those that work children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. headlining this hour on r.t. further rallies are held across. protest against the president enter a 2nd month leading to hundreds of arrests respondent is there. now john to present leadership or to leave to leave the presidency for a 2nd round of elections they want change. plus in the stories that shape the way germany agrees to work with moscow a probe into the alleged poisoning of opposition figure alexina valmy an issue that has fired up german lawmakers. why does novell need such a level of protection from the security services political motive is part of the putin system why would the russian government be so stupid and even lead to germany instead of hiding him in russian. former u.k.

prime ministers condemning the government's plan to overbuy the brakes of divorce treaty with the e.u. a move the downing street admits would break international law. sunday here on our c. and that means today's news and taking you through the biggest stories that we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st up to speed. rallies have been taking place throughout sunday calling for the resignation of president lukashenko activists are keeping up the pressure more than a month after the contested election which the opposition claims was rigged the main event was in minsk where tens of thousands reportedly gathered leading to at least 400 arrests a correspondent i guess d.f. reports from the russian capital. well here they are despite the violence this morning from police attempts to detain and directs hundreds of protesters. they

have gathered together in this antigovernment march marching down the streets of minsk oh no it has a demonstration against president bush and for threat lot of to head off to who they recognize the legitimacy that there are if this was the way to for example they have a number of them on the release of all political prisoners for example as well as less police brutality they demand that and then they you know i don't restrain dharm of the law. they're now charging for presently which led her to leave to leave the presidency for a 2nd round of elections they want to change these demonstrators and they have a lot of support a lot of public support all over minsk all over belarus and all matter of fact. this week a high profile member of the opposition in belarus was arrested on the border with ukraine a monday or a kalashnikov and disappeared she couldn't be reached by phone and for a while her whereabouts were unknown on tuesday officials said the activist had been detained for breaking the law while trying to cross into ukraine i got

a look at shank a further details in an interview with russian journalist. going to witness that only could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov or where is she. i probably cannot give you much detail gigia the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends who were drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed their passports and customs officers border guards let them through further on is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts they were 8 to 9 kilometers and that our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped before the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move on the run. so they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out border guards of course detained her hands would have been expected. i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the border

office and the car went across the ukrainian border up through the ukrainian post and then as far as i'm now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so that they return them to us. what for they left they relatively speaking were released from. you know they could not be detained they travelled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the border guards and customs officers did their jobs and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hit the ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is it ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to someone's relatives the said to live there i cannot claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we asked the ukrainian border guards to return the others to our country we will investigate what happened . has

a different version of events she says she was abducted by officers and taken to the ukraine border to be kicked out of the country and to avoid that she tore up a possible opposition figure is now being held in minsk he used condemned her detention calling it a violation of domestic and international law. meanwhile lithuania has passed a bill loading war powers to recognize the opposition candidates in last month's bill of russian election as the rightful president lithuania's the 1st country to recognize for atlanta taken off skier as the leader of she fled to lithuania after the election she said posted several videos asking the international community to help force out to enable new elections geo political analyst right of office believes lithuania would have taken such a step without the backing of larger powers. it's a signal that is being shown to look i think all. forces major forces political forces the. hi and lithuania because you know i

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. and i see this as. not too intelligent step by lithuania it's too blunt because it shows clearly that the situation in the. us 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. germany's accepted moscow's request for legal cooperation on the probe into the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy however state prosecutors warn some information will only be shared with the activists consent and germany says it still expects russia to be held accountable for the incident. yet ima the relations with russia

are influenced by the fact that russia is 1st of all an important global actor and also by the fact that in the past and in present times we have had some problematic topics between each other and we should express ourselves carefully this time that there was an attempted murder on mr novelli performed with a very specific and internationally banned nerve agent of the novacek group and our demand is that russia urgently explain what happened that's what we're going to question to you that our authorities are investigating this incident we don't like it when other countries dictate to us when and at what point to start our process we cannot legally call this a criminal case based on the analysis of the journal aboard 3 moreover the board to resolve the b.r.d. army just as in the b. or d. it is probably impossible to initiate a criminal case on the basis of tests that were taken in our military hospital this is legally nonsense there are acts of cation our investigative bodies are working

they have questions new questions appear we hold that we will receive information from our german colleagues it will help to move forward its. when germany previously announced it will be sharing the valley's test results with the global chemical weapons watchdog over russia which is a member of the o.p.c. w says nothing's been received as yet of any emerge from an induced coma this week with german doctors saying he's now responding to speech over the long term effects are still unclear he was airlifted to poland for treatment last month after falling ill on a flight from siberia russian doctors than initially treated in found no evidence of poisoning meanwhile russia's envoy to the un has responded to the allegations coming from western powers. this fall incident cannot but raise questions well some poultry being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in what these leaders leads us to an unavoidable reply nicol question legion lost in search situations we've won you trace it

erk we've pulled those who used to benefit from this the one that one if you demand explanations will deflect from the table and we'll compare notes one should with the last elite geishas uncorroborated by evidence even this is as you see your reasonable. the german parliament debated the poisoning in a special session on friday and several more makers demanded action against moscow as peter one of the reports. into early evening here in berlin in the german book the stag the majority of those who spoke or pointing a finger of blame directly at russia and the russian government for what they say was the poisoning of alexei no folly there were some voices that question the official government line not many i have to say but there were some. really 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 now so not only are the russians supposed to have tried to poison an opponent of the regime with a military nerve agent but the put it in his tea 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 that north stream too was a big issue on the during the debate as well basically the german politicians splitting into 3 camps 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 friday night in the north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the german government has repeatedly argued it is 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 a hasty and 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 sergei lavrov has said russia still waiting for information it requested from germany but it's the use of your minute of the german representative to the u.n.

said the date is no longer not for bilateral 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 urge them to provide all necessary information which might in any way should lights one absolutely unfounded accusations investigators in russia are also being on the search for more information police in the city of thompson which is where alexina valley had been he was flying from talked to moscow before his plane had to make an emergency landing in the city of the lex in a valley in extreme distress while police in town scoping 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 in 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 there are still lots of facts to come to light in the case of what happened to alexa in the funny books as we search for those facts the diplomatic route between germany and russia continues to heat up. on as we heard senior politicians in berlin have been piling pressure on the government to pull out of the north stream to project over than of any case we spoke exclusively with the head of the german parliament's energy committee about that issue. from north stream to 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 and. that this is not a game the pressure coming from the us is already enough in my view so we have 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 the many people who might not have fully understood the story thinking now we'll 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 focused on says. more of the week's headline news on the way an alarming number of doctors in the u.k. say they're ready to quit over the government's handling of the pandemic because

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so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. back to the weekly to former british prime minister tony blair and john major urging the government to rethink its plan to override the divorce treaty the conservative party leadership is planning to put forward an internal market bill by its own admission would break international law this way of negotiating is irresponsible and wrong in principle and dangerous in practice it raises questions that go far beyond the impact on the island the peace process and negotiations for a trade deal crucial though they are it questions the very integrity of our nation

as the world looks all the girls at the u.k. this government's action is shaming itself and embarrassing our nation. withdrawal agreement which took the u.k. out of the e.u. contained a clause to prevent a hard border between the north and south of ireland prime minister boris johnson signed off on that agreement last year and took effect in january but he now wants the power to override it arguing that the agreement would impose barriers between mainland britain and northern ireland and that sparked a half warning from brussels. we fully expect the u.k. to all of the commitments that negotiated and signed up to last year especially with regard to citizens' droids and northern oil and any attempt by the u.k. to undermine the agreement would have serious consequences. against this hostile backdrop a year breaks and talks will continue south korea taylor assesses their chances of success. how i long for the breck set days the instability that you know

over moves on part how many outside number 10 brackets it means president to lay out to delay after delay is a passive but something reassuring in not so comforting that in these tumultuous times one can turn to bricks it like the good friend that it is but still that in fact nothing's changed we have now been talking for 6 months and can no longer afford to go over well trodden ground we need to see more realism from the e.u. about our status as an independent country the needs to be in agreement with our european friends by the time of the european council and the 15 that's going to be in force by the end of the year but perhaps some would have been bracks if it wasn't full of the dissatisfaction in fact promises by the u.k. having 2nd thoughts about the withdrawal agreement signed back in january so it might override key parts of the last brussels basically says we are soon off to a free trade deal by mid october and the media thought of the u.k.

renee taking on its words elicited cries of more mature from those bureaucrats in brussels do you. do with the u.k.'s red lines it's time to do you good to great i trust the british government to implement their withdrawal a criminal and obligation under international law and prerequisite for any future partnership protocol in ireland northern ireland is essential to protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market the one room of the got people especially worried is that tucked away in voters' pocket is something called the internal market belt and the contents could jeopardize peace and security along the irish border but downing street denied this saying that it's only proposing. my alterations which would provide clarity on certain big us part of the deal but even at home not everyone is convinced by the head of the u.k.

to legal department quit over the whole thing and then there is this one minute minor detail proving to be just a little contentious piece god's great interaction or in a very specific and limited way oh wow zones it's just specific but is all this proves to be the straw that breaks the camel's back on the u.k. and you don't shake hands the u.k. will be left popping up out in the north sea with no deal and no tower of free gas classic bracks set everyone happy and looming deadline threat of no deal and now the prime minister losing trust something was never change america's professor of the london school of economics alan scared believes the brussels is still refusing to accept the britons actually left the bloc think both sides would like some kind of deal however. the e.u. insists on treating britain like an immigrant a good province that we can really be truly independent and the best to do reshoots

to root for through the e.u. . and it believes the. tissues policies should still apply to british territory waters. believes that when it comes to rules and regulations the british shouldn't be able to make their own should be forced to. run any new regulations past the you to get their approval 1st and of course. impossible for the british to accept. all in the u.k. has found that more than a 1000 doctors are ready to quit the national health service over the government's handling of a covert pandemic the president of the country's association of doctors says the issues have been building for a long time. i think what you have 0 is are and it has clearly been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them hamed amec this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history

within our workforce including absolutely ruinous junior jobs and contracts changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months or a year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions types crisis which has forced many of our most senior an experienced experienced oxys interest finance all of this was prior to us going into a national crisis. the u.k. doctors association sent out a survey to its members and more than 700 responded to in 3 of them now more likely to leave the n.h.s. because of poor treatment from the government during the covert response most of those plan to quit within the next 3 years some of them want to move abroad for others they're going to take a career break others will head for the private sector and work in hospitals there among the main reasons being cited for considering quitting lack of pay rises and also a lack of protective equipment others say they've been gagged from speaking publicly

about their concerns but it's also been a warning that promised benefits have been revoked over the past few months and also they're working on a covert front line that had a major impact on their mental health. ever since we've had him a different demi and we've had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling we've been separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone well. it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about. surviving on charitable donations and food trying to have a stop just because crave it came and just pretty crap we deserve back as a profession and a home and a test deserve better and that was what stage that was really me the government insists its 3 percent pay rise office is good enough and prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the difficult winter period that's coming up ahead of the doctors association again says its

workers must feel valued. we know that the n.h.s. was very much understaffed and under resourced going into this and i have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this fire it's we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for a front line and it's our stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans lisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more of a worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd said may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that the government considers the hard work of those troops

within the n.h.s. they show them how much they're valued and they really are carted them to retain them in the n.h.s. especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the u.k. . law enforcement officers are in a critical condition in los angeles county after being shot by an unknown suspect on saturday and president trump has called for the shooter to face the death penalty. if they die 1st trial death penalty for the killer only way to stop this anymore so that must be here hard. in this surveillance video a gunman can be seen walking up to a patrol car and opening fire 2 county sheriff's deputies among female were inside the vehicle both suffered multiple gunshot wounds and have since undergone emergency surgery the suspect remains at large on saturday night a crowd showed up outside the hospital where they're being treated.

according to the l.a. county sheriff's office protest as blocks and mergence the exits they were made to disperse by police 2 people were detained including a female reporter who was accused of interfering in an arrest. well that incident follows months of unrest over police brutality across the united states and some of the worst riots have been in portland in the state of oregon although a new poll suggests that most people in that state want the chaos to stop conservative talk radio host dave perkins says the vicious attacks against police like nothing the country has seen before. it's a clear is evidence of a complete foundational moral inversion that i have ever seen in all the history of mankind and i never thought i would see it while i was still alive i want you to hear the level of belief and joy in the voices of the people shouting that they hope those police officers die this is the sense that they are morally right that

what they are doing as the element of righteousness and and proper punishment almost a law of sorts applying to them in which they are right and we are wrong and because of that they are very happy to be doing what they're doing especially when they get away with it and nobody stops them for any reason they're getting away with a right now what we're seeing i think on a grand scale is an inversion of more reality what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right. hey that's the weekend for their south as for watching up next well to pass on some of the pet falls of competing science teams pushing for the same goal to come back. if. you just have

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vaccines became controversial prison boom and such an honor such a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time many thanks to be invitation now you recently wrote an article for the new york times and each you stated that all the world agrees that we need a vaccine and i wonder if it's really so subtle not a moan to governments who while he's under pressure to produce some sort of a solution some sort of a panacea but among scientists have they really a rival of the consensus that a vaccine is the ultimate weapon against cobbett 90. 9 essential weapons so sure. i don't believe it was sold problems there are many problems about producing arms fission scale distribution of a sense that we need overcome the people may think one to be invention natured that

all of the problems are going away and that's not true either at the societal level or at the individual level because.