ah ah ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. russia silence is one of its strongest critics. a journalist in top opposition activist receives a peptide jail term after he's convicted of treason for publicly denouncing moscow's war in ukraine. this is not a life sentence, this is a death sentence, they will, they will basically kill him in prison. will speak to

a friend and former colleague of his about the sentence also coming up heavy fighting and sir dan's capital cartoon. as a power struggle between the army and the paramilitary group enters the 3rd day, nearly a 100 people have been killed in st. battles and aristotle's ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. western governments and human rights organizations have widely condemned the sentencing of kremlin critic vladimir cover moore's up to 25 years in a russian labor camp. moscow court convicted the prominent russian journalist and political activists of treason and spreading dis information about the russian military. kara morsa had denied the charges. us from vassar to russia, said the sentence was assigned to moscow's we snot strength and was clearly an

attempt to silence decentralization. kara moore's as lawyer told the w that given her clients poor health, the jail term amounted to a death sentence. a so called strict regime labor camp in russia. it's the kinds of prison in which vladimir kind of mertsa may now spend the next 25 years of his life . the jewel, russian and british citizen is one of russia's laws, prominent opposition, figures. he's been behind balls since april 2022 russian authorities arrested canada after he did now. thrushes, so called special military operation and ukraine. during his speech to american politicians. he was 1st charged with spreading false information about the russian military. then russian, prosecutors added a charge of treason, the son of a soviet era journalist carol mertsa has worked to the journalist and political activists. since he was 16, he served as part of the coordinating council of the russian opposition. and the

enjo open russia. he was also widely seen as a protege of mad at opposition leader bars nymphs of was gun down near the kremlin in 2015 car. maza also alleges he was the target of political violence twice narrowly surviving. what talked as described as intentional poisonings. long an outspoken critic of latin putin, kalamazoo remained defiant during his trial, saying he is proud of his statements and looks forward to the day when the people who are least russia's invasion of ukraine are recognized as criminals. earlier i spoke with bill browder. he used to be one of the largest foreign investors in russia. he's a former colleague and close friend of blood in the car or more. so he shared his thoughts with us about his friends sentencing. i mean, thought is just the absolute horror. vladimir is again a guy who is in ill health at the moment because they tried to poison him twice.

he's losing the sensation in both of his feet because of the nerve damage of those poisonings, dead and he can barely walk. now. he's lost about 20 kilos, and as his lawyer said, this is not a life since this is a death sentence, they will, they will basically kill him in prison if he has to carry on with the sentence. and so i'm crying on the inside right now for my friend and my colleague, because what they're doing to him is just truly in humane color. most morsa holds both russian and british passports has the british government bill done all it can to help. the answer is no. so the 1st thing that we did my cell for him and his wife, you have gania, after he was arrested was we went to different countries that had passed the magnet ski at the meghan sky at freeze of the assets and bands,

the visas of human rights violators and vladimir was, was absolutely essential in getting this law passed and we went to them and said you need to sanction the perpetrators who have put him in his persecutors, essentially. and canada, sanction them the united states, sanction them. but britain, where he has got citizenship, has not sanctioned them. so britain is, is effectively doing nothing for their own citizen while other countries where he doesn't have any connection or doing all sorts of things. and so it's quite remarkable how passive the british government has been in the kara more as a case so far. this verdict sends a terrifying message to those who oppose the government's policies in russia, especially those who oppose the war. will anyone there dare to speak out against putin after this? well, i think that that's one of the purposes of having such a crazy and exaggerated jail sense is,

is not just to punish vladimir who is at certainly an enemy of the regime. but i said it's to send a message to everybody else who might be thinking about standing up to putin might be thinking about standing up against the war that look, you know, you're going to get either a life sentence or a death sense if you do. and so very few people are so brave as to take that risk to, to make that sacrifice. and so i think that that proven has probably achieved one of his big games, which is to effectively terrorize his own citizens. i've got a quote here. i'd like to share with our viewers are these are remarks that vladimir kara. moore's are made at the closing session of his trial in moscow. he told the judge that quote, the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate when a war will be called a war. and a, you super, a usurper. and when those who kindle this on a kindled and unleashed this war, rather than those who try to stop, it, will be recognized as criminals. bill broader?

do you share your friends faith in russia's future? well, you know that in any kind of partnership there, there are the, you know, the people seeing the glass half full and the half glass half empty i'm, i'm more of a pessimist. and i do hope that that one day russia will be a better place. but i, it's hard for me to see anything good when vladimir has basically been been locked up for the rest of his life for the simple crime of protesting the war and calling food and human rights violator. it's very hard for me to have any optimism about anything right now. as you mentioned, sanctions were imposed upon russia for different reasons. those sanctions have been tightened to since the ukraine, the, the full scale invasion of ukraine by, by russia. what do you suggest, bill? that could be done to help people like your friend who's now facing 25 years in

jail. well, i'm so far as some, some countries haven't sanctioned the individuals involved in adam ears, persecution, those countries should. and when i say those countries, i mean to, you has not sanctioned his persecutors the you should, britain should, australia should i think every single person, every judge was involved in his there are 3 judges. every judge involved in this, every prosecutor, every police been involved in this trumped up case, should find themselves nate, their names permanently indelibly on a list so that they, that when the putting regime falls, they can't travel anywhere. but they keep that can't keep their assets in the west and it should, we should make an example out of them in the same way as they're making an example out of latimer, it should go both ways. bill, thank you very much for talking with us today. that's the ceo of hermitage, capital management, and human rights activist bill broader un secretary general antonio.

the terrace, has called on the rival factions ensued down to immediately seize hostilities and restore calm there. this says heavy fighting between the countries army and rival paramilitaries raged into a 3rd day. the fighting has spread beyond the capital cartoon, military forces are battling the so called rapid support forces for control of the strategic town. moreover, and its airport as well as the country's main seaport. port pseudo the 2 sides were intending to merge, but became locked in a power struggle. at least 97 people have now been killed since fighting began on saturday. behind to jet, over the skies of car, tim cleans thick snake and the ominous rumble of gunfire. a signal that the conflict is spilling over into a 3rd day. to dance army and the

paramilitary group, the rapid support forces all r s f. have turn their guns on each other. just months after signing a deal to risk to living room. the violence is already seen schools of death left the cities airport and top military buildings. badly scarred concern is mounting internationally about what this violence means for the stability in sudan and the region. speaking on the side lines of a g 7 summit in japan, u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin cooled fur, return to peace with raleigh, help you again across all of our partners on the need for an immediate cease fire. and a returned to toss talks that were very promising in putting sudan on the path to a full transition to civilian. let the government of people in sedan want the military back in the bears. they want democracy. they want us to italy like

government sedan needs to return to their path. the clutches are interruption of a long simmering power struggle between the army and the r s. f. he 1st joined forces to alst former dictator, oma al busha in 2019 former prime minister, abdullah ham dock wound of straying from sedans, current political pulse. we have said good bye to dictate that she forever. we can have the vessel. we can have setbacks, but we'll never be defeating the r s f and the army, blame each other. so starting the conflict, and they say they went back down to catch up on smell, the stories making headlines around the world today. russia's foreign minister sergey lab rav has arrived in the brazilian capital, where he was welcomed by his counterpart, is also due to meet brazil's president louisa. not yoletta silva is proposing that

a number of nations including brazil and china could act as meteors in the conflict between moscow and the commercial space flight company space x has postponed this test launch of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket for at least 48 hours last off was. busy called off due to a booster problem. one day bounder ellen musk hopes to use the 120 mean meter tall starships to send people to the moon and more. police in italy have found nearly 2 tons of cocaine floating off the east coast of sicily. authority said the record haul had a market value of more than 400000000 euros. according to officials, the drugs were likely left at sea for later recovery and transportation to the mainland by criminal gangs. somewhat as legal football now and how to berlin's

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watching d. w. news, just reminder the top story we're following for you this. our western government and human rights groups have condemned the sentencing of russian journalist and political activist, vladimir kara, moore's a to 25 years in a russian labor camp. us ambassador to russia said it was a sign of the kremlin weakness of next states dw news asia with bearish banner g. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corners. check hot spot for food. chair and some great cultural memorials to boot.