headline stories. jumping to conclusions with. regard to the statement. the resolution calling for tougher sanctions on russia they're alleging. against opposition figures. he was poisoned in his hotel room in the siberian. there's been a new twist in a decade long. poland. polish presidential.

extraditing the. u.s. troops. u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden feels to recall the country. in the military and following. the world down from the newsroom to you welcome to the program my name. the european parliament's adopted a resolution calling for more sanctions to be slapped on russia in response to the alleged poisoning attempt made against opposition figurehead alexina russia's foreign ministries responded by saying many politicians in the bloc are all too how be premature judgment before any due process is being conducted. the nature of the

latest statements coming out of brussels makes us think that our western partners are not interested in stablish ing the truth that common sense will prevail on the you in the end and our partners will dish the practice of arbitrarily treating blame and will make conclusions based on real and confirmed facts you informed it. well let's expand on that with peter all over he's got more in today's vote in the european parliament on the ramifications of it. 532 m. e p's voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in 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 u.s. it 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 '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 advocates 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 in georgia and ukraine in

syria and south ferry and then election meddling around the world and this pattern is not changing and no pipeline will change that well moscow is still saying burleson must share with them the evidence that is behind the claims alexei navalny was poisoned asserting if we consider any talk about how proper it would be to name the sanctions regime after in a valley to be a brazen attempt imbued the need the restrictions with obviously anti russian tendencies and all this comes our offer us to berlin to try to investigate what happened or ignore it under some made a pretext the 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 they know stream 2 pipeline would go ahead that 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 there are dissenting voices german m.e.p. monks a 1000000 cry who took part in today's vote believes 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 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 wyden the illegal 3rd party sanctions and the answer is 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. today serving of the european parliament also touched upon the situation in belarus and the fallout from the country's disputed election controversially the ballot result position coordination council was welcomed into this session as well we'll hear a reaction to that a little later. alexina boundry who's now a conscious son recovering from a suspected poisoning has been posting on instagram about what he believes happened to him according to a new video on its accompanying 10. a water bottle with a trace of the novacek nerve agent was followed in his hotel room in the city of thompson his colleagues say they took the bottle as evidence just an hour after the volleys alleged poisoning came to light r t z l of has been looking at the allegations 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 viewer is that all these people in the room normally it is advised to wear more protective gear to protect oneself from covert 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 novae chalk 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 his 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 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 wieczorek 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 acted in a proper way. this family of nova truck 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 while 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 these supporters of alexina volley 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. and just continuing with this story one of the creators of the actual novacek nerve agent leonid rink believes if the substance was used a belly would never have made it to his plane in the 1st place. it would be found he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was no majok and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in smaller not very toxic doses not virtual provokes pupil contraction in such a way a person would be almost blind so could barely move so even with only very mild exposure he wouldn't have been able to get on a plane there are photos of him in the hotel in the plane in the russian hospital

and yet we can't see any of the symptoms poisoning and novacek a not worse to use for this case. richard that they definitely would get something they had just simple surgical gloves and that's it and also imagine a bottle that has traces of the substance on the outside it would be a very smart person who would try to fill a bottle with such a dangerous liquid and spill it all down the sides creating a dangerous situation for everyone. if they wanted to poison yvel need why would russia decide to use their own product russia just like every developed country has many types of different dangerous substances developed in many different countries so this view that russians are stupid and took from the stock of the last dusty expired novacek is pointless. russia saves it won't extradite to poland 3 or traffic controllers who are working

on the day of the event polish president fatal plane crash in 20 a kremlin spokesperson said the move would not be permitted under 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 other senior polish officials and citizens were killed separate investigations by both russia and poland came to similar conclusions that the actions of the pilots ultimately led to the crash however later warsaw said serious mistakes were made by our traffic

controllers to. in fact in 2017 polish prosecutors accuse those russian air traffic controllers of deliberately causing the crash then a 2nd polish commission claimed there was an explosion on board before the plane hit the ground director of the crisis research center mark almond believes politics will please a central role in the long running case. this is a highly politicized event and of course the polish prosecution authorities are political appointees so it's not a so this is a kind of scientific show who needs to help probe i think all the evidence sadly tragically is that it was an accident and accident will be very high profile figures from the president of poland down to form 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's

highly unlikely that pardons to 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 the. more than one in 10 believe that was the. full story.

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it in minutes past the hour welcome back the european parliament has been chewing over the situation in belarus the e.u. also welcomed the russian opposition coordination and demanded the fresh election take place but. brussels is in no position to call the shots stating mediation is the only option our senior correspondent 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 electoral 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 may seem odd 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 she's being accused and charged with trying to seize power and destabilize their worst nor fully 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 against president bush 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 to reside but we've also seen someone. a slow down there less and less spontaneous protest during the during the week thing this week there have been hardly any in a public strike organized and called for by the opposition yesterday was a failure they call didn't people and businesses to shut down for people to not go to work that was a fairly 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. like the take on this from author and russia analyst martin mccauley who believes thurst this resolution is reminiscent of the west stance on venezuela last year. there's a parallel there because the good one you were doing it is recognized by you know states brazil and most of the e.u. states including britain which runs germany as rigid had been president of venezuela. is still in power in caracas ledoux and knows that if he has enough money to pay for his security services he can keep going and we will then look at the door and say well he's still in power he's got the money he can get international loans china russia and other countries and loan him a lot of money russia oh no no need money i can pay the security services and the

military and there's no reason why they should change the words. he's being called on for frequently making gaffes on the campaign trail and joe biden is confused around on iraq when talking to veterans about where they had fought in pottle. u.s. troops died 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 in iran and scuse me we tried to ukraine i mean i know someone who has been injured or lost to. let me tell you something i mean we. well it is the particular conflict in iraq which joe biden has been widely criticized for playing a key role in or theorizing back in 2003 at the time he chaired the u.s.

congress foreign relations committee and chills all 18 pro-war witnesses in the main hearings on iraq and 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 in the same number of contractors lost their lives in the invasion along with tens of thousands more iraqis well 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 he'd be little me a scouting boy he said people above my pay grade were making this citizens etc 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 vote 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 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 talking about war above all talking about sacrifice he literally has no

credibility it doesn't resonate. ok to a story that's got a lot of people talking today a new survey house fund there is a stunning lack of knowledge about the horrors of the holocaust among young adult americans that research was conducted in all 50 states and find 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 believed it was the jews themselves who were behind the atrocities. however a majority did agree it was important to learn about the events to ensure it's never repeated and that holocaust education should be compulsory we asked young people in new york what they had learned in their history classes. i mean couple 1000000000. people died and i thought it was 3000000 i believe it was 6 times.

6000000 people. the exact number but it. was a. pretty big dave day right it's weird like now it's kind of like there's a conspiracy theorists that think it didn't happen. during the 2nd world war the nazis and their collaborators set up more than 40 thoughtless in concentration camps and ghettos in which alone almost a 1000000 jewish people were slaughtered or 2 thirds of all of europe's jews were wiped out holocaust expert mark schulman believes the us education system is feeling 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 in 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 sir 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 or 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 violence but again it's not only the holocaust it's the cause of the american revolution the cold war make you a bet that if you asked people what the battle of stalingrad was in the united states these same kids about you know more than 5 percent would be able to answer that question in any sort of relative. sensible way or not is our lot for now if

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