the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms germany's findings that the problem. was poisoned by the nerve agent. and other headlines as fighting rages between. russia says mercenaries from terror groups are traveling to the. united states for more coronavirus infection once again. in new york starting with the shutdown of the city's schools. following massive riots electoral commission the weekend's disputed parliamentary vote and chaos in the central asian states has left 100.

from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on our to international welcome to the program. the chemical weapons watchdog. has confirmed that traces of the agents were found in a biological samples taken from russian opposition leader. the russian foreign ministry has reacted hoping for a corporation to find out what really happened. the russian federation intends to provide the member states of the chemical weapons convention with a chronology of behind the scenes manipulation of the main characters in these b. forms we expect that the forthcoming joint work of russian specialists with experts from the o.p.c. w. will help establish calm the politicized interaction and the mood any further

escalation of the situation of the o.p.c. w. documents has made its way here to lend we know that much but for hearing from the kremlin spokes person to me to be peskov that information is get to arrive in moscow to come in useful we don't possess their finding said the moment it needs time for such information to be delivered through our diplomatic channels germany has called on russia to provide answers to a number of questions that it has speaking to the media stefan's i bet the german government spokesperson said that the use of a chemical weapon can't go without serious consequences the german government renews its calls on russia to explain what happened in the coming days there will be a frank exchange between the executive council of the o.p.c. w. and the circle of e.u. partners about the next steps any use of chemical weapons is extremely serious and cannot come without consequences well the you counsel presidential i'm a shell has said that the the reaction from the e.u.

to with the valley case will be discussed at next week's e.u. council summit takes place the day friday next week we've also heard from dominic robb the u.k. foreign secretary saying that britain was considering what its reaction would be i think there is an incredibly strong case for moscow's who wants or will have to consider what further action we take we turned this axis initially to introduce mr knows i mean we asked. an independent inquiry and we think indeed. to induce 2 to to assess what to do with you or to live a modern day the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons said that it would share its findings with moscow including evidence that says shows that alexina violently was poisoned using a nerve agent from the novacek group at the o.p.c. w.

also said they were willing to send a team to russia to aid with an investigation now earlier the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov expressed his frustration at burley in and in particular the fact that 3 previous requests for sharing information from berlin with moscow would gone on he added that a full through is currently being considered it is the laughter of also you said that russia's european partners had been quick to make up their minds when it came to the in the valley case before all of the information is being seen into the saloon the function of course we're interested in establishing the truth about what happened with alexina valmy as soon as possible but the situation is outrageous it's exactly the same scenario was in the so-called script palled case when the charges were announced but no facts were presented so the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says alexei novelli was poisoned with a nerve agent from the north the chalk group that information is being passed here

to germany the german government is saying the use of a chemical weapon must result in serious consequences. the head of russia's foreign intelligence service is warning that terrorists including from the notorious juggled all muslim group are seeking to join the conflict in the go to care about the disputed caucasus territory but seeing fighting intensified between as opposed and armenia with an update from the region here's egos down off. so the russian foreign intelligence service has released a statement a memo and at 1st they just issue a general concern for the well being of the citizens of the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh and they also released a call to both sides to stop the fight he immediately saying and that a full blown war in the region is well unacceptable but when it gets interesting is when they they talk about hundreds and perhaps even thousands of syrian fighters on the front lines open a corner cab back they even gave the names of the groups which came here which came

to this disputed region to take part in the war have a listen according to the information that is available to russia's foreign intelligence service mercenaries from warring international terrorist organizations in the middle east are actively having to the conflict zone in particular job for cattle harms us holton moron as well as extremist kurdish groups now among these groups the most notorious one is well just don't know struck they used to be known as al-qaeda in syria but lately they changed their name trying to distance themselves from al-qaeda but that didn't help much because they are known for so many folk countless acts of terrorism and war crimes and atrocities in syria in fact we prepared a short clip for you too with a breakdown as to what is known about this group but i have to warn you that some images in this clip you may find disturbing.

well it's important to underline that the russian foreign intelligence service did . not specify which side these mercenaries are fighting on although there have been mounting reports and sort of an international consensus that it is jerky that is helping azerbaijan hire these militants and then ship them to the frontline of nagorno karabakh well in fact armenia has accused deserve by john of doing this as well but it's one of the aspects of this conflict you have to understand that well both sides here but use each other over a lot of things and then later deny the accusations of the other side this is an

example of such situ of such a situation for instance is there by john has said that there are no foreign fighters in its ranks and in fact in turn accused armenia of hiring foreign soldiers so it's a murky situation at least also this comes to the tune of the foreign minister of turkey saying announcing that ankara is ready to work with more school on resulting this crisis and bringing decides to get to the negotiating table i will be bringing you more as i learn it. well as the conflict continues dozens of civilians have been killed on both sides parts of the disputed region have been left severely damaged while he went to tearing groups have raised the alarm over the level of violence the number of civilian casualties the situation has also turned some areas near the contested region is a by john government claims the country's 2nd largest city came under fire on monday this video is of a market that was shelled according to authorities. the noise it's fired on job

territory meanwhile as areas outside the conflict zone are trying to help their forces a local reporter sent us more details from the capital. in the wake of the recent advances by the words an army in the continent live in people who are in the region of the consulate it is and one make their own contribution. for their progress. throughout the capital. several collection points. to get this initiative of the people they want to get something from they are all the rage is sent. to trucks just today was sent about 150 both boxes and i think a big portion of the salary we must be spent this way significantly here to send our support to frontline troops we want to assure our soldiers that we're always with them. statement even should that be explicit big rescue to people

for this but in the same time they said that people military personnel leave who are equipped and provide it was all neat and in order to prevent any kind of misuse irrational or. even set off a temporary hotline where people can get in touch with the officers in the missile defense and then they will help them to distribute the assistance to the destination final destination that is the soldier or national army. donald trump is back in the white house having spent 4 days in hospital after testing positive for covert 19 learn so much about coronavirus and one thing that's for certain don't let it dominate you don't be afraid of it i didn't feel so good and 2 days ago i could have left 2 days ago today is going to feel great we're going back we're going back to work going to be out front and cheerleader i had to

do that and i know there's a risk there's a danger but that's ok and now i'm better and maybe i'm immune i don't know but don't let it dominate your lives get out there be careful we have the best medicines in the world. his comments infuriated many medical experts who said it was downplaying the dangers facebook deleted one of his posts where he claimed covert is less deadly than the flu and twitter flagged up a similar tweet as misinformation after being discharged the president returned to the white house by helicopter appeared on a balcony and then removed his mask for a photo opportunity and despite trump claiming people shouldn't be afraid of the virus covert it is still taking a significant toll on the country schools have been closed again in a number of new york neighborhoods where cases are surging once more my number one concern has always been schools i would not send my child to a school in a hot spot cluster that is not interested we're going to close the schools in those

areas tomorrow in the u.s. as a whole remains the pandemics global hot spot on friday new infections hit a 2 month record world war than 54000 cases that's the highest daily tally since mid august we got reaction from people in new york about the latest decision to close schools. was people are killed because there is no great uptick in the what was my son's school which is actually do you want to play with out loud to be allowed to. do the students or do they do that there will be shutting it down and making. it somewhat discouraging at the same time for. whatever whatever needs to be done there doing it you know that the school to get rid of or caleb orpen has been taking a look at why new york is once again facing a rise in cases. the rate of infection in new york city is rising once again the highest numbers we've seen sense back in may so who is to blame for this

well new york state governor andrew cuomo says the buck stops with local officials . say go over effective enforcement for every jurisdiction for local jurisdiction cannot or will perform effective enforcement violating entities notify the states and to close all business activity in hotspots where local governments come to comply now cuomo says words have led to allegations of hypocrisy he's criticizing local officials for not doing what he has recommended well back earlier during the pandemic he was criticized for not doing what federal officials recommended i don't believe that any federal administration could be serious about physical lockdowns of states or parts of states across this country i don't believe it's illegal i think it would be economic chaos the

decision around nursing home with governor cuomo decreeing that co that 19 patients should be sent there at a pretty big impact many have not forgotten what they see is a pretty big misjudgment that cost many lives there is something disgusting that democrats are doing that joe biden does and that you do which is you try to blame the people who lost their lives on your political enemies was it a mistake when your brother implemented a policy that nursing homes had to accept coded positive patients and endangered the lives of my brother was the 1st i want to say state that there was a learning cuomo has also faced criticism for allowing black lives matter protests to take place despite talking up the risks are talking about reopening in one week in new york city. and now we're seeing these methods maersk gatherings over the past several nights that could in fact exacerbate the covert 19 spread now despite his policy differences with the white house new york state governor andrew

cuomo sent his best wishes to president donald trump when he got covert 19 that is unlike new york city's mayor bill de blasio who saw it as an opportunity to take the president to task i think it's another reminder of why what some of us have been saying is right wear masks practice social distancing and take it seriously this president obviously didn't do it and paid the price party lines power and position mean nothing to the coronavirus everyone is at risk now in new york governor andrew cuomo admits the leaders of the state made some pretty big mistakes along the way however he still wants everyone to believe that he is the guy to lead us through the crisis well andrew cuomo is a leading figure within the democratic party the democratic party's strategy. during this 2020 a lecture and has to run again in a strumpet and to run against coded new york has had the worst record

in its handling. of it in the country i mean new york has had the worst. case death rate statistics and the worst rage of the incidence of govt in the country because much of the media in the united states is entirely in cahoots with the democratic party cuomo hasn't suffered any adverse consequences on them so yes it's hypocritical but he can get away with it he's going to blame him to go with trump and pose as the hero who somehow say new york at the same time in the media and watch and allow him to get away with it. i'll cross the atlantic there's been a major embarrassment in efforts to combat covert off 16000 positive test results from england vanished from the national tracing system but efforts to find people who'd been in contact with infected individuals. thousands of people blissfully

unaware they've been exposed to code it potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and where in the 2nd wave of the error occurred at the end of last month data failed to transfer from the labs to an x.l. spreadsheet used to tally the numbers the misleading figures suggest that this situation was beginning to plateau but the missing cases confirmed there's still an upward trajectory that's forced the health secretary to admit the mistakes this incident should never have happened but the team of acted swiftly to minimize its impact and now it's critical that we work together to put this right what i can say is that all those people obviously being contacted in the key thing is as i say that everybody whether it be in this group or would generally shouldn't should so price if that's the way to make it work or when they're always 1st or else there was an

outcry online not least because it was revealed to supposedly world beating the test and true system was using an updated version of excel that shocked many considering the billions of pounds spent on developing the up we got opinion from people on the streets of london. blues you know i've sung every day and we know small numbers are the big numbers so this is serious business the number 40 would come to these living all to new acts and i imagine they'll develop it as time goes on and there is no real president for the n.h.s. succinct 1000 if that because it to be too late for people to 1000 but into the. people on the top of fiction in the case of the repository they could it dished out a lot better and not any more and i doubt we'd be in such a hop if you meant that if the government going up to rethink something you. think people will produce intense take out the solution people seem. to know their expressions to something that still feel guys already should be punished and

probably. in the meantime here in moscow the mayor's warning that the pope would situation is reaching a critical point fraction right moves closer to the peak of the pandemic in the spring will look at that so after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us

in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back to the program of the coronavirus is once again tightening its grip on the russian capital the last 24 hours have seen more than 4000 new infections recorded here in moscow leading city authorities to bring in new restrictions and here our own scott the latest. the russian capital has witnessed

a dramatic increase in the number of new covert cases up to $4000.00 per day this comes as the country as a whole sees this sharp increase in the number of cases the highest is seen since the beginning of may this year now the russian capital unless a case of be on it has said the situation in moscow is becoming more serious by the day the situation with 19 is getting more complicated and dramatic day by day in terms of identifying a new cases where preaching the peak we had in spring the number of those hospitalized today has exceeded it sounds and people the op would trend continues now with such a substantial increase in numbers talk on the street has turned to whether moscow is heading for another lock down however there's no official talk of that as of yet however things are tightening up starting from this monday schools were told to take a 2 week unplanned holiday on top of that people over the age of 65 and those with

chronic illnesses will not be able to travel for free on public transport across the city starting from this friday on top of that tickets will be exclusively electronic for places like theaters and other then use and businesses citywide have been told to send at least 30 percent of their employees home to work now on top of these measures to health care facilities that have been reopened to cope with the rising number of covert cases those are the circle in the exhibition and convention center and the score a ice palace now these were built especially to cope with the pandemic. to be and then the most going there was that and highlighted what a critical role these 2 facilities will play in the fight against the virus certainly would be that is true of these hospitals do not exist separately they are part of the moscow hospital infrastructure leading the fight against covert 19 these clinics these inpatient facilities provide necessary medical staff. for the

backup. i hope they'll work effectively and will save the lives of many people in moscow so moscow is once again bracing itself this is your thirty's have said that these measures should be enough to stem the further spread of the virus however as we've seen in other countries everybody has to play a role we're all responsible for following the rules wearing our masks keeping our distance and washing our hands because nobody wants to return to another lockdown. when out of the central asian country of kids you start where more riots have been reported in the capital that's the spot a multinational call for calm protests erupted on monday following the weekend's disputed parliamentary elections one person killed in the demonstrations more than 700 injured electoral commission has now i'm older the results of that vote.

on. that. all the prime minister and several regional heads have now resigned the capital's mayor quit as well after protesters occupied city you will have proclaimed his replacement thought his have called on everyone to maintain order and a local journalist in bishkek sent us this report on the aftermath of monday night's violence. the alytus queer the how to record distance political life is

still full of people political leaders to their been asked in an action of protest in the center of the sca trying all day to figure out how the country will get out of the political crisis the central election commission today declared the elections in the country invalid and in the morning their leaders of political parties that did not answer parliament began to buy the offices of the ministries the current problem and was going to meet in the one of the hotels today but only a few deputies came to this meeting at the same time the coordinating council has been created in the country which is represented by a well known political who demand there is a nation of the president and they're going to zation of the new government in kurdistan in the meantime current member of government to clear that they continue to fulfill their duties the national ban called on commercial banks to stop their activities until the situation is right the leaders of political movements continue negotiations themselves it is not known what the president of the countries are

emerging because he's going to do in this situation the demonstrations likely to continue but perhaps the cold evening will make its own adjustments to more small enough for russia today from. a smartphone app has been launched in the u.k. to record on remotely store video of police stop and search is a law firm is behind the move and says it's to ensure there is evidence of any interaction with offices in trouble a lawyer who developed the app says it can provide a different perspective on an incident compared to police body cam video where cameras are sometimes turned off or recordings lost and you upload to the cloud in real time so if something happens to the phone the video is saved. now this knowledge comes amid growing debates about the disproportionate use of stop and search powers towards members of the black community the latest figures for england wales suggest black people are stopped more than anyone else the practice was brought in and made a spike in violent crimes. stop and searches are up to 40 percent up to 40 percent

of us here in london police claim the practice is only used when necessary stop and search is never used likely in police officers will only exercise their legal right to stop members of the public and search them when they genuinely suspect that doing so will further their investigations into criminal activity where that means looking for weapons drugs or stolen property a criminal lawyer mark for explain to us why he designed the output outlined his personal experience with police i developed this because it's something that's been . causing much strive for generations in the black and ethnic minority communities although i must stress that this is not just aimed at black and ethnic minority people it's for anyone who who is at risk of being stopped and searched it is something that happens to me and i was in a car with 4 other law students as it happens and we experienced what was a hard stop with 2 police vehicles blocked the stop was done extremely

aggressively the police were swearing and it was it was truly shocking and i thought that there needs to be. an ability for people the people being stopped and searched and lawyers potentially if there was a geisha of any. new miss conduct by the police to rapidly assess the evidence which is what this ups designed to to collect and protect and it will be a very valuable asset i suspect for for people when the unbeliever or happens they will now be believed. those are the headlines this hour we are going to finish though with a rare and beautiful sight from china which is celebrating its made water festival holiday in one province visitors get to experience a unique phenomenon. all

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