more opposition arrested by the roots as the country's strongman leader alexander lukashenko appears defiant and says he's there to protect what's been built and his people. caught in a vicious circle as germany demands russia or investigate what happened to opposition activists election a valley with moscow in turn calling on birth to share its stated berlin though deciding nonetheless to send it straight to the global chemical weapons watchdog instead. the 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 in future from 2025 but our debate found fury that ethnic minorities within l g b t q plus people with disabilities after feature. films were african-american women. minorities are not get on board at the same rate you keep forest for she gets what you want you can if you want it just saying let's see what killer ruling. it out to do here now this is the 10th of september kevin 0 in here r t h q moscow with the round up for you for the next 30 minutes so you can stay with me to take you through those stories you heard in more detail a fresh crackdown then 1st on the. 2 more high profile figures detained leaving the

group's governing body with just one recognized leader today meantime hundreds of women of rallied in support of another opposition figure held earlier kolesnik over dozens were reportedly arrested at the protest. demonstrators held banas and chanted slogans that maria kolesnik over they said is the hero police tried to disperse the protesters and when that failed they started to make arrests a senior correspondent is in minsk he breaks down the developments. to compromise here there is very little give it neither side president if you can seemingly 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 lord as an example there's

a spontaneous protest last 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 and scary big burly intimidating men in a mug's uniforms without any visible identification fullface mosques shoot up they seized and tied up everyone that looks suspicious and it was over in me and 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 lukashenko the 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 the coordination council which is at varying times

stated different goals for securing a transition of power to merely organizing new elections fresh elections and she's facing very serious charges of. trying to undo fully seize power which has a penalty of 3 to 5 years in jail maria kolesnik of his father spoke to r.t. and described the circumstances of her rest to us in the case of the i reported to police my daughter's disappearance because there was already a video on the internet and they were to witness that unknown people pushed marie into a van and to clear away nice almost all the words on the internet i had been saying to him maybe you'd better leave bill averse she was replies to me that she would stay until the bitter and 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 if there are violations suddenly decided to leave the country if you ask the opposition and their allies that they give a completely different account they describe pressure psychological and even physical pressure so opposition figures being grabbed by the arm put into caused by security services driven to the border with ukraine or poland and told to scrap and told to leave the country and many of them have done so one has been arrested at this point there is only one problem at all position figure member of the coordination council that is still free that hasn't fled the country or being arrested and that is straight line to alex save it a famous bell a russian author winner of a new bell prize and she has fab her apartment in new dated with foreign diplomats and embassy workers who have out of solidarity gathered there to sort of form a human shield around head to try to discourage president lukashenko from making

any moves or trying to arrest her or force out and president. she mainly encouraged is feeling more confident that these protests haven't become captive cataclysmic haven't gone. out of control that steals something he can manage and they're just dragging on at this point which is perhaps why he's chosen now to strike at the 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 harming national security maria kolesnikov a has been arrested currently all circumstances in the criminal case of 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 can change it wanted to see the problem of protesters god the protesters wanting to see you be shamed to god and all it will take really is a spot

a little shove a little push to set this tinderbox alight and if that happens this fire will bird hart and the ugly. our senior correspondent in minsk amid the protests and violence in his country president look at shankar spoke to russian media including r.t. he claimed that now is not the time to quit as he needs to protect the country will have the most newsworthy bits of the interview in a few hours time and his words in full if you want to check out it was a one hour 47 minute interview he gave us on our website. given the earth watching all of this is very painful and even tragic for me but it doesn't mean that i'm giving up because i look at this philosophically some day god will cool me up there but now i must protect what has been built with our homeland protect the people who have built it and they are an overwhelming majority. also today the plot

thickens alexina valley's mystery illness with russian experts noting the symptoms are inconsistent they say with novacek german media citing unnamed sources claim the russian politician fell victim to a new version of the soviet era poison butlins ignoring moscow's calls to share the medical data passing of on these test results to the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. instead. the test results have been handed over to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons russia is a member of this organization or that 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 what cheese 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 hospitalisation of russian citizen alexina of only 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 confident poisoning of alexian of ali 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 annex alexina valley was poisoned with a nerve agent with russia this morning to all our requests berlin has not deemed it possible to respond swiftly and constructively a lack of information prevents the laura foresman from using all the necessary procedural mechanisms to find out what's happened and the rounding 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 that should the hague based group be involved in this it would amount to little more than an information campaign from the german government . reporting next a major scene change coming to the oscars after years of criticism over a lack of diversity now any film hoping to bag the best picture going from 2025 will have to meet inclusion standards one of the main characters or a significant supporting character must be a person of color 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 under represented people and there has to be similar

representation in the film's publicity marketing and distribution teams too but seems these new rules aren't popular with all actors. the change comes after claims of the ceremonies were overwhelmingly white as we've reported on often before also the movement against that's been growing of late again as we've reported the oscars voting group there's also avoided more than 800 new actors and directors in the push for diversity 45 percent of the new beauties were women 35 percent representatives of racial minorities who put the whole thing

this new set of rules for diversity up for debate. you take a look around the world and you realize that of her the most part. african american people terms what women lead minority leads are not given awards at the same rate and that only. people of color have received academy awards only 9 people hispanic people have received can 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 represent 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. certain people of ages shirt people of different looks and wait for you to mandate whether self-imposed or by legislation but a mandate shirton require me

a certain number of people based upon demographics is sheer. lunacy and in an industry that is right now. we know for a fact that the grammys i'm sorry the oscars and other you know cultural organizations have consistently shown year in year out that they do not have the knack for being inclusive 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 in government form that as a problem that is not harming the iranian inequality how can work. that is not the role of hollywood let me explain something to you if there is a good role 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 him but you want to and this you want to just say no let's see what can i ruin now does adding a woman of color just adding my one person from a marginalized community dry god take away something from the creation of the film people's films unlike what i saw for haitians are not just the concepts of one person's mind gnomes are where we go to see the world around us what we are imagining a future where they were 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 here or hip hop because i want to see more of the ballads no there's no guarantee of equality in music that's the way it is so if it's good it's good and

if it's good it'll sell and force. midday 15 moscow time world news in brief sad developments on the story we brought you yesterday at these pictures orange clouds it's shocking that's from the flames the worst ever wildfires on the west coast of the u.s. 6 people including 2 children reportedly killed in that on wednesday more than $2000000.00 acres have been destroyed in the blaze in this war months of it to come they worry now this is the aftermath fire destroying europe's largest refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos look at the footage showing what's left after the blaze has left almost 13000 people without shelter he said roughly there are video news agency against the odds not good the places they have to go to but to bring you the pictures and these are those pictures live footage there look this is what happens when you don't even have

a refugee camp to go to these people are literally out on the street with all their belongings in the world some of them with bin bags some of them pushing along we libyans. what can you say will european officials have reacted to the incident with sorrow german f.m. heiko mass calling the situation a humanitarian disaster has been comment on what may have happened here as well and confirm the greek government saying indications are the fire was caused after camp residents were informed some would need to go into mandatory isolation after $36.00 covert $900.00 tests came back positive it's a grim scene and of course it's grim for the islanders there as well we'll keep you posted on that no talking a coded. france next french president emmanuel mccrone as be bashed removing his face mask at a meeting with students just as the country outlaws not wearing face masks in public to make things worse than rather unfortunately get a bit of a coughing fit cause more than a few panicking faces to. the

president coughs outside of his mines constrictors out his hand to take and return a glass of water straight after now in jail no hand washing well can we hope for macro 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 are 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 as friends of the world brace for a 2nd wave of the pandemic maybe this seems to be happening mask skeptics are rallying r.t. shelob inskeep reports next on the political headache of the rising anti mosque movement. masks are just a 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 they effective do they prevent the transmission of 19 and what if you were 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 it will be made of people. people who think the coronavirus does not exist hundreds of vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists put their faith in science instead of conspiracy theories if they want to avoid getting covert 19 that's now being backed up it seems a study conducted via facebook carried out by those who enjoy his 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 coronavirus vaccine if it was available and she believes in conspiracy theory probably has been the most politicized. control and i think

it's because there is a difference. between the politicians and the scientific i mean. '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 respondents gave to objecting to wearing them were not by. ups and 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 the jury 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 or not face masks are an essential to in cotton batting the spread of 19 so while in france and germany for example why did usage of facemasks has been recommended or made obligatory in the netherlands that was 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 wear that's why when you wear a mask you're protecting others and when others where the master 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. some people choose to question more i think because of the 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 has i think probably primarily contributed into a more aggressive 'd behavior toward the face covering. that's france britain the

rise in covert cases among young people there causing special concern it sparked a strict new measures mr boris johnson says he had no choice i'm sorry about that and i wish that we did nor to 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 so a key measure is banning gatherings of more than 6 people including indoors rule breakers will be fined coded secure events and large households are exceptions as well as work in education settings but the country's already reeling from failures in the government's response is k. partridge explains. it's all about a sharp rise in coronavirus cases 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 among the young people and that has been stately rising since the middle of august position leaders like here star but he also had a few sharp 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 are seeing now is stories over the past few days that is showing that just the regime is on the verge of collapse hard breaking stories from people who needed 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 a future 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 $1143.00 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 success which he 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 that then you can prevent what along they've been anticipating a 2nd wave. 37000000 people have been forced to flee their home in washington's war on terror in the middle east quote is a very conservative ersten but it's the finding of the cost of war project by brown university in the us it comes as donald trump avails pentagon personnel cuts in iraq the very same country were civilians of suffered the most. kind of 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 there 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 boat trungpa spilling 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 asked

a mess because it cost and most wars there are so many politicians in america almost all of them have been complicit we have simply put a weapons based economy and we forget about the moral injustice that has been caused to fit a 1000000 and a half people were killed or the people who are displaced at 37000000 people or that we've completely balkanized and destroyed africa the middle east but in the upcoming us 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 it will mark them artsy new york wrap it up this bullets in the senate shot of the big array of stories we're across today if you'd like to see more check it out of a social media for now 27 moscow time it's kevin owen saying thank you for watching

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there from twitter and i want to talk about chasing stock splits with marks and king so i see them in my headlines today so i figure i'll name check them and talk about them 1st up we have a tweet here that says robin hood schwab outages last week linked directly to tesla and apple split the money ellison generation's ear on their robin-hood apps and their schwab apps and they're chasing these stocks splits max well you know i predicted that would there would be a problem it's like the millennium bug if i'm ever back in year 2000 there was a lot of fear that the computer systems would be able to handle a double 0 of the year 2000 and that proved to be not the case but in this case there was a problem in terms of the stock splits there were these robin hood apps and apple's already lost traded stock out there and so it split and so the the back ends of the .