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$616.00 on the top. this is the leader of the news live from the german chancellor angela merkel calls for a full investigation into the poisoning of russian dissident alexina found that doctors treating list in a file that a hospital in a test results point to what toxin affecting his nervous system a long time fuse in critic is now under police protection also on the program protests in the u.s. state of wisconsin after police filmed shooting a black man multiple times in the back and even him in
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a serious condition or thoughts used to gas to disperse hundreds of people who defied an emergency. and he's the man who led by munich to the trouble of major titles this season and see flick as interim coach made campaign guiding his club to the graffitti ponderously good cup and champions league. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has called on russia to investigate the poisoning of rational physician leader alexina found the list in the found is being treated better than sharon tate hospital where doctors have found traces of a group of substances called cold enough to raise inhibitors in his system there are no specific compound has been identified as current. intensive care in
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a medically induced coma his condition is said to be serious but no longer life than me. straight to d.w. political correspondent emmanuel shah's welcome emmanuelle i'm going to michael's reaction was pretty swift following the hospital statement it was and it was a quite a strong statement she say that those responsible in of on these cases must be identified and have the constable she called to get i was foreign minister hike a muslim must go to fully and in a very transparent manner investigate on the suspect poisoning say in of on the because of his status as a political dissidents also gemini's vice chancellor showed us say that as a democrat he couldn't accept that the lives of a position members i put in then show so very strong statements from the government in light of what appears to be to poisoning of dissidents aleksei and of on me to tell us more about what the doctors say. well in the statement we learned that's
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alex aim of and he probably was intoxicated by a substance on the nest to raise it inhibits a group but the exact stepsons hasn't been identified just yet these substances use usually found in drugs that were in pesticides but also in you know age and so it acts on the brains never transmitters the tests that have been run several times and they have been run in separate laboratories and the hospitals say donavon these hoes for the moment not enough on these condition was serious but currently there was no acute denture to he's alive he's being treated as an antidote it's cold pain for now and there is no visibility on any possible aftermath and a possible after a face he could suffer from at the moment meanwhile secure see the hospital is tight german allstars is expecting another attempt on missed in the valleys life. well you know brennan is very much aware that the german capital isn't necessarily
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a safe place for dissidents to the russian regime actually over a year ago on august 23rd 2019 a former judge and church and military commando was murdered by an alleged russian intelligence officer in broad daylight here in the heart of berlin and rounding up the time accused must go to not cooperate with the investigation and they expelled 2 russian diplomats and moscow retaliated by expelling 2 german so the german authorities also moved the others killer feed a russian intelligence might try to kill him within a german prison so that just shows you how much trust how much distrust there is rather between betting and moscow at the time. the political cost to us thank you. that's a better ruse for 3 leading opposition activists have been arrested following another day of demonstrations calling for president bush and his resignation tens of thousands of people joined sunday's protest in the capital minsk they accuse the
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president of rigging the election 2 weeks ago authoritarian leader has responded defiantly threatening further crackdowns. go away a rallying cry sustained for over 2 weeks amplified by one of the biggest crowds minsk has ever seen. demonstrators repeated their demand for new elections angry at thousands of arrests many bloody beatings and several deaths. and yet i'm shocked by these lies and violence that reign in our country i have 3 children and 3 grandchildren i want them to live in a free country to have freedom to express their opinions and have great life prospects. the opposition coordination council is demanding a peaceful transition of power. not supposed to be our resistance is
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a marathon the regime cannot deal with this marathon but we can we have the will strength and the support of each other. people. who are going to say yeah we've appealed to the belorussian high court to recognize the numerous violations in a sham election and we hope no we demand that the high court makes a legal ruling i wanted to assure you. security forces held back on sunday but the army has been mobilized supposedly to protect national monuments. hovering over the crowds the man who says he's above all criticism president alexander lukashenko shows no sign he's moved by the sight of his people. on the ground brandishes a gun he says he's ready to trigger another crackdown if opponents refuse to accept
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his victory. across the border. with the protesters forming a human chain just as they did more than 30 years ago during their own revolution. many by the russians are now hoping for a similar peaceful and democratic outcome. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world to start in the united states where republicans are formally nominated donald trump to run for a 2nd term as president is secured the nod in a roll call vote as the republican national convention i began in charlotte north carolina this year's event is being scaled back attitude to the coronavirus pandemic. of the government who shot and killed 51 people in 2 mosques in new zealand has come face to face with the families of some of his victims relatives of the bereaved and injured confronted brenton tarrant the head of the sentencing in christchurch he faces life in prison without parole for carrying out the worst mass
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shooting in the country's modern history. rescuers in india racing to save people from the wreckage of a building collapse south of mumbai dozens of people were trapped when the structure came down following having the right thoughts you say at least 28 people have been pulled from the drug problem. in the world health organization is urging caution over the use of blood plasma from recovered patients to treat covert sufferers it says results of international trials are inconclusive prior to their announcement to u.s. president donald trump and i'm seeing emergency authorization of the experiment recovered 19 treatment. 'd to u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden has called for an immediate full and transparent investigation into the police officers who shot an unarmed black man in wisconsin 29 year old jacob blake who was shot multiple times in the back as he got
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into a vehicle on sunday afternoon he's now in prison in a serious condition police say they were respond they were there responding to a domestic incident protesters protests erupted across the city following the shooting officers. tear gas to try to disperse the crowds 140 emergency overnight in. the double reporter alex forrest wise it has been following this story you're welcome alex what more do we know well we understand according to witnesses that blake was trying to break up a fight between 2 women and something happened between that and him trying to lean into the car and during which he was shot now we have some video which was posted on social media which appears to been taken from across the street you can see there are 2 offices who are seen there we see them there they're seen shouting and pointing their weapons at the man who walks around the vehicle and leans in to get
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in one officer grabs his shirt from behind and fired into the vehicle now we are not showing the next part but we do know that 7 shots are heard in total what we can show you is the emergency response to that shooting as blake is lying on the road we lay to see him stretch it into an awaiting ambulance where he is taken to hospital we know now that his condition is said to be serious but stable it's also claimed that blake's 3 children were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting a meanwhile those offices who were involved in this incident have been put on administrative leave now fresh in everyone's mind of course is the killing of george floyd in the weeks of protests the fall of the yes that's right this comes exactly 3 months after his death and those protests where people have been demanding justice for him but also already demanding justice for the deaths of
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briona taylor and tamir rice and many other black people who have died because of excessive force from the police now before last night's event but matter protests are still going on for example. in portland in oregon so this is just the latest event where we had a protest last night because of the shootings was this this comes just as the republican national convention for me nominates donald trump for reelection how does one play into the other yes well donald trump has repeatedly dismissed the black lives matter the movement but at the same time he's called those people involved in it the protests as a violent left wing left wing a narcotic linked to the democratic party and he's always trying to make himself appear to be the president of nor in order now so far he himself hasn't said anything but his son has retreated pictures of a burning building from the city with the words folks this is coming to
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a town near you if democrats win in november is this still peaceful protesting has a single democrat denounce this anneke yet it's up to you of you want this in your backyard or not meanwhile the democrats a presidential nominee joe biden as we have just heard has called for an immediate full and transparent investigation and for the offices to be held accountable so i think with this republican convention kicking off this could well end up being a bit of a symbol between what republicans see and what the democrats are calling for alex forrest weissman. european football's newly crowned champions byron munich touched down in the bavarian capital late on monday afternoon after restoring night in lisbon the red carpet was rolled out for the save to be perry sasha mum in the champions league final thanks to a single 2nd half go because of the pandemic no official right has been the
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organize for their return to munich but fans may well be making plans. looking through the famous names of the buy and side who beat perry sachin and it's possible to overlook the man who took over the reins of a club in crisis last november by management introduced hansie flick as the interim coach but 9 months and 3 trophies later the caretaker has become a fully fledged bad legend. it was once said that by munich could win the bundesliga trophy playing with their hands in their pockets. but after humiliation in november last year the varian set forth in the table and were forced to sack their day in coach nico kovacs and hunt for a savior to this season they didn't look far and in fact promoted then assistant coach hansie flick on an interim basis for one season for what's important for us now is to look ahead what happened is over we have to see to it that we start
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acting on the pitch often plots its future akiane as the bind head honchos went looking for a big name flick focused on getting the best out of these teams. as the days of searching turned to weeks management noticed that slick and he's nearly motivated charges were still winning and he was soon given the job on a permanent basis. by and we're back moving in the right direction but few would have foreseen that be on the shimming man from hoddle bird was about to one place to run a form that would take the football world by storm. the german cup. in the bag. 6 as well as bundesliga title number 8 flick at 1st revived then refined a winning machine of epic proportions. sunday's victory of the fairy such a man has completed flix journey from buying replacement to buy in pledge. his reminder top story at this hour doctors at berlin's of shuteye hospital say
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test results indicate that some russian dissidents and axing about the most poisonous remains in critical but stable condition since being flown in from siberia for treatment on saturday. this is d.w.i. and next up the ben facility covered 19 special i'll be back at the top of the hour . of the day. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. 19 special next on d w.

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