in the day's headlines russian opposition leader in the only is discharged from hospital and berlin after his alleged boys think moscow says it's still waiting for data on the case from the global chemical weapons watchdog. also this hour alexander lukashenko is inaugurated for a 6th term as belorussian president in a month early after more than 7 weeks of protests against him calling the disputed election. russia is ready to provide you with with top notch assistance free of charge a lot of important offers united nations staff to try a brand new russian. adding that the country has already received requests from u.n. colleagues that's amid

a 3rd stage of vaccine trials here and russia argues for spawn it becomes one of the 1st in the country to get the shot. this morning and i got a call from the creamy stain i am an ideal candidate here this is your vaccine there's not much in there but it looks like a couple of drops out i'm ready. to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 welcome to the program. russian opposition leader of the of not only has been discharged from the hospital in berlin where he was being treated following an alleged poisoning doctors say they hope he will make a full recovery but the details here's peter all for. alexina family's conversation is much improved in fact we've seen pictures from his instagram account and what cheese open about out of the hospital and in

a park here in the german capital it says attached to the picture that he'll be working with physiotherapists as he recovers from his stay in hospital we had seen videos previously of him walking about inside the hospital but on wednesday morning a statement was put out by a shot at the medical facility was being trotted out here in berlin saying that he was ready and able to be discharged the patient state of health has improved to such extend that acute medical treatment can be ended lexan him and he was treated as charity for eternal 32 days 24 days to which he was in intensive care unit physicians considered full recovery possible based in treatment and his current condition and you long term consequences of the severe poisoning can only be assessed later or an article in the french newspaper le monde is causing some for rory in it the newspaper claims that russian president vladimir putin in a phone call with his french counterpart emmanuel micron had claimed that alexina

valmy poisoned himself the article also goes on to make claims that there may have been some connection with the alleged poisoning and one of the former creators of the or one of the creators of the novacek program who currently lives in latvia now we've heard from the kremlin spokesperson to meet the press corps who says there's no truth behind this article even if you didn't so she mutates not the wording is where in the exact the newspaper could not have been does not have credible information we cannot believe that that would consciously leave the recording of the 2 presidents conversation to the media i mean that's rance france cannot do something like that refused to believe that it might well as far as the investigations i say investigations there are multiple going on into what happened to alexina valmy we've had confirmation from the minute. of justice here in berlin that they are currently reviewing the 2nd request from the russian prosecutor general's office full information regarding those tests that were carried out on

alexina valley we've heard previously from the russian side saying they can't launch a full investigation into an alleged poisoning until they have proof of a poisoning and so far only berlin has the proof which it shared with our trees in france and in sweden as well as the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the aig now we've also had confirmation from the foreign ministry here in berlin saying that the o.p.c. w. still haven't give them any results we're still waiting on not i think we can expect that coming in the next few weeks. we're now going to bring in live john dombrowski and the chief executive at the washington pain center for more on this so as we just heard alex in the money has left the hospital and from the information you've seen do you expect him to make a full recovery yes i do i mean i've been very lucky to be with you several times on this event and i said that most likely he will recover and so it's kind of

bearing that out i mean he's doing remarkably well and i am very cautiously optimistic that the illegals will recover as we all know germany along with labs and sweden and friends say that not only was poisoned with a nerve agent from the no we choke a group is it surprising that he's managed to survive after being exposed to what is a deadly nerve agent like that sure i mean i think there are 2 possibilities number one is how much of the nerve agent did he receive and to how quickly was he attended to so apparently was a very small amount that was known lethal and he got a quicker medical attention which also improves his ability of recovery at the same time russian doctors and even the creators of know which have question whether it really was that poison is it possible that some other substance could have caused the symptoms that nevaeh he suffered from. well i mean these are all nerve agents and they're all they're basically anesthetic agents that are used there are all sorts of nerve agents out there sarin and all that type of ringback stuff however

you know i'm sure there are certain biomarkers that would be highly suggestive of the nerve agent that there's. so we have the news now that he has been discharged from the hospital but does he have quite an uphill battle going forward well i'm sure there might be an uphill battle i'm sure of that but clearly he's getting into a part used during some pretty high cognitive functions so i think his recovery you know is is quite honest just from what i can tell if we compare this to the sounds very case in 2018 which of course many many people are several people fell sick and one actually died after exposure but we've seen nothing similar to lead to that in times square in a volley was allegedly poisoned before he got on that plane why do you think that is again i have to go back you know to the specific purpose that goes how it was administered or whatever the case might be but also getting it medical attention most likely that was the reason why you survived. and also as all these supporters released a video showing them in his hotel room in tomsk just after the alleged poisoning

and they were collecting his belongings putting them in plastic bags and that was where that water bottle was found that they then sent on to germany where it said that that's where the now the check was found they were wearing protective suits they were just wearing gloves how much does that even out that they weren't affected by the never check. well most likely the way that what they were thinking about the got just over shot by ingesting it by the bottle of water so it's inside a contained bottle so probably that's reason why they did not you know you know suffer any ailments so i think it's reasonable i mean nerve agents usually are gas but obviously there are other ways of ministry there's this poison. of course we all know that 1st of all he was in siberia and then he was airlifted over to germany do you think that that had any influence on his recovery would he have recovered just as easily probably here in russia i don't really know the medical system there so i can't speak to that you know be due to

a lot of supportive care meaning a respirator ventilator medically induced coma for his body to recover and they could have done that in russia or security that's fine but we'll never know you would lose flown to berlin for that care. definitely encouraging news coming out of berlin today it's on the brodsky m.d.t. executive at the washington pain center the care time and joining us on the program thank you so much. alexander lukashenko has been inaugurated for a 6th term as president of belarus a month earlier than expected event went ahead without an advance public announcement and after more than 7 weeks of unrest following his disputed reelection and the ceremony took place at the independence palace in minsk i took the oath with his hand on the constitution and i see him that's become familiar to belorussians and he 1st took office 26 years ago he gave a speech thanking us supporters for preventing a so-called color revolution meaning an uprising against the government are facing

our correspondent run reports from belarus. it was a complete surprise to everybody in belarus the 1st boarding that something was up was convoys of police blocking off road streets driving to and fro around the city then the presidential call believe we see it in full parade formation driving for driving for it official residence by the time the fact that the dog ration was taking place became public knowledge president look at shaker had been sworn in so he's seeking. to speech in which he belorussians with their support for their faith even said he would do everything possible to make sure that they would disappointed by his presidency he said that but by backing him they had passed a test given jurors of their belief said that they had voted for peace and protected the independence and freedom of belarus their year. dear fellow by the russians

on this solemn day the president swears and moved to this state and the people with special feeling with a lot of pride for both the russians who have passed with the honor the test of strength in their beliefs the inauguration is the day of victory convince an insignificant we didn't just elect the president of the country we defended our values our peace our sovereignty and our independence and. we still have a lot to do. obviously not everyone is happy with the this inauguration with the way it was carried out and especially with president being sworn in for a 6th already protests erupting around means small scale but by 6 o'clock the opposition has called for the mass rallies for everybody who's against present to shake it to come out and to voice their their their disbelief of what is happening and to voice that anger at present being sworn in for

a seat we've seen of course for a month now very strong protests especially during the weekend all over belarus hundreds of thousands of people as many as tens of thousands this weekend especially people coming out and saying you know we've had enough johnson for him to leave chanting for new elections and that is what the opposition coordination council opposition council has been has been formed to do to guarantee new elections there would varying times they've stated different goals up to this deposing of president. europe has come out stronger and stronger support of the opposition but we've heard the foreign minister of the european union say that what europe is doing supporting the opposition would be construed as meddling because they're doing the right thing and they've welcome svetlana tikkun off a rival of president during the election who has since left for europe fled to europe they've they've welcome to as

a highly placed official and they've backed her and called for fresh elections obviously we've. had to expect a much more reaction already the foreign minister of lithuania has come out who has called the inauguration and present. a fuss saying he was completely illegitimate in the at the entire election and he's integration. a fraud. reliable safe and effective. pioneering russian covert vaccine sputnik v the 1st web search of its kind speaking at the u.n. general assembly it put in stress world leaders need to find a way to make the job really accessible to everyone and even offered free doses to any one worker. what would you do with them but already it's a sure experience and continue to cooperate with all countries and international organizations this includes the distribution of a russian vaccine to other countries which has proved its reliability safety and

efficiency sure it's ready to provide the un with top notch assistance particularly we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination of u.n. personnel and entities we have received such requests from or un colleagues and we will remain indifferent to. the 3rd stage of cover 1000 vaccine trials is underway in russia here in the capital about 40000 are expected to take part in the tests our correspondent maria for national was among those who got it. it's vaccination day for me and finally this morning i got a call from the clinic i say i am in a deal candidate before that i have course took a number of tests and went through a thorough screening now it's time for a final check with the doctor before getting the short good afternoon.

and the last alys of pregnancy tests i was doing to make sure it's safe for me to receive a vaccination. right now i am ready the vaccine doses are stored in the freezer they take out each of those immediately before the injection he tracks and is individually allocated ever beijing has a specific code and it has this card on marked on it mean in it's assigned to a particular patient. it could be either her real back seen or it will say the. number is you will cease to seeks. the number is correct for. now you know as you know many times where i am afraid to be vaccinated of course i'm not afraid to do you see this vaccine contains neither wife nor death coronavirus this means i can't get infected with called it rains and of course i

want to be able to transmit it to anyone else here look this is your vaccine known that there's not much in there that looks like a couple of drops. will it hurt no. i'm about to make the injection ok i am ready. but what did it feel like like a normal shots which like a mosquito bite as they usually tell my daughter. so i'll get the 2nd. report has found that the u.s. embassy and afghanistan as well as nato headquarters there have been dumping rall sewage into the river kabul which runs through the capital and much of the country residents are outraged with living conditions for those living downstream badly affected for years.

why is the u.s. embassy leaving its sewage in this river it all comes to us we cannot sleep at night because of the smell. we have a big problem with the river and the united states embassy and they dump their sewage in the river every afternoon. in the uk. since the wastewater treatment plant is not functioning and its canals are damaged the sewage from the dumping site goes directly into the kabul river.

we want companies that can easily build treatment plants and we want them to build the plants and deal with the waste properly. still had a cult leader in siberia has been arrested on suspicion of abusing his followers all the details on that after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

welcome back to the leader of a religious act in siberia has been arrested on charges of abusing his followers

the self-proclaimed messiah had operated a remote commune for a quarter of a century artist on quarter has a story. surrogate tora bora as his followers know him best saryan former traffic cop claiming to be the 2nd coming of jesus christ the same man accused of allowing psychological and physical violence against his followers child and human rights abuses since 1901 he's led a fanatical cults called the church of the last testament in siberia's cross new york but a recent police raid against him and his followers landed him in handcuffs according to the investigation the church of the last testament has used people in order to channel rate revenue from really just 60 would also accomplices have used psychological violence against its followers resulting can see who is harm the perpetrators the church in 10 years future didn't take long for mr taurus arrest to make international headlines so what's so remarkable about this cult well in 1905

it established a commune called the vis sorry and community and for 2 and a half decades it basically acted as a state within a state in a remote part of siberia there practically existed an independent government on the territory of crossing the young risk no news vissarion media they lived in several settlements this territory was about 2 thirds the size of belgium and there were checkpoints all mr atory which led past people they wanted and didn't let pass those they didn't want as we've seen from reports local police were afraid to get involved preferring not to intervene and so on they did whatever they wanted there back in 2019 the church was also investigated for fraud interrogations and searches followed but came up with no suspects on the outside their eco village looks clean and well kept residents are supposed to refrain from drugs alcohol tobacco even

sugar a small price to pay for the man they're convinced is the messiah it's just shouldn't always come in the same body when it's time to say something who should be in this tomb to film the. since as of his home yes he's the lord's word for us he's an incarnation of jesus in the ninety's our teacher is syrian came across the soviet union and preached his doctrine it's not just a religion or faith it should be your life that's why we came here to be a part of the community but there's another darker side to the commune members were forced to give up their property children left with no access to health care or education after their leaders were arrested authorities discovered not everyone was playing by the rules weapons empty liquor bottles and extremist literature were everywhere not to mention the psychological and physical violence police claim residents suffered from the sorry in communities lawyers did neither police allegations they say nobody's rights were infringed but until a more thorough investigation is conducted into what was going on behind closed

doors we're left with far more questions than answers. the british prime minister has unveiled new coronavirus restrictions after a surge in case numbers it's a further setback to boris johnson's and time line his only hope now is that the situation will improve by next spring i do want people to start to go back to work if you can and allow a move significant return to normality from november at the earliest possibly in time for christmas. because in the medical advisors that they are going none of those things will be far better by the spring people are required to work from home if they can the math are now mandatory for taxi drivers and passengers will breakers will be fined 200 pounds for a 1st offense and from thursday all pubs bars and restaurants will shut at 10 pm how many are already ridiculing what they see as an arbitrary 10 pm deadline with

numerous means now doing the rounds online one bar owner says the rules are extremely damaging to his business and make little sense. everyone knows it's a tough time everyone's trying to support businesses that they want to see get through this to represent something to their communities you know we're well stocked it's providing jobs for lots of people 80 percent of our trade by the motions that i did not actually happens up to 10 so it's quite a significant chunk that we're taking out of. revenue stream i'm going to need more support to start if they don't want to see mustard on that says i'm certainly going to need support on rent because we haven't you know it's the last 6 months we've got another month to tomorrow and then god knows what's going to happen for the next 6 months everyone in this country who's in a sort of relatively unaffected age bracket young people $1844550.00 they're just going to go home and continue the policy that we've put so many

measures in place and spent a fortune on making all of our license and use code that secure the surety of the most sensible place to have people consuming drinks and keeping safe keeping socially distance is within these premises. is that a british doctor an academic professor john ashton his says the government has to rebuild trust since the 1st lot down. this is very real sense of deja vu about the last couple of weeks certainly lots of days it feels like sure over again the beginning of march when the numbers of new cases begin to double every 2 or 3 days so the real problem the fundamental problem at the moment is how do you restore british trust because we finished with drastic measures when we shouldn't to have drastic measures if we take in the people on this tough journey from the beginning well what we have to do is to really properly put the local regional authorities the local governments aren't the local public health directors in charge that is

stead of stirring actually literally billions of us at these private companies to lloyd's and serco and others who are sailing to deliver the test in-tray shouldn't people getting results after several days by which time they've infected other people putting all at risk into the local public health teams and rebuilding them very quickly. fishermen are lashing out at what they call highly dangerous boulders dropped by greenpeace activists and british waters that's a critically endangered species environmental group warns trawlers illegally turn off their satellite navigation to make them invisible to patrols they then drag hugeness across the bottom attacked and thousands call the dogger bank and the north sea that's home to threaten fish including comments kate greenpeace adds that it's like sending bowled over a bulldozer 3 protected forests. we have carefully and precisely place these

nerd natural boulders in this new properly protected area which when complete will be permanently our planet's to all bottom trawling we will remove them only when our government takes the necessary action to properly protect the dogger bank. after essences putting bass granite stones on the seabed is perfectly safe but barry days of the national federation of fisherman's organizations says the practice is irresponsible this is a very dangerous thing to do to put boulders in the path of. truck trawlers. the crew on deck is exposed if troll war should break and in the worst circumstances. of size by catching large shifts in the here so our primary concern are big biggest fear this is for the safety of the

crews even in conservation circles there was some question about why a sand bank by. the bank and being chosen. to provide protection for what exactly are we protecting it's not as though it's a reef or a particular conservation feature so we found it a little bit a little bit difficult to understand what the purpose was clearly greenpeace have decided to make this a cause celeb. but. in putting boulders in the bottom and unless they're completely removed and quickly they do provide more of a conservation for a. truly truly big because truly it is going through grow to be soft move that's the point. that's been your news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for telling us.

americans are divided in the bidens only white men use it you shouldn't design citizens or challenge ideologies to become exclusionary engine color the supreme court is now in the realm of charts and all it takes and worst of all political opponents. is there a way out of this downward spiral. time after time to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability. a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. the big. companies want us to feel good about

buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else this must be done to anyone and i mean look. you listen we didn't dream and then we understood. i have surety we're going underground as top u.s. officials meet in the senate to discuss president trump's coronavirus response with the worst absolute death figure anywhere in the world this is a response to donald trump's form a ghostwriter tony schwartz claims is down to the president's law is well i think really to be honest with you here i want you to i want it to. i want to always plays i still like playing it down yes because i don't want to create

a panic why do you belong to the american people why should you trust what you have to say that her vote question and the phraseology and then what i said is we have to become we can't be panicked keep calm and carry on that's what i did this whack job that wrote the book he said well come through a little bit if they want me to come out and scream people at dying with. we did it just the right way we have to become it's very different thing respectfully to lie to mislead the american people about what was a better president and his claims nearly 200000 american lives lying to the american people one day coded will go away i think we can all hope for that day we will have a vaccine because of this president tearing through bureaucracy to get a safe and effective vaccine one day it will go away that is a fact it is not inciting fear this president has expressed calmness.