this is v.w. news live from berlin german doctors say kremlin critic alexina vonnie was probably poisoned medical staff treating the volley here in but in say test results point to a toxin affecting his nervous system he's now under 24 hour police protection and germany's chancellor is calling for an investigation also coming up protests erupt in the u.s. state of wisconsin after police shot a black man multiple times in the back leaving him in a serious condition. and u.s.

president don't trump makes a surprise appearance on day one of the republican national convention delegates when you back his bid for a 2nd term in office. i'm told me a lot of thanks for joining us the doctors treating alexina volley say they found evidence that the russian opposition leader was poisoned nonny collapsed on a plane on thursday after drinking tea that his team believes was laced with a talks in the kremlin critic is currently in a medically induced coma in a brilliant hospital german chancellor angela merkel has called on russia to conduct a full investigation. ramping up security at the sheraton a hospital in berlin alexina valmy is being treated here for what his supporters say was a case of poisoning the shower taken from the doctors treating putin's most prominent

critics say he probably was poisoned. it's said clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of colon noster is inhibitors it's not clear exactly what the substance was some call in australia's inhibitors a used as a treatment for alzheimer's disease but chemicals from the group can also be used as a nerve agent chancellor angela merkel and foreign minister heiko mosse are demanding an investigation in view of missed and of on these prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are now urgently called upon to investigate this act fairly and to do so with full transparency alexina valmy is not the 1st russian critic of the kremlin to be poisoned the former spy alexander litvinenko died in 2006 off the he drank poisoned tea before her assassination journalist anna politkovskaya said she had survived an attempt to

poison her and the opposition politician boris and then soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could sort. doctors say alexina vell nice condition is serious but not life threatening. the findings of doctors in berlin contradict an examination by russian medical officials who say they found no traces of poison in the volley we spoke to david a clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist and also whether it's possible that the toxin was not a 1st detectable. i suspect the detection capabilities in germany are greater than

those in siberia and so you would normally look for a depressed level of this enzyme in the body these drugs is eventually interfere with this ends and breaks down the chemicals that are calling and you can detect low levels of the enzyme for often very long periods of time not every hospital can do i'm sure they can do it i don't know if they can do it in syria my suspicion is not it's also i suppose conceivable that you could actually detect the chemical itself and that be more sophisticated testing that i think would be normally the sort of thing that a military operation might do so i would be very much inclined to believe the german doctors and be suspicious that the russian testing was not valid or not reported accurately. all right time to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world police in values of arrested several activists they say are responsible for organizing anti-government protests and factory strikes it's part of

a widening government crackdown on the opposition in the aftermath of president lukashenko disputed election victory earlier this month. after 3 days of talks west african mediators of failed to strike a deal with mali's military coup leaders for the formation of a transitional government regional leaders have been pressing for a quick return to civilian rule following president ibrahim caters house done last week what side say that katyn no longer wishes to rule. in india one person is confirmed dead after an apartment block collapsed south of mumbai rescuers are racing to save at least $100.00 others still believed to be trapped in the wreckage of a 5 story building it's not clear what caused the collapse. tropical storm laura is gaining force as it heads towards the u.s. gulf coast forecasters believe it could become a hurricane before making landfall hitting the coast of texas or louisiana laura comes on the heels of tropical storm marco which is weakening earlier than expected

. authorities in the u.s. state of wisconsin of deploy the national guard following the shooting of an armed black man protested erupted after police officers shot 29 year old jacob blake multiple times in the back sunday afternoon is now in hospital in a serious condition witnesses film the shooting on their cell phones. i. don't do it on lookers yell. was. i 7 shots of fired. the car horn blares underbody weighs. 29 year old jacob blake was trying to stop a neighborhood dispute according to his family's lawyer his 3 young children were in the vehicle. blake survived the shooting and remains in a serious condition in hospital several police officers have been put on

administrative leave a state investigation is under way. and we clear this was not an accident this wasn't bad police work this felt like some sort of vendetta being taken out on a member of our community. protests a rough day on sunday night in the town of can no show wisconsin vehicles were set ablaze windows smashed a police officer was reportedly injured. outrage grew on monday demonstrators once more having to insist that black lives matter. it always comes back to these hands up don't shoot that's what we do heads up don't shoot but doesn't matter no because it doesn't get there. we still we still get. demonstrations have spread to other cities jacob blake's name is now added to the

long list of victims of police violence in america. u.s. republicans have formally backed donald trump's bid for a 2nd term as president from secure the nomination in a roll call vote as republicans began their national convention in charlotte north carolina the convention is being held in person though this year's event has been scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic last week's democratic convention was an almost entirely virtual affair because of fears of spreading the virus. let's listen in to what president trump had to say when he accepted the republican nomination by far 7 however you want to really drive him crazy you say 124 years. ago we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016 let's see what happens we caught him doing some really bad things we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole

80000000 mail in ballots at their work you know let's bring in news washington bureau chief you know us poll in the us what exactly is trump accusing the democrats all of. well tell me he's actually accusing them of stealing the elections so that's his explanation if he might lose the 2020 lection there's only can happen because the democrats have stolen it and by just saying that like if you want to really scale them say told me is he's playing into that fear which is already here in this country that donald trump by the end of the day might not be willing to leave the white house if he loses these elections you know it's been no surprise that trump would be formally nominated but the event itself was brought forward why. right it's very unprecedented the president

or a candidate speaks before the acceptance speech which normally happens the last day of the convention why is donald trump doing that you know he really kind of misses the stage she misses his audience he misses applause so he's going to take every possibility to get the attention and we have to be honest with ourselves tell me also give him this attention because we are reporting about this event today right and the convention is to go on for 4 days and will be reporting as you say about trump's actions but what else are we supposed to expect from this event. it's mainly the main speakers will be kind of from his family we will hear his 2 daughters who will see his 2 sons appearing his wife obviously in milan is going to play a bigger role i think what we should look out for is nikki haley the former governor

and the best of her to the united nations because people say that she will run 2024 for president regardless of the outcome of this election so she's speaking tonight and that shall be interesting to listen. ok. we'll leave it there for now thank you. the world health organization is set to declare africa 3 of the wild polio virus and polio is a viral disease that affects young children and can cause paralysis in a matter of hours there's no cure but there is a simple vaccine that's highly effective as long as enough children get it but that can be a challenge in certain communities. this simple can prevent a child. car. or job keep children from the enormous progress has been made in recent years she says.

that nigeria is coming to and. has not true cool dude and new cases for years but brutal true main to keep it that way. here in the northern part of nigeria out there are so many conflict zones which are very difficult to access. and another challenge is that many people here don't want to get vaccines. we are in the predominantly muslim north of nigeria it is widely believed. the way to control family planning. i believe. the vaccine is just a way to harm people when they will not be healthy because of the vaccine. we believe it's connected to family planning to think there are other problems that

are worse diseases like malaria. wants to fight these misconceptions he explains to these men he contracted polio when he was 3 in order to talk to the women of this community he needs to convince the men 1st it is a patriarchal society with its own rules others are supporting him and raising awareness going door to door one house at a time. where the world health organization puts nigeria among the countries that have already case of polio. but if we follow the hands think it's gone. what their needs are a lot of. these women have seen health care before but they did not take them seriously. we used to run away close our doors we were

prepared to chase them away. the mother of 10 has vaccinated 4 children against polio since she met with one. or 2 before we believed the polio vaccine destroys a woman's uterus. a father of 3 is one of thousands community mobilizes spread across northern nigeria back in his house after campaigning he tells me contracting the virus was hard but its impact and being denied many opportunities in life was even more challenging once you have disability you have been able to become a victim of discrimination there are so many places you cannot assess there are so many times you can not because of. disability body wants to continue to educate parents so that no more children will have to grow up like him that's a mission that want and he says not even when nigeria is officially declared poor

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