Hello from moscow this is r. T. International column break with headlines stories and reaction that were across for you this hour 1st the German Parliament has held a session dedicated recently emerged from a coma and several german politicians are calling for action to be taken against moscow our europe correspondent peter all of a watch across fiery debate in the in the strike on friday night with the majority of lawmakers pointing a finger of blame firmly at russia and the russian government for what happened to alexis there was some voices questioning the official German Government line but there werent many. If the kremlin really regrets the assassination attempt on alex in the valley and really wants to clear things up why does novell need such a level of protection from our Security Services political murder is part of the putin system. So not only are the russians supposed to have tried to poison an opponent of the regime with a military nerve agent but the put it in his tea why would the russian government be so stupid them and even let an avanti fly out to germany instead of hiding him in russia its absurd the north stream to gas pipeline project was a major factor in the debate the pipeline which would take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany well lawmakers fall into 3 camps when it comes to the Multi National multi 1000000000 euro Infrastructure Project there are those that say it needs to be halted immediately and perhaps canceled altogether there are those that want to wait and see how russia reacts and how this story develops and there are those saying that its simply too important economically and it must remain purely an economic project no matter what else is going on we have though you see heated debate over north stream both on the streets here in germany on friday night in the bundestag. By north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the German Government has repeatedly argued this by the war in syria just by the use of a chemical weapon insults bury the federal government is sending a message to the kremlin no matter what you do economic goals are more important to us than climate Protection Security policy and human rights. Demanding the immediate term a nation of north stream 2 is in my view or has to be in misguided reaction but it pleases those who have always opposed the project especially the greens. Well as germany continues to push russia for an explanation for what happened to alexei novelli the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said russia still waiting for information it requested from germany of its ago minute the german representative to the u. N. Said the date is no longer a matter of by last will relations between germany and russia but amounts for multilateral proceedings what kind of proceedings the germans are talking about they were unable to say in the interests of our german colleagues we urge them to provide all necessary information which might in any way should lights on absolutely unfounded accusations. Investigators in russia are of also being on the search for more Information Police in the city of tomsk which is where alexina valmy had been he was flying from top to moscow before his plane had to make an Emergency Landing in the city of squid the legs in a valley in extreme distress well placed in total skipping putting together a timeline of where he was in the lead up to him getting on that plane theyve placements in the valley in a hotel in a restaurant and a flat and in a coffee shop what they have also been going about doing is trying to interview those that were in close contact with alecks in the valley during his time in the city of tomsk police there say theyve been able to interview 5 of the 6 people that spent a lot of time with mr novelli they say the 6th person a woman is believed to have come here to germany. After. 6 of marina picher one of those who was with me in permanently resides in the United Kingdom on august 20 refused to give explanations according to the investigation on august 22nd of this year she flew to germany so it was not possible to get an explanation from her her location is currently being in stablished there are still lots of facts to come to light in the case of what happened to alexa in the valley but as we search for those facts the diplomatic route between germany and russia continues to heat up germany says its passed on all its information on the election about the case to the Global Chemical weapons waterdog although russia which is a member of the go p c w says nothings been received yet meanwhile russias envoy to the un has responded to western calls for a full investigation. This fool uses them raise questions both lead the speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed. These leaders leads us to an unavoidable reply nicol question legions forced in search situations we want you to trace it the queen pods who wish to benefit from this the one that one if you demand explain the issues with defects on the table and well compare notes one should with the last elite gay sions uncorroborated by evidence even this is as you see beyond a reasonable stay with their thoughts of whom i stand to gain from many diplomatic crisis political analyst John Laughlin believes the north stream to pipeline provides an answer. Its immediately been joined with the north stream 2 gas pipeline project the germans who previously the german Political Class has previously supported the completion of the gas pipeline very strongly not least because germany doesnt have any other Energy Source and no major cracks are appearing in what was a consensus so the fact that the stream to gas pipeline has been immediately put into the equation into what should be a private Police Investigation shows who would benefit the answer is the american exporters of liquid natural gas and all those in europe who are determined and have been for many years and decades to drive a wedge between europe and russia for the not stream to gas pipeline is not just a symbol although its a very powerful one it is also a reality of bridging the divide between russia and europe and that is what the russian people in europe and in the United States do not want and thats why then of valley business is being immediately joined with north stream to. Theres to be a partial easing of the coronavirus restrictions in france the Prime Minister says the isolation time for people who test positive will be reduced from 14. 00 to 7. 00 days as despite a spike in cases with a record 10000 recorded on thursday bensky reports from paris. And with the scramble to get ahead of the curve the french government promised 1000000 tests would take place weekly by september and by hook or by crook it has succeeded in doing just that this is just one facility but people can get tested for cope with 19 so much so you get 20 new Testing Centers for the virus to open here in the paris region but the clamor for testing has caused other problems Testing Centers are apparently struggling to deal with the volume of people wanting to find out if they happen it. There are delays in getting access to the bored trees in queues at Testing Centers in paris and elsewhere right now its taking an average of 3 and a half days to get tested the French Health minister hitting on quite a Crucial Point to kill is like this which are not uncommon could contain some people who are infected and indeed contagious the person the symptoms and who may have been in contact with an infected individual has to be tested urgently they must not be turned away from a laboratory because there is no theyll ability we have to work amounts because its not acceptable to options today to get tested wait 7 days for an appointment in a lab or wait for hours and centrally on standing under the hot sun i tried the 2nd option but with a 39 degree fever i did not last long i called the labs of raw no places for 7 days plus 5 days to get the results or wait in line for 2 hours while sick and with no Energy Question is the test still relevant if done 7 days after symptoms start while standing in a queue for hours may be frustrating whats perhaps frustrating people even more are the delays in getting their results people are threatening to sue us because they missed their plane because of the delays in the tests we work like crazy and everyone is unhappy delays could also mean that even if you tested negative for 19 while waiting for the result you could have contracted it but this is not just a problem here in france across the English Channel they are also struggling the Health Minister there though has pointed the finger of blame on people who are symptomatic if you dont have. Unless youve been. A guy local authority is going to test youre not eligible for a test on the flip side some are suggesting. The volume of test taking place in countries like france even though more than a 1000000 a week still isnt enough they are doing 1000000. 00 per week thats not so much for a country of 67000000. 00 people and also what they are doing it personally so theres no logic theres no strategy and thats not good but if the laborious result already under the cosh wouldnt 10 times the number of tests cause even more of a headache there is a way around this Rapid Testing delivered in that than half an hour which is available at some pharmacies for a fee problem is these new tests the scene is being less reliable leaving some even more confused about what to do than ever so much even r. T. Paris. Thanks tony you countries have agreed to take in around 400 child refugees who were left without shelter when they come down on the greek island the facility held around 13000 migrants and greece is saying that the adults will have to remain on the island the greek Prime Minister has confirmed that the mori account will be rebuilt but i was met with my by protests from the former residents they marched towards the islands main town demanding the right to leave the last boss and head to other countries many auditors also got the migrants to move on. Trucks to block roads leading to the marina camps saying that they will prevent any rebuilding work e. U. Officials have called for urgent help for the refugees on last boss. Has to be immediate and collective. To provide shelter to those who need it and then to restore as soon as possible public order in the island. People in moria need help immediately the german Civil Protection service is traveling to greece the 1st delivery with aid will include tents and can bets to attend to the neediest the foreign ministries initially allocating 3000000. 00 euro the fire and more it has put the spotlight back on europes refugee influx for the 5 years since the start of the crisis the block has failed to agree on a common migration policy so that a new state of push for mandatory refugee quotas among all e. U. Nations but that idea has been flatly rejected by members including poland and hungary. This is r. T. On the way calls to ban a french feminist book on gender discrimination grounds is to a backfired well talk about that after the break. In this president ial election cycle both democrats and republicans claim to be tough on china but does that actually. What does the American Public really know about the china on this edition of the program the attempt to separate its. What weve been talking about tesla for you know a number of weeks a few months because it is a phenomenon and the point ive been making from day one is that its a me me me that as a market valuation at one point over 400000000000. 00 and it taps into people who trade means and these are generations and the millennia old long the rabbit of apps and other forms and me no fundamental value theres nothing there its just its a murmur ation like starlings in the sky they congregate and then they disperse. Welcome back an obscure feminist book with a small print run has received a surprise publicist. Software government advisor co for it to be found an advisor to the gender Equality Ministry said that the title i hate men went too far. This book is obviously an ode to misandry which is clear from the summary in the title i would like to remind you that incitement to hatred on the basis of gender is a criminal offense this man works for the secretary of state for gender equality Whose Mission is to do something about Sexual Assault and rape it seems outrageous that she was more concerned about censoring a small feminist book than doing his job of the books publisher wants to graph responded saying the allegations of inciting hatred are ridiculous and the author of 25 year old activist from neil says that her work encourages female readers to take less account of the often unsupported opinions of men and to rediscover the strengths of female relationships and the initial print run of a man was just 500. 00 copies but after all the publicist say more than 2000 copies were sold its now out of stock we asked a few people in paris what they think of the title. We discuss the behavior at appearance of women every day and nobody even pays any attention so for once there is something directed at men and i guess we can deal with it i think we should not stop at the touch of the book we have to go beyond that and read it and find out why she rolled that was behind it. Women i hate them i could easily write a book like that because i have plenty of bad experiences in my love life have been left many times or had problems with my mother we really have to distinguish between what is literary what is an expression of a personal opinion. I discussing it with us next in paris another day of ok is an actress and author also catherine blakelock is the founder of the brakes a party joining us from Eastern England both and welcome to r. T. 1st of all melody if i could ask you we are in century times people are very easily triggered was it wise to call a book i hate men. For business book provocation to get me to a new way of thinking to deconstruct. And so for me pauline are marcia. She is married to a man so i think that is the ideal procreative ideal of this title is more about what the 3 arche as made about male in general she doesnt 8 all men you know like i age you when you when you its more about. The idea of men and about some behaviors and all the construction so sure historic all political. Catherine in terms of just the title as far as i understand this particular advisor to the gender Equality Ministry at any read the title hadnt even read the book sounds remarkably oversensitive and skinned for somebody in that position. Well i think theres 2 separate issues here i mean the 1st issue is the freedom of speech issue you know ari i believe in i do not believe in hate laws and i think shes perfectly justified but likewise you could as some one of your other people said you know i hate women i hate muslims i hate anybody i hate people i hate children you know these are be very incendiary but the point is that you know i dont believe that it helps a tool as we see it in this case to ban things the 2nd issue of course is the context of the book i havent read the book but i believe according to the telegraph in the u. K. That he also said this through loading this myth is both natural and logical i mean this is a unbelievably extreme minority position the majority of women love men like men and who joins you men like women not all the time not all women women can also be be very unpleasant very difficult as can men but this is a terribly minority position the mint josey of women and men do not think like this did you think the authors probably learning the hard way about being a bit more careful with words admittedly shed only written this as an essay for her blog followers and her friends it was only supposed to have a very tiny limited print run its absolutely gone astronomical now do you think shes learned the hard way about how she should be phrasing her arguments. Thore can you repeat do you think the author who initially had only written this book for a few 100 people but now that its got so much publicity were talking about it on Global Television do you think the author is learning a tough lesson in how to phrase her arguments maybe a little better in future. I dont think so because you know. What we call him ism for me is really in this is very necessary story and. To change. And to make the revolution and i think. She didnt expect such a huge success but. Its the way to change things and to make the revolution and she and. I read the book in blogger and she is. You know in their. Reflection and the way she think so. For me its. Just a new way and maybe. She opened them thing about thinking like that to women too. To think together you know because for me the title and all she describe in the book its about. 8 by 3 are key and so are to you now. Yes they are put together woman you know 2 of them seem to ate together and not and no more to say that themselves or to be jealous or you know because. This is a problem as well with a battery arche. Thats the key puts womans against. Sorry for my english but hey you. Got the point on a day i want to ask catherine do you not think that this government advisor has largely proved to this new young office point that. There are powerful men for want to silence womens voices you know not a tool i think if hed written i hate muslims that would have been exactly the same in fact if she had just written a title i hate muslims she and the publishers would probably be in jail and in court. I think shes done very well out of it the fact that shes getting published utah but i mean the idea that you should hate mail most people should hate me and i dont think its about the patriarchy and as as douglas marvie a very famous although here wrote i mean it is quite ironic when women have basically treated in all sorts of spears in this country and entranced compared to say a country like afghanistan or pakistan in those countries women really are oppressed in the western culture is you have radical feminists saying that they hate men and that everything is so terrible when in fact theyve probably got it the best that theyve ever had it and a lot of and you know men and women are just different and people have to accept that and its a very my knowledge the number of men who great people women and its a very minority number of people who have this view about hating the opposite sex. Militant france does go further than many other countries in up holding free speech present mccrone recently spoke about the Charlie Hebdo massacre saying french citizens have the right to blasphemy missed the danger of sometimes that. Noble promise can be exploited by people with views that maybe the majority or certain vulnerable perceptions of a community. Can feel sort of intimidated by that is get exploited those free speech laws and fronts. And he did it by you what do french speech free speech laws in france get exploited. So i had in. France goes further than many other countries in terms of trying to defend free speech do you find publications magazines posters or even internet postings sometimes exploit that by going too far are. Yes and no because they use that because they are their right to do that but for me. Right they can take to express themselves and yes to go in there white way because going through there you go further into you question and you. In this 10 things you didnt before so we have the provocation they do we can think. Differently and go through during the reflection and so d in the freedom and on human rights in feminism in all that you know so as far as this book is concerned theres no such thing as bad publicity im going to leave it to melody katherine really appreciate your time marty thanks for joining us. Thank you. Max microsoft is accusing china russia and iran of trying to meddle in the upcoming us president ial election a report from the tech giant says both the trump and biden campaigns have been subjected to unsuccessful Cyber Attacks from those countries all 3 have repeatedly denied any such interference is credible but explained. Now the report from microsoft accuses russia china and iran of somehow interfering in the us elections via alleged computer hacks that are said to have taken place all 3 countries have emphasized that these allegations are simply false they are not engaging in cyber hacking to try and hurt the u. S. Elections now russia emphasized that they have actually offered to cooperate with the United States regarding Cyber Security and the need to stop hacking and other threats to the country this is the response of both russia and china to claims of interference with them a bit of my goodness on numerous occasions we propose the americans different ways of handling these unfounded assertions of the american civil she has to work with us on these proposals but continue to just to end illegal interference in their internal affairs or the well you move without him and we dont have any interest in interfering in the United States elections microsoft should make such beast with accuse ations and direct china into this this has not stopped us media from were running wild with these allegations the election were getting closer with hackers who were in harder now escalating their attacks tied to the president ial race according to a new warning from microsoft so here we go again right. Except this time were not blindsided those hacks are believed to come from overseas russia china and iran its not surprising because weve had Intelligence Briefings and this kind of thing is probably happening now microsoft did not say how these quote unsuccessful attacks were intended to actually hurt the u. S. Electoral process no information was really given about what these hacks would have done if they had somehow succeeded this is what was said by the d. H. S. S. We are aware that microsoft to detected attempts to compromise email accounts of people and organizations associated with the upcoming election none are involved in maintaining or operate. Voting infrastructure and there was no identified impact on election systems 0 truth was offered to back up these allegations from microsoft and furthermore it is confirmed even by their own report that these alleged attacks have had 0 impact on the election so far. Ok thats it from the moscow newsroom this hour larry kings up next cell that have you and next world updates and a little of off an hour from that i just get that. I refuse to be on the side of people who want to take guns and kill each other i want to stand up intellectuals are always there and i think its there although no to violence no to bloodshed yes to think. Less. More like. New gold rush is underway and gun thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich is a good. Day over those that love children a tool in between gone. From me was very poor i thought i was doing my best not to screw with which side will have the strongest appeal. Larry sabato founder of the sound of for politics at the university of virginia joins us with his crystal ball predictions for the fall on this issue the politics. Welcome to politicking on larry king trump and biden are ramping up their Campaign Efforts are some voters still casting ballots are some still undecided for this im joined by larry sabato founder and director of the center for politics at the university of virginia last month he launched a new live web series called some of those crystal ball America Votes he is in charlottesville. Larry Bob Woodwards book on trump is out and trump has admitted he knew how bad this was way back but he didnt want to scare anybody so my question is why did he talk against masks if he knew how bad it was you know january 1st when we were looking at the election i think trump was a substantial favorite to. The economy was great we werent at war people had got used to the way he was. He knew the pandemic was going to cause him he almost didnt he get in this is going to be a major