this crisis will not go on forever the challenges korea the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. post-election. 6 weeks. correspondent may protest. by. crowds much together right now it's difficult to tell with with regards to numbers . 5000 people behind me. but world powers including america's closest ally say that.

a few of the russian opposition figurehead. is making progress in his recovery. in the. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the way to an art international i mean in the. scene another day of rest 6 weeks on from the contested election. sunday calling on president lukashenko to resign. earlier describe the tactics the protesters were using. what they do is they gather in little groups all over the city in various districts where they live and then they could see all of that into it into a huge rally huge much as is 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 at a much larger much nevertheless they've got their plan they've got a route through means that they're going to take the organizers to go to lead them down and police are waiting for that which she 2 convoys of police and law enforcement about the city all morning today preparing for this rally preparing for an eventuality tie sharif's block self we've even seen bob while fences barricades set up a wretched across the city to keep marches on a specific route it has been on so fathers against nutrition. and haven't clashed yet today with police there were sure many demonstrators arrested

yesterday perhaps hundreds up to 400 according to the opposition and the shake the 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 to drown out the chants of the cries from from the protesters and the last week it it irritates them no ed 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 these these protests these sanctions these protests that these rallies demonstrations are illegal we will clap she cashes laser as the demonstrators had for government offices government buildings the residents of the

president. we're keeping a very close eye on today the u.s. is claiming that u.n. sanctions against iran which were in place before the 25th. are now back in force the move has put washington and some of its closest allies. germany france the u.k. pushed back saying washington has no authority to reinstate un sanctions and you know a lot really the united nations secretary general has refused to follow up on the u.s. declaration citing legal on the certainty of the secretary of state mike pompei allies threaten penalties against any country that continues to trade with iran. we need cheated 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 un prohibited activity france germany and the united kingdom know that the u.s. ceased to be a participant in the a full on 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 a reminder of the original u.n. sanctions covered uranium enrichment as well as the buying and selling of conventional weapons they were lifted 5 years ago on the nuclear deal however in 28 days in the trump administration withdrew from the pact washington sais it's taking action because an arms and bargain all around expires in october iran's president hassan rouhani. saying his country will never give in to pressure while the arabian foreign ministry has urged washington to rethink. pay homage to 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 but we heard political analyst forward as early on the program he believes the u.s. is getting dwindling support in its approach to iran. not going to be in the part 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 the good interpretation of the un resolution 2231 and 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.

if we hope that the president is not interested in the. scenario if he is behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran to at francis put the. russian opposition figure alexei navalny continues to recover at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an in juice coma but the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning has only gotten worse on monday germany said lobs and sweden from said independently verified that natalee was poisoned by a nerve agent from the novacek group the global chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia has requested information on the case be shared so far to no avail. 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 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 doctors follow no trace of knob or charcoal or any other poison while the volley was in there occur moscow has repeatedly stressed that a willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened it looks now the controversy surrounding the case. of ali 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 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 never need 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 join. 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 berlin's 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 or b 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 bag watchdog of becoming politicized bureaucracy 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 fund it largely funded much largely the western powers we've seen with the p.c. to abuse role in interest to go to alleged chemical attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame has been whittled. where is inconsistences and problems that will not rise in independent investigation but there appears to be scope for political interference and pressure

to close we saw a similar situation in respect to the house 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 immigration admission of guilt igor's of the law for this video was posted some days ago on alexina vollies instagram account it shows his team searching his hotel room and thompson shortly after in the valley felt sick 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

lava chalk we spoke to be co-creator of that very nerve agent it claims if it was used in the valley wouldn't have made it to the plane. it would be found he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was normal joke 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 a not worse to use for this case. it's just 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. another story to bring you this hour 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 oxfam it means that only 13 percent of the world's population will initially how boxes to the drugs. they had of oxfam's inequality policy the vision pharmaceutical companies are thinking of the huge profits that will be made. it's extremely dangerous for the world because a rich nations are monopolizing the supply over potential. but more importantly they're doing deals with big pharmaceutical corporations which are defending their intellectual property and their profits meaning that the supply of

vaccine being artificially limited. as he went on to say there won't be enough vaccine doses to meet global demand the 5 leading vaccine candid. going stage 3 clinical trials however even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the chart he's extremely unlikely to run 2 thirds of the world's population will still have to wait on till 2022 at least on top of potential drug shortages quote the vaccine deals lay bare the inequality between prosperous and developing countries well to give example the u.k. has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go compare that to bangladesh stark contrast the figure is only one dose per 9 people there and again sees that prolonged all availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many necessary deads. companies like medan or in the

u.s. are only sending their backseat to very rich countries they're setting 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 have barry 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 these 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 did lie 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 effective saying 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 far the profits of pharmaceutical corporations are still ahead in the program the israeli prime minister's decision to send the country into a secular law is causing widespread anger even on the beach story and more after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safer. isolation that you didn't see. are you going the right way or are you being

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back with the weekly on r.t.e. international a shortage of covert testing in the u.k.'s lead teachers to question the safety of reopening schools people's unstuff are among those struggling to get checked. all the 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 all 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 are founding the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that idea cation in england may grind 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 hold of 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 this go 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 work 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. 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 were 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 while just 18 percent had had from the tides then 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 of keep schools open and clear they have to be so violent and what would be funny since being back 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 if 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 benjamin netanyahu say's it's a response to the soaring infection rate. i know. we have witnessed another along 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 decision has proved deeply unpopular hundreds rallied against the new locked on measures on the beach in tel aviv on saturday demonstrators chanted slogans accusing us in yahoo's government mr colbert crisis. from the new restrictions included 10 people limit on indoor gatherings israelis will also have to remain within 500 meters of their homes school shopping centers they're all closed businesses cannot receive clients in person the measures are aimed at reining in the daily infection rate which has almost doubled since the start of the month there have been more than

a 1000 deaths the total number of cases exceeds $180000.00 israelis told us they feel about the new doctor. it's very frustrating it's killing the economy and many people feel like there is no hope and they don't know what is going on it's probably a good thing because cases are rising that the rule of 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 meters i go anywhere i want or do anything i want people i still say don't wear a mask so i really don't know how this is going to help anything. and finally this news hour graduating from university in the middle of a pandemic has proven challenging for many students but one the talian man who survived the great depression world war 2 to name but a pair of things was on the turd the former real worker finally got his degree this

summer at the ripe old age of 96. 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 the breakfast dates 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 sunday. that. i've never drunk alcohol 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 in your. or you need a little inspiration in your life just think of just seppi more of the stories that shape this news week coming your way at the top of the hour a close because more great programs get going in moments find out what is showing in your part of the world after the short is the breaks.

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