musical journey of discovery. world with alpha. mr september 16th w. this is the w. news live from doctors in the german capital begin trading russian dissident alexeyevna founding specialist on trying to find out what's behind the found the sufi illness in brush that's left him fighting for his life supporters say he was poisoned german politicians want some answers from moscow. lawmakers in washington convened

a rare saturday session to address mild delivery disruptions i want to shore up the u.s. postal service with billions of dollars ahead of november's elections so it may have been falla to drive on time. and we go to target which has to helping educate the public about the best ways to stop the spread of the coronavirus graffiti on painting colorful messages to get people's attention and thank frontline medical. i'm at me how would welcome doctors here in berlin a trying to cite the life of russian opposition leader alexei navalny he arrived in the german capital on saturday morning 2 days after becoming seriously ill on a flight in russia his supporters allege he was poisoned it took 2 full days of formal and informal international diplomacy to get him transfer the european latest

my public office of support as doctors from germany and russia about whether he was fit enough to fly that before he was finally released from hospital and flown into buildings. all the action now is here while doctors at berlin charité hospital try to save alexei their boundaries life his health has become a political and diplomatic issue the world is watching. germany's president called for an urgent explanation call for as i live by you know get all those who can contribute something to clear this up do that to no valley had been in the siberian city of thompson talking loudly about corrupt russian elites and rallying those who might vote against the russian government there will be a regional elections coming up in 3 weeks from now not only has developed a highly effective strategy for a pause in there and bark in those elections it happened last year last year was

extremely. important breakthrough in various regional elections including in moscow and that's why not only spent so much time in jail last year and apparently government was very nervous regarding the election there this coming up and i've only was it still is a very fact of communicator his you tube channel his weekly you tube channel is watched by millions of people in of course government didn't want him to be on air in the coming weeks. until this election a senior german m.p. from angola merkel's party also suspects foul play. as far as the external signs are concerned it looks as if it's another case of attempted murder and a message the opposition will get you. the german medics who transported in a found me in this isolation pod obviously did not share the russian diagnosis of blood pressure problems. old. delhi has been reporting on the arrival

of alexina valmy at the sheraton a hospital in berlin there she caught up with the aca busiek founder of the cinema for peace foundation which paid for the airlift she asked him how in the valleys family feeling run well i think they're relieved it is to be an odyssey house and that they're relieved to be in a 1st class hospital to have a good treatments and obviously now it will be the question what the doctors can do and have to do. and. i mean apparently it is not a thing for a few days as we're probably a long procedure and it's a long way to go i mean as we as we've heard from the doctors if they would have not been as emergency landing in arms if they would have tried to fly on to moscow he would have died. thank you very much. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. president alexander lukashenko has ordered the belorussian military to use the most stringent

measures to protect the territorial integrity of the nation it made the comments at a military base near the border supposed and lithuania authorities have blocked some news websites reporting a large anti-government protest. west african late as a holding talks in mali to push for a speedy return to civilian rule following a military coup earlier this week the delegation led by nigerian president goodluck jonathan amazing with the military mutinies it took power as well as ousted mali and president ibrahim because kate. thousands of protested against prime minister binyamin netanyahu across israel the demonstrators expressed anger about corruption allegations and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and yahoo has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated protests been going on for weeks. the social media platform take talk is reportedly planning to

sue the trumpet ministration over the president's plan to ban the popular video app in the u.s. can talk is and by chinese company by dance trump issued an executive order against it talk of the concerns user data could be shared with the chinese government. well u.s. lawmakers are set to vote on a bill to provide some $25000000000.00 in emergency funding to the u.s. postal service ahead of the november presidential election the democratic sponsored legislation is a neat at preventing delays as millions of americans vote by mail this year because of the growing of our spending the postal service has been under scrutiny after president donald trump admitted to holding back funding from the post office president has repeated unfounded claims to mylan voting leads to rampant fraud. correspondent color black is following the story from washington color talk to us about the significance of this vote and in particular its timing.

u.s. representatives have come back from their summer recess particular specifically for this vote so that tell says something about how important this issue of the u.s. postal service is that they have come together to pass this bill that as we've heard will provide $25000000000.00 to the u.s. postal service and would also what also kind of turn back the clock on some changes that were made to the postal service already this year like the removal the removal of postal sorting machines and the ban on overtime hours for a u.s.p.s. employee is it is however highly unlikely that the bill will really go anywhere after today because while it's pretty much certain to pass in the house where democrats hold the majority in the senate republicans who hold the majority and

that chamber has already made clear that it's probably not even going to be on the floor for a vote there. so on friday the postmaster general who is both a trump appointee and a republican party donna said it was his number one priority to get election mio in on time to democratic politicians and well mike is believe those words to be true. no democrats are not optimistic and there were not convinced at all by what's postmaster general louis detroit had to say they shared stories of constituents come to them already complaining about shocking delays and mail delivery and saying that they don't get parking prescription medications on time or small businesses that are losing out because when they ship out their products clients only receive a lot later than usual so they are losing business and all of the contributes the

fact that democrats say the choice and competent and they don't trust at all to run mail and election smoothly with the way the u.s. postal service is run right now just quickly before we go trump has long claimed that postal voting can lead to fraud is there any evidence for this. no there is not and several experts have spoken out about those many a times saying that mail elections are not any more susceptible to fraud than regular in person elections if you will and that trumps only pushing this message so he has something to points to when the elections don't go his way and he can say see it's all fraud i told you so from the very beginning color black are in washington thank you well in many african countries are to stop playing a leading role in explaining how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as everywhere that mean social distancing washing hands and especially wearing masks

as well but as you're about to see in togo here the deliver delivery rather of that crucial public health information is particularly kind of. a wall paint and a message these graffiti artists are in their element right next to a busy street in togo's capital loman josie and wilson and her collaborators paint to educate. these paintings are supposed to help make people stick to the hygiene roles they show how people can protect themselves and others from the coronavirus not shaking hands keeping a physical distance and sneezing into elbows they also thank those on the frontline in the fight against covert 19 health care workers. everything that's important for protecting people against covert 19. the project was started by the graffiti artist collective for the go in graphic heard they

encourage autists from across tiger to do the same on social media. it's a real honor for me to be part of the project to raise awareness and support people in the pandemic without hot and to give some space to go to target and generally in africa. on the record about. the messages being received well especially by young people. the pictures show all of the hygiene roles even someone who conned hero speak could understand the messages and stick to the roles. that they get in the. heartland when it's against the coronavirus when you go pasta and see it then you start to think more about protecting yourself paying attention to the rules wearing mosques washing your hands and using disinfectant regularly. as long as there is no vaccine prevention is the only way to fight the pandemic so the artists will keep

painting their crucial message around togo. staying in africa to nigeria for what might be the most heartwarming culture news of the week 11 year old a student at the summit to went viral with this video of him dancing barefoot in the right got the attention of the american ballet theater saying this offered him a scholarship in new york next year and the staff and classes with them. and a football now and defending champions league on the through to the semifinals of the women's champions league after knocking out by munich in one strike and the key to paris gave the on the lead in the 1st tough another go followed after half time and although by and pulled one back the french side held on the result they both spoke as the last remaining german representative in a competition. well all the anticipated german t.v.

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optimization taken to the extreme this series addresses a highly topical subject biohacking is booming instructions are available on the internet and research is flourishing everything show is really possible and conceivable not science fiction but 5 minutes into the future. the shapes of the event the script and i thought it's funny what they've come up with i saw a documentary and thought funny but it's true which of the doctors who see him jealous or when it is science taking us in this fast paced series director christian illustrates the dangers that lurk when mankind wants to play god. this series does not demonize science on the contrary it shows how dependent we are on research usually because our biochemist say whether humanity survives or not is a fact of biochemistry and. yet bio hackers makes it clear that it's extremely dangerous to experiment with genetic material. as if the cells of these

are or sadly the. and with that your up to date clear richardson will be back at the top of the hour with more of course for the by the state lines at any time you can down by the news app or visit the doublings dot com you can also follow us on twitter instagram as well handley's at the news for now i'm anthony howard in berlin for an 8 and a halting text. but i don't need to keep a day you go to the people for over rights and home the 4th and clearly the most recent i think number is the bottom of the valley an awesome dragon this one has called the hard truth. to go green books on.

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