Live from moscow you want your theme to national with me Daniel Hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. I will start with breaking news this hour the Prominent Russian opposition activist alexina valley is out of an induced coma the hospital treating him in berlin made the announcement in the last hour but it said its too soon to say if you suffered any lasting damage germany said last week youve been poisoned with nerve agent these are live pictures we can bring you of the hospital where novelli is being treated just to remind you that the kremlin has denied any involvement International Pressure against moscow has been building well live from the hospital were going live to our studio in berlin with pizza all over peter thanks for coming out of line again whats the latest what do we know about the valleys obviously good news for him good news for his family as well the last thing we just dont know yet. Yes certainly good news for all x. In the valley and for his family the shallot a hospital here in berlin has announced that hes being woken from a medically induced coma that hes been in for well just over 2 weeks now the early reports are that hes starting to breathe on his own without machinery and that hes responding to verbal to verbal stimuli. The patients artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off of mechanical ventilation hes reacting to being spoken to but the long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out. Or berlin claims Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the highly deadly incredibly deadly novacek nerve agent that sparked well huge tensions internationally in fact early on monday at the lunch time German Government press briefing almost every question was about the future of the north stream to gas pipeline in the wake of the allegations made by germany against russia and russian involvement in the but what they call the poisoning of alexei in the fall and the now the Government Spokesperson stefans i bet had said that the economic project that was not stream 2 was separate from anything to do with alexei nonviolently for now he did say that could change in the future but thats pretty much the same message as were getting from the kremlin we heard from jimmy to the press corps of the kremlin Spokes Person saying that it was too soon to lump together nord stream to end the volley right now but there have been some well upset from moscow towards berlin that they felt that germany was dragging its feet when it came to responding to requests from moscow for information relating to the novelli case particularly information and evidence relating to the claims that he was poisoned with a nerve agent however on monday we also heard from the Foreign Ministry here in berlin and the foreign minister himself piko mouse saying that the wheels were in motion in order to transfer that information over to moscow. Who does increase of weve already agreed to russias request fully go assistance with all the Russian Ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that if there was a request for Legal Assistance we would agree to says there was no reason not to greeted. Well that new seems to have produced a new seems to a party. Which brighter response from the kremlin we had forgotten from Dmitri Peskov he seemed pleased with the news coming out of berlin. And even used we have certainly noted the German Farmers the statement and the glove thats in the nearest timeframe the information will be delivered and that there are no reasons for this information not to be delivered bearing in mind the high profile of this issue we are counting on receiving the information in the upcoming days we very much awaited. Meanwhile in london last week we heard from johnson the british Prime Minister pointing a finger firmly towards moscow and saying russia was to blame for the poisoning of alexina valmy this week were seeing a more cautious tone taken from the British Government dominic robb the foreign secretary was wheeled out in front of the cameras to say that it was far too soon to proportion blame. The use of mobile chalk it doesnt matter the state actor of nonstate actor is a violation of International Law and lets be really clear about this were not yet in a position to attribute. So that latest news alexina valmy is awake from the coma that hes been in for just over 2 weeks. He is responding to verbal stimuli and starting to breathe on his own. Peter all of that live from berlin with that update p. Thanks so much for keeping us in the loop. And russia analyst amata macaulay says there are many parallels to the script our case in the u. K. In particular the fact that many questions remain unanswered. And we can make any judgment at present because he may in fact have no memory at all what happened to him but he may have they have some memory of it and were waiting for that and then we can judge from that you look at the script out. A Police Officer was affected and a woman was infected unfortunately she died and thats what was very very dangerous everyone was really scared of coming into contact or having who was had contact with his sheep or where was he and so on and now we have a situation where medellin it didnt in fact anyone knows what it was quite strange so thats why it may be a different no there each and than the one which affected the script function there is a general. Understanding at the moment your group to which this nation admitted it belongs is that it affects other people as well the people around you and so on and they are in danger as well but this is different this is one of the good new questions which has to be resolved the investigations be investigated how is it possible that only one person trying to deny me was infected and not anybody else. More than a 1000 people gathered in the city of rochester in the state of new york overnight demanding accountability for the Police Killing of a black man in rest there began after Video Showing Police placing a split heard on daniel proved one officer placed his hands on prudes head while another put his knee on prudes back which led to his suffocation death which happened back in march will now be investigated by a grand jury in one on saturday the city of portland marked 100 consecutive days of black lives matter rallies triggered by the death of george floyd. I. I. 59 arrests have been made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author donors are believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. But i guess breaking down were seeing our street fighting street fighting going on growing levels valving both the leftists and rightists. As a kind of a slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and fighting endless lawsuits and determined no one knows. Meanwhile in the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of march through loose fill. Campaigners converged on the city demanding saturdays Kentucky Derby horse race be canceled events they went ahead activists were also denouncing police violence. Police want to show also marched through the city and were confronted by a black large amount of protest 7. Well one American Company seems to be cashing in on the unrest leading far as make us with smith and wesson a scene sales jump a 140 percent this year that surround 134000000. 00 in extra sales. Again and believes the gun boom is symptomatic of the countrys political stalemate. Both sides are arming i mean there are Guns Everywhere what if you go to one of these protests in places like the midwest or the west you will see guns on both sides and its very dangerous and people tend to use these weapons and so but the but theres no force capable of stopping this fighting because im it seems to have taken a life of its own and its just part of the whole political structure which is in and like celebrating break down what i mean america is a is a failed state and its failing after more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these the street fighting is a symptom. With nationwide unrest against Racial Injustice likely to stretch all the way to november election one side is warning that only a bottom victory can stop the violence Democratic Party think tanks insists anything other than a win for them and will just bring more chaos moral not story just ahead. Of you corona virus infections in france is seeing restrictions were turned in some areas 7 reasons have been put on a red zone list while some schools have been closed again just a week off the reopening showed it has more details. This is the 2nd week of school in france and already some of those schools have had to be closed down because of covert 19 within the institutional last week more than 12000000 peoples went back to the classrooms and that was with some parents and teachers expressing concern about the transmission rates of the virus because they have been really creeping up here in france last week several days there were more than 7000 cases wedged in a 24 hour period 22 schools have been shut in the last week but hundreds and hundreds of classes have also been closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. Out of the small 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main one france considering there are 60000 establishment in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we closed down that makes 22 and told on function. Well there are now 70 new zones in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of 19 it means 28. 00 regions in total are considered rent in the french area and this allows authorities to impose extra controls to try to cool the transmission of the virus one of the measures that authorities can take when theyre in a red zone is to impose something such as the obligation to wear a face mask a public such as we have in paris which means every street youre in you have to wear a face mask but there is a backlash against such measures like that anti mask sentiment also being shown elsewhere across europe with protests over the weekend from places such as the u. K. In spain to italy. It was and. It. Was. Meanwhile here in france there are some calls for people to wear face masks specifically from the riders of the Tour De France which is making its way through the country at the moment its beg its fans who are coming out to the streets to wave them as they pass by to be responsible and to wear masks so it seems there is a huge divide still over the measures that are being used to trying 1000. 00 whether thats wearing a mask whether thats a quarantine or whether thats imposing lockdowns local restrictions the methods being used to remain highly contentious. Israels imposing curfews in 40 cities following a recent spike of covert 19 cases the restrictions require businesses to close by 7 pm and ban people from venturing far from their homes in the evenings schools and colleges also have to shut. The professional elements were in there given the situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself within the moment with a dangerous addition of severe cases in deaths and the danger that the teams of doctors treating corona new hospitals could collapse the initial plan had been to impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities and socalled red zones but following pressure from local mayors it was scaled back to evenings only with an additional 10 cities added to the list theres been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month with daily cases now reaching almost 3000. 00. Meanwhile protests against the governments handling of the planned have now entered their 11th week over the weekend Police Officers could be seen lifting protesters off the road and carrying them away as people gathered near the Prime Ministers official residence demonstrators are calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to quit not just because of the coronavirus but also over his current corruption trial. We can go live now to professor cheryl cohen head of the 3 of you know Therapy University professor thanks for joining us today good to have you on the program what do you think is behind this spike in national covert cases. Basically what we have seen in person to weeks. After reopening around june schools and enabling. Places of gathering to thrive where we have seen basically is a slow rise in the number of people being infected unfortunately point we thought that we were nearing the 1000 something cases then we thought that that was more of a stabilizing but as we have seen in the past 2 weeks weve seen a constant tries and as you say justly we are now around 3000 cases. For every day each day so now one of the reasons a few reasons we have again is there is a crisis of confidence in the public meaning people do not feel the need to always abide by the regulation the 2nd thing is does our lot of gatherings like for example weddings at night that are taking place although theyre forbidden but people are actually organizing them in places private places so its very difficult to locate them and to close them down so we have seen due to do. To this to describe of behavior we have seen a rise 2nd main problem we have a lack of efficient trast scene right now we are not able to correctly train seeing every single case because our a lot of cases and the 2nd thing is that because we are still in we are still trying to implement our new system for tracy and that is taking too much time again another reason why we see a rise. Do you think this new system of law and curfews has come too little too late so do you think this will be able to prevent a rise in infections or do you think as soon as that curfew is lifted if the number of actions falls it will then rise again i mean arent we just playing catch up here. Yeah no i fully agree basically i look at that mall like a bandaid because basically what we know is that no curfew or no look down is efficient if you do not have a structure and neighbor. Is a tracing of the people that are sick and the isolation of those people from the community so basically we might see a slow i would say slow. Down fall or we might see a really reduced number of cases perhaps from 3002222500 but still that doesnt mean that we are over that unfortunately we need to take it is my opinion more drastic measures do you expect people to comply with these curfews weve seen protests already against the way the governments been handling them do you think people are going to stick to the rules. I think that the main problem is that people are there is a lack of confidence in the government mainly because every few hours the decisions in some measure are being changed because of political pressure i think thats one of the problem one of the problems we have right now i think that people cannot understand why you cant allow for example demonstrations as you say a few minutes ago and then why you cant allow for example open air concerts or things like that so people are kind of confused and when youre confused and you can you will not collaborate you will not cooperate and we need the people to call abrasion because after all this is a virus. That is transmitted from one person to another so people are willing the will of the people people willing to comply censure to prevent the further spread of the virus professor cyril current head of the world tree of immunotherapy at the University Thanks for joining us on the program today. Thank you. May be claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the United States a rival Democratic Party things x. Though say another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets a lot more pain has been looking at those claims. In november the us public will get to vote on who becomes president for the next 4 years and figures from the media and political establishment are now preparing the public for possible outcomes something called the transition integrity project created in 2019 is planning for things that could go wrong during the upcoming vote and subsequent transition of power theyve been playing out war games and some rather interesting scenarios have been dreamed up with the exception of the big biden win scenario each of our exercises reach the brink of catastrophe but massive disinform ation campaigns of violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfits thinking along these lines hawkish and outfit funded by Michael Bloomberg does work for the Democratic National committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on Election Night was exactly that and the rush it looked like donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump refusing to step down and thats rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing a pattern here well the New York Times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly his a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and better reuss to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally