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Their good morning from russia just now here this thursday the 10th of september 1 is kevin 0 in l a t h q moscow with a brand new rounder for you starting with this the plot thickens alexina vel knees mystery illness than with russian experts noting the symptoms are inconsistent with novacek german media citing unnamed sources claim the russian politician fell victim to a new version of a soviet era poison but ignoring moscows calls though to share the medical data it seems passing the test results to Global Chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. W. Instead. The test results have been handed over to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons russia is a member of this organization or the diplomatic spat between perlin and moscow is heating up over what happened to alexina valmy the german ambassador to russia was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in moscow and what cheese heard how russia is far from happy and what it sees as accusations coming towards it about the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny a strong protest was made to the ambassador over the unfounded accusations presented by the government of the federal republic of germany against russia in the context of the illness and hospitalisation of russian citizen alexina of only and the obvious use of his situation by berlin as an excuse to discredit our country on the International Arena the g 7 leaders have also issued a joint statement in which they talk about the confident poisoning of alexina folly the statement also calls up for action from moscow the russian Foreign Ministry not particularly happy with that they say that the main obstacle towards action being taken by moscow remains germany not sharing the information it says shows annex alexina valley was poisoned with a nerve agent with russia this morning to all our requests berlin has not deemed it possible to respond swiftly and constructively a lack of information prevents the laura foresman from using all the necessary procedural mechanisms to find out whats happened and the rounding this case is growing stronger. Made those requests for information sharing back on the 27th of august and russia is unlikely to be very happy that this info is going to be passed to the o. P. C. W previously moscow it said the should the hague based group be involved in this it would amount to little more than any Information Campaign from the german government. As for the smaller fresh crackdown on the better resources ition sees 2 more high profile figures detained leaving the groups governing body with just one recognized leader at the moment meantime hundreds of women have rallied in support of another opposition figure elderly or Maria Kolesnik over dozens were reportedly arrested at the protest. Ah. The. Demonstrators held banners and chanted slogans that request a coach is the hero police tried to disperse the protesters when that failed they started to make arrests. For the unpleasant scenes lets go the men scored his have a smaller warning to bring us up to date on whats been happening there in belarus than overnight. Well there seems to be very little give in either side. Determined to hold on to power to preserve the system and the government in the state that he has built over the many years that he has ruled the protesters completely unborn that by the increasingly heavy hand of the law and let me tell you police and Security Services are getting very good at breaking breaking up these protests yesterday there was a spontaneous demonstration that broke out not 10 minutes away from us by the time we got there it was over so big men wearing unmarked uniforms intimidating men driving unmarked vans pulled up quickly seized and tied up everyone and it was over in a matter of minutes as i say police are getting very good at breaking up these protests and you know there seems to be very little chance of completely ending them ending the demonstrations. d the protesters to the to the will of the state bring them to heel so police seemingly have elected to least contain them to the weekends to saturday to sunday when we can expect to see tens of thousands of people out in the sheet of course breathing new life into these protests this the arrest of a Maria Kolesnik of a prominent and somewhat popular leader of the opposition a member of the socalled Coordination Council which are at various times has stated that that. Different bills a transition of power just securing new elections nevertheless she has now been arrested and she is being charged with of attempt to unlawfully seize power something that carries a penalty of 3 to 5 years but a father told us that you know this is the girl that he raised. On the whole i reported to police my daughters disappearance because there was already a video on the internet and the words there were witness that unknown people pushed marie into a van and took her away was almost all there was on the internet i had been saying to you maybe youd better leave delivers she always replies to me that she would stay until the bitter end and i didnt mind because i know her character and her responsibility. According to the official version of events from said you know stated by lucas she tried to free to ukraine an unlawful attempt to flee into ukraine she was caught she was arrested she whipped up her passport and that was that she is now being charged but theres been something of a pattern in recent days of opposition figures all apparently of their own volition if you are. Trying to flee the country trying to escape if you ask the opposition theres been a completely different version of events they say that they are being forced out psychologically pressured and literally forced out of the country driven to the border by Security Services and told to scrap in fact the only opposition member prominent member of the opposition Coordination Council is from atlanta alexiev its an elderly woman d very very well known belorussian a new book of prize winner and she is now in her apartment in new data surrounded by foreign diplomats for example the swedish swedish diplomat people who have gathered together to form a sort of human shield around had to discourage Security Services and police from trying to arrest her as fur Maria Kolesnikov or as i said she now faces 3 to 5 years in jail for an attempted an attempt to seize power by and awful means. The investigation has brought proof that some people from the socalled Coordination Council have committed actions aimed at destabilizing the situation in better roost and harming National Security Maria Kolesnikov a has been arrested currently all circumstances in the criminal case now being established. As i said there is almost no give in either side both booth are determined to stay the course of the situation is now on the knife said all itll take all itll take is a push a tiny spark to set this student a box alight and if that happens if that happens this file will have a good day. Well the. Protests and violence in the country presently schank yes they spoke to Russian Media including r. T. He claimed most demonstrators he said were drunk or otherwise disorderly forcing police to arrest them were going to have the most newsworthy bits of his interview in about 2 hours time but here is words in full on our website as well if you want to catch it in full it was a long interview one hour 47 minutes in fact. Beyond the protocol and the leash drunk and high protestors they made up 60 percent but they rushed our guys riot police and of course they responded and of course some others were caught in between but it wasnt the riot police there were no riot police at the Detention Center but all the criticism was directed against them. Next to major plot twists coming to the oscars we can report after years of criticism over a lack of diversity now any film hoping to bag the best picture going from 2025 is going to have to be to inclusion standards one of the main characters or a supporting significant character must be a person of color at least 30 percent of the whole cast should be from an under represented group at least 2 off screen leadership positions and 30 percent of crew jobs must also go to under represented people has to be similar representation in the films publicists the marketing and distribution teams to comes on claims that the ceremonies are overwhelmingly white weve heard that put forth before a lot of times of late we put the new diversity rules and up for debate see what people thought about it. You take a look around the world and you realize that for the most part. African American People terms with women leads minority leads are not given awards at the same rate and that only 15 people of color have received Academy Awards only 9 people hispanic people have received can in their words realize that there is just a cultural bias that exists and so in order to correct that we have to come in and address the issue of what the represent function is and so even if we have to mandate those numbers its just whats necessary if you go through history a lot of things that have been under represented on the shirt new people of ages. People of different looks in weeks for you to mandate whether selfimposed or my legislation but a mandate sure require me a certain number of people based upon demographics is sheer. Lunacy and an industry that is right now. Im so glad lytle brought up the word lunacy because heres the work heres the truth of the matter we continue to do what we always sent will always get the same result weve always gotten and why do we know we know for a fact that the grammys im sorry the oscars and other cultural organizations have consistently shown year in year out that they do not have the knack for being inclusive they do not without any type of coercion or force whether its internal or external they do not consider people that dont look like the end in 2020 were deciding that we want to get a little crazy and were going to follow the path looking into how we can include more people who have typically read on the outside thats not a negative then guess what a firm that has done that is not harming the iranian inequality how can work. That is not the role of hollywood let me explain something to you if there is a good role with good especially today irrespective of Sexual Identity kishen whether its color if its good its going to work this is not title 19 this is an education this isnt you kid forrest affirmative action i guess unless you want to unless you want to just say no lets see what can i ruin now does adding a woman of color just adding a mind a person whos been from a marginalized community does that take away something from the creation of the film because films unlike what aso creations are not just the concepts of one persons mark films are where we go to see the world around us when were imagining a future where were looking at the past and can you imagine if i would say you know what i think we need to have more of a representation so im going to force a bunch of but people by virtue of their color into the n. B. A. Or or or here or hip hop because i want to see more of the ballads oh theres no guarantee of equality in music thats the way it is so if its good its good and if its good itll sell and or. Rising covert cases among young people in britain is causing special concern right now sparking strict new measures the Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he had no choice. Im sorry about that and i wish that we did norte have to take this step but as your Prime Minister i must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives so then a key measures banning gatherings of more than 6 people including indoors Rule Breakers are going to be fined secure covert events and large households are exceptions as well as work in education settings k. Partridge for tees got more. Its all about a rise a sharp rise in coronavirus cases theyre sharply on the rise while the governments chief medical advisor chris witty he was also on there with the Prime Minister as well he said that the cases that come up rapidly over the last few days even and the rates are going up in a certain age group as well its among the young people and that has been stately rising since the middle of august position leaders like here star but he also had a few sharp words to say about the governments the u. K. s test entry system and he said that it was on the verge of collapse what were seeing now is stories over the past few days that is showing that just the regime is on the verge of collapse heartbreaking stories from people who needed to been told no tests are available or the website is crashing or people are being told to go miles and miles for a test nobody can argue that this is Good Governance well this comes in due to the fact that the government would claim that theyre ramping up testing that its more widely available now than ever in fact more tests are being conducted in the u. K. Than across the whole of europe but at the same time as well theres also been a survey conducted amongst medics about how they feel about having to deal on the front line with coronavirus and all of those 69 percent say theyre more likely to quit from the pandemic and government treatment leaving 1143 planning to leave the n. H. S. At the end of it basically were looking at medics who think theyre on the edge of burnout well the scientific basis for all of these measures that was highlighted by the chief medical advisor so chris witty early on if you use the example of spain amongst other European Countries he said that there had been a sharp rise there but if you implement measures to combat that then you can prevent a long theyve been anticipating a 2nd wave. Or 2 of the morning thursday morning here in moscow thank you for taking the time to watch rugby days going good this is coming up the french president sunder fire for taking off his mask with students just as the countrys laws the practice in public reaction to the more. The a lot of misinformation amongst these new traders these robida traders they thought they were getting free sharer somehow and its really fascinating to see really learning curve amongst teenagers and 20 somethings about how stock markets work and you know experience is a great teacher and that means losing a lot of money but thats also a very good teacher. This is about International Good morning 37000000 people have been forced to flee their home in washingtons war on terror in the middle east thats quote a very conservative estimate it is the finding of the cost of war project by Brown University in the us becomes the donald trump avails pentagon personnel cuts in iraq the country where civilians have suffered most. Reports. The election is just 2 months away donald trump is now trying to create an image of himself as being a peace loving leader it has been announced that u. S. Troops will be withdrawn from iraq in september in recognition of the great progress the iraqi forces have made and in consultation and coordination with the government of iraq and our Coalition Partners the United States has decided to reduce our troop presence in iraq from about 52023000 troops now the u. S. Military presence in afghanistan is possibly going to be reduced as well down to roughly 4500 troops donald trump seems to be fulfilling one of the Campaign Promises of 2016 amid the lead up to the 2020 vote however this comes in the aftermath of a series of controversial news stories which donald trump is accused of criticizing the military not saying the military is in love with me the soldiers are the top people in the pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those Wonderful Companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make Everything Else stay happy drawing down the number of u. S. Troops in the region will probably ease tensions but the United States will be maintaining somewhat of a presence in the middle east especially with the ongoing tensions with iran i think its part of the larger strategy on the part of the Trump Administration to have less less presence in individual countries and more in peripheral countries in the region in order to avoid certain attacks that seem to be occurring as well as what basically drove u. S. Troops out of a base and in iraq i dont think youre going to see u. S. Troops in a training or advisory role completely out and if they do come out there will be a substitute im sure private military contractors trump a spelling to take into account the real. Total cost of these military adventures from the United States according to 1. 00 study 37000000. 00 people have been displaced since 2001 as a result of the u. S. War on terror and that is a minimum asked of it because. Unless wars there are so many politicians in america almost all of them have been complicit we have simply put a weapons based economy and we forget about immoral in just being close to a 1000000 and a half people were killed or the people who are displaced at 37000000 people or in fact that weve completely broken no and destroyed effort. But in the upcoming u. S. President ial election its not really clear if these numbers will matter and will have an impact on the vote that determines whether or not donald trump stays in the white house a lot martin artsy new york its 22 past 8 if you watching the clock picking up on a story we brought you yesterday more sad developments but these pitches all range clothes from some of the worst ever wildfires on the west coast of the u. S. 6 people including 2 children reportedly killed on wednesday in all that more than 2000000 acres have been destroyed in the blaze and the fire season continues. And elsewhere the aftermath fires destroyed europes largest refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos footage shows whats left after the blaze not very much its left nearly 13000 people without shelter after Everything Else had to go through. French president emanuel mccrone is under fire for removing his face mask at a meeting with students just as the country outlaws not wearing what in public to make things worse he then started to cough causing panic looks. The president coughs outside of his mines constrictors out his hand to take and return a glass of water straight after no jail no hand washing what can we hope for back wrong cant stand the fabric masks which is sparingly distributed to teachers however he only spoke for 5 minutes with his what it teaches have to say youre forced to speak with one sometimes for 8 hours per day that the president is laughing at the world what are we expecting that the video to be broadcasted schools will be saying that should not be done. But just as from the world brace for a 2nd wave of the pandemic while skeptics are rallying up to show the next that reporting on the political headache of the rising masked movement. Masks are just a look around on the streets of paris everywhere people are following the rules but what if youre one of those people who has questioned the whole idea of wearing a mask all effective do they prevent the transmission of 19 and what if youre one of those people who doesnt just question this in private but has actually gone to a protest about that attack on germanys democracy protesters from a demo against the countrys coronavirus restrictions try to storm the german parliament. This is how the mainstream media. And she locked down protesters has spent the afternoon terrorizing police in proceeding marches are ready to go by they will be made of people. People who think the coronavirus does not exist you know everybody. Thats been backed up it seems a study conducted via facebook carried out by the foundation it found that the typical anti mascot here in france is a woman in her fiftys shes educated and supports the yellow vests shed refused to have a corona virus vaccine if it was available and she believes in conspiracy theories probably has been the most politicized. In the may control and i think its because it has a different meaning and between the politicians and the scientific i would learn d a lot of confusion among the general public but when it comes to more dig a bit deeper and you find that 3 of the 4 main reasons that respect. They gave to objecting to wearing them were not perhaps im totally unreasonable. They were mosques was breathing difficulties well while of course you can breathe while wearing a mask some people have complained that when its hot out all theyve stepped up the pace wearing a mask isnt the most comfortable or experiences to they are a hive of bacteria well yes there is bacteria all around us and thats why its recommended to wash masks regularly or change them 3 they are useless in preventing 19 contamination. Is perhaps to live on this one i say that as there is still no consensus that a governmental level here in europe as to whether 6 or not race mosques are an essential to in cotton batting the spread of 19 so while in france and germany for example why did usage of facemasks has been recommended or made obligatory in the netherlands that was short trial of mask wearing in busy cities was carried out since ended while the dutch study their effect if this sweden of course went totally against the grain of the countrys top epidemiologist threw his weight behind the new mask policy saying this is very dangerous to believe facemasks would change the game when it comes to. Even the w h which made a u. Turn and is now recommending face masks says this we still dont know how much protective value fabric must have for the wearer thats why when you wear a mask youre protecting others and when others where the master protecting you were still in the midst of the pandemic in the past several months the medical and the scientific advice has been a constant. Merry go round so is it so unreasonable that some People Choose to question more i think because of the conflict of conflicting statements from politician and from the World Health Organization as well as from the Scientific Community quite a bit of confusion and uncertainty is in the general public and that led to some not only distrust but also a bit of flaring up in the journal. And that has i think probably primarily contributed into a more aggressive d to work by aggressive behavior toward the Face Covering is so much in for those just saying to the guys in the gallery what here is peter thought a year ago youd say corresponds with masks on anyway stay safe out there thank you for watching our channel im kevin i would check in r. T. As well if you get a minute for any news as it happens throughout the day. The world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal those great. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. A new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich heres the good. As they are by those that work children are torn between gold. My family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. 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