this is g w news live from for lend russia piles on the prosecutions against a kremlin critic alexina valving this time he is charged with slandering a water war veteran the phony has already been sentenced to years in prison for violating parole russia's relations with the e.u. are worsening fast over his fate. coming up these violent scenes could happen again the final word from prosecutors impeaching dumbell trial they are urging a speedy conviction but now it's the turn of trump's lawyers to make their case for

acquittal plus the head of tokyo's a limp it organizing committee resigns his sexist remarks and top floor and cast attention on japan's sluggish progress toward gender equality. the football field and that's only been done once before a buyer in munich claims 6 major titles in 12 months now including the world club championship. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program kremlin critic alexei the volley is back in court this time on charges of defaming a world war 2 veteran who appeared in a government video these are the latest pictures of the valma from inside the court room in moscow he was recently sentenced to several years in jail for allegedly violating his probation in germany while he recovered from

a poisoning attack of all these arrests sparked street protests across russia your leaders have called for his release further straining ties between the european union and russia. story for us it's. standing by in moscow erin what's the latest. legal move here really about well let's in of all me is looking actually answering to slander charges surrounding them statements he made online in the run up to last year's constitutional referendum here in russia that was a referendum which basically in effect a loud let it rip wouldn't do or could potentially allow him to stay in power well into the twenty's thirty's now of course that's something that alexina of all the opposed and specifically regarding the comments he made he was focusing on a video released by russia today now that's russia's state broadcaster and in the video members of russian society raised their support and voice their support for

this constitutional referendum now alexina on the label them as traitors which resulted in this landing slander charges that he's facing today now of course this trial was originally slated to take place last year but of all of these poisoning with a soviet era nerve agent nova chuck and then his resulting recuperation in germany prevented the trial from taking place and of course he returned to the country earlier this year was arrested and that's part of the reason that prosecutors are now going ahead with this latter case aaron any indications of potential verdict well no of course we don't know exactly how the court is likely to rule but it bears saying that the russian judiciary has never been very sympathetic to alexina volley in the past now if you were to be sentence he could be facing additional jail time or a fine or something akin to community service but at least here in moscow it's not expected that he will be facing additional jail time specifically because he is already looking down the barrel.