Deeply divided ahead of the president ial election in november thousands of americans are desperate for an alternative to the 2 main runners and the countrys 2 party system. Youre watching R T International coming to you straight from moscow 247 welcome to the program this hour. All right we start this hour with some breaking news a German Government spokesperson has said that the russian opposition figurehead accent of all me was poisoned with the nerve agent known as nobody choke thats apparently based on test results analyzed by a military lab im on the is currently in a coma in a burl in hospital after being airlifted from russia 2 weeks ago and the kremlin says its received no communication from berlin on the test results now for more information on this we can cross live to our ts peter over who is in berlin peter could you tell us more about this announcement that we have coming from the German Government. Yes this is all coming for very very quickly in the last hour weve heard from stefan fibers whos the Spokes Person for the German Government the the mouthpiece of angler merkel the voice of the chancellor saying that they have the German Government have unequivocal proof this Alexei Navalny was poisoned using a nerve agent that it was a nerve agent in the group known as novacek the statement went on to say that the German Cabinet including the chancellor had been briefed on this that a summons would be issued to the Russian Ambassador and that the German Government was looking to the russian government for an explanation to how this had happened they also said that there would be waiting for there would be of forming both the European Union and the Nato Alliance that they would be joint statements coming from both of those to meet the press corps of the kremlin Spokes Person the in moscow has actually come out and said that so far theres been no word today on this from lynn mr peskov saying russia had nothing more to add as they received no further information now alexina vollies being here in berlin for a couple of weeks after he took extremely ill on a flight from siberia to moscow he was rushed here by a special. Plane that was chartered by his supporters and has been receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital in central berlin regarded as one of the finest hospitals in european remains in a coma and in juice coma authorities have said and the hospital themselves of issued statements saying that his life remained the no acute danger but they would keep were keeping him in a in this induced coma while they carried out further tests now it seems those further tests according to the german side anyway have reduced produced proof. As far as were hearing. That a nerve agent had been used to poison the well waiting for more reaction on this of course this is a major update in what is an ongoing and developing story. Peter oliver reporting live from berlin there then you for that of course were going to be following all of the reaction and bringing bringing in guests to get live analysis on that story throughout the day. The trial relating to the 2015 paris terrorist attacks got underway on wednesday 14 people stand accused of involvement in the wave of terror that shook the french capital 5 years ago as a terrible magazine Charlie Hebdo was one of the main targets of the attacks alongside a jewish supermarket or to charlotte the reports from paris well surely have do is back in the spotlight here in france and thats because as that trial is underway that important trial its decided to take a Bold Decision according to some some of described it perhaps as being more idiotic and that is to republics some of its most controversial cartoons which depict the prophet mohammed the muslim prophet now it was those types of cartoons that were published by the magazine that initially put a target on its back and led to that attack back in 2015 in which 12 people were murdered now back then the world came out in support singhs use 3 sharlee saying they supported the right of the magazine its freedom of speech to publish cartoons like that but by republishing these cartoons again today a montage of them it has reignited the debate here in france over whether or not its ok to blast fim now there has been some polls done with the news that Charlie Hebdo was reprinting some of those cartoons and its really interesting the results that have come out this is a poll thats been done by the French Institute of Public Opinion now it found when it asked the french people in general what they thought was this the right thing to do and that the majority of people supported the decision supported the freedom of speech of Charlie Hebdo but when you narrow that field down and only ask that question to french muslims there was a very different response was 69 percent responding that they didnt think it was right to publish those cartoons in the 1st place now everybody seems to. Getting involved in this issue from the president right the way across through social media everybody has an opinion and those opinions are polarized there isnt france a freedom to blast fim which is attached to freedom of conscience i am here to protect all these freedoms why would you allow a publication to wreck your countrys harmony all i see these games this is not freedom of speech this is disrespect in the sentiments of all the muslims around the world still pined in behind freedom of speech it doesnt give people the right to say whatever they want to choose decency and their ticket so freedom of speech will again be used as an excuse to hurt muslim sentiments and our beliefs and while we condemn these actions openly in vehemently no heed will be paid because who cares about muslim sentiments anyway now this trial is hugely important not just because its about the attacks on Charlie Hebdo but its also about the attacks that took place a few days later on a kosher supermarket here in paris where more people were killed and what the National Anti terror prosecutor here in france i said while this might not be about the men that carried out those attacks because they are dead this is about that wider web of individuals who supported them who perhaps finance them or shielded them in the aftermath of those attacks and this also comes as font says interior minister warns that while this trial is about the historical event an event that is still something that is poignant in french memory there is also something that we must remember he talked about and that is the fact that there is still a huge threat of terror here in france it is the internal threat within our walls which has become the most significant and the strongest one which mobilizes the most attention of the Intelligence Services to how domino also talked about more than 8. 1000 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose a Security Threat here in france and he said that their full attention was needed on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as Islamic State that he also mentioned the number of individuals in prison that are connected to islam is threats and talked about the radicalization in prisons he said that the majority of those individuals who were radicalized in prisons have then gone on to commit their own terror offenses when theyve been released now the trial is about those 2 massacres that surely abdo and the kosher supermarket here in paris and they heralded in a new wave of terror that has and compassed france now for more than 5 years. So while many people thought the focus would be on the trial starting in paris many people are now looking at what surely abdo has done with the republication of those controversial satirical cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed with many people questioning whether this was the right decision was this about sort of standing up for freedom of speech was this about remembering those who was slain at its offices or is this something that could really radicalize islamists across the world and incite a new wave of terror earlier we spoke with french publisher and journalist america he believes that some of those defending the magazine have gone too far. This is horrible although. There was such a reaction of horror that theres some people have lost their heads which d unfortunately is a tribute to the politics of tara but thought for example there was a fashionable generous who said that this at this moment those who are not shoddy must be punished but im sorry but just because i think i find these attacks horrible doesnt mean that i have to i dont find myself with the newspapers whose political life i have never appreciated and we know where this hatred and contempt have led and the worst thing in france would be in the name of defending freedom of expression freedom of speech we allowed ourselves to be drawn into a war of civilization which would claim ever more victims can assure you. Over in the Us Donald Trump has ignored calls to stay away from the violence stricken city of notion arriving on tuesday he praised the police as the visit has aggravated tensions between Trump Supporters and black lives matter protesters in a shower is the latest u. S. Hot spot for rallies against racism and Police Brutality thats after a black man was shot several times in the back by officers last month 2 people were killed in the protests that followed the shooting with the city suffering massive damage to personal property and businesses however when i asked the u. S. President said Police Violence is not systemic i think the police do an incredible job. And i think you do have some bad apples i think you degree every once in a while you see something and you do have the other situation to. Under this tremendous pressure in the they dont hill it world. Trumps main rival joe biden for his part has posted a video of him and his running mate come on harris having a socially distance chat where they discuss terms alleged inability to deal with the covert crisis. You know you think of all the people of the day who because of the negative way in which this president walked away with dealing with the covert crisis my god the way its been responded to meanwhile Many Americans are getting fed up with their 2 party system and are looking around for alternatives and burgeoning movement is the new Peoples Party and i talk to thousands of americans to its Virtual Convention over the weekend killed often has more. Deep divisions in america and dissatisfaction with centuries of 2 party rule have forced Many Americans so look for alternatives on the heels of the democratic and Republican Conventions 8 Peoples Convention was held gathering the hundreds of thousands of disappointed left wingers and the people must have a system president we dont need a. Rallying cry for new major party 20 the attendees of the Peoples Convention feel that neither candidate really represents a choice for the working class instead they want political leaders who will stand up to wall street and the political elites long. As you. Can tell the criteria of integrity wall street was certainly delighted when joe biden was nominated as the democratic candidate perhaps this is because joe biden has admitted that not much is really going to change when speaking to his wealthy donors i mean we may not want to demonize anybody has made money no 1. 00 standard of living will change nothing would fundamentally change another theme at the Peoples Convention was the constant expansion of us wars and the expanding presence of u. S. Military forces overseas as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military it is so to play dead we will prevail. Were going to have the Strongest Military weve ever had by far were increasing arsenals of virtually every weapon were making our military stronger and more powerful than ever before attendees of the Peoples Convention called for free college for all a Green New Deal and an end to mass incarceration they slammed joe biden for not supporting medicare for all even during the pandemic. With all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system in italy it doesnt work there has nothing to do with medicare for all that would not solve the problem at all protests against systemic racism and Police Brutality that have in gulf the country now have both candidates throwing gasoline on the fire this president long ago forfeited a moral leadership in this country he cant stop the violence because for years hes fought management here supporters here supporters and they are your supporters indeed shut a young gentleman who killed him now with paint over the bullet and i think its disgraceful Peoples Convention attendees voted at the end of their convention to form a Peoples Party that would sweep the u. S. Elections in 2021 and hopefully take control of the white house and the us congress by 2024 3rd parties have always existed in america but they generally get marginalized and pushed aside while the 2 major parties dominate the political stage however the Peoples Party is hoping to reverse that trend and become a new force in american politics seizing the spotlight it will mop and artsy new york. And ill go back to our breaking news story a German Government spokesperson has said that russian opposition figurehead and bonnie was poisoned with a nerve agent known as nobody choke although the kremlin is saying its received no communication from berlin on the conclusions as of yet not only is currently in a coma in a berlin hospital after being airlifted from russia almost 2 weeks ago. Especial aboard 3 of the German Armed Forces carried out a toxic logical test on samples taken from alexina vonnie and found an equivocal proof of poisoning with a chemical nerve agent from the navi charred group the federal government condemned this attack in the strongest possible terms. And they get some reaction to this breaking news story we cross live to Martin Mccauley author and political analyst the russian Prosecutor Generals Office says its just sent a request to the German Government for full information on the on these test results they expect germany to comply with that request. Yes generally will comply because theyve already said theyre not sure shocked and condemned the country gaijin which is related to the no because group penetrated not in this body and they would like to discover how that happened therefore the germans are seeking information from russia and the russians are seeking information from berlin what are the actually found you have to do certain that it is a member of the no other called group would you please provide the shine to the evidence medical evidence show that it is and if it is the germans would then like russia to look at it and say how is it possible that this nerve agent penetrated. Into into new un these body over 2 weeks ago. Still in the kobus and therefore our job is it better very serious never hated and therefore the German Government will request the russian government to provide as much in the basins was a move and likewise the russian government announced berlin in the German Government to provide unequivocal evidence that it isnt overtook a group nerve agent because they would like to move their legs that demonstrated proof of guilt with beyond reasonable doubt now the name never chuck is going to be ringing bells for many of our viewers as it was of course the same nerve agent allegedly used on the script files and went back in 2018 back then western powers claimed the use of that poison was in itself proof that russia was to blame presumably we can expect more of the same allegations this time. Yes well this isnt a valley was poisoned zuma between tones. And on screen of the plane wondered in. The prosecutor the room the germans push me to say well obviously the originated in russia and they presume that he ingested something before. Boarding the plane into homes and then he became a little and was taken to a hospital and 2 weeks ago he was then moved to sugar and then so from the german point of view they will say its obvious from our point of view we think weve demonstrated that never agent was ingested in russia no flaw there you know we would like to know how this is possible and who would have access to these never agents. And for no one would say the German Government would be requesting all that information whereas the russian government in turn would be asking for more detail information and absolute proof that it is in fact a member of the know the truth. And the germans have to be very careful to prove let the absolutely certain 100 percent certain that it is never that it was a member of the noble who and of course the German Military were involved to the flow this would mean that. Other countries need to insult would actually has to go because as you know. Hes available in rwanda to countries including joan and now from the german point of view they will say that they would like the russians to explain and investigate how did it possible that a member of the noble job group actually was in just by. Between tungsten omes. Now i think i mentioned there on the day of the alleged poisoning of on there was an airport surrounded by people and then he was on a plane in close contact with a number of people if we look at the script all case the whole area was cordoned off where they were allegedly poisoned and several other people were found to be affected as well but 2 weeks off and im only full and stick theres been no indication that anyone else was poisoned anyone else coming up ill or anything that was in contact with him can we draw any conclusions from that knocks a message to the boy because within the script ok apparently the intervention was. He do go on i dont want to go on old and so on and perhaps the notion is that this group of put the hands on the milk and its possible that other people did the same and then body came into contact with the script could also have been affected because one person tried to be died but in this case is very interesting in this case apparently nobody else was affected. Only in that not only was a person who ingested this nerve agent and nobody knows even when he was in the plane nobody sitting beside him and they had had until now contracted this nerve agent as well and so thats a bit of an interesting point which i really i took the coaches only a specialist and scientists could really explain what was that possible that in one case and scoop because it was widely dispensed warehouses in those caves you only think of one person so if we assume that western powers do go ahead and blame the kremlin do expect sanctions to fall it was just a few days ago we heard from the German Foreign minister saying that that was a possibility they expected to be fault their own. Thats a possibility because if they have said is a possibility they would lose face if they didnt do anything and therefore they are waiting for the russian government wide information which they can consider and so on. And this will go on for some time because the russian government will want absolute proof 100 percent proof that it was in fact the nerve agent of the no just group which is known to be lethal they would like that have to be proved before we would really then thought to get the. Gist of this nerve agent. On the plane which role you got on the plane and then he had to leave the planet so theyll be waiting for that so this is quite some time to go because the German Government would be very careful not to jump to conclusions they would want hard evidence before that then. Apply sanctions and its difficult to see what type of sanction they could they could apply it might be against. A segment that they do if they think its related to. Washingtons or the criminal Something Like that they may be able to identify someone who they think was responsible but at this point in time its virtually impossible to do that needs to be difficult to do that because how do you just come up now who was actually responsible if youre in germany how do you. Know that can only be discovered by somebody in russia because they never agent was administered in russia and he fell in missions and therefore theyre waiting. Belin would have to wait on the russian government providing information of how that was how they think it was possible they may come back and say investigations but in conclusion we cant really prove it because this happened 2 weeks ago. And last thing. It happened there was no agents the disappeared we could have done and therefore the German Government will mean its like were going to go in with proceeds of the russian Government Movement willing to cooperate because this was. A crime. It is was investigated. If we take a step back and look at the wider picture how big of a fallout is there possible to be from this announcement as we all know the biggest economic project between russia and germany is the north stream to pipeline and germany has so far stood up to u. S. Pressure to scrap the project and kept it going but could this possibly affect that. It might be that americans might come in and say alright we we told you that russia was not a very good partner to have and you shouldnt be going ahead with milage trimmed to its possible the americans would come in and say that well now we have cars and the americans will say we have proof although we dont know what the group is that there are the poison agents never talk agent who was administered in russia to the foot originated in russia and this can happen to know that and they then it could happen to anyone else who approaches the government and the authorities in russia on the phone from germanys point of view they shouldnt be entering into a close relationship economic relationship with mosco the americans have been pushing is very hard indeed other countries as well coding for instance but you know be interesting to see how this develops because it could in fact she know below 0 it could gradually fade away and strip out case because nobody could prove. Who administered the agent. Unequivocal option 100 percent proof it was an option impossible to this day to decide that so therefore the implied some big sanctions which didnt have very much effect so were waiting this time to see how important this nuclear German Government takes it and how the american state you know nato takes it now because not only was seen as a very formidable critic once the russian government and it was also very strong anticorruption and the be all these theories that those behind the poisoning may have been the target of the sense of corruption investigations and therefore did nothing to dolla told to do with the kremlin when the russian government well these theories wouldnt like thrilled around and be discussed and so on but at the end of the day. The German Government needs concrete proof that it. From russia where the poison was administered in toms or just before he got to the plane comes and trying to decide who to do it and why they did that there must have been a move to that linux where the who would have access to the know which of agent now which person never public wouldnt have it must be the military will own security and some like not so it would be any number of investigations and theories floating around this couldnt develop into a very big story war it could take years to code cased moralist peter wrote. Martin in that statement coming from the German Government they condemned the attack and they also called for russia to urgently explain the attack but give an explanation what you think theyre hoping to hear given that moscow has been very clear on their stance from the beginning that they dont know what happened and up behind it and they even also helped facilitate. Move to germany to get treatment. Yes that thats a very important point that the russian government say that they do not have any information about the who would who in fact put the nerve agent in his body and its presumed it was too tricky tito Something Like that some some liquid and they said at the time they didnt regard it as a criminal act to look for they didnt investigate it at a crime and should be very difficult now after 2 weeks to go back and start looking at the evidence and so on the russian government to do this the ministry of justice will do this and then investigate it and so on but it may not come up as ive said with any definite person or or indication of how it was it was that and how somebody acquired this is the key question which germans would like a hood who actually had actions to another drug agent because it is in many ways secret is locked away its held by the military and Security Services and who would have had to actions to it and how did that person get it from the excess illative which we had the which kept the never mentioned and then administered it and put it into. All those questions the germans would like oncet but. Now after a passage of 2 weeks it will be very difficult to find direct answers to these questions and the german the russian government may come up and say well weve investigated in great detail but were a label to identify. How this never agent 1st of all was was taken from a facility and secondly and who have ministered to. Developing these body points and put it there are various theories but we cant base our. Judgment on theories we need hard evidence and unfortunately we cannot discover we cannot find hard evidence it can be very difficult for the russian authorities to come up with answers which satisfy the general government and the German Government but then have them said well