very chummy with artificial intelligence real something. must protect its own existence is just. post-election unrest and dollars shows no signs of relenting 6 weeks after the disputed vote our correspondent is at a protest and minutes. as is happening. crowds merging together right now it's difficult to tell with the with regards to dumbass told by 5000 people behind me. also this hour the u.s. says it will impose u.n. sanctions on iran and a unilateral move that's irritating washington to say the least. and in

our news review of the week russian opposition figure head says he is making progress in this recovery as moscow and berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. was in the weekly here on r.t. welcome to our round up of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week just gone. opposition crowds have regrouped across belarus and there's now a massive protest underway in minsk anger at the alleged rigging of the presidential election has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks now are reports from the capital. this is a still gathering together in this square behind me what they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into it into a huge rally huge much ass's happening barden knowledge crowds merging together

right now it's difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps $5000.00 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer people than there were last week at this at this time last week last sunday there were many more demonstrators a much larger much nevertheless they've got their plan they've got a route through minsk that they're going to take the organizers go to lead them down and police are waiting for the witchy 2 convoys of police and law enforcement zuba about the city owned morning today preparing for this rally preparing for an eventuality tires sharif's block self we've even seen bob wire fences barricades set up a wretched across the city to keep marches on a specific route it has been on so father's against the shank a bar and haven't clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested yesterday for apps hundreds up to 400 according to the opposition and to

leave the shape of a telegram channels and rights groups you may hear a loud music blaring through huge speakers behind me in the square that is authorities they've taken to playing loud patriotic music to drown out the chants of the cries from the from the protesters and did you have them last week it it irritates them no end never the sea it has been calm so far protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding for president of the shanku to resign to leave the handover of power the government insisting on its own their supporters saying that he is the. digital the president won the election and the do these protests these sanctioned these protests at these rallies these demonstrations are illegal. clashes later as the demonstrators head for government offices government buildings and residents of the president we will be followed in the most as they march

through the streets of. the u.s. is claiming that u.n. sanctions against iran are now back in force although washington's allies have rejected the unilateral move saying it has no legal basis secretary of state micron payouts as a range of peleus are being considered for those who violate the restrictions we need sheeted the snapback process to restore virtually all previously terminated un sanctions if you when member states feel to fulfill their obligations to implementing the sanctions the united states is prepared to use or domestic authorities to boost consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not reap the benefits of un prohibited activities 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 uncertainty exists there is only un 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 withdrew from the pact ashington says it's now taking action because an arms embargo on iran expires in october iran's foreign minister has accused the us of violating international law. well 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 legal powerful max they haven't noticed that the same principles will work for them too. we heard from political analysts who it is already hitting see us as isolated in its approach to iran. in the partners it's going to accept

their 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 the interpretation of the u.n. resolution 2231 and a few countries are going to accept that the u.s. has a history of warmongering so you always have to be careful but the united states foreign policy so we have this. conflict escalating if we hope that the president is not in. the. scenario if you are behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran advances by the. russian opposition figurehead onyx in the family 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 we know all the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning has only gotten worse on monday germany said labs in sweden and france had independent lee verify that the bali was poisoned by it nerve agent of the know which. the global 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.b.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. welsh insisted stockers found no trace of know which

or any other course and while the army was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany in order to establish exactly what happened because i love looks at the controversy surrounding the case. alexina valley 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 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 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 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 good to be subject to political pressure and that's critically from of course those the 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 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 of course 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 integration admission of guilt. then they post vienna volleys instagram account a video showing his team searching his hotel room in homes 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 authorities one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of nova chuck but one of the co-creators of that very nerve agent lee on the brink claims if it was news the moment would have never made it to the plane. wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel if it was nobody 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 not words to use for this case. it's just 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 signs 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 means that only 13 percent of the world's population will initially have access to the much sought after drug like slawson the head of oxfam's and a call the policy to fish and says this is a consequence of pharmaceutical companies seeking to maximize profits it's extremely dangerous for the world because a rich nations monopolizing the supply of a potential perks. but more importantly they're doing deals with big pharmaceutical corporations which are defending their intellectual property and their profits meaning the supply of. being artificially limited oxfam says there won't be enough vaccines to go around to meet global demand of 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 at least until 2022 on top of potential drug shortages after him says the vaccine deals lay 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 while for bangladesh and this is a stark contrast the figure is only one dose per 9 people and again says that prolonging on availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths. companies like madonna in the us 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 vaccine what we're saying is we need

a people's backs and not a profit back saying we need 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 it to learn a in the variability of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries and not getting access to safe and effective but staying until 2022 then they would have more lockdowns their economies would be huge trouble and many many people would dog who do not need to because the vaccine has been artificially russian and for the profits of pharmaceutical corporations. still had the israeli prime minister's decision to send the country into a 2nd lockdown has caused widespread anger details on that story and more after

this. to move to see is driven domestically known internationally seen efforts by international organizations and governments to promote democracy in countries like iraq afghanistan how difficult it is also with the it has to be reduced domestically because otherwise international actors need to be in the country 24 seventh's to make it sustainable so any country in the world that's built to sustainable democracy has to mystic sometimes of its national health mystically. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race on all fronts very dramatic development that only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. and. welcome back to the weekly the shortage of covert testing in the u.k. has led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools peoples and style farming the struggling to get checked our correspondent reports. it 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 founding the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that i do cation in 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 whole 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 in 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 test 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. 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 and 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 lockdown 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 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 misused to keep schools open and in the clear of they have to be so violent i'm on the phone he says feedback is

that you know. i'm self-taught on these as we. expect some trace versus think you stance we've not remind you given the gravity we need to test it they need to improve it and obviously we've been seeing which. israel entered a 2nd national lockdown on friday at expected to last at least 3 weeks and like a good measure came into force just hours before the start of the jewish new year and prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's a response to the storing infection rate in the country. i know. we have witnessed another greece and deaths and the continued increase in the number of critically ill patients as many of the experts have recommended we may have no choice but to tighten the guidelines. when yahoo's decision is deeply unpopular with an already pandemic weary public hundreds really begins the new lockdown measures on the beach

and television on saturday traders were dancing and chanting slogans accusing netanyahu government of mishandling the covert 1000 crisis. the new restrictions include a 10 people limit on indoor gatherings israelis also won't be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes plus schools and shopping centers will be closed and businesses won't be allowed to receive clients these measures are aimed at reigning in the daily infection rate this is 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 how they feel about the new lockdown it's very frustrating it's killing the economy and many people feel like 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 closure hands honestly it doesn't affect me at all

where i live 500 meters i go anywhere i want to 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. as the saying goes it's never too late to learn an italian man has graduated 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. 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 dr 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 your .

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who dares thinks. we dare to ask. there. are. a long while can she wants a party it's hard to find a more loaded subject in dominance in international relations and democracy on the national level is supposed to be s. a way off ensuring that governments are sensible and responsive to their people but

internationally it is often a source of insecurity and instability and one that is driven by be the new brands all foreign powers is it possible. to mask. think governance for geo political gains vote just got em now joined by a neat cheeseman professor of democracy at the university of birmingham and call there of how to meet an election president is that it's good to talk to you think you very much for a time and a pleasure to be not your bull how to rig an election came out in 2018 and i have to know that russia and other countries of the former soviet union fish are very prominently there and for a good reason these part of the world is a recognised 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

a permanent and deliberate handicap. perhaps there would have been a concert as i have to say the kind of is that is the option that some less let me in between those 2 extremes i think you know we go back to the seventy's or eighty's if we were talking then about exactly this question these countries going through growing pains and i think by the time we've got 2020 we need to recognize that countries that are stuck in this kind of middle ground between terrorism on the one hand and democracy in the other they hold elections but they rig the elections the same government a leader is in power for very long it's i'm these countries aren't simply having growing pains that are on the way to some wonderful democratic future need for a day you know complete talk receives that have no ability to have any criticism whatsoever they seem to be reasonably stable countries that are stuck in between these 2 extremes so. it would be i think we should expect countries like russia to

look roughly the same intensity in 20 years' time and it's going to take quite a lot to shift russia even to a complete or a terran state that doesn't hold elections rule or to a much more democratic state where we could genuinely talk about some of the tweets and losing power i was drawing of eights after the soviet union and i remember very vividly this transition from infuse the absent any and if you haven't for democracy to see a lot of cynicism not only among the people but also among the leaders and when it comes to the latter and. it was primarily driven by a realisation and deeply how the leave that for the west democracy is not a value it's not the goal it's not something that they lead by it's actually an instrument it's in to all of many places and it's as they've been totally wrong about that tell me a little bit more because i don't really see why democracy would be a stick of the west so tell me a little bit more about where that perception can.