the. headline story. poisoning of opposition figurehead. cooperation. we can give them on the 27th. request from the prosecutor's office and still there is no one. who calls for a. meeting and. we want to belorussians to handle their situation with.

6 or more. but just before the. don't tell us. international if your company. russia's foreign minister has said no legal open a criminal probe into the alexina only case g 2 a complete lack of data from germany. responded to threats of new sanctions over

the alleged poisoning of the opposition figure. yeah but no one if there was no nouvelle me they would have come up with another reason to impose additional sanctions our western partners have gone beyond all limits of decency and reasonable in fact they are now demanding that we confess it's such a mysterious story given that on the 27th of august we sent a request for legal assistance from the russian general prosecutor's office and still there is no wants we don't have legal grounds for launching a criminal case yet and that is why we are asked for legal assistance from the german side so at least the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin is intensifying russian prosecutors have said they've sent a 2nd request for legal assistance to berlin they're looking for explanations from doctors who've been involved with the treatment of alexina found information and copies of documents they've sent the 2nd request because their 1st request has gone unheeded according to the russian side they said that over 2 weeks ago what we've

heard though regarding the competition of alexei in the family his his health prognosis is that he has improved the shot at a hospital here in berlin where he's being treated has said that he's now waybill to leave his bed for a short period of time because of the russian foreign minister has been giving an interview on russian t.v. in which he talked extensively about this case we heard him just a few moments ago giving one point he also said that western partners had cast doubt over the professionalism and skill of russian medical professionals who 1st came to the aid of the lexan of ali. some of our western colleagues wrote the new found it was saved by a miracle was this new tourist numbers check with a russian citizen managed to survive thanks to a happy coincidence what is this happening. so the impeccable work for pilots doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence they don't even admit that we acted in a proper way the western partners look at us with the arrogance because we dare to

doubt their correctness afresh. that's why the dow the professionals move are doctors and investigators use nuclear weapons to well miss the lever of hard being set to make a trip to berlin on the 15th of september that is canceled in the wake of this ongoing dispute over alexina family and what happened to him the german government work giving their side of vents on monday we heard from stephens i bet the government's official spokesperson saying that the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w. based in the hague that started their process of verifying germany's claims that the chalk a nerve agent it being used to poison alexina valmy is desired but went on to say that those findings it being backed up by 2 separate burra trees one in sweden and one in france. were driessen france and sweden have carried out their investigations and confirmed the german evidence that means we now have 3 laborious

reeds working independently from each other which of all reached the conclusion that the substance that caused the poisoning of mr know was a nerve agent from the not patrol group it is still stiff russian president vladimir putin and his french counterpart emmanuel micron held a phone conversation to talk about the ongoing alexei navalny case he not conversation the russian president said that unfounded claims against russia were inappropriate and that the information that dated the evidence that russia requested must be shared with moscow also he said that russian doctors and experts have to be part of a joint investigation into what happened to mr novelli something they've been excluded from so far on choose day there is a session of the european parliament where the e.u. response to germany's claims that alexina valmy was poisoned will be discussed sanctions have been talked about as

a potential outcome from that parliamentary session however rushed. said should sanctions be placed on them over this then there would be a response just following on with this story russian investigators have been interviewing people who came into contact with alexina volley just before he fell sick police say they wanted to speak to 6 people to reach 5 of them but the 6th apparently fled to germany an r t correspondent raised the issue at a government news conference in berlin. not by any. the russian foreign ministry said the regarding the incident with novotny they were able to interview people accompany him except for one the same marine a pitcher who avoided giving evidence by flying to germany which she went on her own not with novotny does the federal government knows that marina picture is in germany and how do you view her decision to avoid being interviewed by the russian investigators to do some folks out there in mind that's i cannot tell you anything

about this we must not forget that there was a murder attempt against mr nevada with the use of a poisonous substance but i can't tell you anything about the location of an individual just as you know a focus off of. the sex the russian investigators did interview the people accompanying the scene of only despite claims that they are not investigating 5 out of 6 of them assisted in the investigation and one avoided questioning and fled to germany that shouldn't germany say yes we know marina is in germany and assess why this person actively avoided questioning after all the other 5 allowed themselves to be questioned and the question to the interior ministry at the moment it is not easy for russian citizens to simply fly to germany was there any special permission that allowed. to enter germany. to come going and i am not familiar with this case and i will not speak about that as an absolute

bombshell revelation that this mysterious 6 person miss patchogue is apparently in europe in germany possibly right now and that even though it is virtually very difficult virtually impossible without certain measures to enter germany right now because of that 19. russian citizen without a visa. she apparently had no trouble and we're hearing some reports that she actually flew on the same plane that transported mr nonviolently back when so this is a very interesting revelation that is coming out as a result of the preliminary investigation that russian prosecutors are doing and we suddenly have to look into this case and of course if she is still in germany then

it is the responsibility of the german government as the state of. international respectful of international law to provide russian prosecutors with full access. to another headline story so they russia's president has called for an internal dialogue in belarus to end the ongoing crisis where putin health 4 hours of talks with president alexander lukashenko in the black sea resort of sorts an agreement was made for a contingent of russian soldiers to pole back from the border with those forces where there are requests to prepare for a potential collapse of law and order which thankfully did not happen. discuss the meeting with my colleague. so tell us more about what's been said so far before this trip to tsotsi the official line from both sides was that the 2 leaders were about to meet to discuss cooperation but after more than

a month of mass protests and the republic of belarus the obvious assumption was that alexander lukashenko was heading to tsotsi to seek support from his elder brother that's what he literally called vladimir putin a few weeks ago well we can at least say that the actual fact that alexander lukashenko was received by president putin as the head of the bell russian state and that they were discussing minsk moscow ties in the future is some kind of support clearly in the form of a confidence boost however unlike some of the scenarios predicted by the western media in the buildup to this the head of the russian government didn't say a thing about specifically providing some kind of help to end the protests and bell reuss by the way when early in the morning i was reading some of the forecasts for the summit by western media outlets i came across theories in which even the word

addicks ation was used some were saying that the kremlin could use this meeting to even topple alexander look as schenkel or use the current weakness of the bell russian president to reach its own goals in belarus however and contrast to that president vladimir putin made it clear when he was speaking just ahead of the meeting that moscow does not accept any outside interference especially from the west. we want the belorussians to handle their situation without any external assistance or pressure and co-manager through dialogue with each other and come to a joint decision on how to move forward despite this we did hear from the bell. russian leader that he does want to bring this issue to an international level but only if it comes to moving on to some of the integration blocks which loose is part of for example the eurasian customs union or the so-called agreement

on collective security these are some of the blogs that are made part of post soviet republics a bit to move with we will talk about what's happening in belarus and meetings of the aeration economic community and collective security treaty organization and there are also things that's what about within the commonwealth of independent states now despite mr lucas sankoh being able to avoid the worst case scenario for him a complete nationwide strike and a full scale revolution protesters keep gathering in various cities across the lower east every week and sunday saw massive marches all across the country in which hundreds of people were detained.

here but. if we take a step back how are the overall relations between valorous and russia well we do have to put all of this and context and used to go without saying that men's is a top ally for moscow we remember that after the fall of the soviet union a number of agreements were signed between moscow and minsk to form a so-called union state and moscow for all these years has been supporting deeper integration deeper ties however when it comes to president alexander lukashenko judging by his rhetoric before the election in august. especially we were able to understand that he's unhappy with how it was going in many ways and at some point he even called some russian official traitors but it seems now that he's seeking

the russian government support everything is going back on track and one of the latest steps that moscow made towards minsk was that it and now it's a $1500000000.00 loan for bella ruse while sitting right next to his bell russian counterpart the russian leader made it clear that moscow will remain committed to all 'd its agreements and promises but i see. russia remains committed to all our agreements including those that arise from the treaty on the union speech and the collective security treaty or humanize the ships we see belarus as there are close as to how long we knew of course fulfill who are responsible limits western countries have kept a close eye on what's happening and belarus what kind of reaction have we been thing to the crisis from them there are closest neighbors like poland to the waning a lobby and a stone up that have made some aggressive statements against mr lucas shan't go in fact lithuania went as far as to recognize with the take on all skill the percent

goes rival in that vote as the legitimate leader of valerie's but so far we have not seen any joint action by the european union but on monday we heard from german diplomats that they're looking forward to some kind of set of sanctions jointly agreed on by the european union and they want this to be announced within the next few days and that set of measures according to german officials should be against the people responsible for what they are calling election fraud and also repression still ahead on the program partying like there's no tomorrow as the u.k. brings in a bunch on gay. the remains of more than half a dozen people in response to surging covert infections more about softer this spring.

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 17 minutes past the hour welcome back social gatherings in england scotland on wheels are not limited to 6 people starting from monday the u.k.'s tightening restrictions a made a sharp increase in covert infections the so-called rule of 6 larger gatherings both indoors and outs however there are exceptions with larger gathering still permitted to work schools gyms places of worship police something given powers to crack down on offenders with potential fines of more than 3000 pounds. on sunday $3300.00 people in the u.k.

tested positive for cope at 19 a sharp increase compared with last month but the recent spike in cases fail to deter some revelers seeking to enjoy themselves ahead of the ban as r t shaadi edwards dashti reports. well you would think it was new year's eve ok prior to the final of the football world cup but come monday the new fall of 6 restricting meet ups of more than half a dozen people will be implemented meaning scenes like this will once again be afraid up down not sure if that's the kind of begins i mean it's a gate crashers brits a living up the last of freedom. the public was just about getting back to normal or as normal as coming they were told to eat out to help out the struggling hospitality sector leading to

a very busy month of wining and dining told the travelers rules were locked and encouraged to get back into the office to kick start the economy when suddenly the u.k. decided to clamp down again on irenaeus the timing of it and says exemptions causing confusion many brits upon seeing like it's the last orders oh wait it's sort of this yeah everyone's here tonight. to celebrate yet it's almost like the last night of freight is don't tell us young people to go out and up on i don't be like no you can't go out anymore it's that except i don't believe that why do you state it on the day when you really say no oh i will a couple days after i think it's a good trick how about i don't have 6 friends so it does not implement it doesn't mean anything to me i'm just going to take advantage of until monday and then i'll just make sure to stick to the rule or risk decided to include the 6 day 6 covering band just to stop birthdays from happening but i'll try to get only the school system guru sits and it out here accordingly to the government when it's widely

known in the print so how to 3rd party and so instead of counseling teacher gatherings many are just bringing them forward to this weekend for the covert infection rates growing again the heights of knock down illegal raves are going ahead as reckless for this local i. the complete to be the high status with the most us. introducing. of 6. there is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation . as a party we. used to organize raves i used to love.

who organized. well brit's we'll see if any opportunity to pay the town brat but this really is the final farewell to a party well making an appearance. let's move from britain to be us where yet another fatal police shooting house sparks street riots the incident happened in the state of pennsylvania several buildings cars were damaged in the own risk in the city of. police fired tear gas off to the crowd refused to disperse several arrests were made as well the authorities have condemned the protesters the scribing their behavior as violent rioting meanwhile police released body video of sunday shooting you may find the following images disturbing a man with. a door and chasing a police officer down the sidewalk before being shot dead he was later identified

as 27. police say they responded to a domestic disturbance call the officer has been placed on administrative leave local authorities have issued a call for. involved shooting has significant impact on a community as we have seen with a large number of individuals gathering in the streets however a mosque in that overreaction be tempered as the investigation is on go when law enforcement trainer betsy bruckner smith believes the police officer involved in the shooting in pennsylvania was entirely justified in using lethal force. the dangerous young man and his family called the police said he was out of control police got there and he immediately starts chasing a police officer with that knife the officer is not only rightful to use deadly force but frankly obligated we are not suicidal police officers here in the united states we see that when the body cam comes out the investigation is completed that

generally speaking the officers were right in their use of force but we have anti fire and black lives matter here in the united states that are sending people immediately to these hot bed areas to engage in writing it's in any extremely difficult atmosphere for police in the united states right now no matter what we do even if we act completely lawfully like in this situation you're going to see riots and you're going to see violence and we're going to be told that we're killers of people of color if frankly it's childish it's ridiculous and i believe the american people are getting tired of it you know pennsylvania is a key state in our upcoming presidential election and i don't think this is going to be helpful for the democrats. relations between australia and china who are taking a turn for the worse calibra has defended its right to cardio its intelligence related raids to beijing last thought out what it called barbaric searches all of

the homes of its journalist. turn australia claimed that the questioning of chinese journalists was in accordance with normal procedures which are calling china's measures hostage diplomacy this statement fully demonstrates the hypocrisy and double standard here. earlier to australian correspondents were a bomb from leaving china the authorities 'd the man did the questions on a national security investigation reporters went to the is truly an embassy for protection and stayed there several days before being allowed to fly home. and it's not just journalists getting caught up in the dispute between the 2 nations 2 chinese academics have their ass trillian visas revoked after they were accused of foreign interference we spoke to one of them chen hong here's what he said happened . i received an e-mail all you know. you know the buzzing

me that my. visa having the australian intelligence organization made assessments i was directly or indirectly all risk to security so i was very much shots and funded and. really you know just to didn't believe at 1st we'll i was still thinking that i might be involved in the ballpark and it was all part of us a fraud scam for someone not me to be you know assessed as offer just to illustrate a security i think this is simply preposterous ridiculous and i refused to accept it is a system and of the developments follow several years of gradually deteriorating relations between beijing professor hong again believes australia is simply following us america's lead. the seas the mid twenty's and the camera have been you know starting and each kind of campaign to make up for

relations about the so-called china threat you cause say that actually you have been attacking a country while also taking advantage of the trade relationship of course china would be politicizing and to weaponize in trade you know to gain some kind of a political leverage and i think actually in the recent years australia has been so the interests all fortunes and rather than all those similar campaigns against the russians or iran we see a kind of like ethical income brought to the support of the u.s. just importance is merely i think actually only serves the needs of the united states a lot start off from the new studio for not but more great programs get going and moments here are to find out what is showing wherever you are today after the shortest of brakes by far.

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