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In our news review of the week russian opposition figurehead. He is making progress in his recovery. With stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well welcome to the weekly on r. T. International and you know. The scene another day of rest 6 weeks on from the contested election gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president lukashenko to resign. As the earlier the scribe the tactics used by the protesters. What they do is they gather in little groups all over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into a into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer people than there were last week at this at this time last week last sunday there were many more demonstrators a much larger much nevertheless theyve got their plan theyve got a route through that theyre going to take the organizers go to lead them down and police are waiting for the witchy 2 convoys of police and Law Enforcement suv about the city owned morning today preparing for this rally preparing for an eventuality adarsh reach block self weve even seen bob wire fences barricades set up a record across the city to keep marches on a specific route that has been the fathers against nutrition. And havent clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested yesterday perhaps hundreds up to 400 according to opposition and. A telegram channels and Rights Groups you may hear a loud music blaring through huge speakers behind me in the square that is a thirtys theyve taken to playing loud patriotic music to to drown out the chants of the cries from from the protesters and the last week it it irritates them no ed never the sea it has been carved so far protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding the president of the shaker to resign to leave to hand over power of the government insisting on its own their supporters saying that he is the legitimate president that one the election and that is the xp. Yes the sanctions these protests that these rallies these demonstrations are illegal will be clashes later as the demonstrators head for government offices government buildings and residents of the president. Lets move the program on washington as reimposed u. N. Sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal the move of the u. S. At odds with some of its closest allies germany france the u. K. Have pushed back saying america has no authority to reinstate the United Nations actions unilaterally the u. N. Secretary general has refused to follow up on the u. S. Backed the ration citing Legal Certainty but secretary of state mike pompei was threatened penalties against any country that continues to trade with iran. We negotiated the snapback process to restore virtually all previously terminated un sanctions if United Nations Member States feel to fulfill their obligations to implement these sanctions the United States is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not read the benefits of un prohibited activity france germany and the United Kingdom know that the u. S. Ceased to be a participant to the chase e. P. O. A follow on their withdrawal from the deal on the 8th of may 2018 consequently the purported notification is incapable of having legal effect we remain guided by the objective of upholding the authority and integrity of the United Nations security council. A reminder of the original un sanctions covered uranium enrichment as well as the buying and selling of conventional weapons they were lifted 5 years ago under the nuclear deal however in 28 dean the troubled ministration withdrew from the pact washington sees its taking action now because an arms and bargo on iran expires in october irans president Hassan Rouhani has denounced the move seeing his country will never give in to pressure while the nations Foreign Ministry orage washington to have a rethink. Pay homage to random washington on tehrans message to washington is clear return to the Global Community return to your implication stop the rebellion and then the Global Community will accept you. Well among the reaction we got to this story was from political analyst forward is a forward things the u. S. Is getting dwindling support in its approach to iran. Well in the part thats going to accept that premise. The u. S. Is isolated in the unusual manner and whats going to happen is that the u. S. Is going to use force to pressure other countries to accept legal interpretation of the Un Resolution 2231 and a few countries are going to accept that the u. S. Has a history of mongering so you always have to be careful but the United States Foreign Policy so we have this. Conflict escalating if we hope that the president is not interested in the. Scenario if you are behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran at francis but the. Russian opposition figure out Alexei Navalny continues to recover in a hospital in berlin after coming out of an inch use coma but the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisoning has only gotten worse on monday germany said labs in sweden and france had independently verified that novelli was poisoned by a nerve agent from the north a chocolate the Global Chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia has requested that information on the case be shared so far to no avail. With their excuses are completely contrived germany says it cant tell us anything it was in direct to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and weve been to the w. C. Several times and they say talk to berlin we are ready to talk to anyone we want not when in the absence of facts we are pressured into giving an account of ourselves but on the basis of specific clearly formulated concerns we are always ready to have a professional conversation. Dish nearly russia insists its doctors far no trace of nava truck or indeed any other poison while novelli was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened. Big controversy surrounding the case. Alexina volley is recovering whatever it was killing his body is on retreat and the politician seems to be almost out of these woods so concerns over his health make room for concerns over what exactly happened and europe is demanding that russia aids the investigation installations arise which only the russian government can and must answer we continue calling us here to investigate this our demand is that russia urgently what happened well russia has already contributed by not letting alexina valmy die in the 1st crucial hours after the politician fell sick russia contributed by opening its airspace to a team of german doctors letting them visit russia contributed by eventually putting him on a german rescue plane allowing the value to be airlifted to berlin and by offering its medical data to german colleagues so now russia says the ball is in germanys court moscow current aid the investigation if its kept in the dark on emerging evidence to the press with enough when it all all this a 2nd place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to join to sort out what happened ive been dismissed and a far fetched pretax thats hurdles are brought into the race because berlin starts playing a game of all take and no give russia can get the results of the expertise made in german labs since it will reveal too much of the german armys capabilities too much but only to russias eyes apparently because berlin had no problem with sharing its data with almost 200 other nations Member States of the o p c w we assess very negatively the fact that germany refusing to assist the russian Law Enforcement agencies secretly transferred new boundaries test data to its trusted partners it is clear that this was done with a political purpose. So that france and sweden would automatically confirm unfounded accusations against russia but wait russia is a member state of the o. P. C. W. And that means it finally has all the time in the world to scrupulously study everything the germany could find right wrong the only thing that it actually means is that russia can hop on the merry go round of rejections because berlin tells moscow it can get everything from the or b c w and the o p c w saying the exact opposite bumping russia right back to berlin russia is in a loop which doesnt really help o. P. C. W. s reputation with moscow as russia had previously accused the un back watchdog of becoming politicized by a p. C. Dont you like so Many International institutions its always great to be subject to political pressure and thats critically from of course theres the fund it largely funded thats largely the western powers weve seen with the p. C. Do abuse role in investigating alleged Chemical Attacks in syria but its investigations have tended to ascribe blame have been riddled with inconsistences and problems that will not rise in independent investigation but there appears to be scope for political interference and pressure to take close we saw a similar situation in respect to the case where. It was very reluctant to share its information with russia in respect of it what do you have to discover in terms of chemical analysis and so on giving no access to evidence keeping waters murky playing every bureaucratic trick in the book this is how the e. U. Is shutting out russias investigators also raising the sanctions guillotine over the country almost like it wants no investigation from russia but an immigration admission of guilt. This video was posted some days ago on the vollies Instagram Account it shows his team searching his hotel room and thompson felt sick wearing surgical gloves they collected evidence and plastic bags which according to the post were passed on to the German Authorities one of the Water Bottles they submitted was said to contain traces of novacek we spoke to the cocreator of that very nerve agent and things if it was used in the valley wouldnt have made it to the plate. Wouldnt have been able to leave the hotel thats if it was nobody and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in small and not very toxic doses provokes people contraction in such a way a person would be almost blind so could barely move so even with only very mild exposure it wouldnt have been able to get on a plane there are photos of him in the hotel in the plane in the russian hospital and yet we cant see any of the symptoms of poisoning and novacek and not worse to use for this case. Richard that you would they definitely would get something they had just simple surgical gloves and thats it and also imagine a bottle that has traces of the substance on the outside that would be a very smart person to try to fill a book with such a dangerous liquid and spill it all down the sides creating a dangerous situation for everyone. Another story were watching closely today a small group of wealthy nations has already bought up all future supplies of coal 1000. 00 vaccines which are currently at the Research Stage thats according to a report by the oxfam charting it means that only 13 percent of the worlds population will initially have access to the drugs lawson the head of oxfams inequality policy deficiencies pharmaceutical companies are putting profits for. Its extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations. Pursue plausible potential. But more importantly theyre doing deals with big corporations which are defending their intellectual property and their profits meaning that the supply of taxes being artificially limited. Lockes from ses there wont be enough vaccine doses to meet Global Demand the 5 leading vaccine candidates are currently undergoing stage 3 Clinical Trials however even if all 5 proved to be a success which according to the charity is extremely unlikely around 2 thirds of the worlds population will still have to wait until 2022 at least on top of potential drug shortages oxfam says quote the foxing deals labor the inequality between prosperous developing countries well to give an example of this the u. K. Has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go in comparison struck a stark contrast buying that there she can see the figure is only one dose per 9 people now mark lawson excuse me again says that prolonged all availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths Companies Like their own or in the us are only sending them back to very rich countries they said again or bury high price somewhere between 60 dollars dollars and you have to have 2 doses so thats like 70. 00 per person so they are very clear that they theyre doing needs to make a profit and they want to make money from this vaccine what weve said is we needed peoples backs not a profit we need to see. The breaking down of these areas and we need to see open sharing your back the technology to macs. Since applause and effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible the huge economic and human cost of it did lie in the vital beauty of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries and north getting access to safe infant to that saying until 2022 then the and they would have more lockdowns their economies would be huge trouble and many many people would die who do not need to because the vaccine has been how to fish in the russian and by the profits of pharmaceutical corporations youre watching are still ahead the israeli Prime Ministers decision to send the country into a secular law has caused the widespread anger even on the beach that story more to bring. Democracy has just been domestically known internationally and weve seen efforts by international can eyes ations and governments to promote democracy in countries like iraq afghanistan see how difficult it is also mutely it has to be produced domestically because always International Actors need to be in a country 24. 00 sevenths to make a sustainable show so any country in the world thats built just sustainable democracy has built it domestically sometimes of its National Health domestically. The world is driven by. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. Lets start the program back in the u. K. Where the shortage of covert 19 testing there has led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools people on stuff are among those struggling to get checked our teens early reports. It wasnt so long ago that seamier 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 that for their health and mental well being that of 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 but 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 founding the alarm but a chronic lack of Testing Facilities means that i do case in england my clients will 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 although social distancing isnt possible in full class sizes i mean section rates are going up so we have an absolutely chaotic situation where understandably correctly pupils in staff are being sent home and they have potential sitting timbs but nobody knows if its just a coat all. Good and its a complete loss story and of course the danger is that there will be some situations where in fact we did have an infectious child or rather in the sco but nobody knows because we dont 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 thirties acknowledged that the whole situation is in quite some chaos every school has a small supply of home test kits for those teachers that can diagnose a Testing Center teacher who tested positive who 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 you 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 lock 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 that 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 just 18 percent had had from the tides and every pulse 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 misuse of keep schools open. Is clear but they have to be so violent and what would be funny since being back is that you know. Im selftaught on these. Sites and try subversives i think you stance would not remind the average user we need text and they need it and obviously we can see news which can. Lets bring you to the middle east now our israel entered a national locked on friday which is expected to last at least 3 weeks the anti covert measure came into force just hours before the start of the jewish new year Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees its a response to the soaring in affection rate and. We have witnessed another alarming the increase in deaths and the continued increase in the number of critically ill patients as many of the experts have recommended we may have no choice but to tighten the guidelines. Whose decision deeply unpopular hundreds rallied against the new locked on measures on a beach in tel aviv on saturday demonstrators dance chanted slogans accusing the government of mishandling me like the crisis the new restrictions today 10 person limits on indoor gatherings israelis also wont be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes for School Shopping Centers Closed businesses wont be allowed to receive clients though the measures are aimed at reeling in the daily infection rate which is almost doubled since the start of the month there have been more than a 1000 deaths than the total number of cases exceeds 180000. 00 weve heard from residents in tel aviv what they think about the new law. Its very frustrating its killing the economy and many people feel like there is no hope and they dont know what is going on its probably a good thing because cases are rising that the rules so thats what were going to do but i dont think its going to help i expect that infections will go down but theyll go right back up as soon as the closer hands honestly it doesnt affect me at all where i live 500 meters i go anywhere i want i do anything i want people i still see dont wear a mask so i really dont understand how this is going to help anything. But graduating from university in the middle of a pandemic has proven challenging for many students but one that tony and he survived the Great Depression and world war 2 was on that heard the former really worker finally got his degree this summer that the intern like the 6. That after working i retired and said what do i do now i didnt like doing nothing so i started studying. When my mother gave me the money to go and buy breakfast so instead of buying myself a sandwich with potatoes i went instead to buy books. I seriously wanted to enroll and i am a little tired after 3 years of study every evening i finished reading and studying at midnight without exception even on sundays. Ive never drunk alcohol i always drank milk and i believe this is the secret of my memory then of course reading helps the minds it needs to be trained youre. Off to get myself a glass of milk water a well as always you can delve deeper into any of us our stories our teeth dot com always plenty to get stuck into there is the news our ends here the programs though they are just beginning to find out whats showing where you are today goodbye for. On this edition of the program we discussed the time to towering Figures Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and americas preeminent russian expert steven cohen going to remember the good reasons theyre legacies assured. By social class. People also in poverty. If youre born into a poor family youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die. If youre born into generational poverty. Its a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. Join me every thursday simon sure and ill be speaking to the world of politics. Im sure. Ill see you then. Are our. Hello and welcome to worlds apart its hard to find a more loaded subject in dominance in International Relations democracy on the National Level is supposed to be a safe way off ensuring that governments are sensible and responsive to that people but internationally it is often a source of insecurity and instability and one that is generated by the new variance of foreign powers is it possible to decouple domestic governments for geopolitical games both to discuss that im now joined by meat cheese man professor of democracy at the university of birmingham and call there of how to meet an election professor cheeseman its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and a pleasure to be here now your goal how to rig an election came out in 2018 and i have to know that russia and other countries of the former soviet Union Featured very prominently the era for it with reason that these part of the world is a recognized source of electoral trickery lets put it mildly my question is this our values here measure absent democratic standards how it should be taken as some natural growing pains or as a permanent and deliberate handicap. Academic concert as i have to say the kind of respect is the option that somewhere slightly in between those 2 extremes i think you know we go back to the seventys or eightys we were talking then about exactly this question of these countries going through growing pains and i think by the time weve got 2020 we need to recognise that countries that are stuck in these kind of middle ground between terrorism on the one hand and democracy in the other they hold elections but they rig the elections the same government a leader is in power for very long its im these countries arent simply having growing pains that are on their way to some wonderful democratic future lever