reason cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment there's no they've been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics also warn they've had promised

benefits revoked and working on the covert front line has also had a major impact on mental health. ever since we've had him a different demi and we've had these incredible times with people 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. surviving on charitable donations and family trying to have a stop just because it came and just pretty crap for us we deserve back as a profession and home and a test deserved better and that was what stage that was really me the government insists its 3 percent pay rise office is good enough and prime minister barak 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 fire it's we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for the front line 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 he said who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more who worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd sads may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that government consent is the hard work if those troops within the n.h.s. they show them how much their families 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. . 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. i. u s clashes over racial injustice are big being increasingly used by both presidential campaigns but was playing out on the streets is reminding some of the old school cia style tactics donald quarter explains. back in 2019 few could have even imagined that the run up to the

presidential election would look like this. at 1st glance these protests might resemble scenes of random political violence but take a closer look and they seem like something right out of the cia playbook. guerrilla warfare is essentially a political war more specifically the cia's psychological operations in guerilla 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 down from america the hard truth is. you won't be safe you joe biden senator and what does the cia say such stunts will accomplish. propaganda or improves the behavior of the population towards its author and it's not achieved by force this means that unarmed guerilla units in a rural town will not give the impression that its weapons are a force that they hold over the peasants but rather that they are the strength of

the peasants against the repressive government basically people don't usually mind if the armed guerrillas are on their side which could suggest we'll keep seeing streets of rage for some time we have the one side. that will roll below and fight maybe some other groups in 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 unrest. the violence that the during the burned out businesses and buildings and homes. and the struction using this as a means to control and manipulate people. to get people on their side i think it's dangerous both sides both sides are using 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 you say your thoughts on today's stories by following us on social media and making a comment back at the top of the hour.

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