china. on this edition of the program. separate this. protests continue and valorous neighboring with the way mia ways and also people declaring alexander lukashenko his presidency in a just a moment on courting on world policy to recognize his voice as the rightful russian media. pool in a vicious cycle as job any demands russia investigates what happened to opposition activists aleksey in the fall need sco in time calls on by the end to shut its day to the job he sent it straight to the global chemical weapons watchdog in stats. and the e.u. threatens legal action against britain if it goes ahead with legislation that would override the brics it to full steel but the british government says it will not

back down despite your admitting the bill would indeed breach international rules. bring you news every hour of the day this is national i'm going to join us this. story for you the lithuanian parliament has passed a bill. wild powers to recognize the opposition need to embarrass the rightful president this comes off to a month of on rest in the country following president contested election victory. in the capital kiev breaks up all the details. it's still tense here and means we haven't seen today the kind of violence the crackdowns that we saw in previous days but what we lacked in developments here we saw internationally with this coming out

surprisingly declaring the winner of the election the contested election last month declaring lucas a rival. who had earlier fled the country the lithuanian parliament calls on the international community to support the demand from straight line a 2nd of ska the leader elected by the belorussian people and from the coordination council established at her invitation as the only legitimate representatives of the pollution people for holding new transparent and democratic presidential and parliamentary elections. we call on the international community to consider any domestic or foreign policy action by the illegitimate leaders billy reese alexander lukashenko aimed at legitimizing his power and conclude new agreements with russia which restrict the sovereignty of the belarusian people to be a crime against his people surprising not only because lithuania is the 1st country to recognize. rivals for. as the legitimate president of better us but also

because there have been very mixed messages coming out of the european union with regards to for example sanctions whether that be sanctions against president bush. and his followers whether that be that recognize him as the legitimate president of the us and you know what foreign policy approach they would now assume towards belarus we do not recognize him as the legitimate president nor do we recognize nicolas maduro from this point of view maduro and lucas shank are in exactly the same situation we do not recognize that they have been legitimately chosen however whether we like it or not they control the government and we have to continue dealing with them despite not recognizing that democratic legitimacy the other surprises of course as you can also has turned about you've heard what she had said previously because immediately after the election after leaving the country even better was of heading to the european union she said that she didn't see

a political future for herself that she she didn't see herself running for for another election a 2nd round perhaps but that has changed she's now making very official statements out just in the people of. the people of russia the european union advising them all on what course to take geo political and diplomatic course to take with regards the president with regard to bellaver so she certainly sees a political future for herself now and is apparently determined to stay the course here in bel. as the situation nevertheless is still tense as i mentioned every day we have here spontaneous protest earlier today. a protest turned ugly with police and security services turning up trying to trying to break up out break up an answer to an anti-government protest the protests is in the church in the they talked and eventually both went their separate ways but they were upset

that a pro-government protest that happened behind me nobody asked them to disperse that they went on their merry way so as i say passions are high there's a lot of bad blood between the different sides the different cabs the. camp and the opposition camp and we expect big protests this weekend jim prescott unless traina roth believes lithuania would not have made the stack trace in support of taken off without the backing of larger powers. it's a signal that is being shown to look i think go and it shall show that there are forces major forces political forces behind lithuania because little you know wouldn't take such a measure which is illegitimate according to international law if there was no support by the european union or who knows that it states and i see this

as. not too intelligent step by lithuania it's too blunt because it shows clearly that the situation in. belarus is not only divided one side is also in danger of being taken over by external interests therefore i see it in political terms and not in terms of elections in minsk. poland in moscow are both demanding answers over the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure. in germany says it's handed over all its states all the case to the global chemical weapons watchdog but russia which is a member of the of course says that nothing's been received at jacksonville got more details from our correspondent on court. just seems like this political dispute over the alleged poisoning of alec saying of all me is entering its next chapter germany's handing over the evidence it claims to have to the o.p.c.

w in the kremlin has already said it's not happy about it. it looks like. but it's not. it's not the case. that he's having trouble sharing the information with us we have no idea what 300 over to w. . bush so this is basically the essence of what's been going on over the last couple weeks berlin saying davis stablished then of all me was poisoned and demanding that russia investigate while at the same time moscow's asking to see that that alleged evidence and which they actually needed to open a criminal investigation if there needs to be one and that just being ignored don't give our viewers a little background how did this all began well it started when the volley was flying from siberia to moscow in mid august 28th else seriously ill now the russian doctors who treated him in the siberian city of they said they didn't find any toxins at his in his system but when he was airlifted to germany the doctors there

said that they did in indeed find a chemical agent in his blood they say that it was not a chalk specifically a nerve agent that was developed in the u.s.s.r. and now that the o.p.c. w. is involved the whole situation really seems a lot more suspicious for moscow since the organization's words doesn't hold much weight with the kremlin if your p.c. w. is in deep crisis what with the. activities and the extreme politicization and this didn't take place just today is still a long time ago the practice of reaching consensus decisions has been completely forgotten and the organizations handling of the 2018 alleged chemical attack in duma syria was what soured its relationship with moscow on a number of inconsistency as were left on the. dressed and according to whistleblowers that came from the organization they said that anyone who dissented from within was silenced but nevertheless russia's representative to the o p c

w has said that the kremlin will be willing to work with the organization on this case senior politicians in germany are calling on the government to pull out of the north stream to project. case now the gas pipeline which will connect russia to germany is due to be ready by the end of this year the head of the job of parliament's economic affairs an energy committee believes that of bonding and now would be a disaster. north stream 2 is not putin's project it involves a large number of european companies and is designed to ensure the security if europe's gas supply to question this project now is to shoot ourselves in the foot it is certainly not in the interests of germany or europe if there is a decision to end the project companies will be able to sue those who made the decision in this case the german government and of course it will affect gas prices it must be clearly understood that this is not a game the pressure coming from the us is already enough in my view so we are

strongly resisting the american sanctions that have been imposed on companies and individuals involved in the pipeline construction this is against international law and we don't accept it i can see that many people who might not have fully understood the story thinking now will show them but i think it's completely wrong 1st of all we need to establish what really happened because i don't think germany knows i think we should respond appropriately to the russians request for legal assistance we obviously received such a request but according to the russians it is so far gone unanswered. around 13000 migrants have been left without shelter after the largest refugee camp in greece but the ground fire swept through the morea camp on the island of last boss and she used a greek officials say it was started by residents themselves the facility had space for around 2000 people but withholding more than 6 times that number and it was recently the focus of local anger after refugees failed to observe

a 2 week coronavirus lockdown the global migration displacement meet at the red cross says the e.u. needs to step in at a human that humanitarian crisis it's been going on too long and this is why during this morning the warsaw uprising we've been calling on all of that all think all this and including of course we use your members thing to do. to support her and reason in finding solution to what is in reality a problem that has been going on for far too long what we're asking is that people are allowed to move to the man. who. accommodated in safe location as much as possible. to clearly the most vulgar was such a high number of. the what we would like to see the european states member states from the e.u. . provide them or something directly here support to the greek authorities and

exploring opportunities for relocation of the last one. that's had stateside because president trump has pledged to reduce the number of u.s. troops stationed in iraq and afghanistan by roughly hoff and military officials say the soldiers will stop pulling out within weeks caleb 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 a lot of progress is being made in afghanistan but will be down to 4000 soldiers in a very short period of time likewise iraq will be down to about 2000 soldiers at a very short period of to donald trump seems to be fulfilling one of the campaign promises of 2016 i mean the lead up to the 2020 boat trump is failing 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 since 2001 as

a result of the u.s. war on terror and that is a minimum estimate because the cost and most wars so many politicians in america now 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 who are killed or the people who are displaced at 37000000 people or the 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. still out on arts or brits number osnos are on a collision course a front rack citrate kill the u.k. estimates what break the north on that story when we come back sorting.

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back now the european union has threatened to take legal action against the u.k. if it goes ahead with a new bill that would override the bricks at 2 full streets the british government issued an immediate response saying it will not drop the legislation despite your comment saying that it doesn't fight clash with international had woodstock state has the story. well it's almost as though the e.u. couldn't quite believe what was happening when it got wind of exactly what the u.k. is attempting to do so essentially the british government is trying to reinterpret the special arrangements made for northern ireland in the withdrawal agreement the e.u. would essentially say it's as if the u.k. is trying to rip up the withdrawal agreement that the u.k. and the e.u. spent so long trying to rectify and in turn the e.u. is saying to the u.k. you have a 20 day deadline to completely you turn on this they argue it's an attempt to

override the withdrawal agreement the withdrawal agreement contains number of mechanisms the legal remedies to germs of oil asians all the legal obligations contained in which the european union will not be shy in using so for the e.u. it's almost its worst nightmare they say the u.k. has totally broken violated international law they've also broken trust and also risks the future relationship with the e.u. too because they say of course this is an extremely bad violation of the very withdrawal agreement as well now it's all about the u.k. deciding as i say to try and reinterpret this special arrangement made for northern ireland almost essentially saying that ministers in essence can export declarations of goods from britain to you know all of the nile and while that might seem like a nice option on paper even the united kingdom is admitting it is a violation. in a very specific. power to disappoint your concept. choirboy

school for the very shortly before and so who's going to say so well brandon lewis is accepting a slight misdemeanor here so well of braverman the attorney general she said in response that the difficult and highly exceptional circumstances it's important to remember remember the fundamental principles of parliamentary sovereignity we've also got a government response as well to the e.u. saying that parliament would not be acting unconstitutionally and acting in the bill and it is allowed to. discharge its treaty obligations in good faith they would argue that the internal market bill is in good faith they argue it's designed to try to unify the u.k.'s 4 nations and therefore that is the crux of why they're trying to get this bill forward next week all m.p.'s will be voting on it they say that it is really designed as i say to try and unite the country so there is the argument there that maybe potentially that u.k. is trying to apply a lot of pressure onto the european union so that they climbed down on their

position as we know the talks are in a stalemate position so they're trying to maybe get some wiggle room to see if the you try and climb down on some of that demands having said that it's caused a huge huge uproar in many diplomatic circles and sending shock waves politically. the strategy and behavior of the british government was one of brinkmanship was one of threatening to crush you know if you don't if we don't get to an agreement we might go come because i knew that sort of thing trust has been a rule that. tension has been created so to have been created. that's not conducive to solid because. we didn't want to deal with any course britain to work with us constructively and find compromise is the interest of both sides any of them by britain's undermine the agreement would have serious consequences so this mission has led to an absolute torrent of criticism and weighing in as the former prime minister to reserve may of course has been

a very huge figure in the negotiations she herself says that this bill would undermine the trust between the e.u. and the united kingdom and that's a position that. the european commission president has also reiterated she says it does undermine trust between britain and the bloc but burning bridges with the european union may not be that much of a surprise but this political stunt seems to have further consequences because now we're hearing from across the pond the united states is warning london that if indeed this bill violates the good friday agreement well there'll be no possibility of having a post u.k. u.s. trade deal of course that's something that the u.k. is severely banking at this point in time but as far as trade talks go then between the u.k. and the e.u. over the last few weeks over the summer there's been very very little wiggle room we've seen a complete stalemate position and of course this certain controversial political stunt from the u.k. will only add fuel to the fire. strategists. warned that the

era of global economic growth is coming to an end and we're about to see some trusted changes to the way international politics is conducted. the world is on the cusp of a new era that will be characterized initially by disorder with the likely loosening of the globalization that created the rapid economic and acid price growth of the last 40 years the researchers believe this year marks the start of a new structural super cycle which has been accelerated by the pandemic that predict in the end this new period the u.s. and china will be knocked in an economic conflict reminiscent of the cold war governments and companies will become overloaded with debt europe will face a make or break decade and the world could see either a new technological revolution all of the opposite a busting of a big tech bubble. the problem is the stimulus from the great recession was largely

monetary stimulus a lot of it went into financial asset markets not into into the really commie now this crisis really is as collapse the real economy 4 times deeper and worse that it was the 10 years ago so it's going to take a massive fiscal stimulus which i don't see happening anywhere i see a lot of a month here is stimulus still but that's not going to produce a really strong recovery it's going to take years at least a decade perhaps to grow out of this if they don't really do a significant fiscal stimulus which i don't see. rounding off a 12 year old black boy in the u.s. state of colorado has received a police visit and been suspended from school for playing with a toy gun during an online class. displayed his neon green zone b.

hunter pistol for just a few seconds while sitting at home during the past conduct advise zoon his teacher reported him to the school principal one called the police without contacting the child's parents as i was suspended for 5 days and offices reportedly threatened to fall criminal charges grand mountain school has defended its actions citing the safety rules we followed old school board policies when we were in person learning or distance learning we take the safety of our students and staff very seriously safety is always our number one priority the american civil liberties union called the schools actions wrong on so many levels it said the criminalize ation of black youth in schools needs to stop and many people on social media to accuse the school of racism but let's walk to their stance neeraj as wright says the reaction was not only are warranted but also put the boy's life at risk. every day we are insists a patient police shooting an unarmed black person whether it's in the back an

unarmed child or wrestling in our child whatever it is this this child's life was literally put in danger the fact that the teacher called the police before the parents makes no sense whether it's our child when our child is sick we always call the parents before calling you know the ambulance unless it's a critical emergency but again in this case it was clearly. defined that the the gun was a toy gun i mean it had writing on it that indicated that this was not a weapon of mass destruction or a weapon that could kill anyone and in that case the teacher not only failed the parents not only failed the student but also still be in the entire school system because other parents are going to be wondering if they have to be concerned especially black brown and indigenous parents if they have to be concerned about cops knocking on their door for the smallest of issues despite the allegations of racism that was a similar case involving a white student in colorado just

a few days and this time police were called to the home of 11 year old explode off to a scene holding a b.b. gun during an online class he was suspended for 4 days and watches right again believes police often threaten situations when that presence does more harm than good. if the child had a toy gun if the teacher tried to interact with the child and you know person of all say please do not show that it's not appropriate even if it is a toy gun and then call the parents again we don't want to call the police when we don't have to because when people show up with guns for small issues they tend to escalate the fortunately you know i think here in the united states we are so used to a car sorel and police state that we put police in positions that they shouldn't be and we we know that there are people who are better equipped and more capable of getting to the bottom of the situation without it escalating this is why so many in the united states have called for a divestment from the police and

a reinvestment into community services that would be more appropriate for handling these types of issues. that's how things are shaping up for now if he still won without head on over to auto com for the very very latest up next on larry king on felt it interesting enjoy. the so. the.

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i was watching the producer push for the. first of the latest. stories in post as. rushes in racing is competition in the extreme to have a fully used to specified route between the lines with the fastest time just. there. i refuse to be on the side of people who want to take up guns and kill each other i want to stay intellectual should always stand i think it's their hold up no to violence no to bloodshed yes to think. less it's more

like it's. larry sabato founder of the sound of a politics at the university of virginia joins us with his crystal ball predictions for the fall on this in politics. welcome to politicking on larry king trump and biden are ramping up their campaign efforts are some voters still casting ballots are some still undecided for this i'm joined by larry saboteur founder and director of the center for politics at the university of virginia last month he launched a new live web series called suburbs o's crystal ball america votes he is in charlottesville. larry bob woodward's book on trump is out and trump has admitted he knew how bad this was way back but he didn't want to scare anybody so my

question is why did he talk against masks if he knew how bad it was you know january 1st when we were looking at the election i think trump was a substantial favorite to. the economy was great we weren't at war people had got used to the way he was. he knew the pandemic was going to cause him he almost didn't he did he this is going to be a major problem and he decided to pretend it wasn't going to be a major problem and obviously and she 200000 deaths it's a major problem. why do you think he admitted it now. i can't give you a rational explanation for most of what donald trump does you know he should just start or this new story is worse.