Either live worldwide from moscow this is r. T. International with me Colum Braille world update this hour 1st for you german Medical Clinic says its found traces of a substance that affects the bodys nervous system and alexina valmy the russian opposition activist who felt seriously ill on a flight to moscow last week. The clinical findings indicate intoxication by substance from the group of active substances called to raise inhibitors the outcome of the disease remains uncertain and long term effects especially in the area of the nervous system cannot be ruled out at this point in time while the statement was put out by shouting hospital here and said that they have found a toxic substance in alexy system that this substance is being verified by several different laboratories they couldnt identify exactly what it was but if the long to a family of toxins that could attack the nervous system now this is very different to the news we had coming out of the russian city of homs where lex in the valley was 1st treated after his flight from siberia to moscow was forced to make an Emergency Landing with him in great distress they said that theyre willing to share all of the details from the tests that were carried out in almost with the medical staff here in. Say that they carried out numerous tests and found no such toxins the tests on the well known for a wide spectrum of synthetic substances including inhibitors were negative also on admission to the hospital there was no clinical picture specific to the calling mysterys inhibitor Group Following the release of the statement we also heard from german chancellor Angela Merkel and foreign minister heiko must they issued a joint statement in which they wished alexina vilely a swift recovery but also called for a full investigation to find out what happened to him in view of mr numberless prominent role in the political opposition in russia where it is we call upon the authorities there to investigate every single detail of this incident and do so in full transparency those responsible must be done to fight and how to countable while the german chancellor of foreign minister were calling for investigations to determine the facts it does seem that trial by media. Has already pointed the finger of blame directly at the kremlin so. Theres a lot of chewing. You dont need a security clearance to know that the kremlin has a track record of poisoning its critics alexei mithali remains in a serious but stable condition here in central perlin while the statement that was released says that there is no acute risk to his life at the moment it does say that there could be Long Term Health effects for him. To try to get more on that now weve got medvedev whos the head of the department of pharmacology at Moscow State University dr midriff open to the program could have you with us what can you tell us about this colon ashtrays inhibitor that the german clinic says its found in the valley its not going to be familiar to a lot of people so in simple terms what is it a more kind of duty. Colin stories and cutest. Well no on group of pharmacological drugs as theyre called inhibit enzyme that normally are destroyed and to chill colline article called line is when youre a mediator that transmit information from one neural cells that are not a neural in your old cell when this enzyme was inhibited much more of a total colline and remain active and pred youll see a lot of actions in the going there isnt because theres a. Mediator active tanami gondolier so it can increase Blood Pressure for example and read us a lot of activation the glands and stimulation of Mortar Committee of interest in god and that man here to offer to help a lot of lets call an existence a Central Nervous system so it increases accumulation of socalled cholinergic system where to tilt the line is the main middy to answer it and these are actually used in medicine but how dangerous kind is really to you if your estimates and if youve been met something up with the malaysian of modern theory then some of us but as well as drugs would be aware active as they also belong to the Chemical Warfare agents legs aryans outboards armaan role known substances and of course they could be very dangerous kind of the lasting damage from this. Damage could be quite long because the consequences can last many days but to call it what we know and im both ways could it possibly have ended up in michigan around the system. Its difficult to say because i dont know what kind of substance but you can know was used. In any case. Where michael logical. Well known at that would be and could be used and some other drugs that can decrease or short make sure that soap such come qualms about it but you kill a drug that was you know called ok doctor like my vet or from Moscow State University thanks very much for joining us on the program appreciate your insight there think the buy buy. Next belarus is now into a 3rd week of unrest with protests both for and against the president showing no signs of declining and these are some of the latest pictures weve got from Independence Square in the capital minsk where a small but colorful crowd of antigovernment protesters have gathered you can see people waving their phones with that torch is lit or singing and dancing. What about there to sunday was a very different picture when the capital seoul tens of thousands taking part in an antigovernment march waving red white flags demonstrators demanded the president resigns over what they say was a rigged election. Despite a heavy military presence there were no arrests and this latest demonstration did pass off peacefully Alexander Lukashenko thank right police. It. Is a. Good bet for simple. Wear head of sundays rally the government advised probably the crowds to stay home to avoid any confrontation saturday thousands took part in a show of support for the on the fire president meanwhile a group that coordinates opposition protests in belarus has been found posting questionable on social media one post claimed that a man found hanged after going missing was a protester whod been beaten up a post was later amended with the identity change from protested just a man it also said claims about the injuries were not proven so the 1st such case of false information coming from the protests they have been taking a look at that. It is difficult for human beings to be neutral just the way it is biology our psychology makes us want to pick a side that to root for someone even if it isnt off fight so it isnt better or us a huge divide neighbor against neighbor brother against brother journalist against journalist there are a slew of t. V. Personalities of Kuwait National networks and improve thats the gets the president against the elections against the other side i have decided that my broadcast today in belarus one was the last one nobody influenced this decision i took it myself there are not many of us but we exist. Vera correctly cover hoost of good morning bell arrest sergei because lovitz presenter to tiana brought kidda and vladimir bercow who snuck in and try to claim the credit. Until recently i presented the ass to military program in paris one im no longer a presenter of this t. V. Project i resigned myself and it wasnt easy the people want justice the people dont want lies the people want freedom. You may have come away with a sense that he resigned over the elections like like others who sacrificed their livelihoods their income as an act of protest vladimir didnt know no thats just him trying to claim the credit line it is absolutely unclear from the message when the prison to have the program in my opinion this was done on purpose the t. V. Company said goodbye to the dimmer a month ago the load is a showman successfully gotten on the act bottom feeders are nothing new they swamp everything in times of hardship of desperation youll find them on television trying to wiggle their way into the spotlight when things are tough to play and profit in peoples misery youll find them on live and blogs in social media shouting the loudest pointing and screaming lying and misleading we live in an era of fakes think heroes fake opinions and think news she walked around spread mens legs and purposefully sadistically struck at the group she would heated their testicles and called them scum one man who looked about 50 she beat in the groom while standing on his legs he later told me his hips were all blue corrina about 30 is blonde and not that 2 she was dressed in uniform and had a mask on her face remember what i said about taking sides you likely arent from belarus yet hearing this story one cant help but feel revolted and many belorussians were hearing this the the witch hunt began soon they found this alleged corrina all christina and people went after threatening to kill her to murder her family a reward was posted for her address they got the wrong woman. I have been forced to record this because of harrison and threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of false information on the internet please help me share this so that lies dont spread further and dont tar me and my family christina is a gym instructor at the interior ministry not a guard at the jail where the alleged torture happened oh they apologized afterwards after terrified and traumatized and threatening to kill her and her family they said sorry they said sorry and then posted another picture of another christina who might have been the woman from the story and went after her and lets not forget about the bear thats coming for better or worse for a while now Internet Users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards belarus there are 2 plausible explanations why they still havent arrived Russian Military trucks are just really slow like incredibly slow like walking speed you could walk for moscow to better us in about a week other explanation is that there arent any russian armies moving towards belarus. They recorded these videos without realizing that they were below Russian Armored personnel carriers not russian and they were moving towards the western border because we decided that we needed to take additional measures to protect the sovereignty and independence we could go on and on thinks about preparing to free the country thinks about the opposition leaders i. Q. Been very low fakes made of stupidity reinforced with hysteria and decorated with the. The European Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee is to hold an emergency meeting on bella bruce on tuesday because his challenger in the disputed election who earlier met with the United States deputy secretary of state is also due to attend in brussels he used Foreign Policy chief compare the situation in belarus to venezuela. We do not recognize him as the legitimate president nor do we recognize Nicolas Maduro from this point of view maduro and Lucas Shanker in exactly the same situation we do not recognize that they have been legitimately chosen however whether we like it or not they control the government and we have to continue dealing with them despite not recognizing their democratic legitimacy so this one is cynical to hear from you know people you know because we know what the position of the European Union it is or when it comes to a regime. That is hong kong. Where they also. Passed in ukraine. So all this into all this. Not just a bit of soul but if the whole dare call for the assault on the stone. Below is 1 of may we will ask the europe which is not. From the worst from nato from the us dollar from the european a b. And the union to the contrary is functioning of much better than most of the. Next to go which it would fall of the. European union of all of the worst. Diplomatic grounds broken out between russia and austria after vienna said it was expelling a russian diplomat media reports claim its linked to spying allegations more on that next from quarter. This was a marriage decision by russia to declare this austrian diplomat persona nongrata it came not long after the Austrian Foreign ministry declared a russian diplomat persona non grata on monday and gave him an ultimatum to leave the country before september 1st the austrian ambassador to russia was just summoned to the russian Foreign Ministry to discuss the issue the decisive protests was expressed to the. Unfounded decision to withdraw a critic taishan from Russian Diplomats and over the demand for the diplomat to leave the territory of the republic of austria acting in line with the principle of reciprocity the diplomats at the embassy of the republic of the austrian brusha has been declared persona non grata boarding to media reports the authorities believe that this russian diplomat was engaged in espionage activities collaborating with an Austrian National in breach of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations but we have no evidence of any of these alleged spy activities his name wasnt disclosed and we have no official confirmation from the authorities so while this story has gotten a lot of attention very little can be verified at this point you know without a this bad news for one of the 3rd parties in the us elections as the greens see red and feel blue after getting called between the big 2 parties and a box of ballots in one state will get into that after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports im showbusiness ill see you then. Again the greens have been dropped off the ballots in the u. S. State of montana that comes after the democrats claim the petition to get the green party on the ballot was financed by rival republicans to split the left wing vote the state court took the greens off the ballot based on north sued by the Montana Democratic PartyGreen Party Members claimed they were left short of the signatures needed to register after supporters were pressured by the democrat the green Party ManagerMichael Oneill believes the petition should still stand. This was a valid petition that was filed people were asked if they wanted to sign a petition to have Green Party Candidates on the ballot in the general election in november now we are not naive about republican motives for wanting to circulate a petition for a 3rd party or an independent candidate however. The logic of those republican operatives is that a candidate can take votes away from another candidate and the greens reject that argument its impossible to take away a vote from a candidate until that vote has been cast until the vote has been cast the vote belongs to the voter and so if these voters signed a valid petition of their own free will but they want to see Green Party Candidates on the ballot in november that petition should stand and if we want to get dark money or misleading financing out of politics great lets have fully public financed campaigns the way the greens have been fighting for for decades and that democrats and republicans as a cartel have fought against tooth and nail. And the continuing fallout from the devastating blast in babe ruth west africa has left jobless have taken to sleeping rough outside their countrys embassies and consulates the finding themselves stranded in lebanon. Many are women abandoned by employers who could no longer pay them when the countrys economic crisis local activists are trying to raise funds to buy the plane ticket home weve been hearing from some of the women. Im pregnant and im in the street because i want to go home. Like right now i dont have a place to stay in the streets and my aim is to go home. Because i was coming. To look for what i was going to be able to cover my family my own kids and my siblings as well. But what i came. To see when i came here it was different i came to durban on to work to look for Green Pastures due to unemployment in my country so that came to read to support my family when i came here consulates he asked me money i met him in the us the stones he asked me 200. 00 full cristiano and 400. 00 fold i learned earlier in the 400. 00 that is 1100. 00 i told him i dont have money and make a must. Indeed be somebody i was working for they took me back to their fees they keep changing their houses and i was not getting my saturday for like 6 months the massive chemical blast ripped through the capital earlier this month leaving economic devastation and growing reports of people unable to feed themselves a human rights activist told us that the west African Women are essentially part of a modern day slavery system. Ive been on the streets for a week now helping the kenyan women in baghdad are facing their consulates. Theyve been here actually for 2 weeks but we didnt know about it earlier their problems they are facing in lebanon is due to the cafe less system which is modern day slavery they are working with no salary is. No overworking sometimes they are abused and at the end of the day they were thrown on the street by their employers facing the consulate. Fashion designers in west africa calling for a boycott of a colorful clothing called wax print which is closely associated with the region the problem is though that much of the textile is actually made in europe with locals calling it a legacy of colonialism. Different versions the countries in there are different where the. Muslims when. It works for people it has a lot of its not actually offering something that is made all of. Coming from indonesia in the region of the public so basically the ability to like to not freak out for every day like events like maybe or new ones. Its very common in traditional sort only one here who does become bumpus how bits of the life of west African People who have those that were very big on the other hand do more people know the story behind it to leak implication belong to check it is the unsettlement some people dont want to buy this but we can you know it was and still maybe poland so its maybe contributing to oil companies. 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