one of the. mechanisms. through the good to the resilience to remove flourishing. goes on. was the chemical weapons watchdog to. test results the. point russia back towards germany. we've been to you several times and they say. russia demands answers from washington amid reports the united states is groups in crimea that moscow uses terrorists. means health brings the most of the code vaccines under development have been snapped up by rich nations leaving the poor at the back of the queue.

from moscow thanks for joining us there at r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. has been left. to see the test results showing critical was poisoned with germany's directed russia to the global chemical weapons watchdog but the o.p.c. w. says it should talk to. their excuses are completely contrived germany says it can't tell us anything in direct to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons we've been to the c.w. several times and they say talk to berlin we are ready to talk to anyone but not when in the absence of facts we are pressured into giving an account of ourselves on the basis of specific clearly formulated concerns we are always ready to have a professional conversation. russia insists its doctors found no trace of lava charcoal or any other poison when he was in their care it's repeatedly throughout

this willingness to cooperate in order to establish exactly what happened in wa independent by france and sweden of also the presence of a nerve agent you've been looking at the latest controversies surrounding the case . alexina volley is recovering whatever it was killing his body is on retreat and the politician seems to be almost out of these woods so concerns over his health make room for concerns over what exactly happened and europe is demanding that russia aids the investigation installations arise which only the russian government can and must answer we continue calling us here to investigate this our demand is that russia urgently explain what happened well russia has already contributed by not letting alexina valmy die in the 1st crucial hours after the politician fell sick russia contributed by opening its airspace to a team of german doctors letting them visit russia contributed by eventually

putting him on a german rescue plane allowing the value to be airlifted to berlin and by offering its medical data to german colleagues so now russia says the ball is in germany's court moscow current aid the investigation if it's kept in the dark on emerging evidence to the press with enough when it all all this is taking place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to jointly sort out what happened i've been dismissed and a far fetched pretext that's hurdles are brought into the race because berlin starts playing a game of all take and no give russia can get the results of the expertise made in german labs since it will reveal too much of the german army's capabilities too much but only to russia's eyes apparently because berlin had no problem with sharing its data with almost 200 other nations member states of the or b c

w we are very negatively the fact that germany refusing to assist the russian law enforcement agencies secretly transferred no boundaries test data to its trusted partners it is clear that this was done with a political purpose. so that france and sweden would automatically confirm unfounded accusations against russia but wait russia is a member state of the o.p.c. w. and that means it finally has all the time in the world to scrupulously study everything the germany could find right wrong the only thing that it actually means is that russia can hop on the merry go round of rejections because berlin tells moscow it can get everything from the o.p.c. w and the o p c w saying the exact opposite bumping russia right back to berlin russia is in a loop which doesn't really help o.p.c. w.'s reputation with moscow as russia had previously accused the un bag watchdog of

becoming politicized by your p.c. don't you like so many international concessions it's always great to be subject to political pressure and that's critically from of course those the funded largely funded that's largely the western powers we've seen with the p.c. to abuse role in investigating alleged chemical attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame have been riddled with inconsistences and problems that will not rise in independent investigation but that there appears to be scope for political interference and pressure to take close we saw a similar situation in respect to the case where. it was very reluctant to share its information with russia in respect of it what do you have to discover in terms of chemical analysis and so on giving no access to evidence keeping waters murky

playing every bureaucratic trick in the book this is how the e.u. is shutting out russia's investigators also raising the sanctions guillotine over the country almost like it wants to know investigation from russia but an immigration admission of guilt. well in the latest post on the valley's instagram account a video shows his team searching his hotel room in tomsk shortly after news broke that he'd fall and severely ill wearing surgical gloves they collect evidence in plastic bags which according to the post were passed on to the german authorities one of the water was they submitted it was said to contain traces of novice truck one of the co-creators of that very nerve agent learned the rink claims if it was used in a valley would never have even made it to the plane he was traveling on. it would be found he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel if it was normal jock and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in small or not very

toxic doses 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. russia's demanding immediate answers from washington after an n.b.c. news report claimed america is providing weapons to ukrainian militants in crimea. unnamed u.s. official speak about their country's support of terrorist activities in 3rd

countries in this case these talks specifically about russia if that is true we demand that the u.s. side clarify as to whether or not washington has directly or indirectly facilitated the is be you ukrainian security services in organizing terrorist attacks against the people of crimea the n.b.c. report itself is actually about a completely different case about allegations that the russians secretly bribed or paid bounties to taliban fighters which killed u.s. troops in afghanistan moscow has firmly denied that anything like it is possible so the n.b.c. report cites a number of u.s. military officials and sources as well some of them are saying that there is no solid proof of that others are confident about the theory and this brings us to the part that really caught the attention of russian officials because down at the bottom of the read one of these sources is mentioning u.s.

military aid for ukrainian fighters in crimea none the less current and former u.s. officials have said many cia officers and analysts came to believe a bounty program existed they concluded that the russians viewed it as a proportional response to the u.s. arming of ukrainian units fighting russian forces in crimea the source. of these allegations are still quite murky still try to piece piece of the puzzle together here but we do know the u.s. has been supporting ukrainian military quite openly over the wall tell you what ever since the conflict in southeast ukraine broke out ukraine has been heavily reliant on u.s. military aid and i'll tell you what the latest batch of that equipment that's part of the u.s. support which is worth $60000000.00 u.s. dollars and the one that included javelin anti-tank missiles was sent in june but this. it was just the latest in a serious of shipments and these shipments were also preceded by non lethal

military aid all of this intended for the ukrainian forces that are fighting pro russian forces in east ukraine the pro forces in that donbass region they comprise of proper ukrainian troops which is the army and also nationalist battalions but when it comes to climbing there is no military activity there the whole principle is under control of the russian army however infiltrators with the ukrainian past boards have previously been caught there by russian security forces for planning terrorist attacks so in this case u.s. support for ukraine to fight the russians in crimea that's a completely different story and that's a real cause for concern in moscow so what about these allegations that russia actually offered bounties to taliban fighters or killed american troops in

afghanistan while then going back to these claims about some kind of bribes by some kind of russian secret agents for taliban fighters they 1st surfaced in the new york times back in june but even the n.b.c. article that i began with starts with the words of the head of the u.s. central command who says that he doesn't have any solid proof to back this up for now and if we talk about the russian officials again they were firmly confident that this kid an be the case that all previously the russian foreign ministry surrogate said that russia would never stoop so low as to engage in such dirty tactics. we were accused of relations with the taliban if inducing them to carry out special operations against american troops or financial rewards. for its own interests and belief. i think it's beneath the dignity to suspect that russia could

be behind such things by the way the pentagon had to deny these allegations because there was nothing to back them up and the taliban also said it was completely false . a small group of wealthy nations already secured over half the invision to future supply of covert 19 vaccines that's according to a report by the oxfam charity it means only 13 percent of the world's population will initially have access to the sought after drug market also in the head of inequality policy division says this is a consequence of pharmaceutical companies seeking to maximize profits it's extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations monopolizing the supply of potential. but more importantly they're doing deals with big pharmaceutical corporations which are defending their intellectual property and their profit meaning that the supply of vaccine being artificially

limited. there won't be enough vaccines to go around to meet global demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates for which nations across the world seal the deal are currently in the final stages of clinical trials who are even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the shower is extremely unlikely around 2 thirds of the world's population will still have to go without the vaccine until at least 2022 now on top of potential drug shortages oxfam says the vaccine deals lay inequality between prosperous and developing countries for example the u.k.'s managed to secure as many as 5 doses per person for the vaccine depending of course how trials go bangladesh you can see a stark contrast here only one vaccine per 9 people actually loss and loss and again the prolong with an availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths. companies like medan are in the us are only sending

them back to very rich countries they said again or bury high price somewhere between $16.00 a dose and you have to have 2 doses so that's like 70 dollars per person so they are very clear that they they're doing things to make a profit and they want to make money from this vaccine what we're saying is we need a people's backs not a profit vaccine and we need to see. the breaking down of the patent barriers and we need to see open sharing your banks in technology to maximize the supply of safe and effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible the huge economic and human cost of the delay in the variability of the vaccine if you think countries like india or south africa or brazil if these countries are not getting access to safe saying until 2022 then they would have more lockdowns their economies would

be huge trouble many many people would die who do not need to because the vaccine has been artificially russian and for the profits of pharmaceutical corporations. israel and that a 2nd national lockdown on friday last for at least 3 weeks the anti covert measures come into force just hours before the start of the jewish new year that's made the decision deeply unpopular with an already we are republic hundreds of against the new locked out in central tel aviv on thursday night it will help lock arms claiming covert had been blown out of all proportion shortly before the looked on r.t. as fall asleep report from tel aviv. israel is bracing for an unprecedented 2nd nationwide covered 19 and a lockdown that will see the next 3 weeks with strict restrictions being imposed now this. is a particularly joyous time usually of the year you have the jewish new year

washington now on friday night you then have your kid poor which is the most holy day of the jewish calendar and you should be thousands upon thousands of people will be in some regard this time that won't happen so a lot of disappointment here amongst the population among the other measures being implemented are no more than 10 people indoors remaining within 500 meters of one's home businesses cannot accept customers and schools and shopping centers are to be closed this follows a steady rise in the number of covered positive cases wednesday saw an unprecedented 6000 new cases being reported in one day the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that these moves are necessary and follow an in-depth conversation that he held with the country's health minister. in the last 2 days we have witnessed another lawman in greece and deaths and the continued increase in the number of critically ill patients as many of the experts have recommended we

may have no choice but to tighten the guidelines now there has been a mixed reaction to the new lockdown on thursday night protesters gathered here in tel aviv to demonstrate against the new measures we caught up with ordinary citizens to ask them what they feel it's very frustrating it's killing the economy many people feel like there is no hope and they don't know what is going on they're basically going crazy we can't work we can't go out we can do whatever we used to do it's probably a good thing because cases are rising that the roof so that's what we're going to do but i don't think it's going to expect that instructions will go down but that the right back up as soon as the closure earnings honestly doesn't affect me at all i don't understand why it's much of a closure i understand schools some of the stores are closed. but where i live 500 meters i go anywhere i do anything i want people i still say don't wear

a mask i really don't know how this is going to help it now israel is not the 1st country that during the 1st wave witnessed a decline and is now experiencing a spike in cases the u.k. and france are in similar situations and so we can cautiously save no country is from the 2nd wave the lockdown we're going to place at 2 o'clock local time this afternoon people out on the streets right now last minute shopping a lot of activity ahead of the curfew it's also questionable when they gave i'll be able to report from the studio as this new doctor comes into place. but a russian opposition leader has called on the world to stand up for democracy so a lot of the one oscar was addressing the human rights of the united nations which was debating the ongoing crisis in butterworth. this edition of the bureau's demands immediate international attention peaceful protesters have been illegally

detained beaten and raped some of the protesters have been found dead there also needs fast as a result of the decisions. it's very important to go in there is that extended hour for democratic principles in human rights is not interfering in internal affairs it is a universal question of human dignity well this comes a day after the european parliament said it would no longer recognize an exam because the legitimate president of but of those though that's not discourage his supporters from taking to the streets daily to counter the ongoing opposition protests in the capital minsk while we demonstrations are not much smaller in scale since the disputed election we can continue to see mass rallies by the opposition in more than a month of the protests thousands have been arrested in the. police have been accused of brutality look at himself recently claims for

a lot of the cut off is the 2nd one as well and wide oh appointed by external forces. the next phase has begun intense political financial and diplomatic pressure from outside neighboring countries refusing to recognize the election results and just like we saw in venezuela they found a better russian why don't you and declared president. well i'm not a christian political analyst thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today took it off because you were dressed so we heard a fragment that comes just a day after european lawmakers decided they no longer recognized as the legitimate president of belarus what can we read into that. well i think the real question is what the european union intends to do and the answer is i think very whistle despite the americans using this actually i i believe as a weevil i gainst germany for its own interests the truth is that germany the dominant country in the e.u.

has got deep energy interests in intending links of belarus and i don't think when push comes to shove is prepared to take the sorts of action she was calling to bring down. schenkel so while there is much rhetoric i don't think there's that much action the sorts of sanctions we're seeing a personalized as was the case in russia and elsewhere identifying individuals so i think you know it be a lovely world we live it where every country in the world took action over human rights abuses but let's be honest we know that governments states take action in accordance with their own interests and it gets it could the european union in particular germany have got quite serious economic interests in sending links with belarus so i'm just curious that the same sandy americans want to use this as part of the cold war against russia but also as another means of disciplining germany within the western count her appearance was opposed obviously by by minsk

itself also by venezuela which found itself in a similar divided position last year permanent security council members russia china as well do you think the u.n. was right to give her a platform given the circumstances. well i think there's nothing wrong with giving anyone a platform and not in that sense but i think there is a difference between hope is that belarus is not venezuela venezuela is right in the united states backyard it's also all go our country bordering colombia which is go a real interest in helping not helping you will withdraw in ways that the european union aren't going to do so i think the deal has failed to bring down. the river. but he had more support if you write from the americans directly our us is less important for the americans the one to get rid of him saying call they want to embarrass and put the pressure on the united states and russia as part of this

new cold war but it is not as high as gender for the trump administration as is venezuela. in her address she called the world to stand up for democracy and said this wasn't interference in internal affairs that certainly the way russia feels about things are these 2 flip sides of the same coin where is that line do you think. i know it was a sound of the resilin because the world unfortunately doesn't stand up for democracy we're not standing up for democracy in saudi saudi arabia i could go through a whole list of countries where we turn arise from our really dreadful human rights and human rights abuses so there is an immense amount of hypocrisy here we do not live in a world where states take action because of the concern for human rights and civil liberties we live in a world where we take action because of the rule and usually economic and political interests and that is why the european union is caught in a quest stake here of course once to be seen to be doing something with democracy

in belarus but the same time it doesn't want to maintenance the fuel and energy resources which are coming from and through that country so they're caught in a don lemon and the question is i think is that at the end of the day the demonstrations do continue we did see a general strike briefly which might approach going to change the regime it's hard to see in previous record without the west thinking really big resources into this which really escalate the situation and i think is relative when ally quit that wishing that we brought down just by symbol a big demonstrations at the weekend as a package to back in state and he has he has the time in his sights if you like his experience is that such movements are difficult to sustain over weeks over months the people when to lose things that need what the ability to bring down a government for a dozen resources the state the state has got control over the means of violence in sight that society itself i think the time is on women schenkel state and really in

the failure of the european union to act to the united nations that is no weeks on in this in the city and means the opposition should be rather more critical than they have been about the u.n. record about the e.u. record but there again they're beholden to them so maybe in a bite and feeds them. response time today here in our international. greek authorities have begun housing thousands of moderates in a new tent city on the island of less boss after the mori account they had been in was destroyed in a suspected arson attack earlier this month. 70 police officers in protective suits were dispatched to the island many refugees are

going live on the streets since fire and the number of a number have been refusing to be reality in the time count riot police and vehicles try to round up and escort the migrants to the new facility the greek government believes the fire is a sign that secure closed units are the only safe solution to the issue. but the recent fires to showing the need to immediately close the disciplined open reception centers for refugees and migrants integrate closed controlled centers which will provide humane living conditions double fencing secure entrances surveillance systems and fire safety. the morea migrant combo's the largest refugee center in europe however it was extremely overcrowded and often outbreak of covert looked on measures were made to be life intolerable for residents unless we spoke to believe the situation on the failure of europe's migration policies. i think this pit denies is the total 'd failure of europe's management of massive migration how many years have we been speaking about problems links to massive migration in

europe over a 1000000 microswitch into just germany a 2050 what are they doing today are they working are the integrated of the speaking german the european union is not talking about that or not i'm not even talking about it in france spain other countries where immigration is just a massive problem it's there is no policy managed by the european union and this camp where migrants or jews are burning down their own facilities just shows how bad treatment of this whole situation is by the european union what is this european union so we tell people from all over africa that they could come over and we can't even pay for facilities to this just doesn't make sense it's not the 1st time that samoa had their until it was completely down to the ground in 5 and 16 out of 80 they've been many many times where we had fire incidents and actually 7 people died during fire recently moya 0 or so died there from i speak because they were trying to. incite that sense so as long as you have the set of their missions

needs to be all the clothing you have to remind maybe that's and did present there was always going to have a credit so i the time of the day with 13000 people and staying in there in a center that most men fall 2800 we had as many as 20000 people in the something so obvious need this has been the main rescan nothing has been done by the authorities to prevent that from happening they've been meaning to then so you know demonstrations tension say place a very violent place and who is understandable because of the living conditions because of the way people about speaking in in displaced. crosstalk next we're back in 30 minutes with the latest join us again that. a new gold rush is underway in ghana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich. as.

children are torn between gold and education from me was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle over the last 3 presidential election cycles there is clear evidence voters are

attracted to the message of not interventionism and are very weary of foreign wars this most certainly helps trump in 2016 but his time in office is best now joe biden appears to embrace the same foreign policies as bush and obama i guess nothing really will undo mentally change. across talking forever wars i'm joined by my guest laura fink in san diego she is the founder and c.e.o. of rebel communications as well as a democratic strategist and in new york we crossed the line on he is a legal and media analyst i crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i also appreciate it ok i was going to san diego a laura joe biden the presidential candidate for the democrats he had an interview with.