we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide russia's foreign minister. used to urge germany to share whatever information they had. a case. call for an international probe into the poisoning of the russian opposition figure. also ahead on the program russian scientists start a 3rd phase clinical trials of the country's 1st corona virus. for the medical journal. the drug. produced an antibody response in all participants during early stage trials. 19 infections reach

a daily record in. other countries or see a new spike in case. one minute past 8 pm here in moscow this friday september the 4th were every year tuning in from across the globe today to international. the russian foreign minister circular said moscow has nothing to hide in the alexina valmy case it follows a conclusion by germany that the russian opposition figurehead was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent. but it's that we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide says the soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures roomie julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not

demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old snorer you we hear public accusations against russia and the fish all requests to berlin from a prosecutor's office have so far gone unanswered we were promised today that we would soon receive response as soon as we get the facts we will react accordingly this is all reminiscent of what happened with this group poles. mr novelli is currently in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator in a berlin hospital more than a fortnight after being or lifted from russia the kremlin has said it needs more facts on the case from berlin while nato has called for an international response on our europe correspondent peter oliver reports what we heard from u.n. stoltenberg the nato secretary general on friday morning he said that he'd been presented to the alliance it being presented with proof beyond doubt that alexei novelli had been poisoned using

a novacek military grade agent he said there would have to be a international reaction to this however he wouldn't elaborate on what that would be it's the use of chemical of but use of all the chemical nerve agent which is violating the broad vision of any use over chemical weapons and that matters for nato we strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of international. so it requires an international response. but i will not speculate about exactly what kind of international response there's been a lot of talk not only from germany but around the world about transparency coming from the russian side but on friday the german government confirmed that they have received a request from the russian for that medical data to be shared with doctors and investigate is in russia now reading between the lines from the statement it might not be as simple a procedure as that makes it sound as if this bonus m.t.s.

teeth in the justice ministry in the foreign ministry of germany usually consider each case on its own merit to see if there are any obstacles to the agreement while russian doctors have asked for this information to be shared with them as part of the investigation because when they carried out on election the volley was tried of course 1st in russia or in the city of. they found no trace of toxins and in fact they say that poisoning was the 1st thing they looked for and found no traces that they need these results from the german tests in order to proceed with their investigation we've also heard from the kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov who said that the russian doctors had been far more forthcoming when it came to sharing information than their german counterparts he also said that statements and acetate sions should be limited to the facts that are provided this fact to investigative measures are being carried out and if the information about the presence of

a poisonous substance from the patients biological samples is confirmed then of course we will open a day jury investigation of the german federal president. has been speaking as well he said. the case has the potential to cause problems in the relationship between elin and moscow but if we look at the foreign minister of austria alexandre schellenberg he said that it would. impossible for the e.u. to put in place sanctions on russia over this before there was any proof before there was any investigation being carried out he was also asked questions about the nord stream to gas pipeline which the austrian foreign minister said shouldn't be put in any risk that that should be completed and that the nikkei should have an impact on that business enterprise meanwhile the western media are trying to dig deeper into what happened to the russian opposition figure plenty of theories are

being floated all with a common theme gusty of explains. 48 hours since germany declared the valley poisoned with military grade talks in a humorous crime she said that must be dealt with but it will turn it on i condemn this in strongest possible terms on behalf of the entire german government. there is serious questions now that only the russian government can answer and must answer with a note that she didn't accuse russia of anything but within 24 hours everyone with a keyboard had somehow become an investigative journalist slash toxicologist slash foreign policy expert take build for example a german tabloid that specializes in yellow journalism and bashing russia build out did everyone they managed to mistranslate a russian official make up

a conspiracy theory that russia was blaming germany for poor is in the volley and beeston everything that they got wrong they demanded sanctions and then to the divisive german russian nord stream to pipeline there are very strong anti russia in the west which typically specifically wants to sabotage the gas pipeline to prevail in iraq war between russia and the e.u. a particularly close association russia and germany there isn't a change of course america wants to sell its natural gas to europe instead of the russians so there's a lot of money going on a lot of money is what at stake spiegel another german magazine has proposed tearing up german russian relations big student well apparently they have irrefutable proof that putin was behind this insane poisoning they were showing through to their readers so we'll just have to trust them now is the times the man in the kremlin the german or thora cheese of showing the alexina found he was not

drunk diabetic as the crow. when cynical spin doctors wanted the world to believe he was supposed to be killed with an insidious neurotoxin cynical spin doctors insidious neurotoxin and obviously aggravated bias. are going to force 1st compounds are highly toxic substances and as a rule it's impossible to use them just to poison a single person if there had been any interaction with the substance on the eve of the flight or during the flight then any accompanying persons was certain to have shown symptoms of poisoning that did not happen passions are high a lot of confusion about this is the best time to take advantage of people if you're a billed pundit and you have no idea how a neurotoxin works or what happened to the volley and you still want clicks well now is the time to write righteous and warlike articles to try and appear

knowledgeable while the you know the professionals and the experts a busy and quiet trying to figure out what's happened there is another version that you might like one popular theory is that the kremlin spooked by the protests into west embarrass into the east inhabitants wanted mr nirvana out of the way to prevent him from mobilizing discontent closer to mr putin and upsetting his plans for parliamentary elections next year after years of not winning elections after years of stagnant support somehow now novelli has become a danger i was in the kremlin spooked after the revolution in ukraine why didn't they try to remove him then and it doesn't explain use it in new york which is the nuclear option even in the world of nerve agents sending the volleys to germany where he could get tested for a new truck and russia would get sanction to jump to the conclusion that there

is one obvious to what happened to divert its. very simplistic because if you look at the balance of advantage say you know who takes an advantage out of what's happened i think it's a huge liability for the kremlin and for russia to be seen to have launched an attack on one of the most colorful and influential members of the opposition that it reinforces as we've seen a very negative image of russia in the past i think relations between the west and specifically europe and russia were starting to warm up now all those things are suddenly at risk because of what's happened and because of the way it's interpreted which is why i think maybe it's much more complicated why would the kremlin do this at this point but there are many fantastic versions going the route

you can pick whichever suits you best put is reluctance to say the word never in their cloud has led to comparisons to lord voldemort the villain in the harry potter sirius whom the other characters do not name that i think has also been bad for appearances on state television and is mentioned there only rarely and in that it have late so putin's apparent reluctance to talk about a fellow who isn't a politician one of the legs of the anything is somehow in direct proof that putin wanted him dead. hell i don't remember putin ever talking about me could putin really want me dead as well by the way the volley being banned in state television is a lie he refuses to appear and state television has even declined to appear in a nazi when we asked him we've got out of video so we have video evidence of the guardian live at the end of the day what's the point there is

a jar and educate him that these people existed it's full of profit oriented journalism intended to surprise and to upset and they will say anything to you into clicking on an ad filled article they feed on your attention. russian scientists producing the country's 1st corona virus vaccine say they're ready to start 3rd phase clinical trials that's after an international medical journal concluded that the drug name sputnik v. produced an antibody response in 100 percent of participants during early stage trials with no major side effects saskia tiller takes up the story for us. at the start of 2020 good news it was hard to come by but as we move that autumn it seems that find us not unpleasant to report on as many will remember russia practices the world fast track to greater virus but all the results are now on friday it was

announced that you notice that nicotine has indeed a strong immune response i am to point out that in $100.00 some of those images a page in trials now this comes just after eating junk out one of the oldest one of the most respected in the lancet. with its assessment of the findings of the trials because it is a part of the clinical trial results of the sport make the vaccine published in lancet the world's leading medical journal shows that russia is leading the way in developing a corona virus vaccine and it answers a lot of questions from western critics specifically the journal report concluded that there were no serious adverse consequences among volunteers that took the vaccine and there was a very strong in time moon response due to the development of antibodies it found that a vaccinated person produces 1.5 times more antibodies than an average person infected with corona virus so no serious side to back desired antibodies and of course

a good safety profile it's also what close in the head of the mosque a clinic which developed independently said he thought that those heightened place would actually protect individuals for at least 2 yes so that announcement from what he dropped in basketball and there was this article in the lancet really bulls direct they are the less force affected nest now this news one touted. by those who decided to take the plunge to leave the band got to get themselves in it and we today these include the minister of defense against like who the leader of the liberal democrat party who by the way actually appeared on a t.v. show makes wrong in the day that the last i met. so now the mayor told president putin about this via video conference he said you know what i'm feeling fine only thing i will say i did have a slight headache for a few hours so these latest now can sound out reassuring but also maybe

a way to counter the want to better word those suspicions like people initially who said that maybe russia has this process in order to declare itself winner of the greatest for so what now well on our side and if not of what actually basis for russian citizens will start in september. that process could be done within 7 to 12 months in fact. sent to 3 clinics here in the capital muscovites of us who are in a hot spot have been given a bit of a head start and can already go to work from saturday so doses possibly most people at home but that there will be ready for it and it seems there is demand from. parenting more than $24.00 governments have already been received hundreds of millions of doses so immersed like sputnik the spread. we discuss the russian vaccine and the findings in the lancet journal with lawrence

young a professor of molecular on college in the caribbean. i think it's a very important step in the way to develop an effective vaccine it's a very interesting study like many vaccine studies it's still relatively early days but it does demonstrate that the vaccine is safe and it doesn't juice a very good immune response this study published in the long sea highlights some very important developments particularly in the ability to what we call crime boosts the response to give 2 doses of slightly different vaccine does that give you an even better response and that is something that this article reports on which i think is a very important development but again we have to be slightly cautious because it's relatively small numbers and we look forward obviously to seeing more data particularly as this that seem goes into phase 3 or understand there are going to be something like $40000.00 volunteers vaccinated but we're working together as an

international group of immunology a symbologist to fight this vaccine and this is a very important step in that part. of virus is flaring up in europe from locked up 7000 new infections for the 2nd day running while it's near spain it's now almost 9000 and just the e.u. turkeys are authorities are now admitting things are getting bad again so is it to be expected during this post summer back to school period or is it something more significant trauma to penske has more. well e.u. officials are warning that the rate of transmission the test so positive cases of 19 is now at a level that is almost equivalent to what it was back in march that was when many countries started imposing those severe restrictions which led to lock downs across

europe in france this week we saw more than $7000.00 cases being registered in just 24 hours now much of that of course could be put down to the fact that there is widespread testing taking place across france and we've been told that some 50 percent of those who are testing positive for kopek 19 are showing little to no symptoms but what health authorities are concerned about here is the fact that in recent days there has been an increase in the number of people who tested positive for the dine who have been taken to hospital and those who need intensive care i asked has that been sleeping or were just summer vacation. and that is something that we see now we're all halls back to the number actually have seen in march where lots of measures have been put in place to try and curb this rate of transmission including here in paris where we now have to wear masks in all streets

across the capital and there's been talk that there could be closures of bars and localized lockdowns it seems nothing is essentially being ruled out at the moment although the measures in terms of mass don't yet seem to be producing any concrete results now spain and germany have also seen some of the highest cases they have recorded since the spring time and that's also been significant numbers of cases appearing in parts of the u.k. in the north of england for example where there are already tighter restrictions in place with households still not able to mix in certain parts of the north they're seeing a very large rate of transmission of. 19 meanwhile in turkey the health minister there has been talking about this 2nd wave he's been saying that the case is it going up and up every day and he says he knows who's to blame. we're experiencing this 2nd peak of the 1st wave or mobility in weddings and

holiday which are important parts of our customs and traditions have brought us to this point well the turkish health minister also outlined the impact that 19 it's had on health workers saying that now more than 50 health workers said to have died after contract ing the virus some countries are turning back again to quarantine measures to try and stem the rates of transmission for example in the u.k. . causing a little bit of a headache for holiday makers and for travel industry experts and that's because the 4 nations of the u.k. don't seem to have a consensus on where they want to impose quarantine measures so for example if you live in england or northern ireland you can still holiday to countries such as portugal greece but if you will. and if you go to those countries you will now have to quarantine on your return there's so much criticism of this saying that it's

causing a complete nightmare for holiday workers for holiday makers as well and it's confusing and causing anxiety consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria anymore on when to add or remove a country meanwhile other countries are talking about shutting their borders hungary is already done that to anybody who's not a normal resident the reality is though the economic issues the 1st lockdown still impacting countries across europe so any further measures to tighten movement add quarantines all locked down. and it's only going to arrant to the very already very deep worries of these european countries. america's top athletes could be banned from the olympics and other major international sporting events so say officials from the world duping agency if the u.s.

follows through on its threat to withdraw funding from water and ticks us through developments. the trouble ministration has a longstanding pattern of taking moves against international organizations such as the international criminal court the world health organization or the un human rights council but it appears that one international organization the world anti-doping agency is capable of retaliating if the united states takes measures against it we have been approached by a number of governments of the world that were shocked with the threats from the u.s. government these governments want us to consider an amendment to the compliance standard meaning that nonpayment by a government to fix what a contribution could lead to directly to being declared non compliant with the world anti doping code inevitably this could have serious repercussions for athletes including their participation in major international sporting events this comes after the june white house drug control policy report which indicates that

the united states has taken measures against wada working to defund the organization for years the united states has provided the world on to doping agency with amounts of taxpayers' dollars in annual dues far more than any other nation in the world we do so with an expectation that have either will operate in a transparent accountable and independent manner that is above all else fair to athletes they deserve a fair shake and the vote the commitment to govern team competition on level playing field although these threats were not made publicly we've already heard the u.s. olympic committee as well as the u.s. anti-doping agency speak up against any proposal. threatening us and please over this is one of the most terrible things i've ever seen from whether apparently nonpayment is a serious a systemic doping where's the rule that says this and is it to pull to everyone to threaten one country's athletes over what has failed governance model is pretty

remarkable and disappointing what is very threatened and rattled but to illegally threaten u.s. athletes is shameful the u.s. anti-doping agency says these proposals are simply illegal the united states cannot be excluded as a the only country to be locked out simply because of this move to defund or sort of appears that the policy of the white house in which they defund international organizations that don't suit the united states will continue when it appears at this moment retaliation will not be taking place. always good to have a sports columnist nearby to discuss such issues and we have one live on the program alan murray good to see you alan one day just to sum it up is basically saying that u.s. athletes could be barred from the olympics among other events a fortune 10 blocks funding the threat is an empty one or is it not. is it a toy union to say because of course we know we thought this before and

that this is a battle for the soul gravy train that is and i don't get it. there are. one of the they're all lawyers and us one of the many people charles collier's most people call on paper tiger or he wants to get control or you just go to it as a whole is person in charge there he was to get control of the got rid of the u.k. people who now he wants control so this great excuse of not wanting. you know is agrees to continue on the out of court law to remain within their rights to say that if you don't pay membership if you don't take credit your loss. source and you are not complying to same way as russia. so this is a very serious matter and you know what it is if the opening shots being fired have killed it it's because of course the u.k. or u.s. anti doping i should say they have been caught so badly i don't really themselves

down by refusing to test athletes during lockdown and right after lockdown we saw these amazing already being broken and national records and personal best and broken by athletes who try this tiger said we're not training during so maybe dresses don't do well look this is just the opening volley in are very very nasty or some of the details all in there they're peculiar if that's the correct term looking at the money the u.s. is saying it's paying too much to watch it but it's $2700000.00 a year in significant for the u.s. budget is it really worth kicking up a fuss over that it is not an issue at all. no it isn't you know listen they get rid of one thing for me america troy didn't rise as well remember the u.s. will it be council forms us on the job but. did they have to pay for membership unit is the same as i thing else you know if you want to be

a member of this force cool or you have to pay to take part in say listen to this and about us on the planet you know give me free doesn't happen like. they do have money and wanting to see the u.s. anti-doping is that they are they are being courted atmosphere seen as kind of out you know in significant u.s. force because remember he's going to do not test the n.f.l. the n.h.l. the n.o.b. or n.b.a. or even the color sports overlooked by d n a r a n d and c too late so there's a huge lead of money that they're not just kind of getting the hands on. poor matters. this is trying to wind the war would he ever took the u.s. treasury it's a risky game though isn't it because international olympic committee rules state that a country needs water compliance to compete in the games or to even qualify for them

is the u.s. putting the careers of of its operates at risk here with its approach it is you know we remember how so here in russia to the efforts being made to try and get there even if i were to look ok i would put them under a neutral fly this this is gamesmanship or too low it was too greedy it's really really not be calling all nations you know trying to be or a leader they really do better because if they start doing this next thing you have the u.k. will do it and they seem to jurgen. and i asked you idiot because everybody's got a. i now go and national at the door an organization it is basically. how do we say oh geez this is a great group of people in. they want to take over water and this is as i said this is the 1st major. coup attempt was in wallet for you so. much and there's

a lot of anxious runners and hurdlers and all sort of athletes out there watching this very closely allan thanks so much as always for your input allan where sports columnist live on the program. now hundreds of black lives matter protesters gathered in new york city's times square on thursday they were demanding justice for dunny a prude a 41 year old black man who died from asphyxiation after being arrested in rochester new york back in march the demonstrators were met by counter protesting from supporters.

daniel prude was detained after his brother called 911 saying he was behaving a rustic licitra mental illness mr period had run out into the street and you could he stopped breathing after police used a special hood to prevent him spitting knelt on him while he was handcuffed mr praed was taken off life support after a week in hospital his daughter thinks the death was avoidable. i'm glad there is a video and those painful to watch because it is a piece of it of the next day shows down my father posed for it to nobody he was told to get on the ground he got on the ground he was told but his hands were as big he put his hands behind his back he complied orders my father should not be d.m. right now the people who are put on the streets to protect and serve our democracy .