Promising. And the french the terrible magazine Charlie Hebdo read princes controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad reigniting debate is done to mark the terror trial getting underway 5 years since the bloody attack on the publications offices in paris. A very warm welcome to you youre watching the week for me with all the latest headlines along with a round of the stories that shapes the past 7 days. Berlin and moscow are locked in a diplomatic row over the alleged nerve agent poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina valmy on sunday the Russian Foreign ministry question to make him to provide an explanation for what happened suggesting is the german side thats not being forthcoming. If the German Government is sincere in statements it should respond to their quest of the russian general Prosecutors Office as soon as possible that was passed along on the 20 sounds or for best it is the german side that really lacks urgency by not sending a response berlin is slowing down the very investigative process it is calling for is that on purpose ultimatums do not help anyone move forward but if never explanations follow from russia in the coming days we will have to discuss the response without partners we have high hopes for the russian government to solve this serious crime meanwhile the German Foreign minister has responded to russias request to sheth findings in a case things such a move would take time as they currently dealing with new information and it would also require permission from one of mr advani as relatives to pass on his personal data with more on all the weeks developments his pace all of a. There have been International Calls for transparency from russia in an investigation into what happened to alexina valmy the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov of has said moscow has nothing to hide when it comes to mist in the found me he says russia is still waiting though for requests for information to be answered. But its we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide the soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures were me julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old scenario we hear public accusations against russia in the fischel requests to berlin from our Prosecutors Office have so far gone unanswered we were promised today that we would soon receive response as soon as we get the facts we will react accordingly this is all reminiscent of what happened with this group polls or secretary general again stoltenberg has his mind made up though he says International Action needs to be taken however he stopped short of saying what form that should take we strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of International Law so it requires an International Response. But i will not speculate about exactly what kind of International Response were seeing at the moment is warnings and demands flying backwards and forwards the french and German Foreign ministers issued a joint statement on friday evening in which they call a dent an attack against mr novelli weve also heard from the German Federal president. He said being a family case has the potential to cause real problems in the relationship between perl in moscow and in vienna weve seen moscows representative summoned to the Foreign Ministry to discuss the novelli case. I consider the demands russia conduct a quick open and comprehensive investigation inappropriate in the absence of any information facts or specific data from germany or any response to the russian prosecutor generals request made on the 27th of august its over a week since moscow requested information from regarding the tests that were carried out on alexina volley on friday the German Government confirmed that they had received that request however getting that information over to russia might not be as simple as all out. There right at the request was forwarded by the minister of justice to the Justice Department in berlin today in the morning as usual we cant comment on any cooperation regards an internal matters of the investigation so what does that mean russia has not received anything from the ministry of justice or any other responsible oath already as they have already just sad the federal government has approved their quest for mutual Legal Assistance or speaking in plain language no other information has been given is that right i reach or a to what i have just said moscow has requested this information because the tests that were carried out in the russian hospital where lex in the valley was 1st treated showed no trace of any toxin in his system and tests for poisons all came back negative effect to investigative measures are being carried out and if the information about the presence of a poisonous substance in the patients biological samples is confirmed then of course we will open a day jury investigation its 2 weeks since Alexei Navalny has been here in berlin being treated the shot aetate hospital physicians say there is no were cute risks to his life at the moment however there is the potential for long term effects from this illness. Additionally the Russian Foreign ministry has stated if not the child was seized it doesnt necessarily mean it came from russia and lex in a valley remains in a medically induced coma after falling severely ill on an internal flight in russia more than 2 weeks ago meanwhile a group of russian doctors have offered set up a joint commission with their german counterparts to investigate the case. Ever since news of the ensign 1st emerged much of the worlds media have pointed the finger straight at the kremlin markdown c. F. Has been looking at the various theories. Germany declared the valley poisoned with military grade talks in and within 24 hours everyone with a keyboard had somehow become an investigative journalist slash toxicologist slash Foreign Policy expert take build for example a german tabloid that specializes in yellow journalism and bashing russia build out did everyone they managed to mistranslate a russian official make up a Conspiracy Theory that russia was blaming germany for poor is in the volley and based on everything that they got wrong they demanded sanctions and then to the divisive german russian nord stream to pipeline there are very strong and russia in the west which typically specifically wants to sabotage the gas pipeline to prevent between russia and the e. U. A particularly Close Association russia and germany there isnt a change of course america wants to sell its natural gas to europe instead of the russians so theres a lot of money going on a lot of money is what at stake spiegel another german magazine has proposed tearing up german russian relations big student well apparently they have irrefutable proof that putin was behind this insane poisoning they wont show it though to their readers so well just have to trust them now is the times the man in the kremlin the german or thora g. s of showing the alexina found he was not drunk or diabetic as the kremlin cynical spin doctors wanted to world to believe he was supposed to be killed with an insidious neurotoxin cynical spin doctors insidious neurotoxin and obviously aggravated by us. You see again a force for us compounds are highly toxic substances and as a rule its impossible to use them just to poison a single. Person if there had been any interaction with the substance on the eve of the flight or during the flight then any accompanying persons were certain to have shown symptoms of poisoning that did not happen passions are high a lot of confusion about this is the best time to take advantage of people if youre a build pundit and you have no idea how a neurotoxin works or what happened to the volley and you still want clicks well now is the time to write righteous and warlike articles to try him appear knowledgeable while the you know the professionals and the experts a busy and quiet trying to figure out whats happened there is another version that you might like one popular theory is that the kremlin spooked by the protests in the west embarrassed into the east inhabitants wanted mr nirvana out of the way to prevent him from mobilizing discontent closer to mr putin and upsetting his plans for parliamentary elections next year after years of not winning elections after years of stagnant support somehow now novelli has become a danger i was in the kremlin spooked after the revolution in ukraine why didnt they try to remove him then and it doesnt explain use in new york which is the Nuclear Option even in the world of nerve agents sending the volleys to germany where he could get tested for a new truck and russia would get sanction to jump to the conclusion that there is one obvious to what happened to divine it its very simplistic because if you look at who takes an advantage out of whats happened i think its a huge liability for the kremlin and for russia to be seen to have launched an attack on one of the most colorful and interventional members of the opposition that it reinforces as weve seen the. Very negative image of russia in the west i think relations between the west and civically europe and russia were starting to warm up now all those things are certainly at risk because of whats happened and because of the way its interpret it which is why i think maybe its much more complicated why would the kremlin do this at this point. Is that going toward a month since the disputed election in bellaver is triggered unprecedented scenes of protest in the country for a 5th consecutive weekends thousands of once again taking to the streets of cities and towns nationwide decrying what they say was a rigged result. Of confirms more than 100 people were detained on sunday although no exact figure has been given a major rally in the center of the capital has now ended with crowds moving away from the areas blockaded by police and armed vehicles our minsk based correspondents far these reports. Since quarter of sort of are going to people the beginning to disperse its unpleasant to stay here in the rain and theres no talk or details about whats happening here the level of my job there but lets move over here to this building and i want to talk about it this is a multistory car park near the hotel when it started raining people started to run in take cover in there spread all over the floors people shouting chants but theres no actual aggression from the crowd there is a project called the voice that was created for Fair Elections they have a new version of bought in the telegram app called i walk you need to send a message to it so your presence would be registered anonymously and that ronnie started today 120000 people were expected i dont see that many here i cant say that there arent lots of people who just fewer than before that gas did that or 300 fans there is a car with a very loud speaker in the room playing some patrick bell russian music you can still hear it kilometers away from here and from afar it sort of. Sounds like some kind of a Patrick Party but in fact this car is drowning out any chance and slogans its music is being played down over the years the much demand in the petition here is the most tense police right next to the barbed wire there are Water Cannons over there and walls that prevent the crowds from entering the independence palace the crowd is very dense here and it stretches for more than a 100 meters. Protests broke out immediately after the outcome of the vote was announced on august the 9th with longtime president Alexander Lukashenko winning another 5 years in Office Although initially marred by violence of Police Brutality the demonstrations are now largely Peaceful World leaders have called for talks between the government and the opposition the latter is demanding a fresh vote and for constitutional reform. Today marks the 100th consecutive day of black lives matter rallies in the u. S. City of portland triggered by the death of george floyd and the protests show no sign of relenting. Heres a man desperately trying to put out the flames on his shoes allegedly after a model of cocktail he himself was holding exploded tensions between demonstrators and police remain high officers used tear gas to break up the crowd with over 50 people reportedly arrested the protests have been ongoing since may and violent scenes have frequently been seen. Meanwhile in kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups of marched through louisville black lives matter campaigners converged on the city demanding the states famous kentucky darby horse race become full and went ahead on saturday the activists decried Police Violence and Racial Injustice earlier in the day proper least militia had marched through the city and were confronted by some of the black lives matter protesters. On one famous American Companies seems to be cashing in on the rest the gun makers smith and weston has seen its cells rise by 140 percent compared to the same period last year but i quote so around 134000000. 00 in extra sales journalist daniel as are believed the gun blame is symptomatic of the current political stalemate in the country. But arcus breaking down were seeing street fighting street fighting going on growing levels involving both the leftists and rightists. As a kind of nice slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because the american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well end up in fighting endless lawsuits and indeterminate outcome no one knows and both sides are arming i mean their Guns Everywhere when if you go to one of these protests and in places like the met midwest or the west youll see guns on both sides and its very dangerous and because people tend to use these weapons and so but the but theres no force capable of stopping these things. These this fighting because im it seems to have taken a life of its own and its just part of the whole political structure which is in an excel rating breakdown. Russia says its ready to move ahead with large scale testing of a sneak over and a virus vaccine now for months the country became the 1st nation in the world to register a jap says were expressed in the west that corn is must have been cut and that they might end up doing more harm than good but now details of the potential kill have been published for the well to say saskia tale of a pool. At the start of 20 twentieths good news it was hard to come by but if we move that often it seems that find us not unpleasant or to report on as many will now but russia practices the welt fast track to greater virus but all the results are now on friday it was announced back in notice that nicotine has indeed a strong immune response i am to point out that that in 100 percent of those images a page in trials now this comes just after 8 leaving just about one of the oldest one of the most respected in the lancet. With its assessment of the findings of the trials because it is about the things the Clinical Trial results of the sport make the vaccine published in lancet the worlds leading medical journal shows that russia is leading the way in developing a corona virus vaccine and it answers a lot of questions from western critics specifically the journal report concluded that there were no serious adverse consequences among volunteers that took the vaccine and there was a very strong in time moon response due to the development of antibodies it found that a vaccinated person produces 1. 00 times more antibodies than an average person infected with corona virus so no serious side to the desired antibodies and of course good safety profile its also what he had of the last clinic which is that independent is that he thought that those heightened place would actually protect the individual for at least 2 yes so that im not from the direct Investment Fund and this article in an answer really pulls direct the arguments for these affected nests now this news one touted. By those who decided to take the plunge to leave the fund got to get themselves. And we todays these include the minister of defense against the leader of the liberal Democrat Party who by the way actually appeared on a t. V. Show makes wrong in the day that the mayor. So now were now told president bush about this Via Video Conference he said you know what im feeling why i know you think i will say i did have a slight headache for a few hours so these latest now reassuring but also maybe a way to counter the one of the better word to suspicions like will initiate use of the meat russia has this process in order to declare itself a winner of that race for so what now well in our sights and if not of what actually basis for russian citizens will start in september and that process could be done within 7 to 12 months in fact. We can execute it in the Capital Market right obviously were in a hot spot have been given a bit of a head start so doses for most people are but that there will be bread and it seems there is demand. Right to parent a mortgage when people question foreign governments have already received hundreds of millions of doses so in a. Spreadsheet. 14 suspects went on trial in france this week over their alleged involvement in a series of terror attacks in 2015 this is terrible magazine Charlie Hebdo was one of the main targets alongside a jewish supermarket and commemorations of the victims the good magazine has republic the controversial prophet mohammed cartoons believed to have partly motivated the attack the move triggered a serious reaction from the iranian Foreign Ministry but president emanuel mccrum say his freedom of expression is paramount. As the trial into the january 25th ina tax begins to be french means to defend the right to make people laugh the freedom to mock to ridicule and to caricature which voltaire claimed was the source of the rest to be french means always to be on the side of the Freedom Fighters well Charlie Hebdo is back in the spotlight here in france and thats because as the 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 republicans 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 back then the world came out in support saying 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 a montage of them it has reignited the debate here in france over whether or not its ok to blast beam 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 freedom of speech of Charlie Hebdo but when you norse that question to french muslims there was a very different response with 69 percent responding that they didnt think it was right to publish those cartoons now everybody seems to be getting involved in this issue from the president right the way across through social media everybody has an opinion and those opinions are polarized. Through those samples or of course i support the right to caricature 100 percent historically in france we have a great tradition of caricatural. After how far can control has the right to go thats another debate. Your god creates tensions in the muslim world its the muslim world thats targeted its to provoke its in there for a tooth for tooth so i dont think anyone is going to let it happen so. I said to myself im going to go by surely it will be a little bit of money for them so that they can continue their work and its a lot of respect because they have incredible courage. And he said so do you president well i repeat the same birds. Who have the right to express ourselves to bless for is not to kill now this trial is hugely important not just because its about the attacks. 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 are said while this might not be about the men that carried out those attacks because they are dead this is about that why did web 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 are now also talked about more than 8000 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose a Security Threat here in france and he said. Their full attention was needed on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as Islamic State and he also mentioned the number of individuals in prison that are connected to islam is threats and talked about the verticalization 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 messages 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 many people are now looking at what surely there was done with the republic ation of those controversial satirical cartoons 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 thanks for choosing r. T. 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Im not sure it has in this is going underground from a country the politicians are telling us is getting back to normal as it like the rest of the world braces for a potentially devastating 2nd wave of corona virus this november its a pandemic that will disproportionately kill the worst off in society once called for cost to global food like pandemic its 1. 00 of the causes and its profound effects as mike davis known for his devastating critique of capitalist urban Development City of cortes excavating the future of los angeles here he is 15 years ago and why. Should be we be so worried about it is a switch is infected under 200. 00 People Killed less than 100. 00 we live in a world where millions of people die every year from the laryea tuberculosis hiv and the answer of course is the experience of humanity in 24 weeks and 1918 when between 40 and a 100000000 people died of a pandemic influenza this is the greatest mortality about and Human History there have been 2 subsequent pandemics 19571968 neither were anywhere as steadily as 1918 and then suddenly in 1997 this new flu emerged in hong kong and scientists discovered to their hor that rather than being incubated in a pig or a human being who had been contacted with several strains of the flu it jumped directly from birds to him and thats mike davis speaking in 2005 on the threat of a flu type pandemic hitting in the owner his warnings were arguably not taken seriously by policymakers think tanks and politicians is 25 book the monster at our door is now called the monster and with a brand new preface and he joins me now from Los Angeles Mike welcome to going on the ground youve been on well i understand just take us through how you came to write to the new preface as the full horror of the pandemic became apparent the book the regional book was. 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