British police doubled during the health crisis. International and Daniel Hawkins thanks for joining us the cell. Could not have survived if hed been poisoned with. The claim at least of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he fell severely ill 2 weeks ago. As more details. The doctors that 1st try to lex in the valley when his plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing with him in clear distress he was making his way from siberia to moscow he didnt make it there the plane landed in arms that was way he received treatment 1st theyve dismissed claims from here in germany in berlin where hes currently being treated that he was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent they say that being poisoned with such an agent he would have died hours after the poisoning and been administering it they say that theyve carried out over 60 tests on alexina valmy while he was in their care they found no trace of any toxin now they say theyve shared or made available the data from those tests they carried out theyve made that available to the german colleagues they now saying the time has come for the german colleagues to share the data that they have that claim that it that he was poisoned with this nerve agent. Those when you know its not a diagnosis its not even a version but a sort of fiction fantastical suggestion or conclusion with no proof documentation or Clinical Evidence he would have died within hours 6 to 10 pm he would have been good because its a severe poisoning were going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexei in the valleys condition has improved hes been taken out of a medically induced coma that hed been in for just over 2 weeks and we understand that he is starting to breathe on his own again a diplomatic route over the whole incident continues to rumble on and is gaining momentum right in the crosshairs of that diplomatic row is the north stream to gas pipeline the project that would see russian gas pump directly from russia into germany now this has been something this has had its critics for a long time the United States has threatened crippling sanctions against it some of germanys own European Partners of being quite vocal critics of the north stream to pipeline. Project however as far as germany has been concerned in the past this is something thats an economic project and its set aside from Everything Else that may be going on however what we are starting to see is perhaps that mood may be changing in fact. Who is a man who has a pretty good chance of being angle a miracle success so when she steps down as german chancellor next year he said. Well if he had the power now he would be placing an immediate 2 year moratorium on the Infrastructure Project while weve heard from senior cabinet figures here in berlin in the last week and also suggesting that the project may well be suspended or even cancelled Angela Merkel herself though has limited what shes have to say to this wouldnt be a unilateral german decision to pause or cancel an old stream to pipeline that would have to be a decision taken at the paneuropean level at an e. U. Level what we are seeing is previously what had been unthinkable now being talked about as potentially possible is this i left my into this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do as i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not just as. I think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening now you could have an impact from the projects the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong to rule that out the german side of said the future of nord stream 2 depends on how russia responds to accusations of poisoning against Alexei Novelli now from the russian side weve heard quite a lot on tuesday coming out of the Foreign Ministry we heard on monday that requests for information from moscow to berlin would be met that heiko must the German Foreign minister had greenlit the process that would see information transferred over to russia however what were hearing from the russians. It is nothing is being forthcoming just yet we understand the german ambassador to moscow has been invited to the Foreign Ministry to discuss this matter further he is a cut of the russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says theyve received no information so far from germany and the starting to really want some answers to their requests we expect burden to provide all the data they have to the bundeswehr about to result and the evidence in possession of the german Foreign Ministry its time for them to show their cards because its of this to everyone the un is bluffing in the interest of and due to political record well Alexei Navalny it was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday hes understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition were told isnt life threatening anymore. Peter just minutes from the north stream to pipeline now hangs in the bios over the poisoning allegations donald trump has repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia. But i was supportive of that i was the 1st one of the worst up you know heard of the north stream to absorb drug ever long when i came along i still wait a minute were projecting germany from russia right meanwhile russias Foreign Ministry is weighed in on the claim in europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washingtons puppet political commentator i can harm or believe germany would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on north street. 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 the 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 to have great many possibilities from poland because if the gas. Is not coming we are dependent on other routes and all the other routes are dependent on 3rd parties so we will always be able to be blackmailed by the other people and i think that is exactly what the americans with their polish partner once. A high profile member of the opposition in belarus has been arrested on the border with ukraine follows claims money kolesnikov had been kidnapped by but the Russian Security officials and people have been protesting on the streets of minsk over the last week it was arrest you can see crowds there waving the symbolic white and red flag of the opposition people are chanting let her go when proclaiming kolesnikov a hero over there are different versions of the events that led to the arrest or to shed some more light on whats been a part of fusing story artesia trying to now joins us to stand several different versions of what happened there just take us through what the latest is. Hello again well lets just start from the very beginning of the story beller is in turmoil after the election won by Alexander Lukashenko the opposition claims that the election was fraudulent and on monday a senior opposition figure Maria Kolesnik of all along with 2 other men who are opposition members as well disappear they couldnt be reached by phone and their whereabouts are unknown and after pretty much 24 hours of conflict quartz many rumors then statements on behalf of the authorities and the supporters of the opposition the president decided to speak out in fact he was giving an interview to russian t. V. Journalists and our editor in chief but get this in my now i was there so let me just say that bell russian authorities on choose day began explaining that the authorities have to detain the opposition activists while she was trying to escape the country through the southern border with ukraine and theyre saying that. She broke the law while trying to do so now what you are about to hear right now are the latest statements by the russian leader Alexander Lukashenko this is how he explained what he knows. But that only could you give us more detail about Maria Kolesnikov or where ish. I probably cannot give you much detail gigia the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends or drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed their passports on our side customs officers Border Guards let them through further on is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts there are 8 to 9 kilometers and there our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped before the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move well on the run. So they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out Border Guards of course detained her has would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the Border Office and the car went across the a crane bought up through the a crate in post and then as far as im now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so that they return them to us what for they left they relatively speaking of were released from birth you know they could not be detained they travelled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the Border Guards and customs officers did their jobs and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hid in ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i dont know for sure they told me this today i ask why is it ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to but someones relatives a said to live there i cannot claim so i dont know everything yet therefore she was detained and we asked the ukrainian Border Guards to return the others to our country we will investigate what happened. So let me just repeat once again these are the latest updates from the bell russian president Alexander Lukashenko he was trying to explain this very complicated story from his side so the bell russian government claims that this was a failed attempt by Maria Kolesnikov a to flee the country trying to get into ukraine but then again allegedly she was thrown out of the car and the belorussian authorities had to detain her because she was in between the Ukrainian Border checkpoint and the bell russian border checkpoint which is apparently illegal but i can tell you that the bill russian opposition have their side of the story and they are providing a. Totally different version of events according to the antigovernment activists america lessening 1 of a with the 2 other men were abducted somewhere else in bel reuss and then were deliberately taken to the border to be kicked out of the country but in order for that not to happen Maria Kolesnik allegedly decided to tear up her passport and that made it impossible for her to go through the border to get into ukraine although as far as i understand the other men were able to enter ukraine the bell russian president saying that they are now detained there but like ive said connection with all these activists house been lost so again a very complicated story but what i can tell you is that the reaction from europe house been simple they do not trust the bell russian government and without hearing their side of the story they decided to come out with threats and here is one example of that. It is clear that the. Continued to intimidate or allow intimidation of its citizens in increasingly lawless way and crudely violate both their own domestic laws and international obligations. Now just gone back to that interview with the bell russian president mr lucas shank oh i can tell you that there was a lot to talk about of course and soon that conversation will be available on r t stay tuned for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with Maria Kolesnik of our and her fellow opposition activists yeah absolutely that interview is going to shed some light hopefully on whats been quite a confusing story there thanks for bringing us the latest. Socalled spirits and car for attacks against police in the u. K. Are on the rise suspects are said to be taking advantage of the current fear of covert contamination with some officers claiming they can no longer properly carry out their duties. Accordingly enough that they are thank you. The rise in assaults has huge impacts on staff 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 in the county of leicestershire the number of such attacks doubled during lockdown more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months thats up from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year now its not just spears and cough attacks assaults on police a shooting up across the board in fact theres been a 21 percent jump on attacks on British Police almost 8000. 00 cases registered of former Police Officer peter cook and says the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon against law enforcement. Kogut epidemic has provided its. Another why of people who would Assault Police by whatever method is available and other d why for them to get in into into offices. In a way that they feel will be more impactive just at the moment. Its just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting spitting coughing officers that were seeing with the covert epidemic and the problem is that decades 10 years of an anti Police Narrative by the governments gleefully repeated by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just if i believe so. The police have been criticized to every turn a symptom of a problem this country has had developing for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both number and in severity. The Global Pandemic has been described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix its profits have surged during locked out of the companys not alone all major tech players are vastly increased their earnings in the last few months alisons revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost 90000000000. 00 apple reported an 11 percent increase to almost 60000000000. 00 meanwhile streaming services have doubled subscribers in just 3 months while such huge profits havent gone unnoticed that you use look introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say such firms should subsidize economies crippled by locked elves. 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 thaw getting tech giants is just the 1st step to the raising rights for all big corporations 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 if thats what a little take the 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. The majority of British State doctors are considering quitting over the governments handling of the pandemic and a shocking new poll the president of the Doctors Association says issues have been building for a long time. I think what you have 0 is that our n. H. S. Colleagues have been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them have demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our workforce including absolutely ruinous Junior Doctor contracts changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months or a year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions tax crisis which has forced many of our most senior an experienced experienced oxys interest high and all of this was prior to us going into an National Crisis almost 2000 doctors took part in the survey 2 in 3 say than are more likely to leave the National Health service through to the poor treatment from the government during the coburg 19 responds the most to get out within 3 years not poor working conditions were high on the list of complaints the main reasons cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment as well are those note theyve been gagged from speaking publicly about concerns and medics are also warning may have had promised benefits revoked but also working on the front lines had a major impact on mental health. Ever since weve had in may depend demi and weve had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling weve been separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone last month it wasnt too long ago that we were talking about. Surviving on charitable donations and food but how to stop just because it came and just pretty crap we deserve back as a profession and a home and it has to serve better and that was what stage that was really me well the government insists its 3 percent pyros offer is good enough Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the difficult winter period. We know that the n. H. S. Was very much understaffed and under resourced going into this pandemic and i have no doubt that impacted on our ability to combat this virus we had 10000 vacancies forward doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for a front line and its our stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans to lisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more of a worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd said may be coming within the u. K. So what were asking is that the government considers the hard work of those true key kids within the n. H. S. They show them how much theyre valued and they greedier carted them to retain them in the n. H. S. Especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the u. K. Drug related crime has been on the increase in sweden during the pandemic to fight back police there want to expand wiretapping to everyone in the deck to 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. At the moment swedish law only allows the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison to be tapped the proposed changes would permit eavesdropping on those not under any specific suspicion horrific crimes of shock Swedish Society lately a 12 Year Old Girl was killed recently after being caught and mafia crossfire citizens though are divided over whether wiretapping everyone is the solution. I think it is good that the police have increased opportunities to catch these criminal gangs for arranging 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 is too big a step to take this should be special reasons to eavesdrop on someone they dont see the risk for ordinary private individuals being 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 water ploys 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 a large part of the population and be able to stop some crime its nothing that bothers me a human rights expert told us wiretapping innocent citizens is not the arts are to growing gun crime. Well. Its. Reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this year we have in sweden about the same number of killings. Communities to create. Those we had kind of early last year and also in the year previous to that so the problems here is how are we are not pretty mad really in my opinion the minister the d. C. The leader the sort of the relation. Relation which comprises device maturity of the rinse and sweden. And that has nothing to do we agreed giving them behaviors on and on theyre going to have strained to deny the seal or. Community and wont even. 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