landed in minsk, having their russian propaganda specialists, having their fsb minister of defence,of course, there is that interference, hybrid interference that is happening already for the last week, and it's only increased because now presenters of belarussian tv are replaced by russian propaganda. are you not in danger...? but workers can't be replaced. no money for that. no money. but in the broader sense of the politics of this, are you not in danger of playing into lukashenko's hands and maybe into moscow's hands as well? because you've lived in the west for a long time, because of your dissident and your theatre activities. you're now based in london. when you speak out, as you do so passionately, so strongly, and direct your message to the people of belarus, lukashenko says, look, everything that's happening here is the result of the european union meddling in our affairs. western interests manipulating a few belarussians like yourself to try to bring down my government because they want to turn belarus into some sort of puppet state of brussels and the european union. and

exiled former fsb agent was poisoned with polonium while dining in a london restaurant. he died three weeks later. a london court a decade later would say vladimir putin likelyy ok'd the assassination. with plausible denied the abilitity -- deniability, moscow has refuted all involvement. another poisoning, a former agent. sergei skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a public bench in salisbury. they had been exposed to a powerful neurotoxin. scotland yard found two russian military agents responsible. such poisonings picick specific scientific knowledge and minute planning. a subtle way of disarming a political opponent, it has the ability to kill or scare into silence. dissidents of the kremlin say moscow is ready to use it to holdld onto power with an iron fist. genie: researchers in hong kong have confirmed the first document in case of a covid-19 rereinfection.n. e patient apparently caught the coronavirus a second time some four months after his first infectioion. with the virus produced no symptoms. >> a potentially troubling discovery as of 33-year-o

that's been a preferred tactic by russian intelligence, going back to 2006 when the former fsb officer was poisoned in the u.k. he drank tea linked with plutonium. a former military intelligence officer was targeted with a soviet nerve agent. and there was a bulgarian dissident whom the kgb targeted with an umbrella whose tip was laced with ricin. it gibbs putin a -- gives putin a little bit of deniability and it delivers a message to his own people and to those who wish to oppose him. arthel: if there's a direct link to putin in this case with navalny, how does this affect his geopolitical standing? >> well, i think that this -- if this was indeed vladimir putin, the kremlin's decision to proceed in this way, i think it reflects putin's concern for three things that are really putting him at a little bit more risk than he might like. first are protests in eastern russia where navalny was helping to organize opposition for regional elections. secondly, there's unrest in belar use after a falsified election and third is putin's approval rating which is dropping as a result of his handli

spokesman said, there was lots of investigative release, the ministry of interior affairs and from the fsba court order about that so they are going to warn an investigative committee that they are going to take this case into the court. just remind us about to put this into context, because he was travelling as part of election campaign, wasn't he? actually, navalny‘s team shared some information about his trip to another city, in siberia, disability of chance, navalny had a flight from omsk to not what he has been doing in thompson is actually unknown, but we have some information that navalny has been doing another investigation of some at united russia surpassing leaders, that is the leading party in russia, so he has been doing some anti corruption investigation on at them in omsk —— backed omsk and that is why some of his supporters think that he could be poisoned on the order of those people that he has been investigating. they were not happy of the result of the investigation and did not want him to know anything about them or to share information about their wrongdoings. but nothi

taking full account of all the evidence and analysis available to me, ifind that the fsb operation tobly approved by fsb director nikolai patrushev and also by president putin." 0ur correspondent sergei goryashkojoins me now from moscow. has there been any response to what the german doctors are saying that he was poisoned? well the one that we got this that there was no inhibitors in the analysis and in the substances so the only one response i heard is the one i got from the international affairs and russian higher level of parliament and they told me that he doesn't believe in any poisoning claims and thinks that german doctors are biased and russian governments, if they had to cover up any poisonings any traces of poison, which is why he is pretty sure and confident that he is pretty sure and confident that he has not been poisoned and that he has just fallen ill as president pruden referred to his european counterpart, he only said that he just has fallen ill and that's it. if it is confirmed that the su bsta nces if it is confirmed that the substances in blood, to saving really