quite. why that would keep me secure those whose. people. i don't know which question which i'd like to meet so many. post-election unrest in belarus shows no sign of relenting 6 weeks on from the disputed vote our correspondent was at the main protest in minsk. as it's happening by. crowds merging together right now it's difficult to tell with the with regards to. 5000 people behind me. washington says it is reimposing u.n. sanctions against iran but world powers including america's closest allies say the move is legally void. and in our news review of the week

russian opposition figurehead alexina vali says he is making progress in his recovery as moscow and wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. of broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. bellerose has seen another day of mass unrest to 6 weeks on from the contested election thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president look at to resign. earlier described the tactics used by protesters. what they do is they gather in little groups all 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

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 that they're going to take the organizers are going to lead them down and police are waiting for that which 2 convoys of police and law enforcement about the city owned morning today preparing for this rally preparing for any 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 that has been the father's against the barn and haven't clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested 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 to drown out the chants of the cries from from the protesters and the last week it it irritates them no ed never the sea it has been 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 the to the xp. yes the sanctions these protests that these rallies these demonstrations are already legal will perhaps be clashes later as the demonstrators head for government offices government buildings the residence of the president. washington as reimposed the u.n.

sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal that move has put the u.s. at odds with some of its closest allies though germany france and of the u.k. have pushed back saying america 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 uncertainty but secretary of state might bump has threatens 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 implementing these sanctions the united states is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not reap the benefits of un prohibited activity france germany and the united kingdom know that the u.s. ceased to be a participant in the way 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 buying the selling condemned conventional weapons they were lifted 5 years ago under the nuclear deal however in 2018 the trumpet ministration withdrew from the pact washington says it is now taking action because an arms embargo on your iran expires in october iran's president hassan rouhani has denounced the move saying his country will never give in to pressure while the nation's foreign ministry urged washington to have a rethink. pyometra head on the washing tone 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 accept you but we heard from political analyst izadi he thinks the us is getting drivelling support in its approach to iran.

in partners it's been said that premise. the us is isolated in the unusual manner and what's going to happen is that the us 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 us 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. scenario you behind the cold he should know not to engage in any military

activities against iran advances by the. russian opposition figure alexina vali continues to recover at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma but 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 independently verified that the volley was poisoned by a nerve agent from the nova child group the global chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia has requested that information on the ongoing 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 says to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons but we've been to the obesity 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 insisted doctors found no trace of nova charcoal or any other poison while the volley was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened r.t.c. what is done of looks now at the controversies surrounding the case. election 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 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 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 enough when it all all this is taking place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to jointly sought out would. 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 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 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 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 bureaucracy 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. to abuse role in interest to go to alleged chemical attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame has been riddled with these. 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 russian or specter 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 a no investigation from russia but an immigration admission of guilt. this video was posted some days ago on the vollies instagram account it shows 'd his team searching his hotel room in tomsk shortly after he fell sick where in surgical gloves they collected evidence and plastic bags which according to the post were passed on to the german authorities one of the water bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of novacek we've spoken to the co-creator of that very nerve agent who claims if it was used in a valley would not have made it to the airplane. 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 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 and not words to use for this case. that's right they definitely would get something they had just simple gloves and that seat and also imagine a bottle that has traces of the substance on the outside it would be a very smart person trying to fill a book 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 bought up all future supplies of covert $1000.00 vaccines which are

currently at the research stage that's according to a report by the oxfam charity it means that only 13 percent of the world's population will initially have access to the drugs max lawson the head of oxfam inequality policy division says pharmaceutical companies are putting profits 1st. it's extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations monopolizing the superboy of potential banks and more importantly they're doing deals with big corporation. defending their intellectual property and appropriate meaning that the soup lowing all banks. own. oxfam says 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 says quote the vaccine deals lay bare the inequality between a prosperous and developing countries. now to give you an example the u.k. has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go now bangladesh for example in stark contrast the figure is only one dose per 9 people max lawson again says that prolonged on availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths. in the us are only sending them back into very rich countries they said again at a very high price somewhere between $16.00 and $35.00 a dose and you have to have 2 doses so that's like 70 dollars per person so they have barry clear that they they're doing needs 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 saying we need to see. the breaking down of the patent barriers and we need to see open sharing your banks in technology to maximize the supply. and effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible the huge economic and human cost of it did 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 in 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 vaccine has been artificially russian and private profits of pharmaceutical corporations. still the come this hour the israeli prime minister's it decision to send the country into a 2nd lockdown has caused widespread anger even on the beach that story much more

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welcome back this is or to international now the shortage of covert 19 testing in the u.k. has led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools peoples and staff are among those struggling to get checked artie's ali 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 of sounding the alarm but a chronic lack of testing facilities means that you can't get 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 go social distancing isn't possible in full class sizes i mean infection rates are going up so we have an absolutely chaotic situation where

understandably and correctly pupils and staff are being sent home and they have potential sitting timbs but nobody knows if it's just a cold or coverage and it's a 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 stuff 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 acknowledge that the whole situation is in quite some chaos every school has a small supply of home test kits for those. teachers that conduct says a testing center teacher who tested positive had to wait 2 weeks 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 lock down 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 while just 18 percent had had from the tides in every class from its left parents to question how they supposed to feel that their children will be safe in school when teachers themselves don't seem all that convinced misuse to keep schools open . clear of they have to be violent and one of the fun things.

is that you know. i'm self-taught and it's. not east it's eccentricity versus thing you stance with not remind you know they have a duty we need they need. 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 says it is 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. whose decision has been deeply unpopular hundreds railed against of the new lockdown measures on the beach in tel aviv on saturday

demonstrators danced and chanted slogans accusing the government of mishandling the covert 1000 crimes. the mere 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 of the measures are aimed at reigning in the daily infection rate which has almost doubled since the start of the month now there have been more than a 1000 deaths and the total number of cases exceeds 180000 we heard from residents in tel aviv about what they think about the new lockdown. 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 ends 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 say don't wear a mask so i really don't understand how this is going to help anything. i love this story graduating from the university in the middle of a pandemic has proven challenging for many students but one italian man who survived the great depression and world war 2 was undeterred get this the former railway worker finally got his degree this summer at the 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 and.

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a little in welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lobo on this edition of the program we discussed the passing of 2 towering figures so breme court justice ruth bader ginsburg and america's preeminent russian expert steven cohen both will be remembered for good. reasons their legacies assured. they discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest glenda eason and also he is an associate professor at the university of south used for norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia and in budapest we crossed to george samueli he is the author of bombs for peace nato's humanitarian war and he was originally dressed up rules in effect at music and john you know what i don't appreciate her is going to it's

going to george in budapest a george of course and be the biggest news right now is the passage job justice ginsburg and what's going to happen next and on this program i really don't want to bicker about the procedure of it all of you know it is inappropriate for trying to do this in the past it's been argued that a right before an election you know election year you should do that if there is a bacon say you can go back and forth you know in all sides have changed their mind ok and they're all leading their words and i believe that aside and talk about the state of the court because you know not too many years ago i think george and i would probably remember pretty well you know them being or else when judge justice bork was up for confirmation and prior to his nomination it was advice and consent is the person a jurist a good jurist it had nothing to do with politics now it has everything to do with politics and that was posed to be the one branch that wasn't supposed to be

infected by politics it was about interpretating the constitution as the founders laid it down we're losing them we've even lost and i would argue go ahead george yes you're absolutely right peter but i think the court has itself to blame for that because. it waded into politics it waded into politics a long time ago and i mean part of it the blame also rests with the politicians who prefer not to take. serious political legislative decisions and is that the left things to the courts and so all of the major rulings in the past last live past 50 years have been decided by the courts which isn't an unelected body and so therefore the stakes became ever higher when you think of all of the big rulings in.