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russian dissident alexy in the volunteer who was poisoned in russia and brought to berlin for treatment and woke from a coma today doctors say he's responsive and some point he'll ask what happened who was responsible were they punished questions russia refuses to answer and with that suddenly here in europe and in the u.s. sanctions against the kremlin are back on the table or should we say in the pipeline i'm bringing up in berlin this is the day. cuttin understands only 2 things money and gas is itself a part of what i would also consider wrong or for that would be to deny from the stopped sin that our current events could have any impact whatsoever on this project as the chancellor shares the remarks made by the foreign minister over the

weekend why is germany spending billions and billions of dollars to russia. to get their energy from russia and then we're supposed to take their money from russia would settle it. also coming up if you thought the battle over breakfast was over boris johnson may prove you wrong the british prime minister threatening to tear up the divorce agreement with the european union if a tree deal is not reached by next month we must make sure that people understand what's at the end of the year whatever happens we all leaving the e.u. leaving the meeting the transition period leaving the implementation that is that easy. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with 2 very important awakenings today doctors here in berlin said the russian dissident alexina valda after being in

a medically induced coma for 2 weeks is now awake again doctors say that he's response it involves he was brought to berlin for treatment last month when he suddenly became ill in siberia tests revealed that he had been poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent no veto an act that the german chancellor has called attempted murder the german chancellor was the 1st political leader to call on russia to investigate and to explain what happened to the vallie the u.k. and the u.s. have joined her on the russian government. has denied any involvement and is refusing to investigate and it's important to remember that alexina of all the is the most prominent kremlin critic in russia a political thorn in vladimir putin side pressure on russia to explain is not letting up neither is the pressure on german u.s. and german lawmakers are demanding an end to the multi-billion euro natural gas project known as the nord stream to pipeline now for years the u.s.

has lobbied berlin to kill the project with no success in fact german chancellor angela merkel she's made it part of her russia policy to always separate business from geopolitics and that brings us to today's 2nd awakening a major rethink by uncle americal the poisoning of alexina volley bringing him to germany for treatment all of that has changed the chancellor's calculus today for the 1st time merkel's spokesman confirmed sanctions to punish the kremlin may include killing the no word stream to pipeline. construction is in the final stages yet the north stream to pipeline might never be completed because of the diplomatic stole my over the poisoning of alexina valmy and his employer to brian we're not all over 100 companies are involved in this project half of them a german. clash against the project will touch them too from foreign hours from now

and also what it would be wrong to assume that what's happened not have any consequences to this poor tom critter muska denies the allegations of an avowal nature and to sit back with its own assertions the kremlin says germany has not responded to russian requests for legal assistance but in rejects this meanwhile ukraine has joined cools for tough sanctions to be imposed on russia. none in that league we. will react with tough measures that they meet months so that when is left in no doubt country. and many german politicians agree. on the stands only 2 things money and gas stream $2.00 is crucial to off future relations with russia. the green party believes russian gas is incompatible with clean energy it would be as

a government must find ways to access this project all state and can't even f.x. a thing ends up costing money and this time it's going cost it all adds up to an uncertain future for a controversial pipeline or today's news from the german chancellor was major but it wasn't a shocker in fact just a few days ago it was predicted by a guest here on the day benjamin schmidt a former european energy security advisor at the us state department i asked him about the pressure on marigold to change course over russia. i've seen statements today that including from mr repton as well as from the greens the f.d.a. papers munich security conference chair is singer and others but we've said seen this before after past provocations you know think of you know the invasion of ukraine by russia election interference cyber attacks on the buddhist that extradition killing that we saw in berlin last year by russia and already

chancellor merkel as a pen to separate somehow this issue of the noble truck poisoning of mr know about me from north into and i think the combination however of sanctions pressure the diplomatic pressure on both sides of the atlantic not to mention for many in the german political establishment that we're hearing today means a real turning point i really don't think that north through 2 will ultimately be completed under these conditions but then again this saga has gone on since 15 so we will see well what kind of conditions would be feasible i mean billions of euros have already gone into nord stream to germany were to shut it down the legal and financial implications here would be immense is the u.s. in a position to all for compensation if germany shuts it down. i don't know about compensation but there certainly are levers that germany itself can pull on that's one of the article levon of the 2019 update to the gas directive the use on gas for active germany has to certify whether this project harms the

national or energy security interests of either itself or other you member states and it hasn't done so yet it needs to do so and so this is certainly grounds under which you can say no this does harm the national security interests it does advance the field to corruption i mean we look at mr schroeder imagine if george w. bush or brock obama were currently working for china swallow way this would be just a major political story in washington it be the only one so we really need to think about this and step back and understand what this is all about it's not about energy really it's about geopolitics and it's about national security of the transatlantic community. that was bija mention that their former european energy security advisor with the us state department for analysis of the german chancellor is rethink tonight i'm joined here at the big table by andrew adair andrew is an attorney and a public policy advisor specializing in transatlantic affairs it is good to see you

again senior a lot lately you and i we've spoken before about the bipartisan opposition in washington to this new word stream to pipeline but that opposition has been there since the obama administration right i mean it's there's nothing new there miracle did not budge from her russia stance with an opposition how do you explain this rethink that will signal today yeah you know everything has its limits i think brant and you're absolutely right the american position has been pretty much static since 2015 since this project was announced it all comes down to the ukraine incursion in 2014 russia annexed the crimea and sent troops into eastern ukraine in this campaign of malign behavior and in 2015 a mere one year later when this project was announced. the u.s. government said this is a bad idea. you know the germans were sort of in some ways boxed in because they

felt like well this is a commercial project and we're going to civil look the other way i mean on to the market has always had the position that you know we can. fight against russian malign influence against russian mine behavior on one side and then kind of decouple this big commercial project on the other side and i think what's happened is she's rich a breaking point and she can't look the other way anymore and you could say that she has done it longer than any other political leader could have done because she's she's even known as being the the putin whisperer of being able to understand him the way that other western leader can and that's definitely been an advantage when you say. absolutely you know putin has a long history in germany i mean he spent time here in germany as a as a k.g.b. officer when you know when germany was divided he speaks fluent german of course grew up in east germany so there is a if not

a kinship sort of some sort of an understanding of one another absolutely at the same time you know i'm going to merkel i think takes rule very seriously as a. a bull work of democracy and a you know ever fracturing. world order and so we now have a situation where you know putin's campaign of blind behavior is ratcheted up more and more you know there's this fascination or an attempted assassination in the u.k. a couple of years ago with the same nerve agents cripples that is creep all and his daughter. and now we have something of the same order but this is not just a sort of a spy so to speak this is the at the opposition leader so i mean if i could put a somewhat provocative point on this if you know nancy pelosi were poisoned in the united states if you know german corben were poisoned in the united kingdom so this is something you know it cuts so deep to the heart of what

a democratic order is all about you that i'm going to merkel has to stand up now and there has been not only opposition to nord stream because of russia in the u.s. there's also been push back here in berlin members of the parliament they've said openly that russia's actions on the world stage have made it difficult if not impossible to continue with nord stream soon i mean we've had some politicians say how can we do business with someone who we say openly is a murderer exactly now that that's exactly right and that's i think that's what we've seen with this step by step flatterer putin has. has. shown himself to be the bad actor that he actually is and he's become more and more and bold and over the years you know there was this time you know let's go back 10 years 15 years you know the bush administration viewed a lot of your part. as

a real partner as a possible partner you know under the obama administration hillary clinton then the secretary of state in the reset exactly so you know there have been all of these attempts to sort of look the other way and say no this is not the soviet union this is russia this is a new era and what we've now come to the conclusion is that it ain't necessarily so and alexina vallie his role in this i mean he is the game changer. is it because he was brought to germany for medical treatment and i'm wondering if he had remained in a siberian hospital would you and i be having this conversation right now. it's such an interesting question i mean i guess the answer is is really unknowable but i have to think you know if you if you i mean germany is now the caretaker for the russian opposition leader he's sitting in a hospital right here in berlin. you know the german medical scientists are

bringing all the best knowledge skills expertise to bear to save his life so when you're there when you are as a government are the caretaker of the opposition leader. it has to play a role it has to be a thumb on the scale in terms of. let's call it a catalyst for you know what the american government will ultimately do here do you think the fact the germany one did native to convene as it did last friday to talk about a response the fact that germany went to naida on this is that also made the future for nord stream to just untenable well you know and that's also. speaks volumes i think it's it i think it shows you that you know north stream is it's not a commercial project it of course has a commercial dimension it's cost billions of dollars and there's a ton of capital tied up in it but at the geo political implications of north

stream too and security implications talk about nato and the multilateral security implications of this project are now have really begun to dwarf the commercial aspect of it and i would expect. the e.u. to get involved as well as nato and i think we're going to see a lot of a lot of action in the coming days about 30 seconds left it is an election year in the united states if it's north stream 2 issues that will allow president trump to say this is a foreign policy coup for for me yes that's true and my personal theory is. donald trump is well don't trump the pro russian president he wants lattimer putin to come back into the g. 7 right he wants to meet with latin or putin he's as knowing nothing but praise for vladimir putin openly admires him so i think that he is against north stream too because he wants to stick it to germany not to stick it to russia ok that's an interesting point and i think we'll be talking about it that again before too long

as well always good to have you here thank you thank you. the united kingdom left the european union on january 31st of this year yes but not exactly according to the brakes a divorce agreement between the e.u. and the u.k. this year 2020 is a transition year no rules or laws are changing it's business as usual while brussels and london wrap up the business of parting ways and that includes the very important trade deal between europe and the u.k. which still has not been hammered out and if you look at the calendar you know that time is quickly running l. well now british prime minister boris johnson has set an october 15th deadline for a trade deal or he says he will pull the u.k. out of negotiations reports also say that his government is preparing legislation that would override parts of the withdrawal deal that was agreed to last year a unilateral decision to change a bi lateral agreement e.u.

commission president yourself in the lion today warned the u.k. to keep its word to honor the withdrawal agreement that it because she ate it tonight in brussels the thinking is as follows if boris johnson changes the rules there may be no future trade partnership with europe at all it's not 12 months since british prime minister boris johnson she's not an unlikely deal from the jaws of defeat after a long negotiations with the unit p n union. i do think that this deal represents a very good deal day for the e.u. and for the u.k. and interviews heat praise on his hard work you have is a fantastic deal for all of the u.k. at heart the deal would prevent an in town no border in ireland no his government

has found fault with the details and is reportedly planning to tear up parts of it a move the borders with tun jeopardizing peace in the reach him. ireland's foreign minister said unilaterally reneging on a treaty would be a very unwise way to proceed coming at the start of a crunch week for trade talks the e.u.'s chief negotiator told french radio he was can sound good but you'll drive through what can i see today i remain worried it's not the last round of brakes in negotiations that are starting this week we have other runs in late september and in october i went to london again last week or so these are difficult negotiations because the british want the best of 2 worlds in a way to do. it the u.k.'s health minister insisted a deal was still achievable. the question is whether we can whether we can land. a future trade agreement and i'm confident that we can. johnson won

reelection last december on a promise that he could build those his way to break. a strategy that proved popular at home but me yet undermined britain standing abroad. are going to bulldoze through the stuff here tonight here at the big table i'm joined by u.k. political analyst john worth's john it's good to see you again it is about what is the u.k. prime minister what is he up to we're talking about a real threat here or much ado about nothing for instance and is basically trying to play to a british audience here he wants to play it tough he wants to get one over on brussels and that's what we've seen in the last 24 hours has been that kind of toughening up of the rhetoric he wants to go to brussels and come back as a winner and what does he need to do this because he's got the conservative party on his back in the u.k. they dream of this independent trading nation and they keep on talking of

sovereignty they don't actually realise or accept that the e.u. is a legitimate actor that has its own needs as its own sovereignty that it also seeks to defend and so we this is very much all of this communication from johnson this week is all very much for u.k. what in some particularly for his members of parliament in the conservative policy producer was the bank in more words johnson had a 26 point lead in the polls that lead has now to 0 so his conservatives or are nervous is that what's going on here exactly and the difficulty is is that there's no clear plan from. walt's sorts of threats it would actually really be in the interests of the people voted for him at that election back in december where he did so well because he had an essentially intellect. coalition among people who will form a labor vote says some people in working cities in the north the still exporting to

the european union i people that want to deal and traditional some traditional conservative voters many of them farmers in farming industries in the farming industry would be killed off in britain what britain to crash out of the european union without a deal and then those people that are ideologically in the same boat as far as johnson who want very much to basically to show how strong britain still is. having over all of these decades of course lost its empire so how does he hold these different groups of different interest to get it and he hasn't got a clear answer to that to that question in the moment and that's what we're seeing at the moment he's testing different things out what can he get away with in brussels what can he get away with his own policy and what could he get away with reduced business and that's why it's also so noisy and so unclear is it even politically possible for the u.k. to read nigga on the withdrawal agreement which it negotiate it probably legally is next to impossible to do that because actually there is a procedure involving the european court of justice which is in the withdrawal

agreement in the so-called northern r. and protocol which deals with northern ireland's relations when you're meaning you can actually bring the u.k. to court if britain did not respect what he just signed up to use that legal sentence the political sense is perhaps even more corrosive because basically britain's is essentially saying if we go ahead with breaks that we won't trade deals with the united states with australia with canada with new zealand but what country would trade with the u.k. if they just broken in agreement they've only just signed with the nearest neighbor and said this political credibility at stake as well as the legal problem in what he's doing let's talk a little bit about how johnson's threat impacts the border solution between northern ireland in the republic of ireland which would take a listen to what the irish foreign minister said about the. in many ways to see is the implementation of the withdrawal agreement and in the protocol which is complex. the test of good faith in these negotiations and if we can't even follow

through on the commitments that have already been made i think it's going to be very difficult to strike a new agreement on some very delicate areas that require compromise on both sides physics talking about credibility here again is is there worry that we may again be facing this question is there going to be a return to a hard border between northern ireland and. this is something where boris johnson has already annoyed the northern irish essentially so the question was traditionally in breaks it is where do you draw that border between northern ireland of the republic of ireland or huge or it's between basically the island of ireland and the rest of the u.k. and that is basically webb boris johnson chose to draw it although he himself it's had never wanted a border in the irish sea that's essentially he's already to put it bluntly sold the northern irish. and it and he's still keeping on maintaining high of the notion it would be a bold but the have to be according to the old one person told us i'm coming he

just talked about the have to be export declarations on goods being exported from northern ireland to the rest of the u.k. so the politicians in northern ireland already fear is already from back in november and there's still fear essentially because boris johnson as i see it as not taken the questions of northern ireland peace and security no and i don't anything close to seriously enough until now is that what part of the problem is here is that you've got the leadership in london is somewhat clueless about the border issue in ireland right and also. boris johnson essentially took a calculation that he did not need northern ireland in order to be essentially success. poll out the u.k. general election northern ireland is 1000000 people in the rest of the u.k. this more than 60000000 people it didn't actually matter to his electoral prospects now if there is a serious economic problem there we're still there will be some restarting of the

of the troubles then you have a major problem on its hands on his hands signing for leave that hasn't happened yet and we can but hope that it will mean that continues but boris johnson has the plate at the seriousness of the northern ireland issue front whole period right since november prior to his election when in december ok so he's done that what about the issue of scottish independence what does what does this. drama do to them. scottish independence is growing all the support for it is growing just at the moment and there is an election to the scottish parliament scheduled for may of next year and the rhetoric from the scottish national party prone dependence a party of nicholas sturgeon is essentially look britain is being the whole of britain is being taken out of the european union towards either a very hard breaks it or no deal breaks it that the scottish people didn't vote for so that says the only way that scotland can save itself from this is london for

bracks it is by becoming independent so that is shaping up to be the big conflict of next year is is where the if scotland would hold a 2nd referendum on independence now legally speaking they need the ok from london in order to manage to do that it's not shaping up to be a massive conflict between london and edinburgh but probably only after christmas well they'll be allowed to talk about what happens on like to birth 51st will still be talking be a little bit talk about it john as always it's good to talk with you thank you. well the day is always done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either give me a break golf team and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see the never.

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