the far right and the left are trying to generate resentment of the government's health policies dominic kane reports. a sunny day in stuttgart and anti corona protesters are on the streets they believe their fundamental freedoms are under threat not from the virus but from the measures in place to prevent it worsening marches like this have been occurring sporadically for some considerable time most notably in berlin at the start of the month the common link between these political extremes is the feeling that ministers are acting beyond their constitutional powers for example that. i would demand is basically going back to democracy away with these laws been imposed on us away with the masks that make us slaves the protesters are made up of many different groups some from the far left of society some from the far right one author says what unites this otherwise disunited group is a deep distrust of what they regard as mainstream politicians mainstream media and mainstream science people are kind of. debate because. belief in scientific texts anymore and as we all know it's impossible to do

lucas shameka but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. the german hospital treating the russian opposition figure alexina balinese says there are some signs of improvement but he does remain in a medically induced coma doctors still have the 44 year old on a respirator in intensive care they said there are indications that support the claims he was poisoned the russian authorities though insist there is no evidence of any crime germany's foreign minister says there will be diplomatic consequences for moscow if it's proven that he was poisoned as part of a state initiated attempted murder. the united nations is says it's concerned over the condition of more than 50000 people displaced from their homes because of violence in afghanistan's couldn't do is province the taliban has recently taken for army bases despite talks with the government to end the fighting for some a binge of 8 picks up the story. and then their heart is one of many of gone provinces contested between afghan government forces in vegas down groups figh

moved from a hospital in the siberian city of homs but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane has more from berlin. this is where. his journey has brought him burlington's world renowned shiny to a hospital and the start of treatment his supporters hope will save the life of one of the most prominent critics of the russian government he'd been brought here on board a special flight through the night from siberia after russian doctors finally agreed he was fit to travel with. the patients family a fully of didn't have all the dice are about the diagnosis and condition of the patient and they're ready to take the risk to transfer we've decided that we don't oppose transferring the patients to another clinic but valley's friends and family are asking why it took so long for these doctors to agree with those who'd flown from germany to collect me now found his wife believes the delay was specifically to allow whatever is in his system to degrade and to make identifying it therefore harder she thinks he drank tea that had been poisoned just before he boarded a flight to moscow from

ucas shameka but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. the german hospital treating the russian opposition figure alexina valley's says there are some signs of improvement but he remains in a medically induced coma have said there are indications that support claims the 44 year old was poisoned russian authorities there insist there's no evidence of any crime germany's foreign minister says they'll be diplomatic consequences for moscow if it's proven that the valley was poisoned as part of a state initiated murder attempt the un security council has approved cuts to its peacekeeping force in southern lebanon a monday it's been extended for a year but the number of troops has been reduced by 2000 after pressure from the united states and israel they say the force known as unifil needs to take more action against hezbollah are kristensen to me as more. tension in southern lebanon where israeli mortars and allegedly has bola fighters criss cross the border that's the backdrop to a u.n. security council unanimous decision t

sick by russian doctors to be moved from siberia but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane is in berlin where the shot at a hospital over and of ali is being treated. the hospital has released a written statement in which it says it is now doing performing an extensive diagnostic of mist and of on the going through his system working out what is wrong working out what foreign elements are in his system which have caused him to shows such as a bad reaction to whatever is in his system they say they're going to it's going to take some considerable time once they've worked out what they think is wrong they're going to communicate that to his relatives to his wife to others and only after that will they go into more detail will they make a more public statement now separately the family of mr lee have also said that they're going to take some time maybe maybe some days before their parents to to give a much wider statement about their side of things and remember the group who arranged the medivac a medical evacuation flight the cinema for peace foundation well they have said th

order for the demonstration to be shut down because social distancing rules were being violated dominic kane reports from the german capital. for weeks the daily number of new coronavirus infections in germany has been rising yet for these people in berlin what matters most is their right not to observe any restrictions not to wear masks not to follow social distancing and to show their anger at the politicians who have imposed them because of the youngest illegal alice is illegal the whole government is illegal everything is illegal and corona is just a medium to heavy flu a pandemic that is being used to enslave us humans you know that view is not shared by the police who tried and failed twice on friday to persuade the courts to ban the demonstration saying the protesters posed a serious risk. d.m. under the was going on and that's these are people that we can assume as coronavirus skeptics have taken no precautions in recent months in a time when infection numbers are increasing we don't believe these gatherings to be responsible. the protesters are made up of many different groups some

homs but they change their position late on friday let's speak to our correspondent in berlin dominic kane dominic obviously a lot of questions surrounding his health what do we know about his condition right now. one of the things that stands out about this case is the level of uncertainty about what has happened to mr nonviolently about tarot what got into his system got into his system and how medics in the building behind me at the chalet to a hospital here in central berlin can get it out of his system in a way that might salerno him some form of recovery whether that be full or otherwise different leaders of different countries have all weighed in on this issue of what has happened to mr nardelli the german chancellor angela merkel saying that she was for pat to host mr nava to have him in this country for his treatment but full of questions about what has actually happened to him and the one thing that is for those who hope he will pull through is at last he is here. this is where. his journey has brought him but world renowned shiny to a hospital and the start of treatment his supp

earlier had said that no poison was found in his system as bringing our correspondent in berlin dominic kane who joins us now live so doctors saying that. was probably poisoned what more they say and what do we know about his current condition. his current condition is that he is in the coma he is there's no immediate threat to his life but the doctors here in contrast in stark contrast of the situation with what was said what the doctors almost of the doctors here very clearly say that what they found in his system is a toxin belongs to what are called holy mysteries inhibitors those are effectively that something which works inside the human body inside the central nervous system to control muscles in the body now they are treating the patients treating alex in other knee with actual pain which is an anteater they hope will work to counter the effect of these colonist or is inhibitors the point is this is affecting his motor neurons and that that those are effectively the ways that human bodies move muscles that sort of thing the interesting thing here is that the doctors in the show hospi

dominic kane has more on that berlin.ssedoth leaders extreme concern about the situation of the russian politician, saying they were deeply concerned with the , and both his ordeal leaders saying they felt it important that the exact circumstances of what had happened to him should be made clear, should be investigated as soon as possible. both leaders then said that they would be prepared they would allow their country to receive him in q met eve act -- a med evac scenario. that's important because one german ngo, one german agency, nongovernmental agency, says it is actively investigating flying him from that hospital to that -- that he would receive treatment in berlin. they expressed extreme concern about what's happened. anchor: you're watching al jazeera. more still ahead. two weeks of demonstrations and still not giving it. protesters in belarus the five warnings of another government crackdown. and marley's neighbors threatened to keep their borders closed in opposition to the country's military leaders. ♪ meteoro

sick by russian doctors to be moved from siberia but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane is in berlin near the shower at a hospital over in the valley is being treated. the hospital has released a written statement in which it says it is now doing performing an extensive diagnostic of mist and of on the going through his system working in.

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. well for more on this i'm joined by our guests all of them are in the u.k. today in london we have heidi larsen director of the vaccine confidence project and professor at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine in boss dr baratz punk and they are he's a senior clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school and a specialist on emergency preparedness for ite bricks and pandemics and also in london we have donna dawson a psychologist specializing in personality and behavior one welcome to all 3 of you let's start with you professor larson given the scenes that we've seen in germany can you blame people for for taking to the streets and for being sick of these restrictions because this pandemic has been going or knife for months and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight. well i certainly empathize with the frustration by many people in the public about this extenuated lockdowns and mass squaring and social distancing the korean teens are c

about what really happened with wild card and why it took so long for the or for it is to notice dominic kane al-jazeera berlin and that's our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag see when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address is more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash season c that'll take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on but for this edition of counting the cost i'm sam he's a than from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news an al-jazeera is next. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving to school supplies and training to help the world's most found mobile people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that scene working with scientists and health workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the la

have reaction from moscow with alexander story and all that in a moment but 1st let's speak to dominic kane who's and balin for us dominic i believe you're at the hospital when a valley will be treated and it is one of europe's best. yeah the point about the hospital over my right shoulder is that it is leading a world renowned leading hospital with us particular specialism in treating patients who present with the sorts of symptoms and condition that we understand mr nardelli has been suffering since his ordeal began in midair on that flight in russia just a few days ago he handsfree of the plan had been for him to fly to the shannon found airport which is some way are so good in the event the pilots decided to fly to the table at all which is much closer to this area of central plains where it's a hospital is so we can expect that he will be making his way all that the convoy he will be possibly making its way to the hospital pretty soon and when he gets there it's clear that the officials there the medics there they want to establish exactly what's in his system how bad his condition is

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin there being protests and merciless over the government's slow response to an oil spill people say the environmental damage is worse than it might have been more than $1000.00 tons of fuel spilled out when a japanese ship struck a coral reef in july carol a reports of. the final desperate moments of a mother trying to save her dying cough. this footage was filmed by a fisherman as he tried to help the pair as they struggled in waters contaminated by oil in militias but they join dozens of others that have washed up dead in recent days that's happened after a japanese own tanker struck a coral reef in july and leaked more than a 1000 tons of fuel oil into the sea. nourishing or 30 states not yet clear whether the spill is to blame for the dolphins deaths but environmentalist and experts warn the worst is yet to come and the strongest ship is stranded on coral systems and destroying the creatures creating clouds into the water inside the coral reef despite the russian g

ucas shameka but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. freelance journalist under a photo of it is in the capital minsk and he says look if shanker is becoming more and more isolated this fight has threats for testers are determined not to give up on the 20th day of fun to look at time to process the president has sworn the west's he wants a canny external pressure one that you sanction signposts he says who will do the same in return for the bell or is government my do is unclear the economy struggling there accuse its money exchange bureau and he's given a heart to be a stroke cash from a.t.m.'s ukraine has also now cut off contact with the governments here so that look at centcom now has only russia to rely on what they were put in has promised to send a reserve police force but the question is also put in the military it's a common thread emotes i've been told by one metro driver that he's been called up to the army in the coming days because he protested up to the election night after the rest of his to journalism

netherlands spain and germany officials say it's due to increased testing and eased restrictions dominic kane reports from berlin. here in germany there's a great deal of concern about the way that these new infections are manifesting themselves because the mantra for ministers has been that it is people coming back from high risk areas tourists who've traveled to other parts of europe and unwittingly brought the infection back with them and yet actually paradoxically the majority of new infections taking place in germany take place inside germany elsewhere in those countries france the new infection rate is twice as large as it is in germany and certainly you see in cities the capital city for example in paris where the requirement for mask wearing is back in place but also separately the organizers of the paris marathon the marathon event which would normally attract many tens of thousands of entrants well they weren't planning to have to stage the event until november and already they've said that cannot take place and then of course in spain you see several regions there where the flare u

initially considered too ill to fly out of the country but they change their minds late on friday dominic kane is in berlin he's been monitoring these conditions. mr novelli is going through the process of having a thorough going diagnostic series of tests performed on him by the doctors and nurses in the shouty hospital behind me here in central l.a. and no statement given from the hospital so far as to what the have found all we know is that on saturday they said that they would be performing this battery of tests and until they were in a position to inform his family of what their conclusions were they would be making no statement we know that they do not anticipate any news conference taking place on sunday one development report today is that mr van these wife is with him she has gone into the hospital and is therefore with him and is able to ask the doctors what their findings have been and that sort of thing but nothing has been made public remember she is the one who alleges that those russian doctors who 1st treated mr navarre need didn't lay the release of mr vanney for long enough i

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin now in london hundreds of people have filled trafalgar square to protest against coronavirus instructions. demonstrators are calling for all safety measures put in place by the government to be was drawn some held posters branding the virus a scam describing a potential vaccine as venom floods in have killed at least 45 people heavy rains have caused the river to overflow shutting down the capital ni-mh hundreds of grain stores have been damaged. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera thousands of women have marched in belarus to denounce state violence against protesters defying threats by president alexander lukashenko his government's also started withdrawing accreditation from foreign journalists. the list of individuals who are guilty of human rights violations and valerie's that is an important step and this will impose some sort of a hassle for those people on the list but the regime considers this as the cost of doing business and this won

says the bank scene has not been sufficiently tested and could be dangerous dominic kane has more now from berlin. mr spann saying that the problem with rushing a vaccine out which hasn't been shown openly to be safe and to be effective against the corona virus is something which he feels he fears could kill off the efficacy of vaccines generally going forward the point they're making therefore is that they need to be able to see the data upon which the russian government has based its assertions that this vaccine is good to go as it were contrast what the german government is saying with what certain other governments are saying a suggestion that the governor of a large state in brazil. he is going to be in meetings on wednesday with the ambassador the russian ambassador in brazil about what might be able to be done there but even in brazil there are certain senior officials who have expressed grave reservations as i say about the haste with which the russian government is proceeding to marketing this vaccine as something that large chunks of society will be able to use anytime soon

city of aunts but they changed their position late on friday after he was seen by german doctors dominic kane reports this is where these journey has brought him berlin's world renowned chef hospital and the start of treatment his supporters hope will save the life of one of russia's most prominent dissidents he was brought here on board a special flight from siberia the man whose group arranged the journey says now than his condition remains paul insists if someone falls on promises that was basically it's very worrying we're all happy that he's landed safely here in berlin but it doesn't mean anything in itself because his physical condition is still of concern it's clear that if his original flight hadn't made the emergency landing in arms when it did he would have died of staff here have immediate relevant recent experience of treating patients with the sorts of symptoms that alexy now than any has come here with now they get the chance to find out what exactly is in his system and how they go about removing it but how it got there in the 1st place remains unclear now families friends and

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin and in london hundreds of people are filled trafalgar square to protest against coronavirus restrictions. demonstrators are calling for all safety measures put in place by the government to be withdrawn some held posters branding the virus a scam and describing a potential vaccine as venom. fans and as president has launched his re-election bid with a rally in the capital designer john mica foully is seeking a 2nd but is dogged by allegations of wielding too much power and of covering up the true extent of the virus outbreak he's up against the recent return to the country following an assassination attempt. violence in eastern saddam has prompted the government to declare a state of emergency that the state of casale will see increased security restrictions for at least 3 months tribal clashes and protests against the usually appointed governor left at least 4 people dead and dozens injured on the weekend. floods in their share have killed at least 45 people heavy r

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane just era berlin. alitalia the coast guard has picked up 49 vulnerable people from a charity rescue in the mediterranean after it sent out a distress call crew on board the m.v. louise michel's said they were no longer able to move the vessel after rescuing more than 200 refugees and migrants over the past couple of days the boat is funded by the british street artist banksy. a member of the louise michel support crew and she spoke to us by phone from the of the landsea in spain. the reason that i was not able to move was because they were towing these 2 life raft along side to not overcrowded too much and also to have. 5 a place for the dead body that was unfortunately found in that boat in distress. mashallah arrived on the scene so now as people are being disembarked finally after almost 24 hours on to. coast guard vessel. the situation is getting if it lies but. that is a lot of people on board of. and then again the only other ship in the area that might be willing to take them on

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. and watching out is there a live from london coming out why a palestinian why palestinian leadership decision is making it tougher to fight crime in the occupied west bank. dolphin deaths and environmental disaster there's anger in russia over the handling of a massive oil spill. however got plenty of hot sunshine across southeastern parts of you have clear skies here looking good as we go through the next couple of days over towards the northwest a very different story here looking a little more autumnal shall we say wet sand windy weather blustery showers rattling through this area of low pressure just around the low countries is where we got the cooler air in place and this weather front that we have here well that marks the boundary between that cooler air and the very hot head down towards the southeast which is still getting up into the mid to high thirty's for some further west north london will struggle to 19 celsius and barely get to 20 degrees there in par

want mr nardelli to to get here so they can start to treat him thank you very much from berlin dominic kane. oh there is a brief or a spy perhaps and libya's divisive and chaotic civil war the internationally recognized government in tripoli has declared a cease fire that's also. been backed by a rival parliament in the east when terms of how the country has been divided you have the un backed government controlling the area in blue and it's headquartered in in tripoli and then wallah 25 to who is allied with the east in parliament and tobruk controlling that part in red both sides were gearing up for a battle over the city of sirte the gateway to libya's prized oil fields but there are now proposals to jointly demilitarize the area one with the for at base in the south crucially sir is controlled by forces loyal to have to have imposed an oil blockade since january causing around $8000000000.00 in losses to country the cease fire calls for production to resume there and it wants elections to take place in launch as long as libyans can agree on a constitutional basis for that charles straff

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin chris smith is from the radio show the naked scientists he says the protesters are risking wider public health. big numbers is definitely a risk if those people are not observing social distancing and it's very likely that many of them won't i mean obviously you've got to be careful because they may be household groups and household groups can be considered to be a person in the north themselves in one group so that's a bit different but i think some of the tension here is around the question of wearing masks outside and to be quite frank the evidence supporting that measure isn't strong i don't think there's really any justification for a person who's wandering around in the street not me or anybody else wearing a face covering that that really isn't going to help anybody but when you're in a situation where you can't observe social distancing that's where it might be helpful and the data that we're generating seem to suggest there might be even if it's a small one

got to deal with this sort of tension that's happening right now on the southeastern borders ok dominic kane that bring us all the latest from ballet thank you very much indeed. hurrican laura is battering the southern united states with forecasters warning of unsurvivable storm surges it's been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 2 hurricane but still has top wind speeds of almost 160 kilometers per hour tens of thousands of people are without power the governor of louisiana is worried that some coastal residents issued with evacuation orders have ignored them well jay great is in lake charles louisiana which took the full force of that storm . thankfully we are getting a bit of a break the wind has died down the rain has stopped for now will continue to be a bit of that getting rain and the wind for the next hour or so with the storm finally clear of all the way out of the area but let's call the rep that might work with or make landfall about all. of a 1000 hammon and then move on that and as it did it wreaked havoc here we know that flooding is an issue of what it will be the wate

lucas shameka but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. well neighboring lithuania is becoming increasingly vocal about the situation in the 2 have a close and complicated relationship the nations share a 680 kilometer long border both were part of the soviet union and formally established relations after the dissolution of the u.s.s.r. in 1991 when he has become a key transit in trade route for land locked. or but it's been his life for us in the lithuanian capital so bernard is the country increasingly nervous about what's going on next door. well if it were a par minister linus link of b.c.'s he's already warned that the e.u. response has been too slow and the risk of stalemate is growing and that's certainly something we're hearing from the protest leaders in minsk as well that is and it's for we can the challenge is keeping up the momentum for those who want to protest against. his victory or argue will victory in the last election so a link of the she says said of the e.u. it's not enough to judge or condemn he say

effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin and asia's reporting nearly 3000 new coronavirus cases on sunday for the past 3 days it's counted record numbers of infections is led to health officials advancing trials of a potential vaccine developed in china jessica washington has more from bundle. the system is a used to doing almost everything together and now yet another shared experience a part of the trial of a potential covert 19 vaccine tell me that if this vaccine works praise god indonesia will go back to normal and we can go anywhere without being what each day they feel in a health report and so far they've had no thought of facts on it and i've suffered in the more you get that they did human trials in phase one and 2 and they were fine and so there's no need to be afraid more than 2000 indonesians signed up for the trial of the vaccine developed by chinese pharmaceutical manufacture a sign of back. dr has also pointed indonesia's medical community has been hit hard by the outbreak and dozens of doct

dorsey yuliya who were poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in salzburg england where i was there is dominic kane is following developments in berlin and says that the suspected poison has very few civilian applications. the doctors treating alexy in our valley have been quite categorical about what they believe is the cause of his ordeal they say that there is a toxin a poison in his system which has laid him low they say they don't believe that this is life threatening now but they can't guarantee that he's going to be able to recover fully from the extent of his ordeal the specific poison in his system belongs to a family of chemicals which have very few civilians therapeutic applications only for conditions such as dementia or alzheimer's disease and we know that mr nardelli has never complained of suffering from those conditions in which case you have to consider the other applications for this poison and that is passed the size and then nerve agents that's to say chemical weapons the point about this is that this revelation about poison in his system has prompted a reaction from the german

system and how they go about removing it but how it got there in the 1st place remains unclear dominic kane al-jazeera at berlin's charity hospital. is the founder of the german organization cinema for peace which helped bring it to germany for medical treatment he says the russian opposition leader is now where he needs to be his job isn't just. i think we're now incredibly relieved after 2 days of elicit fit to get him here that the patient has landed and is in a stable condition he was in a coma and they said he's not able to travel but he's landed now in a stable and the doctors at the hospital taking care of incorporation with the family will come up with statements regarding his health condition well there's a long list of kremlin critics who've been poisoned in the past in 2004 genocide on a public public who reported on russian abuses in chechnya became ill and lost consciousness after drinking tea she recovered but was shot dead outside her apartment building in 20 or 6 later that year former russian spy alexander litvinenko died in london after drinking tea laced with a radioactiv

dominic kane reporting this breaking news coming to us out of egypt a senior leader of the muslim brotherhood has died in cairo is in a sort of scorpion prison at the age of $66.00. was a doctor and an m.p. he worked to promote democratic principles within the muslim brotherhood was also a founding member of the egyptian organization for human rights he was arrested in 2013 correspondent john l. joins us what else do we know about the circumstances surrounding his death well the conditions inside egypt's prisons prior true of the global pandemic of covert were already extremely poor according to human rights organizations have been numerous reports both by international and human rights watch talking about overcrowding talking about torture talking about the lack of medical assistance being provided through those who are chronically suffering from illnesses as. was an others inside egypt's prison post kovar it there have been a lot more concerns because of obviously the overcrowding because of the lack of sanitary sanity there sanitary rather standards as well as because of the lack of medica

very definitively yes there's a toxin in the system a poison in other words thank you for that dominic kane live in. remind of what doctors who treated me in russia said about his condition early on monday take a listen. we were treating the patient. and we saved him there wasn't and couldn't have been any outside influence on the patient's treatment yet those of us the most almost flawless i know of. the diagnosis of poisoning remained until the end of the day until a 12 i'm not mistaken we received a final conclusion from 2 laboratories that no toxic chemicals that can be considered poisons or by products of poisons were found let's bring in alexandra so janowicz contra moscow based journalist alexandra russian doctors saying of ami was not poisoned so what's going to be the reaction from moscow to the findings by the german doctors. well so far we have only reactions from people that are close to know viney so from people that were saying from the very beginning from day one hour one that they assume he was poisoned so what they're saying now is look our he potters is our assumption now

confirmation of anything that he has alleged but the allegations are out there now thank you for that dominic kane with the latest there from berlin well let's just remind you of what the doctors so traded now vonnie initially in russia said early on monday about his condition take a listen. we were treating the patient and we saved him there wasn't and couldn't have been any outside influence on the patients treatment of us both of those. the diagnosis of poisoning remained until the end of the day until at 12 if i'm not mistaken we received a final conclusion from 2 laboratories that no toxic chemicals that can be considered poisons or by products of poisons were found. as spring in moscow based journalist on xandra contra alexander what's the reaction in moscow in russia to the findings by german doctors. there is a lot of reaction by supporters his friends family and in general the russian opposition and they're all saying we have our suspicions now confirmed would to were only he thought as is now is the fact confirmed by every known german hospital and what they are also saying and specifica

dominic kane reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks indeed investigators in new zealand say that imported phrase have been the source of the 1st locally transmitted corona virus cases in more than 3 months its largest city opened is now back in lockdown after 4 cases were diagnosed this week 4 other suspected cases are being monitored and the government is considering delaying next month's general election. now while primary focus of course is on the response in these immediate stages over the next few days we do need to ensure that we giving ourselves as much flexibility as possible to deal with what we loon over the next 72 hours palin and dissolving doesn't mean that if we needed to convene powerman for any reason we wouldn't be able to do so we've before decided it would be prudent to defer the dissolution of parliament by at least a few days to preserve all options for if if needed reconvening comment or if needed for that if this is all of the date of the general election strategy or has recorded its worst day of the pandemic $21.00 people have died in the past 24 hours in

european union itself can only exercise a kind of economic power it cannot exercise military power ok dominic kane there joining us live from baron lane thank you very much indeed for that dominic for viewers just joining us now we have been listening in see that press conference between the european union's foreign policy chief joseph turow and the german foreign minister heiko mass they are encouraging dialogue in the to. see flashpoints really that have been dominating the foreign policy meetings over the last couple of days they've been talking about the difficulties in belarus and in the eastern mediterranean let's doesn't back in and see what's being added to that discussion what can we do. in general terms 1st you know that now we listing personalities we can't pass 2 least assets shapes we can too. sanctions the participation of activities that we could see the illegal manged everything related with their working on this kind of. banding and prohibiting their use of it would be on boards it would be an capacities to knowledge a supply we can go to the financial needed for this kind of cons

competitive council working group in the coming days with a view to be that as soon as possible dominic kane is live for us and berlin and dominic just been hearing or a stern contact ition there from the e.u. foreign policy chief. yes not mincing his words they're really targeted sanctions are on the way to specific individuals who are close to the government of president look at in minsk it's pretty clear the e.u. is trying to send as a message as it can to be a risk to the government of better or worse to listen to what it has been saying and also to listen to what the e.u. believes is the voice of the belorussian people that is that they want to transition away from the government of president. to a peaceful democratic government but the problem here is that there's only so much that the european union can do beyond sanctions it's hard to see really what it could what could be done since it doesn't have a military role of its own and of course this is not taking place in a vacuum we know that the government is very angry indeed at the prospect of sanctions maybe being introduced in a tar

hospital behind me will they just want to see mr so they can start working on him ok don many thanks dominic kane germany correspondent there reporting live for us to berlin well also in berlin dominic was mentioning the charity they're going to talk now to yucca bizzle he's founder of the cinema for peace that's the charity organizing this flight to germany from moscow to brazil welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera can you give me a sense of what kind of medical equipment you have on board that plane to deal with whatever novelli has. hello you know you already mentioned 2 years ago when a similar case was it of as you know from pussy riot so basically repeated is procedure getting a medical plane with medical specialists will use to treat people who are in a coma who are. lost their consciousness ventilation. and it was pretty hard to organise all of this but in obviously we had the obstacle of dismantling the patient was not able to travel we have been told that he will not travel so as you have mentioned it was a huge struggle. and now at the end of today we are a happy it it looks lik

you have very different versions of events being put about in different capitals right now as dominic kane talking to us from berlin dominic thank you very much indeed professor alister he's an environmental toxicology expert he says the suspect substance likely used on the vani is and the tortillas a nerve agent and is dominick was saying not easily accessible to the general public those are the preserve generally of governments the nerve agent there are a variety sarin and reading of the names here and now sarin tabun that the compound the x. that was used on the north korean leader's half brother in malaysia and killed him and those substances are all what you would find within governments they're all strictly regulated and there shouldn't be any in general circulation not a truck type chemicals also fall into that category they're ones where you would expect it to come from some government source very unlikely for an individual to have it although it is not beyond the ability of competent chemists with good facilities good protection in their laboratories for the person making that sub

comments clearly are and the tension between the greeks and the turks is clearly that to be seen dominic kanethat live for us and barry lynn thank you very much indeed. now a prominent member of the opposition and bella russa's called on russia to help bring president alexander lukashenko to the negotiating table nobel prize winning voices that lana and lex of it made the of killed before being questioned over her involvement in the opposition coordination council it was formed last week to help broker a peaceful transition of power as calls grew for the paris president to step down but it's now been accused of trying to seize power illegally that's one of the government of. now look because speaks only to putin we need him to speak to the people maybe the world can help us so that look a shame korean negotiate with somebody the more restate together the stronger the real be and the greater chance we will have of making their our target is told to us. look at because opponents are keeping up the pressure on the president to resign more than 2 weeks after his disputed election victory and to g