British police doubled during the covert health crisis. How low choose to attend an evening here in moscow good to have you with us for this hour as world news update from r. C. International 1st for you this hour alexina valmy could not have survived if he had been poisoned with novacek the claim of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he fell severely ill 2 weeks ago peter all of us the details the doctors the 1st try to lex in the valley when his plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing with him in clear distress you was making his way from siberia to moscow he didnt make it there the plane landed in 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 know the. Agent they say that had he been 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 their german colleagues they now saying the time has come for their german colleagues to share the data that they have that claim that it is that he was poisoned with this nerve agent. Of 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 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 have been 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 in 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 Friedrich Metz who is a man who has a pretty good chance of being until a miracle successor when she steps down as joe. Chancellor next year he said that. 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 pan european 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 tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do go with us i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not. I think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening no could have an impact on the projects the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong to rule that out the german side have 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 russian side 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 marias account 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 both 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 obvious to everyone that the n is bluffing in the interest and due to political racket well Alexei Navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on mondays understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition were told isnt life threatening anymore ill just mention the north stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations Donald Trumps repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia but others supportive of that i was the 1st one of the worst up you know heard of the north stream to absorb drug able when i came along i said wait a minute were projecting germany from russia. Or russias foreign ministries weighed in on that side of the route claiming that europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washingtons puppet german political commentator ica him or believe berlin would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on north stream. 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 he wants American Business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on many possibilities from poland because d if the gas pipeline 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 this is exactly what the americans with the polish partner once. High profile member of the opposition in belarus has been arrested on the border with ukraine and follows claims Maria Kolesnikov a had been kidnapped by been a Russian Security officials people have been protesting on the streets of minsk over kolesnikov as the rest crowds again waving the symbolic white or red flag of the opposition and chanting let her go and put claiming kolesnikov a hero however there are differing versions of the events that led to the arrest more on that next from arties healy of the trunk of. Bella is in turmoil after the election one 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 reports 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 on tuesday russian officials began saying that the authorities had to detain Maria Kolesnikov our as she was trying to escape the country through belle reve his southern border with ukraine because she broke the law while trying to do that 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 so im going to were just out there on it could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov or where is she. I probably cannot give you much detail due to the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends who were 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 between these posts they were 8 to 9 kilometers and that 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 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 hands 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 Ukrainian Border through the ukrainian post and then as far as im now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so that they returned them to us. Before they left they relatively speaking were released from booth you know they could not be detained they traveled 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 is. Self is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post in here to 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 or lithuania not hungry as they usually go to someones relatives decided to leave them i cannot claim so i dont know everything yet that is what she was detained when we lost the Ukrainian Border goes to return the others to our country we will investigate what happened so just let me repeat these were the latest updates from the bell russian leader Alexander Lukashenko who was trying to explain this very complicated story from the side of the bell russian government so once again the bell russian authorities are calling this an attempt to flee the country by Maria Kolesnikov after she was thrown out of the vehicle and theyre saying that the people inside the vehicle were not following the orders by the Border Guards but i can tell you that the bill russian opposition have their side of the story and they are providing. Totally different version of events according to the antigovernment activists america lessening of what the 2 other men were abducted somewhere else in belarus 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 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 has been lost so again a very complicated story but what i can tell you is that the reaction from europe house has 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 our own domestic laws and International Obligations now just gone back to that interview with the bell russian president mr look at 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 tune for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with Maria Kolesnik of and her fellow opposition activists. Next physical assault on British Police officers known as spit and cough attacks are on the rise with suspects said to be taking advantage of fears of covert contamination. According to intervene yeah they are there areas. Because 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 on the county of leicestershire alone the number of attacks doubled during lockdown more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months not from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year but its not just spit and cough attacks assaults the shooting up across the board in fact theres been a 21 percent jump in attacks on British Police during the lockdowns almost 8000 cases were registered former London Police officer Peter Kirkham says that the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon against the authorities. As provides its. No of the why of people who would assault place by whatever method is available another why for them to get in into into offices. In a why they feel will be more impact if just at the moment. Is just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting or spitting coughing offices that were seeing with the covert epidemic and the problem is the 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 to follow every sound. The place of being criticised to every turn a symptom of a problem this country has had developing for some time which is the sack someplace are growing rapidly in both number and in severity. Just coming up to 60 minutes past 10 here in moscow plenty ahead here on our tape the worlds tech giants are making bumper profits out of the pandemic and the e. U. Wants its slice of the pie well take you for that among our stories after the break. Lets say im a. Response to the fight. Thank you for. The story thats right it. Seems wrong. To shape out. Active. And engaged in. The trail. Find themselves worlds apart. To look for common ground. 0 again next up the Global Pandemic speed described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix profits surged during lockdowns and that company is not alone either all the major tech plays a vastly increased their earnings in the last few months. Revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent almost 90000000000. 00 apple reported in the 11 percent increase to 60000000000. 00 meanwhile streaming services have doubled their Subscriber Base in just 3 months but such huge profits have not gone unnoticed the a u is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say such firm should subsidize economies that are crippled by locked down. 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 finn and of the wedge who says economics professor Richard Wolfe he believes that targeting tech giants is just the 1st step to raising rates for all big corporations i think youve 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 polls found that a majority of British StateHealth Service doctors are considering quitting over the governments handling of the pandemic but the president of the u. K. s Doctors Association says the issue has been building for a long time. I think what you have 0 is are and it has clearly been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them ham demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our workforce including absolutely ruinous junior toxic 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 inexperience experienced oxes interest high and all of this was prior to us going into a National Crisis over 700 doctors took part in that survey in 2 out of 3 of them say theyre now likely to leave the national Health Service due to the portree when they receive from the government during the covert response most of them plan to get out within the next 3 years with poor working conditions being high on the list of doctors complaint the main reason is more specifically for considering quitting or a lack of pay rises and also a lack of protective equipment others know that they have been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics though of also warned that promised benefits have been revoked and also working on the covert front line as had a major impact on doctors mental health. Because he since weve had him a different demick and weve had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling weve been separate for 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 well it wasnt too long ago that we were talking about marriage if he were surviving on charitable donations and fair trying to have a stop just because curry good came and just pretty crap we deserve back a profession and a home and a tax to serve better and that was what today is about and that was really important to me a digging in the government insists that 3 percent pay rise offer is good enough the Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the upcoming difficult winter period. We know that the n. H. S. Was very much understaffed and underresourced going into this. I have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this fire s. We had 10000 vacancies forward doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for the front line and its for stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors need 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 seringe may be coming within the u. K. So what were asking is that the government considers the hard work of those troops within the n. H. S. They show them how much their needs and their greedy are carted them to retain them in the n. H. S. Especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the u. K. Gang related crime has been on the increase in sweden during. Pandemic and to fight back police there want to expand wiretapping to everyone 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 lets things stand swedish law reading aloud to the phones of suspects facing at least 2 years in prison to be tapped for the proposed changes would permit eavesdropping on those not under any specific suspicion or if a gang crimes of shocks we do society lately a 12 Year Old Girl was killed recently after being caught in mafia crossfire but citizens are divided over whether wiretapping everyone is the right 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 is 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 a large part of the population and be able to stop some crime its nothing that bothers me here and right experts told us that wiretapping innocent civilians is not the answer to growing gun crime. Well you know. 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 entirely bias here and also or in the year previous to that so the problems here probably are not pretty matter really in my opinion. This you believe or at least a little relation its a population which comprises device majority of the rents in sweden. And that has nothing to do with. Greed given their behaviors on and on theyre going to strain to deny these you or. Your own community and wont be remembered. As for percent public stylistics where it needs to be of their perpetrator so we know and vitamin d. Would be. Continuing to wreak havoc in parts of california with the state currently entering a record heat wave 8 districts have now declared states of emergency as they battle the crisis. And thats it from us for now your tuesday kaiser report is moments away i hope you can join me back here in just over half an hour for your next r. T. Update for how they thanks for watching. Well the demick know certainly no border is just blind to nationalities. A summary. Of the facts seem. To. Judge a. Commentary crisis with this system things. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. Problem drugs dont always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the United States we see the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invited to america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer soon is to blame patients dont use manufacturers all the governments. I am x. Guys are this is the kaiser report. What does it mean to go orange. Space max we are going orange here on kaiser report that is the opposite of going dark were going to are making ourselves antifragile were making ourselves in me and to those who would censor and that includes going to our new handles mines dot com for its last Stacy Herbert and you can see that right here on the screen hopefully and then from max you go to mines dot com forward slash max kaiser its more resistant to censorship so you should check us out there oh yeah definitely we know youve got to stay agile and in the words of the of nasima or not seem to love depending on whether you want to process them correctly answered fragility would include a certain amount of agility and so we want to get off platforms that are prone to censorship and move toward the world of being on censored also of course this is 2020 and things are crazy and some great minds have been exiting the world speaking of minds but also speaking of nassim taleb he wrote a great tweet eulogizing david graber who was a friend of mine a friend of ours a friend of the show hes been on the show many times hes the author he was the author of debt the 1st 5000 years and i think nassim taleb who is an intellectual himself and a great author and you know thinker who explores ideas and is willing to be challenged just like david graber was wrote David Greenberger he was a real intellectual very real not one fake cell in his brain not one fake bone in his body