illness of russian opposition leader alexei in a valley and it's bringing in a political analyst chris bambery to get some more insight on what's going on now chris thanks for joining us today and all to international good to have you with us now initially promised the process and said the kremlin was involved now is far from secretary saying it's too early to draw conclusions to attribute blame at least do you think this is a u. turn on the off of the u.k. government when it is the u.k. u.k. government taking a cue from donald trump who is also say it that there is no proof that this is that was kind of by the russians so there is clearly strong don't go on here and for you know don't meet rob to contradict or is joins me this is relatively extraordinary but i think that it once again shows that washington leads and london folds and that's the usual asset you know meanwhile i think is also in the certainly in the media here in the united kingdom there's a grueling coal for sanctions against russia. and in particular for angela merkel in germany to cancel the north to gas pipeline which is bei

and i'll cross live to political analyst chris bambery for more on this now do you think that to me the right decision and going to brussels to push for sanctions against her country's officials well i think she is in a situation where she's 'd helped she gets because so far the e.u. has not really acted decisively and despite so going to brussels and appealing for saying sanctions of course the. lot of cyprus which moves against it but i think it reflects something else as well e.u. i think is probably relief and. sanctions aren't being opposed because there are very close economic relationships with belarus energy with russia and. germany and i don't think they want seeders disruptive they may be a merkel governor maybe prince except sanctions on individuals but i think it be very reluctant to go down the road of threatening anything. regarding economic ties and in particular the energy resources are lies on from the pipelines coming from the east now belarus and russia have described the meeting in brussels as interference would you agree with that. well i think the european union is

council of political analyst chris bambery thinks the use taking a highly selective approach as to where it chooses to defend human rights. i think the european union is there are a strange body and the man hating it's foreign affairs does that the realm is very whoa dude in condemning what is going on in belarus sure but he is a former spanish government minister who completely supports the spanish state in catalunya when it physically tried to stop it look at saloon you know in a referendum what i think is here is that you know it's european union as a very selective way of dealing with human rights and civil liberties abuse it's sort it's a load of condemnation of what goes on in belarus not so much action but in rhetoric at least but it ignores what was on in countries which it doesn't really want to follow with sodium arabia or even e.u. members like spain or during the meeting in brussels the belle of russian opposition leader repeatedly stressed that the protests in her country a peaceful although some of the opposition's tactics have been called into question including an ongoing

council and political analyst chris bambery thinks the e.u. is taking a highly selective approach as to where it chooses to defend human rights. i think the european union is there are a strange body i mean the man hating it's foreign affairs does that the realm is very well in condemning what is going on in belorussia but he is a former spanish government minister who completely supports it in spanish he did in catalunya when it physically tried to stop people cats alone you know in a referendum what i think is here is that the unity european union has got a very selective way of dealing with human rights and civil liberties abuses so it's a load of condemnation of what goes on in belarus not so much action but in rhetoric at least but it ignores what goes on in countries which it doesn't really want to follow with sodium rigby are or even e.u. members like spain and separately a group of belorussian activists are getting personal in their campaign against police officers accused of violence against protesters have posted a document online li

risk to his life however they haven't ruled out a potentially long term illness political analyst chris bambery told us but owns closer ties with moscow make it cautious. germany has always been a slightly different position i mean while wondering and washington usually usually weak the charge in terms of sanctions germany of course is much more accurately tied into russia particularly over energy but not just energy and therefore it is no war. about getting into a confrontation because those economic economic ties and you know and cancelling this pipeline with actually quite a serious. german economy is something. they desire so i think the germans have reasons to be much more cautious than know that we've seen so i think generally you know normally i would expect london and washington to gether to be within the cheesier these seem to be pulling back which seems to me to put in don't own narrative that we've been told the boat is poison case. more than a 1000 people have gathered in rochester new york overnight demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man then arrest there be