find themselves worlds apart. in the headlines this afternoon liberally that laying a response to moscow's request to hand over. poisoning. every possible way that's according to russia's permanent representative to the global chemical weapons watchdog. who deliberately delaying the process of the completion of the preliminary inquiry that was held in. whether there is an offense or not. astonishment. health ministry for not consulting with the reimposing coronavirus restrictions across the country. money and power is accused of projects into military needs.

from moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. is refusing every possible way to respond to moscow's requests for information on the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny that's the claim at least from russia's permanent representative to the chemical weapons watchdog. 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 buddhist were laboratory. then our german colleagues started talking about the necessity of the prior approval of look sane of all these 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 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 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. the valley has now been discharged from the hospital and with the medics saying a full recovery is possible while still not commenting on any long term conditions russia and germany meanwhile continue to trade accusations and demand all over the case. this. is not the responsibility of the german authorities to conduct this to get the crime was committed in russia and that's why urgent appeal to russian side used 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 a preliminary proclaimers clearly berlin is in no hurry to share all this

information although they're demanding that russia take a needed action we get the impression the germans are still in free time in finding various pretext to what sharing their data with russia we believe 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 lies geopolitical analyst the writer office believes someone the west are using the development carries through achieve political goals. we look into what really is a military nerve agent which is highly highly poisonous and dangerous. if it had been applied never any would have 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 anglo-saxon and the u.s.

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 it would bring germany and russia closer together it was it would strengthen both countries' economical each year politically and therefore there are great great geopolitical geo strategic economic interests to stop this pipeline project. with covert cases on the rise across france the government's tightening measures in the most affected parts of the country but the attempts to contain the spread of the deadly virus have sparked outrage from local governors charlotte didn't skew reports from paris. well the health minister in france has outlined 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 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 maher say now we know that restrictions have been divisive people have been unhappy about them in the past but nobody nobody could have predicted the fear is reaction by mar ses 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 and won them the measure for the people of must see 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 buyers will have to shop 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 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 have 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 marsay 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 future. rhythms number of daily

reported global cases rose by a quarter on wednesday the government's continuing to impose new measures to curb the spread of medics are calling on all people to get the flu vaccine the latest study shows of person is infected with both flu and covert 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 lives each year we discussed the issue of dr sohini car. what we know from and with the date is what we have is people who've got underlying health conditions have a significantly higher risk of contracting close to 90 and the flu virus and stats 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 this rate and reduce debt as much as we can and reduce the transmission of this virus in the community this is going to be uniquely

challenging when tough because we've got boys the flu and 19 and unfortunately parents have relatively 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 credit 900 of flu vaccine like seattle. a taxpayer funded care package was handed to the pentagon for mosques and swabs the code was apparently funneled into the hands of private defense contractors that's according to a new report to congress this year gave the defense department a $1000000000.00 to battle the coronavirus that money though seems to have gone instead to ship building maintenance army dress uniform fabric and drones as well as satellites and space surveillance of the cash it was supposed to address funding gaps in the country's coronavirus response with the u.s. suffering the world's worst pandemic right now this comes amid

a serious coronavirus shortages in the country for the center for disease control warn an additional $6000000000.00 will be needed just to distribute vaccines next year though that a severe lack of high spec facemasks the pentagon though has doubled down on the move insisting that national defense comes 1st. we are thankful that congress provided also a.t.'s and resources that enable the executive branch to invest in domestic production of critical medical resources and protect key defense capabilities from the consequences of curve it we need to always remember that economic and national security a very tightly into related and our industrial base is really the nexus of the 2 and we asked new yorkers what they made of the scandal and many were not surprised at all being given money body armor. so you can be. to work for your people aren't the priority if the money in the government is the

priority it always has been and the. citizens were just realizing these things being misled and finding out that funding is going towards leases that are necessary that will benefit people and it's part of being an american. professor of preventative medicine william schaffner told us the spending scandal goes for the top levels of power. obviously we would have preferred those monies go to cope with relief i would think that this decision to spend the money not on cold it defense but. on forces was made at a very high level 'd clearly the diversion of these far from the public health programs of the united states is very misguided i would think that the appropriate congressional committees would do an investigation to find out why this happened and to correct this if

a $1000000000.00 was misused we had better look to the rest also to see how those bodies were expended the distribution of the vaccine is going to be our next nature effort here in the united states to stop or to 'd do some control so cold it probably and all of those things will require funding it means that the congress of the united states has to hold the executive branch to account they have to be absolutely. very attentive to how these monies allocated for good purpose are being spent. israel has announced the total look down from friday expected to last into the middle of next month that has the country some as a rise in co-infections with the daily record in the past 24 hours we're now into a correspondent in tel aviv paulus cleared to give us the latest paula thanks for staying across the story what more do we know about these latest measures.

well this new lockdown that is being imposed is raymond ness end of the nationwide lockdown that was put in place back in march we are hearing from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that a full lockdown will be in place from tomorrow friday until october the 10th which is the end of the jewish high holy days who has however said that her. some restrictions will be eased in the coming days if not the coming weeks now last week we did witness and nationwide closure that source schools restaurants hotels and more was being shut this made israel the 1st country in the developed world to impose a 2nd lockdown they were however some areas where people were given some freedom for example people could go outside for exercise at the same time they could participate in prayers or public protests this new lockdown however promises to eliminate the any kind of similar loopholes. i mean.

the situation is difficult there is a steep rise we have to take decisions the decisions are tough but as prime minister i am a blood to save your lives and you need to understand that there is a danger to lives and that's why there is no choice but to take the difficult decisions and we will save lives with your cooperation. now there has been a recent surge in covered 19 positive cases last wednesday saw some 7000 new cases being reported within one day and that was a record high and i saw it is a country of 9000000 people and it has one of the highest rates of coronas virus infections on a per capita basis there was a need to debate earlier today in parliament over the way forward and while the prime minister is very much in favor of full lockdown he faces some stuff opposition particularly amongst those experts managing the whole pandemic and they

warn that any kind of shutting down of the market beyond 50 percent will spell a long term disaster for the country now the solution locked down essentially amounts to an admission of failure by the prime minister it wasn't so long ago that he was boasting that he was the world's leader when it came to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is right. it was one of the 1st countries to close its borders and to impose a strict lockdown and method result in the virus declining however it later turned out that the economy had been opened too quickly and that's why we've seen the virus returns in recent months is also being contradictory and confusing messages being put forward by experts and policymakers each week thousands of protesters have been gathering in front of the prime minister's residence in jerusalem to protest against him and call on him to resign because of his corrupt judges but also because of the way he's dealing with this whole coronavirus pandemic. of

course the country to introduce is going to be a tough few weeks so thanks for keeping us updated. still to come in the program florida's attorney general wants a probe into billionaire democrat mike bloomberg paying off the fines of state felons so they can vote more off the 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 repression digital systems need to. i hope people will start fighting. saying we won't tolerate systems in our streets in our homes that can't

possibly track what we're doing. as a culture war consumes american politics during this election cycle the economy in a big. margins the only constant for them. insecurity economists debate individual recovery do you know. is the reality the change. permanent. and with election day growing ever closer in the united states the rise of votes is

in full swing now billionaire michael bloomberg is being accused of influencing the outcome in florida a key state in the race for the white house and his actions have even drawn the attention of the state attorneys the state's attorney general. has the details. 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 early. voting in florida trump shot back at him with his usual style i thought minimized was through with democrat politics after spending and $2000000000.00 and then given the worst and most in that debate performance in the history of presidential politics. and of his political career on 1st question over save new york city instead 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 years 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 state 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 there would be a huge scandal of the. parliament of kind of has

restarted off the prime minister justin trudeau controversially prorogue that i mean scandals tying him to corruption and rise in covert levels and his little corner reports the accusations against trudeau haven't gone anywhere. last month trudeau suspended parliament claiming ottawa needed a better long term strategy for call the damage control after all the country's coronavirus cases are nearly at 150002 those handling of the pandemic has been widely criticized no more than ever comedians are looking for clarity and leadership but what they have gotten from the trudeau government is confusion and repeated delays so it's all about the coronavirus right nothing to do with a corruption scandal we have a prime minister and a cabinet that is golf engulfed in a massive corruption scandal for those currently under investigation for nearly $1000000000.00 contract with an organization called 'd we charity it was paying his

family members huge speaking fees for years but the agreement was since canceled after accusations that it amounted to a conflict of interest now under all the suspicions and suspending parliament also puts all current investigations on hold so gross and disgusting that this prime minister keeps using the pandemic as an excuse for his corruption believe it or not trudeau promised never to suspend parliament after his predecessor used the same mechanism called to weasel his way out of a vote of no confidence now the truth is promises broken he had some explaining to do the probation we are doing right now is about gaining or testing the confidence of the house which is the opposite of what the conservatives did that we rightly railed against back in 2015 approval rates are tanking the opposition's on the offensive and the coronavirus continues to ravage the contrie these are tough times for both the canadian people and trudeau well there was the the big talking points

here are that it was unusual for a prime minister to make an address like that after a speech a lot of what was announced. it was i think are pretty status quo are things that have been introduced or for this period since a pandemic kid what this story speech was wasn't necessarily what trudeau promised a few weeks ago when he prorogued parliament saying that they needed some time in order to pull or a bold vision that wasn't just a short term response but you know obviously we're talking about a global pandemic in a situation which is a president which is going to have a long stay facts on the country and on the economy and frankly i didn't necessarily hear anything from the throne speech that really spoke to that that that spoke to something as the long term solutions for canada moving forward.

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