From moscow youre watching r. T. International hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. Could not have survived if hed been poisoned with shock thats the claim at least of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he fell severely ill 2 weeks ago. As more details. The doctors that 1st try to lex in the valley when his plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing with him in clear distress he was making his way from siberia to moscow he didnt make it there the plane landed in bombs that was way he received treatment 1st theyve dismissed claims from here in germany in berlin where hes currently being treated that he was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent they say that being poisoned with such an agent he would have died spent hours after the poisoning and been administering it they say that theyve carried out over 60 tests on alexina valmy while he was in their care they found no trace of any toxin now they say theyve shared or made available the data from those tests they carried out theyve made that available to the german colleagues they now saying the time has come for the german colleagues to share the data that they have that claim that it that he was poisoned with this nerve agent. Of those when you know its not a diagnosis its not even a version but a sort of fiction fantastical suggestion or conclusion with no proof documentation or Clinical Evidence he would have died within hours 6 to 10 pm he would have been dead because its a severe poisoning were going to full speed into execution is fatal while alexei in the familys condition has improved hes been taken out of a medically induced coma that hed been in for just over 2 weeks and we understand that he is starting to breathe on his own again a diplomatic route over the whole incident continues to rumble on and is gaining momentum right in the crosshairs of that diplomatic row is the north stream to gas pipeline the project that would see russian gas pump directly from russia into germany now this has been something this has had its critics for a long time the United States has threatened crippling sanctions against it some of germanys own European Partners of being quite vocal critics of the north stream to pipeline. Project however as far as germany has been concerned in the past this is something thats an economic project and its set aside from Everything Else that may be going on however what we are starting to see is perhaps that mood may be changing in fact Friedrich Metz who is a man who has a pretty good chance of being until a miracle successor when she steps down as german chancellor next year he said. Well if he had the power now he would be placing an immediate 2 year moratorium on the Infrastructure Project while weve heard from senior cabinet figures here in berlin in the last week and also suggesting that the project may well be suspended or even cancelled Angela Merkel herself has limited what shes have to say to this wouldnt be a unilateral german decision to pause or cancel the north stream to pipeline that would have to be a decision taken at the paneuropean level at an e. U. Level but what we are seeing is previously what had been unthinkable now being talked about as potentially possible is this i left my into tufty this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do go because i think that we should couple these issues and in no opinion not 3 my 2 should be completed not just of the votes i think would be room through from the beginning but what is happening now you could have an impact from the projects the federal chancellor also sees it as wrong to rule that out the german side of said the future of nord stream 2 depends on how russia responds to accusations of poisoning against alexei in the valley now from the russian side weve heard quite a lot on tuesday coming out of the Foreign Ministry we heard on monday that requests for information from moscow to berlin would be met that heiko must the German Foreign minister had greenlit the process that would see information transferred over to russia however what were hearing from the russians. It is nothing is being forthcoming just yet we understand the german ambassador to moscow has been invited to the Foreign Ministry to discuss this matter further d he is a card of the russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says theyve received no information so far from germany and the starting to really want some answers to their requests we expect burden to provide all the data they have to the bundeswehr about to result and the evidence in possession of the german Foreign Ministry its time for them to show their cards because its obvious to everyone that the n is bluffing in the interest and due to political racket well alexina valmy it was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday hes understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shallot a hospital his condition were told isnt life threatening anymore. Ill just mention the north stream 2 part line now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations donald trump has repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one to work up you know heard of the north stream towards or drug able when i came along most of them and it was rejecting germany from russia. Meanwhile russias Foreign Ministry has weighed in on the role claiming europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washingtons poppet at a commentator i could hardly believe that germany would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on wall street. Its a catastrophe if this is being abolished because energy is the main cost for everything you do so if you increase the cost for your most vital product you need then you have disadvantaged in the Rural Economy so the German Economy will have no chance on competing in the World Economy and thats exactly what prime ones who want america 1st he wants American Business to go in germany and europe will be dependent on what mean possibility from poland because if the gas. Is not coming we are dependent on other routes and all the other routes are dependent on 3rd parties so we will always be able to be blackmailed by the other people and i think that is exactly what the americans with their polish partner once. A saudi courts overturn the death sentences of 5 people convicted of killing journalist remark a strategy that they were given 20 years in jail with 3 others getting 7 to 10 years the move was slammed by a top u. N. Official saudi persecutor prefer md one more today in this parody of justice but this verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy they came at the end of a process which was neither fair nor just or transparent and may the charges of elative say they had forgiven his murderous under islamic law that cleared the way for the revised sentences of the late journalist fiance that outfit as a mockery of justice a soldier was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago after hed gone there to get papers for his upcoming marriage his body was reportedly dismembered the remains were never found those sentence the believed to have been part of a hit squad sent to turkey from riyadh political analyst for sundra bruno claims the world has allowed justice not to be served. The fact that north was tried. Actually it raises many more suspicions for the World Community the opinion wont change the idea that the saudi government was behind it remains in fact if anything. Only proves it or at least goes further into that their action countries that the oil with saudi arabia diplomatic and business levels wont have any technical formal reasons to hold relations so whether while Public Opinion will certainly be negative at a technical level there will be no sanctions or other penalties that will impede saudi arabia from working with other countries. Socalled split cough attacks against police in the u. K. Are on the rise suspects are said to be taking advantage of the current fear of covert contamination with some officers claiming they can no longer properly carry out their duties. For the foregoing you know if they are. The rise in assaults is huge impacts on staff both physically and mentally and it has a huge impact on communities thousands and thousands of days of policing lost because of these assaults now in the country county of leicestershire the number of such attacks doubled that youre unlocked are more than 200 were recorded in just 3 months thats up from barely 100 incidents in the whole of last year now its not just spirit and cough attacks assaults are shooting up across the board theres been a 21 percent jump in attacks on British Police officers during blocked and almost 8000. 00 cases were registered before more Police Officer peter kirk im told us the coronavirus has given suspects a new weapon against lord was what officers. Provide. The why of people who would Assault Police by whatever method is available and other d why for them to get in into into offices. In a way that they feel will be more impact if just at the moment. Its just provided them with another weapon really the issue is wider than just the spitting spitting and coughing officers that were seeing with the covert epidemic and the problem is the decades 10 years of an anti Police Narrative by the government gleefully repeated by the media has resulted in respect and confidence in the police being severely undermined and not just to far beside. The police have been criticised at every turn so a symptom of the problem this country has had developing for some time which is the attacks on police are growing rapidly in both number and do severity. Global pandemic has been described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix its profits of servers during the locked out their company is not alone all major tech players have vastly increased their earnings in the last few months and lessons revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost 90000000000. 00 apple reported an 11 percent increase that almost 60000000000. 00 meanwhile streaming services have doubled subscribers in just 3 months or such huge profits havent gone unnoticed the e. U. Is looking to introduce a digital tax european moment is such firms should subsidize economies crippled by lockdowns. It is not possible to accept the idea that those digital giants the winners of the crisis are not paying a fair amount of taxes in europe and we cant manage this problem with single digital taxation we need at least at the European Union level a general measure economics professor Richard Wolfe believes targeting tech giants is just the 1st step to raising rights for all big corporations. I think you seen it already we have a history here in the United States of taxing monopolies an oligopoly these are huge businesses but it always takes pressure from below it takes a movement of working people labor unions and others to be able to get the politicians to act and my suspicion is it wont be different if thats what a little take the tax the tech giants now and once they go then the question will inevitably follow why are we not doing that for other our highly monopolized and overly wealthy corporations. The majority of British State doctors are considering quitting over the governments handling of the pandemic according to a new poll by the president of the Doctors Association says issues have been building for a long time. I think what you have 0 is our n. H. S. Colleagues have been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them have demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our workforce including absolutely were in s. G. In year tops of contracts changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months so we hear around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions tax crisis which has forced many of our most senior and experience experience starts its interest high and all of this was prior to us going into the end national crisis. Almost 2000 doctors took part in the 2 in 3 say there are more likely to leave the n. H. S. Through to the poor treatment from the government through in the code response most plan to get out within the next 3 years not poor working conditions were very high on the list of complaints among the main reason cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment as well others know theyve been gagged from speaking publicly about concerns but its also warn the bin had promised benefits revoked and working on a covert front line as also a major impact on mental health. Since weve had in may depend on me and weve had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling weve been separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone. It wasnt too long ago that we were talking about. Surviving on charitable donations and figured out how to stop just because crave it came and just pretty crap we deserve a profession and a home and a tax to serve better and that was what stage that was really me well the government insists its 3 percent pay rise or fall is good enough and Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the difficult winter period. We know that the n. H. S. Was very much understaffed and under resourced going into this pandemic and i have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this fire its we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for frontline and its our stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans lisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more who worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd set. May be coming within the u. K. So what were asking is that the government considers the hard work of those true key kids within the n. H. S. They show them how much theyre valued and they really are carted them to retain them in the n. H. S. Especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the u. K. Wildfires are continuing to run coverage in parts of california with the state currently enjoying a record heat wave or thirtys of no water the evacuation of the entire area of allbery as the fires creep of a closer. A high profile member of the opposition and but always has been arrested on the border with ukraine photos claims marina cholesterol had been kidnapped by a by the Russian Security officials were joined live by aunties really a patrol in cope with the latest updates on the syria thanks for keeping us in the mood what more do we know so far. Diana holo well just to begin with how this story started developing i can tell you that on monday a prominent bell russian opposition activists many a kalashnikov all along with 2 other men who are opposition members as well disappeared and they couldnt be reached on the phone their whereabouts were on known after pretty much 24 hours of conflict thing reports various rumors again conflict statements on behalf of the authorities and also the supporters of the opposition de president of Bell Roussel Xander look decided to speak out in fact he was giving an interview to russian t. V. Journalists our editor in chief morgan to see my nan was there as well so on choose date belorussian of 40 days started explaining and saying that bell russian authorities at the border had to detain Maria Kolesnik because she was trying to escape through bella russas southern border with ukraine and she did that with violations so what you are about to hear now are the very latest statements by the bell russian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Here are the details that he provided to us. Is that only could you give us more detail about Maria Kolesnikov or where is she. I probably cannot give you much detail due to the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends or drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed their passports on our side customs officers Border Guards let them through further on is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts there are 8 to 9 kilometers and there our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped before the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move on the run. So they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out Border Guards of course detained as would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the Border Office and the co went across the Ukrainian Border through the ukrainian post and then as far as im now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so they returned to us. Before they left the relatively speaking were released from. You know they could not be detained they travelled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the Border Guards and customs officers did their job and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this r