e.u. fails to agree on sanctions against dozens of russian officials over last month's election despite a plea for action from the country's opposition leader. meantime the personal danger of thousands of police officers has leaked envelops in an online campaign that opposition leaders spent a lot of taken off sky said she supports rest shows no sign of easing 6 weeks on from the disputed presidential vote. also this hour european countries introduce new restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases with both france and spain seeing record numbers over the weekend. and thousands of files are leaked implicating some of the world's biggest banks and vast money laundering scheme spanning 2 decades.

just 1 in the morning on tuesday here in moscow my name calling the headline stories and reaction that were across for you this hour 1st the e.u. has failed to agree on sanctions against 40 c. about a russian officials over last month's disputed election the plan was vetoed by cyprus at a meeting in brussels on monday despite a plea from the russian opposition leader taken off sky but the e.u.'s foreign policy chief says the bloc will continue to push for action against meant ministers discussed the sentients issue and. those sanctions it has not been possible to that today because the it. was not reach. an. issue would have to be. considered by the heads of state and governments and tutor p.

and gun still later for their political update there's no unanimous vote on sanctions that means that it will be discussed further at the end of this week thursday and friday at the council meeting that's taking place foreign ministers disagree according to your said the e.u. foreign minister himself that the election last month can't be considered legitimate by e.u. member states svetlana ticket of sky or the woman who ran against alexander lukashenko in that election or she was the guest of honor at this meeting on monday she turns up with photographs of those protesters who'd been wounded being injured by riot police during clashes in the country she said the protests would continue and how to plead for state leaders i'm also asking you to demonstrate solidarity with their people support belarus civil society and may day at bargain is ations

consider criminal investigation against those individuals involved in human rights crime scene barrows i ask you more to finance their dictator dictator regime and speech by whose programs from state to non-state actors i also ask to consider to reconsider partnerships with state again this nation's cost talk a sham cam is taken off sky came to that meeting armed with a list of people she wants to see sanctioned by the european union she states that belarus is future should be determined by the belarusian people however her very being at this meeting in brussels hasn't sunk too well with either minsk or moscow who see it as an attempt to try and get foreign parties to get involved in interfere in the future of belarus we can sit. such contact as more evidence of the european union's departure from statements that they made in their regard in the

absence of geopolitics in the situation with. the steps i think no one needs any more proof that a policy is being implemented to undermine the sovereignty of belarus yourself i represented a foreign affairs said that there was a clear will within the e.u. for sanctions against belorussian political figures and the belarusian president alexander lukashenko however he also said this brussels was committed the a year was committed to not interfering in belarusian affairs it seems difficult to resign to tell those to say she called afflicting ideas it is going to come down to this meeting on thursday and friday what we do know is there's going to be no cutting off of ties at least for now anyway between brussels and minsk the e.u. ambassador to belarus will remain in post but all eyes now looking to the end of the week and that meeting of the e.u. council. a political analyst chris bambery thinks the e.u.

is taking a highly selective approach as to where it chooses to defend human rights i think the european union is there are a strange body and a man hating it's foreign affairs the realm is very well in condemning what is going on in belarus sure but he is a former spanish government minister who completely supports the spanish state in catalunya when it physically tried to stop it look at saloon you know who's in a referendum what i think is here is that you know it's european union as a very so legs it way of dealing with human rights and civil liberties abuses so it's a load of condemnation of what goes on in belarus not so much action but in rhetoric at least but it ignores what goes on in countries that it doesn't really want to follow with sodium arabia or even e.u. members like spain separately a group of belorussian activists are getting personal in their campaign against police officers accused of violence against protesters they posted

a document online listing officers private information the interior ministry says the dangerous 4 years older than many of the officers targeted are no longer serving our senior correspondent mark as they have is in minsk with more on that aspect of the story. as with any d. add on the operation the goal is here tara even and the better russian opposition makes no secret of what it is doing join us they say or we will ruin your life. the main goals of this channel are to track down every criminal that has committed a crime against his own nation to collect as much information as possible about that individual and also to create a special database which anyone in free bellerose can use to check whether they potential worker partner or anyone they meet has committed a crime against humanity next to poland based. public ganda outlets recently dumped the names and personal details of the. russian policeman into the

public domain police are not without fault suppression of protests arrests and physical violence towards demonstrators unorganized were brutal and the public was outraged but the opposition feeds on that outrage stoking anger with fake news and hysterical nonsense armed russian special forces and dragon our fellow citizens by the hair is this normal iran to tolerate this nectar apologized for that saying it is impossible to verify every message that they get such as the actual guilt of the policeman whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next year and other opposition outlets don't bother proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching co he was falsely accused of being an agent of the state after someone saw a photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a conscious crypt and his service had ended last year but they aren't acting

without support from foreign donations to the blessings of st lottie who not scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled to lithuania she says anyone in uniform who supports her rival current president. is fair game law enforcement officers should remember the people of belarus who revealed the identity of those who carry out criminal orders you will have to look you people in the eye the same people you're supposed to protect and she doesn't seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going after innocent people she doesn't seem to mind that not just them but also their families become the victims of cyber bullying and harassment and abuse and even attacks and it doesn't seem to concern her that it isn't just police or law enforcement that are targeted but also rescuers teachers and even journalists.

in the midst of the dissidence of the sheen i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of fosse information on the internet please help me share this so that lies don't spread further and don't harm me and my family. to be. journalists to one of our road constantine but at the bala for example who has faced a tsunami of death threats at the behest of all position ija mistrust that of course

it is frightening i don't know what's going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me in telegram saying look after yourself or a brick will find your head but at least he's just texting there could be someone else who will actually pick up a brick if they want me to go away then yes i will leave someday but not because of them not because of a text or a phone call another journalist had his car torched off the activists posted the picture of the vehicle on telegram with government insignia lose behind the pictures the veiled threats the fear campaign dave that anyone who disagrees with the aim to tens of thousands of better russians don't suffer from sleepless nights doesn't bother them they laugh it off look at the car still the logic behind this is that they are afraid of revealing who they really are that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets these blacklists and terror cab pains all doing the open. shouldn't any favors lose

thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent these vigilantes and bullies from coming to power if they do things like these such horrific things now and laugh about it what will they do when they come to power and ordinary belorussians to they didn't sign up for this they don't want to nation divided into leasts and costs the unclean and the blessid opposition and it shows the more radical and hateful the opposition's message the fewer turn up to their protests. europe's bracing for new restrictions because of a surge in corona virus cases both france and spain said daily infection recalled over the weekend and a top british scientist warning that the u.k. is at a critical point in the pandemic reporting next a shot at events. more than half of the departments here in france are now considered to be red zones which means that there is an active circulation of the

19 virus the country also recorded its highest daily record for the number of covert positive test cases around 13 and a half 1000 people in 24 hours those were the figures released on saturday now there is a huge rate of testing going on in france more than a 1000000 tests a week and overall the rate of positivity is around 5.7 percent what's a really concerning are the number of hospital admissions which are now going up quite rapidly we saw $227.00 additional admissions on saturday meaning that there are around 3800 people currently in hospital now all of those almost 600 are in intensive care now in parts of the country already intensive care units are at capacity so that is what is worrying officials in those parts of france in paris on the eve of the 4th region which is the area around paris it is only at about 20

percent capacity but there are warnings that there will be a high tension particularly in the next 2 to 3 weeks for the past 10 days we've seen a significant daily increase in cases the 2nd wave is here and it's time to deal with it it's not the tidal wave that we experienced march in the intensive care units overall not overloaded but we feel that we're at a tipping point where there has been a huge demand for those covert $900.00 tests so much so that in either fronts 20 new testing centers are opening or monday and they will give results within 24 hours for priority cases so people who've got symptoms of 1000 or perhaps have been referred there by a doctor now in other parts of france there are new restrictions coming into force particularly nice where groups of no more than 10. will be allowed in areas such as parks beaches or in gardens and those are restrictions that are similar to other

cities such as mar say and bordeaux let's take stock now of what's happening across the english channel in a way where the chief medical officer there is warning that the country is at a critical point and is heading in the wrong direction this comes as the u.k. government is now considering apparently a shoe we locked down in england the u.k.'s health secretary has said that nothing is being ruled out it will be increasingly stringent on the people who are not following the rules that everybody follows the rules then we can avoid. national lockdowns well they're already fines of up to 10000 pounds for people who defied kovac 1000 regulations such as the requirement to self isolate if they have symptoms and of course the government is encouraging people to snoop on others including on their neighbors if they breach the rules of no more than 6 now matt hancock not only defended that idea of people snooping on their neighbors but said

that he would call the police himself if he saw more than 6 adults conjugating to gether so much so that some people have described him now as being a tinpot dictator now some areas of the u.k. are of course already on the mini lockdowns parts of the north of england and also parts of wales but despite that protests against the big 19 restrictions continue over the weekend in london more than a 1000 demonstrators headed out to the street to show that they were unhappy with those restrictions there were dozens of arrests.

well back here on the continent there are also news directions coming into force in parts of spain in madrid on the region around the spanish capital some 850000 people now facing restrictive movement as the country is trying to what it says stem the idea of a 2nd wave of kopechne 1000 from monday people will not be able to leave their neighborhoods in those regions for all but essential reasons this comes as the world health organization is also concerned about what it describes as a worryingly high rate of transmission of $1000.00 and saying that the situation here in europe it considered still be very serious on a daily basis now as those transmission rates are going up and up governments

across europe are having to make some very difficult decisions. you're with artists national good to have you with us on the way president trumps a pledge to appoint a new supremes court justice just weeks before the election a spark fury among democrats from explain why it could make all the difference come november among our stories after the break. on this edition of the program we discussed the time single 2 towering figures supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg and america's preeminent russian expert steven cohen will be remembered for good reasons the latest assure. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. joins me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. i get more of a headline news now in a massive leak of bank documents has triggered a global scandal the files show how some of the world's largest financial institutions move more than 2 trillion dollars then to money laundering schemes and

other potential criminal activity jacqueline berger got more details alyea from correspondent saskia tekla. there's been a staggering leak of the so called files now since it is an acronym for the financial crimes network essentially it's an arm of the u.s. u.s. treasury basically what happens any time anywhere in the world any transaction in u.s. dollars happens in a bank looks at it and thinks you know what something's not quite right about this it sends a report to fence and it's basically the bank doing its to diligence unflagging something potentially criminal while delete feels that around 2 trillion dollars of suspicious money was essentially washed through the global financial system between 200-2017 how well the banks despite filing of course these reports about their suspicions continue to just blindly move really astonishing sums of cash with some of them coming from drug cartels human traffickers crime rings corrupt

politicians even the taliban i mean we're talking about the darkest underbelly of society the sounds quite serious can you give us some examples of what's been uncovered exactly well take j.p. morgan for example it allowed 1000000000 dollars in twin account despite not knowing whom it belonged to and then it later transpired that the account holder was actually a mafia boss on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list. also really stood out here turns out that the heart of the 2 trillion was actually moved through its accounts and it wasn't like these banks one aware of what was going on entirely h.s.b.c. for example was actually warned that essentially it was enabling a ponzi scheme but still it didn't shut any accounts it didn't cut anyone off now unfortunately this week has been politicized by some media in the u.k. especially there has been a particular emphasis on those russians involved for example how a russian politicians sanctioned by the u.s.

government sent around $8000000.00 to a compound in london with some of that money. being donated to the conservative party or how an oligarch rottenberg allegedly laundered millions of dollars through barclays now it's given the very fraught political climate at the moment it's probably on surprising that there is such a focus on these so-called russians but really it does such a huge disservice to the scope of this scandal i mean 3000 u.k. companies alone on named in those files now that's more than any other country on top of that any bank you can think of really has implicated you know bank of america american express j.p. morgan deutsche of citibank bought these the list goes on and then clients and more than 170 countries and there are already 193 in the world were named you know and flagged so focusing on a couple of russians in the u.k. it seems a bit disproportionate and what's been the reaction in the financial world since

this all broke while the german ministry of finance has said that all of these transactions occurred in the past they were dated up until 2017 so they've been investigated the matter is closed but let's hear what some of the other big hitters had to say this is not new information to us or our regulators will learn from our mistakes systematically tackle the issue and made changes to our old business perimeter our controls and our personnel consistent with our commitment to protect the integrity of the financial system cities diligence and filing suspicious activity reports with the us department of the treasury when appropriate given the confidential nature of these reports we did not comment on will confirm any particular report transaction now some argue that these words are not convinced and given that the u.s. government especially has been pushing banks to reform for years now they've been fining them millions of dollars they've been threatening them with criminal charges so the fence and final show how these bikes just transaction off to transactions

have been violating those promises of good behavior. really given this leak is also thought to be just the tip of the iceberg and account for a point 2 percent of the total reports filed you know we all remember how painful how damaging the 2008 crash was we all hoped that that would somehow trigger change but really this latest leak you know the internationality of it the number of banks involved the astonishing the psalms the source of some of that cash really unfortunately is testament to how when it comes to money no matter how dirty it is morality and often the noise just left at the wayside despite all that from a journalist charlie boyle suspects that the banks who have named in the scandal are unlikely to face any real punishment. listen no worries the most since let's go to sleep. as those recently it's 2017. my

suspicions are the amount i say that this is still going on and nothing seems to change in every kerry suger the old and not only are you serious there's a massive which is much less than the revenue that's being not generated from. all whatever you want quite unknown and i'll just go back to normal as the nazis are and this is a continuous cycle it's the great i'm responsible people forget about it there are problems in our lives in its current form topic ending rape we can write that to beginning again or this is what's under. question over who should succeed the late supremes called justice ruth bader ginsburg is heating up in the united states donald trump says he'll announce his nomination as early as this coming friday or saturday but the democrats are demanding that no nominees appear forward until after the election the house speaker nancy pelosi is not even building out impeaching trump to stop and advancing what is

a lifetime appointment. some of mention the possibility if they try to push through a nominee in a lame duck session that they do in this the house could move to impeach we're not ruling anything out of protecting our democracy requires us to use every arrow in our quiet. ruth bader ginsburg passed away on friday at the age of 87 she had served as an associate justice for 27 years and was a renowned defender of gender equality and women's rights death is not only triggered a nationwide reaction with people holding vigils to pay respects to the justice it's also shaken the u.s. political system as damo quarter explains. riots the coronavirus pandemic fierce political campaigning the us has already seen its share of divisions but there's more on the way the death of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has just turned the country's highest judiciary body into america's latest political battleground what. does not understand is its fight has

just begun you know we're going to do we're going to fill the city. so what's the big deal while the supreme court's always had the last word on disputes between state and federal governments and controversial laws same sex marriage obamacare the trump travel ban all these policies needed the court seal of approval back in 2000 the nation's highest justices even determines the presidential election outcome. theoretically the supreme court is supposed to be an unbiased check on the country's political system but it's pretty clear the partisanship of 2 party politics almost always influences appointments there can only be 9 judges inevitably each one of them either liberal or conservative and critical cases are often decided by that one odd vote at the same time they're all appointed by the president for life after being okayed by the

senate and the process often has its share of political drama. but with ginsburg seat open we're seeing the exact same situation as when antonin scalia died back in 2016 but the sides are reversed eventually trump was able to appoint a conservative to fill scully is position but that was only after a long struggle between former president barack obama and the republican dominated senate now the democrats are preparing for payback for years ago republicans invented the principle that the senate shouldn't feel an open seat on the supreme court before a new president was sworn in a busy principle of the law is that we apply. with consistency and not based on what's convenient or advantageous and the moment boaters should pick the president the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider before it is berg's death conservatives already had a 54 majority over liberals in the supreme court on the one hand trump's got

a small window to form a conservative supermajority of 6 to 3 with the senate's help on the other the democrats are already trying to stall the appointment until the presidential election no matter which presidential candidate wins be a trump or biden there's no doubt this decision will seriously influence the amount of power they come to office with when you consider that you have lifetime tenure the supreme court justices appointed for life the impact that they have is abner's so loosely. in comprehensible on every particular issue that you can imagine because remember the way our system works is we have 3 different we have 3 different levels of governance the executive is a president the legislative is congress but the judiciary in each of them share power but what a supreme court justice can do is inexplicable in comprehensible so

yes it truly matters. ok that's it from a thanks for watching us here in the coming hours to keep you updated on the stories we're tracking here for now though for me in the moscow news today thanks for choosing out the international. my social class. people who are also in poverty by 1st blame if you're born into a poor family doc you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years old if you're born into generational poverty. itself so it's

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