this is g w news online from berlin tonight a crime of attempted murder the german chancellor says there is no doubt prevailing critical eckstein of all he was poisoned and she wants moscow to explain russia's leading opposition figure remains in intensive care in a berlin hospital the german government says he was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent for lynn london and washington are now demanding answers from moscow also coming up tonight the image that shocked the world 5 years ago this picture of

a syrian talk clerk who perished in the mediterranean sea while fleeing to europe since shock waves around the globe will find out what happened to the family of al encouraging. also coming up to the sky seems to be the limit for the u.s. stock market funds shrugging off the recession and the pandemic to set new record highs and find out what is fueling this surge. and the venice film festival opens with less glitter less glamour with many stars and fans staying at home will have a preview of some of the top will still look out. i'm burnt off to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome tonight german chancellor angela merkel is demanding answers from moscow after her government confirmed that russia's leading opposition figure. was poisoned with the military nerve agent.

alexina vallie has been fighting for his life in a medically induced coma here in berlin after falling ill in siberia last month has repeatedly disputed allegations that the volney was poisoned. for years alexina vonnie has been fighting to rid russia of what he calls crooks and thieves and you know the united russia party has always won for 20 years and even if they lost using fraud they won anyway. the outspoken opposition figure has organized a numerous anti kremlin protest has been arrested several times for civil disobedience and even attempted to get on the ballot to run for president and 28 he's good with blocked by the courts. but now the lies in an induced coma at a berlin hospital clinging to life german chancellor angela merkel calls the

suspected poisoning attempted murder. scene of any of the next in of all me is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this and the sharpest possible manner and the name of the entire german government schefter. of all news when a president vladimir putin's fiercest critics jamming up a vocal and growing opposition against 20 year grip on power nobody has suffered physical and verbal attacks in recent years the attorney an anti-corruption activist fell ill and a flight from the city of tomsk in siberia on his way to moscow last week it's believed someone poisoned his team before he boarded a plane the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing to save his life the german government says testing carried out by its military proves that the soviet era nerve agent nova chop was used without a doubt. we expect the russian government to explain itself over this incident these are very serious questions now that only the russian government can

and must answer. went to unfold with. russia is set to hold regional elections next month devonian his allies had been campaigning to get their candidates elected but for now his family and friends are holding on to hope that no phoney pulls through. we have team coverage of today's developments i'm joined by correspondent kate brady here in berlin and yuri rich in moscow you both can't let me start with you strong words from the german chancellor what proof do the germans have that this was not. well the proof of this poisoning came from a special toxicology test that was carried out by a specific department of the german bundestag the german military which focuses on chemical weapons and also the protection of civilians and the military against chemical weapons and it's this test result i'm glad merkel says that is proof that

saying the valley was indeed the victim of a crime and they at that the aim was indeed for him to be silenced yury we've got the german chancellor along with other western countries now demanding answers from the kremlin what's the kremlin say. well brendan contra's to the strong reactions and growth in the union from nato and from special from the german chancellor we've started to see in russia have so far been reluctant to comment on the violence poisoning and me trip to scoff spokesperson of the russian president vladimir putin sad to that the kremlin would be unable to give a proper response to berlin statement which is in a way all else also a statement i think. the russian foreign minister is south of the berlin statements are not based on any evidence and that the reactions from the russian parliament was expected and they called it probably dictated by political motives that it could be organized by the united states to stop with the gas projects in north

stream to between russia and germany. we know that. can be produced only in russia at least that's what we know if this wasn't the kremlin behind this then who will credibly be well not only has quite a few enemies in his corruption investigations he has attacked many high ranking ranking officials and politicians in videos that have gotten millions of views on you tube. is the largest and most popular investigation for example was reported by the former russian prime minister and it meets remitted if so the list of his opponents and maybe hate us is very long including some original politicians in separate in novosibirsk of this it was the last cd not only has visited before he's or supplies and. i do think a basically that the person who poisoned him didn't expect such a response from germany from the vest and nobody in russia would have thought that not only would be flown to the lane and to be guarded like

a state guest of chancellor merkel or even more of a poison not only that person has obviously totally underestimated his importance in the west that's a very important point the medical quickly became political here kate how damaging is this then for german russian relations. but it certainly doesn't improve them by any stretch of the imagination and it was the it's interesting that angela merkel said in her address to the press this evening that novelli had indeed been treated for the past couple of weeks now the charity hospital here in berlin on humanitarian grounds but indeed as you say that humanitarian issue is quickly becoming a diplomatic and political issue so it will be interesting to see in the coming days exactly how germany and its e.u. partners also naysay part as me forward as well there are different options on the table that they could take but in the meantime they are waiting for a more concrete response from the kremlin. and the european

union and nato they've had to deal with similar cases before involving. for example russia or there are any clues from past experiences do help deal with this investigation. well one of the 1st port of call which of course be to slap some sanctions on specific targeted people in russia even on businesses or vessels very example as they really would depend on how moscow decides to cooperate or not with in the end it so the e.u. partners in the coming days but as your he says so far the response from moscow has been rather hazy. already that we used to here in berlin your shadow in moscow to both of you thank you. and here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the trial has opened in paris of the 14 suspects accused of aiding the 2015 terror

attack on the satirical magazine charlie of doe 3 assailants murdered 17 people before being shot by police the magazine was targeted because it published cartoons of the prophet muhammad. and a tory as killer in cambodia's genocidal c'mere ruge regime has died at the age of 77. oversaw the deaths of thousands. millions of cambodians and buried them in mass graves known as the killing fields have been serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity anti-government protesters have clashed with police in the bulgarian capitals of fia opponents accuse the prime minister of having links to only go hearts and they're calling on him to resign they staged the biggest demonstration in nearly 2 months of daily protests authorities say several people were detained and dozens injured. all this week we are looking back to the summer of 2015 when an unprecedented number of migrants

fled war in poverty in their home countries many of them out of syria and they headed for europe many of them never made one image shocked the world like to know what syrian toddler alan curds body washed ashore in turkey thousands of others also perished on the journey. and the perilous sea crossing it is still claiming lives today. the tragic exodus of the courty family ended at this beach near the turkish village of. the mother father and their 2 children were trying to reach the greek island of cost in a rubber boat that the boat capsized. little on his brother harley and their mother reihana drowned only abdulla cordy survived. capsized after people stood up. i held my wife sound. and we had life jackets and

tried to keep our children out of the water but it didn't work holly died for us to learn. i'll never forget holly's words when he said to me papa don't be afraid i don't know. the image of little alan's dead body made headlines around the world the refugees desperation and their fate now symbolized by a tiny corpse 4 years later we set out to make contact with his father. abdullah now lives in erbil in iraq's kurdish region we were unable to travel to iraq because of the coronavirus pandemic. kurdish television has also covered up do it according speight and has revealed some good news look already has once again become a father he remarried 3 years ago. oh yes. i

was very surprised when the new baby was born i couldn't believe it it was a shock. oh i didn't know if i should be happy or sad or if i should cry. i have no idea what happened to me. when you lose your own child on hope it never happens to you. it's a strange feeling if you've already lost a child and then having your baby. thank god i'm doing better. i'm happy about this new child. for. the new baby it's a great gift he has named him. aunt sima has written a book about what happened to the boy on the beach my family's escape from syria and our hopes for a new home and along with alan's father she co-founded the kurdi foundation to help

refugee children around the world today heard he was in berlin to mark the anniversary of her nephew's death a reporter spoke with her. to mccurdy thank you for taking your time to speak to t.w. it's not been 5 years since the pictures of your nephew i mean curdie went around the world what is that photo meant to you. is it in that photo there is no word i can describe it to anybody it's a family. tree carol it was the wake up call to the world was but that was my wakeup call and that's why. you know i go and take any opportunity across the globe and i use my course and urge every citizen to stand up from their silence and be the voice. of the and of the

people who are meet our house and have no voice. to talk about a wake up call do you feel that that wake up call has prompted more humanity in the discussion around migration. if i wanna take you back to september to the 2nd 2015 and almost 71 year later is that the of course that image at 1000000 of people is heart across the globe including politician who hold the picture deeply to their heart and with they have tears in their eye and moved them to do something and every country we watch it every country was moved and they start to help those suffering people and welcomed them and their hearts for me it was.

it's sad when i was seeing i saw the picture it was circulating and people talking about it it's really hurt us but in the same time we said it was going to bring. positive effect and people on move them to help others who are being called in and crying out to the world for many years it was something we take a deep into our hearts and and give us a little bit of comfort and. yes it's most people and i really have a spatial thanks to. every person in every country is that people who made all this happen is that people who poured their hearts out to world refugee and our country this is this is something i seen it's until now that people in the steel unwilling to do something to help others and that's why you know we

need to why i am today you know i look at the situation. there in the 5 years of course the politician the war the leader they went back to their business they forget the suffering of the people and you know the situation is getting worse everywhere we turn you know you want me to talk about i can't even watch the news what's happening you know people. taking the same journey people are from mean. if you want me to talk about when we watch the news what's happening in yemen like the image of those. is like start of written from hunger you know how can any human being watch those kind of news and close their eyes and turn that back and say well it's not my problem you know cody thank you very much for speaking to us.

it's. emanuel says he'll support iraqis. it's fight against so-called islamic state the french president is the 1st foreign leader to visit baghdad since a new government took office back in may italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi has tested positive for the coronavirus his staff say that he'll continue working from his home near milan 83 year old berlusconi will help with campaigning for his party for its italia in the elections later this month. the 1000 pandemic has plunged australia into recession for the 1st time in almost 3 decades new figures show that the economy shrank by 7 percent in the 2nd quarter its sharpest decline on record the treasurer says the road ahead will be a long hard and bumpy. business now

unemployment and government borrowing in the u.s. have skyrocketed because of the coronavirus pandemic but that's had no impact on the stock market which has gone from strength to strength shares in tech companies in particular have hit a series of record highs as demand for stocks such as apple in zoom so were the blue chip dow has been trading just below the all time high that it hit back in february at the same time one in 10 americans is now out of work. that is a huge disconnect for more let's cross to the business reporter corder he is following the story for us in new york good afternoon to you yes so why is the stock market soaring even though the u.s. economy is deep in a recession. it's quite incredible and actually i've experienced a couple of big market winsome here in new york city let it be the terror attacks

in 2001 the financial crisis and others just to name a few but this beat was what the markets question for especially in march and now recovered to a dentist something i haven't experienced at all the nasdaq composite just here on wednesday for the very 1st time ever serve pasta 12000 point mark i'm standing here in front of the tech heavy nest that just in june it was the 1st time we crisscrossed the $10000.00 point so now since then another 20 percent of the main reason probably is all the cheap money from the federal reserve we hear analysts saying they've never seen anything like that action from the fed reserve before that makes money cheaper and that is driving investors in the market but it might also be that some investors to try to join the party before it might end at some point. the party would be for people who own stocks who are invested in the stock market that's not everybody but about the people in the us who've lost their jobs

how are people feeling the effects of this economic downturn. it's incredible i mean every day if you look in the newspapers you need you see basically every day reports from people being laid off or are going to be laid off let it be in the airline industry in retail and to attain men in so many other places and i can also just say if a young couple is neighbors and so he's only getting 40 percent of what he originally got paid for his wife she's an artist she doesn't make any money at all and they're not able to afford the rent anymore you might see if it shows some further down the line so the economic reality clearly does not reflect at all what's going on with stock markets you know with stock markets unemployment the economy we know that there's an election coming up in november what is she was president donald trump's remedy for this economic malady. well pretty much she has taken this biggest action shortly after he took office

specially was the tax cuts which by the way also increase the debt load quite a bit and then also was raised by this regulation at the moment he is actually not talking so much about what he's going to hear in the future but it's how great his policies have been so far and he's pointing at the stock market just to prove him right that his economic policy is working if you look at the polls by the way when it comes to the economy and how he handles the economy he's at least in was that topic in delete in comparison to his contender joe biden. business reporter. with the latest from new york thank you. well the 1st major film event to roll out the red carpet since the start of the pandemic is now under way many stars will miss the venice film festival because of travel restrictions but there are still some big names entails which is cate blanchett the australian actress who's the president of this year's jury with

coronavirus kings is rising again in italy and elsewhere strict safety measures are in place including the wearing of face masks. thing for more i'm joined by our. culture he is in venice and he need to you scott i see you've got your face mask on i think a lot of people watching around the world are maybe scratching their heads wondering is it too early to be having a film festival i mean how different are things there compared to times without the pandemic. yeah i mean it's really no comparison as you say we're all wearing masks we have to wear them inside cinemas and outside at all times and venice you can see behind me has taken a note from donald trump's book and they've built a wall around the red carpet in order to keep people from gathering here and and create dangerous dangerous crowd so there are a lot of security measures that have been implemented here for for safety. and

maybe it is a bit too early maybe some people are right if they are saying that but i think it's quite amazing what the venice film festival has man should do here it does feel safe and if it is does have the feel of a real film festival and i think that's a huge signal for the film industry around the world which has been so hard hit by the crown a virus pandemic that maybe things could start getting going again and you know that coming from you the quote of the chief for them in venice to be able to get to that level considering the pandemic what highlights then can we expect in the coming days. well i already have my favorite film it's one day and i already have a favorite from the festival it's called apples it's out of competitions a greek film and it's about a pandemic but it's a different pandemic a pandemic that cause you to lose your memory it's a really touching magical little buoy which i really thought was delightful can really take you away in

a way that only movies can and then i'm really looking forward to the german entry and tomorrow the entire world of political drama sent in current day germany about the dangers of political extremism a topic that i think could be could be couldn't be more topical so those are 2 highlights but they'll be a lot more dickov in the coming 10 days and we'll be talking with you scott ross perot in business from the start of the venice film festival scott thank you for its news now international soccer kicks off in europe this week for the 1st time since the corona virus pandemic wiped out previous fixtures the nation's league starts with germany hosting spain in one of the standout games fans are still getting used to the relatively new tournaments and they will not be allowed to watch in person. it's 10 long months since germany last played there was meant to have been a european championship in june but that will now take place next year because of the coronavirus germany can instead ease their way back in stock up against spain

in the nation's league a tournament designed to give countries competitive football when otherwise they would be playing friendly's. obviously felt quite different to join up with the national team the last few months was strange for everyone in. the tournament to starting its 2nd edition with portugal the inaugural winners last year changes have already been made to what many fans see as a complicated competition for you a 1st glossy video does its best to explain the rules but it remains a 2nd tier tournament offering a back route into the 2022 world cup the revamp is good news for germany they were supposed to have been relegated after poor nations league displays full of their 2018 world cup debacle demotions were scrapped and now germany are on the up after easily qualifying for the euros fans are not allowed for the spain game but general

manager all of a beer told t w that germany could still put on a show. play also the difference. so. for the. next. well the 1st 2. to reproduce. it with friends. nicholas sooner and levi sonny there but by munich's all the germany stars are rested for the game after their champions league heroics the coronavirus destruction means the match is taking place before the new blunders league season starts the football world hopes normality can return soon. for the brazilian soccer star newmar will likely miss the start of the new french league season that's because new markets contract t. his infection appears to be linked to a holiday trip to the spanish mediterranean island of beads that several p.s.g.

players took following the champions league final defeat by buying a new nick like the marquee maids. and leandro they don't. or both male self isolating in paris both were with me more on holiday last week. you're watching news i'm born golfer all of us here in berlin thanks for the company after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around we'll be right back.

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