Live from moscow thanks for joining us. This evening. Welcome to the program. The Global Chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. W has. Struck a nerve agent were found in the bar logical samples taken from russian Opposition Leader alexina valmy the Russian Foreign ministry has reacted hoping for corporation to find out what really happened. The Russian Federation intends to provide the Member States of the Chemical Weapons Convention with a chronology of behind the scenes manipulation of the main characters in this b. Foremans we expect the forthcoming joint work of russian specialists with experts from the o. P. C. W well how does the blish calm the politicized interaction and the mood any further escalation of the situation of the o. P. C. W documents has made its way here to lend we know that much but for hearing from the kremlin Spokes Person to me to be peskov that information is get to arrive in moscow coming out of school we dont possess their filing said the moment it needs time for such information to be delivered through our diplomatic channels germany has called on russia to provide answers to a number of questions that it has speaking to the media stefans i bet the German Government spokesperson said that the use of a chemical weapon cant go without serious consequences the German Government renews its calls on russia to explain what happened in the coming days there will be a Frank Exchange between the executive council of the o. P. C. W. And the circle of e. U. Partners about the next steps any use of chemical weapons is extremely serious and cannot come without consequences well the e. U. Council president ial michelle has said that the the reaction from the e. U. To the valley case will be discussed at next weeks e. U. Council summit takes place the day friday next week weve also heard from dominic robb the u. K. Foreign secretary saying that britain was considering what its reaction would be i think there is an incredibly strong case for moscows who wants or will have to consider what further action we take we turned this axis initially to introduce mr knows i mean we asked. An independent inquiry and we think indeed. To induce 2 to to assess what to do with your approval of modern day the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons said that it would share its findings with moscow including evidence that says shows that alexina violently was poisoned using a nerve agent from the novacek to aid with an investigation now earlier the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov expressed his frustration at burley in and in particular the fact that 3 previous requests for sharing information from berlin with moscow and gone on he did that i fell off was currently being considered it is the laughter of also you said that russias European Partners had been quick to make up their minds when it came to the in the valley case before all of the information is being seen jerusalem of of course we are interested in establishing the truth about what happened with alexina valmy as soon as possible but the situation is outrageous its exactly the same scenario was in the socalled script palled case when the charges were announced but no facts were presented so the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says Alexei Novelli was poisoned with a nerve agent from the not the chalk group that information is being passed here to germany the German Government is saying the use of a chemical weapon must result in serious consequences. The head of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service is warning that terrorists including from a notorious group are seeking to join the conflict in the garden a cut over the disputed caucuses territory but seeing fighting intensify do you armenia and azerbaijan with an update here because none of. So the Russian ForeignIntelligence Service has released a statement a memo and at 1st they just issue a general concern for the wellbeing of the citizens of the disputed region of nagornokarabakh and they also released a call to both sides to stop the fight he immediately saying that a full blown war in the region is well unacceptable but when it gets interesting is when then they talk about hundreds and perhaps even thousands of syrian fighters on the front lines open a corner cab back they even gave the names of the groups which came here which came to this disputed region to take part in the war have a listen according to the information that is available to Russias Foreign Intelligence Service mercenaries from warring International Terrorist organizations in the middle east are actively having to the conflict zone in particular job for cattle harms us holton moron as well as extremist kurdish groups now among these groups the most notorious one as well just dont know struck they used to be known as alqaeda in syria but lately they changed their name trying to distance themselves from alqaeda but that didnt help much because they are known for so many for countless acts of terrorism and war crimes and atrocities in syria in fact we prepared a short clip for you too with a breakdown as to what is known about this group but i have to warn you that some images in this clip you may find disturbing. Well its important to underline that the Russian ForeignIntelligence Service. It did not specify which side these mercenaries are fighting on although there have been mounting reports and sort of an International Consensus that it is jerky that is helping azerbaijan hire these militants and then ship them to the frontline of nagornokarabakh well in fact armenia has accused deserve by john of doing this as well but its one of the aspects of this conflict you have to understand that well both sides here because each other over a lot of things and then later deny the accusations of the other side this is an example of such situ of such a situation for instance as there by john has said that there are no foreign fighters in its ranks and in fact in turn accused armenia of hiring foreign soldiers so its a murky situation at least also this comes to the tune of the foreign minister of turkey saying announcing that ankara is ready to work with moscow on resolving this crisis and bringing the sides to get to the negotiating table i will be bringing you more as i learn it well as the conflict continues dozens of civilians have been killed on both sides parts of the disputed region have been left severely damaged while humanitarian groups have raised the alarm over the level of violence a lumber of civilian casualties the situation is also turns in areas near the contested region there by the current government claims the countrys 2nd largest city came under fire on monday this is a video of a market that was shelled according to theres aerial thirtys i mean hear the noise its fired on a territory. Meanwhile as areas outside the conflict zone are trying to help their forces a local reporter sent us this report from the capital. In the wake of the recent advances of the birds and i mean the continent. People both in who are in the region of the few consolidated and one make their own contribution. For the progress of this hold it throughout the capital several collection points by activists this initiative of the people they want something from they are all the idea a sense just. 2 trucks just today was sent about 150 boxes i think a big portion of the salary we must be spent this way significantly here to send our support to frontline troops we want to assure our soldiers that were always with them. Statement even should that be the big gratitude to the people for this assistance but in the same time they said that people military personnel leave who are equipped and provide it was all neat and in order to prevent any kind of misuse and irrational or if you saw the president set up a temporary hotline where people can get in touch with the officers in the Missile Defense and then they will help them to distribute the assistance to the destination final destination that of the soldiers or the national army. Donald trump is back in the white house having spent 4 days in hospital after testing positive for covert 19. Learn so much about coronavirus and one thing thats for certain dont let it dominate you dont be afraid of it i didnt feel so good and 2 days ago i could have left 2 days ago 2 days ago i felt great were going back were going back to work going to be out front and you leader i had to do that and i know theres a risk theres a danger but thats ok and now im better and maybe im immune i dont know but dont let it dominate your lives get out there be careful we have the best medicines in the world on his comments infuriated many medical experts who said it downplayed the dangers facebook deleted one of trumps posts where he claimed coburn is less deadly than the flu twitter flagged up a similar tweet as misinformation after being discharged the president returned to the white house by helicopter peered at a balcony and then removed his mask for a photo opportunity. Despite trump claiming people shouldnt be afraid of the virus covert is still taking a huge toll on the Country Schools have been claimed closed once again at a number of new york neighborhoods where cases are surging once more my number one concern has always been schools i would not send my child to a school in a hotspot cluster that has not been tested were going to close the schools in those areas tomorrow us as a whole remains the pandemics global hot spot on friday new infections hit a 2 month record with more than 54000 cases thats the highest daily tally since mid august and we got reaction from people in new york about the latest decision to close schools. Why was he that middle schools there is no great optically it was my sons school which is actually it to want to toy with out loud to be wise to expose it to the students of the day that theyre going to get down to making. This somewhat the scourge of the same time but. Whatever whatever needs to be done theyre doing it you know that the school to take advantage of them caleb maupin has been looking at why new york is once again facing such a rise in cases. The rate of infection in new york city is rising once again the highest numbers weve seen sense back in may so who is to blame for this well new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo says the buck stops with local officials. Say go over it fix it in every jurisdiction from local jurisdiction cannot or will perform effective enforcement violating entities notify the states and to close all Business Activity in hotspots where local governments come to comply now cuomo says words have led to allegations of hypocrisy hes criticizing local officials for not doing what he has recommended well back earlier during the pandemic he was criticized for not doing what federal officials recommended i dont believe that any federal administration could be serious about physical lock downs of states or parts of states across this country i dont believe its illegal i think it would be economic chaos the decision around nursing home with Governor Cuomo decreeing that co that 19 patients should be sent there at a pretty big impact many have not forgotten what they see is a pretty big misjudgment that cost many lives there is something disgusting that democrats are doing that joe biden does and that you do which is you try to blame the people who lost their lives on your political enemies was it a mistake when your brother implemented a policy that Nursing Homes had to accept coded positive patients and endangered the lives of my brother was the 1st i want to say state that there was a learning cuomo has also faced criticism for allowing black lives matter protests to take place despite talking up the risks were talking about reopening in one week in new york city. And now were seeing these meth maersk. Yeah that rings over the past several minutes that could in fact exacerbate the. Spread now despite his policy differences with the white house new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his best wishes to President Donald Trump when he got coded 19 that is unlike new york citys mayor bill de blasio who saw it as an opportunity to take the president to task i think its another reminder of why what some of us have been saying is right wear masks practice social distancing and take it seriously this president obviously didnt do it and paid the price party lines power and position mean nothing to the coronavirus everyone is at risk now new york Governor Andrew Cuomo admits the leaders of the state it is trump and to run against cove it new york has had the worst record in its handling. Of it in the country i mean new york has had the worst. Case death rate statistics and the worst grade the incidence of govt in the country because much of the media in the United States is entirely in coots with the Democratic Party cuomo hasnt suffered any adverse consequences on that so yes its hypocritical but he can get away with it hes going to blame him to go with trump and pose as the hero who somehow saved new york at the same time in the media and watch and allow him to get away with it. Across the atlantic theres been a major embarrassment in efforts to combat covert off nearly 16000 positive test results from england vanished on a National Tracing System how about efforts to find people whove been in contact with infected individuals. Thousands of people blissfully unaware theyve been exposed to cope with it potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and where in the 2nd wave of the error occurred at the end of last month data failed to transfer from labs to an excel spreadsheet use the time event on was misleading figures suggest that the situation was beginning to plateau but the missing cases confirmed theyre still on our board trajectory thats forced the Health Secretary to admit the mistake this incident should never have happened but the team of acted swiftly to minimize its impact and now its critical that we Work Together to put this right what i can say is that all those people obviously being contacted in the key thing is as i say that everybody whether it be in this group or all generally shouldnt should so price if thats the way to make it work or when the era was for us then else there was an outcry online not least because it was revealed a supposedly world beating test then true system was using an updated version of x. L. That shocked many considering the billions of pounds spent on developing the up got opinion from people across london. Blues you know ive sung every day im going no small number this world wide and big numbers so this is Serious Business and i before he was tempted these got to go to new acts and i imagine theyll develop it as time goes on and there is no real present in the n. H. S. 16000 if that because its a big relief to people to somebody end of. It without enough effect and in that case if the repository they could it dished out a lot thats all i know not to anyone and i doubt wed be in such a hard to defend that if the governments going to have to rethink from fear and paranoia i think people will produce intense take out the solution people seem. To know their expressions something that should feel guys already should be punished and probably. In the meanwhile here in moscow the mayor is warning that the cope with the situation is reaching a critical point in faction life moves closer to the peak of the pandemic in the spring well take a look at those details after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics or business im sure business ill see you there. Welcome back to the program the coronavirus is once again tightening its grip on the russian capital the last 24 hours have seen more than 4000 new infections recorded here in moscow city authorities to bring in new restrictions and has the latest. Well the russian capital has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of new covert cases up to 4000. 00 per day this comes as the country as a whole sees this sharp increase in the number of cases the highest its seen since the beginning of may this year now the russian capital unless a case of be on it has said the situation in moscow is becoming more serious by the day the situation with 19 is getting more complicated and dramatic day by day in terms of identifying new cases were preaching the peak we had in spring the number of those hospitalized today has exceeded a 1000 people the op would trend continues now with such a substantial increase in numbers talk on the street has turned to whether moscow is heading for another lockdown however theres no official talk of that as of yet however things are tightening up starting from this monday schools were told to take a 2 week unplanned holiday on top of that people over the age of 65 and those with chronic illnesses will not be able to travel for free on public transport across the city starting from this friday on top of that tickets will be exclusively electronic for places like theaters and other the news and businesses citywide have been told to send at least 30 percent of their employees home to work now on top of these measures to Health Care Facilities that have been reopened to cope with the rising number of covert cases those are the circle in the exhibition and Convention Center and the credit score a ice palace now these were built especially to cope with the pandemic. To be and then the most going there was that and highlighted what a Critical Role these 2 facilities will play in the fight against the virus certainly with that of these hospitals do not exist separately they are part of the moscow hospital infrastructure leading the fight against kobe had 19 of these clinics these inpatient facilities provide necessary medical staff. For the backup hospitals i hope they work in fact if we and will save the lives of many people in moscow so moscow is at once again bracing itself this is your thirtys have said that these measures should be enough to stem the further spread of the virus however as we have seen in other countries everybody has to play a role were all responsible for following the rules wearing our mosques keeping our distance and washing our hands because nobody wants to return to another lockdown. All over the Central Asian country of kyrgyzstan where more riots have been reported in the capital thats the spy its a multinational call for car protests erupted on monday following the weekends disputed parliamentary elections one person was killed in those demonstrations more than 700 others injured the Electoral Commission has now an old the results of the vote. Im sure to keep. Those muscles. Under the burden of. The. Sight of them in the jungle people often. Have i. Think. The Prime Minister and several regional heads have now resigned the capitals mayor quit as well off the protesters occupied city holbrook claimed his replacement there thought hes a cold everyone to maintain order. A local journalist in bishkek sent us this report on the often off of monday nights violence the l a times square the how did occur distance political life is still full of people political leaders to be as to their been asked in an action of protest in the center of the sca trying all day to figure out how the council will get out of the political crisis the Central Election Commission today declared the elections in the country invalid and in the morning they lead us a Political Parties that did not answer parliament began to buy the offices of the ministries the Current Parliament was going to meet in the one of the hotels today but only a few deputies came to this meeting at the same time the coordinating council has been created in the country which is represented by a well known political who demand the resignation of the president and theyre going to zation of the new government in kurdistan in the meantime current member of government to clear that they continue to fulfill their judas the National Bank called on commercial banks to stop their activities until the situation is could fight believe is a political move. Continue negotiations them selfs it is not known what the president of the country is going to do in this situation demonstrations likely to continue but perhaps called evening will make its own adjustments to morris minor for russia today from. A Smartphone App has been launched in the u. K. To record and remotely store video of police stop and search is a law firm is behind the move and says its to ensure there is evidence of any interaction with offices the criminal lawyer who developed the app says it can provide a different perspective on an incident compared to Police Body Cam video where cameras are sometimes turned off or recordings lost and you upload to the cloud in real time so if something happens to the phone the video is saved or the launch comes amid growing debate about the disproportionate use of stop and search towards members of the black community the latest annual figures for England Wales suggest that black people are stopped more than anyone else the proctors was brought in amid a spike in Violent Crimes stop and searches are up 40 percent this year in london alone police claim the practice though is only used when necessary. Stop and search is never used likely and Police Officers will only exercise their legal right to stop members of the public and search them when they genuinely suspect that doing so will further their investigations into criminal activity whether that means looking for weapons drugs or stolen property criminal lawyer michael foot explain to us why it is are they out that outlined his personal experience with police. I developed this because its something thats been. Causing much strive for generations in the black and ethnic minority communities although i must stress that this is not just aimed at black an ethnic minority people its for anyone who who is at risk of being stopped and searched and its something thats happened to me so i was in a car with 4 other law students as it happened and we experienced what was a hard start with 2 Police Vehicles blocked the stop was done extremely aggressively where the the police were swearing and it was it was truly shocking and i thought that there needs to be. An ability for people the people being stopped and searched and lawyers potentially if the allegations of any. Misconduct by the police to rapidly assess the evidence which is what this ups designed to to collect and protect and it will be a very valuable asset i suspect for for people when the unbelievable happens they will now be believed. Were finishing out with a rare and beautiful site from china which is celebrating its made order festival holiday in one province where it has got to experience what a unique phenomenon. Very latest poll that i got looked at about conflicts last saw their power poles was read america 2020 and russia in latine 17 find out lot of moral crosstalk that he would all back in 30 minutes with the latest. Shots seem wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape our disdain comes to educate and in detroit equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground