russia those children's families wait. to see who isn't with us absence from the nova to prove he's the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up breaking news an art save a german government declares russian opposition figure. was poisoned with a nova chalk nerve agents of the kremlin to receive the details of berlin's findings. also coming up as. the french said. sharlee reprints its controversial cartoons reigniting. the terror trial gets underway for 14 suspected associates years after the attack in paris. with the us deeply divided ahead of the presidential

election you know. some americans say they're desperate for an alternative. every turning in from this are welcome to the international lines you know. we begin with our breaking news story on the program germany has claimed russian opposition figure out alexei navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group not only is currently in a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital after being early from siberia 2 weeks ago the russian foreign ministry says it's requests to berlin for information on the case have so far gone on earlier i was joined by our correspondents maracas dia and peter all over 1st. 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 alexei in the valley at the bundeswehr institute a german military. tree this is 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 novelli and it was a crime against fundamental values now the german chancellor and the german foreign minister heiko mass of both called for arms as in this case it's an informant soon it is over there is that one of the leading opposition figures in russia has been poisoned as specialized laborde 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion and that alex he 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 aleksey now while we condemn this poison elix and in the near future will hold consultations and how you reform adequately respond to it it will also depend on russia's response to the case of you peter there's been further reaction both within germany and globally as well we've seen statements from several countries on the way well on the merkel said the world was watching the case to find out what happened to him and that's been represented in the reaction we've seen from the european leaders it's outrageous that a chemical weapon was used against a look 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 happened to mr we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done i was informed by chancellor merkel that russian the position they didn't advise it was a tactic. no the agent in his own country this is

a despicable and 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 thank you peter or let's continue in some of the aspects he darned there with our senior correspondent. there had been hard hitting news about nevada for near enough a week now in that time russia had said various requests to the german government for information they've offered legal assistance for now vali the russian citizen they've offered medical corp for the doctors the treated him after his initial exposure to the to the substance before he went to germany and russia had heard

nothing back 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. instead of a thorough investigation into the joint work. which should be to establish the truth our partners to you for more of the same public speaking that's without presenting any facts russia is to weeding for an official response from burly to the request from the russian security office what is continually being spoken to by regards today's developments is the script case in salt when you k. some 2 years ago what what's the link or what's the alleged link between here we have a remarkable situation which mirrors what happened in salzburg back then with the script. entirely and that is no communication that has absolutely no communication

from great britain back then susu the russians learned that. never only had been that they had found new which opened 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 booked but when straight to the headlock which is quite extraordinary way to go underground he will 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 another parallel being drew and is new the chalk is one of the most told sick dangerous substances on earth that mankind has discovered this is a tremendously dangerous substance a drop a drop of new choccy if shared out between a population can kill hundreds of people if it gets into their bodies it is incredibly depending a lot what form it's in it dissolves in water it evaporates into the air above 20

degrees celsius which is 3 live temperature and the air we have never found the who is apparently been exposed to this incredibly dangerous talks in on that flight packed with people. and incredibly dangerous substance which. evaporates in the head 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 is sitting next to him to be exposed. me to. come. yet.

where were things heading when you put all that out 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 stonewalling russia sir for hours of the. out of the vents out of the thing as you know refusing to share even lab results with russia but the moment they have left the gate there is often an agenda involved and that agenda is germany has very close ties to russia 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 the german opposition already coming out and saying that we will to put it would seem to get of suspend the entire thing it's almost completed merkel had previously said that would seem to the gas pipelines of 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 matter go with us i think that we should do couple this issues and in our opinion north stream 2 should be completed 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 it will do anything to take advantage of this opportunity and to try and put a split division chasm between germany and russia and

i think go to great lengths to do so. live now to brussels on to speak to independent journalist look look always good to have you on the program as you know rightly there have been so many reactions coming in from western powers some of the latest ones i'll just go through the nato chief u.n. stoltenberg calling for an inquiry the u.s. national security council saying quote we will work with our allies on the international community to hold those in russia accountable are we heading for a serious diplomatic rift do you think. could be it could be for the moment there is no condemnation as such everybody demands on says from the russian government. all in evident it seems dire it's really a poisoning with not chalk and. stoltenberg spoke of course of military grade

poisoning that's its interest everybody playing its own game in this. who has an interest in this certainly not the russian government if you think of it all president putin is not a troll if you look at what vali was doing was doing over the last few years with drones for example there were overflying properties of civil servants rich russian civil servants that were office require up to because they had immense properties didn't correspond to do this salary so in a way it played in it played a role in helping the government punishing these people like the chairman of the russian roadways that was fired after the bali revealed how his fortune was incredibly acquired so. i don't think it is the government it is involved

it might be some all the guards some corrupt people that want not on me dead of course so russia has an interest now diplomatically in having greil inquiry. and giving an answer to the world because it is the whole world that is looking into this but it's not nuance that's not being heard when i'm looking at analysis of the. we're not hearing that he had many enemies because of his corruption probes you know how does this actually help the kremlin in any way also if we are. if we're to believe all the supporters he was given tea laced with novacek this all sounds very familiar going as far back as the go case in the u.k. that was in 2006 do you think the manner of this alleged poisoning would make any sense of the kremlin really did want to get rid of a muslim in the west are suggesting. i don't believe it i don't believe the kremlin

has anything to do with it but of course it's a process of opinion you're never in all the scribal case it's something different that spies both west and east as spies on the other side so that that is something very murky and different in this case here it's a political opponent to the russian government mr putin and i don't think there was any interest again in killing the family at all but all the people all of the people in russia incredibly rich people and corrupt people had an interest certainly of having him killed and silenced so that's probably what russia should look for you know in that direction. just like in 2018 in solitary as you've been going through the use of the truck is being treated as a smoking gun essentially with people saying only the russian government. could use such a thing but then i remember many weapons experts speaking to me here in the program

in fact saying that other countries have the capability does the use of novacek actually prove anything actually make it more clear cut or is that they actually the opposite. shot could be produced in salts breed by the british special services in their unit in their chemical unit locally so you know even that was mentioned so i think in present day russia it's always very possible to obtain military grade weapons. from the soviet union days that could be sold by or mafia type persons and it is very probably possible to obtain knowledge schalke in russia now even if you have not the government told the military or anybody else so . i really don't think it is reserved to to the special services so for russia i think it could be obtained by. roll figures.

of course we have to remember the a man's life is potentially at risk here that's the overriding issue here but with that in mind you've got the u.k. the u.s. france germany all saying essentially the same thing russia needs to provide answers but russia's foreign ministry said it has no questions to answer because it's being given no information surely a better line of communication needs to be a stop list here. absolutely it's a matter of days so now we are in a local mall and journal every diplomatic and western europe with your little bit y'all don't eat crap in london oh mrs snow covered the south and said we demand. ok fine that's normal and russia's answer we don't have the specific requests yet so it's a matter of days within a week ever but the point is that russia wasn't asked for answers instead they went

to their allies germany they went to nato you know you would have thought one of the 1st things you would do would be to contact the country where the this alleged crime took place absolutely i don't think germany contacted nato i think this is stoltenberg of nato took advantage of it to put some oil on the fire as usual but it's nothing to do with the european the glossy. germany as well as france as well as the u.k. to to name both the largest countries have asked that sent questions through to russia and they haven't involved nato mentors they just want to get to know if an inquiry is on what will be the. issues is stake and they are probably jones willing to give all information needed to the russian government that's a matter of then setting and diplomatically this will be done i'm sure now we need

a real inquiry into this yeah look thanks very much for your time this sorry giving us some insight as always on the big issues of the day independent journalist look of a in brussels and here we will be providing updates analysis on the right throughout the night here in moscow but after the break we'll take a look at more global news stories stay with us. legs.

join me every day on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 14 suspects have gone on trial in fronts over their alleged involvement in

a series of terrorist attacks in 2015 the satirical magazine surely abdo was one of the main targets alongside a jewish supermarket. reports now from. 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 republics 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 done with 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 they 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 freedom of conscience i'm here to protect all these freedoms and why would you allow a publication to wreck your. untruths harmony always sees 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 our beliefs and while we condemn these actions openly vehemently no heed will be paid because who cares about muslim sentiments anyway now this trial is hugely important not just because it's about the attacks but it's also about the attacks that took place a few days later on a kosher supermarket here in paris where more people were killed and what the

national anti terror prosecutor here in france i said while this might not be about the men that carried out those attacks because they are dead this is about that wider web of individuals who supported them who perhaps finance them or shielded them in the aftermath of those attacks and this also comes as font says interior minister warns that while this trial is about the historical event an event that is still something that is poignant in french memory there is also something that we must remember he talked about and that is the fact that there is still a huge threat of terror here in france it is the internal threat within our walls which has become the most significant and the strongest one which mobilizes the most attention of the intelligence services are now also talked about more than $8000.00 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose

a security threat here in france and he said that their full attention was needed on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as islamic state and he also mentioned the number on. of individuals in prison that are connected to islam is threats and talked about the verticalization in prisons he said that the majority of those individuals who were radicalized in prisons have then gone on to commit their own terror offenses when they've been released now the trial is about those 2 messages that surely abdo and the kosher supermarket in paris and they heralded in a new wave of terror that has and compass fronts now for more than 5 years.

so while many people thought the focus would be on the trial starting in paris many people are now looking at what surely abdo is done with the republic ation of those controversial satirical cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed with many people questioning whether this was the right decision was this about sort of standing up for freedom of speech was this about remembering those who was slain at its offices or is this something that could really radicalize islamists across the world and incite a new wave of terror. let's bring it to the u.s. where donald trump hours ignored calls from local leaders to stay away from the violence stricken city of kandahar in wisconsin arriving on tuesday he praised the police tensions between trump's supporters and black lives matter protesters ramped

up during his time in the city is the latest u.s. hot spot for rallies riots against alleged racism and police brutality that's after a black man was shot by officers last month after resisting arrest. i'm attempting to get back into his car 2 people were killed in the protests that subsequently followed the shooting but the city suffering must've damage to personal property on businesses the president has against france the us police are not systematic and resourced. but i think the police do an incredible job and i think you do have some bad apples i think you'd agree every once in a while you see something and you do have the other situation to. under this tremendous pressure and they they don't handle it well. well donald trump's main presidential rival joe biden is also going to visit can he give a speech after a briefing with education and health experts and took the opportunity to slam the president's handling of the coronavirus crisis this time regarding the reopening of

school. would be clear the president. whose ministry should have done their jobs earlier this crisis near to schools would be open to be open safely. well many voters it in fact appears are turning their backs on the 2 party system and looking for alternatives one growing movement is the new people's party that attracted thousands of americans to its virtual convention over the weekend with more the tears came up and. deep divisions in america and dissatisfaction with centuries of 2 party rule have forced many americans so look for alternatives on the heels of the democratic and republican conventions 8 people's convention was held gathering the hundreds of thousands of disappointed left wingers and the people must have been this. president you don't need a. ready to cry for major party telling you the attendees of the people's

convention feel that neither candidate really represents a choice for the working class instead they want political leaders who will stand up to wall street and the political elites long. as you. can tell that criteria of integrity wall street was certainly delighted when joe biden was nominated as the democratic candidate perhaps this is because joe biden has admitted that not much is really going to change when speaking to his wealthy donors i mean we may not want to demonize anybody has made money no $1.00 standard of living will change nothing would fundamentally change another theme at the people's convention was the constant expansion of us wars and the expanding presence of u.s. military forces overseas as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit

a new budget to rebuild our military it is so depleted we will prevail. we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far we're increasing arsenals of virtually every weapon we're making our military stronger and more. powerful that ever before attendees of the people's convention called for free college for all a green new deal and an end to mass incarceration they slammed joe biden for not supporting medicare for all even during the pandemic with all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system in italy it doesn't work there and has nothing to do with medicare for all that would not solve the problem at all protests against systemic racism and police brutality that have in gulf the country now have both candidates throwing gasoline on the fire this president long ago forfeited a moral leadership in this country he can't stop the violence because for years

he's fought management here supporters here supporters and they are your supporters and shut a young gentleman who killed him now with paint but with a bullet. and i think it's disgraceful people's convention attendees voted at the end of their convention to form a people's party that would sweep the us elections in 2021 and hopefully take control of the white house and the us congress by 2024 3rd parties have always existed in america but they generally get marginalized and pushed aside while the 2 major parties dominate the political stage however the people's party is hoping to reverse that trend and become a new force in american politics seizing the spotlight it will mop and artsy new york a writer and comedian cohen say is neither of the 2 main parties truly reflect the views of the majority of americans it's been

a very very very long time since there was a new viable political party in the united states but if you kind of look at what's going on right now contemporarily now seems like the time for history to repeat itself and. the bigger issue at hand here is just how far gone the doowop illiad the pandemic has shown that we have a corporate coup for a government we have a banana republic we have a government that not only doesn't give a hoot about public opinion but works actively against it and this is by design republicans are only able to be as terrific as they are because of how ineffective democrats are similarly democrats are only able to be as ineffective as they are because of how horrific republicans are and it's just not reflect the people who live here the.