In moscow hello im calling break with more on those headlines stories for you now 1st off that a 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 that was put out by shouting hospital here in berlin is said that they have found a toxic substance in alexy in the system that this substance is being verified by several different laboratories this is very different to the news we had coming out of the russian city of homs where lex in the family 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. That say that they carried out numerous tests and found no such toxins the test on the only 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 colon mysterys inhibitor Group Following the release of the statement we also heard from german chancellor Angela Merkel and the 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. Does a lot of showing. The particularly likes 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. 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 where are the facts they just pretend that they know facts and intelligence agencies have fact that they cannot disclose of fact that the public is too stupid to understand so just lay out the facts and then we can make up our judgement on our own but all of those facts are hidden and they remain hidden and they probably dont even exist i think all media reports that are reporting that he was pardoned without basing that on any kind of evidence at all i just purely and to ration its theory most of the western media has been on a basically what is it trust saves and when you are on a crusade you dont meet any facts they could be inconvenient for your crusade against the russian government or the russian people now the substance in question is found in the family of colon ashtrays inhibitors there are a group of chemicals that affect the nervous system they are used in drugs for treating such illnesses as dementia and the head of the Moscow State UniversityPharmacology Department told me last hour that the substance can prove very dangerous. Well in stories im here because. Well known group for mccullough logical drawings of the inhibit enzyme. Normal or destroy. To kill cologne is when you are a mediator that runs mute information from one neural thurles to nothing you are all neural cell theres use that meant something out. There and some others but as well the drug would be were accurate they also belong to the chemical walk where agents legs aryan warms our mom role no one stops them sit and talk. With a good beer very dangerous because the consequences can last many days and that what we know. Is now into its 3rd week of unrest with protests both for and against the president showing no sign of declining and these are some of the latest pictures from Independence Square in the capital me where a group or small group of colorful crowd of antigovernment protesters gathered a little earlier people were seen waving their phone to the torches lit while singing and dancing. On sunday there was a very different picture when the capital saw tens of thousands taking part in an antigovernment march waving red and white flags demonstrators demanded the president resigns over what they say was a rigged election. Well despite a heavy military presence there were no arrests and the demonstration passed off peacefully Alexander Lukashenko thank riot police. Look at least looks. Good for simple. The head of sundays rally the government advised probably crowds to stay home to avoid any confrontation and saturday thousands took part in a show of support for the the 5 president meanwhile a group that coordinates opposition protests in belarus has been found posting questionable news on social media one post claimed a man found hanged after going missing was a protester whod been beaten up the post was later amended with the identity changed from protester to just a man it also said claims about the injuries were not proven its not the 1st such case of false information coming from the protest rag as 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 the to root for someone even if it isnt our fight so it isnt better or worse a huge divide neighbor against neighbor brother against brother journalist against journalist there are a slew of t. V. Personalities of Great National networks and improve this against the president against the elections against the other side i have decided that my broadcast today on bill reese one was the last one nobody influenced this decision i took it myself there are not manno virus but we exist vera correct me cover hoost of good morning belarus sergey because lo which presenter to tiana brought kidda hanka and vladimir bercow who snuck in and try to claim the credit. Until recently i presented the us 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 so 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. It is absolutely unclear from the message when the present to of the program and in my opinion this was done on purpose the t. V. Company said goodbye to the dimmer a month ago followed as a showman successfully got in 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 of fake 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 kareena 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 but gad soon they found this alleged corrina all christina and people went after her threatening to kill her to murder her family a reward was posted for her address they got the wrong woman. Has been forced to record this because of harris meant 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 done to her 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 terrifying and traumatizing 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 and lets not forget about the bear thats coming for better us for a while now Internet Users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards beller us 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 that 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 me divide stupidity reinforced with hysteria and decorated with the next steps then the European Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee is to hold an emergency meeting on by the roof on tuesday because his challenger in the disputed election met with the u. S. Deputy secretary of state is also due to take part in that meeting in brussels he use 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 murderer and look of 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 which is missing this one is cynical to hear from you know people you know because we know what the position of the European Union it is. A regime. That is hongkong. Are there also in the past in ukraine. Lately in serbia so we all listen to all this have to listen to just a bit of soul but they have to hold their call for the assault on the stone. Below who is one of maybe 2 last europe which is not. From the west from nato from the us dollar from the european a b. And the union of the gondry is functioning a much better than most of the soviet republics. Which it would fall of the. European union of all of the west. Diplomatic route broken out between russia and austria after vienna said it was expelling a russian diplomat media reports claim that its linked to spying allegations on that next from donald quarter. This was a merit decision by russia to declare the sauce train diplomat persona nongrata it came not long after the Austrian Foreign ministry declared a russian diplomat persona nongrata 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 ambassador of austria is 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 to be in line with the principle of reciprocity the diplomats at the embassy of the republic of korea in brusha has been declared persona non grata according 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 here without its bad news for one of the minnow 3rd parties in the u. S. President ial election as the green see red but end up feeling blue the getting caught between the big 2 parties and a bush about this is going to be our next story when we come back. Seems wrong. But i. Just dont. Get to see. This day become active. Engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Thats right we talk about problems all year and then summer we come up with solutions that say were just being joined by banker churn entrepreneur simon. Banks the future long term friend. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us a little bit politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Follow again the greens has been dropped off the ballots in the us state of montana it comes off the democrats claim that the petition to get the green party on the ballot was financed by the republicans to split the left wing vote in the state courts took the greens off the ballot based on north sued by the Montana Democratic PartyGreen Party Members claimed they would have short the signatures needed to register after supporters were pressured by the democrats the green party says 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. In the continuing fallout from the devastating blast in beirut the west african workers left jobless have taken to sleeping rough outside their countrys embassies and consulates after finding themselves stranded in lebanon many a women abandoned by employers who can no longer pay them in the countrys economic crisis local activists are trying to raise funds to buy them plane tickets home weve been hearing from some of the women. Im pregnant and im interested 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 i came to lebanon. Because i was coming. To look for a while as them to out so that i can be able to cover my family my own kids and my siblings as well. But what i came and saw it was not what i was speaking to see when i came here it was different thing i came to have been known to look for us. Due to unemployment in my country so thats akin to ribbon to support my family when they came here concerts he asked me money i met him guess the stones he asked me 200 folks with general info how did for the let go letter in the 400. 00 that is 1100. 00 i told him i dont have money and make a must. Have in it be there for me i was working for they took me back to the office in their fees they keep on changing me their houses and i was not getting my saturday for like 6 months. Of a massive chemical blast ripped through the capital earlier this month leaving economic devastation and growing reports of people arent able to feed themselves human rights activists 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 hoping the kenyan women in baghdad will facing their consulate. Theyve been here actually for 2 weeks but we didnt know about it earlier their problem they are facing in lebanon is due to the 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 are 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 depending on the countries and not different but the me the muslims when it was the ankara whats fabric people its just a lot of attention and its not actually off wicca and something that is made in all its. Coming from indonesia in the region of the public so basically it has been adopted into likely not pick up every day like events like maybe or new ones. Its very common in traditional sort on one hand youve got to become a bump of of the life of west African People to have those that were probably on the other hand the more people know the story behind it to leak implication belong to take a distance judgment some people dont want to buy this what we can you know it was still made in poland so its maybe country people or a company. d d can sometimes go 5 get the pole regional or whatever just for the principle of pay for the right quality the middle of it kind of to use google to forward one of the social. Ok thats it for this hour thanks for checking in with r. T. International more great programs on the way your next update from us at r. T. That is in just over 35 minutes from now for now though for me in the team in moscow thanks for watching. World is driven by a dream shaped by. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. Who put oh here they are so being you. Oh yes its for on. 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In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only population tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to point these attacks was that the or you see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent to which the solution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. I think it went to the very very top i think it be. The water where all the tastes and you know on the go ahead. Ive actually time to know what youre going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then well be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past star studded season stay safe coming up in this episode is it the end of us a gemini in the western hemisphere now iranian time because of arrived in venezuela with support from nato member turkey and why did Boris Johnson invite attempted coup leader one by doing to downing street as a freedom of information request revealed a secret unit in dominick grabs a Foreign Office to reconstruct a neo liberal venezuela lets go straight to venezuelas capital caracas to speak to the worlds most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the United States threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u. S. Government is threatening tankers from iran sailing to venezuela with sanctions what illegal threats have have you received arguably illegal for importing one and a half 1000000 barrels of gasoline from iran and other supplies during coronavirus we already use the threats and the sanctions and maximum pressure from the usa because they wont allow a country a people to have their own democracy their own modern their own system and specially with too much oil and too much Natural Resources which they need in the United States under a capitalist system so iran is also sanctioned because they want to have their own independent model and we have helped iran before we have a very close relationship we are sorely there with each other and then we actually bought gasoline for venezuela because we have not been able to produce gasoline in the last months because. Of the sanctions because we cannot import the spare parts for our refineries because we cannot import all the chemicals that you need in order to produce the gasoline from coming from the heavy oil that we have in venezuela so we are importing from iran gasoline and also some spare parts for the refineries in order to activate them fully and the United States threatened the around that they would block by some way tankers that are already arriving to venezuela so we took some special measures its a legal operation its a commercial operation nothing International Law can stop it from happening so in any case the venice ruling on forced scored to the the uranian tankers from the moment that they were close in International Waters to our territory to our waters and they are already arriving in the center of the country in the refinery of by lead and of course venezuela helped iran back in 2010 but the ambassador Donald Trumps u. N. Ambassador kelly craft says maximum