well now. in the headlines at midday moscow time europe scrambles to deal with a rapid surging coronavirus cases with spain becoming the latest nation to reimpose . while governments elsewhere also mild new restrictions ahead of the flu season coming. up in the german regions involved in the nordstrom to gas pipeline project reject mounting calls to scrap it as locals in one port town threatened with u.s. sanctions over the energy link from russia strike it to find out.

that they're trying to tell us what to do here it's really shameless the way the united states is trying to manipulate german loss and european interests so their own interests come out on top. donald trump lashes out at what he brands left wing propaganda in u.s. universities claiming courses looking at racial inequality or finding riots and mayhem on the streets of america i guess debate whether that's really. all critical for you to read the only thing that it does is it gives people of color an excuse to try to not try hard this idea of color blind. in the here it raises. good afternoon i'm kevin in this is out international law my world news h.q. here in moscow this weekend i'm here for the next hour with the latest headlines

starting with this the u.k. is admitted that a 2nd coronavirus wave is now inevitable and appears to be hinting that maybe a 2nd national could be on its way in one form or other while elsewhere on the continent countries are seeing record infection rates to. go to the worst affected country europe will be reimposing a partial lockdown in madrid starting monday but announced. will smith with protests in the city on friday with hundreds demanding the resignation of the regional chiefs there peace around a looks at how european countries and trying to cope ahead of the flu season. for health organizations latest coronavirus claims make for a grim reading it reports that weekly cases of course europe now higher than german the pandemic speak the september page numbers however should serve as a rake up call for all of us. well dog these numbers reflect more competence if this thing it also shows

a lot of ingrates oftens mission across the region fear of him center for disease prevention and control agrees that while more testing played a part in these high figures it's not the only reason why the increased testing contributes to better awareness of all ongoing transmission it is not the only reason for the increase of covert $1000.00 cases which is also linked to the relaxation of physical distancing and other preventive measures while the united nations mall the prospects of reintroducing tough new measures here in the u.k. localised restrictions have been put in place in different regions of the country meaning more than 10000000 brits are now effectively in a new form of lockdown the north east of england is the latest to have restrictions we. residents should not socialize with other people outside their own households all supportable. hospitality for food and drink would be restricted to table service only and late night restrictions of operating hours will be introduced so leisure and entertainment venues must close between 10 pm and 5 how we can tell our

system is a joke the whites work in to get tested every week the government spoke of doing so much but do we know that you know everyone is under strain right now because of the crisis but there should be more support. within the communities because a lot of people really are struggling i love the timetable to come out of their houses to get test prep might be swayed into government do need to be well organized and do need to provide more testing centers without doubt to see going up the sticking out incident popping up and down while the u.k. government has spent the last couple of months focusing on more localized measures reports of consistently been lurking that a nation wide lot could be reinforced once more britain's health secretary hadn't done anything to back away those rumors the last line of defense is full national action and i don't want to see that but we will do whatever. necessary to keep people safe in a very difficult pandemic across the channel france has broken its own record for

cases in one day with over 10 and a half 1000 rights up in a single 24 hour period and the country's prime minister has been criticized in some quarters for suggesting that everyone would just have to learn to live with the virus he's also now being sued by kobe survivors and relatives of the victims for the way the government handled the crisis which is striking since his arrival is that there is no strategy whatsoever in fighting the pandemic this country is being managed not governed. meanwhile in spain another european country devastated in the 1st wave lockdowns are on their way back in madrid the world health organization has said that different nations can have different approaches depending on their own unique circumstances but one thing must remain consistent and that's the quarantine period lasting 14 days knowing the immense individual and societal impact even a slight reduction in the link of current time can have and giving to figures i

have just mentioned the concept of cut and dying must be protected initially adopted clarified and built communicated be doled any ambiguity to the people a month ago the prospect of 2nd lockdown seemed only a remote possibility but today it's looking like a question of when and not if countries bring them back shattering already suffering businesses and inflicting more social and economic pain on people already worn down by restrictions on their lives each sally r.t. london. for the headlines across today the better russian opposition leader has called on the world to stand up for democracy svetlana taken off sky was addressing a human rights session of the united nations which was debating the ongoing crisis in the country a senior correspondent new report this in from minsk next is. top of the hour headlines on the front page ads. she's the subject of resolutions in the face of a revolution he is rich lot of he had all scared her and he the world's most

popular leader without any actual power she even gets invited to address the united nations a cetacean in barrow's demands immediate international attention peaceful protest has been illegally detained beaten and trade some of the protests have been found dead she may have lost the election she may have fled bellerose she may have said that she's had enough of politics and that she will run again but she can still be president if you pretend that she is once the term of office for the incumbent authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko expires on the 5th of november parliament will no longer recognize him as the president of the country unsurprisingly the winner of belorussians contested election president who has a problem with that you see he has a point what's happening is remarkably similar to events in venezuela where the

west decided to name one guy do as president a man who knew and voted for a man who has absolutely no power or control over venezuela a puppet president. the next faces began 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 glider and declared president. but there is a difference people actually voted for to her not many many people she's completely unqualified to run a country she's nice standing in for her husband who's in jail her words she's also said that she won't run again yet still people take her name on election day but whether it was a vote for her or a vote against luka shanku is up for debate. i supported to north korea i like the

fact that it was and. i voted against him. soon. it wasn't a protest vote i voted for an alternative to an office guys at her goal was to win and hold new fair elections with all the candidates that appeals to me. i want us to be able to express our opinion and the people to be listened to taken abs gay or not we need to change something it can't go on like this we are tired. there's been a market turnabout and what she says now that she's in the care of poland lithuania where in the past she called in everyone to keep their noses out of her country have been in my eyes the summer was now i understand that the most important thing is the independence of belarus it is the constant it cannot be lost in any circumstances. now she's calling for all but intervention this cause and the brutality of the extensive force used by the regime is in clear violation of all

international norms and the universal declaration of human rights they don't actually of the declaration means that the bureau's has taken an obligation to what international community to observe and respect human dignity and basic human rights this also means that international community has a right to really get in strongest hands when they said litigation is not being met russia has already address the inconsistency of yours or what you've got to have already spoken about the situation in which the atlantic an oscar finds herself in several times it's obvious to me that these are not her own words cannot make statements that of course pose a huge number of questions she said that she's concerned about russia or in belarus having close relations the other day she called on the security forces to stand by her this is a direct invitation to betray an oath and in turn betray your own country the remarkable case of one why do who by the way is now being abandoned even by the

venezuelan opposition has demonstrated a huge flaw in recognizing the president based on who you like most rather than who is in power and that flagrant flaw is that no matter how hard you pretend that there are a president doesn't make them a president doesn't give them any more legitimacy or power or authority and in the curious case of the planets you cannot it remains to be seen whether this time it will be any different. so more false journalist and broadcaster neil clark believes the west is manipulating taken all skier in its own interests. seen this film before haven't we but in venezuela of course when they the west the us western powers tried through their proxies to topple the government. and when that it looked for a while that might succeed when it did they then turned to plan b. which was to anoint the so-called opposition leader the legitimate leader of that

country 8 advocation we could actually call this process so that's what's happened this week i think it's part of the strategy to deal it atomize look at franco by saying that the opposition an opposition leader is the president course it's illegal but it's a new step they're hoping that will follow on from this is that more countries will recognize her as the legitimate leader of belarus the arrogance of this is absolute straw we could imagine if you look at franco said say 2017 what we had a very close election in britain though i don't recognise the reason mate as the prime minister of britain i recognized her because being that the election eve really what could you imagine the the outcry to that this is what the west is doing in belarus. calls remoting for germany to ditch the nord stream to gas pipeline project in response to the case of alexina valmy pearland claims it has evidence the russian opposition figure was poisoned with another charge nerve agent but

moscow strongly denies it was involved are doing it can't further investigate without berlin's test results the heads of key german regions in the meantime have come to the defense of the energy project the pipeline is economically necessary force 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 advocate closer ties with russia. i say that the poisoning of alexei now vying with an advanced chemical agent is not a one off north stream to pipeline project that says to pump russian gas to germany and then on to other european countries for the baltic sea when completed it will be 1200 kilometers in length it's around 90 percent of the way there now it will double the amount of gas flowing from russia to germany construction began in 2018

bird has been halted a number of times with the u.s. and eastern european countries lodging their objections along the way and washington slapped sanctions on the project last year claiming it risks european energy security and example being the german port town of this it's found itself now threatened with crushing sanctions by american senators the localities been playing a key role in supporting the pipe laying fleet involved in nordstrom's to construction but the town's mayor and residents remain defiant in the face of it all and the u.s. pressure. gives equal you've. also 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 that it's really seamless the we the united states is trying to manipulate german laws to european interests so they're all interests come out on time. for the

hamburg member martin doul so told us he believes severing of economic ties with russia would prove hugely didn't prevent detrimental to eastern germany. it is a big problem and i think. it also looks on a line of the german government oh well and be. with the existence of the people in east germany because anybody that tries to strong russia and frankly these very productive and i think the central should listen listen more to that young i think it's the wrong way and especially for the people in east germany of this region it will be more bitter effect for west germany. this is art international in the weekend thanks to choosing us today the mugs the stories ahead donald trump and it's got academics in the sites accusing them of

radicalizing left wing protesters debates on much more about. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. you know the economy is a man made structure. china's got engineers financial engineers economic engineers

. thinkers. philosophers they build up over time what happens when the foundation of our brains what happens when they structure collapses what happens when the stimulation goes away. again donald trump claims the recent violence seen on the streets of america is being driven by university courses looking at some racial inequality thing that these indoctrinating students in odd left ideas. critical race theory. the 1619 project and the crusade against american history is toxic propaganda

the left wing writing and many other direct result of decades of leftwing indoctrination in our schools all of the subjects mentioned by trump are rooted in socialist thinking and examine societies through the lens of race law and power proponents say it's about righting wrongs of the past our guests debating whether that's really the case. we do want people to be judged by the content of their character but this idea of colorblind list is inherently racist and i'm a black man and that is what people are going to see in this society 1st and foremost so i don't want to be judged just because i am black this whole idea of critical race theory the only thing that it does is it gives people of color an excuse to try to not try hard and we have things like affirmative action and they talk about white privilege when there's 15000000 white people living in america right now below the poverty line that's almost double the 8000000 black people that

are living below the poverty line so you go talk to the old white people about their white privilege and cerys this country was stolen from indigenous people through brutal land theft and genocide from the lands of white supremacy and it was bill it's off of the backs of stolen people from africa including forced rape and to come to tea of african women to create more property for a white man nothing that happened you know what anthony is referring to that happened hundreds of years ago is not applicable today we have a constitution that applies to a couple eyes to every man woman and child today it regardless of sex race creed religion jack everybody is protected with the same rights under the constitution in fact people of color get special deference because of programs like affirmative action what listen you're going to pass and and i'm a hispanic american and i don't have these issues and i don't believe that i'm being that i need to fight for liberation and i'm a free man can you tell me which amendment gives black granite indigenous people special treatment in the constitution if you're going to reference this document

back it up with facts otherwise there's been a lot of things even trump has done it trump putting but i'm not for hannity zones so predominately black and hispanic neighborhoods get special tax breaks to the middle of the country doesn't get you know 2 we don't you don't know what's going on and you're misrepresenting history and you're you're living in the past you're literally living in the past anthony. i have no problem with people who are actually trained and skilled in racism to train people in being anti racist because we know there is no such thing as not reason you're either racist or your entire races people who say that all lives matter are racist and try to pull one group above the other that's the definition the definition the appeared to me of what racism actually is. russia's demanding immediate says from washington after an n.b.c. news report claimed america's providing weapons to ukrainian militants in crimea. unnamed use 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 us 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 your colleague daniel hoare has discussed the story more detail then with correspondent you put trenker earlier. 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 you 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 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 eastern ukraine the pro gear 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 the 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 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 parade. against american troops for financial rewards for the taliban

fights for its own interests and beliefs 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 in the taliban were also said it was completely folds. greek authorities have become housing thousands of migrants and they need tent city on the island a les paul said south of the moria camp they had been in was destroyed in a suspected arson attack by residents themselves earlier this month. so 70 police officers you can see them there in protective suits were dispatched to the island many migrants have been living on the street since the fire a number of been refusing to be re housed in the new tent camps are riot police try

to round them up on the score than there the greek government believes the fire is a sign they say that secure closed the units are the only safe option. for the use of force the showing the need to immediately close the discipline to open reception centers for refugees and migrants and to great closed controlled centers which will provide humane living conditions double fencing secure entrances surveillance systems and fire safety more in migrant camp was the largest refugee center in europe but it was severely overcrowded and witnessed a covert outbreak to analysts we spoke to believe the situation highlights the failures of europe's broader migration policies. i think just to put denies it is the total 'd failure of europe's management of massive migration how many years have we been speaking about problems leads to massive migration in europe were related to my case which i could just show me a 2054 do they do it today are they working are the integrated or the speaking

german european union is not talking about that or not i'm not even talking about it in france spain other countries were immigration is just a massive problem it's there is no policy managed by the european union and this can occur migrants are accused of 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 of 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 i had there until one was completely down to the ground in 5 than 16 out of 80 they'd been many many times where we had fire incidents and actually 7 people died during fire isn't in line at all or so died from i speak out because they were trying to he flew didn't say that sense so as long as you have the sake of the nation needs t.v. all the quoting to remind maybe that's good percenter was always going to have

a credit so i the time of the 5 year deal with 13000 people and staying in there anything to that place meant by the 8th and we had as many as 20000 people in the something so obviously this is the main risk and nothing is being done by the authorities to prevent that from happening again being meaning to density that will give us a chance tension say as a very violent place and who understand it all because of the living conditions because of the way people are basically in displace. still must have had things to do with a lot of island we'll keep you posted as we follow that story along with everything else too if you want to find out what else we're talking about today on t dot com or any of our social media of course another reporter from moscow i'm kevin now in for me in the team thanks a lot. time after time called gratian to repeat the same mantra sustainability very important.

transitions to sustainable prize board sustainability spain overmanned out a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless hollow disapprove. because. it builds on the companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just let the point any minute i mean mother owns the family in this new me doing to me when i'm stymied seemed to be based on disconnect with who is going in.

by social class. if you're born in. awe of you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die. generational poverty. is a fight every day.