true there. just some of the questions we feel. are. nothing but an excuse for sanctions russia reacts to news that the global chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed germany's findings the prominent critic was poisoned with. 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. chief is barred from speaking at the un security council about a controversial probe into an alleged chemical attack in syria 2 years ago. with britain chalking up europe's highest death toll in the country. factions health ministers praise for the government's handling of the crisis is called into

question. in a televised debate just over a week after the chaotic presidential showdown between. 10 and evening on wednesday here in moscow. reaction from international 1st. russia has dismissed the findings of the global chemical weapons watchdog. which said nerve agent was used to poison the high profile kremlin critic. 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 says it's still the way seeing any response to its repeated requests to germany asking to be allowed to cooperate in the develop the investigation alexina valmy fell severely ill on the mystic flight in russia or in late august he received emergency treatment in the city of almost before being airlifted to germany for specialist an investigation that concluded that he'd been poisoned with and of agent reporting from berlin his picture all of it. 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 this 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 to gather with the leadership of the technical secretary and of d o p c w it has continued in accordance we did preplan conspiracist scenario with the e.u. council set to meet next week to decide what their reaction to the the europol will be and 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 are talking of ramifications france and germany have issued a joint statement saying the proposed sanctions against key russian individuals later this week russia's foreign ministry has brought to that move is unacceptable adding that instead of cooperating on the case germany and france have now turned to threats and blackmail. their p.c. w.'s in the spotlight for another reason as well a former head of the organizations being blocked from speaking at

a un security council meeting kevin owen discussed that with correspondent saskia taylor. 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 barred a former chief of the pope from speaking to the security council now we're talking about the star and he's a brazilian to promote he was invited before us to write 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 was tony 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'm 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 for this you think well he was planning on discuss a what numerous whistleblowers coup and o.p.c. to cover up all of those events in duma now just a quick recap of the images of civilians at the mouth washing out that i 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. just occasions 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 they say most of the duty and 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 pursuit of his behavior in to do more investigation hearing what your own inspectors have to say

would be an important 1st step in mending you're going to say this is the magic reputation for bustani has previously paid the price for challenging official narratives and what was described by many as an offensive led by washington back in 2002 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 the. holding key information on his case many cynics would point out that now of course would not have been a good time for an inside to like the starr me to reveal that in his on in all this experience i didn't is not treated secretly within the o.p.c. w. and in fact sometimes it doesn't correlate even with reality or russian military experts if you go to couldn't believe that there are still many questions over the whole develop the case. first of all we still don't know the exact substance use no one told us about it unfortunately during yesterday's and here it is come in a wide range of substances all nerve agents have them as well as some medications or substance from the group and the chemical weapon called are 2 different things the substance can be mildly toxic is toxic gas dye cool voice that we use in daily life to kill in 6 months the difference there is for example

a cocktail of alcohol that can be ignited and then there is a molotov cocktail they can even say tanks on fire the 2 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 unknowns get bottles samples with so-called proof from the crime scenes and later it is found out today because elected someplace else. hospitals in england have recorded the highest daily covert admission since early june it's adding pressure to a government already under fire over its response to the health crisis critics say the authorities have done nothing but so the seeds of confusion shoddy edwards dashed the reports from london and considering a u.k. government source called the cave at 19 pretty and probably wouldn't be the word 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 a failure 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 that super spreaders a blindly unaware this still spread to thousands of people blissfully unaware that they've been exposed to covert 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 private confusion is still lingering in the guess with mixed messages coming from those in power. in. the hospitality 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 it's no wonder the country is confused 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 and not 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 had around 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 shut the artsy lunde. i here in moscow cove it's also continuing to make its presence felt over the past 20 days infections have been steadily increasing again although they are slightly down today today though for more than 4000 new cases logged the authorities are growing increasingly concerned over the growing numbers of there's no talk of

a citywide lockdown yet wearing masks on public transport and public places continues to be mandatory and everyone over the age of 65 is being advised to stay at home and when it comes to vaccines russia's health minister says the mass rollout of the sputnik veach ad could start as early as this month he's recently said that the latest trial results have been encouraging russia's antimonopoly service meanwhile says the price of a vaccine will be capped at $13.00 per dose. i live now the professor lawrence young from oregon aversive sees medical school professor welcome back to r.t. the final trials of sputnik very underway right now and it's all happening very fast but how would you assess the vaccines chances of success based on what we know . what we know so far particularly from the work that was recently published in the law and so is this is a scene that is generating the right type of immune response but like all of the axes are we in development we're still yet to understand whether or not the vaccine

will protect against cope with 19 and with larger trials we need to see that data we need to know for sure that the back seat is safe but also that it is effective. in the safety trials in those 1st 2 trials that was deemed as pretty much underlined that that was ok if the efficacy which is now under test isn't it how long does it take for that kind of conclusion to be reached especially as of course it's a race against time there are 3 2nd waves coming through in europe in america and elsewhere. you know this is the big challenge for all of the vaccines being developed in different countries around the globe is how do you really know that your vaccine is is effective and that means measuring the right type of protective immune response and indeed the vaccine the russian vaccine that has demonstrated that it can generate an immune response and a response that looks like it should protect but we're not going to know whether a protects from infection and whether it protects from disease until we see the

results of these larger trials of very large trolls who face 3 trials around the world but particularly the russian vaccine in in 40000 individuals really needs to demonstrate that the vaccine not only maintains its safety profile but is also demonstrating the right protection and we can only know that by vaccinating people and allowing them to go back into the community and get exposed to the virus so with that in mind then do you think tobar is the russian health minister suggesting is that is that too soon or is it they need to know when the devil's in town well i think that's very very ambitious to be honest with you we need to be very careful and cautious and transparent actually about the data that's coming through these different trials there are other trials around the world that are in a similar fate as some of stages but we know that it takes a long time to get the rule dates you need and to make sure all the vaccine is safe so i have to say i think that october is

a very very ambitious target now and what about the added issue of if somebody does take a vaccine it might mean that they don't get ill does it still mean the people won't be able to pass the virus on to other people or does that is not one size fits all when it comes to vaccines ceridian paul you know that's a really key question my belief is that with the 1st generation vaccines that are coming through now probably the best we can hope for is that they will protect individuals not from getting infected but from develop. disease i think is a lot to ask of these new vaccines to completely protect and i suspect what we'll see over the next year or so 18 months is the the 2nd generation of vaccines that hopefully will provide that real protective immunity that will stop you getting infected and it will stop you transmitting the markets and so even if this vaccine and others that are being trialled if they do work how long might it take then to unlock the world from its covert paralysis. i think that's the big issue with all

of these vaccines is how long is it going to take to so vaccinate and what is the criteria and regime that you can only use so there are 2 big issues here one is manufacture and how many doses of the virus would you need the viral vaccine that russia is developing is very similar to for other vaccines that are all based on these adna virus vectors but made it more difficult to make and manufacturing capacity is really important and then being realistic about the fact that it's going to be impossible to roll this out all at once for the entire population and so you need a strategy that targets the most vulnerable in your society. the people with co-morbidities and the older generation really should be vaccinated 1st and i think that's going to take a long time to roll out so i think with the best will in the world it's going to probably take a year or so to get

a vaccine into the right people and then to roll it out more generally once the community certainly plenty of brains working around the clock to try and dig us out of the quagmire that is 2020 or up for now professor lawrence young from work university's medical school thanks for joining us on r.t. thank you. still to come day huge nor strain to gas pipelines got itself a pipe fine after unhappy polish competition watchdogs slapped a colossal penalty on the russian gas giant gazprom for taking through that and a reaction. after the break. so clear who'll be the occupant of the white house this january what can be easily predicted is the state of the economy tens of millions of citizens it appears what is called the case shaped recovery is permanently dividing the country and the house and the have nots this seems to be acceptable for those who are behind.

the. welcome back there's been a huge explosion at

a former russian military facility about 200 kilometers southeast of moscow the blast happened in an old military warehouse that had stored 75000 tons of ammunition rockets and artillery rounds at least 10 people have needed hospital treatment for injuries more than 2000 locals have it evacuated from villages within 25 kilometers of the epicenter firefighters are still at the scene attempting to bring the situation under control at an investigations been launched into the cause of the incident. poland's competition watchdog has slapped a massive fine on russia's state controlled gas giant gazprom and also 5 other companies working on the huge nord stream to pipeline project. i have made the decision to issue the most serious maximal financial sanctions on the order to disband agreements by parties undertaking involvement in the building and financing of the north stream to gas pipeline. poland's anti monopoly watchdog role the gas pipeline is a risk to polish consumers and european energy security its fine gazprom more than

$7600000000.00 for not securing its approval 5 other european energy companies involved in financing the project will find a total of $61000000000.00 the e.u.'s competition commission expressed its surprise saying it's rare to see antitrust fines of such size all those penalize say they reject the decision gazprom says it's going to appeal. this decision violates the principles of legality proportionality and fair trial the unprecedented size of the fine shows the desire to oppose the implementation of the stream 2 projects at all costs. an old stream 2 pipelines in its final stages of construction that will double the amount of gas russia can supply to europe by germany poland along with the united states and baltic states firmly against the project citing concerns about energy dependence almost sco also even suggested germany has an alternative which delivers gas from norway. if germany declares energy needs poland is open to

it using the infrastructure that we are building for our own energy security is precisely because the project is nearly complete and been so successful that i asked the united states intelligence services and the polish government i'm not trying their best and all need to stop this they want to remain in the position that they are in and just that may european nations western europe and germany as well as russia i don't think it is just the odd european law and the only reasons for it holmes national strategic interests not the interests of the european union or germany. british born i still fight as alleged to have been members of a notorious execution gang known as the beatles have been flown to the u.s. to face trial the group's been linked to the kidnapping and killing of more than 20 hostages in syria and iraq several of the victims were filmed being beheaded with

more on the case has kind of opened. now we heard from the u.s. state department about the 2 individuals who are set to face charges and stand trial for their involvement with this new taurus isis cell now the individuals l. shape al-shaykh as well as alexander amman côté are facing some pretty serious charges take a listen to what was announced my message to other terrorists is this if you harm an american you will face the same fate as these men you will face american. arms in the batter of the battlefield and if you survive that you will face american justice in an american courtroom and the prospect of many years in an american prison now it's quite an interesting slew of charges facing the 2 members of the isis cell known as the beatles for their british accents now they face the charge

of the hostage taking resulting in death conspiracy to commit hostage taking resulting in death as well as conspiracy to provide marriage material support to terrorists now if convicted on these charges they could face a life sentence now that terrorist cell was famous for its grisly beheading videos we all remember those horrendous beheading videos now the leader of this terrorist cell who is known as jihadi john he was killed in an airstrike in 2015 now these 2 individuals were captured in january of 2018 at according to the u.s. state department they had just arrived today in the united states to stand trial for their alleged crimes. the race for the white house continues later as democrats and republicans once again bloke holmes this time though it will be a vice presidential scuffle with both trying to convince the public to back that bosses by trump but as donna coulter 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 out his lies everybody knows he's a liar live or use the word smart with me though to use that word because you know what it is nothing smart about you joe what do you she was excusing one who so you are number 2 he's putin's puppy you are a senator and the worst were resumes america has ever had. it's a. hard 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 for his racist fascist opponent but if you like trump only he can protect america's new greatness from his senile rifle 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 the difference between right and. i think partly period did you think. your mind of the war might. come from the other. government experience. for housing or just going to work so. you know i might have seen this post as your party let me see has a post consistent framework for you to. 6 break the. current and see. if there is a difference between. that many times communities in the. light. 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 we will. show the penetrable physical toll all powerful beautiful southern border wall the hell do you all isn't a morality it's 9 who we are as a nation racists and cynical pick democrats quickly attacked as racist and along came the sad pictures of cage. immigrant kids with trump 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 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 wit and how to avoid the endless wars that echoed obama's 2008 election promises of we're going to responsibly leave iraq to its people and failed to harden peace in afghanistan. 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 all know you will know when you all got what has to be done we can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it's all with a no wheel house and nobody has to be punished no one standard of living will change nothing would fundamentally changed. 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 ok that's the news for now cross talks all the way off to which i'll have you know next i'll see will the news.

max kaiser financial survival guide liquid those that you can convert into caste quite easily. to keep in mind though as it took me into a place of was bored. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it remains unclear who will be the occupant in the white house this january what can be easily predicted is the state of the economy where tens of millions of citizens it appears what is called the case shaped recovery is per.