on the alliance side how the special meeting to discuss the case of on the scene here investigating corruption in siberia shortly before he fell ill is in a coma in a hospital in berlin germany says it has evidence he was poisoned with a nerve agent that dates from the soviet era secretary general shorten called the case serious breach of international law that demands an international response made dollars agree. serious questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an impartial international investigation those responsible for this attack must be held accountable and brought to justice thought we are joined by our nato correspondent teri schultz in brussels terry you followed the special meeting of nato allies in the poisoning of kremlin critic what is their main response to

russia or heart nato isn't saying at this very early stage that russian officials or the russian government is definitely responsible for the poisoning of alexei navalny what they are saying is that the soviet and the russian government is responsible for any stocks of nova took the nerve agent used to poison of all me and that therefore it must come clean on where those nerve agents are being stored what you know who might have access to them and that it needs to you know participate in an international investigation that you know if russia wants to say it's not responsible it needs to help find out who is terry you had the opportunity to ask. the 1st question after a statement what did you ask him. well on my twitter feed errata get a lot of comments about why is nato involved in this at all letting of all he is a russian citizen it took place in russia nato should just stay out of this so i

asked secretary general stolzenberg why nato feels that it has anything to say about this case at all because this is a violation of international law on international norms it's the use of chemical of up and so use of a over unit chemical nerve agent which is violating probation over in use over chemical weapons and matters for nato and when we see that the legal position will titian in russia is attacked. it's tried to there's not as a nation of time talking against him of course it matters for everyone that believes in the rule of law democracy individual liberty as we do in nato. and start not speaking them terry the kremlin has denied any culpability and in that case what are the next steps that nato will take. well again it's just a few days after germany concluded that the poison used on election of all me was

no overture which of course is dating back to the to the soviet union so what's nato and the european union as well want to happen is that an international investigation take place most likely under the auspices of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to which russia belongs and at which russia has agreed this is a banned chemical weapon so an investigation needs to take place before any further steps can be taken back in 2018 when it was determined that 2 russian nationals had used an over check against former russian spy sergei scribble on his daughter and 2 other people then nato expelled russian diplomats as a consequence and many other countries did as well so we're not there yet but that clearly stands as a precedent to what might happen if this can be traced back to responsibility of the russian government itself. thank you terry. time now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines today italian media are

reporting that former prime minister silvio berlusconi. signs of pneumonia the 8083 year old was hospitalized in milan on thursday night after being diagnosed with covert 19 a few hours ago his party said his condition was no cause for concern. federal law enforcement officers in the u.s. have shot dead a suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a right wing activist at a protest in portland oregon the 48 year old suspect was killed as a task force tried to arrest him southwest of seattle it's unclear why the officers opened fire. with less than 2 months to go to the u.s. election both president on will trump and his rival joe biden are ramping up their campaigns the latest polls show the race has remained relatively stable over the last few weeks with biden holding 7 percentage points over trump nationally now it's down to the final battle for swing states and the remaining undecided voters

most have already made up their minds not really sure. 0 these people were unable to get into the president's campaign event in pennsylvania despite queueing for hours. but it didn't dampen their enthusiasm. or dent their belief that victory in november election will be that as. it's good to see that there's this much support because everybody wants you to believe that he's not going to win and biden's going to take over and that's not the case trump will prevail it will be 2020 trump will make america great again. in a nearby hanging in this vital swing state has once again pushing the key theme of this campaign. and. biden is what it is to apiece the domestic terrorists my plan is to arrest them and prosecute them.

and i will always defend law abiding citizens that's why the riders are voting for biden. also to the opportunity to poke fun at biden. but did you ever see a man that likes to mask his watches there. and then he makes a speech or he always has it not always but a lot of times as that hanging down because you know what it gives him a feeling of security if i were psychiatry is. right. the president's tone was in stark contrast to the one adopted by feiten as he visited the town of can osha in wisconsin the site of anti racism protests after shooting a black resident jake blake. well i think we've reached inflection point in our history. our honest to god i believe we have on norma's opportunity now that the

screen. curtains been pulled back and this was going to come to reason so 2 very different men and 2 very different campaign styles and messages. the one constant though as this clash between pro trump and biden supporters outside the venue showed is that the u.s. is more polarized than ever that and that the deficiency only looks set to get deeper as election day approaches you never met a woman like me how did it affect it's been 4 weeks since the massive explosions that ripped through beirut killing at least 190 people but at this very moment rescue workers are trying to save someone who they believe may still be alive under the rubble signs of life have been detected a couple of meters down. rescue workers use detection equipment as they continue their search for any signs of life. on thursday afternoon this team from chile with the help of their rescue dog flash

and specialist scanning equipment discovered a pulse under the rubble of this collapsed building. others quickly joined the search. rather feel about this than i indicated there's a pulse of 18 beats a minute that along with the temperature sensor means there's a possibility of life according to the senses so sensors that are all. but by midnight fear that a wall could collapse meant the hard work was briefly suspended after protests from some members of lebanon's civil defense team resumes the search. rescue is are still hard at work even using backhands to remove the deborah. a pulse was again detected on friday morning but it had dropped from 18 beats per

minute to just 7. the likelihood of finding any survivor is slim. but these search and rescue workers are refusing to give up. one month to the day after an explosion at the city's port destroyed most of central beirut the people here desperately need something to give them. a really is on the scene of this astonishing story and beirut a member of the search and rescue team told him about the challenges they face. basically it's this 3 story building and of all 3 stories fell down so every time i remove the roof there's another roof underneath it either cement or huge metal like 6 huge meet there my apples of metal ok those are the obstacles and the building is

built with limestone not normal stones so it's it's breaking and making lots of sand which makes of making our mission harder. and about possibility of finding someone now we cleared a lot of the degree and still didn't see anything that's why there's now less chance of finding something and that. you're watching news still to come on top of control of the new women seen with hopes of flying high like an eagle in the women's put to sleep we look at that chances of bringing some says to germany's financial comes. first all this week here on news we've been marking the 5th anniversary offer decision that would change the course of european history on this day september the 4th 2015 thousands of refugees who have been stuck in limbo in a station in budapest set off on foot for the german border for them it was the

start of a new route to the heart of europe for the european union it was a challenge to its core principles by the end of 2015. more than a 1000000 people have sought refuge in the e.u. with many making the long trek from turkey across bridges and the balkan countries all the way to germany's border. and here's a look at the situation that confronted both migrants and hunger aryans at kinetics station bought in 2050. calls of frustration and anger at budapest collect the station. many of those finding shelter here had fled war in violence in their homelands. and made a dangerous e crossing at the mercy of people smugglers but in hungary they found europe's doors closed. at times as many as sticks 1000 were stranded here making do with makeshift camps and no aid from the home here in government. but they did find

helping hands among some of budapest citizens in the beginning. as they were friends. to bring what they can some food some water some the fear. some money. to buy food. parts from the. hunger in that from getting gross out baba was one of those helpers he spent months at collecting station distributing food and comfort whatever he could. says his egyptian hungary and jewish heritage compelled him to go to the station. and his sense of responsibility for his fellow man made him stay. on them it wasn't a job. it was something we had to do for people everywhere around the world. it's

just something we had to do in the back years. on september 4th 201-5000 of migrants and collecting station decided to forge their own path. taking the 1st steps on a journey that would bring a 1000000 migrants to germany. in the studio head of news marc saltzman likes welcome to the studio back then the one head of news reports and you cover that story from the very beginning what impressions from these days still remain with you of course is something i've been thinking a lot about in the last weeks with the 5 year anniversary and there are the obvious memories that comes to mind for example the demonstrations in front of the station which is the name of that train station in budapest the families with their children having really no water no possibility to go to the restroom to the toilet

people desperately trying to get on a train those are the obvious memories but there's something i always remember that is not representative maybe for what happened back then if it really stuck with me you have to remember it was very hot 35 degrees every day no clouds so during the day you had these demonstrations the confrontation with the police and then when the sun started setting everything settled down and you almost had an atmosphere like on a campsite the families got together they huddle together they started laughing they started playing and all this was very positive in the end of those days and it just gave me the feeling that these people in spite of all the hardships and the obstacles that they had to overcome were still very optimistic that a better life was ahead. back then there was a lot of criticism of course at the time here in germany of opening the borders in hindsight do you think it was the right decision to really depends who you ask of course from our perspective on the ground back then it seemed the only right

decision because of the human the tarion crisis we had there but to be fair afterwards we learned that communication of the different countries was very basic to put it that way and we did think about our own reporting on the ground did we do the right thing were we to one sided but you know you have to remember we were down there and authorities were definitely playing games with the migrants always distributing leaflets that were exclusively in hungary and that nobody could understand they were picking off people from the fringes of the crowd of that camp that makeshift camp arresting them they were sending people to trains telling them that these search teams would go straight to germany and when they didn't they had stops where people would have to get off and go into camps again so like i said they were playing games and it's very hard to get a solid side of the authorities we tried for this very show to get that side to

have them here on air to tell us what the thinking was back then but they refused so it's always easier to get that side of the migrants you still try to be balanced did you find it difficult as a reporter on the on the ground to stay neutral and sort of look at the whole situation in a situation like that where you always already know that it's going to be historic and you have these people that connect to you specially as a german broadcaster where all the migrants had on their cell phones and they associate you with with germany and they love germany you remember those signs holding up we love germany we love michael so it was a lot easier to have contact with them to get their side of the story than the side of the one daring authorities but like i said earlier still always tried to. stay balanced but it wasn't always easy it hungary. fairly quickly took a very different approach. shot off it's bogus full migrans in retrospect how do you analyze it was the start of the deep divide in the e.u.

between the east and the west we all thought back then the tall blonde the prime minister of hungary would come around again under pressure from germany and france that's not what happened this conflict is still there it's probably the single most important conflict in the e.u. internally speaking and the only way that you has been able to deal with that was to try to keep migrants out of the once they get to the european union still the same thing you has no system to deal with that. much of his head of news thank you very much thank you. and we're staying on this story and we're now joined by the nickel baconian from the refugee program on the of the hungary and helsinki committee which provides free legal assistance to refugees in hungary let's talk about the plight of migrants in hungry today has hungry changed its approach how it deals with migrants we've just heard from knox about what it was like back in the day. hello so hungary actually has

changed its approach it's going along the same route and if we can say as you know the vikki in florida gas between other countries within the e.u. so we didn't know it only around the physical barrier in 2015 of our border but we keep or acting more and more legal barriers that basically prevent asylum seekers to access hungary to get into hungary physically and also to get protection in hungary so 1 we have to hold unfortunately a low road in demolishing to get functioning beside them system given the european union this is a pretty unique situation unfortunately in a negative sense because i don't think it has happened you know any other member states and barons we had 2000 and thousands of people coming in 2015 as you're well the go sort recall that i also remember very well yeah right now basically we had

7 people in july who were able to fly and i mean thanks to seek asylum at the consulate in belgrade so i think this is a long road to hide here in government travel bts policies now the e.u. you mentioned that the hungry has declined to accept meaningful numbers of refugees why do you think that it. well i think this has been an important part of the government's policy the anti migrant stance with slater you know they extend the to attack all those organisations that and that actually assist the asylum seekers and refugees and they have proven successful politically with dates and and then they went along with it and we've heard complaints from social workers that they actually face prosecution if they. help undocumented migrants it's not true. so there there were several attacks

at civil society at the actuaries and there was one of them we aim to criminalize assistance provided to asylum seekers it does not actually concerns not only social workers but any organisation or any have her who as to just a side i'm seekers and the you know the understanding go over what can be criminalized and what not is obviously up to discussion it definitely has a ceiling a fact and it leaves me the scope of activity is that civil society think through and these are all legitimate acts in you know in a normal world i think about on you from the refugee program of the hungary and helsinki committee thanks for joining us here ended up in your arms thank you. and in other news at least one person has died in a blaze on a supertanker off the coast of sri lanka the indian answer lankan navies are trying to prevent

a fire reaching the oil storage area of the vessel they say no oil has so far leaked out. the number of coronavirus cases in brazil has topped 4000000 almost 125000 people have died only the u.s. has seen more cases and test was ill the president jalal scenario has said vaccinations will not be compulsory when they become available. to us media are reporting that british actor robert pattinson has tested positive for covert 19 forcing a hole to production of his upcoming film the batman film in hot pursuit on set in england only 3 days ago after being shot down in march because of the pandemic. and football now in the women's bonus league beginning its new season 2 weeks before the med spoke and by in munich the dominant teams in recent years again the big favorites for the title but there was also hope that f.f.c.

frankfurt now playing under the banner of us could mount a challenge meet the women of frankfurt now wearing the i tracked eagle on their jerseys on sunday the bull is the biggest newest outfit will don their new kids against brave. position super personally i think it's great to play for such a big club that they're a big part of the stand you know the no go you know the name it's great that we can that play under the eagle oh. you know from women's football in germany lacks the investment scene in other countries like england. in germany somebody has to go clubs are still slow getting involved in women's football but now i try to frankfurt seeks to follow the leaves of wool spurred by iron hoffenheim and labor coups it only pots them sond and s. in continue to try their hand it being all women's clubs. if i know the clubs

should not be forced to develop i'm sure that the quality of women's football alone will be enough to see that many top clubs doing the same we cannot be ignored the complaint says that it's illegal in frankfurt they are convinced that they have made the right decision the women's teams professionals and youngsters are important parts of i chalk enriching the club as a whole just fears and i have the feeling we're very well prepared for constantly improving and we're not really looking forward to the start of the season. optimism is obviously back time will tell if the eagles attitude will match their altitude this season. ambitious construction projects often suffer delays but not usually like the one that's stopped on mexico city's new airport ontologies discovered their remains of some 200 mammals with a large number still to be excavated the skeletons are near the site of the form

a lake and that indicates that the animals were hunted when they got stuck in the mud experts hope the findings will give insight into praise hunting methods and help solve the mystery of the mammoth extinction. you're watching the news here is a reminder of the top story this hour the nato alliance has called on russia to cooperate with the international response to the poisoning of russian dissident alexander germany is certain that number was poisoned with toxic nerve agent developed in the soviet era. and in beirut hope is fading of finding a survivor of the massive 40 explosions a month ago a rescue team detected a pulse but after urgent digging emergency workers have found only rubble and 2 signs of lie. a spoke to.

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