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Figurehead alexina vali says he is making progress in his recovery as moscow in berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International im sean thomas good to have you with us as we recap the weeks top stories with our weekly program. Right now bellerose has seen another day of mass unrest 6 weeks on from the contested election thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president to resign. Earlier describe the tactics used by protesters. What they do is they gather in little groups 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 a whole 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 at 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 convoys of police and Law Enforcement azuba about the city owned morning today preparing for this rally preparing for an eventuality tires sharifs blocks off weve even seen bob wire fences barricades set up a wretched across the city a to keep marches on a specific route it has been the fathers are against immigration crowbar havent clashed yet today with police there was sure many demonstrators arrested yesterday perhaps hundreds up to 400 according to opposition and city the shape of a telegram channels and Rights Groups you may hear a loud music blaring through huge speakers behind me in the square that is a services they say could to playing loud patriotic music to to drown out the chants of the cries from the from the protesters and did you have them last week it it irritates them no ad never see it has been called so far protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding for president to be shaky to resign to leave to hand over power of the government insisting on its own their supporters saying that he is the legitimate president of the bun the election and that these the xp. Yes the sanctions these protests that these rallies these demonstrations are already legal will perhaps be clashes liza as the demonstrators head for government offices government buildings and residents of the president. Washington has imposed a reimposed u. N. Sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal the move has put the u. S. At odds though with some of its closest allies germany france and the u. K. Have pushed back saying america has no authority to reinstate United Nations sanctions unilaterally and the u. N. Secretary general has refused to follow up on the u. S. Declaration citing legal uncertainty but. Secretary of state might bump aoe has threatened penalties against any country that continues to trade with iran we need sheeted the snapback process to restore virtually all previously terminated un sanctions if United Nations Member States feel to fulfill their obligations to implementing these sanctions the United States is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that iran does not reap the benefits of un prohibited activity france germany and the United Kingdom know that the us ceased to be a participant in the way following 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 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 2018 the trumpet ministration withdrew from the pact washington says it is taking action now because an arms embargo on iran expires in october irans president Hassan Rouhani has denounced the move saying his country will never give in to pressure while the nations Foreign Ministry urged washington to have a rethink. Pyometra head on the washing tone turnarounds message to washington is clear return to the Global Community return to your a geisha and stop the rebellion and then the Global Community will accept you. We heard from political analyst a forward izadi he thinks the u. S. Is getting dwindling support in its approach to iran. In part its 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 the 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 president is not interested in the. Scenario if you behind the polls he should know better not to engage in any military activities against iran advances by the. Russian opposition figure alexina vali continues to recover at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced 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 the volley was poisoned by a nerve agent from the group the Global Chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russia has requested that information on the case be shared so far though to no avail. With their excuses are completely when 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 e. U. Several times and they say. We are ready to talk to anyone but not when in the absence of facts we are pressured into giving an account of ourselves on the basis of specific clearly formulated concerns but we are always ready to have a professional conversation. Or russia insists its doctors found no trace of knowledge charcoal or any other poison while the volley was in their care moscow has repeatedly stressed its willingness to cooperate with germany to establish exactly what happened artist comments now on the 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 year to investigate this our demand is that russia urgently explain 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 is taking place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to georgia to look at what happened ive been dismissed and far fetched great artist support 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 or b c w we are very negatively the fact that germany refusing to assist the russian Law Enforcement agencies secretly transferred no bounds tench data to its trusted partners it is clear that this was done with a political purpose. So that france and sweden would automatically confirm some founded 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 o. P. 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 bag watchdog of becoming politicized by a p. C. Dont you like so Many International commands actions its always great to be subject to political pressure and thats critically from of course those the fund it largely funded much largely the western powers weve seen with the p. C. To 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 that there appears to be scope for political interference and pressure to take close we saw a similar situation in respect to the scruple 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 integration admission of guilt. Well this video was posted some days ago and involved a sensor graham account it shows his team searching his hotel room in toms shortly after he fell 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 who claims if it was used in the valley would not have made it to the airplane. It would be found it wouldnt have been able to leave the hotel if it was no majok and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in smaller not very toxic doses not virtual provokes pupil contraction in such a way a person would be almost blind so could barely move so even with only very mild exposure he 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 poisoning and novacek and not words to use for this case. Richard that 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 it would be a very smart person who would try to fill a bottle with such a dangerous liquid and spill it all down the sides creating a dangerous situation for everyone. The small group of wealthy nations has already bought up all future supplies of covert 1000. 00 vaccines which are currently at the Research Stage this is according to a report by the Oxfam Charity it means that only 13 percent of the worlds population will initially have access to the drugs mike lawson the head of oxfams inequality policy division says that pharmaceutical companies are putting profits 1st. Its extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations monopolizing the soup lawyer potential. But more importantly theyre doing deals with big corporation. Defending their intellectual property and appropriate meaning that the soup lowing all thanks for being. Well oxfam says that 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 or at least. At least in fact on top of the potential drug shortages oxfam says quote the vaccine deals lay bare the inequality between prosperous and developing countries to give an example the u. K. Has managed to secure up to 5 doses per person depending of course on how the trials go while for bangladesh the stark contrast the figure is only one dose per 9 people max lawson again says that prolonged an availability of the vaccine in some countries will result in many unnecessary deaths. Companies like medan or in the u. S. Are only sending their backseat to very rich countries theyre setting it at a very high price somewhere between 16. 00 and 35. 00 a dose and you have to have 2 dices so thats like 70. 00 per person so they are very clear that they theyre doing this to make a profit and they want to make money from this vaccine what were saying is we need a peoples backs and not a profit back saying we need to see. The breaking down of these patents areas and we need to see open sharing your Vaccine Technology to maximise the supply safe and effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible but the huge economic and human cost of it did lie in the variability of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries and not getting access to safe and effective but staying until 2022 then they would have more lockdowns their economies would be huge trouble and many many people would dog you do not need to because the vaccine has been artificially russian and far the profits of pharmaceutical corporations still to come this hour the israeli Prime Ministers decision to send the country into a 2nd a lockdown has caused widespread anger even on the beach thats why much more after a short break this is the weekly an hour to international. Seems wrong. To me. To shape. This day. And it j h equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when shes to look for common ground. Welcome back this is Art International live from moscow now the shortages of covert 1000 testing in the u. K. Has led to teachers to question the safety of reopening schools pupils and staff are among those struggling to get checked out he reports. 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 founding the alarm but a chronic lack of Testing Facilities means that i do cation in england make way to a halt the staff and pupils are forced to stay home School Managements have been doing everything they can but the government has failed to do their side of things testing is impossible to get i will go 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 in 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. The teachers that conduct 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 in fear of 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 lockdown by default its not just with regards 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 as in every classroom 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. Clear of will they have to be so violent and what will the funding since be is that you know. Im selftaught on these as we. Can trace versus think you stance were not reminding the average we need to test they need to be and obviously weve been seeing which. Israel entered a 2nd National Lockdown 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 says its a response to the soaring infection rate. I know who do we have witnessed another when 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 tell you the guidelines. Then yahoos decision has been deeply unpopular hundreds of rallied against the new lockdown measures on the beach in tel aviv on saturday demonstrators danced and chanted slogans accusing the government of mishandling the coded 1000 crisis. The new restrictions include a 10 people limit on indoor gatherings israelis also wont be able to go further than 500 meters from their homes plus schools and Shopping Centers will be closed and businesses wont be allowed to receive clients and the measures are aimed at reigning in the daily infection rate which has almost doubled since the start of the month there have been more than a 1000 deaths and of the total number of cases exceeds 180000 we heard from residents in tel aviv about what they think about the new lockdown. 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 roof so thats what were going to do but i dont think its going to help i expect that instructions 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 or do anything i want people i still say dont wear a mask so i really dont understand how this is going to help anything. But i love the story graduating from university in the middle of a pandemic well has proven challenging for many students but one italian man who survived the Great Depression and world war 2 was undeterred former Railway Worker finally got his degree this summer at the age of 96. And at that after working i retired and said what do i do now i didnt like doing nothing so i started studying and. They climbed on me on when my mother gave me the money to go and buy the breakfast space instead of buying myself got a sandwich with potatoes i went to stay 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. Dr leifer never drank 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 in your. Car that goes for me ill be back in about 34 minutes with another full look at your weekly this is our 2 international. On this edition of the program we discussed the passing of 2 towering Figures Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and americas preeminent russian expert steven cohen both will be remembered for good reasons for their legacies a short. Cast calendar is downright alfonzo among his die and thats changing page change guard served our. His 1st words were at a low a c. Or a challenging post youve got 2 years to live. I have no doubt that what happened was scriven. Lets concentrate market is a 1000000000. 00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivation to sow these products there are numerous stocks showing that doctors were keen to test facts or a concentrate straight infectivity on that patient gives them doctors the wrong on the plate. Current system why they would give me consecutive doses day to day and people still die and im always question or so i write being hard to live when so many have. If if. Im after a time say were going underground as World Leaders including putin hsien trump plead for global unity as the un celebrate. 75th anniversary amid a divisive and economically discriminatory coronavirus pandemic coming on the show as the socalled western world faces its biggest economic depression since the 1930 s. Professor David Blanchflower former bank of england monthly Baltic Committee member tells us that our politicians are fit to mend unarguably broken system 26 years to the month democrat president bill clinton signed the violence against women act because sponsored by joe biden is clinton guilty of the crimes he signed into law we talked to one woman who claims to have been raped about why she is voting for trump and the. Only thing more coming up in todays going underground but 1st a virus transmitted at least in part because of environmental destruction is being credited for ripping up the economic plans of finance ministers all over the world ahead of a possible 2nd wave and here in britain brics at negotiations in crisis what can save capitalism now joining me now from hanover New Hampshire is Dartmouth College is labor market economist and former bank of england Monetary Policy Committee Member professor David Blanchflower danny thanks so much for coming on so your recommendations for slashing Interest Rates arguably did way more than austerity for saving britain after the Bank Bailouts and the austerity how can britain recover from covert given per capita its death rate design in the g 20. Well youve got to keep spending money youve got to. Resist entirely any idiot who says we should be going to austerity lets just think about the u. K. So we have not over 9000000 people who are on furlough schemes and this government is talking about stopping that from me well we have 1300000. 00 unemployed now with a rate of 4 point one percent if they stop its hard not to see the Unemployment Rate at least easily hitting 20 and probably more so the obvious thing is youve got to keep going and anything that related to what you did from 2010 to 2020 is a disaster and im im im a beginner to cameron in a 2nd but im going to tell you ritchie cynic says the furnace scheme should not and cannot go on forever and everyone who says it should be extended after october would then just say has to continually extend therefore thats the argument for stopping it well i didnt say it should go on forever but i certainly think it should go on for a year or so i mean from southern germany have agreed that theyll keep this going for 2 years but if this government wants to have an Unemployment Rate of 37 percent or 28 percent on number like that keep saying stuff like that the bank giving the doesnt have a lot of leeway i mean its talked about going negative