nothing but. the global chemical weapons has confirmed germany's findings that a prominent kremlin critic. was poisoned with. its purpose is obvious denigrate russia with unsubstantiated accusations by create a far fetched reason for introducing another tranche of sanctions against our country meanwhile the former chief. from speaking at the un security council about a controversial probe into the alleged chemical attack in syria 2 years ago. the u.k. chalking up europe's highest death toll in the country seeing a surge of infections to ministers praise for the way the government has handled the health crisis is called into question and also the way to send in the vice

squad and mike pence to. televised debate just over a week since the chaotic presidential showdown between trump. good evening welcome just gone 7 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now russia has dismissed the findings of the global chemical weapons watchdog. which said that a nerve agent was used to poison high profile kremlin critic alexina valmy. until we are 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. fell severely ill on an internal flight him russia in late august he was saved emergency treatment in the city of alms before later being airlifted to germany for specialist cat an investigation by the in concluded that he had been poisoned with a nerve agent peter all of a small the story. 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. findings as the foundation for allegations is unlikely to sit well in the russian counter so it is in fact even tacit cool story initiated at the behest of berlin by

its your atlantic allies together with the leadership of the technical secretary and of dio p c w it has continued in accordance we did preplan conspiracy scenario with the e.u. council set to meet next week to decide what their reaction to the novell meeropol 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. earlier. while talking about the ramifications france and germany have just issued a joint statement saying that they will propose sanctions against kay individuals in brussels later this week moscow meanwhile does say that it is still awaiting any response to its repeated requests to germany asking to be allowed to cooperate in the family case. of the a.b.c.

w is in the spotlight too for another reason this former chief josie danny has been blocked from speaking at a he when security council meeting my colleague kevin only discussed this with our city's sask. what seems an irony for the u.n. which is of course the organization it's all about putting together international voices about discussing difficult topics it has bought a former chief of the you from speaking to the security council now we're talking about shows a to start he's a brazilian diplomatic he was in fact the foster back to general of the chemical weapons what between 10072002 he's really a figure of a great authority he was invited by moscow to speak on the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma back in 2018 but at the last minute he was essentially disinvited by among others the u.s. u.k. and france russia called this a shame they decided to post this johnny reading the speech he was scheduled to say and they said the following. what happened today unfortunately is yet another sign

that western delegations are afraid of hearing the uncomfortable truth you want to silence objective facts that could destroy the picture you have painted of the atrocities of the syrian regime and the infield ability of the o.p.c. w. but it is already clear to everyone that it has little to do with reality i am wondering if you understand what an unattractive light you know appear in the eyes of the international community in general what happened today is a shame and a disgrace so. this is what he said but what specifically is it that he said this ruffle these further to think what he was planning on discussing what numerous whistleblowers cool and cover up all of those events in duma now just a quick recap of the images of civilians at the mouth washing out their eyes so much investigated and they officially blamed assad's government this of course that

is the basis on which the u.s. u.k. and france conducted strikes but in the following months and indeed years after this a number of former employees came forward and they said we were part of this and. stations we were on the ground and what we saw doesn't support this official narrative what's even more sensational claim to start in fact any dissenting opinions or evidence was removed from the final report under pressure from the top this is a small snippet of what there is here most of the duty to see reports on the instant interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally regular and possibly fraudulent well let's hear exactly what was stanley said on all of that the serious questions are now being raised whether the independent impartiality and professionalism of some of the organizations work is being severely compromised possibly under pressure from some member states we've got lots of whether or not this is substance to the concerns raised about the perceived

obvious behavior in the do more investigation hearing what your own inspectors have to say would be an important 1st step in mending you're going to see this is the magic reputation what the story has previously paid the price for challenging official narratives and what was described by many as an offensive led by washington back in 2002 percent on he was dogged by allegations of mismanaging the w. it was already quite dramatic the u.s. representative in fact was booed and one of the sessions when he failed to provide documentary evidence to support that claim eventually though the u.s. prevailed he was removed from the post saying that he with his independent thought had angered a lot of people in washington that they wanted someone more specifically rumors swirled that his that he had somehow blocks the u.s. is tough stance on iraq while barring the story from speaking almost 2 decades

after foreign him comes of course as the a.p.c. back in the spotlight is involved in this in tangled political saga regarding alexina vaal me with allegations now that the o.p.c. w. is blue. holding the information on his taste many cynics would point out that now of course would not have been a good time for an insider like the star me to reveal that in his i mean others experience evidence is not treated secretly within the o.p.c. w. and in fact sometimes it doesn't correlate even with reality. that there were the former u.n. member of the commission on biological weapons you going to coolly and does believe there are still many questions over the whole valley case. first of all we still don't know the exact substance use no one told us about it unfortunately korean histories inhibitors come in a wide range of substances nerve agents have them as well as some medications for substance from the no but your group around the chemical weapon he called the 2

different things the substance can be mildly toxic is toxic gas dye crew verse that we use in daily life to kill in 6 different there is for example a cocktail of alcohol that can be ignited and then there is a molotov cocktail that can even set tanks on fire the 2 with the same but quite different. i think the results could have been falsified we don't know who did was with the bottle it is possible the bottle had been substituted we don't know that and there is no proof reminds me of the fake stories like with the white helmets in syria when some bottles samples with so-called proof from the crime scenes and later it is found out today because elected someplace else. that hospitals in england have recorded their highest daily covert admissions since early june is having pressure to a government already under fire over its response to the health crisis critics say

the authorities have done nothing but this scenes of confusion with more his shadowy edward stashed. and considering a u.k. government source called the 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 will 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 blindly unaware they're still spreading thousands of people blissfully unaware they've been exposed to covert potentially spreading this deadly virus time and

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 hurtles towards a 2nd wave of the virus confusion is still lingering in the with mixed messages coming from. as i understand it. apologies i misspoke today in the northeast new rules mean you cannot meet people from different households in social settings in tools 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 it's no wonder the country is continues to 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 primal boris johnson off to rule these all around precedented times far to go back to all that no prime minister has ever fought before a lot of months of economic paralysis boris johnson began to i'm not the look down 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's how to round 6 months to prepare but when clarity has been replaced with confusion can the government really expect people to for the rules when it doesn't seem to know them itself to address the artsy lunches. meanwhile scuffles broke a night in television between police and protesters there who are angered had these

radio government's handling of the pandemic. on tuesday hundreds gathered to denounce the latest restrictions the protests is a boost demanded to the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu they claim he's using the virus is a distraction from his ongoing corruption trial is some of them to say. of course that is easy in this crisis in order to remain elusive to avoid the to avoid a strong. and we are afraid it is trying to. create. a civil war between us 1st we need like we did it to me out so that he she will be here because the. feeling our democracy easing things and he's a genuine. anger is very strong very strong it will not stop

until he resigns or moved away. and we get rid of him for ever. now more than half of all people living in extreme poverty in the paris region have been infected with 19 that's according to new findings by the aid group doctors without borders reporting from the french capital his charlotte. the shutters have come down the bars across paris and it's in the suburbs all in a bid to fight rising infection rates of close it 19 it's an epidemic this being described as moving to thrust and while the overall positivity rate for qubit in paris is around 12 percent if you look more closely at those who live in perth carry a situation 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 classes 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 and mishap 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 present mcewan's address to the nation in march he promised help for the most vulnerable with them 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 fed and protected.

so have they been forgotten. those people usually. are forgotten there are a lot of spontaneous camps. officially didn't exist there was no special policy for them during do a continuation during the pandemic to arrive to arrive to arrive and we don't know exactly what we can do with. genius and other 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 that one 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 3rd resident share a room with between 2 and 5 people at 50 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 m.s.f. is 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 so it ought to see paris. but it is also making its presence felt because over the

past 20 days infections have been steadily increasing again although they are slightly down today said did see more than 4000. new cases recorded the authorities are growing increasingly concerned over these numbers some while there's no talk of a citywide lockdown yet wearing masks on public transport and in public places continues to be mandatory and everybody over 65 years old is also being advised to stay at home now when it comes to vaccines russia's health minister has announced the mass rollout of the country's sputnik v. jab could start as early as this month he's recently said the latest trial results have been encouraging russia's anti-monopoly service meanwhile has also said that the price of a vaccine will be kept $13.00 per dose let's talk more about this the freelance science writer b.j. shankar krishnan his work has also appeared in the lancet medical journal so great place to get you on v.j. thanks for your time just firstly we were listening there and hearing there could

be a mass rollout of sputnik soon how would you rate this vaccine chances of success and you. would be. no more or. were. you. really you know the great. so what are you basing your initial thoughts on then why do you think it could be successful. because the experts i have been or my. are going about the attack on.

the end of my neck is just. which commonly. caused the cone so scientists are well aware. i don't know why the biology and how they. look exactly and the back in all of this i have been with more than once that they are convinced that the vaccine could be anything moderate action against her and i was. not. very high or if not. much better than any of the back and i are. trying to study now for example the offer that. the fact that you can use and i

apologize i'm not a scientist i had a word vector and i think goodness what's that can you just explain what a vector is not heard this faxing sputnik vision human vector is another one g.'s monkey vectors can you just explain simply for everybody what that means yeah i can try so when i say lector it's the bike knowledge you. think you can to use the genetic make up for this next pick. the innate or the virus and use that to engineer a vaccine candidate on what i know to be playing a major role in that. region based on what science. understand to be. the truth one of the gin and the gene into unknown and then

you. create or engineer the right into the. kind of the virus and that usually is believed to be much. less virulent than the actual fire that way when. i'm to develop the vaccine then this vaccine would go into our already and your response would trigger our immune system and then you will think that. the virus actually virus and thereby give the body. action when the actually. ok in a year no thank you very much for that and i also the question on everybody's lips haven't sat here and everybody else has a hug thinking well i can thinking about this faxing but how do we know it's safe

because i've heard people argue that they use substances that won't manifest for 10 years we won't necessarily know they are safe until a couple of years from now. right so that's why there are legal file. without the rover. on the safety in. the sas in fantasy no matter what other is really. making back and what type of backing that we're. in just of all or you know we don't know. they've gone home. and they've done the clinical trial. all the back we wanted a different. formulation. i think. grover's large in both. how they learn how. to shoot that they're going to be until then i'm worse than others i would not

back i'm sure. that they under under. just finally if people take this vaccine they believe they've got a meeting in practice what does that mean does that mean they can still get the illness or they still get the virus but they won't be able does it mean that they won't be able to pass the virus on to somebody else can you just sort of explain simply what that would mean. that's what you should lean mean when. we predict. the back. it's not. it's not the end of the rope not that something like i have got the back on our life and. we know that not. to. flu vaccines you know every year people have to think that if we take just one

anything. for protection then we don't have to dig in and so we don't know what this group in 1000 vaccine or any of the ones that. like not you know we're already. people. who long term on the life are back within or i don't think we can really. back the one and even with the critic from. which we will have to make sure we follow the thing because. we have to continue wearing maher and you know the new following the nonprofit. now if you're declaring that. fascinating stuff a.j. we really appreciate appreciate your time tonight was the guy can a car but

a christian and a freelance science writer thank you thank you. ok now a look at some other news and it's been a huge explosion at a former military facility southeast of moscow it's thought the blast happened at an old and initial death a these are the latest pictures 6 people have reportedly been injured and more than 2000 have been evacuated from nearby villages as a precaution firefighters are attempting to bring the situation under control however explosions continue to be heard. the race for the white house continues tonight as democrats and the republicans once again block corns this time though it will be a vice presidential scuffle with both trying to convince the public to back their bosses buy or trump but as don cotton now reports some question if there's actually much difference between the 2 parties. 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 live use the word smart with me though never use that word because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe what do you. know you are number 2 he's putin's puppy you are a senator and the worst were as always america is ever. to get any word 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 different from the obama administration in which

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. isn't a morality it's not who we are as a nation racist sinful 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 for. what about the peace promise made on his way to the white house i'm proud to have the support of the war 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 that we're going to responsibly we broke to its people and failed to harden peace in afghanistan and also like obama trump 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 with a noble 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.