little regard for the truth this statement comes after european lawmakers passed a resolution calling for tougher sanctions on russia. and nation attempt against opposition figurehead. mr. media and he was poisoned in his hotel room in the siberian city of. possible. new twist in a decade long on ross between russia and we look back on the polish presidential plane crash in 2010 over western russia as moscow rules on extraditing the traffic

controllers on duty day. u.s. troops. in iraq and afghanistan. u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden feels to recall the country he infamously helped to send the military into in the aftermath of 911. 1 minute past midday in mexico city 10 pm in the war in the evening right here in moscow this thursday september the 17th welcome to our to international law names you know known. the european parliament adopted a resolution calling 'd for even more sanctions to be slapped on russia in response to the alleged assassination attempt against opposition figurehead alexina volleying russia's foreign ministries responded by saying many politicians in the

bloc are all too happy to pass premise your judgment before any due process has been conducted and the nature of the latest statements coming out of brussels makes us think that our western partners are not interested in stablish or the truth will help that common sense will prevail on the you in the end and our partners will dish the practice of arbitrarily attributing blame and we'll make conclusions based on real and confirmed facts going forward. peter all over has more on today's vote in the european parliament and its ramifications. $532.00 m. e p's voting in favor of this resolution $84.00 against with $72.00 abstentions what it could result in a is asset freezes travel bans another sanctions against those that are featured in alexei navalny zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an international probe into what happened to alexa in

a volley when they talk about an international probe that's including the united nations the european union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from your state but l. the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs saying that wasn't within the remit of the e.u. institutions to do he said it would be up to the individual member states that are involved in the project if they were to council out call 'd it off block it in any way or just temporarily suspend it however we have heard from the e.u. commission president saying now is the time for action and to those that advocate closer ties with russia i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny with an

advanced chemical agent is not a one off. we have seen the pattern angela in ukraine in syria and saulsbury and an election meddling around the world and this pattern is not changing and no pipeline will change that well moscow is still saying berland must share with them the evidence that is behind the claims alexei navalny was poisoned and serving as we consider any talk about how proper it would be to name the sanctions regime after in a valley to be a brazen attempt to imbue the new the restrictions with obviously anti russian tendencies and all this comes are a 1st of really into trying to investigate what happened or ignore it under some made a pretext kremlin spokesperson dmitri press corps was also talking about nord stream too he says it's a purely commercial project and shouldn't be tied to anything political or

diplomatic that's ongoing there was a similar feeling from russia's permanent representative to the european union he said that the north stream to line project came about because of the european union and in particular germany's need for gas a commercial need for that gas that still exists and that's why in his opinion it's all the north stream to the pipeline would go ahead of being planned well alexina valley the man at the center of all of this in his alleged poisoning is said to be recovering in the hospital he's still being treated out here in berlin earlier this week we heard from the hospital saying that he was now able to leave his bed for short periods of time while weeping getting reaction to today's voting coding from german m.e.p. marks a 1000000 cross who actually took part in it he believes that what we're seeing is part of a wider political strategy targeting russia. no one of ticked off the members of parliament who today. voted in favor of sanctions has seen any evidence.

for a for a campaign or for a political way if you don't need that evidence at least not in the european parliament so i don't expect that you get that evidence but the same people who say we don't give you the evidence will tell you we have we expect from russia to investigate it was absolutely clear that this is another chance to to push at the end tire russian agenda i followed that debate especially concerning all 3 and 2 in the european american parliamentary delegation are. always when we meet ask the u.s. ambassador why'd they do illegal 3rd party sanctions and the answers are always the same our government will do everything it can to stop that project and if you have a clear goal to stop a project then you take every possibility you get to do so and of course

that unclear or incident it occurred with miss on a bonnie is such an opportunity to push the own again and so it was clear from the beginning that this chance would be used. as a sitting of the european parliament also touched upon the situation in belarus on the fallout from the country's disputed election develop position korda nation console was welcomed into that session as well with the reaction to not later. lex in the valley who's now a conscious son recovering from his suspected poisoning has been posting on instagram about what he believes happened to him according to a new video and its accompanying. a water bottle with a trace of the novacek nerve agent was found in his hotel room in the city of tomsk

his colleagues say they took the bottle as evidence just an hour after novell these poisoning came to light artie's has been looking at the allegation. this is it amateur footage shot in election of on his room according to his supporters about an hour after the russian opposition figure started showing the 1st symptoms of the poisoning and the 1st thing that jumps at the view or is that all these people in the room normally it is advised to wear more protective gear to protect oneself from cold it and this here they will potentially dealing with a military grade nerve agent and look at that only some of them wearing as much as late exe gloves many people in the room aren't wearing anything and they are saying that at that time they were dealing with no be chock one of the most deadliest nerve agents out there in the world there was no specific hope of finding anything

like that but since it was absolutely clear to us that the valley was not just slightly ill and didn't have heat stroke it was decided to stick everything that could be hypothetically useful in some way and pass it over to the doctors in germany 2 weeks later the german laboratory found traces of novacek on the bottle from the tomsk room and then 2 more liberties that took tests from alexy confirms that novelli was poisoned with it now we understand this was done before he left his room to go to the airport. this video seems to raise more questions than provide answers 1st and foremost how that particular bottle and all the this evidence all these things were transferred from moscow to berlin there have been some unconfirmed reports that apparently a special rescue plane took all the valleys belongings from that room to berlin for instance election of ali could simply choose not to drink from anything provided by

the many by his hotel i mean that was there was up to up to him there were 3 bottles in the video we can see that the right least 3 separate bottles and election of a new chose to drink from that particular one also there were no guarantees that somebody else from election of only one to raj wouldn't drink from that bottle and so the alleged perpetrator the potential perpetrator could end up with a whole heap of bodies that when it comes to the bottle all that we know is that it was released with with this with this agent but mind that there are several agents that nobody is a family it's not one particular like a drug or anything it's a deadly nerve agent but in fact it's a group of 7 binary chemical weapons so 7 they're different they work differently some of them work slower than others some work rapidly can take up as little as 30 seconds for a person to show 1st symptoms of not feeling well after being poisoned with no recheck other circle of the foreign ministry has already praised russian doctors

because it was the russian medics who who provided election of ali with 1st aid. some of our western colleagues wrote the valley was saved by a miracle allegedly it was this new tourist nova chuck but the russian citizen managed to survive thanks to a happy coincidence what is this happy coincidence so the impeccable work of a pilot's doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence they don't even admit that we act. it in a proper way but this family of no veto nerve agents got into public spotlight during the events in salzburg during the alleged poisoning of sergei scruple and his daughter and what jumps out is the striking difference as to how the investigators in the u.k. handled that situation and the supporters of election of ali just look at the protective gear worn by the investigators in the u.k. to the right and will literally almost nothing when it comes to people who were

dealing with a potentially even deadly nerve agent in the russian city of tomsk i'm talking about the supporters of alexy in the valley of course people are wearing more protective gear to defend themselves against covert and here they're dealing again with a potentially military grade nerve agent so hopefully down the line as the investigation goes on all these questions will be answered. through another overhead line stories russia says it won't extradite to poland 3 traffic controllers who were working on the day of the polish president fatal plane crash in 2010 a kremlin spokesperson said the move would not be permitted on to russian law it comes after an investigative group from the polish prosecutor general's office applied to get a court motion to have the russian citizens temporarily arrested the charges against the air traffic controllers concerned the deliberate provocation of

a plane crash resulting in the deaths of many people. the tragedy happened in april 2010 in western russia where the polish president was heading for an official visit the plane crashed while trying to land amid fog and generally poor weather conditions all those on board including the president's wife and other senior polish officials on citizens were killed separate investigations by both russia and poland came to similar conclusions about the actions of the pilots led to the crash however warsaw states mistakes were made by our traffic controllers to. in 2017 polish prosecutors accuse those russian air traffic controllers of deliberately causing the crash later a 2nd polish commission claimed there was an explosion on board before the plane hit the ground director of the crisis research center mark ellman believes politics still plays a central role in the long running case. this is

a highly politicized event and of course the police prosecution authorities are political appointees so it's not a so this is a kind of scientific show who wants to help probe i think all the evidence sadly tragically is that it was an accident and accident will be in very high profile figures from the president of poland down to former solidarity activists and that made it a highly emotional and disastrous development but it and it's also been a poisonous development inside polish politics because of course the present government accuse its predecessor of covering up the alleged russian plot it was highly unlikely that prime minister to skin so and his colleagues were serving the interests of russia they were quite quite critical of president putin's policies many errors but it's a sign of how this issue and this attitude towards russia has become an internal battle in poland as much as a geopolitical battle between warsaw moscow. now as we mentioned

earlier the european parliament has been chewing over the situation in belarus the e.u. also welcomed the belorussian opposition coordination council and demanded a fresh election take place but moscow says brussels is in no position to call the shots and sees mediation is the only option our senior correspondent mark gasnier picks up the story what they recommend is that the european union the heads of states the european council seriously consider sanctions against the russian president 3 alexander lukashenko sanctions against those who supported him those who continue to support him even sanctions against russian officials and citizens who they believe supported president they've also determined that the election was unfair they don't recognize his legitimacy and once his term is up they will no longer recognize him as the legitimate president of better of saying that the elections that took place in august in belarus happened in flagrant violation of the laws in. actually laws and international norms moreover they have decided to

recognize the opposite opposition coordination council committee as the representatives of the better russian people which meets all because most of its members original members have fled the country one maria kolesnik of a is in jail here and in minsk and she is being accused and charged with trying to seize power and destabilize the worst. nevertheless the european parliament has recommended that the european council recognize the year coordination council as the legitimate representative body temporary body of the better russian people at the council itself the committee has stated very goals from deposing of the president president to merely organizing new elections lithuania by the way had previously also recognized the north of one of the rivals running gets president lukashenko during the election as the legitimate

representative of the better russian people as as was mentioned earlier you know protests still continuing we see on the weekends thousands upon thousands of people marching down the streets of minsk chanting for the president president hu to reside but we've also seen somewhat of a slowdown there less and less spontaneous protest during the during the week days this week there have been hardly any. public trite the good guys that called for by the opposition yesterday was a failure they cool didn't people and businesses to shut down for people to not go to work that was only about a dozen people joined into this walkout joined into this protest so that you know there is there is a market slowdown in this protest mood in belarus. he's being called on for frequently making gaffes on the campaign trail joe biden's

confused iran and iraq when talking to veterans about where they had fought in battle. u.s. troops die in a room in afghanistan. 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 and i mean did iran and she was made. to ukraine i mean you know someone who has been injured or lost. let me tell you something i mean we. it's the particular conflict in iraq which joe biden has been widely criticized for playing a key role in north arising back in 2003 at the time he chaired the u.s. congress foreign relations committee and chose all 18 pro-war witnesses in the main hearings on iraq it later turned out the iraqi leader saddam hussein neither had

weapons of mass destruction or ties to al qaida by a conservative estimate more than 4500 u.s. soldiers on the same number of contractors lost their lives in the invasion a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told me he was ridiculed for briefing joe biden about the absence of any w m d's in iraq. 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 1988 about iraq and 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 in apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 in 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 ra ra google military when you are you know there's not a single non political combat veteran who is going to give joe biden a pass on this one joe biden has 0 credibility when it comes to talking about the military talk about war above all talking about sacrifice he literally has no credibility it doesn't resonate. and you survey has found there is an astonishing

lack of knowledge about the horrors of the holocaust among young americans that research was conducted in all 50 states and found among 18 to 39 year olds most don't know millions of jews were murdered by the nazis almost half couldn't name a single concentration camp while 11 percent believe the jews themselves were behind it all. however a majority did agree it was important. learn about the event to ensure it's never repeated and that holocaust education should be compulsory we ask young people in new york what they had learned in their history classes. couple 1000000000. people died and i thought it was 3000000 i believe. that. 6 people. were exact our budget. was. pretty big game day rate it's weird like now it's kind of like there's

a conspiracy theorists that think like. well let's give a summary at the nazis and their collaborators set up more than 40000 concentration camps and ghettos during the 2nd world war and i shit alone and almost a 1000000 jewish people were slaughtered while 2 thirds of all of europe's jews or wiped out holocaust expert mark children believes the u.s. education system is failing students. the reality is the american americans generally american youth or young people in particular are ignorant about history and they get too much of their information from social media and that social media is full of holocaust deniers claim we get never happened saying the jews caused it and that's the general problem that exists with social media but generally it starts from the fact they just do not know history they take perfunctory history classes in high school you know the average history teacher is called not called him mr history or history person or so he's called coach because most history

teachers in the united states have to coach a team and that's their primary responsibility is to coach basketball soccer whatever it might be and 2nd there they teach history and that's the reality of a history of the united states it's a national problem because it's impossible for people in my opinion to make political choices if they don't understand history and what came before that and what one of the causes of the. but again it's not only the holocaust it's the cause of the american revolution the cold war i'm making a bet that if you asked people what the battle of stalingrad was in the united states these claim kids i bet you know more than 5 percent would be able to answer that question in any sort of relative. sensible way. finally let's bring you to the u.k. where the shortage of covert testing there has led teachers to question school safety pupils and staff are among those struggling to get checked but more in our tears he said. it wasn't so long ago that senior british politicians were promising

that it was safe for children to finally go back to school i think the crucial thing is that all pupils get back to school it's much much better for their for their health and mental wellbeing their jobs their educational prospects we've made it clear this is compulsory parents do need to be sending their children back to school all scientific advice is that schools are safe it's only a few weeks into the new term and already those claims are coming unstuck one teaching union is warning that education secretary gavin williamson may face legal action because they say schools were opened without proper safeguards being put in place teachers a 1000 in the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that education in england make way to a halt the staff and pupils are forced to stay home schooled manage lives have been doing everything they chant but the government has failed to do their side of

things testing is impossible to go social distancing isn't possible in full class sizes i mean infection rates are going up so we have an absolutely chaotic situation where understandably and correctly pupils and staff are being sent home and they have potential sitting timbs but nobody knows if it's just a cold or coated and it's a completely lost story and of course the danger is that there will be some situations. where in fact we did have an infosys child or rather in this go but nobody knows because we can't get a test to check one way or the other facing the lack of testing more than 200 school and college leaders said staff and pupils couldn't book tests locally and were being directed to test centers long distances away and with the government mandating no more than 6 people to meet at a time that encouraging students to get back into the classroom your thirty's acknowledge that the whole situation is in quite some chaos every school has a small supply of home test kits for those teachers that conduct testing center the

teacher who tested positive had to wait a week for her results i don't deny that it is an enormous challenge with children and teachers unable to get access to tests and essentially being told to get to the back of the queue if they want one you need to say that the government has failed to prepare despite having had months to do so in fear of the country could go back into defacto lockdown once more children are being sent home who cannot get tests and parents are being forced to take 2 weeks off to look after them we will end up with an effective lockdown there is an escalating sense that they would end up with a return to lockdown by default it's not just with regard to the testing the schools are finding themselves short they also appear to lack the basic hygiene the city's nearly a 3rd of teachers didn't know if they'd have adequate supplies of soap and water while just 18 percent had had from the tides then every classroom it's left parents to question how they supposed to feel that their children will be safe in school

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the scottish parliament nor says the prime minister we focused on the cultural underpinning of the scottish political and this through the work of one of scotland's most famous artists the creative general to the last 30 years and more of scottish life and in particular his portraiture has captured some of the most influential players on the sporting political and cultural stage and by our talent coming to neil lennon to duty money to michael mcdonald to brian cox and billy connolly and referendum scotland these are both more than often but 1st to alex with your tweets and e-mails. though there was a big response to shore with who's probably britain's best known psychologist because of the work. says. gripping conversation with a psychologist who want to. defeat. debates were for.