i don't know which question we're still like are being allowed to live so many. post-election unrest and valorous shows no signs of relenting 6 weeks after the disputed vote. also this hour the u.s. says it will be impose u.n. sanctions on iran and a unilateral move that irritated washington's allies. and in our news review of the week russian opposition figurehead an extent of only says he is making progress in his book coverage as moscow and berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning still.

you watch in the weekly here on r t a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days and today's news thanks for joining us. opposition crowds have regrouped across belarus and there's now a major protest underway in minsk you can see live pictures coming from the city right behind me now anger at the alleged rigging of the presidential election has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks now. reports from the capital. well the marches are still gatherings which are the rallying in the square behind me i must say at this time last week there were many many people it's it's still early columns of demonstrators and protesters still gathering together they what they do is they gather together where they live in the different districts of the city different streets and then they they solidified to a huge huge rally huge march the takes them

a across mids to wherever the organizers direct them to and organize a surfer still still gathering everyone telling them to lighten up but there are far fewer people than the last week perhaps 34000 people in the square behind me you may hear loud music that that is authorities in belarus they've taken to the t.v. to play a critically loud patriotic songs pro-government thugs which a irritates the protesters. the clouds of last week nowhere nevertheless of the c.g. bobo's side you know the pro-government that the loo enforcement they're preparing and the marches the protesters they're still gathering we've seen the entire streets blocked off with with buses with with even bob while lines of police went around the residence of the president government offices and purchases gathering here very peaceful so far here though we have heard about

a resident people being detained in other cities and other areas of minsk there the crowd should start marching any moment now but as i said people show thought. if compared to last week. the u.s. is claiming that u.n. sanctions against iran are now back in force although washington's allies have been quick to react to the that unilateral declaration from washington and doubt on whether the move is actually having any legal force behind it secretary of state my pump has a range of police are being considered for those who violate the restrictions. we need sheeted the snap back process to restore virtually all previously terminated u.n. sanctions if you when member states fail to fulfill their obligations to implementing these sanctions the united states is prepared to use or domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not read the

benefits of un prohibited to vittie there would appear to be uncertainty whether or not the process was indeed initiated and concomitantly whether or not the sanctions terminations continue in effect does not for the secretary general to proceed as if no such on certainty exists the original sanctions covered uranium enrichment as well as the buying and selling of conventional weapons they were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal however in 2018 the trumpet ministration unilaterally with the real problem that pact washington says it's taking action now because an arms embargo on iran expires in october iran's foreign minister has accused the us of violating international law or maybe not but the international community must decide by itself whether to stand up to the bullying unfortunately due to the u.s. influence on financial markets they could apply pressure with financial sanctions of course those applying the sanctions say we did that even though we know they are

illegal since they're powerful but they haven't noticed that the same principles will work for them to earlier we spoke with or it is already a professor of political communication at the university of tehran he says the u.s. is isolated in its approach to iran. not in the partners that's going to accept that premise. the u.s. is isolated in the unusual manner and what's going to happen is that the u.s. is going to use force to pressure other countries to accept legal interpretation of the un resolution 2231 and a few countries are going to accept that the u.s. has a history of mongering so you always have to be careful but the united states foreign policy so we have this. conflict escalating

if we hope that president is not interested in nevada the. scenario if you're behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran advances put it that both. russian opposition a figurehead onyx and a volley is recovering at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma last week he says he wants to return home as soon as possible when all the diplomatic spat between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning has only gotten worse on monday germany said laboratories in sweden and france had independently verified that of only it was poisoned by nerve agent i mean now a child group it will chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing samples russia has demanded that information on the case be shared but so far to no avail. with 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 a.p.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 noah choke or any other poison while the money was in their care welcom has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany and order to establish exactly what happened our data goes down the looks at the controversy 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 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 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 the 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 assess 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 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 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. do abuse role in investigating alleged chemical attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame has 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 in immigration admission of guilt. and opposed to be in of all these instagram account a video shows his team searching his hotel room in tomsk shortly after news had broken that he had fallen severely ill wearing surgical gloves they collect evidence in plastic bags which according to the post were passed to the german authority is one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of

know each other but one of the co-creators of that very nerve agent ring claims if it was used in the bali would never have even made it to the plane he was travelling on. it would be. wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was no majok and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in smaller not very toxic doses provokes pupil contraction in such a way 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 not words to use for this case. richard that you would 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 science creating a dangerous situation for everyone. a small group of wealthy nations has already secured more than half of the invision future supply of cope with $1000.00 vaccines that's according to a report by the oxfam charity and means that only 13 percent of the world's population well initially have access to the much sought after drug like sausan the head of oxfam's inequality a policy decision says this is a consequence of pharmaceutical companies seeking to maximize profits. it's extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations monopolizing the superboy of the potential banks and more importantly they're doing deals with big corporations. defending their intellectual property and their profits meaning many

the soup lowing. being own to fish should be limited oxfam says there won't be enough vaccines to go around to meet global demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates for which nations across the world sealed a deal are currently undergoing the final stage of clinical trials however even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the charity is extremely unlikely around 2 thirds of the world's population will still have to wait until at least 2022 on top of potential drug shortages oxfam says the back seam deals lays bare the inequality between prosperous and developing countries for example the u.k. has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go off in bangladesh and this is a stark contrast the figure is only one dose per 9 people again says that prolonged availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths. companies like madonna in the us are only sending their backs into very

rich countries they're setting at a very high price somewhere between $16.00 and $35.00 a dose 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 and not a profit back say to me to see. the breaking down of the patent barriers and we need to see open sharing your back same technology to maximise 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 viability of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries are not getting access to safe and effective 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 russian and by the profits of pharmaceutical corporations. the weekly continues here on r.t. international after this short break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith.

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wasn't so long ago that senior british politicians were promising that it was safe for children to finally go back to school i think the crucial thing is that pupils get back to school it's much much better for their for their health and mental wellbeing their jobs their educational prospects we've made it clear this is compulsory parents do need to be sending their children back to school all scientific advice is that schools are safe it's only a few weeks into the new terminal ready those claims are coming unstuck one teaching union is warning that education secretary gavin williamson may face legal action because they say schools were opened without proper safeguards being put in place teachers a 1000 in the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that i just couldn't england make way to a halt the staff and pupils are forced to stay home school managements have been

doing everything they chant but the government has failed to do their side of things testing is impossible to get i will go social distancing isn't possible in full class sizes i mean infection rates are going up so we have an absolutely chaotic situation where understandably and correctly pupils and staff are being sent home and they have potential sitting timbs but nobody knows if it's just a cold or coverage and it's a completely lost story and of course the danger is that there will be some situations where in fact we did have an infectious child in the sco but nobody knows because we can't get a test to check one way or the other facing the lack of testing more than 200 school and college leaders said staff and pupils couldn't book tests locally and were being directed to test centers long distances away and with the government mandating no more than 6 people to meet at a time that encouraging students to get back into the classroom your thirty's the knowledge that the whole situation is in quite some chaos every school has

a small supply of home test kits for those. the teachers that conduct testing center teacher who tested positive had to wait a week for her results i don't deny that it is an enormous challenge with children and teachers unable to get access to tests and essentially being told to get to the back of the queue if they want one union need to say that the government has failed to prepare despite having had months to do so in fear of the country could go back into defacto lockdown once more children are being sent home who cannot get tests and parents are being forced to take 2 weeks off to look after them we will end up with an effective lock down there is an escalating sense that they would end up with a return to lockdown by default it's not just with regard to the testing the schools are finding themselves short they also appear to lack the basic hygiene necessities nearly a 3rd of teachers didn't know if they'd have adequate supplies of soap and water while just 18 percent had had from the tides as in every classroom it's left

parents to question how they supposed to feel that their children will be safe in school when teachers themselves don't seem all that convinced misuse to keep schools open and that it's clear of they have to be so involved i'm on the phone he says feedback is that you know. i'm self-taught and it's as we. expect some trace versus think you stance we've not remind you given the average we need to test if they need it and obviously we've all been seeing which. israel ended a 2nd national lockdown on friday and it's expected to last at least 3 weeks and take over 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 soaring infection rate there. i know. we have witnessed another when the 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. on yahoo's decision is deeply unpopular with an already pandemic weary public hundreds rallied against the new lockdown measures on the beach in tel aviv on saturday demonstrators were dancing and chanting slogans accusing the government of mishandling the crisis. the new restrictions including 10 new people limit on indoor gatherings israelis also won't be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes well schools and shopping centers will be closed and businesses won't be allowed to receive clients these measures are aimed at reining in the daily infection rate that's almost doubled since the start of the month the total number of cases exceeds 180000 and counting with more than $1000.00 deaths in the country israel has told us how they feel about the new measures it's very frustrating it's killing the economy and many people feel like it there's no hope and they don't know what is going on 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 infections will go down but the right back up as soon as the closer hands honestly it doesn't affect me at all where i live 500 metres 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. and italian man is reminding us it's never too late to learn by graduating from university at the age of 96 fulfilling a lifelong dream he told us about his journey. that after working i retired and said what do i do now i didn't like doing nothing so i started studying.

they wonder me up when my mother gave me the money to go and buy breakfast so instead of buying myself a sandwich with potatoes i went instead to buy books. i seriously wanted to enroll and i am a little tired after 3 years of study every evening i finished reading and studying at midnight without exception even on sundays. that. the doctor life never drank alcohol i always drank milk and i believe this is the secret of my memory then of course reading helps the minds needs to be trained in

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