Troops die in a room. President ial hopeful joe biden fails to recall the country he infamously helped to send the u. S. Military back in 2000 and. 6 pm here in the capital whats your. Welcome to the program. Of the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for even more sanctions to be slapped on the russian response to the alleged assassination attempt against opposition figurehead alexina valmy Russias Foreign Ministry has responded by saying that many politicians in the block are all too happy to pass judgment before any due process has been conducted. Would consider any talks about how appropriate it would be to name the sanctions regime after the amounting to a brazen attempt to imbue the new era strictures with russian tendencies and all this comes as our office to build and to jointly investigate what happened id know what under some made a practice and the nature of the latest statements coming out of brussels makes us think that our western partners are not interested in establishing the truth we hope that common sense will prevail in the in the end and our partners will ditch the practice of arbitrarily attributing blame and will make conclusions based on real and confirmed fact going forward. More on todays vote in the European Parliament what it could mean. 532 m. E ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in a is asset freezes travel bans and other sanctions against those that are featured in Alexei Navalny zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexa an avanti when they talk about an International Probe thats including the United Nations the European Union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from u. S. It but tell the e. U. High representative for Foreign Affairs saying that wasnt within the remit of the e. U. Institutions to do he said it would be up to the individual Member States that are involved in the project if they were to council out call d it off block it in any way or just temporarily suspend it however we have heard from the e. U. Commission president saying now is the time for action and 2000 that advocates closer ties with russia. I say that the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. We have seen the pattern in georgia and in ukraine in syria and south ferry and then election meddling around the world and this pattern is not changing and no pipeline will change that well moscow is still saying burleson must share with them the evidence that is behind the claims Alexei Navalny was poisoned kremlin spokesperson dmitri press corps was also talking about nord stream too he says its a purely commercial project and shouldnt be tied to anything political or diplomatic thats ongoing. We strongly disagree with such a statement it seems a deliberate misunderstanding or an unconscious misunderstanding of what really happens to the patient in berlin it is necessary to stop mentioning north stream to in a political context which is a commercial project that is absolutely in line with the interests of russia and the countries of the European Union to cuba early germany it was a similar feeling from russias permanent representative to the European Union he said that the north stream to project came about because of the European Union and in particular germanys need for gas a commercial need for that gas that still exists and thats why in his opinion he thought the north stream to the pipeline would go ahead of being planned well alexina valley the man at the center of all of this in his alleged poisoning is said to be recovering in the hospital hes still being treated out here in berlin earlier this week we heard from the hospital saying that he was now able to leave his bed for short periods of time in german i mean pretty much so many in krakow took part in todays vote believe this is part of a greater brought against russia. No one of ticked off the members of parliament who today. Voted in favor of sanctions has seen any evidence. For a for a campaign or for a political way if you dont need that evidence at least not in the European Parliament so i dont expect that you get that evidence but the same people who say we dont give you the evidence will tell you we have we expect from russia to investigate it was absolutely clear that this is another chance to to push at the end russian agenda i followed that debate especially concerning all 3 and 2 in the European American parliamentary delegation are. Always when we meet ask the u. S. Ambassador wyden the illegal 3rd Party Sanctions and the answer is always the same our government to do everything it can to stop that project and if you have a clear goal to stop a project then you take every possibility you get to do so and of course that our Nuclear Incident occurred with missile or bonnie is such an opportunity to push the own again and so it was clear from the beginning that this chance would be used. As a session of the European Parliament also touched upon the situation in bellerive son of one of the disputed election but also welcomed position Council Reaction to that later in the program. Section of all news now conscious and recovering from his ordeal has been posted on instagram about his poisoning according to a new video on its accompanying text the walls of water with a trace of the novacek nerve agent were found in his hotel room in tomsk his colleagues say they took the bottle as evidence just an hour after the valleys poisoning. To life or joining me now on the shooter is our correspondent egos down off with the latest on this igor thanks for staying across the story what more can you tell us about this video of alis instagram well its certainly a very peculiar new piece of the puzzle that is definitely worth checking out in fact i think we can play this video for all of us right now this is it amateur footage shot in election of on his room according to his supporters about an hour after the russian opposition figure started showing the 1st symptoms of the poisoning and the 1st thing that jumps at the viewer is that all these people in the room normally it is advised to wear more protective gear to protect oneself from coal that this here they were potentially dealing with a military grade nerve agent and look at that only some of them wearing as much as late exe gloves many people in the room arent wearing anything and they are saying that at that time they were dealing with know the chalk one of the most deadliest nerve agents out there in the world and according to a post on election about Instagram Page they believe that through that bottle that was apparently latest with this agent never alexina vilely was poisoned have a look there was no specific hope of finding anything like that but since it was absolutely clear to us that the valley was not just slightly ill and didnt have heat stroke it was decided to stick everything that could be hypothetically useful in some way and pass it over to the doctors in germany 2 weeks later the German Laboratory found traces of novacek on the bottle from the tomsk room and then 2 more liberties that took tests from alexy confirms that novelli was poisoned with it now we understand this was done before he left his room to go to the airport. Now this video it does seems to raise more questions than provide answers 1st and foremost how that particular bottle and all the this evidence all these things were transferred from moscow to berlin there have been some unconfirmed reports that apparently a special rescue plane took all his belongings from that room to berlin and to the clinic onward to show the research is but also the very lot the very alleged plot that somebody planted this contagious and hazardous bottle in election of our newsroom it has so many holes in it and so many things can potentially go wrong for instance selection of only could simply choose not to drink from anything provided by the many by his hotel i mean there was there was up to up to him there were 3 bottles in the video we can see that there at least 3 separate bottles and election of all new chose to drink from that particular one also there were no guarantees that somebody else from election of onis entourage wouldnt drink from that bottle and so the alleged perpetrator the potential perpetrator could end up with a whole heap of bodies at the hotel which is very very risky and its not its not really worth it so all these questions of the still stand and hopefully the investigation will shed some light onto whether or not on to how that bottle turned out to be so contagious and whether or not it really was that that thing that brought lex in of any sick puzzle is still far from complete. Shock i mean we know its. Holly talks are highly poisonous roosevelt a great nerve agent what more can we tell specifically about this this bottle of the materials that was used well when it comes to the bottle all that we know is that it was released with this with this agent but mind that there are several agents that nobody is a family its not one particular like. Or anything its a deadly nerve agent but in fact its a group of 7 binary chemical weapons so they are different they work differently some of them work slower than others some work rapidly can take up as little as 30 seconds for a person to show 1st symptoms of not feeling well after being poisoned with novae chalk and it provokes the collapse of many many bodily functions this time german researchers are telling us the election of ali was poisoned by one of the deadliest and one of the most severe combinations of this one of the most severe agents which are in this in this family and in fact while russia is still calling on its e. U. Partners to provide all data to provide all necessary data and their Research Analysis of lexan of only his blood and so on and so forth. The Foreign Ministry has already praised russian doctors because it was the russian medics who who provided election of ali with 1st aid. To some of our western colleagues wrote that in the valley was saved by a miracle allegedly it was this new tourist nova chalk with a russian citizen managed to survive thanks to a happy coincidence what is this happening. So the impeccable work for pilots doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence they dont even admit that we acted in a proper way the people. So again russia is still waiting on its European Partners to do provide some of the to provide the evidence to provide the results of their research to russia so that russia could help out and cooperate with europe in investigating this investigating this poisoning. It got into public spotlight after the poisoning in sales barry and i would like to talk a bit more about that because the 1st thing that you can remember when it comes to these proposals policing of course are all these people in the hazmat suits you know going through going through the. House going through his things and so on and so forth but if you compare and if you compare the level of protection during that during that investigation and how look at that look to the left in the left of the screen you can see how poorly protected were the people were the election of only supporters handling potentially a military grave a military grade nerve agent again so what is a miracle really that none of them got sick. Yeah absolutely and as you said a moment ago more questions that are answers really with this video lets see what the investigation comes up with it was that affair with the latest. Russia says it will not extradite to poland 3 Traffic Controllers who were working on the day of the very polish president s plane crash in 2010 a traveling spokesman said the move would not be permitted under russian law but this comes after investigation of a group of polish Prosecutor Generals Office applied to get a court motion to have the russian citizens temporarily arrested the charges against the air Traffic Controllers concerned the deliberate provocation of a plane crash resulting in the deaths of many people. The tragedy took place back in april 28th 10 in the western russia where the polish president was heading for an official visit the plane crashed while trying to land a bit of fog and generally poor weather conditions all those on board including the president s wife and other senior polish officials and citizens were killed separate investigations by both russia and poland came to similar conclusions that the actions of the pilots led to the crash for poland also noted mistakes by air Traffic Controllers. Now 3 years ago when 2017 polish prosecutors accuse the russian air Traffic Controllers of deliberately causing the crash and later a 2nd polish commission claimed there was an explosion on board before the plane hit the ground director of the Crisis Research center mark ellman believes politics will play a central role in the long running case. This is a highly politicized event and of course the polish prosecution authorities are political appointees so its not as though this is a kind of scientific show homes to hold probe i think all the evidence sadly tragically is that it was an accident accident involving very high profile figures from the president of poland down to former solidarity activists and that made it a highly emotional and disastrous development but it and its also been a poisonous Development Inside polish politics because of course the present government accuses its predecessor of covering up the alleged russian plot its highly unlikely that crimes tatoos concern and his colleagues were serving the interests of russia they were quite firmly pro nato quite critical of president putin supposes many errors but its a sign that how this issue and this attitude towards russia has become an internal battle in poland as much as a geopolitical battle between warsaw moscow. The european involvement has been showing over the situation in belarus the e. U. Also welcoming the better russian opposition according a shrink outside of the fresh election moscow says brussels is in no position to call the shots and says mediation is the only option. Has the details. What they recommend is that the European Union the heads of states the European Council seriously consider sanctions against the russian president 3 Alexander Lukashenko sanctions against those who supported him those who continue to support him even sanctions against russian officials and citizens who they believe supported president theyve also determined that the election was unfair they dont recognize his legitimacy and once his term is up they will no longer recognize him as the legitimate president of better of saying that the elections that took place in august in belarus happened in flagrant violation of the laws electoral laws and International Norms moreover they have decided to recognize the opposite Opposition Coordination Council committee as the representatives of the better russian people which may seem odd because most of its members original members have fled the country one Maria Kolesnik of a is in jail here and in minsk and she is being shes being accused and charged with trying to seize power and destabilize barrows an awfully nevertheless the European Parliament has recommended that the European Council recognize the year Coordination Council as the legitimate representative body temporary body of the better russian people at the council itself the committee has stated very in goals from deposing of the president president to merely organizing new elections lithuania by the way had previously also recognized the north of one of the rivals running against president lukashenko during the election as the legitimate representative of the better russian people as as was mentioned earlier you know protests still continuing we see on the weekends thousands upon thousands of people marching down the streets of minsk chanting for the president president to reside but weve also seen someone. Slow down there are less and less spontaneous protest during the during the weekdays this week there have been hardly any in a public strike organized and called for by the opposition yesterday was a fabian they call didnt people and businesses to shut down for people to not go to work that was only about a dozen people joined into this walkout joined into this protest so that you know there is there is a market slowdown in this protest mood in better us. Hes been called out for frequently making gaffes on the campaign trail but now joe biden is confused iran and iraq when talking to veterans about where they fought in battle u. S. Troops died in iraq and afghanistan the rand parliament Irans Parliament voted to eject all americans and Coalition Forces from the country we tried it in in iraq is not working so now were going to try i mean in iran and heres me were trying to ukraine i mean you know someone who has been injured or lost in iraq to hear. Let me tell you something. We. Well at that particular conflict in iraq which joe biden has been widely criticized for playing a key role in authorizing back in 2002 at the time he shared the Us Congress ForeignRelations Committee and shows all 18 a pro war witnesses and the main hearings on iraq that later found out they rock leader Saddam Hussein neither had weapons of mass destruction nor ties to al qaida a conservative estimate more than 4000. 00 u. S. Soldiers and the same number of contracts as lost their lives or an invasion a former u. S. Marine corps Intelligence Officer scott ritter claims he was ridiculed for briefing biden about the absence of any weapons of mass destruction. What is a big deal is joe bidens vote for the iraq war and i take it personally because i briefed joe biden in person you know he insulted me when i testified for the United States senate in those september of 1988 about iraq and weapons of mass destruction he he belittled me as scouting boy he said people above my pay grade are making this decision that cetera and then he met with me apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 in the lead up to the vote on the war he as you mentioned he hosted a hearing and i did my darndest to become a witness for that hearing he ignored me. And it was very rude the way he did so and as you said he brought in more witnesses he stacked the deck it was a Kangaroo Court because joe biden wanted to go to war he always wanted to go to war anybodyd for that war thats what American Veterans are going to hold him to account for the military is not a litmus test for american patriotism. But you cant run around and pretend that you are mr raw raw google military when you are you know theres not a single non political combat veteran whos going to give joe biden a pass on this one joe biden has 0 credibility when it comes to talking about. Oh the military talking about war were all talking about sacrifice he literally has no credibility doesnt rose. And you surveys found this surprising lack of knowledge about the horrors of the holocaust among Young Americans research was conducted in 50 states and found among 18 to 39 year olds most dont know millions of jews were murdered by the nazis almost half couldnt name a single concentration camp while 11 percent believed the jews themselves were responsible. However a majority did agree it was important to learn about the event to ensure its never repeated the holocaust as you cation should be compulsory we asked the young people in new york what they do in their history classes we. Used couple 1000000000. People died and i thought it was 3000000 i believe it was. 6000000 people. The exact number but it. Was a. Pretty big game its weird like now its kind of like theres a conspiracy theorists that think it might happen. Ill just remind you the nazis and their collaborators set up more than 40000 concentration camps and ghettos during the 2nd world war and auschwitz alone almost a 1000000 jews were slaughtered while 2 thirds of all of europes Jewish Population was wiped out all of course the expert mark children believes the u. S. Education system is failing students. The reality is the american americans generally American Youth or young people in particular are ignorant about history and they get too much of their information from social media and that social media is full of holocaust deniers claim we get never happened saying the jews caused it and thats a general problem that exists with social media but generally it starts from the fact they just do not know history they take a perfunctory history classes in high school you know the average history teacher is called not called him mr history or history person or sir hes called coach because most history teachers in the United States have to coach a team and thats their primary responsibility is to coach basketball soccer whatever it may be and secondary they teach history and thats the reality of a history in the United States its a National Problem because its impossible for people in my opinion to make political choices if they dont understand history and what came before that and what one of the causes of the violence but again its not only the holocaust its of course the American Revolution the cold war im making a bet that if you asked people what the battle of stalingrad was in the United States these same kids a bit more than 5 percent would be able to answer that question in any sort of relative. Smith sensible way. Or the shortage of covert testing in the u. K. Has led teachers to question School Safety if you fools and staff are among those struggling to get checked with more details heres r. T. C. Sourly. It wasnt so long ago that senior british politicians were promising that it was safe for children to finally go back to school i think the crucial thing is that pupils get back to school its much much better for their for their health and Mental Wellbeing their jobs their educational prospects weve made it clear this is compulsory parents do need to be sending their children back to school all scientific advice is that schools are safe its only a few weeks into the new terminal ready those claims are coming unstuck one Teaching Union is warning that education secretary Gavin Williamson may face legal action because they say schools were opened without proper safeguards being put in place teachers a 1000 in the alarm but a chronic lack of Testing Facilities means that you cant get in england make going to a halt the staff and pupils are forced to stay home School Managements have been doing everything they chant but the government has failed to do their side of things testing is impossible to get hold of social distancing isnt possible in full class sizes i mean infection rates are going up so we have an absolutely chaotic situation where understandably and correctly pupils and staff are being sent home and they have potential sitting timbs but nobody knows if its just a cold or coverage and its a completely lost story and of course the danger is that there will be some situations where in fact we did have an infectious child in the sco but nobody knows because we cant get a test to check one way or the other facing the lack of testing more than 200 school and College Leaders said staff and pupils couldnt book tests locally and were being directed to test centers long distances away and with the government mandating no more than 6 people to meet at a time that encouraging students to get back into the classroom your thirtys the knowledge that the whole situation is in quite some chaos every school has a small supply of home test kits for those. Teachers that conduct says a Testing Center teacher who tested positive had to wait a week for her results i dont deny that it is an enormous challenge with children and teachers unable to get access to tests and essentially being told to get to the back of the queue if they want one union need to say that the government has failed to prepare despite having had months to do so and fit the country could go back into defacto knock down once more children are being sent home who cannot get tests and parents are being forced to take 2 weeks off to look after them we will end up with an effective lock down there is an escalating sense that they would end up with a return to lock down by default its not just with regard to the testing the schools are finding themselves short they also appear to lack the basic hygiene necessities nearly a 3rd of teachers didnt know if theyd have adequate supplies of soap and water while just 18 percent had had from the tides in every class from its left parents to question how they supposed to feel that their children will be safe in school when teachers themselves dont seem all that convinced misused to keep schools open. Clear of they have to be violent and wont leave the farming since feedback is that you know. Im selftaught on these. Its facts and try subversives think you stance were not remind you know they have a duty we need to test it they need it and obviously weve been seeing which. Documentary brings you the stories of child miners in the jungles of risking their lives in the hope of finding a Better Future if you can offer out with the latest news updates will see you back and. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy going from day shouldnt let it be an arms race. Spearing Dramatic Development only mostly im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Seemed wrong why dont we all just dont hold. Me to be yet to shape our disdain become educated and gain from it equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. With. Us on the some stupid theres nothing emotional moment for me. Thats going to improve ok