in the headlines this 24th of september germany's deliberately delaying a response to moscow's request to hand over data on the alleged poisoning of alexina vell in every possible way russia's permanent representative to the global chemical weapons watchdog tells r.t. . deliberately delaying the process the impeded the completion of the preliminary inquiry in russia that was held in order to ascertain whether there is an offense or not. astonishment and anger a frenchman is condemning the health ministry there for not consulting with them 1st and reimposing coronavirus restrictions across the country as covert cases spiral since the national lockdown ended plus. the good.

works accounting clashes and arrests in the by the russian capital as protests sweep following the surprise inauguration of president alexander look at. by the very good morning from moscow when i was kevin 0 in here the r.t. will be sent in with our latest this thursday morning as it is here 1st is refusing in every possible way is the allegation to respond to moscow's requests for information on the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy that is the claim from russia's permanent representative to the chemical weapons watchdog the o p c w in an interview to r.t. . the russian federation has been waiting for answers from our german colleagues the general prosecutor's office has sent 2 requests for legal assistance

unfortunately we have not received any answers there were various explanations from the german side firstly there were references to national secrets the german said they were afraid of revealing secrets and german technologies during our specialists acquaintance with the results of the analysis in a boon to swear laboratory. then our german colleagues started talking about the necessity of the prior approval of looks a no ball news relatives after that they referred to in a volley himself all in all the germans have delayed the response in every possible way through deliberately delaying the process impeded the completion of the preliminary inquiry in russia that was held in order to ascertain whether there is an offense or not and then to start an extensive investigation into the case that dealt with the russian citizen on russian territory. it's like a vicious circle on the one hand german officials said that they were ready to refer the case to the o.p.c. w. and the case becomes a multilateral one on the other hand the o.p.c. w. claims that they will not share the information without the consent of the germans

that is why we have taken some measures we've sent a letter to the germans permanent missions to the o.p.c. w referring to article 9 paragraph 2 we requested the german side to provide us with comprehensive information on a whole range of questions relating to involve these case we are talking about a test results biological and clinical samples and everything connected with this case german colleagues are required to respond within 10 days the countdown has already started. being discharged from a hospital in berlin then with medics saying a full recovery is possible while still not coincidentally long term conditions russia and germany meantime continue to trade accusations and says over the case. it is not the responsibility of the german authorities to conduct of this. the crime was committed in russia and that's why urgent appeal to russian side is to comment on the matter. with germany refusing to share samples or in

a valley streetman details or later russian investigator talk to him there is no way the russian prosecutors can complete an extra limit reproaching clearly berlin is in no hurry to share all this information although they're demanding the russia take a needed action he would get the impression the germans are still in free time in finding various pretexts to avoid cherry data which russia believes this is all being done to support the idea being spread in the media that russia does not want to clarify in the valleys illness any such claims are lice. to political analysts when roth 1st believes some of the west are using the novelli case to achieve political goals. look into what really is a military nerve agent which is highly highly poisonous and dangerous. if it has been applied not by any what has died within several minutes after being in contact with that substance so it's not really likely that novacek really was

in the play but not in charge of course plays a great role in the narratives in the media narrative for me it's more important to look at the geopolitical backgrounds of the last acts and the us american powers are in panic about the fact that the north stream to pipeline is about being finished quite soon so they need to give some pretext to the public to oppose the finishing of this major pipeline project because what bringing germany and russia closer together it was it would strengthen both country's economic alethia politically and therefore there are great great political or geo strategic economic interests to stop this pipeline project. with covert cases on the rise of france the government's tightening measures are the most affected parts of the country but the terms to contain the spread of the deadly virus aspired to local governors

schaller do reports from paris. or the health minister in france as outlined in new restrictions which sparked this war of words on social media between himself and local officials what he announced on wednesday evening is that 2 departments in france we placed into a maximum alert so in that means that from saturday for a 2 week period a limited period we're told there will be a closure of bars and restaurants people won't be able to go out to some public spaces and the 2 areas impacted are guadalupe and mar say now we know that code restrictions have been divisive people have been unhappy about them in the past but nobody nobody could have predicted the futurist reaction by mark sayes own mare i was astonished and angry with the decision the city of massey did not consult anyone nothing related to the health situation can justify this announcement i do not accept the fact that we are the victims of political decisions that no one

understands well other elected officials were equally as angry with the president of one of the local regions impacted describing this as being collective punishment but the health minister hit back and said that he did consult with the local officials before making those announcements. the decisions announced this evening among them the measure for the people of must say are aimed precisely as protecting them well all the health indicators are very degraded not so says the regional president 2 says that a call from the health ministry in the moments before these restrictions were announced did not constitute a consultation and he has argued that these decisions were taken unilaterally by the french government now other restrictions have also been put in place for areas such as here in paris paris is now on an enhanced alert area which means that from monday next week bars will have to ship by 10 pm in the evening they'll be

a restriction on gatherings no more than 10 people gathering together in public settings and we know that sort of large scale events like protests where they were allowed to be around $5000.00 people that is now going to be limited to 1000 people and the local authorities have the right to impose stricter restrictions if they wish to do so this is because the health minister said that the situation across the current tree is deteriorating rapidly that if you distribute use it is increasing sharply the infection rate is constantly rising we are at $95.00 cases bru 100000 inhabitants we must take additional measures it is necessary. france has been using a color coded map to show the roots of transmission of 1000 that's pretty much been a green yellow red traffic light type of system but now the red zones of been split into subcategories and if you look at that map now most of the country is in shades

of red suggesting that there is a high rate of transmission of coded 19 let's not forget that france is carrying out around a 1000000 tests every week so that rate is likely to go up but what's concerning the officials is the fact that in the last week there have been 3 days where more than 30. 1000 new cases have been registered and in addition to that hospital admissions have gone up by double to around 1000 and we know that hospitals in france are under strain the health minister is people to abide by the restrictions so continue social distancing wear a mask wash our hands and knees even suggested that people could tail some of their social activities restricting that all in an effort to try and be the transmission of this virus but as we've seen 2 areas of france including last say already now in this maximum alert zone and other departments will be looking at the figures and

wondering when they are going to slide potentially into that category and face their own mini restrictions and lockdowns for the feature. shallow dubose ski the school across the channel loads of britain virg the number of daily reported covert cases rose by a quarter on the government's continued to impose new mergers to curb the spread of senior medics no warning to calling all people to get the flu vaccine why well the latest of these shows if a person is infected with both flu. the risk of death increases by 6 times doctors now are also asking the public not to dismiss the risks of flu on its own as it takes approximately $11000.00 lives every year we discussed the issue with dr healy carr. what we know from the data is what we have is people who've got onto like health conditions have a significantly higher risk of contracting over 90 and the flu virus.

that's why we use g.p.s. and the government is encouraging people who are actually risk to come in and take up their feet that's a nation so that we can limit the spread and reduce debt as much as we can use the transmission of this virus in the community this is going to be unique. the challenging when tough because we've called boyce the flu and 19 and unfortunately both have to be similar symptoms due to which people might find it difficult to differentiate between them so it's all the more important for people to observe the social distancing guidance and by no means just take 2900 of flu vaccine at night seattle. and other headlines this morning 2 police officers have been shot in hospital in louisville kentucky amid unrest in the city protesters are angry after only one of the 3 officers there was charged in the fatal shooting of african american brianna taylor of march.

grand jury returned an indictment only against brett hung consenting kucing him of wanton endangerment a protest is when the office is charged with riot police have been deployed to the area brianna taylor a 26 year old black woman was fatally shot in march by louisville police offices police was having a search warrant. at the time to look for drugs fearing an intruder teles boyfriend opened fire offices shot back in the middle of all this tyler was unarmed was killed we got opposing reaction from our guests. there's been a lot of talk in the news about the case with a lot of very wrong facts and today for the 1st time the right facts were explained by the attorney general of the state of kentucky in a legal setting making it legal but if the grand jury findings the police were returning fire on

a bad guy who fired at them 1st knowing they were police police do have the right to defend themselves in the course of trying to apprehend criminals who fire at them 1st they have the right it's even specifically laid out in state law in the state of kentucky if they're fired during the course of their work they're entitled to fire back if only to defend themselves and that is what they were doing and in the course of that self-defense briana taylor was struck but it's definitely mr walker's fault not the police's fault that the gun fight got started and that it ended up going in her direction it is all going to come down on him law enforcement who works for the ruling and so when it's you don't want to punish your own employees to implement your agenda that's one number 2 my like reticences students have not fully showing this all their power and influence cheeks. control their

communities to preserve the middle east and she demanded to see both justice and say over the policing in the area it's got charged a lot of times these people go on to the bahamas or go to the riviera and strengths certain police to cortlandt people get paid money and they get money when they kill people like what you say happened soledad also certainly serious some charge there is a new young black to trade in general that is done something made given the huge payout to be on its heels family i believe that the federal government should step in and really look into this you can sense a lot more going on than what we any of us know. since national on a thursday morning hi there florida's attorney general wants a probe turned into billionaire democrat mike bloomberg for paying off the fines of state felons so they can vote what you think about that we're covering the story

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world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. police in 5 water cannon and made more than a dozen arrests as a new wave of protests in the streets of main square hundreds turned to denounce the better russian president the situation flared up after alexander lukashenko surprise inauguration ceremony which took place earlier than planned. there was a heavy police presence earlier in the day 'd and some clashes in the capital several demonstrators were injured dozens were arrested the unrest has been

simmering now for almost 7 weeks since the disputed election with people calling on look at showing it to resign being also khamsin rallies in support of the president and the rival groups in the past each other on the streets at times because opponents carried the red and white flags while governor supporters held red and green ones he's our senior correspondent in belarus following both arrest and police response. very tense now police have just fired water cannon behind us they're still firing what the cabin as a line of police but now trying to remove the demonstrators from a central square here it means hundreds of people 2 perhaps a few 1000 gathered just behind me and literally a few minutes ago police began pressing need all of them we saw a number of people detained at this season un sanctioned rally the government had ruled that this is an unsanctioned rally they had cooled on the demonstrators to

discuss but passions are high here there's there's there's a lot of anger among the protesters many of them refused to leave and now they're being chased by police again they just fired would take out an ad to protest this earlier today of course what sparked it all was the surprise no gration of the better russian president alexander look shaky there was no great for a seat presidential cut came as a complete surprise there was a new warning this new hint that it would happen people only learned that he had beat a new great as he was giving this speech as he as he was giving a speech thanking his supporters saying that the the revolution in ukraine colored revolution in ukraine had failed then that better russians by electing him as their president again that protected their freedoms their independence and peace their gear. dear fellow runners on this solemn day the president.

feeling the road with a lot of pride for both the russians who has lost with the owner who needed to support their beliefs in the ration is the day of our victory convention in significance that they didn't just elect the president of the contrary they defended our values our peace our sovereignty and now our independence and we still have a lot to do. there's been a very strong reaction both here in belarus many of the protesters wearing clowns people crowds. to. integration of president many people very unhappy that this has happened they had called for and wanted fresh elections including the opposition which formed the council of council to oversee a new elections and to make sure that president who is deposed many of their members ended up fleeing belarus for europe the european union which has taken a much more proactive stance with regards to what is happening in belarus we heard

senior officials in the in the european union say that they aren't meddling or interfering what they're doing can't be construed as foreign interference into the domestic affairs of better us rather that they're doing the right thing by supporting the opposition supporting the protesters obviously the government has different ideas calling this calling this meddling but we've also seen condemnation today especially several european countries are a host of them coming out and saying that they won't recognize the integration of president of the shape of that it was a farce and that he's no longer a legitimate president. there was new free democratic president. there is no democratic legitimacy for the ceremony that took place in. such a farce forged elections foods integration the former president bill or is does not become less forma quite the contrary his illegitimacy is

a fact with all the consequences that this entails. inaugurated today he has no legitimacy to lead his country he's responsible for presidential elections in belarus free of slovakia stands with citizens of belarus. in fact look i shan't just retired that means his orders to state power structures are no longer legitimate and cannot be executive i said client housecat and the only leader elected by the belorussian people and our task now is to build new belarus together. a little earlier several 100 perhaps a few 1000 demonstrators gathered in the square behind me within 10 minutes they were they were blogging away they were running away they were being charged by police with baddies the police had warned them that they should disperse this this was an unsanctioned protest but many of the demonstrators didn't move they chanted for president to leave police began deploying water gathered to trucks

spraying water at protesters and now most of them have fled there's the square behind me is empty for all but police. earlier this week the european union failed to agree on sanctions against a list of 40 belarusian officials accused of election fraud and violence against protesters but journalist in eastern europe specialist martin summers believes the western pressure is set to continue and it could push things closer to russia. so issues are the only question can we probably be agreed at some point the but it won't change his position or more of probably do is push him more towards. the russian federation because of course in many ways he was trying to steer a course between the needs of the russian federation and the demands of the west impose on of course the local poland baltic states ukraine very hostile to lucas and co in butler 'd us you could say you've gotten

a holdover from the from the soviet era were lots of the soviet well 1st states has essentially been preserved and that is the reason wally he says he's won the election this election and the previous 5 elections and of of august him in that position i wouldn't be prepared to stand down just because a minority thinks that he got to go. with election day growing ever closer in the united states the battle for votes is in full swing than a corsa now billionaire michael bloomberg is being accused of influencing the outcome in florida a key state in the race to the white house and his actions even drawing the attention of the state's attorney general to his kellam open explains. elections in the united states are supposed to be about testing popularity candidates appeal to the public with their ads their speeches and their platform and then the public determines who they like the best it's supposed to be democracy in action money is

supposed to have nothing to do with it critics of the united states often point out that the reality is quite different rich people often have a way of asserting their agenda take the latest example of former new york city mayor mike bloomberg he's a billionaire and he's putting up $16000000.00 to help pay the court fees of black and brown voters in florida who happen to be convicted felons now the former new york city mayor says he is just being generous no political motivations here whatsoever the right to vote is fundamental to our democracy and no american should be denied that right working together with the florida rights restoration coalition we're determined to end disenfranchisement and the discrimination that has always driven it well it just so happens that the courts in florida have ruled that people with felony convictions are not allowed to vote until they have paid off their court fees and fines now until recently they were forbidden from voting for their

entire lives so it looks like a lot of black and latino florida residents who have felony convictions are going to get a nice check from mayor bloomberg to make sure that they're able to vote at the polls this november it just so happens that overwhelmingly black and latino people disapprove of donald trump and his presidency so republicans in florida say this pretty much amounts to bribery i will be calling on the florida attorney general to launch an investigation into mike bloomberg for potentially an gaging in bribery in vote buying in the state of florida bloomberg does not care for donald trump he has laid out cash in florida to maneuver against him before bloomberg recently spent $100000000.00 in the hopes of beating trump when it came to earth. the voting in florida trump shot back at him with his usual style i thought maybe mike was through with democrat politics have to spend an almost $2000000000.00 and then given the worst and most in the debate performance in the history of presidential

politics booker home the end of his political career and 1st question over. no republican has taken the white house without florida since 1924 it's the biggest swing state in the electoral college margins there can be razor thin think about bush v gore back in 2000 in the 2000 election it came down to just a few 100 votes between the 2 candidates so giving the vote to 32000 convicted felons that could make all the difference it amounts to bribery basically bribing people to vote in a certain way and that is clearly against the law in the united states it's very hard to bring criminal charges against somebody as fantastically wealthy as bloomberg because somebody like bloomberg will hire the best lawyers in the country to defend him and no government no federal government those government will want to

bring charges against someone who's going to hire the best lawyers against any prosecution so it's unlikely that very much will come of this but i think there is a lot there to investigate i mean it's a it's a very dubious activity and you can imagine that if trump a done anything like this they would be huge scandal of. the same for me for not great programs lined up for you in your part of the world who are not international after this break. it's going to be hard to reclaim freedom and we're going to have to work at it but as people recognize from examples like. what we're pression digital

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