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one minute past 9 pm here in moscow this friday september the names you know neal and you're welcome to the program. the office of russia's prosecutor general has requested sweden share their findings on the alleged nerve agent poisoning of kremlin critic. that's after moscow was left chasing its tail in efforts to see the test results which are said to point to novacek being used germany's directed to the global chemical weapons watchdog but the o.p.c. w.

say it should talk to berlin. because 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 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 with russia insists its doctors find no trace of novacek or any other poison when the valmy was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed that willingness to cooperate in order to establish exactly what happened meanwhile independent test by france and sweden have also confirm the presence of a nerve agent. has 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 that is questions arise which only the russian government can and must answer we continue calling us here to just to get 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 nothing at 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 or 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 or b 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 player 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 these 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 in immigration admission of guilt. and in the latest post on the valley's

instagram account of video shows his team searching his hotel room in thompson shortly after news broke that he had fallen severely ill wearing surgical gloves they collect evidence and plastic bags which according to the police were passed to the german authorities one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of novacek but one of the co-creators of that very nerve agent leonid rink claims if it was used in the film he would never have made it to the plane he was traveling all. around he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was normal junk 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 and not words 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. or amid the fallout from the evolving case calls have been mounting on germany to ditch the nord stream to gas pipeline project but the heads of key east german regions have come to the defense of the joint venture with russia. the bard one is economically necessary for wants but it's also necessary that we stay together with the russian it's a project that plays a decisive role in the framework of altered energy and climate policy and therefore we've come to the conclusion that we want to carry on with it and to those that

advocates closer ties with russia i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny was an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. north stream too is a pipeline project which will pump russian gas to germany and then on to other european countries by the baltic sea when completed its a row 90 percent there are no it will double the amount of gas flowing from russia germany construction began in 28 d. but has been halted a number of times with the us and some eastern european countries launching their objections washington slapped sanctions on the project last year claiming it risks european energy security. for example the poor tired of zionists find itself threatened with crushing sanctions by american senators the locality has been playing a key role in supporting the pipe fleet involved in north stream to construction

but the tons mirror locals alike remain defiant in the face of u.s. pressure. she told me that merican cells are getting gas from russia and i don't find it very nice that they're trying to tell us what to do here. the project misled for the town it is a big thing it created a lot of jobs for locals and the town became a little more significant thanks to it and i want to see very clearly it's really seamless the way the united states is trying to manipulate german law suit european interests so they're all interests come out on top. of parliament member martin told her told the program he believes the severing of economic ties with russia would prove hugely detrimental to eastern germany. there is a big problem and i think. it also left alone of the german government well and the

. play of the existence of the people in east germany because anybody who tries are stronger and russian and east of frankly is very productive and i think the central should listen listen more to that and i think there's are all the way and especially for the people in east germany of this region it will be more bitter effect for west germany. another story we're closely following today russia's demanding immediate answers from the u.s. after an n.b.c. news report claim washington is providing weapons to ukrainian militants in crimea . unnamed u.s. official speak about their country's support of terrorist activities in the 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's 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 you still try to piece piece of the puzzle together here but we do know the u.s. has been supporting the 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 the 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 eastern ukraine the pro

q. of 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 passports had previously been caught there by russian security forces for planning terrorist attacks so in this case some 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 who killed american troops in afghanistan well done 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 but we were accused of relations with the taliban inducing them to carry out special operations against american troops for 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 as there was nothing to back them up and the taliban also said it was completely false . still ahead return of the lock done so israel becomes the 1st country to

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peaceful protesters have been illegally detained beaten and raped sampled that protests have been found dead there also needs fast and resolute decisions. it's a very important truth of the nearness that tended are for democratic principles and human rights is not interfering in tenor yes it is a universal question of human dignity the foreign minister of belarus sounds responded claiming the un human rights session was direct interference in the country's internal affairs it comes a day after the european parliament said it would no longer recognize alexander lukashenko as the legitimate president of belarus bogart's not discourage his supporters from taking to the streets as has been done daily to counter the ongoing opposition protests in the capital minsk while the demonstrations are relatively small during the week the weekend's continued to see mass rallies by the opposition

to him self recent big named mistaken of sky was the 2nd venice when and why do appointed by external forces. now 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 wideout and declared president. live now to journalist and broadcaster neil clark for more insight neil good to see you. sky as u.n. address neal comes just a day after european lawmakers decided to no longer recognized as president what can we read into that. well i think if president bush anchor guest said on the clip you played this is the next stage racin this we've seen this film before haven't we been in venezuela of course when they the west the u.s.

and western powers tried through that proxies to topple the government there and when that it looked for a while that might succeed when it didn't they then planned to turn to plan b. which was to anoint the so-called opposition leader as the legitimate leader of that country get advocation we could actually call this process so that's what's happened this week the guy the european parliament couldn't even get the name of the country right could he refer to ukraine and not belarus which was probably it for you it slipped yeah this is part of the strategy to deal it into my eyes look at franco by saying that the opposition an opposition leader is the present course it's illegal but it's a new step if you think back to the iraq war even then the western leaders bush and blair were saying that somebody else was there you iraq or saddam hussein was in iraq so they can't get their way through baten or through regime change nor regime change message what they will then do is to say that the person they approve of is

the leader of that country that's as quite astonishing and can't be accepted kind of because we cannot allow the european parliament or whoever it is deciding who is the leader of a certain country that just isn't right her u.n. appearance was strictly imposed by minsk russia venezuela and china was the un right to even give her a platform. no i don't think so because it's unprecedented isn't it there are a lot of countries in the world you know where the disputed election results an awful lot of countries where people believe that the result was impaired but the u.n. hasn't given those leaders of those opposition parties a platform like this you know it's belarus it's quite astonishing how it's become a kind of special case a couple weeks ago i looked at the b.b.c. news website and the belarus demonstrations anti-government demonstrations were the front headline the front but on the front the lead the lead story on the b.b.c. website quite extraordinary belarus was leading the news on the b.b.c.

and yet the day before we had a $35000.00 rally in protest in london in central london close to the b.b.c. didn't get a mention that was against the lockdown here so it's amazing that this belarusian issue is being elevated by the un by the western media etc into the biggest thing going on in the world at the moment quite clearly it is and of course there's the other paradox which i just need to mention briefly the great paradox is we're heading toward another lock down tonight as i speak we've been told they're likely to lock down the listed lock down so that's another irony the country even the didn't lock down along with sweden is a country that's been denounced and condemned everywhere there was more intriguing part of the address new she said settlement economic sky i were all standing up for democracy is not quote interference in internal affairs that remark opens up a lot of questions it certainly does because who defines democracy there's

a lot of different models democracy does direct democracy in direct democracy parliamentary democracy so the idea that there is one what with democracy some countries would some people would say are democratic others will say they will work so i think that whole idea that there is this one more the course of western model of democracy. that she is referring to look there are many many ways of defining democracy. i think it's very wrong that the trouble with that of course is that you get this neo con. this neo con exploitation of this to try to justify regime change is an intervention on the grounds of bringing democracy to countries which we saw of course that was one of the pretext for the iraq war syria as well the intervention there sits very high let me also wish to throw in new himself calls taken off sky a 2nd glide oh appointed by international powers yes exactly this is of course the deal to get to my eyes because what will have they're hoping that will follow on

from this is that more countries will recognize her as the legitimate leader of belarus and then of course you get the problem about embassies the belarussian embassies they are not representing the real leader by the rest as i'll say so it is already 2 legal legal problems and we cannot accept at this point the kind of except a situation internationally where the certain countries in the west. give themselves the right to eat leaders of countries because they didn't listen but it was they could do it it russia next time they could do it somewhere else they could say look we don't agree with that election we don't think the opposition leader that's the real leader of the country how our it that the arrogance of this is absolute we could imagine it look at franco said say 2017 but we had a very close election in britain i don't recognise the reason mate as the prime minister of britain i recognise dr because that the election what could you imagine

the outcry that this is what the west is doing in belarus so it cannot be allowed totally real new as always thank you for your time and your thoughts neil clark journalist and broadcaster thank you very much and. in a bid to stem rising covert infection rates israel's entered a 2nd national lockdown it's come into force right of the start of the jewish new year or so to last 3 weeks it's not gone down well with an already pandemic weary public on rick's round overnight in tel aviv against the new restrictions people held placards claiming the virus has been blown out of all proportion shortly before the new lock down for the fire bursts this report. as well as 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 wash

and now on friday night you then have your own keep poor which is the most holy day on 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. to most and schools and shopping centers are to be closed this follows a steady rise in the number of covered positive cases wednesday so when i'm president it is 6000 new cases being reported in one day the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that these moves on this area and follow an in-depth conversation that he hold with the country's health minister. in the last 2 days we have witnessed another lawman increase in 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 is very frustrating it's killing the economy and many people feel like there is no hope and they don't know what is going on we're basically going crazy we can't work we can't go out we can't 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 help i expect that instructions will go down but that the right back up as soon as the closure hangs honestly it 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 want i do anything i want people i still say don't wear

masks so i really don't understand how this is going to help anything now israel is not the 1st country that during the 1st wave witnessed a decline and is not experiencing a spike in cases the u.k. and france are in similar situations and so we can cautiously say that no country is a new from the 2nd wave be locked. 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 a head of the curfew it's also questionable when they came out be able to report from the studio as this new doctor comes into place. insurance companies are counting the cost of blocked lives motor protests in the u.s. record historic claims have been submitted after many of the demonstrations the standard into riots and looting the final dollar bill will be in the billions.

i. certainly the money that that needs to be spent the businesses that have been completely destroyed small businesses black american businesses minority businesses all small businesses of all american citizens together people's lives have been completely destroyed not only by the shutdowns from co-lead which again federal judges are ruling were unconstitutional shutdowns of the economy shutdowns of

people's lives but now inciting violence and protests this is not about george floyd this is not about his his death or what has happened there this has now morphed into something that is far bigger it's all coming up on the 2020 alexion only as violence being carried out against law enforcement against police officers but violence carried out against businesses destruction of property loss of lives which the media in america is completely ignoring a reminder if you'd like to delve deeper into any of those stories or t. dot com is a good destination to travel towards we'll get the news going again here in 30 hope you'll join me a bit.