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making progress in his recovery. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly an international. opposition. group to. a major protests taking place in minsk. the presidential election has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks. earlier the. protesters. what they do is they gather in little over the. various districts where they live and then they could see all of that into a huge huge much as is happening by. and knowledge crowds merging together right
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now it's difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000 people behind me more may be 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 and a much larger much nevertheless they've got their plan they've got a route through that they're going to take the organizers go to lead them down and police are waiting for that which 2 convoys of police and law enforcement about the city own morning today preparing for this rally preparing for any eventuality had. even seen bob while fences barricades set up a wretched across the city to keep marches on a specific route it has been the father's against the army and haven't clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested
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yesterday perhaps hundreds up to 400 according to the opposition and the telegram channels and rights groups you may hear a loud music blaring through huge speakers behind me in the square that is a thirty's they've taken to playing loud patriotic music to drown out the chants of the cries from the from the protesters and the last week it it irritates them no ad never the see it has been. protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding the president to be shaky to resign to leave to hand over power of the government insisting on its own their supporters saying that he is the legitimate president of the bun the election and that does these protests these sanctions these protests that these rallies demonstrations are illegal will collapse clashes lazer as the demonstrators had for government offices. government buildings the residence of the
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president. washington is claiming that the u.n. sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal are now back in force perhaps significantly however the u.n. secretary general has refused to follow up on the u.s. that the ration saying it is surrounded by uncertainty of germany france and the u.k. at the smiths washington's about spent hours legally void the u.s. state department says a range of penalties are being considered for countries that violate the restrictions. we need did the snapback process to restore virtually all previously terminated un sanctions if united nations member states feel to fulfill their obligations to implement these sanctions the united states is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not read the benefits of u.n. prohibited activity france germany and the united kingdom know that the u.s. ceased to be a participant to the
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a following their withdrawal from the deal on the 8th of may 2018 consequently the purported notification is incapable of having legal effect we remain guided by the objective of upholding the authority and integrity of the united nations security council. the original un sanctions covered uranium enrichment as well as the buying and selling of conventional weapons they were lifted 5 years ago under the nuclear deal however 2 years ago the trump administration withdrew from the pact washington's sticking action because an arms embargo on iran expires in october iran's president hassan rouhani ninth's the move saying his country will never give in to pressure on the iranian foreign ministry has urged washington to rethink. pyo material brand of washington on tehran's message to washington is clear return to the global community return to your obligations stop the rebellion and then the global community will accept you. we've got reaction from political analyst forward
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is that he believes the u.s. is isolated in its approach to iran. not going to be any partners it's going. to. promise. 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 good interpretation of the un resolution 2231 and few countries are going to accept that the u.s. has a history of water 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 the.
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scenario if you behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran at dances put it. to another big story of the week russian opposition figure out lexx in a volley continues to recover out of hospital in berlin after coming out of an end juiced coma but the diplomatic standoff between moscow and burling over his alleged poisoning has only gotten worse on monday germany said loves in sweden and france and independently verified that the valley was poisoned by a nerve agent from the novacek group the global chemical weapons watchdog is also allies in the samples russia has requested that information on the case be shared so far to no avail however. with their excuses are completely contrived germany says it can't tell us anything in direct says to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons we've been to the o p c w several times and they say talk to berlin we are ready to talk to anyone but not
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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. rushin doctors find no trace of knowledge chalk or any other poison while novell me was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened looks now 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
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here to investigate this our demand is that russia urgently explain what happened well russia has already contributed by not letting alexina valmy die in the 1st crucial hours after the politician fell sick russia contributed by opening its airspace to a team of german doctors letting them visit russia contributed by eventually putting him on a german rescue plane allowing the value to be airlifted to berlin and by offering its medical data to german colleagues so now russia says the ball is in germany's court moscow current aid the investigation if it's kept in the dark on emerging evidence to the press with nothing at all all this is taking place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to jointly sort out what happened i've been dismissed and a far fetched pretext that's hurdles are brought into the race because berlin starts playing a game of all take and no give russia can get the results of the expertise
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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
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can get everything from the or b c w and the o p c w seeing 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 concessions it's always great to be subject to political pressure and that's critically from of course those the funded largely funded that's largely the western powers we've seen with the p.c. to abuse role in investigating alleged chemical attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame have been riddled with these inconsistences and problems that will not rise in independent investigation but that there appears to be scope for political interference and pressure to take close we saw
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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. this video was posted some days ago alexina vollies instagram account it shows his team searching his hotel room and told shortly after novelli fell sick wearing surgical gloves they collect evidence and plastic bugs which according to the post were passed to the german authorities one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of novacek we
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spoke to the co-creator of that very nerve agent who claims if it was use then of only what made it on to the plane. it would be found he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was normal junk and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in smaller not very toxic doses not virtual 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
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a dangerous liquid and spill it all down the sides creating a dangerous situation for everyone. a small group of wealthy nations has already bought up all future supplies of covert 19 vaccines which are currently at the research stage that is according to report by the oxfam charity it means that only 13 percent of the world's population will initially have access to the drugs lawson the head of oxfam's inequality policy the vision pharmaceutical companies are thinking of the huge profits that can be made. it's extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations. pursue plausible potential. but more importantly they're doing deals with big corporation. being mere intellectual property. meaning that the supply of vaccine.
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from say there won't be enough vaccine doses to meet global demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates are currently undergoing stage 3 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 2022 at least on top of potential drug shortages oxfam ses quote the vaccine deals labor the inequality between prosperous developing countries. well to give an example the u.k.'s managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go while bangladesh in stark contrast you can see there the figure is only one dose per 9 people and again says that prolonged all availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many on this. companies like madonna in the us are only sending their backs into very rich countries they said again or bury high
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prices 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 buried clear that they are there doing things 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 back say to me to see. the breaking down of the patent barriers and we need to see open sharing your bank same technology to maximize the supply side 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 or 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 many many people would dog i do not need to because the
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vaccine has been artificially ration and by the profits of pharmaceutical corporations. still ahead on the program the israeli prime minister's decision to send the country into a 2nd to last dollar has caused widespread story and more after the break. to move to sea is driven domestically known internationally seen efforts by international can as asians and governments to promote democracy in countries like iraq afghanistan see how difficult it is also mutely it has to be reduced 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 built to sustainable democracy has
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to mystically sometimes of international help to mystically. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development that only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again the shortage of coburg 19 testing in the u.k. led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools pupils and stuff are among
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those struggling to get checked. this. 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 the scientific advice is that schools are safe it's only a few weeks into the new terminal already 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 are founding the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that education in england may cry to a halt the staff and pupils are forced to stay home school managements have been
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doing everything they chant but the government has failed to do their side of things testing is impossible to get hold of social distancing isn't possible in fall 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
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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 the 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 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 the city's nearly a 3rd of teachers didn't know if they'd have adequate supplies of soap and water
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while just 18 percent had had from the tides then every classroom it's left parents to question how are they supposed to feel that their children will be safe in school when teachers themselves don't seem all that convinced misuse of keep schools open and clear will they have to be so violent and what will the funding since be is that you know. i'm self-taught and it's as we. expect some trace versus i think you stance would not remind you know they have a duty we need to test it they need it and obviously we've been seeing which. israel entered a 2nd national lockdown on friday which 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 binyamin netanyahu saying it's a response to the soaring infection rate. i know. we have witnessed another along
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with 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. netanyahu is decision has proved deeply unpopular hundreds rallied against the new locked on measures on the beach in tel aviv and subtly demonstrators chanted slogans accusing netanyahu government of mishandling the call but one thing crisis. will be new restrictions included 10 people limit on indoor gatherings israelis also won't be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes plus schools shopping centers they're going to be closed businesses they will not be allowed to receive clients either a lot of frustration about the measures are aimed at reigning in the deal infection rates which has almost doubled since the start of the month they are there more than a 1000 deaths total number of cases exceeding 180000 dollars rising israelis told us how they feel about the new law. it's very frustrating it's killing the economy
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and many people feel like there is no heart then 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 clothes are hands honestly it doesn't affect me at all where i live 500 metres i go anywhere i want or do anything i want people i still see don't wear a mask so i really don't know how this is going to help it. quite possibly be inspirational story of the week now former real where worker in italy has become the oldest person ever to graduate from university the resident of polar mo survived the great depression and world war 2 and he fulfilled his lifelong dream this summer at the ripe old age of 96 he told us his story.
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that after working i retired and said what do i do now i didn't like doing nothing so i started studying. they climbed on me and when my mother gave me the money to go and buy the breakfast case 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.
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i've never drunk alcohol so i always drank milk and i believe this is the secret of my memory then of course reading helps the mind that needs to be trained you're. predicting a bright future ahead for just stepping at the marker say in a new decade worlds apart talks the positives of the challenges and the creasing the connected world.
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a new gold rush is underway and gonna. work goes off lock into the gold fields hoping to strike it rich is a good. day over the children are torn between gold. was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. there. are. a long while since worlds apart it's hard to find them although the subject
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inductance in international relations and democracy on the national level is supposed to be s. a way off ensuring that governments arts festival and responsive to their people but internationally it is often a source of insecurity and instability and one that is driven by the maneuverings of foreign powers is it possible. domestic governance proteome political gains what you discuss that i'm now joined by or need cheeseman professor of democracy at the university of birmingham and call there of how to meet an election but her so she is not is going to talk to you thank you very much for your time. a pleasure to be here now your goal 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 for a good reason to this part of the world is a recognized source of electoral trickery let's put it mildly to my question is
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this our failure it's your 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 or talk or sees that have no ability to have any criticism
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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 inducing i was drawing of a to 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 as. it was primarily driven by a realisation and deeply held belief that for the west democracy is not a value it's not the goal it's not.
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