crowd comes to the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. russia's top diplomat suggests that kremlin critic could have ingested a nerve agent in germany or on the way to germany, but the kremlin spokesperson stressing that no one is willing to cooperate with moscow. on the case. you want to enter the truth. it's if you have information that we do know is how he was sure it would, but no one wants to cooperate. and also this hour, the news that there is corona virus vaccine could soon be ready for release and giving hope, but mainly to rich countries. as it looks like for ones that might be priced out,

plus the concerns over censorship. as you tube blogs and documentary on the u.s. armed groups, despite posting them are content with out warnings. we hear from the film's producer. we have to hold the notification system in place for this particular document. that is word, this is something i've heard, i think and the capital of armenia is rocked by on rast as fury over a peace deal with azerbaijan shows no signs of abating, all as refugees fled from the war zone and spoke to one woman about her deal i didn't want to leave my home, but another siren my daughter said mom, they're coming for the sake of my children, i left this is art international coming to live from the russian capital where it's just turned

3 pm. welcome to the program. the prominent kremlin critic, alexina ball nick, could have been targeted with a nerve agent after leaving russia. that's the suggestion of russia's foreign minister, sergei lavrov speaking at a video conference with journalists. the diplomat stressed that not only had tested negative for any toxins while in the country are just more of a national, has more. it seems russia has had enough after months of what more sco saw as groundless accusations. foreign minister sergei lavrov says vali could have been poisoned after he left hospital in russia last uses the one. we have every reason to believe that what happened to him in terms of chemical warfare agents getting into his body could have happened in germany or on the plane on which he was flown to the sheraton a hospital. exactly. how else can the sudden appearance of toxic materials in the vollies samples be explained? he stressed the results were clear when he was in arms. that's according to russian

doctors who initially treated him and several russian laboratories. it's only often a volley was taken to a lien that we heard about traces of navi chalk from germany 1st, then friends in sweden despite there being no solid evidence proving it. russia was very quickly accused of using a banned nerve agent and punished with these sanctions. pick them up. there was very clearly an assault and i'm assassination attempts that was made on russian soil against a russian opponent, with a chemical agent and a business related in russia. and therefore, it is on russia to give indispensable clarification that we will have to draw from the information that russia provides the consequences all its refusal to provide tariff occasion i call on russia to do more to investigate this, case. a case such as this must have consequences. the e.u., therefore, reserves the right to impose sanctions. russia's accusing,

now its western partners have been unreliable and is now ready to respond with mirror sanctions. it is difficult for me to understand the motives of german partners. i already told this to hike among us, but i can repeat this, it sort of secret that if we see how germany took the role of a leader in the new escalation of relations with the russian federation, there will of course be a response to the sanctions and since germany was the driving force behind these e.u. sanctions over the novelli case, and since these sanctions directly affect hiring in stouffer's of the russian president's administration, we will respond in kind all russian requests for proof or any alleged date, or were poll lightly denied. so i would like to reiterate that we do not expect the bearer of the bad news, namely us to be criticized. it will be better to deal with the news itself. we have informed b, o, p, c, w, and urbanization that the russian side can approach to ask further questions., ironically, one, addressing the o.p.c. w.,

russia was told to go back and ask germany, which made moscow doubt their organizations motives. i will be blunt, the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary at is increasingly turning into a tool in the west and which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed by the watchdogs involvement in and russian campaigns early it with the script case. and now with the alleged poisoning of alexina vone, and now russia says it may consider leaving the o.p.c. w. . so the ball is in europe's court. i'm on the 1st, fell ill on a domestic flight in russia, in august aircraft mean an emergency landing in the city of arm square. he was taken to the hospital and put into an induced coma. and samples were sent to several russian labs, and none of them found any traces of toxins of all he was then airlifted to germany where he was treated at a specialist clinic in berlin. we discussed the role of tit for tat,,

think sions and the whole affair with german m.e.p., maximillian cross and historian and international affairs specialist, john laughlin there who play and the whole plot on the volley is shaming. germany is doing a lot of accusations against russia, but is not delivering evidence. so i'm very critical to what the handling of that case by did to him and political class by the government. and i'm fully with the russian authorities who demand stronger evidence. we are in the, in a spiral of sanctions, and i do in thi, where this might lead to on the one hand we have to enter russian sanctions, which are seen widely as ridiculous and unfair even in the german public. not in the political class, but among the majority of the people, there is no support for do sanctions. and now russian is doubling. doing take

fortec. i understand that russia is sick, which almost through ticketless. but if there drew would lead to 2 new countermeasures against russia, it would be to your proof of world we want. so it's a dangerous game. my suspicion and indeed hope is that the sanctions and the noise about the o.p.c. w. is a cover for the fact that the pipeline will go ahead. that's my feeling right now. we haven't got to the point where the construction of the pipeline has been definitively abandoned. it hasn't been completed, but it hasn't been definitively about that. and so i suspect that the german political class is finding a way to save face. in other words, to put symbolic sanctions on russia to up the ante on the diplomatic level, but probably my guess is to complete the pipeline r.t.s. and on cross off sat down at the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov. there wide

ranging discussion touched on the only case a snippet now will be airing more of that exclusive interview in just over 20 minutes. we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened because we want to know the truth. so we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. sometimes it seems the patient does not want that truth to be out himself or not. that's going to reverse the world or anybody. sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well, you have to agree that there are more questions than answers

as the world waits for a viable coded vaccine finding a job isn't the only challenge the other is making it accessible. all rich countries can afford stockpiling. drugs for one can lack. the specialist storage equipment needed are shallow. devinsky picks up the story within hours of pharmaceutical giant pfizer and by own tech announcing there could be $1000.00 vaccine was 90 percent effective, that you swooped in and signed on the dotted line. and europe wasn't alone. massive,, deals have also been struck with the u.s. the u.k., egypt, pan, canada, and new zealand, leading some n.g.o.s to question whether this is just a vaccine for rich nations. it's worrying that phase of bio and tech has already struck deals with rich countries. for more than a 1000000000 doses of its vaccine, leaving less than a quarter of its projected supply for the rest of the world,

big pharma profits must not be prioritized over the health of billions. now the european commission has been clear and member states can decide what to do with their vaccine doses. and that includes the option of meeting them to lower and middle income countries. the u. is unlikely to help a lot because it is in deep trouble itself. and many poor countries are not going to be able to be all the supply expensive coaching infrastructure and storage on time to deliver the missing. this vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degree celsius, requiring a special freezer of a type that isn't widely available even in europe and america. meaning countries will have to build deep freeze storage and transportation networks from scratch to keep the vaccine from becoming useless. its production is costly, its component is unstable. it also requires call chain transportation and has

a short shelf life. the requirement for extremely cold temperatures is likely to cause spoilage a lot of vaccine. the price tag in building these and the difficulties in administrating the required 2 shots within a month, may be too much of a burden from the nations, leaving them essentially frozen out. some n.g.o.s of cool. don't follow on tech, to clarify how the vaccine will be made accessible outside high income countries. and they want the firms to make that vaccine technology available via a w h o scheme. so billions of doses can be produced as quickly and this cheaply as possible. now that's unlikely, because when the scheme was launched, pfizer made its feelings clear, i think is nonsense and at this point of time, it's also dangerous. there's a giant effort right now happening to find solutions. the risks we're taking represent billions of dollars and the chances of developing something is still not

very good. and adding insult to injury the day. the vaccine was announced, the c.e.o. of fine, so many $5600000.00 worth of company stock. now pfizer says that this was a scheduled transaction once the stock hit a certain value, but for many this was a cold shower. of a reminder, the big pharma is also big money. so a vaccine for coke at 19 may be closer, which of course is good news. well, for those who can at least afford it, i say centralize profit seeking the theory of we market in some way. because the last country to be called that really determines when the pandemic is going to the one who paid for it getting worse. i mean, we can't complain much, but the point is really, if it is eventually optimal for them to leave all these poor countries untreated

because they could eventually travel back to the bric countries. at the same time. profit incentive shouldn't be in the mind. the world's greatest invention and treatment by a lot by products. a new medical study has added to the urgency of finding a vaccine found that catching code it can correlate with developing mental disorders. the study was run by the university of oxford and it found that one in 5 patients go on to develop mental health issues within 3 months of testing positive . and also this was based on 69000000 u.s. medical records, more than 62000 of them had coronavirus. and the majority of disorders attending code are characterized by feelings of worry or fear, in some cases strong enough to make every day life bearable. those include adjustment disorder, post-traumatic, stress disorder, panic attacks in fallujah and even dementia. we talked to max target

a co-author of the study. the short answer is that we don't know yet, and we have 2 years to do more research to find out, you know, we can start to speculate about what might be the reasons. and i think the might be 2 main reasons. one is psychological, the and one is biological. the psychological one is quite intuitive. it is, you know, people suffer with the 19 which is quite scary in itself. might cause things like anxiety and depression, as it does also to a possible biological explanation, which is that it is possible that sask of to say the very virus that causes of it 19 my get into the brain. we know that some british do we don't know yet as far as i know where the source of 2 does, but it's possible that it does. and in that way, it might, it might be affecting the brain and damaging the brain if you will, within the biological explanation is also an inflammatory explanation. so we know that too, as a virus, causes an information throughout the body that can be,

can expand well beyond the lungs. and it may be that inflammatory response also involves the brain. and if that's the case, that in my view, that the inflammation to the immune response of the body mount against the infection might be the cause of the psychotic illness. given that there's going to be more people suffering with mental illness as a result of 19, we need to make sure that there is services provided for those people in therapy provided for the people. we know the things that he depression, for instance, for example, is all treatable, diseases. most people that we receive treatment for anxiety, depression do get better. and so it's very important that those treatments are available to all that need them. during the pandemic, a global news update continues after the short break

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welcome back. watching our 2 documentaries can be an upsetting experience, at least if you 2 warnings are to be believed. our latest film on armed activists in the u.s. from both the extreme left and right has been flagged as potentially offensive. here's a preview. the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus been arrested, and the level of civil unrest sparked by the death george floyd in the lives of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. you hear words only, you know what's about to happen if you want a war, let it begin with us. we're going to meet these groups and their leaders to find

out how far they're ready to go to fight for what they believe to steve for this country. there are different versions of the morning for that documentary, depending on your language settings, russian speakers are told the material could frighten or shock some users for english. speaking viewers, it's printed, quote, offensive or inappropriate to some audiences and watch it. you have to sign in to prove your age. earlier i spoke with the creator of that work. of course, it's not exactly the kids' content, and it is about american radical groups and people who are having the involved in the protest. movements that is on the rise, especially in this days and months before the election. but i think in that in this documentary, there is nothing that is overkill or over the top. and for me, it is really weird and strange why it was flagged and especially the way it was

flagged. so we have to fold the notification system in place for this particular documentary. and that is word. this is something unheard of. i think when, as we were mentioning there, you actually have to log in. so for me personally, you know, i tried to just open up you tube, google it, and open it up and look at it. and it said you have to sign in. i don't have a youtube account, which means that certain people are not going to be able to access this movie. whereas i looked at what i just searched in youtube for one of the groups that you said was in the film, the boogaloo boys. there's plenty of documentaries of news stories about this group where they're talking about their doctrine where they're standing there with guns and you think it would be about the same thing. is that the sort of content that's in the movie? it's these men talking about their beliefs. pretty much so. so yeah, we spoke to the members of boogaloo movement. these are heavily r. and guys who are not afraid to come out to protest. although none of them are criminals of flaws in,

in that any possible way. so it's not that we were talking with, you know, bad people or criminals know they are just regular citizens, but they are having involved in protests, but it's not against the law,, right. in the u.s., would you say that anything they spoke about would have been considered radical? i wouldn't say so. some of the things that they were or why disturbing you think about it because they were talking about the looming civil conflict in the us about the deep division and polarization. that is taking place in the country about the probable outcome, the revolution, whatever that means. but it's not that they were, you know, getting into any kind of specifics and we have, we have a special waiver before the film saying, just watch out guys, 3rd, disturbing content. so we told radio now instead to your audience, we asked you to explain why our documentary was labeled as potentially offensive.

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abandon some sizeable areas, and i think we should start to be in its full possession for decades, for decades. thought that way, because that's how russia played its role as army as allying. now russia hasn't been supporting armenian that conflict in any significant way, at least from an outside perspective. actually when i scroll down my facebook feed, i see half of my armenian friends complaining about russia's betrayal. what does the kremlin think about that park rangers that i just need to know? it's no secret that back to the bank by turkey, announced that it considered a military solution as a way to solve the problem in the goanna karabakh. it is because of this stance that as a by john launched a military operation. this military intervention happened after the o.s.c. minsk group. russia in particular, has been proposing various formulas that could end the conflict for many years. they have been several formulas and all the parties to the negotiations are well aware of them. because fortunately for some reason,

none of them worked out. why is that? but there were reasons, both sides are at fault. unfortunately, there were reasons why those formulas haven't been put into action. if they had been, we say even 2 years ago when this war and all the bloodshed could have been avoided, well, thousands of young armenians and azerbaijanis wouldn't have died and look at what were those formulas? i don't think i can elaborate on any of them, especially now. i don't think it's necessary critical. so the topic is off and yes, here's what i can tell you. none of the group chairman shared back use stern support . the trio had been insisting in a well argued manner that the only possible solution to that conflict is diplomacy . that's what we all had been saying to persuade us. it was most likely only if i live. yes, he remembers that soon after hostilities a rusted it's 3 layers,

hooten, trump and macro made a rather unprecedented. and they very important statement. france had been working on that problem and washington to all within the same framework over who flew. i think that contributed a lot to the consensus that enabled putin and passion yemen. here in the end of the conflict with most of the people who criticize russia in your facebook feed, have absolutely no grounds to do that. president putin said unequivocally that russia never forgot about its obligations as member of c.s.t. . oh. and if in allies territory was under attack, if i mean is territory was on the any threat than russia would surely do everything within its power to protect its ally? that's what our president said. the criticism you've heard is absolutely unfounded and unfairness with a man who broke in your system. in the news, please. no, not a member haps, armenians expected russia to deploy troops. we need it,

we have the right to do that. yet my know we did get the right to deploy a peacekeeping mission, but only after the warring parties agree to answer. the peacekeepers were ordered to stand at the separation line. as for sending its military forces especially to karabakh, russia does not have any such rights by international law. russia continues to abide by all relevant resolutions of the un security council member. no, i don't think we can call this a peace agreement because we don't know yet how it's going to play out. let's say it's a quasi peace. an agreement between 2 warring parties that has been brokered mainly by russian president putin, but this agreement triggered quite a response from the you expect the reservoir. john would resolutely claim that it won, and that loss of armenians would take the streets to protest which cities are grimly winning me a broken kim. i am in no position to comment on either the azerbaijanis response, all the armenians reaction. yes,

it would be foolish of me to do that. i can only say that i appreciate the wise choice the politicians made. it was the political modernist, which politicians, the president i live in andhra prime minister passion am thanks to vladimir putin's efforts. they signed a joint statement and ended the hostilities stop the bloodshed. could you please elaborate on president putin's role in this agreement? how did he facilitate the trouble or decision, or he played a critical role. the signing of that agreement was preceded by many days of tireless work. sometimes almost around the clock. it was president putin who did that. he was on the phone, pull the times, making numerous calls and passion am. again, he's been doing that for days. what was turkey's role? i think that's a good question for you, since you're an expert on turkey towards, you know, turkey has been consistently supporting the military operations in

a forceful resolution to the nagorno-karabakh conflict. we had a very different position on that is you who continues to be like that. however, that didn't preclude us from closely cooperating on all levels with them, including the level of presidents. i think you are aware that putin and yet again, maintain continuous dialogue, even the russia and turkey have that differences. this relationship between the 2 leaders meet allows us to combine our efforts when necessary to facilitate the resolution of various regional problems. and you know, it's really not that clear to an ordinary person. for example, right now we're talking about imposing sanctions on say, one of engle merkel's deputies as a response. well, our people believe that our relations with germany are great news. with turkey, we've seen an endless string of confrontations. let's take that time our ambassador was killed or the middle. and now this war in the caucasus south caucasus, all of this happened with turkey instigators, or directly taking part in,

of course, and president everyone is personally responsible. so what is it about our relations that's so warm and friendly, where the based on in many respects our interests are aligned. it's vital for both russia and turkey. that the situation in our region is stable, addict and peace must go on both have been well, that's not very clear. russia and turkey have a lot of mutual interests in terms of trade and economic cooperation, as well as investment cooperation. it serves both moscow's and ankara's interests to work together in 2 years from moscow took and what was still you just said it yourself. that turkey was in favor of a military scenario in the south caucasus 3 years ago. yes. and the turkish president said that they have now you say they want peace, but world peace. how could they be an advocate of world peace that in this case, turkey believes mistakenly, an error of us that peace can be established through the use of force. in this

respect we disagree, but only a conflict that president putin, unless the taber there are any direct contacts while the ceasefire was being negotiated with. and if so, what kind of contact was it? there were of course, contacts regarding the situation after stories. you know that as a result of the go, it was decided that a monitoring center would be set up. it would be located in azerbaijan, but outside of nagorno-karabakh sense it will monitor how the ceasefire is observed . the same cease fire that on the ground is maintained in the preserved through the efforts of russian peacekeepers. the question, how is the russian government owns a controlled situation within the expatriate community? between the 2 communities? i mean, the millions of armenians living in russia in several 1000000 or their buddies also living in russia. it's obvious that there are going.