we're in it together. with the e.u. for jumping to conclusions with little regard for the truth. resolution for tougher sanctions on russia. against opposition figures. claiming on social media he was poisoned in his hotel room in the siberian city of . there's been a new twist in a decade long between russia and poland a polish presidential plane crash in 20 over western russia. today.

americans don't know many people died in the holocaust significant sure even the. new yorkers. are. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow and that is friday september the 18th a very warm welcome to the program my names you know. the european parliament adopted a resolution calling for more sanctions to be stopped and russian response to the alleged poisoning attempt made against opposition figures. most corresponded by saying many politicians in the block are old. judgement before any jews process has been conducted. the nature of the latest statements coming out of brussels

makes us think that our western partners are not interested in stablished of the true measure them home it's common sense will prevail on the un the end and our partners will dish the practice of arbitrary attributing blame and make conclusions based on real and confirmed facts and the informant never will artie's peter over has more now on the votes in the european parliament and 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 and other sanctions against those that are featured in alexei involving these on the corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an international probe into what happened to alexa and of ali 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 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 angela in 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 berland 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 to impede the new the restrictions with obviously anti russian tendencies and all these companies are afraid of really into trying to investigate what happened are ignored under some made up pretax kremlin spokesperson dmitri press corps was also talking about nord stream too he says it's a putin 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 gas pipeline 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 he thought 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 on the scenting the voices are coming out german m.e.p. maximillian crier who took part in thursday'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 the enter 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 answers are always the same or go on and 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 our nuclear incident occurred with miss an advantage is such an opportunity to

push the own again and so it was clear from the beginning that this chance would be used. well today sitting of the european parliament also touched upon the situation in belarus and the fallout from the country's disputed election deloris opposition coordination was welcomed into this session well we'll hear reaction to that including live reaction later in the program. alexina ballyhoo conscious he's 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 text a water bottle. with a trace of an over top nerve agent was found in his hotel room in the city of toms his colleagues say they took the bottle as evidence just an hour after these alleged poisoning came to light r t t l m has been looking at the claim 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 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 latex 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 very we can see that the right to 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 they are 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 circular 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 no joke with a russian citizen managed to survive thanks to a happy coincidence what is this happening the interest as you would have said the impeccable work of our pilots doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence that you don't even admit that we are. it in a proper way to the people but this family of novi 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 to 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 the 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 we're staying with this story a little bit longer a wall of the creators of the actual love a child nerve agent ring believes if the substance was used mr novelli would never have made it to his plane in the 1st place. val need wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel last if it was normal john and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in smaller not very toxic doses provokes pupil contraction in such a way of your person would be almost blind so could barely move so even with only very mild exposure it would never be 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 you would read 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. should walk through craigslist get that over you but if they wanted to poison develop it 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 says it won't extradite to poland 3 or traffic controllers who are working on the day of the then

polish president's fatal plane crash in 2010 a kremlin spokesperson said the move would not be permitted on the russian law it comes after an investigative group from the polish prosecutor general's office applied to get a court motion to of the russian citizens temporarily arrested siggins the air traffic controllers concerned the deliberate provocation of a plane crash resulting in the deaths of many people. the tragedy happened on april 2010 in western russia where they polish president was heading for an official visit the plane crashed while trying to forget and generally poor weather conditions all those on board including the president's wife and 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 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 ullman believes politics still plays a central role in the long running case. this is a highly politicized event and of course the polish. political appointees so. this is a kind of scientific show. i think all the evidence sadly tragically is that it was an accident and accident 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 also been a poisonous development inside polish politics because of course the present government accuses its predecessor of covering up the alleged russian plot it's

highly unlikely that parnes to to skin so and his colleagues were serving the interests of russia they were quite quite critical of president putin spoke of his 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. moscow. after the.

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just approaching 18 minutes into the program welcome back a new survey has fun there's a stunning lack of knowledge about the horrors of the holocaust among young adult americans the research was conducted in all 50 states and among 18 to 39 year olds most didn'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 they are never repeated and that holocaust education should be compulsory we asked 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 it was 6 times that i or 6000000 people.

and remember anything else 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 40000 concentration camps and ghettos in auschwitz alone almost a 1000000 jewish people were slaughtered while 2 thirds of all of europe's jews were wiped out all across the expert shulman believes the u.s. education system is failing students. the reality is the american americans generally american youth for 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 secondary they teach history and that's the reality of a history in the united states it's a national problem because it's impossible for people in my opinion to make political choices if they are understand history and what came before that and what one of the causes of events but again it's not only the holocaust it's of course the american revolution the cold war a make you bet that if you asked people what the battle of stalingrad was in the united states these came kids about you know more than 5 percent would be able to answer that question in any sort of relative. sensible way.

the european parliament has been chewing over the situation in belarus the e.u. also welcomed the belorussian opposition coordination consul and demanded their fresh election take place but moscow says brussels is in no position to call the shots stating mediation is the only option or senior correspondent what does the of 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 and 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 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 bush and co to merely organizing new elections lithuania by the way had previously also recognized the north of one of the rivals running against 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 slow down there less and less spontaneous protest during the during the week days this week that have been hardly any public trite organized and 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 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. always good to get the thoughts of done we'll show daniel is a professor and senior research fellow at the council on hemispheric affairs and he

is live on the program at delhi the european commission president lashed out at russia really over its alleged foreign interference but i put it to you at the same time the e.u. is calling for a fresh election in belarus on this quite forwardly bucking the opposition council you know the european union in the west in general in us imperialism are the last forces with any moral force to be able to intervene in belorussia in affairs look at these very forces the e.u. and the us have done to syria to then as well look at their interference with their meat in concert revolution in 2014 in ukraine so they would like nothing more than to take really what a small but significant piece of the global chess board back from any russian influence and back from what really is the last vestige of the soviet union if you will how defining

a moment do you think the use official recognition of the opposition council is essentially ignoring the current government you alluded to there perhaps parlay old can we draw it washington's recognition of one why don't as venezuela's president last year. yeah the recognition of a slot on a ticket to sky is very similar to the recognition of a little one in 50 western countries recognize guy though this is so that they have a justification to siphon off the gold of venezuela and of course the massive oil and gas resources of venezuela and citgo in that it is one guy though is their puppet president who they consider to be legitimate and that's the way that they can. legally unquote aleutian playbook blueprint in store for bell the rules no different from what they've done in ukraine what they've tried to do unsuccessfully in iran i would they dream about doing to russia in china as well

the distancing to be much nuanced or in-depth discussion in brussels are you surprised that europe taking sides so blatantly in such issues like that. it comes as no surprise and unfortunately it's the same apparatus and network of think tanks public relations firms in brussels in washington d.c. in paris. that make these oppositions whether it's the quote unquote syrian opposition or it was the libyan opposition some years back i same thing that they continually do it should be seen as nothing more than attempts at recon as a shin some of which have been a miserable failure as others have been very successful but with the west has been most successful and through this sanctioning blockading of any country with an iota of sovereignty is in forcing a ton of suffering in hunger on the people of venezuela on the people of cuba and

in nicaragua and pion being and this is what it looks like they want to do now with their sanctions against bella reuss a country of 9400000 people who can afford to be sanctioned they have enough issues especially now at the height of a global pandemic like that's what i thought you were just going to say danny what consequences if any do you expect the resolution to have for the question to unbalance in general. consequences will be felt by the public sector by the everyday people that's the design of sanctions as it was stated by the undersecretary of state department in 1960. when the u.s. 1st began this sanctions against cuba. quote unquote these sanctions were there to still congar in stoke hopelessness and despair in hopes that the cuban people in this in this case the by the russian people will rise up against. this is been the

cia the state department the pentagon the imperialist playbook now for how many decades. pleasure's always have you on the program from new york city today danielle shaw senior research fellow at the council on hemispheric 1st thank you. reminder for up to the moment developments today our twitter page has you covered well with some of your scrolling live from moscow this is our international.

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