consuls and whether western countries could impose more sanctions on russia over the case of alexei navalny well it's becoming more and more likely that the pipeline might be completely stopped for the last few metres we have to say 1st the americans did everything possible to stop the pipeline construction and now the serious geopolitical crowds calling calling also for sanctions against russia we see germany will probably have but little interests and stopping the pipeline now because it could also harm the german companies so to me it's more likely that other sanctions might be imposed but the discussion about stopping the construction of right now is good good and right . to rwanda now where the pandemic is having an impact on the telecommunications industry the country relies heavily on china for imports of mobile devices and parts but travel restrictions on supply chain disruptions have left many smartphone dealers struggling to make ends meet. mobile phones are at the heart of every personal or business interaction in london because it's over. yet the devices and their accessories are inc

president trump refuses to condemn russia or putin for the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny? >> wellhe's happy about it. he's happy about it. he has a campaign, illiterative of disruption and denial. and if he can get away with it by sowing all these different conspiracy theories and flat-out denying it. these are people who shot down an airliner over ukraine with unconvertible evidence. i think it's immensely important for us to be responsible, to pull the curtain back on their activity and, you know, not buy into the russia narrative when it might be convenient to do so from a partisan political perspective. and what the book is largely about, jake, i hope it works, is to try to transcend that partisanship that is driving us apart and also making us vulnerable to somebody like vladimir putin. >> something happened this summer that i wondered what you thought about at the time. both the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley, in uniform, walked with president trump through lafayette square for a photo app after park police gassed and in some c

consuls and whether western countries could impose more sanctions on russia over the case of alexei navalny well it's becoming more and more likely that the pipeline might be completely stopped for the last few metres we have to say 1st the americans did everything possible to stop the pipeline construction and now the serious geopolitical crowds calling calling also for sanctions against russia we see germany will probably have but little interests and stopping the pipeline now because it could also harm the german companies so to me it's more likely that sanctions might be imposed but the discussion about stopping the construction of right now is good good and right. to rwanda now where the pandemic is having an impact on the telecommunications industry the country relies heavily on china for imports of mobile devices and parts but travel restrictions on supply chain disruptions have left many smartphone dealers struggling to make ends meet. most powerful ones are at the heart of every personal or business interaction in london because it's over. yet the devices and their accessories are incre

well there are lots of facts that is still to be on covered in the case of what happened to alexei navalny while investigators are looking for those facts well the diplomatic around between russia and germany certainly seems to be heating up. and it's a lot to come though you give a little look at things where you are in poland for the other peter of a thank you. meantime berlin our moscow both demanding answers germany says it's passed on all its information on the election about the case to the global chemical weapons watchdog although russia which is a member of the o.p.c. w says nothing's been received yet meanwhile russia's envoy to the un has responded to western calls for a full investigation of the zulu incident cannot but raise questions well some bold claim being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in will these leaders leads us to an unavoidable reply nicol question legions borst in search situations we've won you trace it erk we produced who is to benefit from this the one that one if you demand explanations will deflect from

it's obvious to everyone that the n is bluffing in the interest and due to political racket well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday's understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore it was just mention the nord stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning of a geisha and bottle trunks repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas project with russia but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one of the earth up you know heard of the north stream to absorb drug able when i came along i said wait a minute we're projecting germany from russia right russia's foreign ministries weighed in on that side of the road as well claiming that europe should stand up for its own interests not become washington's puppet german political commentator i gave a believes the berlin would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on north stream. it's a catastrophe if this pipeline is being abolished because energy is the main cost for everythi

of this to everyone that the un is bluffing in the interests and the political right could well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday he's understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shuttle hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore. as just mentioned the north strain to pipeline now hangs in the balance over the poisoning allegations donald trump has repeatedly told germany to quit the major gas projects with russia but others supportive of that it was the 1st one of the worst of you know heard of or stream to a dog ever when i came along i said wait a minute we're protecting germany from russia. russia's foreign ministry has weighed in on the wow claiming europe should stand up for its own interests they're not become washington's puppet jim a political commentator i can hum a believe would take a significant hit if it pulled the plug on the stream. it's a catastrophe if this pipeline is being abolished because energy is the main cost for everything you do so if you increase the. cost for y

well alexei navalny was taken out of a medically induced coma on monday's understood to be breathing by himself now he remains here in berlin receiving treatment at the shot at a hospital his condition we're told isn't life threatening anymore. peter thanks for that update peter all over there live from berlin with the latest on the developing poison. well i just mentioned there the north stream to pipeline now hangs in the balance over these poisoning allegations donald trump's pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin and told germany to quit the major gas project with russia. but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one to wherever you know heard of north stream towards our drug able when i came along us eliminated we're projecting germany from russia. in while russia's foreign ministry's weighed in on the route claiming europe should stand up for its own interests and not become washington's puppet but a commentator i could harm or believes germany would take a hit if it pulled the plug on north stream. it's a catastrophe if this pipeline is being abolished because energy is t

well it comes as the ministry of justice here in berlin of confirmed that they've received a 2nd official request from the russian senior prosecutors for information relating to tests carried out on alexei navalny those tests that berlin says showed that he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group well we've also heard from the foreign ministry here in berlin as well that say that they have still to receive any further information from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons early and did share the information from the valley tests with them waiting for their findings the foreign ministry in mesko though is far from happy with what it sees as burlington's preference to let this play out in the media system society to women we're seeing how the west has launched a massive distant from pain surrounding the alexander family situation we get the impression the germans are still in free time in finding various pretext to which they data with russia it. is not the responsibility of the german authorities to conduct this to you should the ground was committed in russia and that's why urgent of the you to russian side used to comment on the matter. with germany refusing t

well the shot at a hospital here in the german capital put out a statement on monday afternoon in which they said that alexei navalny had been no woken from the juiced coma that he's been in for over 2 weeks now here in berlin the statement went on to say that he was slowly being removed from breathing operators and that he was responding to verbal stimuli. the patient's artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off of mechanical ventilation he's reacting to being spoken to but long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out. and while there's good news on the condition of alexei in the volume the diplomatic situation concerning his illness continues to to rumble on on monday the government press briefing here in berlin was was dominated by nord stream to talk of the gas pipeline or questions about the gas pipeline petted the briefing given by german government spokespeople the message that came out of it was that the international infrastructure project this underwater gas pipeline was a economic project and that that was separate from anything to do

is up for it and russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is now well enough to leave his bed briefly is being treated at a hospital in berlin germany's government is edging russia to investigate after tests found avani was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent a french president has called it an assassination attempt russia's foreign minister has canceled a planned visit to berlin ed accuse western nations of using the poisoning as grounds for sanctions to africa now in ivory coast top court has cleared the president to run for a 3rd term even though the legal limit is set to president assad ouattara successfully argue that a 2016th amendment to the constitution reset the number of court rejected 40 of the 44 candidates for next month's election including former president back 4 and one time rebel leader turned prime minister. and aide to former nissan boss carlos colon is used to go on trial in japan for financial misconduct greg kelly was arrested in 2018 he denies under reporting tens of millions of dollars in pay that go and was allegedly promise

alexei navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is now well enough to leave his bed briefly the russian opposition leader is being treated at a hospital in berlin after what's thought to have been an assassination attempt the german government is calling on russia to corporate and investigate after laboratories there and in other countries found he was poisoned with a soviet nerve agent russia has hit back again the foreign minister canceling a planned visit to berlin and accusing western nations of using the poisoning as a pretext for sanctions. in the past hour british politicians have approved the 1st step towards new legislation that would let the country's government break international law prime minister boris johnson insists the internal markets bill covering trade after brics it is vital to protect the country's territorial integrity but in the face of criticism from 5 former prime ministers the european union and his own m.p.'s is refusing to back down or britain reports from westminster i know called the prime minister prime minister it's a mark of how personally invested bori

. ♪ the russian opposition figure alexey navalny has confirmed he is planning to return to russia once he is wellh. he is posted -- has posted a picture on instagram. in berlin, we have more. >> docs have said here in berlin that they can't rule out longer-term affects of the poisoning, because any type of this chemical is incredibly lethal potentially. that's why a lot of his supporters will be overjoyed that he has managed to not only survive, but looks like he's really doing quite well. he says in his first communication with the public since being poisoned that, although he can't do very much on his own, he is now able to breathe whout mechanical ventilation, and that's a remarkable step, given that just a few days ago, he was in a medically induced coma. he could only breathe thanks to ventilation. he's made remarkable progress. ♪ ♪ ros: i'm ros atkins. thanks for joining me for "outside source." representatives of the united arab emirates, bahrain, and israel are at the white house and they have signed a historic agreement to normalize relations between their countries. we will stay in the

well we also heard from demeter press corps who's the kremlin spokes person who said that when alexei navalny left russia there was no sign of toxins nor the chalk all other in his system. here thanks for bringing us the very latest on that peter all of our europe correspondent in berlin. well let's now welcome to the program teary mariani former french transport minister and a member of the european parliament it's a pleasure to have you sir on the program the situation clearly seems to be escalating germany has said it will consult with the e.u. nato to formulate a joint response what do you think that response may be. worth 1st as a democrat to. the soonest possible mr never knew but as members of the european parliament i don't want don't always destroy people. who do fuel on the tension between your russia and europe. of course we must govern in this to geisha but. nobody's no we just know it's the guilty or the response of. mint and i think it's not the movement's jew dick decision we solved any evidence. germany has said that it will inform its western allies on the novell need case on

commission president has weighed in as well warning against more cooperation with moscow and to those that advocate closer ties with russia i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny with an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. we have seen the pattern in georgia and ukraine and syria and saulsbury and then election meddling around of art and this pattern is not changing and not pipelined well change that he says this is a pet or all of these issues nothing was proved and this s. of course nothing to do with not true to this is this is a true jewel what she just said that just nonsense in the background lobbyists from the us and poland who have vital interests in. this. because the polish want to blackmail the european union and especially the germans so that they can get a little the year of the arms and the 2nd this the polish one that will fly from poland to denmark and the last group to plant were stopped so in the backdrop there are many many lawyers working at the more or less corrupt politicians to start this poor germany it would be a nightmare it would be embarrassing if nothing else and now awful if you sincerely know that all sanctions didn't hurt

president has weighed in as well warning against more cooperation with moscow and to those that advocates closer ties with russia i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny was an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. we have seen the pattern angela in ukraine in syria in salisbury and then election meddling around the world. and this pattern is not changing and no pipeline will change that she said this is a pattern but all of these issues nothing was cruel. of course nothing to do with it not to do this is this is the truth but what she just that is just must have in the background lobbyists from the us and poland who have bicycle in a drip in. stuffing the firefly because the polish want to blackmail the european union and especially the germans so that they can get all the europe be part and the 2nd is the polish one that will pipeline from poland to denmark and the last there is to buy a client stuff so in the background there are many many long working the more or less corrupt politicians to start this pipeline for germany it would be a nightmare it would see them variously like nothing else by now all politicians should know that all science j

well the chief toxicologist in the russian city of squids 1st treated alexei navalny has poured scorn on math saying that mr novelli did not present with the symptoms that you would have if you had been poisoned with a nerve agent or not a chalk nerve agent for that matter these new this news coming out of germany is unlikely to placate russia moscow wants to see the data from the samples taken from alexa in the found me this data is now being shared with labs in france in sweden and moscow says it needs to see the evidence behind the claims made against it. the usual uses them raise questions. being speech we hear what statements want and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in war. these leaders leads us to only would rule republican question legion lost in search situations we've won you trace it erk we've pulled those who used to be. the one that won it if you demand explanations will deflect when the people and we'll compare ml's one should with the last elysia is uncorroborated by evidence even leases as you see your input reasonable. russian president vladimir putin i

would there be any voices saying, if you kill alexei navalny, you turn him into a martyr? well, a horizontal structure, despite the kremlin's ban for him to stand in the elections. despite the state monopoly on television, alexei navalny managed to circumvent all of those obstacles and still campaign and still cause very significant damage politically to the kremlin. nevertheless, the kremlin's calculations was exactly as you say, that it calculations was exactly as you say, thatitis calculations was exactly as you say, that it is simply too costly, it would turn him into at mandela figure. if you locked him up for a long time. it risks a really sort of enormous protest in russia. that calculation appears to have changed as the russian regime itself is undergoing a very serious change in its configuration. putin has changed the constitution to stay in power indefinitely. it is facing protest both in the west, in the belarus regime, which only two months ago seemed very unassailable, and of course there are protest in the russian far east which are in some ways echoes of a succe

alexey navalny was poisoned by a different and new version of novichok. matthew chance is in moscow tracking the latest developments for us. what do we know, matthew? >> reporter: wellit's certainly a line of speculation that's being floated, christine, in intelligence circles. why alexey navalny has not died. he's getting better. he's been discharged from hospital in the past 36 hours. he's back on his feet with the effects from the serious poisoning on him. there is this speculation floating around in intelligence circles a couple of years ago, former agents who were poisoned in england, they didn't die either. although another member of the british public did. it's been around for a while, this idea, that the russians may have developed a kind of novichok agent, it's unable to kill. that would account for those individuals who were torgtd are not walking around. it is speculative. the kremlin denying anything to do with this. the russians never had novichok. >> thanks. >>> the state department says it cannot consider alexander lukashenko the legitimately elected winner. widespread protests continue in his country. the u.s. considers the august 9th election neithe

or berlin claims alexei navalny was poisoned with the highly deadly incredibly deadly novacek nerve agent that sparked well huge tensions internationally in fact early on monday at the lunch time german government press briefing almost every question was about the future of the north stream to gas pipeline in the wake of the allegations made by germany against russia and russian involvement in the but what they call the poisoning of alexei in the fall and the now the government spokesperson stefan's i bet had said that the economic project that was not stream 2 was separate from anything to do with alexei nonviolently for now he did say that could change in the future but that's pretty much the same message as we're getting from the kremlin we heard from jimmy to the press corps of the kremlin spokes person saying that it was too soon to lump together nord stream to end the volley right now but there have been some well upset from moscow towards berlin that they felt that germany was dragging its feet when it came to responding to requests from moscow for information relating to the novelli case particular

alexei navalny have been forthcoming. no nonsense has been given to any official requests from the russian prosecutor general's office or to any of the requests from our talk to nothing. well alexei in the valley is out of the coma that he had been in for a couple of weeks that was announced on monday he's understood to be starting to breathe by himself as he continues to receive treatment at the shot at a hospital in burlington booked away from his medical condition say a big diplomatic spot is developing and growing and growing and growing it would seem concerning what happened to him and how he ended up in the condition he was there so many years and no shine of ending any time soon prints all over there live from berlin thanks for keeping us in the loop with an update. now as peter mentioned in his report just there the north stream 2 gas pipeline project is now in the crosshairs over these poisoning got to go despite a lack of definitive proof so far the u.s. government and the u.s. president has already blamed the kremlin and advised germany to end the going to project with russia. but i was supportive of that i was the 1st one to work with up you know heard of north

alexei navalny was poisoned while campaigning in siberia. let's bring in matthew chance. he joins us live from moscow. matthew, what more are you learning about this story? >> reporter: well, in a statement from the clinic in berlin, the german capital where alexei navalny has been treated 0 now for some 32 days he's been inside that clinic, 24 of them in intensive care. the statement say he's been discharged from in patient care which implies he'll still be treated but as an out patient. there's some good news. it said the doctors who have been treating him believe that a complete recovery is possible. so that's extremely encouraging for alexei navalny. of course he's been posting pictures on his social media over the past week or so, basically looking at himself in a very sort of weakened state but looking increasingly better, pictures of his family, with his wife were there in berlin, sort of at his bedside and of course walking with him as well. there's some bad news as well. the doctors say it remains too early to gauge the potential long term effects of severe poisoning. of course that's a reference to the fact that with this chemical nerve agent doctors have assess

an anti-corruption activist alexei navalny kremlin critics are already playing a finger at one man there is only one person can be named as one of them or pugin because well he builder or more than 20 years in power is so-called power vertical we are actually nobody dares to sneeze without his permission save on the 2nd murderous attack on a major putin's political opponents and no one else could have done it there is 0 possibility that such a parisian could have been carried out without personal permission over the years the kremlin has been blamed for poisoning political foes something it denies denounced continued on thursday as it rejected accusations of russia's involvement in the poisoning. the opposition figure has been a political thorn in the side of russian president vladimir putin and his united russia party for a decade drumming up a vocal and growing opposition against putin's 20 year grip on power. herein avani is pushing for change shortly before he's poisoned in the siberian city of tubs. began traveling around the country to declare war against united russia it's clear that this place should be one of the 1st it's sorely needed in this wa

after germany confirmed that putin critic alexei navalny has been poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. he responded with an extensive description of how welled other foreign policy initiatives. he said he would be angry if it was confirmed. so, i don't know exactly what happened. i think it's tragic, it's terrible. it shouldn't happen. we haven't had any proof yet, but i will take a look. it is interesting that everybody's always mentioning russia. and i don't mind you mentioning russia, but i think probably china at this point is a nation that you should be talking about much more so than russia, because the things that china's doing are far worse — if you take a look at what's happening with the world, look at what happened with the china virus. look at what they did by not keeping that within the confines of china. they should've kept it in the confines of china. look what they've done to 188 countries all over the world. mexican children went back to school this week in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak, after a fashion — they're watching their classes on tv from home. school buildings aren't reopening due to the virus. the govern

alexei navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is now well enough to leave his bed briefly the russianopposition leader is being treated at a hospital in berlin after what's thought to have been assassination attempt a german government is calling on russia to cooperate and investigate after all of our trees there and in other countries found he was poisoned with a soviet nerve agent russia has hit back again with the foreign minister canceling a planned visit to berlin and accusing western nations of using the poisoning as a pretext for sanction us your submissions to me and russian bullet the organ that got through i agree with their political analysts if there was no novelli they would come up with something else as a pretext to new sanctions in the valleys case western colleagues have crossed all reasonable borders and gone beyond d.c. . today we are required to plead guilty they say are you distrusting the german specialists. coming up and i was there in this news hour asylum seekers on the greek island of lesbos protest over plans to move them to a new camp and call on the e.u. t

not changing and no pipeline will change that well moscow is still saying burleson must share with them the evidence that is behind the claims alexei navalny was poisoned asserting if we consider any talk about how proper it would be to name the sanctions regime after in a valley to be a brazen attempt imbued the need the restrictions with obviously anti russian tendencies and all these companies are offering us to berlin to try to investigate what happened are ignored under some made of pretexts kremlin spokesperson dmitri press corps was also talking about nord stream too he says it's a putin commercial project and shouldn't be tied to anything political or diplomatic that's ongoing there was a similar feeling from russia's permanent representative to the european union he said that the north stream 2 pipeline project came about because of the european union and in particular germany's need for gas a commercial need for that gas that still exists and that's why in his opinion it's all they know stream 2 pipeline would go ahead of being planned well alexina valley the man at the center of all of this in his alleged poisoning is said to be

not have such evidence in me was treated well by doc to news against russia over the nerve agent poisoning of the prominent opposition figure out alexei navalny who remains in a coma in berlin after falling severely ill on a flight in russia around 2 and a half weeks ago and germany say he said to refuse to go was used against them but moscow has again called on berlin to openly share its findings the us president also says he has not seen any perth. well i don't know exactly what happened i think it's it's tragic it's terrible and shouldn't happen we haven't had any proof yet but i will take a look there have been international calls for transparency from russia in on investments that. we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide says the soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures were me julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old scenario we hear public accusations against russia in the fischel requests to berlin from a prosecutor's of

i suppose the issue is, well what happened to alexei navalny, will it frighten the criminal‘s other critics part of the reason for this, there is nothing about moving alexei navalny, a demonstrative thing about theirs, showing the reach of russian power, showing the reach of russian power, showing the reach of russian power, showing the consequences of standing up showing the consequences of standing up to putin and the regime. i think that part of the reason why russia will not be too troubled by the fact that the world knows what happened, and they will probably relish to some extent the publicity that comes from this. good to talk to you. there have been 159 new cases in scotla nd there have been 159 new cases in scotland of coronavirus in the last 24—hour is, comparing to 101 the previous day, no reported deaths of people who tested positive in the last 28 days. 73 of the new cases are in the nhs greater glasgow and clyde health board area. two new cases in the western isles. the first time they have reported a new case since june. first time they have reported a new case sincejune. tha

well, pam, tonight there's a bit of good news for alexei navalny.clinic in berlin where he's being treated, his condition has been improved. he's been weaned off of the ventilator he's been on for weeks. and he's responding apparently to verbal stimuli according to the clinic. but the doctors there say they still can't assess at this stage what long-term damage may have been done by what they describe as a serious poisoning. pam? >> and the uk has summoned its russian ambassador because of the poisoning. is that right? >> reporter: it has. the british government has been expressing its outrage to the russians that this could have happened. dominic raab who is the british foreign secretary summoned the russian ambassador to register what they say is their deep concern about the poisoning of alexei navalny. it is completely unacceptable to a banned chemical weapon has been used and russia must hold a full transparent investigation. that's in stark contrast to the words we heard from president trump who still has not publicly accepted the evidence that