this drug dealer who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers. for opposition arrests in belarus says the country strongman leader alexander look at his defiant and says he's there to protect what's been built and his people. caught in a vicious circle as germany demands that russia investigate what happened to opposition activists alexina valmy with the moscow in turn calling on berlin to share its data in the decided to go straight to the global chemical weapons watchdog instead. pentagon unveils plans to scale back the huge military presence in the middle east as a shocking report reveals tens of millions displaced in the region by the so-called war on terror. and the oscars changes its rules warning only diverse films

will win best picture from 2024 but our debate found fury that ethnic minorities women l g b t q plus all people with disabilities have to feature. films like african-american women with minority who are not given a warrant at all saying great forest firmly that she gets what you want you can if you want it just saying let's see what kill a ruling. good morning from russia just to 9 am here now this thursday the 10th of september my name's kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. moscow with a brand new round of for you good to have you company 1st then a fresh crackdown on the brother was opposition sees 2 more high profile figures detained leaving the country's governing body with just one recognized leader at

the moment this morning meantime hundreds of women of rallied in support of another opposition figure held earlier kolesnik over dozens were reportedly arrested at the protest. was you know i. demonstrators held banners and they chanted slogans that maria kalashnikov or is the hero police tried to disperse the protesters when that failed they started to make arrests let's go live to see of say this will you again. controversially been arrested again yesterday and overnight bring us up to speed what's been happening there the. well there's there's no compromise here there is very little give in either side presidents you can be determined to hold on to power to preserve the state and the system that he has built over the many long years of his rule the protesters undaunted seemingly by the increasingly heavy hand of the

law as an example there's a spontaneous protest not 10 minutes away from us we set out immediately by the time we got that there wasn't a side that there had been just minutes before a violent confrontation so i'd mock that carrying big burly intimidating men in a mock uniforms without any visible identification fullface must shoot up they seized and tied up everyone that looks suspicious and it was over in me a minutes it seems that the better russian government recognizing the futility of trying to end these protests is now trying to contain them trying to restrict them to the weekends and that is when we will undoubtedly see tens of thousands of people marching down the streets of means against president. v. the fact that a prominent opposition member maria plastic has been arrested will undoubtedly breathe fresh life into these protests because she's

a member of the opposition good nation crowds which is at varying times stated different goals from securing a transition of power to merely organizing new elections fresh elections and she's facing very serious charges of trying to seize power which has a penalty of 3 to 5 years in jail. on the whole i reported to police my daughter's disappearance because there was already a video on the internet and there were a witness that unknown people pushed marie into a van and took her away was almost all the words on the internet i had been saying to him maybe you'd better leave delivers she always replies to me that she would stay until the bitter end and i didn't mind because i know her character and her responsibility. according to the official version of events the better russian government's version assume of opposition figures and members of the

coordination council of their own volition suddenly decided to leave the country if you osc the opposition and their allies that they give a completely different account they describe pressure psychological and even physical pressure to opposition figures being grabbed by the arm put into caused by security services driven to the border with ukraine of poland and told to scrabble told to leave the country and many of them have done so one has been arrested and now there is only one svetlana i think save it a prominent figure and in belarus an elderly woman a new book prize winner who is still free the only member of the opposition coordination council and she has found her apartment in you dated with foreign diplomats with foreign figures and embassy workers who have formed something of a human shield in order to discourage the better russian government from trying to arrest or trying to force her out and that is what the better russian government

seems to you know put they have put their money on trying to crack down on this opposition coordination council. the investigation has brought proof that some people from the so-called coordination council have committed actions aimed at destabilizing the situation in better roost and humming national security maria kolesnik over has been arrested currently all circumstances in the criminal case now being established. the situation here is precarious it is very very tense balance on the knife said and unfortunately with neither side willing to compromise you question who wanted to see the problem of protestors god the protestors wanting to see you shame to god and all it will take really is spot a little shove a little push to set this tinderbox alight and if that happens these fires will

bird heart and the ugly and that's the worry america thanks for the sort of speech this morning from minsk. my let's check some other news this morning the plot thickens in alexina vel knees mystery illness with the russian experts noting the symptoms are inconsistent with novacek german media citing unnamed sources claiming the russian politician fell victim to a new version of the soviet era poison ignoring moscow's calls to share the medical data passing of on these test results instead to the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. . the test results have been handed over to the organization for the perhaps mission of chemical weapons russia is a member of this organization or the diplomatic spot between perlin and moscow is heating up over what happened to alexina valmy the german ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow and which he's heard how russia is far

from happy and what it sees as accusations coming towards it about the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny a strong protest was made to the ambassador over the unfounded accusations presented by the government of the federal republic of germany against russia in the context of the illness and hospitalization of russian citizen alexina valley and the obvious use of his situation by berlin as an excuse to discredit our country on the international arena the g 7 leaders. have also issued a joint statement in which they talk about the poisoning of alexina valley the statement also calls up for action from moscow the russian foreign ministry not particularly happy with that they say that the main obstacle towards action being taken by moscow remains germany not sharing the information it says shows the next election in a valley was poisoned with a nerve agent with russia there's more to all our requests berlin has not deemed it

possible to respond swiftly and constructively a lack of information prevents the lore of force from using all the necessary procedural mechanisms to find out what happened. in this case is growing stronger moscow made those requests for information sharing back on the 27th of august and russia is unlikely to be very happy that this info is going to be passed to the o.p.c. w previously moscow it said should the hague based group be involved in this it would set amount to little more than any information campaign from the german government. from a just seen change coming to the oscars after years of criticism over a lack of diversity now any film hoping to bag the best picture gong from 2025 will have to meet inclusion standards one of the main characters or a significant supporting character must be a person of color for

a start at least 30 percent of the whole cast should be from an under represented group at least 2 off screen leadership positions and 30 percent of crew jobs must also go to underrepresented people and there has to be similar representation in the films publicised the marketing and distribution teams to under the new thoughts when it comes on claims that these ceremonies are overwhelmingly white movements against that of course have been growing recently a lot the oscars voting group has also invited more than $800.00 new actors and directors to push for diversity 45 percent of the new invitees were women and 35 percent representatives of racial minorities we put the whole diversity rules up for debate. you take a look around the world and you realize that for the most part. african american people terms with women leads minority leads are not given awards at the same rate and that only 15 people of color have received academy awards only 9 people

hispanic people have received can in their wives realize that there is just a cultural bias that exists and so in order to correct that we have to come in and address the issue of what the represents function is and so even if we have to mandate elders numbers it's just what's necessary if you go through history a lot of things that have been under represented on the shirt new people of ages. people of different looks in weeks for you to mandate whether self-imposed or my legislation but a mandate. require me a certain number of people based upon demographics is sheer. lunacy and an industry that is right now. i'm so glad well brought up the word lunacy because here's the work here's the truth of the matter we continue to

do what we always sent will always get the same result we've always gotten and why do we know we know for a fact that the grammys i'm sorry the oscars and other cultural organizations have consistently shown year in year out that they do not have the knack for being inclusive they do not without any type of coercion or force whether it's internal or external they do not consider people that don't look like the end in 2020 we're deciding that we want to get a little crazy we're going to follow the path looking into how we can include more people who have typically read on the outside that's not a negative then guess what affirm that. that is not harming the iranian air quality of taliban work. that is not the role of hollywood let me explain something to you if there is a good or or with good especially today irrespective of sexual identity key

shouldn't whether it's color if it's good it's going to work this is not title 19 this is an education this isn't you kid forced affirmative action against you unless you want to unless you want to just say no let's see what can i ruin now does adding one in a column just adding a minor person's bit of a marginalized community drag out take away something from the creation of the film because bill unlike what lots of creations are not just the concept of one person as my films are where we go to see the world around us when we're imagining a future where i don't want to looking at the past and can you imagine if i would say you know what i think we need to have more of a representation so i'm going to force a bunch of but people by virtue of their color into the n.b.a. or or or here or hip hop because i want to see more of a balance oh there's no guarantee of equality in music that's the way it is show

if it's good it's good and if it's good it'll sell or. french president amount of across as being bashed for removing his face mask of a meeting with students just as the country outlaws not wearing one in public to make things worse you know sort of a cough or unfortunately causing more than a few panicked looks for them.

the president coughs outside of his mines can stretch his out his hand to take and return a glass of water straight after no jail no hand washing what can we hope for can't stand the fabric masks which is sparingly distributed to teachers however he only spoke for 5 minutes with his what it teaches have to say you're forced to speak with one sometimes for 8 hours per day that the president is laughing at the world what are we expecting that the video to be broadcasted schools will be saying that should not be done. but just on the world brace maybe for a 2nd wave of the pandemic it looks like it mascot a rallying. reports on the political headache of the rising movement. masque so just look around on the streets of paris everywhere people are following the rules but what if you're one of those people who has

questioned the whole idea of wearing a mask all effective do they prevent the transmission of 19 and what if you're one of those people who doesn't just question this in private but has actually gone to a protest about that attack on germany's democracy protesters from a demo against the country's coronavirus restrictions try to storm the german parliament. this is how the mainstream media. and she locked down protesters has spent the afternoon terrorizing police in proceeding marches are ready to go by they will be made of people. people who think the coronavirus does not exist you know everybody goes to care for themselves. that's been backed up it seems by a study conducted via facebook carried out by the foundation it found that the

typical anti mascot here in france is a woman in her fifty's she's educated and supports the yellow vests she'd refused to have a corona virus vaccine if it was available and she believes in conspiracy theories probably has been the most politicized. in the may control and i think it's because it has a different meaning and between the politicians and the scientific i would learn 'd a lot of confusion among the general public but when it comes to mosques dig a bit deeper and you find that 3 of the 4 main reasons that respect. they gave to objecting to wearing them were not perhaps i'm totally unreasonable. they were mosques was breathing difficulties well while of course you can breathe while

wearing a mask some people have complained that when it's hot out all they've stepped up the pace wearing a mask isn't the most comfortable or experiences to they are a hive of bacteria well yes there is bacteria all around us and that's why it's recommended to wash masks regularly or change them 3 they are useless in preventing 19 contamination. is perhaps to live on this one i say that as there is still no consensus that a governmental level here in europe as to whether 6 or not race mosques are an essential to in combat in the spread of 19 so while in france and germany for example why did you sit your face masks has been recommended or made obligatory in the netherlands there was a short trial of mask wearing in busy cities was carried out that seems ended while the dutch study their effect if this sweeping of course went totally against the

grain of the country's top epidemiologist threw his weight behind the new mask policy saying this is very dangerous to believe facemasks would change the game when it comes to. even the w h which made a u. turn and is now recommending face masks says this we still don't know how much protective value fabric must have for the wearer that's why when you wear a mask you're protecting others and when others where the mass they're protecting you we're still in the midst of the pandemic in the past several months the medical and the scientific advice has been a constant. merry go round so is it so unreasonable that some people choose to question more i think because of the conflict conflicting statements

from politician and from the one health organization as well as from the scientific community quite a bit of confusion and uncertainty is in the journal public and that led to some not only distrust but also a bit of flaring up in the journal. and that has i think probably primarily contributed into a more aggressive 'd to work by aggressive behavior toward the face covering thursday morning in moscow how the good morning it's 20 past the hour this is r.t. international coming up britain's prime minister announces new restrictions after worrying spikes in covert infections i'm kevin but without so much more for you hope you can stick around. the a lot of misinformation amongst these new traders these robida traders they thought

they were getting free sharer somehow and it's really fascinating to see really learning curve amongst teenagers and 20 somethings about how stock markets work and you know experience is a great teacher and that usually means losing a lot of money but that's also a very good teacher. seemed wrong. well we just don't. get to shape out to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

37000000 people have been forced to flee their home in washington's war on terror in the middle east that is quote a very conservative estimate it's the finding indeed of the cost of war project by brown university in the us it comes as donald trump unveils pentagon personnel cuts in iraq the country where civilians have suffered the most open reports. the election is just 2 months away donald trump is now trying to create an image of himself as being a peace loving leader it has been announced that u.s. troops will be withdrawn from iraq in september in recognition of the great progress their recchi forces have made and in consultation and coordination with the government of iraq and our coalition partners the united states has decided to

reduce our troop presence in iraq from about 52023000 troops now the u.s. military presence in afghanistan is possibly going to be reduced as well down to roughly 4500 troops donald trump seems to be fulfilling one of the campaign promises of 2016 amid the lead up to the 2020 vote trump a spelling to take into account the real total cost of these military adventures from the united states according to one study 37000000 people have been displaced sense 2001 as a result of the u.s. war on terror and that is a minimum as timet because it costs and most wars there are so many politicians in america almost all of them have been complicit so we have simply put a weapons based economy and we forget about the moral and injustice that being caused to fit a 1000000 and

a half people were killed or the people who are displaced at 37000000 people or in fact that we've completely balkanized and destroyed africa the middle east but in the upcoming u.s. presidential election it's not really clear if these numbers will matter and will have an impact on the vote that determines whether or not donald trump stays in the white house a lot mom artsy new york however former pentagon official michael maloof forms the troops may simply be replaced by private mercenaries. i think it's part of the of a larger strategy on the part of the trump administration to have less less presence in individual countries and more in peripheral countries in the region in order to avoid certain attacks that seem to be occurring as well as what basically drove us troops out of our base in iraq i don't think you're going to see us troops

in a training or advisory role completely out and if they do come there will be a substitute and i'm sure private military contractors. are picking up a story brought us a look at this more sad development shocking pictures of these orange clouds from the fire from some of the worst ever wildfires in the west coast of the u.s. 6 people including 2 children reportedly killed on wednesday more than $2000000.00 acres have been destroyed so far on the blaze in the worst of fire season still to come. elsewhere the aftermath fires destroyed europe's largest refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos look at that footage showing what's left behind after the devastation that's left nearly $13000.00 people without shelter considering of course everything else those refugees have had to face of late. the rising covert cases among young people in britain is causing special concern

right now sparking strict new measures the prime minister boris johnson says he had no choice. i'm sorry about that and i wish that we did nor didn't have to take this step but as your prime minister i must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives the key measures burning gatherings of more than 6 people including indoors rule breakers will be fined coded secure events large and exceptions as well as work. as well ok partridge reports. it's all about a rise a sharp rise in coronavirus cases there sharply on the rise or the government's chief medical advisor chris witty he was also on there with the prime minister as well he said that the cases that come up rapidly over the last few days even and the rates are going up in a certain age group as well it's amongst the young people and that has been stately

rising since the middle of august position latest star but he also had a few sharp 7 words to say about the government's the you case test in-tray system and he said that it was on the verge of collapse what we're seeing now is stories over the past few days that is showing the testing regime is on the verge of collapse hard breaking stories from people who needed to been told no tests are available or the website is crashing or people are being told to go miles and miles for a test nobody can argue that this is good governance well this comes at due to the fact that the government would claim that they're ramping up testing that it's more widely available now than ever in fact more tests are being conducted in the u.k. than across the whole of europe but at the same time as well there's also been a survey conducted amongst medics about how they feel about having to deal on the front line with coronavirus and all of those 69 percent say they're more likely to quit from the pandemic and government treatment leaving 1143 planning to leave the n.h.s.

at the end of it basically we're looking at medics who think they're on the edge of burnout well the scientific basis for all of these measures that was highlighted by the chief medical advisor sick. early on he is the example of spain amongst other european countries he said that there had been a sharp rise there but if you implement measures to combat back then you can prevent what the long they've been anticipating a 2nd wave. of things looking the so so far this morning stay safe say well stay safe this is r.t. international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical daryn time to sit down and tom.

welcome to the alex salmond show where to take we look at the long term impact of the pandemic on mental health help t.v. psychologist emma can you give somebody tool tips on how to cope with the particular pressures of this unique year eyes what do you see by family health and are being joined by fear is about family finances and then no wonder parents are go as alex meets a group of very lively women we decided to tackle lockdown by launching their own online chat show featuring a number of special things including paul o'grady families and of course while i'm beverly knight all that's coming up in our show but 1st over to alex with your

tweets emails and messages. quite a reaction to last week's show on the big 4 thanks to dr frank honea a public health expert from x. to university who engaged online with so many of us and then not been julian says i enjoy hearing dr buying honey is views which are always thoughtful and considerate but elena says seeing the whole of the makers trying to be the quarantine plot gets me riled cain says it dumbfounds me as a warning period all it does is give people a chance to circumvent the public health measures and rafi says i lay the blame at governments myself they let it happen i s.s.r. says refreshing to have the topic of covert come up with solutions instead of speculation and money and therapists and says thank you for the great show of this monstrous talk about dr plank kamiya was listening to be less death in making noise .