the. cold. poisoning of opposition figure. to. military grade. on russian soil. with coronavirus case is surging in britain the country's testing system is said to be at breaking point we hear from some of those. 16. general topics. on the program american presidential hopeful joe biden feels to recall the infamously helped to

send the military into. u.s. troops died. just after 1 in the morning in jerusalem in nairobi and here in moscow this thursday september the 17th welcome to our to international i'm you know neal. berlin cold on moscow to clarify how a military grade nerve agent was reportedly used on russian soil referring to the case of all position activist alexina russia in turn urged the west to stop this sizing his condition in a message relayed by the country's top diplomat to his german counterpart with more on developments for us here's the trunk. 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 realized that high cost 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 has that to get to the bottom of this and finally moscow 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 and heat for the 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 colleague 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 either 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 emmy 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 patients 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 any 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 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 inside the german hospital. with the

report on the possible sanctions this in the e.u. parliament was a bundling the nord stream to gas pipeline project which is no around 90 percent completed it's intended to supply millions of european host souls austria for its part has objected to any sanctions stressing it's purely an economic venture and one that will 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 in georgia and ukraine in syria and so scary and then election meddling around the world. and this pattern is not changing and not pipelined well change that she says this is

a pet or all of these issues nothing was proved and this s. of course nothing to do with not true sure this is a this is a true jewel where she just said it's just nonsense in the background lobbyists from the us and poland who have vital interests in. these. because of the polish one to blackmail the european union and especially the germans so that there comes. a little though europe the us and the 2nd this the polish one that will fly from poland to denmark and the last group to plant were stopped so in the best for our there are many many long yes working at the more or less corrupt politicians to stop this clown for germany it would be a nightmare it would be embarrassing if nothing else an hour of politicians should

know that all sanctions didn't hurt russia they just serve germany and the powers in the field so the bit where so far all the sanctions are the russians and the americans because the russians of course to build their own industry and the americans and one competitor af so are the many people now see one chance to go and work out their only harm themselves and not sure where they get the necessary majority for any further sonship functions and by the way it is really secure that we have everybody knows that russia is the future market everybody has to be good governance there is russia because there is the market of the future americans already try act the french already try it too and all the us will. why riotously. swamped with rising demands the u.k.'s coronavirus testing program is said to be close to breaking

point to the extent that frontline medics are among those are being difficulty getting checked speaking to our to your earlier sophie role in this from the u.k. doctors association explained hope people are being forced to travel long distances just to get tested. but i did it to be about just under 3 weeks a guy and you know i mean it's strange why i looked on the website and the nearest . cent was white actually 60 miles and most honest upright i feel that doesn't mean it could not but i wasn't well enough to make that a student 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 trip from there each way it's 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 $250.00 docs and we found that 10 percent want to

hassle and some to be honest it drives some a 260 mile round trip was done well and to be able to get attached another dose is a having to make decision about let's try and wait to see if test comes up which that means that i. let's give you a sense here in our news wall of the code 19 situation in the u.k. currently in the past number of days daily infections have exceeded 3000 quite a rapid rate to test the vale of both the as well as running low in the country's 10 worst hot spots due to the rising number of infections hospitals are canceling routine operations and turning away patients labs are also struggling to clear the backlog of tests the u.k.'s health secretary has admitted the testing programs facing an enormous challenge. urged only those showing symptoms or if a doctor has ordered you to do so should you book a test he also stressed the need to prioritize the most vulnerable. 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 let it rest and we will now heading in to 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 culture separate separately that we don't know whether it is or whether it's it so it was vitally important that. the test and trade system is up and running fast and that doesn't seem to be the case. to the us or joe biden sending a load mixed messages quite literally on the campaign trail the democratic presidential candidate was speaking in florida about his health care plans for veterans unfortunately he failed to remember the name of the country they served in

the spot in effect having authorized personally the deadliest u.s. war there of the 21st century. u.s. troops die in a round in afghanistan through parliament iran's parliament voted to reject all americans and coalition forces from the country we tried to do in iraq is not working so now we're going to try to meet in iran and scuse me we're trying to ukraine i mean you know someone who has been injured or lost. let me tell you something i mean we. it's also only biden of course his presidential rival is known for the odd gal for $2.00 in fact in whedon's they explain that the crew of virus could be defeated with herd mentality while apparently meaning heard and munity on the run up to the 26000 election was called dodge for a full sleep claiming he opposed the iraq war it's not a conflict that joe biden has been widely criticized for playing

a key role in or through rising can 2002 at the time he chaired the u.s. congress foreign relations committee and chose all 18 pro war witnesses in the main congress hearings on iraq if they were turned on the iraqi leader saddam as saying neither had weapons of mass destruction or these 2 al qaeda by a conservative estimate more than 4500 u.s. soldiers in the same number of contractors lost their lives in the invasion. i'm. sorry oh yes former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told the program he briefed joe biden on the ups and of iraqi weapons of mass destruction but was ridiculed. what is a big deal is joe biden's vote for the iraq war and i take it personally because i

briefed joe biden in person you know he insulted me when i testified for the united states senate in those september of 1908 about iraqi weapons of mass destruction he'd be a little be a scouting boy he said people above my pay grade were making this decision that cetera and then he met with me and apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 when the lead up to the vote on the war he as you mentioned he hosted a hearing and i did my darndest to become a witness for that hearing he ignored me. and it was very rude the way he did so and as you said he brought in more witnesses he stacked the deck it was a kangaroo court because joe biden wanted to go to war he always wanted to go to war any voted for that war that's what american veterans are going to hold him to account for the military is not a litmus test for american patriotism. but you can't run around and pretend that

you are mr raw raw go go military when you are you know there's not a single non political combat veteran who's going to give joe biden a pass on this one joe biden has 0 credibility when it comes to talking about the military talking about war above all talking about sacrifice he literally has no credibility doesn't resonate. meanwhile what. other all this conflict in the war on terror and peace talks enough to finally get underway but not everyone is invited to the negotiating table and the break.

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17 minutes into the program welcome back after months of delays and disagreements 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 the promises made 4 years ago quarter picks up the story. 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 them americans leave now there won't be too many changes in terms of security on those 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 tweak sport 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 made it up in order to. get osama bin laden was taken to be the last in line behind the 911 terrorist attacks bin ladin wasn't by just on the united states killed him it was 2011 so that's almost 10 years ago so there's a real question what. earth was the united states doing all the time in afghanistan when of course it was in the business of nation building which successive us administrations 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 last peace in afghanistan that's of course anybody's guess

but what's important is the final with the role 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. let's start a world up there in south america where an environmental emergency has been declared in the brazilian states off. where wildfires have destroyed vast areas of wetlands the region suffering its worst drought in almost half a century with manmade fires also being blamed on earlier the size of belgium has been reduced to osh. and while hurricanes sali is continuing to batter parts of the us it's strengthened now and has made landfall in southern alabama lashing sideways rain has brought done power lines causing blackouts because of its slow moving trajectory it's fear that the hurricane could cause historic life threatening

levels of flooding. greece is urgently building a new camp for around $12000.00 migrants on the island of less boss the previous facility which was europe's largest was destroyed in a suspected arson attack last week greek police reportedly charge for afghan men over the incident 2 miners were also allegedly involved but have not been formally charged. it will supposed to be a campaign to support the us military but a recently released by the trumpet ministration has been drawing attention for quite different reasons.

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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 just russian soldiers and this image of a 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. a lot rob stop or news for no more great programs though get going in moments and then nikki's here and 30 delving into the stories affecting your world today hope you'll keep

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