given lawmakers clash over the country's response to the alleged poisoning of russian opposition activists alexina pointing a finger of moscow very fiery debate on the bundestag. why does novell need such a level of protection from a security service that is part of the peace and system why would the russian government be so stupid down and even lead to germany instead of hiding him in russia. france for cause almost $10000.00 coronavirus cases in a single day the highest figure so far as testing centers struggle to cope with demand.

close just 1 in the morning here in moscow welcome to world news from our team's national writes the german government held a session dedicated to the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy the russian opposition activists to speak in a hospital in berlin for almost 3 weeks and recently emerged from a coma and several german politicians are calling for action to be taken against moscow our europe correspondent peter all of a march across fiery debates in the in the strike on friday night with the majority . pointing a finger of blame firmly at russia and the russian government for what happened to elect the wall some voices questioning the official german government line but there weren't many. and. if the kremlin really regrets the assassination attempt on alex in the valley and really wants to clear things up why does novell need such a level of protection from a security services political murder is part of the putin system. i'm.

so not only are the russian supposed to have tried to poison an opponent of the regime with a military nerve agent but the put it in his t. why would the russian government be so stupid them and even let no one fly out to germany instead of hiding him in russia it's absurd the north stream to gas pipeline project was a major factor in the debate the pipeline which would take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany well lawmakers fall into 3 camps when it comes to the multi national multi 1000000000 euro infrastructure project there are those that say it needs to be halted immediately and perhaps canceled altogether there are those that want to wait and see how russia reacts and how this story develops and there are those saying that it's simply too important economically and it must remain purely an economic project no matter what else is going on we have though

you see heated debate over north stream both on the streets here in germany on friday night in the bundestag. north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the german government has repeatedly argued this by the war in syria just by the use of a chemical weapon in souls bury the federal government is sending a message to the kremlin no matter what you do economic goals are more important to us than climate protection security policy and human rights. demanding the immediate term a nation of north stream 2 is in my view or has misguided reaction but it pleases those who have always opposed the project especially the greens. well as germany continues to push russia for an explanation for what happened to alexei novelli the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has said russia still waiting for information it requested from germany of its ago minute the german representative

to the un said the data is no longer a matter for by last who relations between germany and russia but amounts for multilateral proceedings what kind of proceedings the germans are talking about they were unable to say in the interests of our german colleagues we urged them to provide all necessary information which might in any way should lights on the absolutely unfounded accusations. investigators in russia are of also being on the search for more information police in the city of tomsk which is where alexina valley had been he was flying from tomsk to moscow before his plane had to make an emergency landing in the city of school with the lexan of only in extreme distress well placed in tom skipping putting together a timeline of where he was in the lead up to him getting on that plane they've placements in the valley in a hotel in a restaurant and a flat and in a coffee shop what they have also been going about doing is trying to interview

those that were in close contact with aleck's in the valley during his time in the city of tomsk police there say they've been able to interview 5 of the 6 people that spent a lot of time with mr novelli they say the 6th person a woman is believed to have come here to germany might even be a feature. of marina pitcher one of those who was with me in permanently resides in the united kingdom on august 20 refused to give explanations according to the investigation on august 22nd of this year she flew to germany so it was not possible to get an explanation from her her location is currently being in stablished there are still lots of facts to come to light in the case of what happened to alexa in a volley but as we search for those facts the diplomatic route between germany and russia continues to heat up. germany says it's passed all its information on the election of all the case to the global chemical weapons watchdog or the russia

which is a member of the o.p.c. w says nothing's been received yet meanwhile russia's envoy to the un has responded to western calls for a full investigation. of the zulus them look at these questions. being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed. this leave us leads us through an unavoidable review article question legions forced in search situations we want you to receive irq we progress who is to benefit from this the one that one if you demand the explanations book to facts one that they will and will compare notes one issued with the last elite geisha is uncorroborated but give advice even with the scissors you see the york reasonable are following on with some of those thoughts about who stands to gain from any diplomatic crisis political analyst john laughlin believes

the north stream to pipeline provides the answer it's immediately been joined with the north stream 2 gas pipeline project the germans who previously the german political class has previously supported the completion of the gas pipeline very strongly not least because germany doesn't have any other energy source and no major cracks are appearing in what was a consensus so the fact that they're not stream to gas pipeline has been immediately put into the equation into what should be a private police investigation shows who would benefit the answer is the american exporters of liquid natural gas and all those in europe who are determined and have been for many years and decades to drive a wedge between europe and russia the not stream to gas pipeline is not just a symbol although it's a very powerful one it is also a reality of bridging the divide between russia and europe and that is what the russian people 'd in europe and in the united states do not want and that's why

then a valley business is being immediately joined with not stream to. has to be a partial easing of coronavirus restrictions in france the prime minister there says the isolation time for people who test positive will be reduced from 14 to 7 days that's despite a new spike in cases with a record 10000 recorded on thursday as shall a day event reports next from paris. i mean the scramble to get ahead of the curve the french government promised 1000000 tests would take place weekly by september and by hook or by crook it has succeeded in doing just that this is just one facility but people can get tested to cope with 19 so much so you get 20 new testing centers for the virus to open here in the paris region but the clamor for covert testing has caused other problems testing centers are apparently struggling to deal with the volume of people wanting to find out if they happen it there are

delays in getting access to the board treating choose it as in paris and elsewhere right now is taking an average of 3 and a half days to get tested the french health minister hitting on quite a crucial point to kill you is like this which are not uncommon could contain some people who are infected and indeed contagious the person the symptoms and who may have been in contact with an infected individual has to be tested urgently they must not be turned away from a laboratory because there is no they'll ability we have to work for months because it's not acceptable to options today to get tested wait 7 days for an appointment in a lab wait for hours and centrally on standing under the hot sun i tried the 2nd option but with a $39.00 degree fever i did not last long i called the labs of raw no places for 7 days plus 5 days to get the results or wait in line for 2 hours while sick and with

no energy question is a test still relevant if done 7 days after symptoms start while standing in a queue for hours and may be frustrating what's perhaps frustrating people even more are the delays in getting their results people are threatening to sue us because they missed their plane because of the delays in the tests we work like crazy. everyone is unhappy delays could also mean that even if you tested negative for 19 while waiting for the result you could have contract it but this is not just a problem here in france across the english channel they are also struggling the health minister very though has pointed the finger of blame on people who are symptomatic. unless you. actually. test. for

a test on the flip side some are suggesting the volume of test taking place in countries like france even though more than a 1000000 a week still isn't enough they are doing 1000000 per week that's not so much for a country of $67000000.00 people and also all they are doing it have personally so there's no logic there's no strategy and that's not good but if the board already under the cosh wouldn't 10 times the number of tests cause even more of a headache there is a way around this rapid testing delivered in that than half an hour which is available at some pharmacies for a fee problem is these new tests the scene is being less reliable leaving some even more confused about what to do than ever so much even ski r.t. paris. microsoft is accusing russia china and iran of trying to meddle in the

upcoming us presidential election a report from the tech giant says both the trump biden campaigns have been subjected to unsuccessful cyber attacks from those countries all 3 of repeatedly denied any such interference except the story. now the report from microsoft accuses russia china and iran of somehow interfering in the us elections via alleged computer hacks that are said to have taken place all 3 countries have emphasized that these allegations are simply false they are not engaging in cyber hacking to try and hurt the u.s. elections now russia emphasized that they have actually offered to cooperate with the united states regarding cyber security and the need to stop hacking and other threats to the country this is the response of both russia and china to claims of interference with them a bit of my goodness on numerous occasions we propose the americans different ways of handling these unfounded assertions the american civil she has to work with us

on these proposals but continue to just to end illegal interference in their internal affairs. without him and we don't have any interest in interfering in the united states elections microsoft should make such baseless accusations and direct china into this this has not stopped us media from we're running wild with these allegations that the election we're getting closer with hackers who were writing harder now escalating their attacks tied to the presidential race according to a new warning from microsoft so here we go again right. except this time we're not blindsided those hacks are believed to come from overseas russia china and iran it's not surprising because we've had intelligence briefings and this kind of thing is probably happening now microsoft did not say how these quote unsuccessful attacks were intended to actually hurts the us electoral process no information was really given about what these hacks would have done if they had somehow succeeded

this is what was said by the d.h. asks we are aware that microsoft detected attempts to compromise email accounts of people and organizations associated with the upcoming election none are involved in maintaining or operating voting infrastructure and there was no identified impact on election systems 0 truth was offered to back up these allegations from microsoft and furthermore it is confirmed even by their own report that these alleged hacks have had 0 impact on the elections so far. any you countries have agreed to take in around 400 child refugees who were left without shelter when they count down on the green carpet of lesbos they have a crowded facility held around 13000 migrants agree says that the adults will have to remain on the island the greek prime minister's confirmed that they have already a camp will be rebuilt but absent was met by protests from the former residents they march towards the towns the island's main town demanding the right to leave

less ball so that they could head to of the e.u. countries many are and is also on the migrants to move on activists huge trucks to block roads leading to the maria camp saying the prevent any rebuilding e.u. officials have called for urgent help for the refugees on lesbos. top priority has to be immediate and collective. first to provide shelter to those who need it and then to restore as soon as possible public order in the island. people in moria need help immediately the german civil protection service is traveling to greece the 1st delivery with aid will include tents and cam batts to attend to the neediest the foreign ministries initially allocating $3000000.00 euro the fire in maria has put the spotlight back on europe's refugee influx more than 5 years since the start of the crisis the block has failed to agree on a common migration policy southern states have pushed for mandatory refugee quotas

among european nations but that idea has been flatly rejected by members including poland and hungary. just coming up to 60 minutes past the hour here in moscow and go without say still ahead the u.s. is drawing up sanctions against fellow russian officials in the wake of the contested election as we report among our stories after the break. in this presidential election cycle both democrats and republicans claim to be tough on china but does that actually inspire what does the american public really know about the china. on this edition of the program the attempt to separate this. that we've been talking about saslow for you know number of weeks a few months because it is

a phenomenon and the point i've been making from day one is that it's. seen me that as a market valuation at one point over $400000000000.00 and it taps into people who trade means and these are generations in the millennial zong the robin apps and other forms and mean that have no fundamental value there's nothing there it's just it's a murmur ation like starlings in the sky they conjure day and then they disperse. right in israel have agreed to establish a full diplomatic relations after a decades long boycott by the gulf war like a deal was announced on friday by u.s.

president donald trump who broke at the talks. in the spirit of peace and cooperation both leaders also agreed that bahrain will fully normalize its diplomatic relations with israel they will exchange embassies and ambassadors begin direct flights between their countries and launch cooperation an issue that is across a broad range of sectors including health business technology education security and agriculture and this is a truly historic day the u.s. bahrain and israel released a joint statement confirming that the new pax in follows a similar agreement between israel and the united arab emirates struck last month it also marks a dramatic change in the dynamics of middle eastern politics with arab nations that have historically sided with palestine shifting closer to israel role in the process has prompted one right wing norwegian politician to nominate him for the nobel peace prize now despite those efforts there's still no sign of the last of

any israeli palestinian conflict on friday clashes again broke out in the west bank a protest against the expansion of israeli settlements on the occupied territory protesters held rocks at israeli soldiers last month israel suspended its plan to annex parts of the west bank although building work has continued at existing settlements tensions have also been aggravated by israeli demolitions of palestinian homes built without planning permits with almost 400 destroyed in august alone according to the united nations. the. us has confirmed it will impose sanctions on belorussian officials in the coming days for alleged election fraud and violence against protesters the state department says the measures will run in parallel with the e.u. sanctions that were announced earlier meanwhile lithuania is urging world powers to recognize the opposition candidate in last month's belorussian election as the rightful president. the lithuanian parliament calls on the international community to support the demand from state line a 2nd of scale the leader elected by the belorussian people and from the

coordination council established at her invitation as the only legitimate representatives of the belorussian 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 leader of billy reese alexander lukashenko aimed at legitimizing his power and conclude a new agreements with russia which restrict the sovereignty of the belarusian people to be a crime against his people. of the train is the 1st country to recognize for atlanta taken off skier as leader of bella rose she fled to lithuania after the election she said posted several videos urging the international community to help force president bush and get out and enable new elections to be held the e.u. foreign policy chief earlier compared the situation to venezuela where nicolas maduro continues to hold power despite a lack of recognition from the west. we do not recognize him as the legitimate

president nor do we recognize nicolas maduro from this point of view maduro and lucas shanker 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 their democratic legitimacy. mass rallies broke out in belarus right after the election on august the 9th they're still ongoing after 26 years in power. want to 6 term after a landslide result was declared taken off because supporters claim that ballot was rigged they're demanding a new election although initially marred by clashes and police brutality demonstrations are now largely peaceful political analyst martin mccauley believes washington will stop short of any drastic action against bella ruth. i think all of you here expect the e.u. and the americans to go show. george mused to hear me saying i'm staying i'm not going anywhere because i regard most of his illegitimate president.

we have very good if we're very careful not to do really easy which will in turn. be a ruse and push them towards. because of the americans would like the present situation there to continue with if you like seated so there's a gateway all the way house between moscow and the west they would like to continue but the present situation is very very difficult and the americans can very quickly in the leg. do you know severe e.u. reducing position. if you've ever suspected amazon's alexa voice assistance of listening in on your conversations edward snowden says you might now have reason to be worried the n.s.a. whistleblower spoke out on wednesday after his former spy boss keith alexander was appointed to amazon's board of directors it turns out hey alexy is short for hey keith alexander yes the keith alexander personally responsible for the unlawful

mass surveillance programs the caused global scandal and amazon web services has 6 percent of all websites xander was n.s.a. director in 2030 when snowden leaks thousands of documents exposing the agency's mass surveillance practices human rights lawyer dan kovalchuk suspects amazon wants his knowledge on how to influence people's voting decisions we should stress though that these are his own opinions and amazon denies any snooping virus home assistant devices. i would assume they picked him for his expertise in that this is ability to gather. intelligence from people in this case presumably through you know amazon's. mechanism you know it's the last box if you have one of those alexa devices in your house that it can listen into conversations business based on those conversations devise what types

of products it believes you want and you'll receive advertising for those products maybe amazon wants to gather information on people's 'd political inclinations and what could move them to vote in a certain way sure sadly i don't see it provoking outrage amongst most people again i think most people in america are used to the idea that they're being spied on in different ways i think they're used to it they're not particularly upset about rich which is troubling but that is my sense of things. he's 10 people have been killed in riots across colombia over a police killing in the capital bogota footage has emerged of a 46 year old man being pinned to the ground and tasered multiple times by officers his family claims he was later assaulted of a police station and died in hospital soon afterwards the officers involved in the incidents have been suspended police say that the man was arrested for violating

social distancing rules. wildfires raging across the u.s. west coast have claimed at least 23 lives in the past few days and destroyed hundreds of homes there are now more than 100 fires in 12 states driven by high winds and intense heat waves and they've consumed more than 4000000 acres of land 3000000 in california alone a record for that state in oregon entire towns will be wiped out forcing 500000 people to flee their homes emergency crews are being rushed from around the country aside from the colossal damage there is now also an emerging health risk from the fixed smoke that's blanketing major cities including san francisco and seattle. ok that's it for me thanks for watching saskia you're next r.t. world news in just over half an hour from now next up a look at the addictive and sometimes deadly consequences of familiar but powerful

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