without being told in 616 on. this is the that the news live from the doctors are working to save the life of russia's most prominent opposition figure like feet in the valley he had to be removed from a flights to moscow and it's feared he may have been poisoned also of the program germany because its highest number of new infections for months was coronavirus cases a spike across europe. i'm

still go to the program france's president. is not letting up in his efforts to meet the challenges faced by the european union germany's chancellor i'm going to machall is holding talks with the french president as he some of retreat in the south of france. working out how to read 5 europe's economy without prompting a new virus crisis but also discussing the e.u.'s negotiations with the u.k. aimed at breaching opposed to bret's trade deal the political crisis in belarus the coup in mali and the military conflict in libya. p.w. so chief political editor is michela welcome michela. quite a gender they have very. they're meeting to try and demonstrate unity this is

from code german really running in sync since a breakthrough a big. what does this rescue deal. well one has to say that that was certainly a changing point not just in berlin and paris talking to each other but also in the e.u. acting together with that so i got to rest you deal that still has to be ratified by parliaments this meeting is not simply between the german chancellor and the french president it's between angela merkel the country currently holds the e.u. presidency and the french president so it has a lot more of a european feel to it than it normally even has grown up as we looked at that laundry list of challenges that the faces right now is the overarching theme still . machall was also about what the 2 leaders discussed looking into the future whether more coordination would be needed and she said yes indeed because she's

seen already in germany that individual states aren't in sync and there is a risk of a 2nd wave we're seeing signs of that already and what everybody wants to avoid in europe is yet border closes there we are so are we likely to see progress on any of you stumbling blocks like a digital tax or indeed u.s. tariffs while listening to that press conference that scene that that conflicts that is brewing in the eastern mediterranean where we have a potential conflict between greece and cyprus and turkey those interests classing there was pretty high up on the agenda and that also highlights the difference in attitude by the french who sent warships and the germans who were trying to mediate in the background that those 2 does it trying to act together not just when it comes to. ties a syntax for the nitty gritty of ca sins and how much can they really achieve

between them given that chancellor merkel has announced that she will be gone by next year well in that there was a quite a bit of reference to 985 when how would call was lost in bragg on sol that beautiful place they met back back then the overarching theme was when the germans and the french got their act together the e.u. would follow now this time the e.u. in the position it is in right now is if the french and the germans consecrate nothing will actually events of the hop and so they see the does are demonstrating that the e.u. is able to act and that it will be able to act in the future between the lines you can see that there is still very different approaches and actually for political ads because a thank you so much for that. it would be doubly news live from the other let's move on survey you had next story which it concerns russia in the last few minutes present micro said that france is ready to give the kremlin critic alexina valley medical all medical assistance including

asylum the volleys and conscious in hospital and all of ventilator following a suspected poisoning he was on a flight from siberia to moscow when he lost consciousness the plane landed in almsgiving he was carried off and taken to hospital for treatment dr there described him as being in a serious but stable condition his press secretary said something that probably been put in the to be drunk at the airport before the flight alexa novell is considered one of president putin faces russian critics and has been repeatedly arrested at demonstrations in support of say years survive several attempts to injure him. this isn't the 1st time tina volley has cried foul. in august last year they 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 vanny 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. as 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 2017 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 sc it's what supporters are calling the latest in a long series of attempts to silence alexina of on the. as for him b.w. our moscow bureau chief yuri russia so welcome what's the latest on this condition . we've heard from one of the had to doctors at the clinic in the 70 or in city of almost cuernavaca he is currently being treated that he is still in very poor condition but this evening the doctor did allow himself a glimmer of hope she he said that the politicians condition had stabilized

a little the question still remains what exactly is he is suffering from if you have was really poisoned and if so what substance was used we don't know the answer to any of these questions at the moment but of course many parallels come to mind starting with the poisoning of the former k.g.b. officer little in common london then they form a russian spy script pall in seoul is very poisonous of one of the members of the punk band pussy riot the peer through their zeal of 2 years ago and then as they all have 2 things in common the film none of these poisonings cases was officially cleared up and all of the people who was poisoned were involved in some sort of conflict with the russian authorities all walker ticks of the kremlin speaking of the russian authorities what is the kremlin saying about this. the kremlin commented commented on the poisoning of these afternoon kremlin the spokes spokes man to be surpassed off for us to wish to love only

a speedy recovery and set that president putin also knows about the situation surprisingly peskov sad to that of the author and to sweet to do everything possible to allow another via need to be transferred abroad for medical care if necessary of course this alleged poisoning has brought back many memories of opposition figures being poisoned and even murdered for example there was are the murder of opposition politician various names of in 2015 just like them soften the valleys a great critic of the kremlin personally of president putin but it must also be sad that not only had quite a few enemies in his corruption investigations he has attacked many high ranking officials and politicians are very effectively effectively on youtube videos that have gotten millions of views so the list of his opponents and maybe head us is really very long ok you're a shutter in moscow thank you. so how likely

is this to been a poisoning cut of as if as in the office another russian opposition figure he says he was poisoned by kremlin items last year and that his experience mrs mirrors that of an ex in a founding principle we the symptoms are very close to what i experience when i was poisoned exactly 2 years ago in september 2018 i also lost my eyesight lost record the nation ability to move around a lot of my consciousness very quickly i was and when i was. i was in the intensive care units were for a long time and during that period my. friends and family didn't have any adequate access to medical documents and it was said that i would not receive adequate treatment and care in moscow so decision was made to move me to europe to lend to sherry clinic for the treatment we believe that because no molly's

poisoning is also definitely a political poisoning like in my case the pattern here of behavior by russian doctors in russian on force and officials is very similar so there is definitely a threat to nirvana while he's in the russian medical system. once plot a vessel off now to better rules for prosecutors say they wrote a criminal case against leaders of a mass protest movement against president having found that. the opposition activists set up a council to negotiate a transition of power. to see more than 10 days of demonstrations and strikes after the president claimed victory in an election the opposition say was rigged. germany has just confirmed a high is $24.00 total of new infections new corona virus infections in months more than $1700.00 or sources say they are confident they can keep the virus in check but the rising numbers are causing concern as children across the country return 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 corona virus 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 daily new infections reached in early april but cova 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've so far made it through so well because we have a strong efficient resilient health care system. even with the 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 the students and staff once a week they use a self testing kit at home and bring the swab back to have it analyzed. is. increasingly taking part in these tests more than 1060 out of 1300 people who work and study here are regularly taking the tests every week and the trend is on the up . 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.

muti has to have beaten french club to secure a place in the final of the champions league so a surge i can not breathe scored twice in the 1st half to give the parents a comfortable 2 nil halftime lead the result was sealed by a late header from. the 3 no way means the german champions will meet perry sunshine not to sunday's final in this. a pair of spectacles thought of belong to to the indian independence leader mahatma gandhi are to be auctioned off in the english city of bristol on friday the iconic around to rim's were found stuffed in the auction houses letterbox employees led them to a local that 80 year old man who says he's uncle met the future later while working in south africa online beds for the french have already exceeded 55000 u s. as it you're up to date more for you at the top

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