[000:00:00;00] the, this is dw news, live from berlin, who 10 killed my husband, alexis, of all these widow calls out the russian president and an emotional video. usually a novel, naya vows to carry on the kremlin, critics fight and says that russian authorities are hiding his body to cover up his murder in prison. also, the message that we need to send out is a, is a strength. that's the only language that uh, that to put in and his of a shame can understand the only way on the front lines of that this information war . we will hear from lots of culture minister about countering kremlin propaganda

plus 5 more years. germany's are so the funder line announces that she is ready to run for another term. as european commission president dw, looks back on her 10 years so far the i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program, you'll be a novel, naya, the widow of russian opposition leader, alexei nevada. the has accused vladimir putin of telling her husband and vowed to continue his work in a video posted on social media platform x. she called on supporters to resist bruton and fight for a free russia. it has been 3 days since russian authorities announced and of all new staff so far they have prevented his family and allies from seeing his body. it is, it gets a video eulley and about, and i said she didn't want to make calling out the russian president vladimir putin

for murdering her husband. why does that in the days since alexis, of all these death, if his wife has made it clear, she won't be intimidated into silence. you'll find me all kinds of meat 3 young as well as the mid 3 today's the gulf lodging there. poor tim killed my husband, i'll exceed the volume with him, killed the father of my children's votes and took away the dearest thing i had the closest and most beloved. this russian authorities have so far refused to hand over and of all his body to his family. his mother went to the investigative office near the prison where her son died to get his body and left empty handed, a kremlin spokesperson condemned and of all my statements. and said, the death was being investigated according to law. and of all naya calls it a cover up for a 2nd poisoning of her husband, after an attempt to kill him with the nerve agent nova chuck failed in 2020. what look to see in the mean uncovered,

refreshing then now hiding his body not showing it to his mother or given it to her and pathetically line and waiting for the traces of most which is lovely, choked to disappear, which call me at moscow as well. of grief, mourners have left bouquets and messages for lexi, and i've only in this know, the side come memories, victims of soviet repression in an environment where it's dangerous to show public refund of all the. it's the closest thing to an official memorial for the opposition leader, and we want to get some ex, expert analysis. now to put all of this into context for us, we're gonna bring biochemist and toxicologist, doctor mark michael blossom and expert on the nova chuckner nerve agent. he loved the team investigating the poisoning of survey script bowl and his daughter in the u. k. in 2018, both survived that attack. thank you so much for joining us. according to the volume, the spokes person russian investigators want to examine his body for and i'm quoting

here at least 2 weeks. how long is novi tuck traceable and human tissue? good afternoon, um definitely for more than 2 weeks. um, there are the creation products and products of these nerve agents not only know of each other, but nerve agents in general that bind to proteins in the body that you can detect off to weeks if not months. so just a couple of days won't make a big difference here. um how, how long it automatically comes. they will try and simply, yep. that, i mean, it depends on the decomposition of the body, of course, which will type in a ultimately. but there is a case, for example, from a woman that died of syrian poisoning in syria, but made it over the turkish border. and her body was in a more for multiple weeks, not even months. and it was absolutely no problem finding degradation products in

there. same would be true for then i'll be chokes. okay, now to be clear, we do not know if no chuck indeed causing of all these tests. but if he was killed by, know if he took what would be the tell tale signs on his body? indeed it is absolute emptiness. pixelation at the moment, um or the nerve agents can be found in blood as to creation products or simply by looking at the body. you probably won't, won't see much. it's uh, it depends on the circumstances, but from a analysis of tissue. blood is difficult to get after. um, the body um is from a dead body, but from tissue samples. and there are specific markers there well established laps around. the world can do this, including russian lapse by the way, um and these blood analysis or tissue analysis would reveal the presence of the

agent and within a couple of hours, how exactly does no veil kill? like like the other nerve agents didn't. it inhibits a crucial enzyme, s a chill, clean esther race, which is responsible in the mechanism that switches on and off your nerve systems. and if, if that doesn't work, your muscles can be controlled anymore. that normally means that you die because you cannot brief anymore. um you also have crimson seizures. um and you urinate. um you will have tiers so your body fluids just stopped running. but ultimately deaf is by respiratory failure. normally, you worked on the investigation, we mentioned into the assassination attempt on sir guess. couple on his daughter in the u. k. what have you learned there about nova chuck as well as of course, also the case of

a don't searches who died about 3 months after this grip of poisoning after her. her friend found a perfume call containing the poison and she got in contact with that. um also then um the the, the team i was leading um but also especially the investigation done by the by the u. k. police and our rep was independent of that. um tv showed signs that the poison was there, but there was no doubt in those findings. and it is because you don't eat much. this is one of the things that it doesn't need to be anonymously. big amount a couple of milligrams will, will actually um do the job plus also it has a delayed effect. um, does this, what makes it somewhat different from the more establishment of agents like 7, which i much faster so um, if indeed they would have used such a such a substance,

it would be, as i said, ok most cruelty because if they would have told him that he would have known that you only had hours to live, but on the other side, i think it's important to stress that this is at this point, absolute to a speculation. ok, biochemist and toxicologist, dr. mark, michael lum. thank you so much for joining us to share your expertise on nerve agents. also your expertise, having been a part of the team and investigating on the poisoning upstairs, a scuffle, and his daughter and the u. k. in 2018. we appreciate a great pleasure. thank you. now novalis widow julia novel, naya has finished a meeting with a new policy chief and foreign ministers in brussels. the tox. com. those that you consider is further sanctions that it can take against russia. in the wake of her husband's death, the used form policy chief joseph cortez said that it was vital that whatever

action is taken by both honors and of all the and continues his work. he also blamed flattery, putting directly for nevada. these treatment in person. we have to send the message is for, for the russian or physician and to they are now much finale and they know that the honda is memory. it will propose the ministers to rename our human rights sanctions regime with whose name i'll call it, not only human rights sanctions regime in order for his name to be for the region on the work of the the union in defending human rights. the w corresponding christine one y, as in brussel, she tells me about the calls for further sanctions on russia. over and of all of these stuff is currently discussing associates, a package of sanctions against russia for the invasion of ukraine and coming into today's missing

a number of member states are in support of imposing sanctions. those of the day is off and makes a, the fall knee. we know, for instance we, you, we, we were just listening to the use chief diplomat over this on foreign policy. joseph for out. he said that put it buttons, letting me pollution, and the regime should be held accountable for the death of 5. also, it looks 8 and the phone in the past, the european union has targeted individuals of the he's a risk in 2021 for example. and it is likely that they will target institutions like the present system. we've got to handle that and individuals operating in that system. they will be targeted with travel bands. and as it freezes, and the volumes, widow eulley and a volley of what, what can you tell us about her meetings today with e foreign ministers? sarah, she's had a number of meetings here. she began with of course, the foreign affairs council, that is all the $27.00 foreign ministers, which she spent about 20 minutes with them. she then went onto means of the e use counsel,

presidential and michelle. that meeting last is about 10 minutes. and then she's had a number of bilaterals lined up. i know she's met with the belgian fragments to for example, this is a woman taking the message to, to lead us and officials here that she wants to continue her husband's work. she is here to deliver a message about how the opposition civil society in russia can be supposed to. it's often meeting with the, the foreign ministers bureau said in a, in a, in a post on x as that the, you would continue to support civil society as well as media in independent media in russia. he w correspond to christine wood. why thank you. of the now the threat posed by russian, this information campaigns has been in the spotlight ever since. the united states accused moscow of interfering in the 2016 presidential election following russia's full scale invasion of ukraine. western concerns over the kremlin propaganda have

grown. one of the country's most susceptible to russian. this information is its baltic neighbor lot fia, which is home for to a large russian speaking minority, even before russia's invasion of ukraine, lots of band, some 20 russian media outlets. the russian tv channels are still accessible by the internet and satellite lafayette is a former soviet republic and is now a member of the european union and nato. it has expressed concerns about a possible attack from russia who was doing it. and for more on russians this information efforts we are joins now here in the studio by agatha laguna. she is the lot the and culture administer. thank you so much for your time. and for joining us here on data being is thank you for having me and it's a pleasure to be here. i would just like to ask for 1st, for your quick reaction to our top story today, we have been hearing from alexi, nevada, these widow who she has placed the blame for her husband's death, very squarely on russian president vladimir putin. do you share that assessment? yes,

very much and that's also what our president we have some cabbage has headset on. social media of the to the valley is in fact killed by kremlin. and i would like to, as i would like to add that to the valleys just to the most recent case, and a rather long list of the buildings are position killed by, by his forces. and we're seeing the information that has been coming out of russia . right, because i mean, the family has been blocked now from seeing the body they're trying to, to get access. how are you viewing? how russia is framing the story to the outside world into its own domestic public? um, i think that it is very important to, to really keep in mind that this is not the 1st case that there's something like this happens that the kremlin is dealing with the, with the therapist. opponents of the way that they know how, which is by killing them, and we need to keep in mind abroad that indeed the volunteers just the most recent

case in rather a long list of, of such feelings and starting was unable as close to a live version and so of a few years ago and others who were killed by kremlin. and the, the message that we need to send out is a, is a strength. that's the only language that, uh, that to put in and his regime can understand. and the only way how we can send out the message of strength and the show that we are as western world, where our strong is by supporting ukraine and making sure that russia loses in ukraine information. and this information is disseminated. and so many languages, no matter which country is coming from, or you know, which actor it's coming from. but i'd like to ask you specifically about your large russian minority that you have in your country and, and when they're hearing stories, for example, from russia about the government or perhaps about the volume, the staff, for example. how are they affected and, and what are your concerns? me in that regard? first things, 1st of russian minority and love is not

a fume homogenous group. it's a, it's a large group of people, various values. a lot of them are very um, glad to live in a democratic free independent country. it was free, independent media. and the way we're strengthening the latter is by making sure that our media stays free, independent and accessible to everybody. there's, there's sorry, there's also a num number of initiative on the level as well. how, how are you then working also with your, with the, the, you as a counterpart in order to combat this information that we're working very closely. because there are a lot of things that we can, you do only on the, on a glow on a european level, such as making sure that the russian propaganda is not spread abroad. because of course, so we live, we live a, we know very well the worst starts with the information more and that the people's minds is the 1st frontier of,

of information were. and we need to make sure that people have access to independent information. that is objective, that is the editorial a text and that is free and we need to make sure that that they're not or of the disruption propaganda is not freely accessible everywhere. and that is a lot of work that we have to do together. and we're happy that to that our colleagues under european level also see that and, and are, or a dark readings as you, as a country in the baltics you were out front from the very beginning, very long time ago with regard to russian aggression in the region how good are they at this? how good are they at this information and how, how high is your concern right now? mm hm. um, we always have felt that this information is a very serious threat and that we have to counter it by by making sure that of

society is media literacy is high. we need to very much invest in media literacy. we also need to invest in uh, making sure that our legislation is up to date. we live in the area that is going to be marked by a i as well. we need to have legislation on a i because this is another tool that can be used by people who are not democratic in their um, their ways and that are not fond of democracy. and they will use it to, to make sure that the elections that we have this year or the last democratic elections. and we have to be very, very aware of that. and this is, this is a very serious threat. so we lot, we have a very much know that we are aware of that and we are taking goals and necessary steps in order to strengthen our media escape. and we just passed this month this, this year in january. we've passed the law that is going to merge them last vance.

they live in public television and radio. so we're going to to degrade one new entity of, of merge to television and radio, which will help to consolidate the 1st and fighting of this information. thank you so much for joining us here to tell us a little bit more about those efforts and messa looking as we mentioned you the left hand administer of culture. we appreciated. thank you so much for having me. elsewhere. european commission president ursula funder line has announced that she will run for a 2nd term since taking over in 2019, she has left the block through brags at the cove of 19 pandemic and rushes invasion of ukraine. the german conservative is widely expected to win the backend of most you countries. she locked her bed a short while ago in berlin, stomachs to harbor and refresh, and it was back then as to whether i could imagine for coming president of the european commission. i immediately said, yes, intuitively, i said today,

5 years later, i'm making a very conscious and consider a decision. but i would like to it on for the 2nd on next to me. so i and it's slide to, i'm sites about israel has set a deadline for it's long plan defensive against the city of rafa in south gaza, retired army general benny gone. same member of the countries were cabinet says that is rarely troops will launch their assaults next month. if a mouse doesn't free the remaining hostages by ramadan. air strikes the cross gauze, as israel pursues what is prime minister is called total victory homes. schools and hospitals destroyed as the death toll keeps climbing. denny, they're all civilians. there are no military personnel or anything. we send a message to the world, the message to the is really government and the have mass government in gaza is

please stop the war. enough war victory on how to israel's ground defensive has extended to reeds on multiple hospitals, aggravating. you already dire humanitarian situation. a doctor and officer hospital in the city of con eunice described the moment he realized in his really army read was happening. was like, can use it about the other day and uh, so i realize that it is it vision of i d, f. as i started getting some adults, i don't see that the are actually yet the disorder, the best bet. 4 of those to be good and the use of it adults, israel claims it's targeting of hospitals is legitimate because homeless allegedly operates within um, its military release. this video set to show weapons found inside cars close to the an officer hospital. soon the ground siege could be extending all the way to rafa,

despite international concern over israel's plant and beat the last city and gaza. that hasn't seen major ground fighting. any guns, a member of netanyahu's, 3 member were cabinet set is really troops, but launched or sold next month. if by rama done hostages, a multiple of the fighting, we'd continue. if we go back to include rough off area, the muslim holy month is expected to begin around the 10th of march. while guns does not have the final award on what lies ahead. he represents an influential is rarely voice defined calls, including from is real strong as back or the us to spear the city where more than a 1000000 palestinians are sheltering and have nowhere else to go. the ones top court has opened

a week of hearings on the legal consequences of israel's occupation of palestinian claims territories within 50 countries are expected to give evidence that the international court of justice and the hague. the hearings requested by the un general assembly are separate from the ongoing genocide case brought by south africa. there are currently $144.00 settlements in the occupied west bank including east jerusalem. illegal under international law. w correspondent lucio shilton. send us this assessment from the 1st day of the international court of justice, hearing in the hague because hearings has kicked off here at the international court of justice in the hague. palace, tenure representatives among them topped up for madrid. my la key have given their assessment on the question of the occupation of the police to a new territories and the legal consequences. the court has been task by the united

nations general assembly to order an advisory opinion on that question. as well as on the question, what that means for all the states and the united nations on the part of the senior representatives today have asked to declare the occupation as unlawful and also taught at east royal to stop it. immediately. the courts legal advisory will not be binding on the states, it is only an advisory opinion. nevertheless, it is supposed to have a certain rate. so as i states could act upon it and draw the conclusions from it. and it is also supposed to put a certain political pressure on each trail. in the current situation in the gaza strip. the decision itself is expected to come within a couple of months. this case should not be confused with the case over the breach of the alleged breach of the genocide convention. this is a case that south africa brought against east for you and is expected to take

a couple of years. and that was the see a shelton in the hey, here's look at some other stories making headlines. the european union has approved a naval mission in the red sea to protect commercial ships from attacks by governments from the militants. the attacks have forced some major shipping companies to avoid the area in favor of longer and costly or routes. 5 a member states have confirmed that they will take part in the mission. is real said the brazil's president, luis, ignacio littler desilva is no longer welcome in the country unless he retracts his comments likening the war against mos militants and gaza to the nazi genocide during world war 2. made the remark at an african union summit in ethiopia on sunday. some show business news, and oppenheimer has blown away the competition at the british film awards in london . christopher nolan's 3 hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb picked up

honors from best film, best director, best leading actor, making it a hot favorite for next month's oscars. christopher nolan's oppenheimer came in leading the pack with the team nominations. and once the ceremony started, the winds kept on coming, and the best thing goes to do, i can read it off a higher and the best it goes to christopher note. and the winner of the back, the best actor goes to kelly in the, in own oppenheimer ended up the mike biggest winner taking home 7 awards to be in murphy to play the type of role of the tortured scientist robot oppenheimer, welcome that a film. so different from

a typical blog post i had done so well with audiences and with critics. it's a thrill, i think it's a, it's a great reflection on the state of sentiment nowadays. you know that this is a very complex, very challenging 3 our, our rated movie about a physicist and about, you know, and i bought a very kind of dark period in our history. but it wasn't just the oppenheim to show . so really it's black comedy pull things also picked up 5. it was including a best actress. now the leading lady emma stowed have an emotional tribute to the mother. often a we really want to just paint my mom 1st and i know in the whole world and she inspires me every single day. and she's always made me believe this kind of crazy idea that i could do something like this . unexpectedly, rounding out the night's big winners was holocaust drama, the zone of interest. the film about the nazi concentration come come on to living

next to alphabets with his family. ended up with 3 baptists, including an event out standing for just film and best film, not needing this language. you're up to date on the date of the news on sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care

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