you know these are a few of the weak russian opposition figure head to legs in the fall and he says he's making progress in his recovery after being allegedly poisoned as moscow in berlin wrangle over evidence of the case. or people are detained during the latest opposition rally in the better russian capital as anger over the disputed presidential election that fails to subside. the rich serve 1st charity oxfam says that a small group of wealthy nations will offer potential 119 back to the vast majority of the world's population denied access for years to come because the.

morning hello there money is kevin know it welcome to the weekly from our to international around the big stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you 1st and russian opposition figure alexina valmy is on the path to recovery at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma last week he's since revealed his intention to return here to russia as soon as he's fighting fit again meantime the diplomatic row between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning only got worse in the week or monday germany said labs in sweden and france said independently verify that the valley was poisoned by a nerve agent they say of the novel group the global chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia's prosecutor general demanded that information be shared but so far to no avail. with their excuses are

completely contrived germany says it can't tell us anything in direct as to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons but we've been to the obesity w. several times and they say talked about when 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. rusher incest says doctors found no trace of nova chalk or any other poison it was in their care moscow's repeatedly stressed it willingness to cooperate with germany in order to try to establish exactly what happened it was done off looked at the controversy surrounding the case still. 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 which only the russian government can and must answer we continue calling us year to investigate this our demand is that russia urgently explain what happened well russia has already contributed by not letting alexina valmy of 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 should the press witness when it all all this a 2nd 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 pretexts 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 some founded 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 bad watchdog of becoming politicized by your p.c. don't you like so many international commands actions it's always great to be subject to political pressure and that's critically from of course those to fund it largely funded much 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 inconsistent cities 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 scruple 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 no investigation from russia but an integration admission of guilt. then in a post viral of these instagram account a video showing his team searching his hotel room in thompson shortly after news had broken that he'd fallen severely ill wearing surgical gloves they collect

evidence in plastic bags which according to the post but then passed to the german authorities one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of nava chalk that one of the co-creators of that very same nerve agent lee in the drink claims if it was used in the valley would never of even made it to the plane he was traveling all. it would be an invalid need wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel if it was no majok and he really touched in or drank something 1st of all even in smaller 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. in belarus and to government protesters have again been venting their anger over august disputed election the country's been rocked by a 6 weeks of opposition demonstrations now on saturday protesters mostly female gathered in the capital minutes demanding president look. police arrested some of those rallying on the streets the exact number detained is unclear still but rights groups claim they think it was more than $300.00 meantime opposition candidates for the honor taken off skier is expected to take part in a meeting with the foreign ministers in brussels on monday tomorrow the move is being condemned by both the better russian and russian governments our senior

correspondent we're going to have reports next from minutes. on saturday and throughout this week there have been far fewer people attending again fewer demonstrations but daintiest protests that we've seen rocking belo us over the past month or so and police perhaps feeling bold by the lack of added dees have certainly made themselves. seen and known won't be many arrests dozens upon dozens of protesters activists arrested detained taken to police station and day and holding cells but it is sunday that is the big day of protests here in belarus where we could expect to see thousands upon thousands of people gather together rallies and march down the streets of minsk against the government it is the traditional day of protests we will see how the numbers have would you know what sort of numbers to doubt for that but while they have been they may have been a little exhibit a few

a few people coming out of the protests to thought this week there has been an uptick on the geopolitical fraud on the diplomatic front with the with an escalation in the relations between the european union and better. have been invited to attend a meeting of the foreign ministers of european states which is which is you know certainly certainly shows how high a stock has risen in the ranks of in the minds of european politicians or indeed depending on who you ask how high they have elevated stock better is this come out here and said that you know the must all mosques are off the european union has shown its true colors that they have meddling that this is an attack on the sovereignty of belarus and the independence of belarus and russia has come out and said that the this meeting represents a u.-turn europe's but previously stated goals of staying out of it and respecting the dependence on the will of the better russian people. we consider such contact

if it takes place as more evidence of the european union's departure from statements that they made and their regard in the absence of geopolitics in the situation with. with regards to this diplomatic escalation that i mentioned the european parliament came out and voted on a non-binding resolution to 2 more of a recommendation but a very harsh one calling on the heads of states of the european union the. the leaders of the european union not to recognize president you can shake up as the legitimate leader of belarus once his official term is up moreover they are calling for sanctions for pressure on bellerose and russia for example has come out and said that this is counterproductive that this flies in the face of what the european union has called for that called on previously which is deescalation which is dialogue and which is to to leave belarus to decide for itself on what path and what course to proceed and russia said says that if these if these harsh sanctions

are put in place that they will be called sequences. our position in relation to sanction instruments used by the european union is well known it is illegitimate from the point of view of international law and is an unacceptable interference internal affairs and the context of the situation and valorous it contradicts the call of for store instability establishing dialogue launching their constitutional process and these intentions of which represented have spoke so much about the rock liam at times to rock the boat and brussels should not be surprised that retaliated to remeasure will follow previously the president of the european council had come out and openly said that the protest of belarus and not about geopolitics and that the european union firmly stabs behind the better russian people who have the right to decide their own future but since then opinions have apparently changed in the chambers of the european union and the european union has taken

a much more active role in deciding who and how leads better us and making sure that the european union gets a 3rd say in how things are done here on out. also this week alexander lukashenko flew here to russia to meet his counterpart vladimir putin the presidents discuss the future of minsk moscow ty's putin stress that buller a should handle the crisis through dialogue with its citizens without any external pressure or scholes who announced a $1500000000.00 loan from minsk. a small group of wealthy nations has already secured over half of the envisioned future supply of coded 19 vaccines according to a report by the oxfam charity it means that only 13 percent of the world's population and will initially have access to the sought after drug markets lost in the head of oxfam's inequality policy division told 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 a potential breakthrough but more importantly they're doing deals with big promise you corporation which are defending their intellectual property and their profits meaning the supply of banks. artificially limited. so off farm says there won't be enough vaccines to go around to meet global demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates which nations across the world seal the deal with the currently undergoing the final stages of clinical trials however catch is even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the charity's extremely unlikely around 2 thirds of the world's population will still have to wait until at least 2022 is the bad news on top of potential drug shortages oxfam says the vaccine deals lay bare the total

inequality between prosperous and developing countries for example this the u.k. is managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go well for bangladesh check that out stark contrast the figures only one dose put 9 people lost in again says that prolonged and availability of the vaccine that in some countries will mean many unnecessary deaths. companies like madonna in the u.s. are only selling their backs into very rich countries they're selling it at a very high price somewhere between $16.00 and $35.00 a dollars and you have to have 2 doses so that's like $70.00 per person so they are very clear that they they're doing this to make a profit and they want to make money from this maxine what we're saying is we need a people's backs not a profit backs a real need to see. the breaking down of the patent barriers and we need to see

open sharing your banks in technology to maximise its applause 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 of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries are not getting access to safe and a point to that saying until 2022 then they would have more lockdowns their economies would be huge trouble and many many people would dog i do not need to because the vaccine has been artificially ration and private profits of pharmaceutical corporations. so that his nation's vied to secure a vaccine israel and to the 2nd national lockdown on friday is expected to last at least 3 weeks the anti covert measure came into force just hours before the start of the jewish new year prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's

a response to the solar infection rate. and i whom we have witnessed another alarming 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. knows decision is deeply unpopular with an already pandemic weary public hundreds rallied against the new law measures on the beach in tel aviv on saturday demonstrators were dancing and chanting slogans accusing the government of mishandling the covert 19 crisis the restrictions include a 10 people limit on indoor gatherings than israelis also won't be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes and schools the shopping centers will be closed plus businesses won't be allowed to receive clients these measures are aimed at reigning in the daily infection rate it's almost doubled since the start of the month the total number of cases exceeds 180000 and counting with more than

a 1000 deaths israelis told us they feel frustrated about this new law. it's very frustrating it's killing the economy and many people feel like there's no health and they don't know what is going on it's probably a good thing because cases are rising that the rules so that's what we're going to do but i don't think it's going to help i expect that infections will go down but they'll go right back up as soon as the closer hands honestly it doesn't affect me at all where i live 500 meters i go anywhere i want i do anything i want people i still see don't wear a mask so i really don't understand how this is going to help anything. it's 18 minutes past 9 in the morning moscow time hi there good morning and coming up is sports becoming a new political platform we ask that question in light of the news that the case of a formula one stars and the police brutality protest on the podium as cause a lot of controversy we debated coming up.

democracy is driven domestically in the international scene efforts by international can as a chanson governments to promote democracy in countries like iraq and see how difficult it is also mutely it has to be produced domestically because otherwise international actors need to be in the country 24 seventh's to make a sustainable so any country in the world that's to sustainable democracy has to mystic sometimes of its national health but the mystically. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on the spear in dramatic development

the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again formula one has backed down on handing lewis hamilton a penalty over his anti racism campaign at the end of last weekend's tuscan grand prix that the british driver took to the podium wearing a t. shirt against police brutality it raised questions over making political statements through sport whether or not hamilton's latest move broke motor sport rules. said arrest the cops who killed briona taylor referencing the 26 year old black medical

worker who was shot dead on a no not warranted march in the us state of kentucky regarding the case authorities said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded but it triggered a wave of public anger with calls for those responsible to faced. justice no criminal charges have been father gets them so far calling out racism has gripped the sporting world indeed southeast in 2020 but some fans know are getting frustrated over it case in point last week america's football league the n.f.l. kicked off its new season several teams took a knee and locked arms to the national anthem a move in support of the black lives matter movement some players even stayed in their locker rooms until the anthem finished but some fans were increasingly dismayed n.f.l. players all over the league annealing during the national anthem we simply aren't allowed to enjoy sports anymore without politics being shoved down our throats i

tried against my better judgment to watch the n.f.l. today i saw a kneeling fist in the year players kneel in the middle of the field instead of defending a kickoff and were subjected to the black national anthem i'm done fire them all and let's see what jobs they find to contribute to society versus throwing the ball around and making millions for it meanwhile not doing a damn thing besides needing to or not a great national anthem so so shows you expose cashmore and social activists leave just for discuss whether or not support can remain a political end of the day. birth times in the world where the acuteness of injustice the harshness of injustice and the unfairness of injustice seach through into sport should do so when those injustices can find no legitimate response from democratic nations people differ around the world in what means good

or bad way if we get scared of carte blanche to everyone then we are in troubled waters if someone like israel folau comes along and starts expressing homophobic views which are clearly not consistent with that of the rest of the wall of small i don't want that i want them to remain calm grew and with the ideals the guiding ideas of governing organizations in support which to me seem as if they've all got the heart in the right place that you know this idea that we're living in a meritocracy that the world is a meritocracy the sporting burra anybody's retiree meritocratic. that would be good i don't know what you'll get i would i would it i would agree that you could take that position but in a world where the vast moral consensus of the tire ity of humanity he's against racism and recognizes racism then he's perfectly just what happens when there is an

individual competitor in some sport who doesn't agree with a moral consensus who does hold racist or homophobic or sexist views are you going to let him or her express those views it a free society that you have free to say what they like if they do express them you're unhappy really that their well to kill will face the moral condemnation of the past majority of people a new day to be making a career decision to do such a little and so so they shouldn't be on section so he looks you know we don't you're not to notice. this is not the way we think it's all going to station let's get away from the hypothetical 3 let's take the case of israel folau who expressed calm of views are you going to say you're comfortable with an individual exercising his freedom of speech to pronounce these kind of use and let's face it the guy he's influential he's got a certain type of orthorexic that's conferred on him by his participation in sport

are you going to say that we just wait for the world to condemn him i think that the organization was quite right to step in and say we don't want you saying this kind of stuff this focus on the exceptional and the moral equivalence between racism which is a global human consensus and these are the issues you know doesn't doesn't stand up to muster so school will always play a part in politics and politics in school as a broader principle i'm glad formula one stepped in because at a later stage another driver might say something completely different. meantime parallel to all that insurance companies are counting the cost of the black lives matter protests in the us record claims have been submitted after many of the demonstrations descended into riots and looting the bail is already into the billions of dollars.

my. my . my my certainly the money that that needs to be spent the businesses that have been completely destroyed small businesses black american businesses minority businesses and also all businesses of all american citizens together people's lives have been completely destroyed not only by the shutdowns from coal that 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 that's just a snapshot of so many stories you brought your way over the last 7 days thanks for watching the weekly or delta international israel is recovered on the sunday for you there are bosco kevin i was signing off for now and have a great rest of the week at. the out.

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a long while since worlds apart it's hard to find them a little bit subject in dominance in international relations and democracy on the national level it's supposed to be an essay way off ensuring that governments are sensible and responsive to that people but internationally it is often a source of insecurity and. instability in one that is driven by the maneuverings

of foreign powers is it possible to decouple domestic governance from geopolitical games both to discuss that i'm now joined by need cheeseman professor of democracy at the university of birmingham and call there of how to meet an election president she is known as going to talk to you think you very much for a time a pleasure to be now in your book how to rig an election came out in 2018 and i have to know that russia and other countries of the former soviet union fischer very prominently there are for a good reason that this part of the world is a recognized source of electoral trickery let's put it mildly my question is this our values you measure absent democratic standards how it should be taken as some natural growing pains or as.