i don't know. now that. shows no. protests. happening by. merging together right now it's difficult to tell with with regards to numbers. 5000 people behind me. reimposing un sanctions against iran but world powers including america. the. russian

opposition figurehead. is making progress in his recovery. bringing stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the week. seen another day of mass on wrist 6 weeks on from the contested election gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president to resign our guest the of earlier describe the tactics used by the protesters. 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 huge much as is happening behind. knowledge crowds nudging together right

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 at 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 them which she convoys of police and law enforcement about the city own morning today preparing for this rally preparing for an eventuality adarsh reach block self we've even seen bob wire fences barricades set up a wretched across the city to keep marches on a specific route that has been the father's against bar and haven't clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested

yesterday perhaps hundreds up to $400.00 according to the opposition and. a 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 from the protesters and the last week it it irritates them no ad never the sea it has been carved so far protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding the president of the shaker 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 lazer as the demonstrators at the government offices got. buildings of

residence of the president. living the program all know the u.s. reimpose the u.n. sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal the move has put washington at all odds with some of its closest allies germany france and the u.k. of saying washington has no authority to reinstate united nations sanctions unilaterally and the u.n. secretary general has refused to follow up on the u.s. declaration citing legal on certainty but american secretary of state might bump aoe has threatened penalties against any country that continues to trade with around. we need she did the snap back 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 to the a full and their withdrawal from the deal on the 8th of may 2008 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 you're really in richmond as well as the buying and selling of conventional weapons they were lifted 5 years ago on of the nuclear deal however in 28 in the troubled ministration withdrew from the pact washington ses it's taking action no because an arms embargo on iran expires in october iran's president hassan rouhani the no into the move saying his country will never give in to pressure iran has urged washington to have a rethink. pyometra round of washington on tehran's message to washington is clear return to the global community return to your implication stop the rebellion and

then the global community will look simple to. well among the reaction we got to this story was from within the country itself political analyst forward as he is of the view the u.s. is getting dwindling support in its approach to iran. in part it'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 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 the president is not interested in novak's.

scenario if you are behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran i fancy is put. ok to another story from the week russian opposition figure alexina volley continues to recover a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma but the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning only gotten worse on monday germany said lannes and sweden and france and independently verify that novelli was poisoned by a nerve agent from the novacek group the global chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia has requested that information in 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 to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and we've been to the e.u.

several times and they say talk to your with we are ready to talk to anyone we want not when the absence of facts we are pressured into giving an account of ourselves but on the basis of specific clearly formulated concerns with what we are always ready to have a professional conversation. or additionally russian doctors find no trace of lava chalk or any other poison in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed that a willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened. 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 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 enough when it all all this aching 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 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 by your p.c. don't you like so many international commands ations it's always great to be subject to political pressure and that's critically from of course those the fund it 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 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. 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. for this video was posted some days ago on the vollies instagram account it shows his team searching his hotel room in tree fell sick wearing surgical gloves they collected evidence and class the bugs which according to the post passed on to the german authorities one of the water bottles they

submitted was said to contain traces of novacek we spoke to the co-creator of that very nerve agent who claims if it was used a belly button and made it to the plate. found he wouldn't have been able to leave the hotel that's if it was normal jock 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 of poisoning and novacek a not worse to use for this case. good job 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 that would be

a very smart person to try to fill it with such a dangerous liquid you really do down the sides creating a dangerous situation for everyone. another story we're keeping a close eye on a small group of wealthy nations has already bought up all future supplies of covert $9000.00 vaccines which are currently at the research stage that is according to a charity by the oxfam charity it means that only 13 percent of the world's population will nish fully have access to the drugs that lawson he's the head of fox films inequality policy the vision states pharmaceutical companies are putting profits 1st. it's extremely dangerous for the world because. it's a plausible potential breakthrough but more importantly they're doing deals with big corporations which are defending their intellectual property and their profit

meaning that the supply of facts. well i definitely oxfam ses there won't be enough vaccine doses to make global demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates are currently undergoing stage 3 clinical trials or even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the charity is quote extremely unlikely run 2 thirds of the world's population will still have to wait until 2022 at least on top of potential drug shortages oxfam say the vaccine deals labor the inequality between prosperous and developing countries well just to give an example the u.k. has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on the clinical trials go looking. trusting to bangladesh the figure is only one of those people on lost and again says that the prolonged of all availability of the vaccine in some

countries will result in many necessary. companies like medan or in the us are only sending them back to very rich countries they said again or bury high price somewhere between $16.00 and 35 dollars dollars and you have to have 2 doses so that's like $70.00 per person so they are very clear that they are there doing things to make a profit and they want to make money from this vaccine what we said is we needed people's backs not a profit really to see. the breaking down of the patent barry is and we need to see open sharing your back technology to maximize the supply. and effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible the huge economic and human cost all. right ability of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries are not getting access to say from the point to

that sink into 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 vaccine has been artificially russian and private profits of pharmaceutical corporations. 17 minutes past the hour still ahead really prime minister's decision to send the country into a 2nd law schools widespread anger even on the beach story and more after the break . is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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let's start the program back in the u.k. where the shortage of covert 19 testing there has led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools peoples on stuff are among those struggling to get checked as artie's now reports. it wasn't so long ago that seamier 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 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 a 1000 in the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that i just couldn't england make going 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 our 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 coated and it's a complete loss story and of course the danger is that they 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 look 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 acknowledge 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 the $30000000.00 teachers didn't know if they'd have adequate supplies of soap and water 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 but they have to be so violent and what will be far. is that you know. i'm self-taught and it's as we. expect some traces versus thank you stance we've not remind you that 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 kim in to force just hours before the start of the jewish new year in our prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying is it's a response to the soaring infection rate. i know. we have witnessed another lawman 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. nessun yahoo's decision has been deeply unpopular hundreds rallied against the new locked on measures on the beach in tel aviv on sunday demonstrators chanted slogans accusing the government of mishandling the covert like the crisis. of the new restrictions include a 10 people limit on in door gatherings israelis also will be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes schools shopping centers they'll all be closed businesses will be allowed to receive clients either that's left a lot frustrated no the measures are aimed at reigning in the daily infection rate

which is almost doubled since the start of the month more than i thought it was and it's recorded the total number of cases exceeds 180000 we heard from residents in tel aviv for their thoughts on the you 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 rules so that's what we're going to do but i don't think it's going to help i expect that infections will go down but they'll go right back up as soon as the closer hands honestly it doesn't affect me at all where i live 500 meters i go anywhere i want i do anything i want people i still see don't wear a mask so i really don't understand how this is going to help anything. minutes of inspiring stuff coming up graduating from university in the middle of a pandemic has proven challenging for many students but what the telling in money

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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. 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 minds needs to be trained in europe. and i'd say partied hard with his classmates to more of the stories that ship the week coming your way at the top. because more great programs get going in moments

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