want to know their story and for migrants for verifying the country the information for more grants. this is d.w. news line from dublin russia's most prominent opposition figure is unconscious in hospital fears that he has been poisoned a spokeswoman for me says he fell ill during a flight the plane had to make an emergency landing doctors say they're working to save his life also on the program the opposition in balad bruce welcomes the e. hughes decision to reject the outcome of this month's presidential election the

defiance president a local shanteau a criminal case against opposition leaders german chancellor i'm going to magical denounces the vote is not a free no fashion. also coming up democratic race makes history the 1st woman of color on a major u.s. ticket. i sent your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. along with joe biden she now has to convince americans of so they can feel like a country ravaged by the pandemic and divided over the politics of president trump . plus germany because its highest number of new infections in months as coronavirus cases across europe spike so fresh restrictions on public life on the life.

i'm phil gayle welcome to the program russian opposition leader alexina valley's unconscious in hospital and on a ventilator following a suspected poisoning he was on a flight from siberia to moscow where he lost consciousness the plane landed in scout he was carried off and take it to hospital for treatment the doctor there said he is in a serious but stable condition his press secretary says something had probably been added to tea that he drank at the airport alexina valley's considered one of president putin's physicist russian critics and has been repeatedly arrested at demonstrations his supporters say he's survived several attempts to injure him in the past. this isn't the 1st time tina valmy has cried foul in august last year alexina valley said he had been poisoned with an allergic agent while in jail he'd been detained for calling an authorised protests and his dog ate

resistance to kremlin control has long made him one of president vladimir putin's biggest nemeses. no vanity rose to prominence with his exposure of corruption at russian state controlled companies. at rallies he took direct aim at the kremlin and its occupants dubbing putin's united russia party the party of crooks and thieves. he began proving his pulling power with opposition supporters stints in jail and the courtroom became a regular feature. charges of embezzlement in the city of kirov in 2013 saw him banned from entering the political process and running for office. in 2070 moscow saw some of the biggest anti corruption rallies it had seen in years thousands were detained along with the violently he went behind bars for 15 days

for his part in organizing them. that same year he was hit with chemical green dye and hospitalized leaving him partially blind in his right eye more arrests and more jail sentences followed in 2018 but as ever no family responded with defiance. this is for sure but. now these pictures show the opposition leader being transported to hospital in on. it's what supporters are calling the latest in a long series of attempts to silence alexina vuln they. are let's get the latest from t.w. our moscow correspondent emily show in welcome emily what's the latest on the stand of al his condition. well there's been another statement from the deputy head doctor at the hospital where none is at the moment and he said that he

was making a careful statement that these condition had stabilized somewhat especially as he said considering the condition that he was in when he arrived at the hospital he said that doctors would continue to monitor and in these health and his condition going forward but that he had all the care and all the expertise that he needed he didn't confirm that me was or was not still in a coma so we don't know about that he did say earlier on that that doctors were still trying to figure out what caused his current condition and that one of the versions that they're considering is that he may have been poisoned but we aren't likely to get a kind of diagnosis until later on now meanwhile now vine these doctor and that's the c.e.o. of a seed of a has now arrived in arms and she says that she's not being given access to none at all or to any documentation on his medical condition but she's insisting that he

needs to be transferred to a specialist center of some sort in europe and there's even been talk of him potentially being transferred to germany doctors and are saying however that he cannot be transferred at the moment and what is the kremlin saying about this alleged or isn't. well the kremlin spokes person to meet you bischoff made a statement saying that he's monitoring the situation closely and that he wishes me a speedy recovery he even offered kind of help to transfer me to europe for medical care if necessary as he said and now a doctor has actually officially oh well she said that on twitter she officially calls on that help that the kremlin had offered so we'll have to see what happens there now his calls also said that if it is confirmed through the doctor's diagnosis that you had indeed been poisoned that that would mean that there should

be an investigation and now finally steam has already called on the investigative committee to look into this case as a case of an attempted an attempt on the vine these life. will do for the family surely must go. prosecutors in belarus say they're hoping the criminal case against leaders of a mass protest movement against president alexander lukashenko passed after activists set up a council to negotiate a transition of power. to say more than 10 days of demonstrations and strikes after the president claimed victory in i mean election the opposition say was rigged. calmly has been out on the streets of the koppel joins us now welcome nic what do you say. well i'm out here on independence avenue main street and in the process of the last half an hour or so they've been. big groups

of protesters with flags with flowers in their hands walking up and down because driving past beeping their horns in support seconds you just a flavor for quite how diffuse this protest is there is no central protest camp protests erupt all across this is as well as across the country and they go away as fast as they gather and that's part of the strategy to not allow the police time to detain them to identify the protesters but it's a very difficult situation to monitor what's very fast moving but people do seem to have lost their fear of challenging this regime out in the open i'm standing opposite the k.g.b. building the main security service here people walking past making gestures taking selfies in front of it something that was probably pretty unthinkable just a few months ago the president has threatened a further crackdown against protesters is there any sign of that yet.

but there's definitely been a hardening of the rhetoric yesterday we heard from him where he basically said that these protests were financed from abroad from europe he said that this was all something coming from outside the country something was inspired by foreign powers and as a result you would now be taking measures to make it more difficult for money to be sent from abroad. to belarus. allegation being that these parts are all financed by european grants as it were so far we have seen more people arrested indeed people who were arrested in the bigger protests in the last few weeks have now been released but the real test will be this weekend's protests the opposition here hoping to get potentially a 1000000 people out onto the streets of minsk on sunday after the big march on past sunday which so about 200000 people gather here in minsk and tell us about this new investigation that's been ordered into opposition activists. i think feel this danger was always there this is essentially a political decision i think the legal niceties are less important here we've

already seen. the presidential candidates essentially being bundled away to look you in year out of the country they were living with this risk and i think it will only depend on the postal decision up resolution to whether or not he sees the opposition as big enough a threat to his power whether this case will move on but i think the interesting thing here is how independent let's these protests are sure you hear people chanting to the last guys name some of these protests but actually lots of this is organized horizontally by people who know each other through social media lots of smaller groups across the country so even if some of these opposition figures were to end up in jail i don't think that's anywhere near enough to put an end to these protests and indeed for many it seems like you get the sense from people here they see this is the beginning rather than in the end of any of these protests against 26 years in power. in minsk thank you for that meanwhile the european union has demanded that belarus release all of the 7000

protesters detained during the recent unrest some have been freed already and say they were beaten or tortured in police custody others have simply disappeared. this small park in front of an isolation center on the outskirts of minsk has become an important contact point for relatives of victims of police violence volunteers provide information about the whereabouts of those who were arrested during the peaceful protests. were helping those who are gradually being released from the isolation center and everyone waiting to be released give them clothes and psychological and medical help. the authorities let some volunteers inside to see the detainee's they are the 1st to laird about the conditions of detention and the circumstances of the arrests

some of those who have been released returned to pick up their belongings now that . we have distributed leaflets saying that the strike was a legitimate active resistance then we went home. only. half an hour later about 5 unidentified male arrived they broke into the apartment we girls had in the bedroom the boys all had to get down on the floor we were threatened with a gun violence then we were taken to the police station before me. over there. you know how to stand against the wall with our legs as wide apart as possible. behind our heads facing down a policeman part is 1st on my back and what hit me between the legs with a baton. then we went to another room where we all had to kneel in

a row for the body surgeons. not a small town somehow to strip naked. were just searched. the volunteers tell us that it's sometimes difficult for them to see people come out of the isolation center a number of them need psychological help immediately. and some young people can't concentrate properly during the others laugh or smile constantly to cope with their fear and you can see that they are traumatized and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because according to official information around 7000 people were arrested the interior ministry says another 112 people have been moved to various isolation centers across baylor. and now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a german chancellor angela merkel has met the young climate activists a gratitude and burgundy we said know about in berlin the campaign has delivered

a petition signed by 125000 people demanding stronger environmental legislation from a new leaders germany currently holds the use rotating presidency and has said it will make climate policy essential for. a man who left 6 people injured after allegedly ramming into their vehicles on a burning highway is being sent to a psychiatric unit officials say the 30 year old is a suspected there is the mr extremist who shows who showed signs of mental instability on tuesday evening the suspect he said to have struck 3 motorbikes on the road before claiming he was carrying explosives. in london central criminal court has handed down a life sentence for the brother of a serious side bomb who killed 22 people at a pop concert in manchester in 2017 i should have buried he was convicted of murder attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions will spend a minimum of 55 years in prison. and us president donald trump's former

chief white house strategist and prominent to right wing figure steve bannon has been charged with fraud federal prosecutors in new york allege that mr bannon and 3 others orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors gave money to an online crowd funding campaign it raised more than $25000000.00 supposedly to build a wall or along the u.s. is southern border to stop migrants entering the country smaller than new york state let's go straight to d.w. correspondent connor bleich in washington welcome carla so tell us more about these charges facing mr ballen. well the accusations are that the crowdfunding project we built the wall is a sham basically and that bannon and the other people running ads are have been taking this money and putting it into their own pockets they are accused of

conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering they face up to 20 years in federal prison for each charge because they have been supposedly taking this money at that was 1 to be used to build the wall between the u.s. and mexico but have instead been using it for for their private pleasures basically one of the accused is said to have used to to buy a boat a luxury a c.v. a golf cart jury so very much not what they were advertising in their crowdfunding projects ok we wanted to sue steve isn't your golden donald trump election steve fanon was the c.e.o. of trump's presidential campaign in 2016 he then became a chief white house adviser and he has also been the head of breitbart

news which is a right wing news size that has been publishing hard right content and conspiracy theories that are very often in support of the trumpet ministration and what reaction has there been from the white house. not a lot trump himself has as a kid has kept quiet on this and when the white house was asked for comments they merely said this is a department of justice matter we have nothing to say stay with us call or we'll take a look at another big story in the u.s. that's the democratic national convention tonight joe biden is due to deliver his acceptance speech for the democratic nomination to challenge donald trump in november's presidential election last night come horace accepted the nomination for vice president becoming the 1st woman of color on a major party ticket. a historic 1st for the

democrats and for america come along harris is the 1st black and the 1st asian american woman on a presidential ticket and she's my god her vision for the nation we can do better and deserve so much more we must elect a president who will bring something different something better and do the important work a president who will bring all of us together black white latino asian indigenous to achieve the future we collectively want. democrats and positioning biden harris as a chance to really gain a foothold in a time of chaos the evening centered on strong female voices united behind the pair have a bridging of the democratic old guard with a new after the last election barack obama used his address to rebuke trump saying

he never took the job seriously rick criticism of a sitting president by his predecessor for close to 4 years now he has shown no interest in putting in the work. no interest in finding common ground no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more we'll the show that he can use to get the attention he craves. a 1000000 more into the future of democracy in the us is at stake biden alongside heresie said is the change the country needs right now. so back to color blind here in washington i call a how was a couple of hours his nomination been received well some have said that her acceptance acceptance speech yesterday wasn't as great as michelle

obama's speech earlier this week on the convention but in general her nomination has been received very well among most democrats and particularly among women of color who see themselves represented really for the 1st time in this high position in the u.s. and the hope is also that come alive harris can bring a much needed child of energy to the to the biden campaign not so how is the biden horace campaign shaping up against trump pads well that really depends on which holds you trust some see them ahead some say it's a neck and neck race well right now the the enthusiast it's really big being that every night we get the d.n.c. programming on t.v. and on streaming services but next week it's the republican convention so then that

is the time when republicans will really rally and show their support for president trump. card lika in washington thank you. here in germany there's fresh evidence that they fear the 2nd wave of coverage 19 has arrived the high is to 24 to 24 hour total of new infections months has just been confirmed more than 1700 say they're confident they can keep the virus in check for the rising numbers of causing concern children across germany returned to school. germans are coming home from their vacations abroad and are returning to school and work but just as the country goes back to its daily routines a new spike in coronavirus cases is causing alarm. over 1700 new infections were confirmed on thursday the highest rate since the end of

april the number of new cases had been falling * over the summer but the trend has recently reversed the situation is still far from the peak of over $6000.00 daily new infections reached an early april but colvin 19 is far from gone. we're still in the middle of a pandemic it's not over yet we don't know what's yet to come but without a doubt we have so far made it through so well because we have a strong efficient resilient health care system. even with a well prepared health care sector the aim remains to keep the virus from spreading out of control. this berlin secondary school is counting on widespread testing to prevent any major outbreaks the school is one of just 3 in germany to offer free coronavirus tests to all its students and staff once a week they use a self testing kit at home and bring the swab back to have it analyzed. it keeps

increasing the taking part in these tests more than 1060 out of 1300 people who work and study here regularly taking the tests every week and the trend is on the. statement there has been no positive test results in the 1st 3 weeks the hope is that any infections can be detected swiftly so the school can remain open after spending months studying alone at home students don't want to miss out on learning in the classroom with their friends the pandemic is reshaping the biotech industry as investors pile in to support small often unproven companies in the hope they can produce a vaccine one of the firms in this race is a german company cure who c.e.o. has told the doubly that it aims to have a vaccine on the market by the middle of next year. german pharmaceutical company cura voc 20 years old $480.00 employees and it dreams of change in the world

it has sights set on the most sought after of prices a coronavirus vaccine and the newly listed company is making progress we are planning to have the vaccine ready somewhere mid next year depending certainly on the data we are running clinical trial with will be prudent after 1st clinical data it would we expect in september october but it should be affordable so you shouldn't overdo it with the price there are certain settings already done we are in a very low base cost of goods and should be reflected in the price there as well so i would guess somewhere between 10 and 15 years when cure of went public in new york on friday it shares rose 249 percent during the 1st day of trading got an hourly may have struck it rich cure vacas just one of many corporate vaccine

hopefuls $170.00 companies from all over the world including the u.s. china japan the u.k. and india are also in the race. last week russia claimed a breakthrough president vladimir putin proudly declared they were the 1st to approve a vaccine for he said his own daughter had been vaccinated but scientists doubt the russian vaccine named sputnik 5 is really ready. what's beyond doubt is that thanks to high tech methods used by the likes of cure research is moving faster than ever in normal times it would take 10 to 15 years to get a vaccine to market no some companies have reached the clinical trial phase in a matter of months regulators are expecting a breakthrough as early as next year no other product in the world has a larger potential market many nations have already placed orders for hundreds of millions of doses. plans to produce

a 1000000000 pay year comes to fruition the question is whose will hit the market 1st. speed in front. to secure a place in the final of the champions league assertion scored twice in the 1st half to give the variance a comfortable 2 nil hof time the result was. at a 3 nil means the german champions will meet. in sunday's final in lisbon. and a pair of spectacles sort of belong to the indian independence. to be auctioned in the english city of bristol on friday the iconic around brims were found stuffed in the auction houses letterbox employees linked up to a local 80 year old man who says his uncle met the future leader while working in south africa on line beds for the frames are already exceeded 55000 euros.

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