Police doubled during a covert health crisis. In brain moscow over this hours Headline News and reaction 1st for you this hour then alexina valmy could not have survived if hed been poisoned with. 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 a has the 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 bombs 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 did he was poisoned with this nerve agent. Of those when you might is not a diagnosis is 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 did because its a severe poisoning were going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexina 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 and 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 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 Friedrich Metz who is a man who has a pretty good chance of being angular merkel success so when she steps down as german 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 as i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not just of. I think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening know you could have an impact from the projects to 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 we for 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 obvious to everyone the burden 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 berlin receiving treatment at the shallot a hospital his condition were told isnt life threatening anymore. Its just mention the north stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations donald trump 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 able when i came along i said wait a minute were projecting germany from russia. And russias foreign ministries weighed in on that side of the road to claiming europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washingtons puppet german political commentator i could have a believes berlin would take a significant hit if they 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 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. A high profile member of the opposition and bella roosts has been arrested on the border with ukraine and foreigners claims that Maria Kolesnikov a have been kidnapped by been a Russian Security officials people have been protesting in the streets of minsk over come and thats because of rest crowds again waving the symbolic white red flag of the opposition and chanting let her go and proclaiming kolesnikov a hero however there are different versions of the events that led to the arrest more of that next from here to try and go. 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 of war 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 bell rufuss 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 i think that the only 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 are 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 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 return them to us. And what for they left they relatively speaking of were released from the truth 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 its. If 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 but someones relatives decide to leave them i cant claim so i dont know everything yet they thought she was detained and we all saw the ukrainian Border Guards 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 belorussian 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 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 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 their 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 tuned for that as well and surely we will also be following the situation with Maria Kolesnik and her fellow opposition activists. Physical assault on British Police officers known as spit and cough attacks are on the rise suspects are 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 the log down more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year but its not just spitting cough attacks assaults a shooting up across the border in the u. K. In fact theres been a 21 percent jump in attacks on British Police during the lockdown almost 8000. 00 cases have been registered for the London Police officer peter kirk and says the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon against the authorities. Has provided its. Another why of people who would assault place by whatever method is available another why for them to get in into into offices. In a way that they feel will be more impact if just at the moment. Its just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting 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 far beside. The place of being criticised to every turn a symptom of a problem this country has had developing for some time which is the sac someplace are growing rapidly in both number and in severity. The profits out of the pandemic and. Well take you through that after the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Dramatic. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical. You see. On the other side of the coin on covert now the Global Pandemic being described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix its profits of surge during lockdowns and that companys not alone either all the major tech players have vastly increased their earnings in the last few months 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 their Subscriber Base in just 3 months but these huge profits have not gone unnoticed the e. U. Is looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say firms like that should subsidize economies crippled by lockdowns. 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 could be the fender the wedge according to economics professor Richard Wolfe he believes that targeting the tech giants is just the 1st step in raising rates 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 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. Poll found that a majority of British State Health Service doctors are considering quitting over the governments handling of the pandemic of the president of the u. K. s Doctors Association says issues have been building for a long time. I think what you have 0 remember is that our and it has colleagues has been feeling burned 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 move every 6 months or a year around hospitals around the a and indeed the pensions tax crisis which has forced many of our most senior an experienced experienced oxes interest tyrant all of this was prior to us going into the end national concepts. Over 1700. 00 doctors took part in the survey 2 out of 3 of them say that theyre now more likely to leave the national Health Service due to poor treatment from the government during the coburg response most of them plan to get out within the next 3 years and its a poor working conditions that are high on the list of doctors complaints the main reason is more specifically for considering quitting were lack of pay rises and also a lack of protective equipment others noted that theyve been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns during the pandemic medics also saying the promised benefits have been revoked along the way also working on the covert front line has had a major effect on doctors mental health. Ever since weve had in many different demi and weve had b. C. Incredible times where people have been dying and struggling we feel 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. It wasnt too long ago that we were talking about nasa if you were surviving on charitable donations and food banks that have a stop just because crave it came in just as you perhaps we deserve back as a profession and your home in a tax to serve better and that was what state that was really me. And the government insists its 3 percent pay rise office is good enough and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the upcoming difficult winter period. We know that the n. H. S. Was very much understaffed and under resourced 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 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 that 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 there 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. Gang related crime has been on the increase in sweden during the pandemic 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. As things stand swedish law rarely allows 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 shock Swedish 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 these criminal gangs that are arranging freely in sweden to join the march for new ways to try can take them to court but i think a law that says the police can why its a private interviews or else is too big a step to take this should be special reasons to eavesdrop on someone they dont see the risk to 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 so 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 but 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 echoing some of those thoughts a human rights expert told us that wiretapping innocent citizens is not the answer to growing gun crime. Criminality is when its. Reasonable concern i mean the 1st time for this is we have in sweden about the same number of killings. There in Iraq Community secret and of those we had entirely bias here and also or in the year previous to so the problems here however are not pretty mannerly in my opinion the minister or the Civil Liberties of the population its a population which comprises device majority of the rents and sweden. And that has nothing to do we agreed given their behaviors on and on their going and have strained to deny the seal or. Community and wont even remember 3 times as for immediate 2 percent public study sticks where it needs city of the perpetrators of criminal and vitamin d. Its could be. For continuing to wreak havoc in parts of california with the state currently entering a wreck or heat wave a district have now declared states of emergency as they battle the crisis. And thats the way it looks from moscow this how thanks for watching ill have your next global update in just under 33 minutes from now to see them. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. The world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person or those. Thinks. We dare to ask. In europe people are taking to the streets to protest the lack of transparency in treaty negotiations such as the t. T. Ip treaty with the us and the seat a treaty with canada. 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