Pandemic. Good afternoon just to midday here in moscow this 8th of september life martys world news h. Q. My name is kevin only here for the next 30 minutes with the latest update for you stay with me to the. First Prominent Russian opposition activist election of only we can report is no longer in a coma though german medics treating him havent given any prognosis yet nor have they presented any definitive proof or details as to what caused his illness but thats not stopped already the u. S. President from blaming the kremlin and hinting germany should now end its project with russia the big nord stream to gas pipeline. But i was supportive of that i was the 1st one to work up you know heard of it or stream to it so truck ever well when i came along i said wait a minute were protecting germany from russia right as for germany it seems to be caving into the pressure on north stream to is out hes burning correspondent peter all of the reports next. Long before election volley took a long flight from siberia to moscow and ended up here in berlin receiving treatment berlin has been under pressure to drop the north stream to gas pipeline project in the past despite threats and sanctions from the United States and criticism from some of its European Partners berlin and always viewed this economic project as a separate entity to anything else now what were starting to see is some signs of a different message coming out of the german capital weve heard from friedrich merritts who stands a very good chance of being the potential successor to angola merkel when she steps down as chancellor next year he said that if he had the power right now he would issue an immediate 2 year moratorium on the gas pipeline project and in fact in the last week weve heard senior voices within the German Cabinet and some voices that speak directly for the chancellor herself saying that there is a potential for least halting all stalling the project basically what it previously been unthinkable is now being talked about as potentially possible. Into tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do i think that we should be coupled these issues and in our opinion north rim too should be completed. For folks i think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening now you could have an impact from the projects to the federal chancellor also sees it as room to rule that out germany says the future of the gas pipeline depends on how russia responds to allegations of poisoning of the leg saying a volley with a military grade nerve agent moscow says theyre willing to play ball but calm to the moment because evidence and data that germany says it has regarding the poisoning of all of the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny hasnt being transferred to moscow without. That they can proceed now answer has been given to any official requests from the russian Prosecutor Generals Office or to any of the requests from our doctors nothing 0 on monday we got an update on the status of alexei in the film the hes being taken out of the coma the medics that kept him in for just over 2 weeks hes being weaned off breathing operators are starting to breathe on his own and we know that hes responding to visual to all the bl stimuli. Pitter all over there will meantime Russias Foreign Ministry has reacted to washingtons call for berlin to ditch north stream to moscow believes europe should stand up for its own interests unless it wants to end up being americas puppet political commentator like how my told me stopping the project is going to hurt germany its a catastrophe if this pipeline is being abolished because energy is the main cost for everything you do so if you increase the. Cost for your most vital product you need then you have disadvantaged in the Rural Economy so German Economy will have no chance on competing in the World Economy and thats exactly what ones you want america 1st you want American Business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on blackmailing possibilities from poland because d if the gas. Is not coming we are dependent on other routes and all the other routes are dependent on 3rd party so we will always be able to be blackmailed by the other people and i think this is exactly what the americans with their polish partner wants. A saudi court to scrap the death sentences of suspects in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi 5 people were given reduced terms of 20 years jail 3 others received from 7 to 10 years a top u. N. Official slammed the move. Saudi persecutor performed one more act today in this parody of justice but this verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy they came at the end of a process which was neither fair nor just or transparent in making sure his family said they forgave his murder is that change the law is clear the ways and for the revised sentences under islamic law but the journalist fiancees no comment on the trials calling it a complete mockery of Justice Georgie was seized in 28 team of visiting the saudi consulate in turkey you may recall reportedly then to get papers for his upcoming marriage the journalist was allegedly dismembered his remains of never been found those sentenced to believed to have been part of the hit squad sent to to keep from riyadh political analyst andrew bruno told us despite the riff it make sure of the crime the west wont ensure justice the fact that no official was tried. Actually raises many more suspicions for the World Community the opinion wont change the idea that the saudi government was behind it remains in fact if anything the only proves that or at least goes further into that direction countries that the oil with saudi arabia diplomatic and business levels wont have any technical formal reasons to hold relations so whether while Public Opinion will certainly be negative at a technical level there will be no sanctions or other penalties that will impede saudi arabia from working with other countries. High profile member of the belarus opposition has been arrested on the border with ukraine follows claims by her supporters the kolesnik over of the oppositions Coordination Council had been kidnapped by Belarus Security officers could tell a breakdown what ive been conflicting versions over the last 2448 hours. Well this is a somewhat strange and confused the story on monday news came out that recollects the one of the us opposition figures and a Campaign Partner of see it like it or not who will remember was defeated at the recent president ial elections was abducted in medics snatched from the street bundled into a van by are no man as many would say not in the evening the police filed a missing persons report and started an official such lots of people one article came out consigned to whereabouts and this includes people beyond about russias borders germany and britain for example said they were worried they demanded answers meanwhile brussels threatened sanctions and martin added to what it says is the arbitrary detention of those critical of others article sankoh it is clear that the states will store it is in belarus continue to intimidate or allow intimidation of its citizens in increasingly lawless way and crudely violate both their own domestic laws and international obligations. Well a few hours later and it doesnt seem quite as clear cut as many and because now the multitude of this story has now according to the head of the better russian authorities calexico and to others the southern border into ukraine around us or. A video that about showing a car in which is claimed kolesnikov and 2 others were pulling up to the border had to give the documents for inspection speaking to a border guard but then of rumor started that the 2 she was traveling with did manage to make it into great class that the didnt that she was arrested at the border something florentines did not they say instead the classical and of across the border instead that she was thrown out of the car shown up there to go to the 2 others carried on into ukraine without apparently at great speed to drive dangerously me mark classical that is confirmed now to be at the border in good health not in need of any medical assistance but the russian authorities also say that the 2 seemingly abandoned plastic up on the by the russian side have been arrested in ukraine that has not been confirmed by far exceeds people who are regular contact with the 3 say none of them responding to messages dont know i say they have no idea about whereabouts but. Theyre also claiming that none of the 3 had any intention of leaving better us if they did so it is worth noting that they would be following in the footsteps of their talented to come last who fled to lithuania month ago after the elections i when there are so many unconfirmed conflicting versions of the story its actually quite difficult to get the bottom of what actually happened perhaps time will provide some clarity. This next story is gross British Police a suffering from a large rise in the richest souls known as coffin spits of turks suspects of taking advantage it seems of fear of contamination with the offices in the midlands county of leicestershire complaining that its stopping them doing their job properly no. Dont want the court may intervene ya. The rise in assaults has huge impacts on stuff both physically and mentally and it has a huge impact on communities thousands and thousands of days of policing a lost because of these assaults the number of such attacks has doubled in fact theres been hundreds of cases in just months in leicestershire averts up on barely 100. 00 incidents in the same period last year but theres more to this not just the spitting cough attacks assaults on Law Enforcement a shooting up generally across the board leaving stuff obviously nervous there has been a 21 percent jump in attacks on British Police 2 in the locked own almost 8000 cases have been registered in just 3 months former Police OfficerPeter Kirkman himself warns that covert nineteens given suspects here brand new weapons against the authorities. Has provided its. Another way of people who would Assault Police by whatever method is available another wife d for them to get in ensue into offices. You know why i feel will be more in just a moment. Is just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting spitting and coughing offices that were seeing with the covert epidemic the problem in the decades 10 years of i dont see Police Narrative by the government gleefully repeats it by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just. The place of being criticised every. Symptom of a problem this country is hard to develop in for some time which is someplace on growing rapidly in both. Severity. Thanks to check into this lunchtime so much more ahead. When the blows nobody any good action or occurrence must be very bad indeed if it brings no benefit to anyone case in point this story. Making profits of the pandemic may be no surprise to hear that but now brussels wants them to pay their on it after the break. Join me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world the olympics sports business im showbiz most ill see of that. I guess midday 50 moscow time next the covert catastrophe has been a boon for some with home video streaming companies and not surprisingly reporting a massive surge in subscribers and their for profit there that netflix event mits the pundit make has been a lucky break for the company in fact every major tech player has vastly increased earnings in the log amazons revenue in the 2nd quarters a 40 percent make making was 90000000000. 00 from Online Shopping apple 2 revenue up 11 percent to almost 60000000000 meantime those streaming services such as netflix have talked about have doubled subscribers in just 3 months but they now face a backlash from the authorities seems from 2021 the e. U. Is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers want tech firms should subsidize economies so badly damaged by months of lockdown now. It is not possible to accept the idea that those digital giants the winners of the crisis are not paying a fair amount of taxes in europe and we cant manage this problem with single digital taxation we need at least at the European Union level a general measure economics professor Richard Wolfe believes that taxing text giants is just the 1st step to raising rates for all big corporations now. I think you seen it already we have a history here in the United States of taxing monopolies an oligopoly these are huge businesses but it always takes pressure from below it takes a movement of working people labor unions and others to be able to get the politicians to act and my suspicion is it wont be different x. Y. Or little take to tax the tech giants now and once they go then the question will inevitably follow why are we not doing that for other our highly monopolized and overly wealthy corporations. That is to preview on today israels impose curfews in 40 cities offer a spike in covert 1000 cases the near structures require businesses them to close by 7 pm every day and ban people from venturing far from the homes in the evenings schools and colleges have also shut. The professional elements were and given the high mobility situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself at any moment with a dangerous addition of severe cases and deaths and the danger to the teams of doctors treating corona in the hospital could collapse the initial plan would be to impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities following pressure from local mayors it was scaled back to evenings only although with 10 more cities added to the list theres been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month with daily cases now reaching almost 3000. 00 meantime protests against the governments handling of the pandemic of now and today are 11th week over the weekend Police Officers were seen literally lifting protesters off the road and carrying the way is people gathered near the prime ministers official residence demonstrators there calling for breading when to quit not just because of coronavirus but also over his current ongoing corruption trial head of the therapy and university explains was just why the number of cases in israel is on the rise. After reopening i would say around june schools enabling. Places of gathering to thrive what we have seen basically is a slow rise in the number of people being infected there is a crisis of confidence in the public meaning people do not feel the need to always abide by the regulation people willing to comply is essential to prevent the further spread of the virus the 2nd thing is that there are a lot of gatherings like for example weddings at night that are taking place although they are forbidden but people are actually organizing them in places private places so its very difficult to locate them and to close them down 2nd main problem we have is a lack of efficient trast seeing right now we are not able to correctly tracing every single case. Those are a lot of cases and the 2nd thing is that because we are still in trial we are still trying to implement our new system for tracing and that is taking too much time thats again another reason why we see a rise. A sweden struggles with growing gang crime in a Pandemic Police now want to expand wiretapping to everyone even normal suspects to detect potential gang members right now we have at least 40 family based criminal networks in sweden socalled clans they have come soley for the purpose of organized crime we need a change in legislation they give theres greater opportunities to listen to encrypted phone people who are not yet involved in any criminal investigation without people who can be clearly linked to gang crime we know hope that all this telephone traffic leads to us clearing up more crimes than we would have done otherwise well at the moment the swedish law only allows tapping the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison proposed changes though would let Law Enforcement eavesdrop on people who are yet to be suspected of a specific crime a risk going crimes of shocked Swedish Society lately with even a 12 Year Old Girl dying in a mathy across but citizens are divided all that said over whether wiretapping everyone is the best solution. I think it is good that the police have increased opportunities to catch this criminal gangs that are ranging freely in sweden today and they must find new ways to try can take them to court but i think a law that says the police can why its a private interview was too big a step to take there should be special reasons to eavesdrop on someone they dont see the risk for ordinary private interviewed salzberg intercepted in their private lives i do not think it affects our privacy we are already so monitored in any way with phones and other things that if this helps the police its great not good not my style i do not like it it creates a great deal of uncertainty as to what a ploy is because you do not know when they can listen where when and how so i do not like that more power a state within the state integrity is most important because you never know whats going to happen in the future. I think it is quite good that the police have greater opportunities to incept i personally do not mind it i think it can be a great tool for the police to access large part of the population and be able to stop some crime its nothing that bothers me makes news there then the human rights expert told us that however serious the rise in going crime wiretapping innocent citizens is not the answer. Well you know. Its our. Reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this year we have in sweden about the same number of killings. Community secret. Those entirely by us here and also in the year previous to that so the problems here is how are were not really in my opinion the minister or the Civil Liberties of the relation its a population which comprises device majority of the rents in sweden. And that has nothing to do we greeks given their behaviors on and on theyre going to strain to deny these you or. Criminality among immigrants 3 times as for media and 2 percent public stylistics where this city of their perpetrators of criminal and vitamin d. Its could be. Authorities have ordered the evacuation of the entire area of all break california made record wildfires. Still in the u. S. Clashes over Racial Injustice a being increasingly used by both president ial campaigns with protestors arming themselves for riots the canvassing by both donald trump and joe biden teams now even remind some of cia style tactics on the quarter report. Back in 2019 few could have even imagined that the run up to the president ial election would look like this. At 1st glance these protests might resemble scenes of random Political Violence but take a closer look and they seem like something right out of the cia playbook. During the war phase the sensually a political war more specifically the cias psychological operations in guerrilla warfare manual it was written back in the 1980 s. To help anti communist fighters in nicaragua called contras their goal to overthrow president Daniel Ortega as pro soviet government and the cia recommended tactic on how to do it was to achieve a psychological victory through guerrilla warfare take a look at the slugging match is going on between the trump and biden camps and you get a similar picture. It is happening under Donald Trumps watch we are not safe in downall from america the hard truth is. You wont be safe from joe biden. And what does the cia say such stunts will accomplish. Propaganda improves the behavior of the population towards its author and its not achieved by force this means that unarmed guerilla units in a rural town will not give the impression that its weapons are a force that they hold over the peasants but rather that they are the strength of the peasants against the repressive government basically people dont usually mind if the armed guerrillas are on their side which could suggest well keep seeing streets of rage for some time we have the one side. That are. Pro below and aside from maybe some other group of there who are there you thing with the means to put down the police and say from bashers their rage. And if you would in that direction on the other side from the border are looking at the rest. The violence thats occurring the burned out businesses and buildings and homes. And destruction using this as a means to control and manipulate people. To get people on their side i think its dangerous and both sides both sides are are using this i think its creating more division more unrest unfortunately we dont have a real 3rd party to vote for and i think that its going to go on till the election that i unfortunately it may continue after the election. A couple of months to go yet that of course that says so far about with more in about half an hour it seems that you dont call and social media have become a 24. 00 sevenths sony most times talks were able to deliver to check if you get a minute for another for me kevin owen and the rest the team at midday 27 have a great tuesday. Back geysers financial survival guide. Housing bubble all. Oh you mean theres a downside artificial mortgage truth dont get carried away thats cause report. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person that there is. No day or thinks. We dare to ask. Is youll be via reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. 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