bernard smith al-jazeera sophia. well as morning everything we're covering right here all the latest on our top story more on that a couple of seconds. so our main story this hour the former crown prince of jordan is saying he is on the house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics prince how brother of king abdullah accuses the country's leaders of corruption and incompetence early as state media denied reports the former crown prince had been arrested but said he was asked to stop actions targeting jordan security.

to fully understand its responsibility but is strong the foundations of normal bilateral ties bernard smith al-jazeera moscow. notes of mike hanna and washington d.c. he says the u.s. has delivered a warning to russia about in the opposition leader election of army. jake sullivan speaking there saying that there would be consequences he wasn't specific about exactly what the consequences would be he said that the u.s. has a range of options should decide to take some action but making very clear that the biden administration is intent on taking action should not die now there have already been series of sanctions imposed by the united states against russia russia itself has imposed for tat sanctions so diplomatic relations fraught between the 2 countries may be even worse now by this warning from the national security adviser and later we'll get the latest from eastern ukraine on the buildup of russian forces along the border for those other news and egyptian local media reporting at least 8 people have been killed in a train derailments nearly 100 others have been injured and happened as t

here is bernard smith. bernard: tenuous diplomatic russia will have to leave. russia -- 10 u.s.iplomats will have to leave russia. this is because the u.s. sanctioned russians. it is going to stop the u.s. embassies and missions from hiring russians and other third-country nationals to work in their missions, this will affect everything from drivers" to analyst staff. it has also been suggested by the russian foreign ministry that the u.s. ambassador here goes back to washington for consultations because the russian ambassador is in moscow for consultations. 1 several your anchor: several european leaders are urging russia to reverse the russian troop buildup on the border with ukraine. this follows a videoconference with leaders from germany, france and ukraine. police in indianapolis have identified the gunman who killed eight fedex workers before killing himself. 19-year-old brandon whole was a former employee of the carrier company. he had previously been interviewed by the fbi after his mother called police, flagging mental health concerns. the mother of a young black man s

link to the script things a little bit in a little bit with you rory i want to start there with bernard smith in moscow bernard what more can you tell us about the apparent plot of 2014 in the russian reaction. well this is the biggest dispute between the czech republic and russia since the end of the communist era in 1989 the czech prime minister says the circumstances are unprecedented and scandalous it goes back to an explosion of that ammunition store in 2014 about 330 kilometers to the south of prague in which 2 people were killed and the czech government says that these 2 men traveling on the names of alexander touch of a russian ambassador off of were in the area of this explosion 6 days running up to it including on the day of the explosion it says they are members of the russian security services and it wants to speak to them it's very unlikely to get the opportunity to speak to them russia does not extradite citizens who are charged with crimes on foreign soil the. first deputy head of the opera house here in russia international affairs committee says progs claims are absurd and ru

we've got to correspondent standing by for us charles transferred in ukraine's matter of paul bernard smith in moscow russia let's go straight to bernard so what is moscow saying about why the troop buildup is coming to an end now. russia's defense ministry always said that these were long exercises on the exercises would end today thursday or of course they've also been as in an enormous show of strength because we have satellite imagery showing perhaps as many as 100000 russian troops on the russia ukrainian border we have the airborne troops armored units attack helicopters reconnaissance drones jamming equipment and a military hospital all on this ground exercise it was a russian show of strength clearly and russia said an indication and notes to nate so about its agitation or its complaints about russia's build up in that area 'd but it's not all over russia from saturday is restricting for 6 months access to the as a. see through the care straight this will prevent the ukrainian navy accessing its eastern ports russia says it's preventing this access for other military exercises but i

ok thank you so much bernard smith for that update from moscow let's bring in stephanie decker she is joining us from berlin stephanie it's so the e.u. foreign ministers will be holding a virtual meeting and top of the agenda there is russia tell us about what they'll be discussing. yes there are that's already started all member states they're foreign ministers discussing like you said a lot of issues that have to do with russia they are going to start by discussing the expulsion of russian diplomats from the czech republic and the retaliatory measures measures that moscow has taken they are going to discuss the health conditions of alexina valley we had a strong statement from the e.u. yesterday saying that no valley should be allowed access to his own doctors doctors that he trusts and that his health conditions is fully in the hands of the russians that they hold russia responsible for his his situation that he should be released and they're also going to be discussing ukraine and the russian troop buildup along ukraine's borders and they will be joined by ukraine's foreign minist

says that it's monitoring the situation very closely let's bring in our correspondent in moscow bernard smith of this news just breaking it what are you hearing. this was a shared jeweled withdrawal of troops of russia's defense minister 2 weeks ago said that today the exercises that they were conducting on the border with ukraine they've always called them exercises would end and true to his word he said order the troops back to their bases within russia it was of course an enormous vast exercise in terms of manpower in the build tree and the build up of military in crimea occupy crimea and along the border with ukraine was pretty much on president for an exercise in russia says it was in response to provocations from nato from nato members but they did say this was an exercise that exercises come to an end today and those troops will be going back to their bases over russia nothing this is nothing out of the ordinary however what does begin on saturday until the end of october is a restriction to naval passage passage for naval vessels through the courage strait this is the straits that sep

an example to create a coup the so-called collective west is involved here let's go live now to bernard smith who joins us from moscow and bernard that is a warning not to take lightly when so many russian troops are massed on the border . yes of ukraine he made an interesting reference to belarus and lucas shanker and their alleged attempted coup plotters been foiled in recent days according to the russians lucas shanker is here in moscow on thursday and it was last year that bellows had to turn to russia for help as there were those widespread a nationwide protest against allegations that lucas shank a rigged his election victory last year he didn't devote much of his speech to international relations it has to be said most of it was concentrated on domestic issues about the struggle with covert the global pandemic and russia's falling demographics is falling birthrate which were a major concern but yes the words this reference to what he described russia as being picked on without any reason he said it's like a large tiger and you can see all the hyenas around it's like a rug kipling novel

membership bernard smith al-jazeera sophia. from cos of the parliament various appointed will sell us money as the nation's new president he's 38 years old and a law professor has been acting president now since the predecessor. resigned in november up at his upcoming war crimes trial in the netherlands as money ran as a candidate for the winning of endo ship party in february elections. with the news hour live from london still ahead forced to give birth alone by the side of a road survivors of the brutal attack on palma in northern mozambique described their ordeal. also pope francis denounces the armed conflict still raging on the pandemic as another year of subdued easter celebrations takes place. on the half marathon world record has been broken in istanbul general have all those details in sports. the in. ethiopia saying that every trained troops have started leaving the northern region following increasing international pressure of atrocities that multiple reports accuse eritrean forces of massacres sexual violence and l

sentence for violating parole why he was treated in germany last year for poisoning let's bring in bernard smith who is in moscow for us bernard so he's appearing via video link it his 1st appearance since he ended his hunger strike but the judge understand as well that this these latest pictures of the volley cannot be broadcast tell us 1st about what's been going on. or lexan of arnie's appearing in another court in moscow this is an appeal over rule over a slum rule verdicts that his organization is appealing this was. for an $11400.00 fine for slandering a world war 2 veteran is the 1st time yes election of violence appeared in court and sending his hunger strike. he described is looking very thin but most significantly what's going on in this court. hind me is when prosecutors are asking the court to nirvana is currency corruption organization declare it's an extremist group which would put it on the same level as. also his regional political organizations those have been stopped from. advising candidates who want to stand against united russia companies vladimir putin's party they are advi

to fully understand its responsibility but is strong the foundations of normal bilateral ties bernard smith al-jazeera moscow. the health of kremlin critic alex in the valley is another cause of friction between russia and the west the us president is denouncing his treatment as unfair joe biden is threatening consequences if never only dies in prison hi joe castro reports from washington d.c. . it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina volley launched a hunger strike after russian prison officials denied him access to private doctors to treat back pain and the loss of feeling in his legs the symptoms possibly lingering effects of the poisoning of all these suffered in august but the opposition leader barely survived and blames on the kremlin now his colleague tells al-jazeera the bombing may be near death situation deteriorated on friday when we seized his blood which showed up normal level of attack which is associated with imminent risk of getting a fatal and. heart issues so we are indeed very worried i think the count is in days and you know he. is likely to give in fearing the volman wil

the mobilization of tens of thousands of russian troops on the ukrainian border in recent weeks bernard smith reports from crimea on the way out of crimea but very much still in charge of russia's land the sea and air forces are heading back to their bases after 2 weeks of exercises along the border with ukraine and in the black sea it was a mobilization big enough to worry nato with at least 100000 russian soldiers estimated to have been involved but russia is keeping up the pressure on its neighbor by closing the curch straight to the ukrainian navy this links the black sea to the sea of as off and ukraine's eastern ports russia's main motive is to demonstrate that it controls crimea because russia has recognized gray mir's part of russia for the reason to control 'd this equitorial around on the peninsula and closing down the rated you must raise who is in this part of the black sea and in the sea the bridge over the strait was built by russia in the years after its 2014 occupation of crimea it creates a permanent link to the russian mainland there's a treaty between russia and ukraine agr

sparked after prague accused russian spies of involvement in the 2014 explosion at an arms depo bernard smith reports from moscow a series of explosions hit this ammunition depot 330 kilometers southeast of prague in october and december 24th seen 2 men were killed almost 7 years later the czech government says it now knows who is responsible and i quote you know that based on clear evidence obtained during the investigation conducted by our security services i can say there is a well grounded suspicion about the involvement of officers of the russian intelligence service in the explosions at them when you know 2014 these are the 2 men the czech government wants to question their travel to prague and 2014 on the russian passports under the names of alexander petro of and. they are the same men wanted in britain for the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter surrogate and u.s. cripple were poisoned with a nerve agent smeared on the front door handle of their home and solve spree in 2018. of the some were interviewed on russian television the men said they gone to solve for s

bernard smith al-jazeera sophia. mark hooters 11 years as dutch prime minister could be coming to an end after a coalition partner with dual support hootenanny survived a confidence vote on friday over his handling of coalition talks since last month's election now the leader of the christan junie party says it cannot can no longer be part of his government's. leaders of countries neighboring mozambique will hold talks next week about ongoing violence the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly coast on the town of palmer a week ago killing dozens of people and displacing fountain's i tours about coal. gas coa is the measure to coordinator for doctors without borders he says thousands of people have yet to reach safety in cabbagetown gotto and various oprah portion of what theoretically should be the quantity of people that it was around a right to safe places like with an anger they are meant to. show we we are assuming that they are really dozens of thousands of people in the room and in the i

bernard smith al-jazeera burgas bulgaria. don't forget you can always check on our website the address that is al jazeera dot com. result is there are these the top stories protesters are defying the crackdown and me and my 2 months since the military seems tell the un security council has wants the nation is on the brink of civil war mammals neighbor thailand has issued its strongest statement since the crisis began scott hartley has more from bangkok. we've seen what's been going on in the streets across myanmar with the military and security forces have been doing to crack down on the protesters but they have also started to.

be indicted then so let's say a person donated $100.00 roubles he could be indicted more from bernard smith now in moscow. what will happen is that later this week prosecutors will ask a moscow court to declare his organization isn't a corruption organization and he's affiliated political groups all around russia as extremist putting them on a level with al qaeda now in the interim prosecutors are asked the court to make a ruling to essentially stop the activities of those groups while the court decides on a final ruling so we're expecting that now tomorrow on tuesday now in the valleys group say that they have stopped the social media postings they've closed the telegram channel down they've closed there are the social media groups but they will reemerge under different names they say that they will keep spreading the. message and they will emerge into different names with the problem is that particularly for his political of political groups around the country what they were doing was they were advising people where and how to and who to cast their vote for in elections in a way that woul

reporting that kremlin critic alexina vonnie is being transferred to a hospital for prisoners bernard smith is live for us in moscow but it does give us an idea 1st of all of what we're being told about alexina volley rob has been transferred to a hospital for the prison service it's about 80 to 100 kilometers or so away from the prison where he was ordinarily when he was previously serving his sentence now the prison service says he's being treated by prison doctors of course his own doctors have not been allowed access to him although he does have the right according to the russian penal code but he has not been allowed to seize a doctor's prison services say that providing sufficient medical care for him and that today he started receiving victim in therapy at his own consent alexina volley had until now only been drinking water his wife had said. that he had lost a lot of weight she said he had difficulty speaking and over the weekend his allies it said his life was hanging by a thread but he has agreed it seems according to the previous prison service to undergo this victim in therapy

reports that 20 of the country's warships have participated in military exercises in the black sea bernard smith is in moscow and says the russians are clearly showing the strength of their capabilities. there are some recently published satellite images showing what is a very serious buildup of military hardware in and around crimea and ukraine we've seen pictures of fighter jets lined up on a runway in crimea we've seen pictures of air borne troops are many units attack helicopters smoke generators. jamming equipment reconnaissance drones and a military hospital and the e.u. and u.s. estimate this between 82100000 ground troops along the ukraine russia border russia says all of this the defense minister sergei short who is because nato and the u.s. are indulged in provocative activities in waters and airspace around the black sea he doesn't say what those provocative activities are exactly and he says these are long planned military drills also russia's prime planning to restrict access through that curch strait that is because they're going to stop they say millet naval vessels going through

emergency nato meeting was discussed russia's increased military activity along ukraine's borders bernard smith is in moscow with all. russia's defense minister sergei schorr who says 2 armies and 3 airborne units have been successfully deployed to the western borders of russia those are the borders with ukraine he says there are military exercises and those exercises will continue for another 2 weeks if there ever was any real threat of some sort of russian incursion into ukraine that has been significantly diminished by the phone call made on tuesday night from joe biden to vladimir putin in which president biden offered president putin to meet at a summit meeting later on in the year that is being viewed here in moscow as washington blinking 1st in the. over the ukraine it's called a very important step according to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the house of russia's parliament and the kremlin spokesman says the offer of a summit will be studied. putin's out already cold finland's president finland hosted the last summit in 28 between russia and the us that was between pre

network extremist is a move that would ban the group and open of activists to long prison sentences bernard smith has more from moscow. prosecutors want to ban these anti corruption organization they want the court that is declared an extremist organization that and these regional political groups as well this would put these anticorruption organization on the same level. meaning people who finances group or supporters of the group could face very very lengthy jail sentences and very very heavy prison terms u.s. president joe biden has presented his blueprint to build america in an address to congress on the eve of his 100th day in office in a wide ranging speech biden said he's turning peril into possibility after the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is promising trillions of dollars in investment in jobs infrastructure and education and you can follow all of those stories of course on our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated throughout the day nick clark will be here with a news hour in half an hour next on jazeera it's the stream to stay with us. torta al jazeera. you tell me what

bernard smith burgas bulgaria. you can find much more on our website than just that is al jazeera dot com. you're watching al-jazeera reminder of the top stories 7 pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been convicted for participating in an unauthorized protest in $29.00 team they include a media tycoon former legislators and a veteran democracy activist. we are sentenced to jail in the future for this case although many other cases that are following idiots are back on. to be in jail for walking together with the people of hong kong and we want just want to say that we .

will give bulgaria another 29000000000 euros to help recover from the coronavirus crisis bernard smith al-jazeera burgas bulgaria. and watching all just there are muslim the top 7 pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been convicted.

shortly we'll have reaction from moscow is there as bernard smith is there let's listen in to our white house correspondent kimberly help it. there is an additional 2 more sanctions that have been announced targeting 30 russian entities and individuals and also targeting the tax firms that support russian intelligence now the timing of all of this is significant because you'll recall it's only been a matter of days since joe biden held a phone call with vladimir putin where the to discuss the ongoing challenges to the united states russia relationship and both pledging that they wanted to move forward and work through some of those differences so it is surprising to see these sanctions so quickly after that call but the reason the united states says that it's doing this is in retaliation for the attack on the source solar winds hack as it's called penetration by the russians allegedly on a number of u.s. government agencies and their computer systems also for the ongoing occupation of crimea by russia and as well for the alleged bounties that were paid on u.s. soldiers heads for their f

bernard smith our jazeera saffir in france the number of people admitted to intensive care units rose by 68 on sunday putting further strain on hospitals the country is now under a 3rd national coronavirus lockdown with thousands of police officers deployed across paris to enforce restrictions last week the government announced alcohol consumption would be banned in some public places. poverty in the united kingdom is at a record high the latest government data shows 4300000 people are now living below the poverty line and that was before the current virus pandemic began charities are warning the situation is getting out of control under simmons visited rotheram an english town that's been classed as one of the poorest in northern europe still manufacturing made rather of the devise of it now would go near to destroying hope in this town on the skyline looms the threat one company one decision without government money hundreds of jobs could go covert has already ripped into work week local economy and you never have to look far to find a food bank susan bradley is dependent on food ai

membership bernard smith al-jazeera sophia. kosovo's fatah main ties elected a new president's voice money was sworn in on sunday in november she temporarily replace former president touchy after he resigned when he was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the hague as money's mandate expired following february's election. in the us terry show vanes murder trial has been the focus of global attention last year's killing of george floyd ignited protests across the world and became the center of debate about racial injustice al-jazeera has gable elizondo spoke to floyd's uncle about how the families coping for the 1st week of the trial saw some emotional testimony it was hard to listen to particularly for some of george floyd's family members who are here like selwyn jones his uncle who i had a chance to speak to and this is a little bit of what he had to say what is it like to be here in that courtroom. this is all had tree. you see somebody that you've loved and cherished 4546 years and one day he's gone becau

rising between the 2 countries after moscow amassed tens of thousands of troops on the border bernard smith has more from moscow. this was a shy jeweled withdrawal of troops of russia's defense minister 2 weeks ago said the today the exercises that they were conducting on the border with ukraine they've always called them exercises would end and true to his word he has ordered the troops back to their bases within russia it was of course an enormous vast exercise in terms of manpower in the build tree and the build up of military in crimea occupy crimea and along the border with ukraine was pretty much president for an exercise russia says it was in response to provocations from nato from nato members but they did say this was an exercise about exercises come to an end today and those troops will be going back to their bases over russia nothing this is nothing out of the ordinary however what does begin on saturday until the end of october is a restriction to naval passage passage for naval vessels through the courage strait this is the straits that separates eastern crimea from western rus

have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal bernard smith has more from moscow.

hunger strike the after effects of the hunger strike he's a very very sick man ok thank you so much bernard smith for that update from moscow . for white house correspondent kelly holcomb has more on the u.s. is response to russia. the u.s. sending out a statement through its state department that is really very clear in terms of the actions of russia that it is not happy in fact saying it has deep concerns about the planned blockage of foreign naval ships in the black sea they say that this is just adding to the list of what the united states calls russia's aggressive actions they consider this an unprovoked escalation and that is this really undermines the sovereignty of the ukraine which the united states respects not only in terms of sovereignty but also its territorial borders and as a result the united states has once again set out a statement reaffirming its support for ukraine reaffirming its territorial sovereignty over its borders and waters and is calling on russia to cease its provocations but you have to remember that in the last week the united states has had its own series of provo

year's top diplomat says russia has deployed 100000 troops along the border well earlier i spoke to bernard smith in moscow on the tensions on the condition of jailed kremlin critic alexina valley. there are some recently published satellite images showing what is a very serious buildup of military hardware in and around crimea and ukraine we've seen pictures of fighter jets lined up on a runway in crimea we've seen pictures of airborne troops army units attack helicopters smoke generators. jamming equipment reconnaissance drones and a military hospital and the e.u. and u.s. estimate this between 82100000 ground troops along the ukraine russia border russia says all of this the defense minister sergei sure is because nato and the u.s. are indulged in provocative activities in waters and airspace around the black sea he doesn't say what those provocative activities are exactly and he says these are long planned military drills of course but another story that we keep very close eye on in russia developments in the health of the kremlin critic alexi the different voices saying different things abou

court decision to outlaw them his allies are disbanding but say they're determined to fight on bernard smith reports from moscow. on a poor quality video link from a prison hospital alexei navalny looked into he's lost 20 kilos since his return from germany in january telling his wife and the rest of the court he's eating a few spoonfuls of porridge after ending a 3 week hunger strike this hearing was an appeal against his conviction for defamation but vladimir putin's most prominent critic had other things to talk about to. this 20 years of incompetent government have led to the fall and the result there is a crown slipping from his years there are allies on t.v. who have spent $3.00 and our country continues to slide into poverty opportunities to have his voice heard a rapidly shrinking civil taney sleep in another moscow court prosecutors opened a case to declare in the valleys and to corruption group the f b k and his regional offices as extremists making them equivalent to al qaeda. as a regional campaign offices do not exist anymore but there are dozens of cool and mighty regional poli

bernard smith sophia cosmo's parliament has elected a new president for just as money was sworn in on sunday in november she temporarily replaced former president bush in touching the old group leader beyond the group leader during kosovo's war in the late 1990 s. resigned when he was charged with war crimes crimes against humanity in the hague. survivors of an attack by armed groups in northern mozambique and spoken of the horror that unfolded one woman who gave birth on the side of the road as she fled the 5 you know whom town of parma rhetorical this is. safe and sound in a hotel room this baby boy and his mother survived a traumatic birth during a raid by armed men on their hometown fatto abdullah as he was separated from her husband and 3 other children as they try to escape fighting in palmer she delivered her baby alone without medical treatment on the side of her wrote you see i was tired while i was running and i was left behind by the group i was with then it got dark and i felt really sick and i couldn't go on i knew it was time to go into labor i slipped right where i was

ministration imposed similar measures accusing russia of election interference and cyber attacks bernard smith has more from moscow. the russian government says its response to u.s. sanctions is tit for tat 10 u.s. diplomats will have to leave and 8 senior current and former administration officials are banned from entering russia that includes former national security adviser susan rice foreign minister sergei lavrov says he could go further still. if for exchanges of niceties continue we will ask the americans to bring the number of their diplomats who deal with bilateral relations with russia in accordance with the number of our employees working in the embassy and to general consulates in the u.s. . the kremlin is reacting to u.s. government decision to blacklist russian companies expel russian diplomats and bar u.s. banks from buying sovereign bonds from the central bank in moscow russia continue to interfere with our democracy all this because washington says russia is involved in malign acts including the persecution of opposition politicians alexina valmy interfering in elections engag

bernard smith al-jazeera burgas bulgaria. your challenge there are a reminder now of the top 7 pro-democracy activists at hong kong have been convicted for participating in an unauthorized protest in 2019 and through to media tycoon former legislators and a veteran democracy activist. we are sentenced to go in the future for this case although many other cases that are following idiots are back on or. could be in jail for walking together with the people on call and we want president to say that we love hong kong and we will continue to fight for freedom and democracy and we love the people hong kong and we all know that we can walk with you know we all know that we hong kong to get we continue the struggle for what we do so that. they serve our rights. of freedom and democracy in the future protesters and once again on the streets to mark exactly 2 months since the military seized paul the military continues to arrest people despite rising international pressure the un security council has been warned the nation is on the br

bernard smith sophia with intensive care space already near capacity colombia is bracing for another surge in corona virus infections after the easter holidays the situation is critical in some cities where the health authorities say in the system is on the brink of collapse and the reports now from. on a regular easter sunday tens of thousands of colombians would visit this sanctuary of months overlooking the capital. there with covert infections once again on the rise tight restrictions mean just $170.00 faithful are admitted to each mass. in her daughters say they came to pray for help in these challenging times pretty closely to end this pandemic that has harmed the entire world then for health of our family and our business it's been a tough year. your tories in colombia are also praying to avoid the expected arrival of a 3rd wave of coronavirus after the easter holidays but in some cities the situation is already critical with i.c.u. units on the brink of collapse and on sunday the government announced new restrictions. health experts are particularly worried that the surge in

bernard smith al-jazeera moscow. the u.s. is one of the consequences of kremlin critic alexina velie dies in prison the only is in the 3rd week of a hunger strike and is close to death that's according to his personal doctor his daughter is calling on moscow to allow her medical treatment after doctors warned he's at risk of kidney failure he was jailed in february for violating parole conditions as a result of traveling to germany for treatment after being poisoned close allies of novelli have called for massive protests in moscow and st petersburg on wednesday. have you ever seen with your own aunts how someone is killed you are seeing it right now but whatever the people have to look the other way and not think about it change the subject that doesn't change the fact that alexina virally is being killed in a terrible way and in front of everyone's eyes the world is currently experiencing its highest infection rate yet of the covert 19 pandemic despite the ongoing vaccination rollout fuelling the rise india which reported m

have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal bernard smith has more from moscow. the prison authorities in russia say alexander valley has been transferred to a prison hospital it's about 90 kilometers away from the penal colony or colony where he's serving 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations they say he's also receiving a victim in therapy by his own consent the valley started his hunger strike on march 31st of this is now day 20 and since then he'd only been drinking water is via his wife visited him last week in prison she said he'd lost a lot of weight he had difficulty speaking he's suffering from spinal problems and he's on the weekend is our eyes said his life was hanging by a thread and a valley supporters are also called for 'd nationwide protests from on wednesday evening they were calling for 500000 people to sign a petition after which they would have these protests there just slightly short of that but because of an avowal knees failing health they believe it's much more urgently needed to have these protests to brin

strike in prison he says the charges against him are politically motivated let's get more on this bernard smith he's live for is in moscow bernard there is some confusion here what more can you tell us about alexina valan these affiliated groups are they terrorist organizations where do things stand right now . though prosecutors are asking a moscow court to rule that no malice anticorruption organization and sort of affiliated political groups around the country is asked if they're asking a court to declare them extremist groups this would put them on a level with al qaeda now the ruling on that hearing in secret because some of the information has been classified by prosecutors will we expect later this week in the interim prosecutors of us the courts to to essentially bar none of our news organization in advance and the prosecutors have also already stopped these regional organizations from operating these are these are these organizations were used by an avanti supporters to help russians in towns and cities across the country to help them direct to their vote in elections as the so the bes

adjourned it's a move that could ban the group and lead to activists facing long prison sentences or bernard smith his life or bernard you were outside the court earlier tell us what happened and what was at stake. so the court hearing into these anticorruption group was adjourned to give the defense more time to look at the prosecution's evidence they said was 14 large folders they need to examine and they only had a couple of days to examine them but essentially what the court wants to do what the prosecutors want the court to do is to declare an avanti anticorruption group and these regional political offices extremist putting them on the same level as al qaida effectively the court has already granted an interim order allowing this so preventing the anticorruption group from operating and the regional offices have also already been closed down so the avenues for no valleys voice to be heard on narrowing greatly you all were war ready but you don't hear of him on russian state television which outside moscow in the more rural areas of the country where most russians get their news and so it's m

power to challenge russia's decision to close particularly back straight ok thank you so much bernard smith for that update from moscow. bus and train stations in new delhi have been overwhelmed by thousands of migrant workers fleeing the city as a weeklong cove in 1000 lock down goes into effect it's a reminder of a similar exodus during a nationwide lockdown last year india has reported more than 200000 new cases for a 6th consecutive day and on tuesday it reported a record number of deaths from the virus more than 17 hundreds. i'm leaving because a lot down has been imposed nobody house is in lockdown not the government and definitely not the rented house owner but we have to pay everyone we are far from home and we are here to work hard and earn for our family back home and this situation will end up doing the opposite so we have to go home elizabeth purana ms in new delhi and she says the government is being urged to provide welfare for migrant workers. delhi's government announced on monday that from monday night for one week that it was imposing what it called a curfew but one of the

corruption that puts both garia at the bottom of transparency international's european corruption index bernard smith reports on the black sea coasts. a haven for rare and threatened species gary is black sea coast is protected from unregulated development by the mess to get the e.u. rules yet the landscape is scarred by hundreds of illegal buildings the simple because of the corruption. is a local councillor who's managed to stop for now some of the most blatant abuses. this was signed off by the planning directorate of the war to stop coastal erosion so no need for a public inquiry it's clearly much more than that it's owners now admits it will be a hotel but say it will also protect the coastline the corruption is spread up in bulgaria since we joined the european union and says the board here and this is their bulgaria mafia get their hands on the european funds and the bulgarian mafia become stronger and stronger and have the money needed to but i the government employed. just in the last 6 years the e.u. has sent 10000000000 euros in funding to bulgaria bulgaria hungary romania is at the bottom

finances could face very lengthy jail sentences sentences and heavy fines ok thank you so much bernard smith from moscow or let's take this on with pavel felgenhauer who is a columnist for a novi i guess specializing in defense and military affairs is joining us from moscow as well thanks for your time so as you heard bernard reporting the president is annual state of the nation address didn't mention novelli at all by name are you surprised that he didn't considering that he did touch upon many domestic issues. well president bush in that were mentions not vali by name it's a kind of i dunno some kind of special prejudice for him he doesn't mention his name at all even when he speaks about this is that person that patient or something like that this you know address it's always traditionally most of that out social or economic issues inside russia which are rather immense. bias in defense isn't always in the last 3rd of the speech and even maybe sometimes less than that sometimes which uses this address for policy statement or defense state but he didn't do much this time at all there were

ukraine has been escalating the top diplomat says russia has the port 100000 troops along the border bernard smith is a moscow and has more on russia's military moves. russia says these are military exercises but as the e.u. has pointed out russia has more than 100000 troops on its border with ukraine and is now having these naval and air exercises russia has closed part of the airspace over crimea in the black sea until the 244 days from now and from the $24.00 onwards to the end of october it's closing part of the access to the black sea and this includes the carriage straight now this separates eastern you eastern crimea from western russia and there is a treaty between ukraine and russia that gives equal access to the waters through the strait to allow vessels to access ukrainian and russian ports russia is saying that until the end of october the only be access for maritime merchant vessels not the naval vessels a very considerable move taken by russia russia says it's normal to restrict access during. naval exercises but is suggesting that this is closer exercises right until the end of octo