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this is deja vu news laws from berlin german doctors are granted access to alexa in a volley in the hospital the medical team travel to the siberian city of going to bring the russian opposition leader who is fighting for his life to germany but russia doctors and system balmy is too ill to be moved. also coming up the bella lucy an opposition leader in exile balance to return to our country when it just takes a setback not to send off by us as the country's people will never accept the current leader president aleksander bush and co. joe biden except the democratic party's in
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dogs for the presidency in 2000 to end what he calls a season of darkness in america. shores of great honor and your relative hardships there's a nomination for president of united states of america. by dinner urges americans to unite and return to often so. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us german doctors have now been allowed to see the russian opposition politician alexina volley at the hospital in own square he remains in a coma the medics arrived earlier to transfer the volley to germany for treatment but the vollies team said the medics were initially refused access to him his supporters believe he has been poisoned because of his philippa collectivities the russian doctor said earlier they had not found any. evidence of poisoning in that
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not only had been diagnosed with a metabolic disease caused by low blood sugar the outspoken kremlin critic was rushed to intensive care in on staff to falling ill on a flight to moscow prompting and merge and c. landing and let's get a closer look at how the situation unfold. this is the hospital alex scion of ali was taken to with a case of suspected poisoning and this is where he will remain for now. doctors here say novelli is too sick to be moved by the ambulance that was supposed to take him to germany for treatment. we would have but if you're regarding his transfer i think and this is what the doctors counsel decided that it's true early we have to completely stabilize the patient 1st be what you play and. they also say they found no sign that novell knew he was poisoned. with. the story.
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so far in the research that has been done no poison has been identified. it's a statement likely to infuriate lebanese team who believe he was poisoned while drinking tea at an airport cafe. he's wife is frustrated she hasn't been allowed to visit her husband and says she doesn't trust the medics . we believe that the doctors that deliberately delaying so that the chemical substance in my husband metabolism has time to disappear that's why they won't let him leave the hospital alex says health situation is probably very bad so we don't believe the doctors in the hospital and we demand that they hand my husband over you will know we did it. so was he wasn't he poisoned what's known as that the fell suddenly ill on a flight from siberia to moscow to various passengers captured the incidental memorable friends some show we never knew screaming in pain the plane made an
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emergency landing and medics rushed him to the hospital he is now not allowed to leave. alexina valmy is one of president putin staunchest critics who claimed he has been poisoned before his wife has written to putin asking him to let her husband go. his supporters also believe that the kremlin and the doctors may have made the decision to keep at the hospital. and interviews and we sure when is tracking the latest developments on the story for us in moscow we mentioned the doctors from germany has now been allowed into scene of ali do we know any more. well we don't know too much more at the moment we've just been hearing reports from people in the team on the ground and also one of his close allies. who has said that this is a positive development after all his team has said that the doctors have been
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acting in a in a politically motivated way rather than in a medically motivated way so perhaps we could get a 2nd opinion now with these german doctors we also heard a another statement to the press on the ground from of a. wife who said that she and the other members of the non-binding team are not being allowed access to the doctors at the moment and that they are being stopped from speaking to them by russian doctors on the scene and by security forces on the scene when the volleys wife does want him to be moved to germany to be able to be treated and she's written a letter as we mentioned to vladimir putin is that likely to have any effect well it's unclear whether that is likely to have an effect that direct appeal that we've seen of the kremlin today has also made a statement saying that basically this is not the kremlin's decision because they aren't doctors and that it will be the decision of doctors on the ground if not by
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me is transferred the doctors have been arguing that it would be dangerous to transfer him that perhaps with changes in pressure on airplanes that could have an effect on the health so we'll have to wait and see whether we see any movement after these talks that seem to be ongoing with the doctors what about this claim from the on the team from his family that there's a political reason behind not allowing him to leave to go to germany do we know if there's anything to that. well of course we don't know. these team and we just saw in the report as well his wife have been saying that doctors are purposely stalling so that the poison in these body has time to leave his body by the time he is transferred to europe but of course it's worth pointing out that from the kremlin's point of view it's not really beneficial for the entire international community and the west to think that one of the kremlin's main
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critics was poisoned on russian soil and also if this is proven to be true that could of course anger many of these supporters he has a big network of supporters across russia and there has been protests that he's successfully called in the past so that wouldn't be in the kremlin interest. or win in moscow thank you so much the berlin based ngo that is hoping to fly alexina volley to germany has been giving a news conference here abouts after foreign minister reaffirmed germany's offer to airlift not only to berlin for treatment. at a press conference with his slovakian counterpart the german foreign minister of germany's office. i can only repeat that we have expressed our willingness to have missed enough on the treated at a clinic in berlin $100.00. years.
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but it's very very hard for us to judge whether transport is or isn't possible for medical reasons. this is when of all new would be taken to shari to a hospital in berlin it wouldn't be the 1st time for the doctors to treat a russian kremlin critic who appears to have been poisoned. in september 28th scene pussy riot activist part of a zeal of was treated at the sari tate after showing severe poisoning symptoms he was evacuated through the efforts of the berlin charity cinema for peace. americal spokesman said the german government was scrutinizing how moscow deals with kremlin critics. yeah i'm here. we have at least spoken here not only about mr number only but also about other
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representatives of the opposition in russia such as civil society activists and journalists in the german government is monitoring the treatment of people like these in russia very closely the actions taken against mr novelli and the ngo he leads are just one example of the very problematic way dissenters are dealt with in the russian federation. and staying in the position for the. banks to cinema for peace and the doctors in berlin shot a visit off made a full recovery he's hoping the same can soon be said of alexei navalny. and julia so delhi has been following that press conference for us she joins us for more hi julia tell us more about what was said or what was reiterated what right away was the need for a transport to take place to take novell need to berlin. the chief of staff of
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the head of cinema for peace said it was it looked like an almost impossible operation to organize last night they have to find a plane doctors organize these and be able to fly the plane into russia and it almost miraculously happened and they said a lot of effort was put into it also by the family and they really would like to see the operation come to a good end. well you mentioned only vocals not only said chief of staff so we have a clip of him speaking let's listen to that. leighton's a night here in europe very early in the morning. in homes. like some times he was. like medicine the old whole cover up operation more the fall and the doctors refused to cooperate anymore refused to give any information even to cease wife. it was the
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doctors who were helping because all the paperwork to make that transportation. public safe to sarah to possible started to say that no this is not any more transportable he's not any more stable. so julie you know listening to bad are they still optimistic that this transport could take place well they certainly welcome the new developments that came from russia today that is now on these wife's letter to putin they hope that that will stir some action from the russian government and also the possibility for german doctors to have access to me and this gives them hope that the transports will actually soon take place although there is still a lot of work to be done for that to happen and how worried are they about his condition well they certainly do reject the explanation that doctors and russia have give given they say that those are only symptoms what
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they described there has been no diagnosis and they really would want to go further into finding out what really happened. what they have this experience from the previous case of a russian activist brought here to berlin and they saw that time is of the essence so they really hope that they could be able to bring not only here as soon as possible to try to actually find traces of what they suspect is a poisoning if that happened. julie suddenly reporting for us thank you. a receipt an opposition politician. says she will return to our country when it is safe to do so to stay afloat to look away india after rejecting the results of the election earlier this month today she called for more strikes at factories across the country to try to force new presidential elections meanwhile in minsk people gather to support the opposition's newly formed cordon nation council after authorities opened a criminal case accusing them of attempting to seize powers. speaking from vilnius
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urged her supporters to resist intimidation and to keep fighting i call for all the contras to respect the serenity of our country and to respect the choice of our people and. as for threatens you know i. don't think i would like to. discuss this question now i think that every person in our country. feels fear and it's scary now but it's our mission to start over all over a few years and move further. davies nick connelly is on the ground in minutes covering the latest on this story for us hi nick we started enough sky speaking earlier urging belarus in people to continue their protests and indeed it seems like there's no sign of them winding down so what comes next in minsk.
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will sue me it is true that protest has become the new normal here in mean square over 10 days since that rigged election and people have been coming out every evening into the main square here in minsk normally that lots of more diffuse protests i'm standing here on independence avenue the main street here means that if you just sit down in a cafe you'll see groups of people 10203040 walking up and down with flags with flowers in their hands the white red flag of the protesters so it's really a very. difficult situation to follow i think that's part of the strategy to prevent the government security forces from detain people to not have one central protest camp we have seen in recent days though a clamp down on the more organized parts of the opposition so not only those opposition leaders who've been called in for interviews by security services but also leaders of strike some of the big companies here that was a big worry for the government that those companies would go on strike the main focus now will be on sunday last sunday we saw hundreds of thousands of people
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gather here in minsk for the biggest one of the biggest protests in belarus history now the organize want to bring in even more people from across the country the question will be will the government let these people travel to me will they prevent people getting on buses and trains and cars will be see an even bigger grouping of the position supporters filled the streets syrians. make up the news of a new sanctions against south africa. i think the sanctions as such not that much of a phillip a boost for the opposition here but a ruse and its present for the past quarter century have been under wave after wave of sanctions most of those of them being withdrawn without looking to doing much in return what was crucial though was the e.u. says not to recognize this last election that was definitely a morale boost to the people out on the streets here in minsk it was a sign of hope in terms of practical help for them it doesn't do very much but it does show that europe is paying attention and is watching and following their
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protests with sympathy. makes me have an idea where this is heading i mean you mentioned that prosecutors are launching a criminal probe against opposition activists it doesn't seem like there's much room for dialogue between the 2 sides. will definitely alexander lukashenko is doing nothing to engage the protesters it seems like to him that would be a sign of weakness he's rejected all offers of dialogue of communication he says he's the legitimate president and that what they're doing is against the constitution so. that but we've seen in recent days opposition figures trying to reach out to top people in the regime apart from the president i'm standing here in front of the k.g.b. building in the middle of it so they can reach out to security services try to convince them not to use force against protesters trying to get them to engage in some kind of dialogue whether or not that will work is still unclear i think the real test of these protests will be if they spread beyond the city in the middle classes to those smaller towns in the factories that we have to get strikes it's
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a very mixed picture across the country in some regions in the west the country the strikes are all successful than they are here in minsk but it is a totally open situation that makes this a very difficult situation to predict how it's going to end but from people here on the streets and once you really get the sense that they see this as the beginning and not the end they've lost their fear of coming out and criticism of the regime and open in the open and that's something that we've never seen in as long as i've been reporting here certainly so i think even if these protests words fizzle out which it doesn't look like it with a will drawing back that will be very difficult for the regime getting people to go back to the houses to stop gathering to stop calling out regime that's something that doesn't seem like it's likely to happen anytime soon to get his new family reporting from minsk good to talk to you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world the european union's chief breaks it negotiator michelle says it looks unlikely the bloc will reach a deal with britain before the deadline at the end of this year his british
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counterpart david frost blamed brussels for the lack of progress saying the e.u. was making talks unnecessarily difficult. in libya both the un supported government and the rival government called the house of representatives have announced a cease fire they both say they want to end to an oil blockade that has been crippling libya since the start of this year those announcements come amid fears of an escalation in the conflict. at least 6 people have died in california in wildfire sparked by lightning tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the san francisco bay area authorities say dozens of how houses have burned to the ground. saying in the u.s. joe biden has accepted the democratic party's nomination for the presidency in his speech on the final night of the democratic national convention biden promise leadership that's radically different than that of the republican incumbent donald trump welcome to the 4th night the final night of the virtual democratic national
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convention rolled out a show of unity and support for the party's presidential candidates police were former rivals for the nominations praised joe biden's leadership and compassion and democrats have filled the choice in november as one between biden's empathy and donald trump bullying and chaos at a time of twin health and economic crises primary against joe biden this is a life changing. this will determine what america is going to look like for a long long time characters on the ballot compassion is on the ballot decency signage democracy they're all on the ballot. biden's empathy was underscored by a boy who bonded with the former vice president on the campaign trail over their struggles with stuttering he described by them as someone who cares biden accepted the nomination vowing to heal a country torn by crises and contempt the current president is call american darkness for much too long too much anger too much fear too much division
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here and now i give you my word if you entrust me with the presidency i will draw on the best of us not the worst i'll be an ally of the light not the darkness it's time for us for we the people to come together and make no mistake united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. darkness dominated the picture at a rally held by trump hours before biden's speech evoking scenes of recent unrest he had a warning for voters. if you want a vision of your life funded by the presidency think of the smoldering ruins in minneapolis the violent anarky of portland the blood stained sidewalks of chicago and imagined a may have coming to your town and every single town in america you're not going to
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have law and order might encounter that mood with eames of hope and unity in a speech that marked the high point of his half century in politics. he now heads into the general election campaign with a clear and steady lead in polls over trump. but after the carefully scripted convention the coming weeks will mark a far less predictable period for joe biden and his democratic party. let's check in now on some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic in beijing authorities have lifted the requirement that people wear masks outdoors the chinese capital has gone 13 days without any new cases australia's hot spot the state of victoria with its capital melbourne has reported the lowest number of new infections in more than a month of the national government is discussing ways to manage internal borders between states and ireland's agriculture minister has resigned after he attended
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a large dinner event that might have violated coronavirus regulations his decision sparked public anger a day after nationwide rules were tightened. as beirut digs out from the deadly explosion that devastated the city earlier this month we're hearing remarkable stories of heroism and the image behind me shows a nurse outside a hospital holding 3 newborn babies that she rescued from the blast after rushing into their ward and the confusion who had the chance to talk to her. this is the inside of beirut st george's hospital now it seems miraculous it's still standing at all. but the blast happened it was a very normandy. about to finish i would shift at 7 so at $630.00 we heard a very loud noise and the floor just underneath us and everything came tumbling down. i was able to remove myself from underneath it and just to see the babies i
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saw my 2 nesting could exhilarated bleeding and they had cuts everywhere they wouldn't respond to me i was screaming at them and each here i couldn't find the babies the incubator was made in misplaced and and everything was on the fluid. on the floor from the ceiling blast everywhere so i had to remove themselves from. the incubator is and pick up the babies hold them the 3 of them and get back to safety. pamela kept her cool during a harrowing scene. i was really afraid it was holding the babies and he was really afraid that the babies will not make it or that i might slip and the babies with my hands i found myself alone holding these 3 babies. screaming everywhere also patients on the fluid getting sutured with no anesthesia and there was no electricity finally she made her way outside but her journey was far from over. as
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i was walking people started asking me how can we help you they saw me carrying the . i started telling them please give me something to cover the babies they started to take off and giving it to me so i could have the babies and keep them from getting cold i worked at around 5 kilometers. the babies made it and pamela has become a social media hero and an inspiration. when i see the stick to it. and hope and i'm happy these kids to buy. i hope this gets just have a better future. sports now and the german city of cologne is hosting the europa league final this evening between a spanish club severe and italy's intervene long severe the masters of this competition they have won it a record 5 times they have never lost in
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a final interview and meanwhile are in their 1st european final since their triple trophy season in 2010 since then they've fallen on hard times they've not want to trophy for 9 years. let's hear now from the interim coach antonio conte he knows all about the importance of winning. doesn't play i played many finals i want but i also lost a lot. i realized that people only remember when when the champions league i want to champions league but i lost in 3 finals in history only victories remain mine and in a story are equal look it's manchester united say their captain harry maguire is cooperating with authorities in greece after an alleged assault there maguire is currently on vacation on the greek island of nikko and also according to local media reports he was arrested after a brawl involving other tourists and police officers like the rest of the united
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squad maguire was given 2 weeks off after the team's europa league semifinal defeat by severe. let's get a reminder now of our top stories at this hour a german the medical team has been granted access to ailing russian opposition leader a lesson of only death after the russian doctor said he was too sick to be moved to have all the supporters saying he was poisoned. in television opposition politicians picked on that he said on sky and says she will return to our country when it will take to do so to stay off lead to lithuania after rejecting the results of the election earlier this month today she called for more strikes to factories across the country to force a new presidential election. coming up next on g.w. news asia professionals on the up in india why the coronavirus is causing young people with good jobs to leave the big city. lots of historical makes up all the
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wrong footage of the hiroshima bombing has been used for decades. the fear of spiders she has those stories and more coming right up on the d.w. news asia don't go away. the body.
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