Dawns. Back in march Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a coup which unto body chess as a game changer in the battle against a deadly virus millions of tests were purchased and subsequently found to be totally useless even no approved antibody tests are not to be able to the general population unless they buy their own private yet another game changer in the testing regime was to be the Contact Tracing out launched by english hung called amid great fun fare as a trial in the isle of wight in me it was subsequently abundant in june and now a new up has been launched on the same island and the london borough of new and criticism still continues on the results of the present manual system in england with the guardian reporting last week that the trysting results were being cut by delays and home test failures meanwhile the Scottish Press last week was full of stories of anxious people seeking a local test and instead being referred to Testing Centers in england or Northern Ireland so why
Whether youre watching from memory texas or one of the carolinas this is R T International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. All right now the e. U. Foreign policy chief has condemned the alleged poisoning of alexina volley calling it an assassination attempt the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator in a berlin hospital 2 weeks after being airlifted from russia berlin said on wednesday he had been poisoned with a nova choke a nerve agent russia is calling for dialogue stating its still received no data from germany on the findings reporting on the International Fallout from the alleged poisoning of election of ali his arties peter all of. Well im glad merkel speaking here in berlin alongside the swedish Prime Minister stefan levin briefly touching on alexina vile me and saying how germany would respond to russia depended on russia right now and how it responds to those allegations that came out on wednesday as it stands moscow is
Russian Opposition Leader like cinnabon he was poisoned by a nerve agent that belongs to the group comes to weeks after the activist fell ill on a flight to moscow before he was airlifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin so lets go straight to berlin d the german capital of the peter oliver is based there and is following this story for us good morning peter we know at this point there has been a response from russia to those claims what russia had to say. Well russia has reacted to claims from germany that alexina valmy was poisoned with a novacek nerve agent both the Foreign Ministry in moscow and the embassy the Russian Embassy here in berlin have criticized the announcement. What we do but that only in liverpool if there is any day doubt we will work it there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy because there voiced by a Foreign Ministry that many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to say diversion doctors in arms share their con
This is r. T. International coming to you live from moscow with their global news update this hour. Moscow says that it fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that russian Opposition Leader accent of all nick was poisoned by a nerve agent a problem spokesperson dmitri pasco of also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue on wednesday berlin announced it had found traces of. Me meanwhile the president of belarus has claimed that the countrys Security Forces have intercepted a call which cast doubt on berlins poisoning allegations. Because. Its good we have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its soulful sophistication. Didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. The kremlin says it has no details on those claims as of yet which have not been confirmed the german chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke this thursday about the c
Back. We had a great session last night. This of course is the 2019 International Conference on the American Revolution. Were meeting at the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. Were very thankful to our sponsors. Richard c von hess foundation, and john am jeanne roe. Theres a long genie all itchy to this topic. It goes back more than a quarter century. Very personal for me. It starts with insight thats brought out in the exhibition that is celebrated, here the life and death of a irish soldier. This explores connections between the American Revolution and ireland through the eyes of st. George, both a soldier and. Artist not a fine artist, a caricaturist. Of course we know that satire and mockery, something we use a lot here among the staff at the museum can reveal a lot about culture. This is certainly a theme that comes up. About 30 years ago when i was a graduate student doing research for a dissertation chapter in edinburgh, there was another graduate student at the