in the headlines the 16th of september russia tells germany to stop politicizing the alleged poisoning of a leg. in the e.u. parliament called for sanctions against describing the kremlin assassination attempt. to citizenship as officials encourage people in great britain to snitch neighborhoods it follows that new rule to try to prevent the spread of. the place. in the u.k. the country's testing system is overwhelmed with something to wait they say they

travel hundreds of miles to get here direct from one of those affected. by my house is this. us president donald trump confirms he told the plaque of the syrian president bashar al assad but the assassination didn't go ahead because of his former defense secretary. good afternoon from russia live from artie's world news headquarters here in moscow my name is kevin owen here with the wednesday lunchtime round up for you 1st moscow's top diplomat urged to stop politicizing the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy the foreign minister. came with his german counterpart is cool certainly was

and he did in the european parliament though where any piece pointed the finger at russia really picks up the story well at least a phone conversation between the 2 ministers is better than nothing because at one point the talks got canceled altogether when. chose not to fly to berlin after the russian side realized that high cost decided to cut down the planned time for their conversation to $1.00 and a half hours an update on the russian foreign ministry website shows that the chat wasn't easy at all so here are moscow's key points russian officials are and will be open to all 'd kinds of cooperation with germany and european countries on this very difficult incident that of alexei no volleying now russia is still a very keen to get all of that medical data of the tests that are to get to the bottom of this and finally law school officials keep repeating if you refuse to

share the findings that will be taken as a straight forward signal to moscow especially given the fact that some of that data has been shared with other european countries any further vision from satisfying the stated requests will be perceived as a lack of desire on the part of our partners to help establish the truth in the framework of move jet save and comprehensive investigation of what happened. so berlin has been trying to force the russian side to deal with all this through the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that is an international body that germany says has all the findings but the russian top diplomat told his german call it that this shouldn't stop the russian and the german governments from talking to each other bilaterally in or outside the o.p.c. w. now moving on to how the issue is being treated by the european union i can tell

you that on tuesday the and the volley health incident that's only being described as nava chalk poisoning by e.u. countries has made all the way inside the walls of the european parliament but just as an example of how russian diplomats are trying to knock on all kinds of doors and europe i can tell you that just before the m.e. peas began debating the matter russia's mission to the european union came up with 9 blocks of questions flagging and consistencies and how berlin sees this matter some of them include what is the law or the rationale behind the kremlin or the russian authorities alleged plan or scheme to poison the like saying a volley with novacek or a substance of a similar type or why is it being stated by european officials that military grade nerve agent nava chalk was only developed in the soviet union or later russia while

extensive work on it was carried out by nato countries as well now here's another part of that statement by moscow's mission to the e.u. not claiming to be experts in toxicology we still consider it necessary to draw your attention to multiple inconsistency is regarding this case claims that whatever evidence may be transmitted to russia only with the patient's consent i'm not compatible with numerous political level statements made in germany whoa he was still comatose. despite these concerns voiced by russian diplomats the vast majority of m e p's only had russia to blame without providing any evidence and it all 'd went down to discussing sanctions against moscow in the meantime the health of alec saying the volley has improved significantly that's the good news he doesn't need a ventilator anymore he can walk and he's even back on social media having posted

a photo of him and his family and side to the german hospital so among the possible sanctions that were discussed in the e.u. parliament was slamming the brakes on the north stream to pipeline project austria though objected to that as a response stressing that the energy link is a purely economic venture one moreover that would greatly benefit europe we discussed the issue with current knesset austria's former minister of foreign affairs as well as friendship be paid to remarry arnie who went against the grain it seems of opinion in the e.u. parliament. it was a little bit disappointing because i see there was no reasonable position except me and the. human both said ok if there isn't boson meaning of mr lever only 1st make a serious investigation to know 'd who is guilty and don't set the name of guilty before investigation everybody understand that there is some idea between this

sanction to stop or to continue the last 3 years through it's not for europe europe want to be independent there is dissolution it's continued not through to and how the direct relation with russia oath was that this gets a loan what would we do it's the only solution for europe we'd be to to buy a share of gas from america and i seen the interest of europe as 2 of the various approaches for gas it has always been the mantra was of the german chancellor angela merkel to say this is a purely commercial project and i have been read to rating although when asked is after minister nobody bids a pipeline to annoy somebody it's all about the mom and as of the mont we have a nearly completed construction out pipeline and now all of a sudden overnight seemingly terms of trade should be changed practice once a bandaid to very old concept treaties have to be kept have to be preserved and

desirable to consider as the biggest collateral damage we want still can't prove. contracts of such a wide you know with china companies if overnight you can change everything. i swear the u.k. no very much in the eye of the storm is covert 1000 numbers start to pick up again unfortunately british m.p.'s have told the public to keep their eyes peeled for rule breakers earlier this week the so-called rule of 6 came into force across great britain limiting the amount of people who can gather together many of them were worried about. snitching and of the day on their neighbors. it's open to neighbors to do exactly that through triple through the non-emergency number and if they are concerned they do see that kind of thing then absolutely it's now the law they should be concerned yesterday yes they should ring in and report that. it will just inundate us with calls does he think we have an endless supply of officers who can just go out to these things it will be hundreds and hundreds of calls coming in

from curtain twitches the new rules include fines for people meeting in groups bigger than 6 exemptions covert secure events and households of more than 6 people work in educational institutions are also exempt but with police already spread thin many of question just how in practical terms these measures could be on are going to be enforced we asked londoners if they themselves would be willing to call in and snitch on suspected rule breakers oh no i'm not going to shop. i'll be here i mean if someone did it i would do is to chill out in tears and basically what i think you know i would inform the police but expect the police to do their job not asking us the public to enforce perfects of the governmental rules that i don't agree with i phones on what they're doing those people will probably not enforce it when you say 7 people who are having a birthday party but will want to show our city children sort of people having

a range i guess preventions grove and cure me of the servile class you know sticks the ends while the coals to inform or neighbors are met with scrutiny than some do see the proposed measures as a necessary step to try to put a stop to the ongoing covert pandemic and put the whole thing up for debate for you . there will be quite a lot of breaches some through ignorance some through mistake some just straight forward through not going to do it people need to understand why they're doing what they're being asked to do the courts understand that things are a good idea otherwise they won't comply with them i don't believe that we should be snitching on an a because i think we need to be encouraging people to take personal responsibility and use their common sense ok this is a time of politicians are letting us down maybe the pound and the economic span is being put a head of public safety and how well you know the messages come out from politicians

who knew how dangerous this was and they delayed so long and we knew if we look at the flu pandemic from the night in 20 that it comes back up the summer doubly hard so we need to all share fortunately unfortunately some don't act socially responsible a year some are malicious about it some are just ultra callous some just last one way or the other we rely the police aren't everywhere we rely on the public reporting the more egregious examples the worst examples so that the police can deal with them and all our safety personally i wouldn't shot somebody if the next thought is just not the way we do things it is not the british way it's little cooler the police are. you know they are being spread very thin at the minute resources are tough that a tough job to be we don't need to have examples of police dishing out. tickets and . fines for people who are trying to congregate if it was plainly a family saw a gathering and some of those were kids maybe not if it was a raucous raucous drunken party of the sort that maybe would attract

calls about disturbance in the 1st place anyway rick regardless of coded and then maybe as our judgment taste a huge pita. people call the police about disturbances and noisy parties and things like that anyway and i suspect a lot of those will be reported now with joe. you know you're one of or you're living in some kind of dystopia an orwellian nightmare where we've got you know like a fire out for us of the people on the street spying on each other and canceling monitor this is about safety only saving a life not only i thought that a public health aspect the public safety aspect were an awful awful long way from the. mean time covert tests are now to shambles that so some doctors in the u.k. have described the country's coronavirus testing system which is currently overwhelmed amid the spike in daily cases frontline medics are among those having real big problems they say getting checked for covert we spoke to dr sophy rowland's from the u.k.

doctors association in fact she said she and her colleagues in some cases have to travel hundreds of miles to get tested. i didn't see that just on this week's a guy and you know i think it's strange way i looked on to the website and the nearest. said white actually. done it right i thought that wasn't really good enough but i wasn't well enough to make that if students and so i checked again late seventies stages of threats of this text and you're out of whack tonight it just outside london that would be 860 mile round chasing barry was just that it's not just the general public chris trying to get past it took his and from my house where this is wow so you are studying this all almost 250 docs. and we found that 10 percent want to hassle and somehow being arsed to drive someone made it 260 mile round trip was done well and to be able to get attached another dose is the having to make decision about let's try and wait to see if it comes up

which that means that i. first take a great read a look at this graph at the coded 1000 figures in the u.k. at the moment in the past few days the daily number of new cases across britain succeeded 3000 coronavirus tests running short in the country's 10 worst hot spots for the disease and all the knock on effects as well because of the rising number of infections hospitals on the council operations and the turning patients away again with lab struggling to clear the backlog of tests so there is who would want his job at the moment the u.k.'s health secretary he's admitted that the country's covert testing system is facing an enormous challenge which will take weeks to resolve but home coca earlier said only those eligible for a test should get well meaning those actually showing symptoms or told to get one by their doctor should get checked he also stressed the needs to prioritise the most vulnerable to right now. over the summer when demand was low we were able to meet all requirements for testing whether priorities or not but as demand has risen

so we're having to prioritise once again and i do not shirk from decisions about prioritization they're not always comfortable but they are important so i mean i think it's quite clear the government is going to at least we will now heading into alter and we knew that this was going to happen in schools that bad there were lots about the wind illness it looked like a base have a call but without knowing whether it is or whether it's so it was vitally important that. the testing trade system was up and running properly at topix last year that doesn't seem to be the case let me bring you a trio of world news stories in less than a minute an environmental emergency has been declared in the brazilian state of matter grosso water most there since the start of the year fires have reduced vast tracts of wetlands to ash an area comparable in 5 to half a belgium huge the brazilian region suffering his worst drought in 47 years with manmade fires also being blamed. flip side of the coin this hurricane sally

battering ever more parts of america it's no strength and is just made landfall in southern alabama it's already whipped up extreme winds there with lashing sideways rains causing power many other problems because of its slow speed is feared the hurrican code course historic life threatening levels of flooding will keep you posted greece has got something on its hands it's building a new camp for the thousands of migrants on the island of less boss the previous camp of course as we showed you last week was burned or flee and that suspected arson attack in fact. police arrested 5 migrants some suspicion of involvement 16 past one of the afternoon here in moscow this is r t hi this is a head a truck campaign ad so glossy in support of u.s. troops draws attention for the wrong reasons after the jets it features are identified as belonging to another country and i wonder who that could be.

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the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again donald trump's confirmed he wanted to assassinate syrian president bashar al assad despite 2 years of flood denials that the option was discussed in a new interview the us president confirmed the killing would have happened he said if it wasn't for opposition from his former defense secretary jim mattis is it true that after assad guess children for the 2nd time that it was you they wanted to take out assad that you had a good side on him i would have rather taken him out i could have all said mattis

didn't want to do it. because the assassination of president assad by the united states never even discussed the book is total fiction well washington says bashar al assad committed crimes against his own nation including multiple alleged chemical attacks both syria and its military ally russia has denied any involvement daniel mcadams the executive director of the rumpole institute says tribes flippant admission could have dangerous consequences. that is made early in 2018 that the u.s. had no evidence that assad was the heinz either the attack or the cain she couldn't act attacked in syria in a factor only source of evidence were the white helmet who were basically working with al-qaeda in syria who are going to believe al qaeda over russia and assad who are busy trying to fight al qaida but there's a real danger in this that it's sort of a lawless and it's for a long time frowned upon even though the cia has done it it's best to do it that

nations but as legally and officially frowned on the idea of a fascinating foreign leaders the assassination of solo money of course in iran was a huge exception it hasn't gone very well for trump who hasn't got iran coming on its knees begging for a deal after that on the contrary so all this talk of assassinating people in reality what it does is puts u.s. troops u.s. diplomats and just plain old americans overseas in a lot more jeopardy than they did they need to be there's a lot of tough talk and actually has negative consequences for the u.s. . all of these months of delays disagreements afghan peace talks brokered by the u.s. started the dollar over the weekend one nothing substantive really came out of the 1st session of face to face talks between the afghan government of the taliban it should be good news for donald trump he's in a hurry to come good on this election promises made 4 years ago as done a quarter explains. the clock is ticking on the next u.s.

presidential election and donald trump's looking to score political points with a peace deal that promises to end america's longest ever war in afghanistan washington's very optimistic about the talks already being held with the taliban in qatar they are truly in a momentous occasion. afghans. along with us chosen to sit together and chart a new course for your country. this is a moment. we must dare to hope but on pales optimism doesn't seem to match with political reality. washington knows it's got to deliver a deal to the war weary u.s. public at any cost so it conveniently neglected to consult afghanistan's government

when drafting the agreement until this issue. there was a consensus on that is a nice but not on the cost of even us officials aren't exactly thrilled about it we're not happy about the release of some prisoners but hey time is almost up for trump and the president's got to fulfill his promises he's already had 4 years to take care of this one the longest war in american history by far even close will be over within 1000 years. i think that's enough we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society better late than never sure but trump's administration is only promising full withdrawal by 2021 if there is not another setback of course who knows if that will be too little too late for americans fed up with the war or for the afghanis who are possibly even more unhappy about their country's military occupation. the americans must

leave now what have they done staying here for so long what did they bring for us. even before the us arrived in afghanistan we had our own government in the uk i think of them americans leave now there won't be too many changes in terms of security on earth but it's better if the americans leave our country our leader must take action if he makes a good decision it will be beneficial for us we can provide for ourselves but if the us stays we cannot if we export oil we will never need to beg we can be rich and build our country and being america's longest war has proven to be easier said than done for many years but now that it might serve the current administration as a boost to secure another term who knows what could happen the united states invaded afghanistan in order to. get osama bin laden was taken to be the mind behind the 911 terrorist attacks bin ladin she wasn't just on the united

states killed him it was 2011 so that's almost 10 years ago so there's a real question what. on earth was the united states doing all of this time in afghanistan when of course it was in the business of nation building which successive he was administrator says oh no no we will never do that and we're not going to get involved in nation building. that's what he was involved in whether it will result in the last peace in afghanistan that's of course anybody's guess but what's important is the final withdrawal of the united states and all international forces when afghanistan because they really weren't doing anything useful there and were essentially just making things worse a little finally for now a recent ad released by the campaign calling on people to support us troops has gone viral not for the reason it was meant to see to observe a spotted russian fighter jets.

because the image had been brought thousands of times already it's been used all over the. ace so if this was the work of designers then they obviously didn't check their work very thoroughly as with many stock images my friend and i collaborate he does the 3 d. models like the airplanes and i take photographs i take pictures of people and composite them with other images what's funny about this one is that it features landscapes from many different countries the ground is from france the skies from russia and the mountains from greece upon closer inspection any experienced person could instantly tell that this is a compass it this is a stock image it's not something high quality if the trim campaign had come directly to me i would have created something far better somebody should be hired to check these sorts of things especially as there aren't just russian soldiers in this image there are german soldiers and pretty much every soldier in the image is

from a different country of course you have to know these things but even if you can't identify the make of plane you can definitely recognize the rifle oh dear someone some was governor talking to of a well that's it from newsroom from when i was kevin i when this is out international thanks for checking us out for now rather watching this wednesday what every day as in store for you all of us they hope it goes great for you there which way bye for now. well it still seems wrong. just don't call. me world to shape our business etiquette and in again. the trail. when some find themselves worlds apart. just of the common ground.

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