have you about was this the alibi i'll call it i was there with someone of that you know what would happen. in the headlines this wednesday morning with pride like the olympics that's how the u.k. government is saying it will look back on its coronavirus response despite britain having the highest covert death toll across europe and seeing a new surge in hospital admission. russia slams the report of a global chemical weapons watchdog the russian opposition figure election of it was poisoned with nerve agent moscow says it's all about bringing in a new round of sanctions that. its purpose is obvious denigrate russia with unsubstantiated accusations and thereby create a far fetched reason for introducing another tranship sanctions against our country

. and the us 2020 vice presidential candidate mike pence go head to head to the debate wednesday the race for president has been characterized by name calling and blame game so far based on little to educate voters about candidates policy. for good morning for rush hour late one just past 11 the morning here now the 7th of october kevin 0 in artie's world news center with the latest for you for the next half hour ok stick around with me too so we're starting with the latest on the coronavirus news from britain english hospitals are under pressure again than i was saying the highest daily tally of covert admissions there since early june it's right on the heels of the revelation to that the u.k.'s contact tracing left off

thousands of cases this new spike has coped with confusion of the british government seems to be continuing to. edwards dashti reports. and considering the u.k. government's response to cave at 19 pretty and probably wouldn't be the words on the tips of most people's tongues over the course of the year the u.k. has seen thousands of people dying in care homes tests and tracing deadlines set and missed the u.k. topping the death toll across europe plus of course britain being on the verge of round 2 and while most people think the government's response needs to be completely written off it seems as though not everyone agrees it's been. i think it will be like the lympics that's when it's all over and we look back and reflect we would actually be extremely proud of ourselves some people might think a wooden spoon is more appropriate than a shiny metal especially considering the latest news that 16000 positive tests for private 19 have been lost meaning the super spreaders a blimey on the way they're still spreading thousands of people blissfully unaware

they've been exposed to code potentially spreading this deadly virus a time when hospital admissions are increasing in the 2nd wave blunder after blunder critics say the government's not learning from its mistakes but as the country hurdles towards a 2nd wave of the virus covered confusion is still lingering in the guess with mixed messages coming from power. but as i understand it. apologies i misspoke today in the northeast new rules mean you cannot meet people from different households in social settings indoors including in pubs restaurants and your home you should also avoid socializing with other households outside go to work but stay at home eat out to help out but don't socialize kick start the economy but stay in your popple it's no wonder the country is continues especially considering the man telling the u.k. what to do is accused of being a tad confused one of the major problems is widespread confusion about the local

restrictions people feel very let down a very frustrated very forgotten can we pin all the blame of boris johnson after all these all around president to times far to go back to all that no prime minister has ever fought before and after months of economic paralysis boris johnson began to i'm not the lockdown even though parts of the u.k. was still plagued with the virus and so the north south divide found its latest partition the timing of the lifting of national lockdown was london centric please remember this the next time you see politicians pointing fingers at our people on the eve of a 2nd wave many might think the government would know what it was doing by now especially considering it had around 6 months to prepare the when carrot has been replaced with confusion can the government really expect people to for the rules when it doesn't seem to know them itself should you ever start the artsy learn. meantime in paris and its suburbs the rate of covert 19 positives in migrant

shelters is extremely high sad to report with winter coming aid groups know urging the government to provide the most vulnerable with more help we can report on it but later in the program. developments in the saga of the russian opposition figure a lecture novelli to tell you about next though the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. says the traces of a nerve agent from the family have been found in a volleys biological samples but russia's representative to the organization has slammed her claim. until you're given documents materials samples material evidence we will consider all that surrounds this incident an unbridled propaganda campaign of lies or simply put a low grade provocation its purpose is obvious denigrate russia with unsubstantiated accusations and thereby create a far fetched reason for introducing another tranche of sanctions against our country moscow sent several requests to germany asking for cooperation of the case

but so far that's not been forthcoming election of only fell ill omened commercial flight in late august he received emergency treatment in the russian city of almsgiving was then taken to germany for further care since then berlin claimed that traces of a chemical nerve agent were found in his test results next wrapping the latest of this morning paper all of a breaking it down. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has published its findings from samples they tested from alexei navalny the results won't come as too much of a surprise to many the o.p.c. w. found novacek was present those results in a detailed analysis were sent here to germany where berlin has been demanding answers from moscow but using o.p.c. w. finding the says the foundation for allegations is unlikely to sit well in the russian counter so it is in fact even tacit ghost story initiated at the behest of

berlin by its your atlantic allies to gather with the leadership of the technical secretary and of d o p c w it has continued in accordance we to preplan conspiracist scenario memories are fresh of the investigation by the hague based weapons watchdog into allegations of chemical weapons being used against civilians in syria and the validity of the investigation of the duma chemical attack the response from western nations was to condemn the syrian government and to unleash cruise missiles. while toxicologists still question the findings of the o p c

w with respect to the consistency of the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims with possible exposure to chlorine gas or similar the experts were conclusive in their statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure. even a former head of the weapons watchdog has raised problems with the handling of that investigation a request that told. saperstein e.p. heard at the u.n. security council was blocked by the united states france the u.k. of though instead he chose to read out his statement on the line this concerns him immunity from the very heart of the organization from the very scientists and engineers involved in the dumas to give us a call for great disparity from your b c w for the intensified in november last year almost one year later. has not responded to these requests nor to the ever growing controversy surrounding the

doom investigation. it has hidden behind an impenetrable wall of silence and opacity making any meaningful dialogue impossible with the e.u. council set to meet next week to decide what their reaction to the europol will be the german government demanding serious consequences for the use of a chemical weapon this o.p.c. w. reports could have far reaching ramifications peter all over r.t. early 1st get some thoughts on it live from john locklear international affairs expert joining us on the line from paris a there job morning so the o.p.c. w. confirms traces of a nerve agent for the group they say in the valley sample so it's done deal that yes is it. well i'm not so sure you say that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed the use of and a nerve agent and indeed i have seen news reports for example on deutsche of ella

saying exactly what you have just said claiming that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed finding and agent but i'm looking now as i'm speaking to you on the screen i can see the statement dated the 6th of october from the o.p.c. w. and the word nerve agent does not appear anywhere nor does the word navi chalk so whatever we may think coming from w. there's a lot of spin going on here yet i'm spinning it where is that come from the well the nerve agent that i've just said the other not. the allegation that the o.p.c. w. had confirmed nerve agent and not the chalk comes from deutsch a fella i'm looking now again not there at the screen for a dodge of l. a report which puts quote the presence of a nerd nerve agent in quotes attributed to the o.p.c. w. but that's fake news because the a b c w has not written anything about the presence of a nerve agent it's used another term so there's a lot of spin going on ok. as the o.p.c.

itself is concerned you've just had a report on the background to this and it's entirely right that we look at the background the syria case going back further the iraq scandal and so on but i get the impression that. when you go to the actual statement made by the o.b. c.w. that they are trying to be a little bit more careful than they are perhaps being given credit for because what they say is anyone can look at this it's obviously a public information is that the biomarkers of the inhibitor found in his blood have similar characteristics to toxic chemicals belonging to certain show jewels which were added to the convention however it had. this inhibitor is not listed in the annex on chemicals to the convention so the thing that they found in his blood is not a primitive weapon according to the o.p.c. w. so it's extremely mysterious to me what either what we are which way whatever's

happening here russia is same be on the scenes this is all a pretext to bring in more sanctions against russia does russia have a point or not ok so it is i mean we don't need to attack the credibility of the o.p.c. w. to reach that conclusion the issue of sanctions is coexistent it is coeval with the issue of novell nie i've said this on r.t. since the moment he fell ill why did mrs novelli his wife demand that he go to germany there are plenty of other european countries if he had to go to a european country which could have treated him but no she demanded germany and that i'm afraid leads me to suspect that the whole thing has been orchestrated to sabotage the north stream gas pipeline because as we know it arrives in germany remind our viewers about why people wouldn't be happy about the north korean gas pipeline i'm sorry remind our viewers why people wouldn't be happy in the west about the north train gas pipeline then well the north stream gas pipeline will

bring even more gas directly from russia under the baltic sea to germany and the americans and the poles in the baltic states have been fighting against the north stream gas line very energetically 3 years now the americans at the end of last year imposed sanctions on any european companies involved in the construction of this pipeline they don't want germany and russia to get together they don't want germany to buy russian gas instead they want people to buy fracking gas from the united states of america which is sent by by ship and not by pipeline so there are lots of political and commercial interests involved in trying to sabotage the north stream pipeline but i have no hesitation in saying that the novell me issue is directly connected with it because of the. why would she have demanded he go to germany the presence of the bally in germany and just to be clear in following your hypothesis back here who's behind all this what's the driving force behind all this

is america or isn't europe was in the picture of all i think it's america because the german political class did not want to bend to american extra tourist extraterritorial sanctions against north stream mrs merkel had set her face against it repeatedly and recently and of course it is totally outrageous that the american should put extraterritorial sanctions on european companies who are supposed to be allies after all so i think that it is the way of for the americans to exert pressure on the german political class by bringing only physically into their country so my view is it is that the americans are behind the americans and of course nato generally because as i said in again on r.t. when the valley arrived the whole operation has been conducted by the german military he was brought from the airport in a german military ambulance and the tests were conducted by a german military laboratory in berlin john folks give us your thoughts on it john lott williams national affairs expert we'll let you get on with the day thank you

very much you to. some other new scuffles broke out between anti-government demonstrators and israeli security forces in tel aviv tuesday. hundreds gathered to finance the government's anti coronavirus restrictions the protesters are also demanding the resignation of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu they dismiss the government's pandemic measures as a distraction from the corruption scandal while the prime minister himself has denied any wrongdoing is what some of the protesters have had to say. of course that is the this crisis in order to remain in the sea to avoid the to avoid is try and we are afraid it is trying to. create. a civil war between us 1st we need like we did it and we are all. these because these thing stealing our democracy he's doing things and

he's a. very strong very strong it will not stop until he resigns or moved away. and we get rid of him for ever. let's go to the state the pandemic in france next more than half of people living in extreme poverty in the paris region in particular migrants have been infected with covert 19 according to new research from the french aid group doctors without borders. the shutters have come down the halls across paris and it's in the suburbs all in a pain to fight rising infection rates of close it 19 it's an epidemic that's been described as moving too fast and while the overall positivity rate for qubit in paris is around 12 percent if you look more closely at those who live in precarious situations such as migrants it's said to be much higher doctors without borders

that m.s.f. is now sounding the alarm in what it describes as being the 1st study of its kind in europe it found the positivity rate of covert 19 in emergency shelters and in food distribution centers was more than 50 percent the results show an extremely high prevalence the main reason is the conditions of shelters and been packed together which leads to clusters of infection in europe and france no other study shows this type of prevalence these types of figures on this scale can only be found in india or in the slums of brazil but that figure showing a positivity rate of more than 50 percent is an average m.s.f. says that in some centers housing migrant workers the rate hit 89 percent a worrying number in places where social distancing can be difficult in president mcewan's address to the nation in march he promised help for the most vulnerable with him on this i. didn't i want to ask for sacrifices to slow down the epidemic

the aid to the most fragile should not be jeopardized for the most vulnerable the most destitute for the isolated who will make sure they can be fat and protected. so have they been forgotten all those people are usually. are forgotten. spontaneous camps. officially didn't exist there was no special report issue. continuation during. to arrive to right or to arrive and we don't know exactly what. she was and of the temporary shelters have long been used as a base when makeshift camps have been cleared when the lockdown began in march here in france hundreds were moved into accommodation like that and now one of the idea

may have been to offer shelter and to get people off the streets it may have also offered the virus the perfect grounds to spread the results confirm that the circulation of the virus was more particularly effective in the situations where the proximity was the highest that is to say when the person has to share a room kitchen with several other people in places where migrant workers are housed together around a president share a room with between 2 and 5 people a 5th share a room with more than 5 people in situations like this it's impossible to distance m.s.f. change of strategy we knew that this reception conditions would not work that it wasn't possible to respect very measures we have to change the hosting strategy i mean surface submitted its report to the ministry of health it's hoping by highlighting these desperate situations that there can be a changing here for those whose lives are currently being held in the balance.

r.t. paris. and coronaviruses turning his group once again here in the russian capital for the past 20 days infections have been steadily growing just yesterday moscow recorded more than 4000 new cases russian authorities are expressing concern over the growing numbers even though no new law had been introduced yet where in mosques in transport and public places continues to be mandatory with everyone older than 65 being advised to stay. 20 past the hour coming up as the 2020 u.s. election clock counts down the vice presidential candidates are getting ready to face off but how wide is the gulf between their positions i'm kevin 0 in this is r.t. stay with us we'll check it out when the back. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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again fighting between media and azerbaijan over going to cut a box ongoing with of ports of continuous shelling in the enclave could be a glimmer of hope for peace though i mean years later is stating that he's ready to make concessions in the dispute as long as the other side is willing to give some to he goes down off reports. the city of to panic at the capital of the nagorno-karabakh region has been awoken by the sounds of bombs this morning just once again in fact some people on the ground have told me that they've been kept away by the sounds of shelling all the way throughout the night but well the wrist some very very dim hope that the peace negotiations are not around the corner but at least somewhere in the near future the prime minister of armenian it on has said

that if i say or by john is ready to make concessions then well meaning is to. conflicts should be resolved by mutual consent no go to look at is ready for it and will make concessions if as a buffer zone is also ready for them this is particularly important after the russian foreign intelligence service have said that they have information that hundreds if not thousands of syrian mercenaries taking part in this conflict members of one of the groups that they have mentioned in their report are the members of the notorious front and if this is indeed true then this is some very bad news for the region because i'm not sure a front they are as radical and as extremist as it gets they were formerly known as the al qaeda in syria so there's that and also they're known to have tortured people to have eggs mass execute their hostages bomb civilian neighborhoods and some even allege they used chemical weapons against civilian population in syria so

they really dogs of war at the same time turkey a country that's seen as by many as a main power that has a say as to which way this conflict in the go in a cab back fares turkey is sending mixed signals here for instance the foreign minister of turkey has said that well ankara is ready to work with moscow on resolving this crisis but at the same time he refused to acknowledge the equality of the warring sides. to put. john on equal. footing means rewarding new york you boy the world must be on the side of those who are right namely on the side of azerbaijan and the longer this conflict goes on the most civilians suffer just to give you some perspective here is an eyewitness account from the azerbaijani side of the conflict. by john is fighting on its own

land are many or has occupied as a red johnny lands my ancestors died for this cause as you can see the armenians destroyed my house but i am not afraid of them see i am not afraid of them i can see the war we are not afraid on friday already the russian prime minister mikhail machinist and is expected to visit armenia is capital year of un and here on the ground a lot of people are telling me that they have a lot of hope that this visit will pull the negotiating process out of the bog. with a 2020 us election around the corner a debate season's in full swing wednesday is going to see the only vice presidential scuffle with the 1st presidential debate already history over of course the 2nd one of those remains in question after democratic hopeful joe biden said choose day he wouldn't face off with president trump if he still has covert artie's donald quarter gives us a closer look at the contenders. name calling personal attacks emotional

accusations american society is now so deeply polarized between these 2 figures donald trump and joe biden the 20 twentieth's election campaign is looking more like a political circus than anything i'm not here to call those lies everybody knows he's a liar don't ever use the word smart with me though never use that word because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe would you she was an excuse were you were number 2 he's putin's puppy you are a senator and the worst were as well as america is ever. to get any were due with this clown it's as if many people see this upcoming election as a showdown between good and evil if you like biden he's the country's only salvation from his racist fascist opponent but if you like trump only he can protect america's new greatness from his senile rival it's like a reality t.v. show where actual policy is absent from the conversation the thing is though if you can get past the rhetoric and the emotion is there really any difference between

them from present but all that differed from the obama administration and what's biden was the v.p. remember the wall trump wanted to build in 2016 as part of his popular promise for a new stance on immigration. the penetrable physical tall powerful beautiful southern border wall was democrats quickly attacked as racist and along came the sad pictures of caged immigrant kids with trying to blame for their misery except some of those pictures were from 2014 under the obama administration that's right trump actually continued many of the same immigration policies from before in fact ice arrests and deportations are still lower than they were under much of obama's watch let's not forget about those peace promises trump made on his way to the white house i'm proud to have the support of. more fighting generals active duty military and top experts who know both how to win and how to avoid the endless

wars and echoed obama's 2008 election promises and also like obama has so far failed to deliver the difference here though is that the former president got a nobel peace prize in 2009 even though many of america's foreign entanglements worsened under his administration in 2016 trump even campaigned against the interventionist posturing of both parties but we will no longer use american military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or try to rebuild other countries in our own image those days are now over there's also obama's bloated budget deficit which continues to grow under trub the current president made tax cuts for the rich sure but the economy more or less continued business as usual until the pandemic when the debates come around again though one has to wonder if biden will be as frank about these parallels as he's been in the past the truth of

the matter is you war you all know you will know when you'll got to what has to be done we can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it's all within the wheel house and nobody has to be punished no one standard of living will change nothing would fundamentally change when your only 2 options in an election are so similar in terms of policy perhaps shouting racist or senile is the only way to keep things interesting. just for a go quick note about the discussion how they're all you may or may not have seen it with our guest john laughlin we want to stress on this channel that you mentioned torture but of the t.v. channel is not the exclusive source of the o.p.c. new findings naming nova chalk in the election of on the case may be a slip of the tongue for him but that was his view. ok well if you want to discover more about the bigger stories we're talking about in features check out our social media or our teeth or column for now they're reporting from moscow $70.00 in starting off for me in the have a great day. guys

are. customers go by. now well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for the market is not good for the global economy. time after time saying we're going underground is republican vice president mike pence and democratic senator harris prepared to go head to head in the 1st u.s.

vice presidential debate of this election campaign tonight.