this is the the news live from bali and russia is leaving office vision figures fighting for his life after a suspected poisoning aleck's in the valleys in a coma after falling airline during a flight to moscow a spokeswoman says a cup of tea he drank was deliberately laced with poison. and france's president ma called off the medical assistance asylum president ma cross has been meeting germany's chancellor who also offered help to the kremlin critic.

i'm phil gal welcome to the program french president emanuel macro has offered political asylum to russian opposition leader alexina found me amid suspicions that he has been poisoned mist in the valley fell ill on a flight to moscow and he's now in a coma in the city. it's suspected he drank tea laced with a toxin his emanuel microsoft. we are ready to provide any necessary support for alexander and about me and his family for his health for asylum and for his protection this goes without saying and we discussed it at length. well that's in a valley was on a flight from siberia to moscow when he lost consciousness the plane landed in and he was carried off and taken to hospital for treatment a doctor there described him as being in a serious but stable condition in the valley is considered one of president putin's

fiercest critics russia has been repeatedly arrested at demonstrations his supporters say he has survived several attempts to injure him this isn't the 1st time tina valmy has cried foul in august last year and he said he'd 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. 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 they responded with defiance. this is the way i am sure that i am here. now these pictures show the opposition leader being transported to a hospital in on. it's what supporters are calling the latest in

a long series of attempts to silence alexina. let's bring in b.w. our moscow bureau chief for your russia so welcome your what's the latest on the election of al this condition we've heard from one of the had to doctors at the clinic in the disappearance 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 or 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 living in ca in london then they form russian spies creep in salisbury the poisoning of one of the members of the punk band pussy riot the peer through there

is the love 2 years ago and then all have 2 things in common the till one of these poisonings cases war officially cleared up and all of the people who was poisoned or involved in some sort of conflict with the russian authorities all walk at 6 of the kremlin speaking of the russian authorities what is the kremlin saying about this. kremlin commented commented on the poisoning of these afternoon kremlin spokes spokes man and mr peskov for us to wish to live only a speedy recovery and sat that president putin also knows about the situation surprisingly peskov sad to think that the author of this would to do everything possible to allow enough violet 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 murder for example as there was of the not of opposition politician boris nemtsov in 2015 just like them soften the

valleys a great critic of the kremlin personal 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 very effectively effectively on you tube in 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. well those are for those offers of medical assistance to alexander novelli from president mark owen chancellor merkel were made during a meeting between the french and german leaders at the french president some of the treaty in the south of france they also discussed how to revive europe's economy which has been badly hit by the coronavirus crisis the political crisis in belarus was on the agenda as well as the coup in mali. let's take a closer look at this with the w.c.

chief political editor mikhail are not welcome. so let's start with this offer of medical assistance what sign is europe sending with these offers but sending a sign that 1st of all wants to help alexander and of on the kremlin critic at the same time this is something that putin the russian president might see taking sides we know that there have been conversations in connection with bella verse between. malcourt and putin recent days and now we suddenly have this case of alexander in our valley which raises more questions marks about what is going on in russia but also about relations the european union the system mind ourselves i mean when you say we saw europe take a very firm stance and that was repeated during this process press conference today when it comes to bellow verse with leaders speaking also to vatican who sees this

clearly as his spear of influence let's just take a listen to what i'm going to matthew had to say about that. we are showing that we see dialogue with russia and if want to with beller us to president lukashenko has so far not spoken with anyone on the phone but we will of course insist on certain conditions the release of christmas no violence free speech the right to demonstrate and an inclusive dialogue in that country those are the values. which we stand for not just to home but also for those brave people in. inverts with. europe standing up for its values of the early claiming a geopolitical stake in belarus well that depends on where you stand the european perspective of course the declared aim is not to send the signal that it has interests but president putin in moscow he sees what happened after the fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago as

a historical mistake and he won't just sit by and see bela groups look towards europe one has to say a lot of belorussians want close connections with russia to continue at the same time this offer of assistance of helping to create a national dialogue will most likely be read by the kremlin as of way by europe to try and seek further influence in bella bruce and this is where we're seeing from take phone calls behind the scenes to find at least some kind of understanding over how much europe can assist without being perceived as interfering and so with that let's talk about action vs speech we have the leaders talking about the big picture so are we seeing the franco german engine in europe busy working or busy appearing to work we've seen clearly both we saw a large breakthrough over corona and we saw germany drop its resistance to the e.u.

taking on debt that was a milestone also pushing angela merkel much closer to french president. they see a lot more i to why under this pressure at the same time there's a whole laundry list of conflicts that they need to tackle together molly the eastern mediterranean and also libya just to name a few and they're both countries have different approaches but they've clearly demonstrated here that when they see eye to eye. they can at least take the lead sets the tone for the e.u. to act at the same time they know that they need the other leaders to agree in the end and that is still the biggest stumbling block within the we character of chief political editor thank you. honest take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president obama's former chief strategist steve bartman has been charged with fraud federal prosecutors in new york allege that mr ballen and 3 others orchestrated

a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors who gave money to an online crowd funding campaign to build a wall along the u.s. the southern border. south korea's intelligence agency says it has seen signs of a power shift in its reclusive communist neighbor north korea dictator kim jong il is thought to have transferred some of these powers to senior officials most significantly to his sister kim jong il the move has filled speculation that she's being groomed as his successor. london central criminal court was handed down a life sentence for the brother a suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a pop concert in manchester in 2017 ashame of bay he was convicted of murder attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions will spend a minimum of 55 years in prison. but it's been a busy day for the german chancellor before heading to france to meet president macro i'm going to mexico i was deployed activist gretta totenberg and luis annoyed

bauer here in berlin they discussed concrete steps to mitigate the effects of climate change as well as how to refocus attention on the climate fight amid the coronavirus pandemic. it's been 2 years since swedish climate activists claytor to bag went on strike from school for the 1st time to call for more action against climate change since then her activism has led to worldwide school strikes but the global current virus pandemic has kept protesters at home a 90 minute meeting with german chancellor angela merkel on thursday provided a chance to refocus attention on the climate change crisis we want people to listen to the science and act on science to act in line with science. that is all we also that's also in our demands that we should establish annual binding call them budgets based on the contest available science and then of course based on the

budgets which gives us the best chance of staying below 1.5 degrees of global average temperature rise so that is that is what we are all scheme for to merck and the 3 other european activists also delivered an open letter signed by 125000 people to demand stronger environmental legislation from e.u. leaders the meeting came as temperatures continue to soar during germany's heat wave the government also confirmed today earlier that it would have missed its 2020 climate goals had it not been for the large drop in greenhouse gases caused by the economic havoc of the current virus pandemic. and sports music have beaten french clubs to secure a place in the final of the champions league so it's not scored twice in the 1st half to complete the very comfortable to hof time when the result was sealed by a late header from robert f. and the 3 new german champions with great power. in sunday's final list.

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