well what's good for markets it's not good for the global economy. from the north he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up breaking news . german government russian opposition figure. was poisoned with the nerve agent. but the kremlin received no communication on the findings and a lot of live broadcast will be all my story but we have a lot more besides including. the french magazine. reprints its controversial cartoons reigniting the debate over whether they crossed the line the trial of 14 people accused of involvement in the 2015 terrorist attacks which targeted publication gets underway. with the u.s.

deeply divided ahead of the presidential election in november thousands of americans say they're desperate for turning to the 2 main runners in the country's 2 party says. wherever you're tuning in from across the world welcome to moscow onto our to international my name's union o'neil. we begin with breaking news the german government is claiming that russian opposition figure. poisoned with a nerve agent from the group mr no volleys currently in a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital after being early if did from russia to weeks ago the kremlin has said it's received no communication from germany on the. this process or european

correspondent in germany peter oliver is in berlin peter the statement from the german government what was said. well german chancellor angela merkel said that there was clear and unambiguous evidence that alexei novelli the russian opposition figure had been poisoned using a novacek nerve agent she said that this they come to this conclusion following testing of samples taken from alexa in the valley at the bundeswehr institute a german military. tree thats credited certified by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w. going on to say that this was an attempt to silence alexei in the valley and it was a crime against fundamental values now the german chancellor and the german foreign minister heiko mass of both called for in this case it's still true that in 4

months soon it is over there is that one of the leading opposition figures in russia has been poisoned a specialized laborde 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion and that i don't see never in the last poisoned with a substance from the north he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up. we demand an investigation into the poisoning of alex you know while we condemn this and in the near future will hold consultations and how you can adequately respond to it would depend on russia's response to the case. and peter there's been further reaction both within germany and globally as well we've seen statements from several countries on way. well i'm glad merkel said the world was watching the case to find out what happened to him in that speech represented in the reaction we've seen from european leaders.

it's outrageous that a chemical weapon was used against scene of on the we've seen 1st hand the deadly consequences of novacek in the u.k. the russian government must now explain what happens mr we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done i was informed by chancellor merkel that russian the position that he didn't advise me was attacked didn't know the agent in his own country this is a despicable in cowardly act once again that the traitors need to be brought to justice of the nato secretary general again stoltenberg has also commented he said it was utterly utterly condemned the use of a military grade nerve agent while a statement from the white house said that washington was deeply concerned and that they had no reason to disbelieve the statements coming out of germany. peter all of our breaking out done for us in berlin thank you peter well let's continue in some of the aspects he broke daryn there it with our senior correspondent. who's in the

studio with me murat what about the the russian government how what's their reaction been how much communication has there been. it has been a little puzzled bewildered even because there had been hardly any news about an evolving for near enough a week now in that type of russia had said various requests to the german government for information they've offered legal assistance for russian citizens they've offered medical corp for the doctors that treated him after his initial exposure to the to the substance before he went to germany and russia had heard nothing back there has been no communication between the german government the ministries and russia so it's just been you know talking to a wall and russia has come out here. and said that they've gone on the record

saying you know you want to the visual investigation you want the truth you want to find out what happened why aren't you talking back. up with the notion that as early as august 27th the russian general prosecutor's office addressed the german justice ministry with an official request for legal assistance the office also expressed its readiness to present to the german side the test results and research carried out after mr number on his hospitalization to german justice ministry confirm it had received the request but so far that it. is continually being spoken to by regards to these developments is the script case in the u.k. some 2 years ago what what's the link or what is the alleged link between. well the navy of course and here you have another russian citizen apparently poisoned with the toxic substance with

a toxin. chalk's on just one substance so this there's a whole range of the there's the aerosols there are liquid solid form powder whatever was needed they were manufactured in in the period before they were banned by international conventions and subsequently destroyed but here we have a remarkable situation which mirrors what happened in salzburg back then with the script almost entirely and that is new communication that is absolutely new communication from great britain back then susu the russians learned that. never only had been that they had found movie talk and in the valleys system from the news so the germans didn't see fit to to inform the russians through diplomatic channels through through any any of the channels that they have. straight to the headline which is quite extraordinary that he learned whatever you call this loud

speaker did the diplomacy sort of you are talking so if you having a conversation you are talking to the public rather than the person hoping he is what you have to say and there is there is a paradox here because they're saying now merkel has come out of no uncertain terms some of the right russian ambassador sat him down read him a lecture saying the russian government is the only entity that can answer for what happened. must now tell us exactly what happened your full transparent investigation dig up every stone and you to lay out in front of the international community what happened how it happened why it happened and to punish those responsible and the ambassador left with nothing he was given nothing they they have all they they have the lab results the dept died. what's in his system and how you know how he's doing now this is all important information to investigations like carrying out a murder investigation without access to the victim and never only is the victim

here so there's new information coming from them and on top of that the saying the side of russia has to do this will itself then somehow pulling in nato. and european allies and telling them birchall said that she will share the german military's findings it's the german military that found the new. agent in the valdés body apparently as they say and they're saying we'll share it with nato nato is a military alliance a defensive alliance that has nothing to do with russia and this poisoning if it was a poison it happened in russia super what's nato. how's it involved here. yes he you know they're they're also going to form their european allies they say but so far russia has received nothing and been promise nothing. another parallel being drew and is new the chalk is one of the moves told 6 dangerous substances on earth that mankind has discovered this is a tremendously dangerous substance a drop

a drop of new which ox if shared out between a population can kill hundreds of people if it gets into their bodies it is incredibly depending on what form it's in it's it dissolves in water it evaporates into the air above 20 degrees celsius which is 3 live temperature so in a valley must have been poisoned if he was exposed to the substance must have been poisoned immediately before his flight out of the city of tomsk he go into the jet . sick felt very poorly and by the time he the plane was forced to land make an emergency landing to get him to the doctors he was you know he couldn't stand up so this is incredibly fast acting substance evolve the credibility at stake a dos people treated for a few days in russia by doctors and then taken to germany once he was more or less stable. and the question is how come nobody else has come forward saying that they

feel poorly that they feel sick or that they have been exposed to this tremendously dangerous substance because when remember when this happened in when the new alleged he was essentially the office said was it a huge operation you know that hundreds of people walking around in hazmat suits a police officer who touched the door handle where the new beach up agent had apparently been sprayed he felt sick he one of his belongings because he went home before after the shift he touched things at whom is you know that all his belongings were confiscated his house was courtsey this is the police officer who came in touch the door handle all of his belongings skull confiscated as quarantine couldn't get back into it and here we have never found a who it had apparently been exposed to this incredibly dangerous toxin on that flight packed with people. an incredibly dangerous substance which. evaporates in

the air dissolves and lives even if you touch something that's contaminated and nobody else has come come forward that there are and there were plenty of opportunities for people you know to be who was sitting next they had to be exposed . we've seen what germany's been doing today talking to a. also nato as you went through the military alliance which says some have said is

a little bit peculiar and. where were things heading when you put all doubt when you when you see the developments in the last few hours where does this issue seem to be going well when you when you utilize as we mentioned loudspeaker diplomacy completely still unwilling russia so far out of the. out of the vents out of affairs you know refusing to share even lab results with russia but the mother the less the gate there is often an agenda involved and that agenda is germany has very close ties to russia exceptionally close knows with economic political it is one of the few nations in europe that you know carry gauge and doesn't gauge russia successfully and there are many who would see. germany cut its ties with russia cut its economic ties the north stream to project with

billions upon billions you know e.d.s. part of europe's energy future its energy future designed to pub billions of cubic meters of gas from russia to into the heart of europe there are many nations that would i would just like to mention here that in the immediate aftermath of a poisoning of such a high profile poisoning there are going to be a lot of rumors a lot of speculation a lot of unsubstantiated reports and unsubstantiated opinions we don't know yet what happened we don't know how it happened we don't know what will happen what will come out in the immediate future we're talking about verified reports information that can be corroborated nevertheless there are many nations who would see it as advantageous for us to stop for example the mood seem to pipeline if it cuts cut its economic and political ties to russia for example eastern european countries who make a killing transporting russian gas from russia to transit money from russia into

europe ukraine for example the united states which wants to sell its much more expensive gas l.n.g. liquefied natural gas to europe to replace russia make huge amount of money and there are many countries that don't necessarily want to see the conclusion to this investigation or a investigation at all to find out who was responsible who was behind this poisoning. who to publish they would rather take advantage of events now the opportunity now now there's confusion there is anger at passions emotions you know what about if you believe in russia the f.b.i. coming out with new uncertain times in that statement saying that there were already thinking about consequences. which is probably sanctions you know it's almost a nervous take these days something's gone wrong you will dramatically be in russia

. before before the dust is even settled in this case the dust hasn't begun to settle. into for example a huge high profile project the german opposition already coming out and saying that we will to put it would seem to give suspend the entire thing it's almost completed merkel had previously said that to the gas pipelines and europe's energy security it is a separate thing it is separate from politics in it is separate from from all the drama you know all the. advantage seeking and she said that in her own words and in a very direct manner. i think that we should do a couple of this issues and in our opinion north stream 2 should be completed. as i said the dust hasn't even begun to settle we don't know where this is going to do what we do know is that interested parties will do anything will do anything to

take advantage of this opportunity and to try and put a split division chasm between germany and russia and they do i think go to great lengths to do so thank you for that our senior correspondent morocco's de if. we will delve into some of the aspects moran has been bringing up there with a number of guests including immediately after the break here in r.t. international stay with us.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical if. you sit down and talk.

19 minutes past 10 pm here in moscow welcome back and we return with our top story just to recap what we've been speaking of by today the german government is claiming that russian opposition figure lexy novell knee was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group mr novelli is currently in a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital after being are lifted from russia 2 weeks ago the kremlin has said it's received no communication from germany on the findings a lot of issues a lot of aspects of this story let's bring in i guess to speak on. top of this a journalist and author of thomas fassbender is still with us thomas thanks for sticking with us. one of the big issues here is that germany has been reaching out to western allies but there's been a distinct lack of communication as i've been going through with moscow. the

russian foreign ministry is saying that requests for crop aeration have gone on. do you think it would be or would it not be in berlin's interest to work with russia here in such a case but what we know is that the request. was received from the russian authorities quite a few days ago the necessary judy to your procedures where open. before today. it is indeed. the german government. issues a press statement. with the content it did the day announcing that it would share the information with e.u. will need to its that road visuals but at the same time it was announced that they summoned the russian ambassador. they will not. some of the russian ambassador

without bruising to him or some necessary or at least minimal evidence otherwise it looked what make no sense to sit down with him. it boils down i say listen well to the 'd right emotional statements of our colleague before it boils down to the question. yes there are various vested interests yes there are political forces who will instruments allies this. in their fight. against russia against moscow but it boys are the president is there. reasonable is there any reason to doubt the. professional or the the results of the analysis by the german motorola bora 3 and the german doctors here and there i would make the strong statement i see no

reason to doubt or do it soon that the german military oratory all the german doctors at the sherry to clinic here believe would be instrumental eyes to many affections some sort of faith result of fake news or fake analysis so the statement that we have a poison of the not sure group i take it for the truth. and what we were how the german government deals with this is a different is a different is you we have we have a certain fact and i would not advise to know that fact the question though is is who the culprit is though who carried beside that that's the thing without an investigation this is the point we've been trying you know to to to garner because condemnation as i'm sure you're aware as being pouring in from across the world you've got the white house calling the novacek attack reprehensible threatening

sanctions as well france the u.k. demanding explanations from russia. proportionate is this i cringe given again i reiterate that we do not have an idea who the culprit actually is at this stage. we do not have an idea as we as we do not have an idea who the culprit is in the street and in other cases this whole case is extremely detrimental to the international reputation of the russian government also here in germany i would advice or to counsel. monitors or the statements by our politicians there are very few statements apart from some rather super transatlantic structures the media but there are a few very few statements who put the blame on the kremlin or pressure on the president mr putin the blaming is comes by the way of

why again does is there a case of poisoning in russia where the poison is not very easily available which leads to some government related sources government related productions so why does the russian government again does not control its own agencies its own structures this is the main. 'd the main skepticism this is the main. reason for this the rosen of trust in the russian government that gained we have a case where it does not seem to. muster the necessary control. of course we got a man very sick it appears in a medically induced coma that's 1st and foremost of course in our thoughts but it's also a big diplomatic scandal there's no other way around this as we appear to have now

surrounding mr novell me so without in mind how difficult is it going to be to actually conduct an objective investigation into who may have poisoned him. i do not think that the german government has any means to really. conduct this investigation this is again the task of the russian government and here again there is an element of frustration a certain level of frustration not only in germany brought in in a lot of countries that for years on and on you can go back to you can go back 20 years and there are a lot of articles now in our mass media and the western mass media listing all these cases where some sometimes some minor figures were identified minor culprits but as a general rule the really responsible is we're never found we're never identified again i'm coming back to the erosion of trust which at this point of time i would

say is the main motive for the of the frustration that our 'd politicians left or right or center feel with russia unfortunately just one issue just to briefly touch upon is there and i think you've alluded to it a little bit a lot of projects happening between the 2 countries north stream to the gas pipeline of course being the biggest and it was already being opposed by the u.s. for instance but there was a lot of opposition to the u.s. in germany who are who are sticking by it who are saying this is going to continue now we're we're starting to hear order insist today from opposition figures in germany how do you think that's going to progress will it go ahead will there will there be a stall or how do you see this progressing well if you if you want to. bring forward a conspiracy theory one might busy one might feel used to think about

say an action by a poor by a national. poisoning of mr number only because it definitely is it is a major blow to the defendants of german russian european russian pro dates projects this incident is a major blow to those who are trying to or taken. a pragmatic and economically reasonable position wrong on these it is a major blow to anybody who defends the north stream to project and we can be absolutely sure that the opponents of russia the pronouns of the north stream project will instrumental eyes utilize exploit this in this this instance to the utmost thomas thanks very much for your views today we've been speaking to journalists or 30 fassbender live from berlin thank you thanks.

ok let's move on now 27 minutes past 10 pm here in moscow to all the world news this earth all news are 2 day 14 suspects have gone on trial in france over there or alleged involvement in the series of terrorist attacks and 2050 satirical magazine surely a bill was one of the main targets alongside a jurist supermarket reporting on the from porous shore of dubinsky. well charlie hebdo is back in the spotlight here in france and that's because as that trial is underway that important trial it's decided to take a bold decision according to some some of described it perhaps as being more idiotic and that is to republicans some of its most controversial cartoons which depict the prophet mohammed the muslim prophet now it was those types of cartoons that were published by the magazine that initially put a target on its back and led to that attack back in 2015 in which 12 people

were murdered now back then the world came out in support singh's use 3 sharlee saying they supported the right of the magazine its freedom of speech to publish cartoons like that but by republishing these cartoons again today a montage of them it has reignited the debate here in france over whether or not it's ok to blast fim now there has been some polls the news that charlie hebdo was reprinting some of those cartoons and it's really interesting the results that have come out this is a poll that's been done by the french institute of public opinion now it found when it asked the french people in general what they thought was this the right thing to do and that the majority of people supported the decision supported the freedom of speech of charlie hebdo but when you narrow that field down and only asked that question to french muslims there was a very different response was 69 percent responding that the. we didn't think it

was right to publish those cartoons in the 1st place now everybody seems to be getting involved in this issue from the president right the way across through social media everybody has an opinion and those opinions are polarized there isn't from a freedom to blast fim which is attached to the freedom of conscience i am here to protect all these freedoms why would you allow a publication to wreck your country's harmony all i see these games this is not freedom of speech this is disrespect in the sentiments of all the muslims around the world still pined in behind freedom of speech it doesn't give people the right to say whatever they want to choose decency and their ticket so freedom of speech will again be used as an excuse to hurt muslim sentiments and ridicule our beliefs and while we condemn these actions openly in vehemently no heed will be paid because who cares about.