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All welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me to. Our top story this hour the Prominent Russian opposition activist alexina valley is out of an induced coma but the hospital treating him in berlin says its too soon to say if hes suffered any long term effects meanwhile the Russian Ambassador in london was summoned to the Foreign Office where he said there would be nothing but unfounded accusations against russia piece all of the reports from berlin. Of the statement put out by a shot at a hospital here in berlin says that alexei in the valley has be woken from the induced coma hes been in for just over 2 weeks that hes starting to breathe on his own and hes responding 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 long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out or berlin claims that alexina volunteer was poisoned with the deadly nerve agent novacek those claims at least have caused real tensions globally early on monday at the German Government press briefing around lunch time there was a question upon question upon question about whether the the case would affect the north stream to gas pipeline in fact almost every other question about that multinational Infrastructure Project the line from the German Government at the moment is that that is an economic project and its separate from anything to do with the cakes for now they say that could change in the future but ultimately it pretty much echoes what weve heard coming out of the Kremlin Dimitri press golf the kremlin Spokes Person said that its far too soon to be lumping together in a vile knee with north stream to moscow had been accusing berlin of dragging its feet when it came to handing over crucial information relating to alexina vonnie particularly the evidence germany says it has that he was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent or weve heard from the foreign minister germany heiko mass saying wheels are in motion to send information over to russia pursue does increase of weve already agreed to russias request for assistance with all the Russian Ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that in there was a request for a Legal Assistance who would agree to assist there was no reason not to greeted. Well dan you seem to produce a brighter mood from the kremlin spokesman to me to the press corps of a to a new minister and 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 weve heard a different tone from the British Government just last week Boris Johnson the Prime Minister pointed a finger squarely at russia saying they were to blame for alexina vollies illness this week were seeing the foreign secretary dominic robb wheeled out in front of the cameras to say its far too soon to proportion blame and lets be really clear about this were not yet in a position to attribute any use of norbert york doesnt matter when its a state actor in nonstate actor is a violation of International Law so that latest news alexina valmy is awake from the coma that hes been in for just over 2 weeks and he is responding to verbal stimuli and starting to breathe on his own. And see the Washington Pain Center earlyish at his thoughts on the valleys recovery. I think 2 things about it i think youre looking at 2 factors no one is how much there was he was given so might have been a very you know a minimal dose or whatever the case might be perhaps you get medical attention fairly quickly so if i please and but i get medical treatment very quickly i can probably survive the poisoning of poison ive been susceptible to is a sub lethal dose or whatever the case might be there perhaps i can also survive it so there are 2 factors here how much was given and also the appropriateness of the medical care that the patient received positive sign is that hes responding to viable stimuli the supreme high function squeeze my hand with your feet things like that really create new so i think im cautiously very optimistic about this patient. More than a 1000 people gathered in the city of rochester in the state of new york on sunday night demanding accountability for the Police Killing of a black man be on rest that began after video about showing police placing a spit heard on daniel prove how one officer places hands on prudes head while the other put his knee on prudes back which led to his suffocation death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meanwhile saturday the city of portland month 100 consecutive days of black lives musser rallies triggered by the death of george floyd. There were dozens of arrests in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel is that believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. But at breaking down were seeing street fighting the street fighting going on you know growing level involving both the leftist and right this. Is a kind of nice slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because the american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well end up infighting endless lawsuits and indeterminate outcome no one knows meanwhile in the state of kentucky hundreds of armed protesters from rival groups have marched through louisville black lines must account painters converged on the city demanding 5 days iconic Kentucky Derby horse race be counseled so it still went ahead the activists were also denouncing Police Violence and protests Police Militia also launched to the city and was confronted by black lines not to protest as. I want to American Company company is doing well as has the unrest leading firearms make a smith and wesson hissing sound jumped 140 percent this year thats around 134000000. 00 in extra sales tanya was there again believes the gun being the 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 and in places like the net midwest or the west youll see guns on both sides and its very dangerous and because 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 expel orating breakdown i mean america is a is a failed state and its failing ever more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these the street fighting is a symptom of that. With nation wide unrest against Racial Injustice likely to stretch all the way to novembers president ial election was line is warning the only Biden Victory can stop violence Democratic Party think tanks insist anything other than a win for their man will just bring more chaos that story is still ahead. A surge of new Coronavirus Infections in france is seeing restrictions were turned in some areas 7 regions have been put on the red list while some schools have closed again just a week after reopening. Most 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 fronts last week several days there were more than 7000 cases registered 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 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main line france considering there are 60000 establishment in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we close down that makes 22 in total function and 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 here in 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. The owner. Was a little bit you. Going to. The. 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 begged 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 try and curb covert 19 whether thats wearing a mask whether thats a quarantine or whether thats imposing lockdowns local restrictions the methods being used remain highly contentious. The whole trial may be claiming only a vote for him will guarantee law and order in the u. S. But rival Democratic Party think tanks they another 4 years of him in the white house will only result in more violence on the streets more than has been looking at the 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 with massive dissin from nation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfits thinking along these lines hark fish 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 in 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 only bidens. Victory can save the country from chaos dont buy it and lets not forget another factor being thrown ian allegations of russian interference the allegation is that russia favors trump and denigrates biden so russia must be preemptively punished before the elections even happen to prevent meddling with us to draw upon the conclusion of the Intelligence Community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference including any actives within the government of the Russian Federation and the russian act is determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf providing material Financial Support for their efforts russia is also accused of spreading rumors about mail in vote in order to undermine the us elections but its not really russia thats doing that unless of course the kremlin controls american t. V. Networks there are cases from just this last spring or were ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best as are humans fraud violence mail and voting already happening. Not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already caring for how to handle the results will be the bill will be the hero and how they will tell you to react theyre already setting a climate where theres going to be massive speculation about which it in a sea of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum well it is not going to do you could see the election if you loses and then what happened oh the democrats didnt concede hillary didnt concede we dont with russia gate were 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any supporter be smart to not be in there if they learn a liberal city its not be there on Election Night they are going to burn the place to the ground they know theyre going to lose and so theyre already setting up the game to further damage his presidency and to damage his 2nd term should he win so itll be another scandal itll be another local im absolutely Conspiracy Theory like russia gate maybe russia gay part to who knows here without toll on the way off the lengthy legal wrangling and a covert imposed delay the herring finally gets underway in london for the wiki leaks founder Julian Assange which will decide whether to hold on thanks joe di to the us i thought that story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you there. Welcome back the extradition hearing for the wiki leaks founder Julian Assange has begun in london and has been postponed for months due to the coronavirus lockdown so he had was done she reports from outside London Central criminal court. Well very early in the morning i saw for myself the very van the blacked out found i was carrying to massage into the criminal court but here outside we heard from his father but also 6 from his partner son of morris also mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his Immediate Release so do they really does open up the new its chapter in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute jude in a sarge for alleged playing a massive role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States and if found guilty and convicted he could go down for a 175 years as the u. S. Has of course indicted him on 18 counts under mostly the espionage act so the u. S. Really want him to face trial for spying and publishing these classified documents all related to the war in iraq and afghanistan plus one of conspiracy to how could government computer to publish these documents as well now just a few minutes ago we heard from the wiki leaks editor in chief hes outlined the gross hypocrisy in this case and really points to the lack of justice in the socalled Justice System will. Limit. That to julios lawyers d willing to work with the witnesses the way your perception of what. Choosing limits you to lose your use of privilege to to present the witnesses theres no mention of that would be any limitation with russia so the issue for me here if you had to do that is why is it which it is very disappointing already on day one of the extradition hearing we already have some Key Developments firstly the noirs have informed the court that theyve not been able to see journalists are just the 1st time in 6 months we also understand that youre in a science has been sucked in a glass box very similar to the proceedings earlier this year in february just before the covert 19 pandemic that time you said he couldnt hear properly and almost compared to myself to nothing more than a spectator. Wimbledon cheered us on just journey to court here today has been a very tumultuous one over the past few years as he was turned back into the public eye and april of 2019 when he was infamously holed out of londons Ecuadorian Embassy by British Police he was of course seeking political asylum and was there for almost 7 years now he then began serving a 50 week sentence at Londons Belmarsh prison for skipping bell back in 2012 but he has spent over a year and a half at the belmarsh prison and in fact not once has been any evidence has been presented in court now at this 11th hour last ditch effort weve seen a german m. P. Called on the German Government to now provide you in a song for the political asylum i call of the German Government also Julian Assange political asylum in germany all within the European Union and i ask my government if the German Government can bring the russian alexina vanya to the shard to hospital in berlin why doesnt it make the same offer to the seriously ill to get a song on the key point for genocide just defense team is theyll go down the medical groups ground of course when julian was silent was at the belmarsh prison he was back and forth in and out of the medical ward he has been incredibly on well many people saying his health has been deteriorating over the last few years and for many of the Court Proceedings he is not able to be there physically as well so his team would argue hes unfit to travel to the u. S. To face trial over in america on top of that the noise would also contend that the u. S. Is seeking to prosecute you in a search for political offenses and that therefore exempts him from extradition under the u. K. U. S. Extradition treaty but the prosecutors will take a different approach they will try to establish that a soldiers actions were not political they endangered lives for compromising these classified top secret documents now we are just at day one of a 4 week hearing proceedings for the extradition of 2 massage it will ultimately decide his fate but campaigners outside the. Bailey heard today say its not just airless art as an adult today but also sat behind him on the site it is the fundamental tenets of the freedom of press around the rights of the public to access information as well they say a genocide is accurate i did write only silence him but it will catch on all the journalism world wide so the press freedom for stakes already that high. Were now on scholar and social commentator noam chomsky told r. T. Hes going underground hey believes it would be illegal if the u. K. How the songs to america but with the approval of. Order of the British Government to exceed d to the us to the rich tradition of the soldiers of sense is not saying bill. That she had good reasons not to as it would have been extra do it if. It not being built requires a pat on the wrist not torture in a high security 1st day up to the point where hes not even a leader is allowed to receive books im a mass murderer youre being treated in a way beyond the worst vicious criminal ok and if hes extra good at it comes up for troil on the u. S. Espionage laws which even carry up to actual death. Its trial is being. Committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know that our full state still ward of the no. Israel has imposed curfews in 40 cities following a recent spike in covert 19 cases many restrictions require businesses to close by at 7 pm and bang people from venturing far far from their homes in the evenings schools and colleges also have to set. The professional elements were in there given the situation in israel the trend is liable to reverse itself at any moment with a dangerous addition of severe cases and deaths and the danger that the teams of doctors treating corona and the hospitals could collapse. The initial plan had been to impose a complete lockdown in 30 cities but following pressure from local matters it was scaled back to evenings only although with an additional 10 cities on it to the list theres been a steady rise in infections across the country so far this month with daily cases now reaching almost 3000 meanwhile protests against the governments handling of the pandemic have now entered the 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 according to Benjamin Netanyahu to quit not just because of the coronavirus but also over his current corruption trial the head of the immunotherapy ball and university explains why the number of cases in is well is on the rise. After reopening around june schools and enabling. Places of gathering to thrive where we have seen basically the slow rise in the number of people being infected there is a crisis of confidence in the public meaning people do not feel the need to always abide by the regulation people willing to comply essential to prevent the further spread of the virus the 2nd thing is that a lot of gatherings like for example weddings. That are taking place although they are forbidden but people are actually organizing them in places private places so its very difficult to locate them and to close them down 2nd main problem we have is of efficient trust seeing right now we are not able to correctly try seeing every single case because our a lot of good. The 2nd thing is that because we are still in we are still trying to implement our new system for tracing and that is taking too much time thats again another reason why we see a rise. In joining us here in our International Plans of all stories to be found on our website but back in 30 minutes see that. Were entering into this strange space you know i think about in the ninetys in the beginning of perpetual copyright and so are copyright essentially laws become perpetual and intellectual creativity is dead and to a large degree now after petrol live at home so the dynamism that would be coming with new household creation is dead and to a large degree we have propecia wall money printing money and money. So we have this deadening of Economic Growth because the printing money keeps their Zombie Companies and the banks alive so were basically burying ourselves them in perpetuity. 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