this is a deja vue news live from berlin 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. roars into southern 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 up the marathon world record isn't smashed in berlin as kenya's. finishes the race in just two hours one minute and thirty nine seconds. next peiser it's good to have you with us a russian antigovernment activist 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 fell ill after a court hearing is wife not just a token says it may have been attempted murder is being treated at the hospital friends describe his situation as serious. joining us is

correspondent nina hauser who is outside the shallots a hospital in the heart of berlin nina what more do we know about charter varity love has the hospital said anything about his condition the hospital and hasn't commented yet we're hearing that the doctors will probably make a comment on monday but he is being treated somewhere behind me that now seems to be pretty clear what we do know is that his condition deteriorated fairly quickly after that core meeting last week went to a point where he could no longer speak or walk and then was flown out for treatment to berlin and now apparently a friend who was with him in the hospital room behind me that his condition is better his life is no longer in danger but we will have to wait until tomorrow at least just sort of cut to the heart of the matter do we know if he was actually poisoned yet. well this case is very much stroud it in mystery

and we can only speculate and we have to rely on the information that is given to us by his friends and supporters they do suspect that he was poisoned they say that it was probably revenge by the russian authorities for his activities with pussy riot especially when they stormed the football pitch during the world cup final in moscow that was seen as insulting to the russian authorities and so his friends suspect that it was poisoning but again let's wait for the doctors what they have to say on monday can you tell us a little bit more about how he was brought to berlin we know he was flown into a failed airport late on saturday but who actually brought him to germany. that's. an initiative called cinema for peace foundation they're involved in cultural activities mainly they are also involved in butlins biggest film festival but they are political activists as well and very much in contact with pussy riot

they have supported them previously and they were contacted by as he loves family and asked for help when his condition deteriorated and they got money together and flew him here to berlin because also they know a doctor here the family know a doctor who works at the shop. just a last question if i may is there any kind of diplomatic aspect to this story very strong it troubled relations between germany and russia exists of course i mean any diplomatic tension you could foresee the coming days could there be some kind of diplomatic aspect well the relationship between germany and russia is a very special one it's an intense one and germany has in the past acted as a bridge builder between russia and the rest of europe but it has also supported the sanctions against russia and what's interesting is that we'll have to wait for the foreign office to comment on this case because foreign minister actually met

with the russian foreign minister on friday and now cinema for peace say that they did inform the foreign office and the chancery before they flew vessel of. so all if they swell evolve in the days to come and there is another country that is involved because vessel of also has canadian citizenship you know complicated multi-faceted story nina has outside the charity hospital thank you for that. typhoon mango is hitting a southern china battering hong kong province with gale force winds and torrential rain 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 man good 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 city's airport have been canceled so for anyone who hopes to leave hong kong before the storm there was little option but to keep out of harm's way and stay put. 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 west the gambling hub of macau placed the duels to its casinos for the first time

in history a head of the storm. authorities here faced criticism for failing to pad residents for a deadly typhoon last year now they face another huge challenge is said to be the strongest typhoon to hit the region this year. meanwhile at least eleven people have died in the u.s. 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 after 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 and our correspondent is in new bern north carolina which was hit by florence pretty much head on she asked the local mayor dana 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 had 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 work 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 and they were 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 of evacuation we went door to door we had a fire truck where p.a. system going around we had newbern recreation buses going around picking folks up so we were dealing with around four hundred recovery so we had some war recoveries and so you know praise the lord that no body officer life in this in newbern and pray for the folks that that did lose their life in eastern north carolina and that was e w correspondent reporting from north carolina now to some of the other stories making news around the world. the mayor of london has backed calls for a second referendum said economist said the british people should have the right to vote on any deal reached by the government he criticised prime minister mazed negotiations saying she's leading the country down a damaging path. several hundred people rallied in st petersburg to protest

government plans to raise the retirement age several people were arrested but people said there were no major disturbances last week more than a thousand people were reportedly detained an unauthorized protest against the pension age plans. and hundreds of people have turned out in serbia's capital belgrade for the city's gay pride parade the march took place amid heavy security to prevent any clashes with extremist groups as in years past among those taking part was the prime minister and. the country's first openly gay head of government . to spain now where 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 spain. it is not appropriate that this is still happening in a modern society and to me only the marly illiterates enjoy it i mean people who have no empathy no feelings this can't continue happening in the civilized 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. match day three of the bundesliga is over and freiburg stood guard have played out a three three draw both sides picked up their first point of the season following the thrilling derby promoted nuremberg earlier struck late to grab a one one draw at bremen fire and won again on saturday while dortmund triumphed on friday a quick look at the bundesliga table after three games shows us that champions buyer new nick lead the way with nine points from nine and second spot while braman slipped down to seventh at the other end of the table we see that freiburg in stuttgart have edged up with nuremberg just above them. an update from formula one now where lewis hamilton has secured victory at the singapore grand

prix the briton held pole position and maintained his lead with max for stopping and sebastian vettel finishing in the other podium places fellow finns valtteri bottas and kimi 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 kenya's shogi has spectacularly smashed the men's marathon a world record in berlin the mild september weather and a flat course mean that the last seven men's records have been set here in the german capital. kenya's elliott could 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 kenyan completed the last seventeen kilometers. really. the first. push in both like. music in my youth 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. gladys truro know it set a new course record for the women in two hours eighteen minutes and eleven seconds . and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you a russian anti-government activists has been slow for medical treatment after a suspected poisoning. is one of four protesters who stormed the football pitch

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