RT News - August 06 2021 (17:00 MSK)

'An act of retaliation' - that's how the wife of Marty Gottesfeld has described news that the imprisoned US cyber activist has been denied access to his lawyer.  She says it's because he's tried to expose mistreatment in the prison. Anger boils in France after the constitutional court rules that a new law requiring the public to hold a health pass to get into restaurants, cafes and even hospitals, is legal. Tensions rise in Afghanistan where the Taliban claims it's seized a provincial capital in the country the first in five years that after an attack by the militants leaves the head of the Afghan government's media department dead.