in the top stories of the last 7 days than germany agrees to cooperate with moscow on a probe into the alleged poisoning of the opposition figure alexina valmy as the issue riles german lawmakers in parliament. elsewhere the big guns a british political scene split down the middle over prime minister porus johnson's plan to this apply the brakes a bill. and thousands of women rally in the the russian capital calling on the president to resign over those contested elections it comes as a high profile opposition leader was arrested this week. morning moscow time hello from russia then this is the weekly a roundup of the big headlines of the last 7 days you're international with me

kevin oh in today 1st the germany accepted moscow's request for legal cooperation on a probe into the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy however state prosecutors want some information will only be shared with the activists consent it says russian police asked to interview and then in berlin where he's still in hospital germany adds it still expects russia to be held accountable for the incident. the relations with russia are influenced by the fact that russia is 1st of all an important global actor and also by the fact that in the past and in present time we have had some problematic topics between each other and we should express ourselves carefully this time there was an attempted murder on mr novelli performed with a very specific and internationally banned nerve agent of the novacek group and our demand is that russia urgently explain what happened this is. our authorities are

investigating this incident we don't like it when other countries dictate to us when and at what point to start our processes we cannot legally call this a criminal case based on the analysis of the journal aboard 3 moreover the board to receive the b.r.d. army just as in the b. or d. it is probably impossible to initiate a criminal case on the basis of tests that were taken in our military hospital this is legally nonsense there are acts of our investigative bodies are working they have questions new questions appear we hope that we will receive information from our german colleagues it will help to move forward germany previously announced it would be sharing of test results with the global chemical weapons watchdog although russia which is of course a member of the o.p.c. w says as yet still this weekend nothing's being received. emerged from an in juice to cope with this week with german doctors saying he now reacts to speech though

long term effects are still unclear he was airlifted to berlin for treatment last month after following a flight from siberia the russian hospital that initially treated him notes still no evidence of poisoning was uncovered meantime russia's envoy to the u.n. responded to western pressure on his country over the incident. the zulu system cannot but raise questions well some folk being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in what these leaders leads us to and the wood will reply nicol question legion was in search of situations we've won you trace it erk we probs who used to benefit from this the one that won it if you demand explanations will deflect from the people and we'll compare notes one should with the last elite geishas uncorroborated by evidence even this isn't u.c.b. your reasonable. the german parliament's debated the poisoning at

a special session with lawmakers already demanding action against moscow our europe correspondent peter all of the reports it was a fiery session on friday afternoon until evening here in berlin in the german bundestag the majority of those who spoke or pointing a finger of blame directly at russia and the russian government for what they say was the poisoning of alexei folly there were some voices that questioned the official government line not many i have to say but there were some and a comment that really if the kremlin really regrets the assassination attempt on alex in the valley and really wants to clear things up why does novell need such a level of protection from our security services political murder is part of the putin system. good. now so not only are the russians supposed to have tried to poison an opponent of the regime with a military nerve agent but the put it in his teeth why would the russian government

be so stupid them and even let no one fly out to germany instead of hiding him in russia it's absurd that north stream too was a big issue on the debate as well basically the german politicians splitting into 3 camps there are those that say it needs to be halted immediately and perhaps canceled altogether there are those that want to wait and see how russia reacts and how this story develops and there are those saying that it's simply too important economically and it must remain purely an economic project no matter what else is going on we have those see heated debate over north stream both on the streets here in germany friday night in the north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the german government has repeatedly argued this by the war in syria just by the use of a chemical weapon in souls bury the federal government is sending

a message to the kremlin no matter what you do economic goals are more important to us than climate protection security policy and human rights. demanding the immediate term a nation of north stream too is in my view a hasty and misguided reaction but it pleases those who have always opposed the project especially the greens well as germany called to use to push russia for an explanation for what happened to alexei novelli the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said russia still waiting for information it requested from germany but still you sort of your minute of the german representative to the u.n. said the date is no longer not for bilateral relations between germany and russia but amounts for multilateral procedure what kind of proceedings the germans are talking about they were unable to say. in the interests of our german colleagues we urge them to provide all necessary information which might in any way should lights one absolutely unfounded accusations investigators in russia of also being on the

search for more information police in the city of thompson which is where all x. in the valley had been he was flying from tomsk to moscow before his plane had to make an emergency landing in the city of school with the lexan of only in extreme distress well police in tom skipping putting together a timeline of where he was in the lead up to him getting on that plane they've placed mist in the valley in a hotel in a restaurant in a flat and in a coffee shop what they have also been going about doing is trying to interview those that were in close contact with aleck's in the valley during his time in the city of tomsk police there say they've been able to interview 5 of the 6 people that spent a lot of time with mr novelli they say the 6th person a woman is believed to have come here to germany there are still lots of facts to come to light in the case of what happened to alexa in the funny books as we search

for those facts the diplomatic route between germany and russia continues to heat up. well as we heard senior politicians in berlin a been piling pressure on the government there to pull out of the stream to project over the move on the case in the week we spoke exclusively with the head of the german parliament's energy committee about the very same issue. correct not stream to is not putin's project it involves a large number of european companies and it's designed to ensure the security if europe's gas supply to question this project now is to shoot ourselves in the foot it is certainly not in the interests of germany or europe if there is a decision to end the project companies will be able to sue those who made the decision in this case the german government and of course it will affect gas prices it must be clearly understood that this is not a game that the pressure coming from the us is already enough in my view so we are

strongly resisting the american sanctions that have been imposed on companies and individuals involved in the pipeline construction this is against international law and we don't accept it i can see the many people who might not have fully understood the story thinking now we'll show them but i think it's completely wrong 1st of all we need to establish what really happened because i don't think germany no use i think we should respond appropriately to the russians request for legal assistance we obviously received such a request but according to the russians it is so for going on answers. now the big story is the way the much criticized internal market bill was debated in britain the house of commons and this is going to be coming up tomorrow monday prime minister boris johnson is trying to convince his ruling party to back that draft former party leaders to john major as well as x. prime minister tony blair parliament to reject. it's way of negotiating is irresponsible or wrong in principle and dangerous in practice it raises questions

that go far beyond the impact on ireland the peace process and negotiations for a trade deal crucial though they are it questions the very integrity of our nation as the world looks on a girls that the u.k. this government action is shaming itself and embarrassing our nation the brics a deal had been designed to stop a hard border between the north and south a violent and there wants to return controls on the movement of goods there and that sparked a harsh warning from brussels just get in you need to respect the will fully expect the u.k. to of the commitments that negotiated and signed up to last year got a citizen's rights in northern ireland any attempt by the u.k. to undermine the agreement would have serious consequences. against the hostile backdrop e.u. talks will continue says can tailor assesses their chances of success there. how i long for the bracks it is a little stability that you know

a removal van parked permanently outside number 10 braxton's president today after delay after delay was a passive but something reassuring not so comforting that in these tumultuous times one can turn to bricks it like the good friend that it is but still that in fact nothing's changed we have now been talking for 6 months and can no longer afford to go over well trodden ground we need to see more realism from the e.u. about our status as an independent country than needs to be in agreement with our european friends by the time of the european council in the 15th that's going to be enforced by the end of the year but perhaps someone would be bracks if it wasn't full of dissatisfaction and empty promises by the u.k. having 2nd thoughts about the withdrawal agreement signed back in january so it might override key parts of the last brussels basically says we can sue off to a free trade deal by mid october and the media thought of the u.k.

renee taking on its words elicited cries of moment you're from those bureaucrats in brussels do you. believe sean franks ability and grit. to work with the u.k.'s red lines it's time to do you good to great i trust the british government to implement their withdrawal a criminal and obligation under international law and prerequisite for any future partnership protocol in ireland northern ireland is essential to protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market the one room of the got people especially worried is that tucked away in voters' pocket is something called the internal market belt and its contents could jeopardize peace and security along the i was border but downing street denied this same that it's only proposing my alterations which would provide clarity on such a big us part of the deal but even at home not everyone is convert. apparently the head of the u.k.'s legal department quit over the whole thing and then there is

this one minute minor detail proving to be just a little contentious. in a very specific and limited boy oh well as long as it's just specific but is all this proves to be the straw that breaks the camel's back and the u.k. and e.u. don't shake hands the u.k. will be left popping up out in the north sea with no deal and no tariff free gas classic bracks set everyone happy looming deadline threat of no deal and now the prime minister losing trust some things never change. and professor at the london school of economics alan scared believes brussels is still refusing to accept britain's actually left the block. i think both sides would like some kind of deal however. the e.u. insists on treating britain i click and i'm going to get problems that we can really be truly independent in the base could be we should still be close to the

e.u. . and it believes that the common fish should fisheries policies should still apply to british territorial waters. believes that when it comes to rules and regulations the british shouldn't be able to make their own they should be forced to. rely on any new regulations see you to get their approval for us and of course that it's impossible for the pretty strict set. coming up to more the big stories of the week for much of this was hype and those headlines most of the british state health workers are considering quitting over the government's handling of the pandemic just a little more of what we've got lined up so you have you can stick around then after this break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only move really exists i

don't see how it will be better. to sit down and talk. good morning have you weekends going good thanks for watching us this morning we're reaching the next that opposition supporters impeller rossa keeping up the present pressure on president look at shank thousands of activists almost all women gathered in multiple locations across minsk calling on the president to resign again and as you can see there were tense confrontations with security forces it's the latest in a month long wave of unrest since the contested presidential election which opposition supporters say was rigged our senior correspondent. the police the demonstrators and protesters very very adept at this well they

realize that gathering in one place at the same time is bound to you know get them all arrested so what they've done is they've got a. different call a different marches down the streets of means in order to avoid being arrested all at once and they're chanting against the president they're saying they're just out for a walk they're calling as well for a criminal tribunal into the president there and now apparently thousands tens of thousands of people marching down the streets of minsk in this woman's march and they came out of nowhere a little groups who could rising down little streets all converging to march down means nevertheless we haven't seen police to state security agents in a while and there really is safety in numbers because it would be completely impossible to detain soo many people thousands of people on the peaceful march down the streets of means. also this week high profile member of the opposition in brother ross was arrested on the border with ukraine or monday than maria

kolesnikov disappeared she couldn't be reached by phone and for a while her whereabouts remained. with claims achieved maybe by the russian security officials on tuesday officials said plastic cover was. and she broke the law trying to cross the border into ukraine alexander lukashenko more details in an interview he gave to russian journalists. that only could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov where is she. i probably cannot give you much detail gigia the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends or drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed their passports and our side customs officers border guards let them through further on is the state border and the ukrainian post but between these posts there are 8 to 9 kilometers and there our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped they froze

the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move well on the run. so they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out border guards of course detained her has would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the border office and the car went across the a cranium border up through the ukrainian post and then as far as i am now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so that they returned them to us. what for they left they relatively speaking of were released from the roofs you know they could not be detained they travelled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the border guards and customs officers did their jobs and the border itself is another 8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hid in ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is it ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to

but someone's relatives a said to live there i cannot claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we asked the ukrainian border guards to return the others to our country. we will investigate what happened but klesko has got a different version that she was abducted by officers she said taken to the ukraine border to be kicked out of the country to avoid classico had to tear up her passport she's now being held in minsk that the e.u. is enraged at a detention branding it a violation of domestic and international law meanwhile lithuania's passed a bill urging world powers to recognize the opposition candidate in last month's belorussian election as the rightful president here is the 1st country then to recognize fiddler on the ticket office as leader of belarus she fled to lithuania after the election she's since posted several videos asking the international community to help force look out and to enable new elections to political analysts

where roth spoke to us in the week he notes lithuania would not think of come out for taken over without the backing of larger powers. it's a signal that is being shown to go it shall show. of force is major forces political forces behind because little you know wouldn't take such a measure which is illegitimate according to international law if there was no support by the european union or who knows. i see this. not too intelligent. to blunt because it shows clearly that the situation in. belarus is not only divided one side is also in danger of being taken over by external interests therefore i see it in your

political terms and not in trunks of elections in minsk. this one got a lot of reaction for you on our social media the poll that we talked about in the wake of the majority of british state health. service doctors are considering quitting over the government's handling of the pandemic the president of the country's association of doctors spoke to us and says the issues in fact have been building for a long time. you have serum and our n.h.s. colleagues have been feeling and how unbroken in short many years now prior to them how to mic this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history with intellectual arse including absolutely we're in estonia to oxycontin changes to our training that mean doctors need every 6 months or a year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions taps crisis which

has forced many of our most senior an experienced experienced oxes interest high and all of this was prior to us going into the air national crisis where more than 1700 medics took part in the survey 2 in 3 say they are no more likely to leave the national health service because of poor treatment from the government during the code responds most planned to get out within 3 years partly so poor working conditions are high on the list of complaints and other main reasons cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment to others so they've been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics also warned they've had promised benefits revoked working on the code front line most generally has had a huge impact a mental health impact on many of them too. since we've had in many different demick and we've had these incredible times where people have been dying and struggling and we've been separate for our families we just want some recognition

for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone. it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about it he were surviving on charitable donations and fear that had to stop just because kerry did. came in just pushing that we deserve back a recession and the whole n.h.s. better and that was what stage that was really me the government insists his 3 percent pay rise offer though is good enough and prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over this difficult winter period no coming up all that said the head of the doctors' association again told us its workers must feel valued. we know that the n.h.s. was very much under start and under resourced going into this and i have no doubt that that impacted on our ability to see combat this fire s. we had 10000 vacancies forward doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for

frontline and it's our stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans that lisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more of a worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd said may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that the government considers the hard work of those troops he has within the n.h.s. this show them how much their family and they really are carted them to retain them in the n.h.s. especially if there is to be a 2nd spike in the. global pandemic spin described as a lucky break by the boss of the video streaming giant netflix maybe not

surprisingly those bows its profits have surged in the log the company is not alone all the major tech players are vastly increase their earnings in the last few months revenue in the 2nd quarter was up 40 percent to almost $90000000000.00 paul reported an 11 percent increase to almost $60000000000.00 meantime streaming services have doubled subscribers in just 3 months but such huge profits are going on notice now coming after them the u. it's now looking to introduce a digital tax european lawmakers say such firms should sub's of those economies crippled by the pandemic. it is not possible to accept the idea that those digital giants the winners of the crisis are not paying a fair amount of taxes in europe and we can't manage this problem with single digital taxation we need at least at the european union level a general measure. economics professor richard wolfe believes targeting such giants

like this is just the 1st step in fact to raising rates for all big corporations. i think you seen it already we have a history here in the united states of taxing monopolies an oligopoly these are huge businesses but it always takes pressure from below it takes a movement of working people labor unions and others to be able to get the politicians to act and my suspicion is it won't be different that's what a little take the tax the tech giants now and once they go then the question will inevitably follow why are we not doing that for other our highly monopolized and overly wealthy corporations. shocking apocalyptic scenes in the wake of us and those terrible wildfires wreaking havoc on california amid a record heat wave several districts have declared a state of emergency.

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