this is the news from. a russian anti-government activists has been flown to berlin for medical treatment after a suspected poisoning. is one of four pussy riot protesters who stormed the football pitch during this year's world cup final in moscow. typhoon makes landfall in china battering hong kong with gale force winds and torrential rain more than half a million people have been evacuated across several chinese cities as they brace for impact also coming out. of the record is smashed in burma and as

you can use it. finishes the race in just two hours one minute and thirty nine seconds. nick spicer it's good to have you with us a russian anti-government activists who was jailed earlier this year for protesting at the world cup final has been brought to berlin for medical treatment. was flown to the german capital after a suspected poisoning the member of the pussy riot punk group a court hearing is strange why for. says it may have been attempted murder is being treated at the hospital friends describe his situation as serious as a reporter jared reed is with me in the studio now can you tell us a little bit. more about who this man is well this is the publisher and as you

mentioned a member of this russian protest group pussy riot that's gotten very famous over the last six or seven years through its high profile protests against the kremlin and against vladimir putin now his very unwell he was taken sick earlier this week his friends say he has had trouble seeing speaking and moving and often being in intensive care in moscow he was taken to berlin video seeing he was posted to twitter by his wife is also a member of pussy riot at shin if it we conceive of he shortly after landing being aided on the plane on a stretcher now his colleagues in pussy riot believe that he was poisoned for political reasons by the kremlin although this hasn't been the cause of the illness hasn't been identified a few days ago pussy riot posted this far sorry to punish those responsible and as

you mentioned visit love was jailed off to the world cup because during the final he and a group of others storm the pitch in what was a very high profile protest. against the russian state and against the russian police now let's take a look at that day when that high profile protest. was one of. invaded the pitch. and. millions of people were watching live the protesters lisa repeated in court and they served fifteen day jail sentences. interviewed another person members back in august. explained the group's approach. they can political collective we don't have

a fixed number of members of the different people come together from various factions. the young activists talked of a harsh climate for opposition groups who are frequently condemned by state media. then as they attack us because they have to because pussy riot don't do what they want that's just the way it is the state media always attack opposition groups. verzilov was hospitalized in moscow three days ago a perceived rights activist was quoted as saying he had lost his eyesight and ability to talk it is not clear what caused his illness. you know how exactly did he get to to berlin so he was transferred on a medical flight which was sort of little bit earlier and that was paid for by a group called the cinema for peace foundation they here in berlin there are nonprofit and they described themselves as seeking to force to change through film their long term supporters of pussy riot so i got in touch today with the cinema

for peace foundation here's what they told me they said the love has survived a critical condition after an alleged assassination attempt by poisoning this initiative provided by request of the family transport haitian and medical care with specialists in a hospital here in berlin the attack is regarded as revenge for appearing in the world cup final to support human rights in russia now lots of people of course i'm making the comparison between visit love and other high profile kremlin critics who've suffered unsavory things russia hasn't actually commented on this which isn't surprising what we have heard from germany is a comment by the foreign ministry saying we're not going to comment because of germany's privacy laws but newspapers like build a saying that the chancellery and the foreign office did know in advance that visit love was going to be taken heed to berlin also in the qods canada because love is

a jewel citizen of russia and canada they can say and they say and they're watching this case closely as you might imagine and we owe a lot to see how he's condition progresses in the next days and weeks here in berlin ok reed thank you for those insights typhoon it is now hitting southern china battering hong kong and guangdong province with gale force winds and torrential rain the super storm has already caused major destruction in the philippines authorities there say dozens are feared dead in flooding landslides and collapsed buildings. nature lashes the coast of hong kong with full force and these people got to witness it firsthand. as hong kong issued a maximum alert for typhoon mangubat the territory's government warned people to prepare for the worst. storm surges were expected to raise water levels by up to

four meters. hundreds of residents have been evacuated to shelters while others hope to ride it out. almost all flights in and out of the cities and have been counseled anyone who hopes to defund the storm there was little option but to keep out of harm's way and stay put . this is that i didn't expect to get caught up in a typhoon when i booked a trip to hong kong. i've had to scrap all my sightseeing plans i can't go out the subways closed buses have stopped running and there's no ferry service at all. the way the gambling hub of macau place to do is to its casinos for the first time in history a head of the. authorities here faced criticism for failing to pad residents for a deadly typhoon last year now they face another huge challenge said to be the

strongest typhoon to hit the region this year. meanwhile at least eleven people have died in the us as massive amounts of rain from tropical storm florence caused severe flooding in north and south carolina these were the scenes in lumberton a short while ago roaring on shore on friday florence lingered over the area causing storm surges and flash floods the u.s. coast guard had to rescue multiple victims by helicopter authorities say the devastation is far from over there warning residents not to attempt returning to their homes. ten people died in the state of north carolina alone and nine hundred had to be rescued at the moment approximately seven hundred thousand are without power our correspondent. is in new bern north carolina which was hit by florence pretty much head on she asked the local mayor dana outlaw about the challenges

ahead now that the storm has moved on. what is it like looking around at your town now and the condition it's in what goes through your head recovery. newbern is a very resilient community where a very loving community we all reach out to each other we put our differences aside and we all get our rakes and shovels and get together and we're right now it's getting hot food nourishment to our to our residents we have twenty twelve hundred people in shelters we've had three church services this morning to provide you know what is needed this we need some miracles here in this in the city as you know the outpour from communities outside of new and has been tremendous and we've had twenty eight crews come in to help us with restoring power we did a pretty good job of evacuation we went door to door we had a fire truck with p.a. system going around we had newbern recreation buses going around picking folks up

so we were dealing with around four hundred recoveries we had some war recoveries and so you know praise the lord that no body lost her life in this in newbern and pray for the folks that that did lose their life in eastern north carolina that was a correspondent my ass waiter reporting from north carolina now to some of the other stories making news around the world an israeli man has died after being stabbed by a palestinian man at a shopping mall in the west bank israeli army says the assailant was shot following the attack near a busy junction south of jerusalem it has been a major flashpoint in recent years in western germany demonstrators failed to stop police from addicting activists from a forest that's to be destroyed to make way for an open pit coal mine police say about four thousand people tried to enter the house woods near cologne they were stopped by police continued removing activists from tree houses. to spain now worth

thousands of people have gathered in madrid to protest against the country's bullfighting tradition they're calling on politicians to make the practice illegal the government has previously defended bullfighting calling it part of spain's national heritage i was spain is famed for its flamenco its beaches and bullfighting but at the heart of madrid people from across spain say they've had enough of the age old tradition. spain's leading animal rights party organized the march to support to say animal cruelty has no place in modern spain. it is not appropriate that this is still happening in a modern society and to me only the morally illiterate enjoy it i mean people who have no empathy no feelings this can't continue happening in a civilised country. bullfighting is shameful it's a tradition that should be forbidden in spain and around the world i think it's

abhorrence that a country label something culture that has just murder a crime against an innocent animal. but spends government doesn't see it that way it's previously called bullfighting a cultural asset a constitutional court in two thousand and sixteen declaring it part of spain's national heritage in two thousand and fifteen government figures suggested that around four million people in spain attended a bull fights but the movement to ban them is steadily growing bullfighting survival is far from the should. kenya. has spectacularly smashed the men's marathon world record in here in berlin at the mild september weather and a flat course mean the last seven men's records have been set here in the german capital. kenya's he set the pace at the berlin

marathon on sunday over forty thousand runners competed in perfect conditions when he defended last year's title he started off with an impressive pace and quickly shook off his biggest opponent will see. three pacemakers were pushed to the limit and so the canyon completed the last seventeen kilometers so not. only. the first. day to push me into. music in my life with a total time of two hours one minute and thirty nine seconds to chokey shattered the previous world record by a minute and eighteen seconds and manifested his reputation as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era. and an update from formula one where lewis hamilton has secured victory at the singapore grand prix the briton held the pulled

position and maintained his lead with maxtor stopping and sebastian vettel finishing in the other podium places fellow fans valtteri bottas and kimmy reichen and missed out on the top three looking at the overall standings hamilton now has a forty point lead over germany's vettel and looks well set to defend his world title with six races left and a football promoted nuremberg scored late to grab a one one draw at vetter bremen in the first of two games in the german bundesliga on sunday virgil mississippians scored two minutes into injury time to seal their second point of the new campaign struggling freiburg meanwhile and stressed guard are meeting in the late game. and a reminder the top stories we're following for you a russian anti-government activists has been flown to berlin for medical treatment after a suspected poisoning. is one of four pussy riot protesters who stormed the football pitch during this year's world cup final in moscow. you're watching.

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