Russian opposition figurehead says he is making progress in his recovery. Over evidence. Broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International im sean thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the weeks top stories. Seen another day of mass unrest 6 weeks on from the contested election thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president lukashenko 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 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 minsk that theyre going to take the organizers go to lead them down and police are waiting for the witchy 2 2 convoys of police and Law Enforcement zuba 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 it has been the fathers are against. 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 take into playing loud patriotic music to drown out the chants of the cries from the from the protesters and did you have the last week it it irritates them no end never the see it has been called so far protesters gathered in the thousands now demanding for president of the shanku to resign to leave to hand over power of the government insisting on its own their supporters saying that he is the legitimate president the bun the election and the ds the xp. Yes the sanctions these protests that these rallies these demonstrations are already legal will perhaps be clashes later as the demonstrators head for government offices government buildings and residents of the president. Washington as reimpose the u. N. Sanctions against iran which were in place before the 2015 nuclear deal the move has put the u. S. Out odds 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 of 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 NationsMember 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 read the benefits of un prohibited activity france germany and the United Kingdom know that the u. S. 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 now taking action because an arms embargo on iran expires in october irans president Hassan Rouhani has denounced of the move saying it his country will never give in to pressure while the nations Foreign Ministry urged washington to have a rethink. Pyometra devotion to on 10 runs message to washington is clear return to the Global Community returning to your. Talk the rebellion and then the Global Community will look simple to you but as you heard from political analyst. He thinks the u. S. Is getting dwindling support in its approach to iran. Not to be any partners its going to accept that premise. The us 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 StatesForeign Policy so we have this. Conflict escalating and we hope that president is not interested in the. Scenario if. 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 that 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 group a 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 private when germany says it cant tell us anything to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons weve been to you several times and they say. We are ready to talk to anyone when 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. Doctors found no trace of 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. 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 must answer and we continue calling us here to just to get 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 falls insists aking place against the backdrop of facts that our proposals to berlin to jointly 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 are very negatively the fact that germany refusing to assist the russian Law Enforcement agencies secretly transferred no 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 help 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 bag watchdog of becoming politicized bureaucracy dont you like so Many International institutions its always going 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 interest to go to alleged Chemical Attacks in syria that 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 case where of course britain 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 to 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 in tomsk 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 know a child we spoke to the cocreator of that very nerve agent who claims if it was used in a volley would not have made it to the flame. It would be found he wouldnt have been able to leave the hotel if it was nobody and he really touched it or drank something 1st of all even in small and not very toxic doses provokes pupil 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 poisoning and nova chalk a 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 it 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. A 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 max loss and the head of oxfams inequality policy division says pharmaceutical companies are putting profits 1st. Its extremely dangerous for the world because rich nations with. The superiority of a potential breakthrough but more importantly they do big corporations. Defending their intellectual property and i prefer meaning that the soup lowing. Banks. Oxfam says 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 prove 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 the potential drug shortages oxfam says quote the vaccine deals that lay bare the inequality between a 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 in stark contrast the figure is only one dose for 9 people max lawson again says that prolonged on 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 they said again or bury high price somewhere between 16. 00 and 35. 00 a day and you have to have 2 doses so thats like 70. 00 per person so they are very clear that they are there doing things 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 patent barriers and we need to see open sharing your back same technology to maximise the supply. And effective vaccines all over the world as soon as possible the huge economic and human cost of it did in the variability of the vaccine if you think of countries like india or south africa brazil if these countries are not getting access to safe and effective saying until 2022 then they would have more lockdowns their economies would be huge trouble and many many people would dog who do not need to because the vaccine has been how to fish in the russian and private profits of pharmaceutical corporations. Still to come this hour the israeli Prime Ministers decision to send the country into a 2nd lockdown has caused widespread anger even on the beach that story much more appropriate because the weekly large international. Democracy has just been domestically known internationally and weve seen efforts by International Organizations and governments to promote democracy in countries like iraq afghanistan we see how difficult it is also with the it has to be reduced domestically because always International Actors need to be in the country 24. 00 sevenths to make is sustainable. So any country in the world that build a sustainable democracy has to domestic sometimes of its National Health mystically. A new gold rush is underway in ghana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here is a good. As. Those that work children are torn between galled. From me was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. Back this is the weekly on our Team International now the shortage of covered 1000. 00 that testing in the u. K. Has led teachers to question the safety of reopening schools pupils and staff are among those struggling to get checked 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 1000 in the alarm but a chronic lack of Testing Facilities means that i get taken in england may grind 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 home 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 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 test 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 isnt 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 in 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