headline stories this hour calls on germany. poisoning of opposition figure head. to. the portly use the russian. call from officials in the u.k. who want people to inform on anyone breaking news. from the place. i would. put coronavirus cases surging in britain the country's testing system is said to be

a point we also hear from some of those within. the reach way. to general. donald trump confirms he wanted the syrian president the naked but the attempted killing. never went to a former u.s. defense secretary. live around the world every hour of the day this is r.t. international my names you know neal you're welcome to the program. berlin has called on moscow to clarify how a military grade nerve agent was reportedly used on russian soil referring to the case of opposition activist alexei navalny russia in turn urged the west to stop

politicizing his condition in a message relayed by the country's top diplomat to his german counterpart with more on developments. well at least a phone conversation between the 2 ministers is better than nothing because at one point the talks got canceled altogether when the surrogate chose not to fly to berlin after the russian side realize that decided to cut down the planned time for their conversation to one 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 volley 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 for the asian 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 in europe i can tell you that just before the m.e. piece 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 went down to discussing the sanctions against moscow in the meantime the health of alex 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 inside the german hospital. or among the possible sanctions the scale in the e.u. parliament was a bundling the nord stream to pipeline project which is now run 90 percent complete of it's intended to supply millions of european horse holds austria for its part has objected to any sanctions stressing it's purely an economic venture and one that will actually benefit europe the european commission president has weighed in as well warning against more cooperation with moscow and to those that advocates closer ties with russia i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny was an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. we have seen the pattern angela in ukraine in syria in salisbury and then election meddling around the world. and this pattern is

not changing and no pipeline will change that she said this is a pattern but all of these issues nothing was cruel. of course nothing to do with it not to do this is this is the truth but what she just that is just must have in the background lobbyists from the us and poland who have bicycle in a drip in. stuffing the firefly because the polish want to blackmail the european union and especially the germans so that they can get all the europe be part and the 2nd is the polish one that will pipeline from poland to denmark and the last there is to buy a client stuff so in the background there are many many long working the more or less corrupt politicians to start this pipeline for germany it would be

a nightmare it would see them variously like nothing else by now all politicians should know that all science jeans didn't hurt russia they just are germany and the powers in between so the big winners of all the sanctions are the russians and the americans because the russians are forced to build their own industry and the americans have one competitor off so i think many people out the sanctions though were the best science and only harm themselves as i am not sure whether they get the necessary measure already for any further sanctions and by the way it is really i mean we have everybody knows now that russia is the future market everybody has to be good darling with russia because there is the market of the future the americans already try the french already try to and all the us.

would go one riotous. with tighter new code restrictions humming come into place in much of the u.k. people are being encouraged to turn informer and shop on any rule breakers it's all part of efforts to combat rising infection rates but not everyone is comfortable telling till 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 no they should be concerned yesterday yes they should ring in and report that. it will just inundate us with cools 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 twitches well the new rules include fines for people meeting in groups bigger than 6 exemptions or covert to secure a venn sun larger households work and educational institutions are also exam but what police forces already stretched many question how the measures can be enforced

we asked people in london what they think about becoming potential informants oh no no i'm not going to shut. up you here man is someone. i would want to chill out and she isn't basically what i think you know i would inform the place i'd expect the police to do their job not asking us the public to enforce the facts of the governmental roles that i don't agree with i phones on what they're doing. people will probably not enforce it when you say 7 people who are having a birthday party but will want to force it hit 240 people have no say. i guess preventions. took me off the server plus you know strictly. you know as you can hear there with the issue of informing on people causing quite a lot of controversy we put the matter for debate. there will be quite a lot of breaches some through ignorance some through mistake some just straight

forward through my i'm 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 a neighbor's i think we need to be encouraging people to take personal responsibility and use their common sense ok this is a time of politicians to let us down maybe the pound and the economic span is being put a head of public safety and health but we don't have messages coming 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 they 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 their next thought is just not the way we do things it is not the british way it's not who are the police. you know they are being spread very thin at the minute resources are tough that a tough job to do 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 if you pizza. 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. do you want to avoid living in some kind of dystopia an orwellian nightmare where we call you know like and found i

thought one of the people on the street is spying on each other and constant monitoring of this is about safety only satellites not only light for the public health aspect the public safety aspect were an awful awful long way from the last one with rising the mountains the u.k.'s coronavirus testing programme is said to be close to breaking point to the extent that frontline medics are among those having difficulty getting checked speaking to our to your earlier dr sophy rowland's from the u.k. doctors association explain how people have been forced to travel long distances just to get tested but i did that to me about just under 3 weeks a guy and you know i need to check straight to a i looked on to the website and the nearest text. sent to mars white actually. done it cripes i i thought that wasn't really good enough but i wasn't well enough to make that the students and so i checked again late seventies stages of threats of his text and you're out of whack tonight it just outside london that would be

860 mile round trip with their each way it's just that it's not just the general public chris trying to cast its doctors and from my house where this is well so you are studying this all $250.00 docs and we found that 10 percent were on a test axle and some are being asked to drive some 860 mile round trip was done well and to be able to get attached another dose is having to make decision about let's try and wait to see if test comes up which that means that i. well let's show you here on our news wall the situation as regards cold in the u.k. currently in the past number of days dealy infections have exceeded 3000 test availability is running low in the country's 10 worst hot spots do to the rising number of infections hospitals are canceling routine operations they're turning away patients and labs are also struggling to clear the backlog of tests well the

u.k.'s health secretary has admitted the testing programs facing an enormous challenge. only those showing symptoms are told by their doctor to get check should be a good test he also stressed the need to prioritize the most vulnerable. over the summer when de mom 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 prioritize ation they're not always comfortable but they are important so i mean i think it's quite clear the government did not include it and we would now heading into alton we knew that this was going to happen the schools it bad there were lots about the when to. have a call separately that attach to just you know whether it is or whether to set it so it was like to be in. the chest and trade system is up and running probably out to protest and that doesn't seem. you're turned into are to international still

ahead double trump confirms he wanted this syrian president taken art but was only stopped by his former u.s. defense secretary more nuts after this break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person those with. no dares thinks. we dare to ask.

will justice be done in a london court not only is joining us on trial but so is freedom of speech and profession of journalism what explains this farce of media coverage of this trial why haven't more journalists now and is a sound being used as. are you saying it was those. hello again despite 2 years of denials donald trump has now confirmed he wanted syria's leader dead in a new interview the us president said the only reason the assassination did not take place was opposition from his former defense secretary is it true that after assad gas 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 take him out i could have all said matters didn't want to do it such as the assassination of president assad by the united states never even discussed the book is total fiction washington claims bashar al assad committed crimes against his nation including multiple chemical attacks both syria and indeed its military ally russia have always strenuously denied any involvement in the executive director at the wrong pole institute done you mcadams figures donald trump's admission of consequences. that is admitted early in 2018 that the u.s. had no evidence that assad would behind either the attack or the cain chick who attacked in syria in fact her only source of evidence were the white helmets who were basically working without in syria so we're going to believe al qaeda over russia and assad who are busy trying to fight al qaeda but there's

a real danger in this it is sort of a lawlessness us it's for a long time around a point even though the cia has done its its best to do assassinations but as has the legal in officially frowned on the idea of assassinating foreign leaders the assassination of solar monny 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 the sas getting people into reality what it does it puts u.s. troops u.s. diplomats and this plain old american go overseas in a lot more jeopardy even they than they need to be it's a lot of tough talk and actually has negative consequences for the u.s. . after months of delays disagreements as well afghan peace talks finally got on the way over the weekend with no major breakthroughs to report as yet the u.s. president is under pressure to fulfill promises made 4 years ago reminding us about

the little quarter. 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 is truly a momentous occasion. afghans. at long last chosen to sit together and chart a new course for your country. this is a moment. we must dare to hope but on tales optimism doesn't seem to match. the political reality. in. 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 times 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. and 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 targets to commit the americans must leave now what have they done staying here for so long was did they bring for us have once been basically given before the us arrived in afghanistan we had our own government in the uk i think of the americans leave now there won't be too many changes in terms of security was going to put us on earth but it's better if the americans leave our country a 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 we explored 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 and i say they did that in order to. get bin laden stated to be the most in line behind the

911 terrorist attacks bin ladin wasn't by istanbul united states killed him that was 2011 so that's what was 10 years ago so there's a real question what. on earth was the united states doing all the time in afghanistan one of course it was in the business of nation building each successive u.s. administrator says oh no no we will never do that we're not going to get involved in nation building because that's what he was involved in whether it will result in the lasting 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 from afghanistan because they really weren't doing anything useful there and were essentially just making things worse. so i find the best news are it was supposed to be a campaign to support the u.s. military but a recently released by the trump administration has been drawing attention for

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because the image had been brought thousands of times already it's been used all over the place 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 check these sorts of things especially is that on just russian soldiers and 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. 26 minutes past the hour we are all set to cross to some more great programs in moments find out what is showing where you are today after a quick look at what's ahead on our to international. everybody's gaslighting everybody branches are gaslighting here central banks or gas finding you gas lighting is you know that it's not pleasant it's rude it's downright rude to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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oh and welcome across top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle will justice be done in a london court not only is joining us on trial but so is freedom of speech and the profession of journalism what explains the sparse media coverage of this trial target a big sample for those who challenge the powers that be. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest doc in london she is a journalist with activism munich and in los angeles we crossed iran welcome he is a comedian and host of the you tube show get your news on what's wrong as well as a writer and it regular on the jimmy dora show right across the girls in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i was ok let's go to taylor in london

you have the portion and experience of being a witness to what's going on in this trial i don't know how much you can see because i know that the authorities have made it very difficult for the public to observe the. but terry you've been watching it now for a few days give us please our audience are your impressions because so few media outlets are covering this trial so right here. yes so many journalists are covering this case remotely and we have to watch it through a video link only 10 journalists were granted access to be physically present in the courtroom and only a few observers can be in the public gallery they say that this is a result of the coronavirus pandemic but this case has really lacked open i can tell you that earlier today and even last week it has been very very difficult to follow the core proceedings we've had so many technical difficulties.