politician boris and them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doctors say alexina vell in these condition is serious but not life threatening the findings by the doctors in berlin contradict an early examination by russian medical officials who say they found no traces of poison in the valley we spoke to david your link a clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist and asked him whether it's possible the toxin was not a 1st detectable. i suspected the titian capabilities in germany are greater than those in siberia and so you would normally look for a depressed level of this and i mean the body these drugs as i mentioned they interfere with this enzyme that breaks down the chemicals to the cooling and you can detect low levels of the enzyme for often very long periods of time not every hospital can do that

litvinenko died in 2006 after he drank poisoned tea then 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doctors say alexina vel in these condition is serious but not life threatening. and i asked alastair hay professor of environmental toxicology at the university of leeds in the u.k. who might have had access to the kind of toxin found in the vollies blood gunna phosphate pesticides are not difficult to get hold of but the more toxic nerve agent type. like the nova chocked that is military grade material and nobody is really going to have access to that unless you are a superb chemist with very good facilities. these are chemicals which block messages from you know to muscle. type chemicals and other nerve agents are highly potent so you only need very small quantities to poison and kill someone so if you are trying to poison someone trying to

politician barzan them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doc to say alexina vellum these condition is serious but not life threatening indeed having a political correspondent nina hazard joins us from berlin with the latest nina the reaction from the chancellor it came quickly didn't it. it came very quickly and uncle americal did use quite strong words in this statement she said that those responsible enough are nice case must be identified quickly and that they must be held responsible it was a statement that she released together with her foreign minister heikal mass in which they also called on moscow to investigate they suspected poisoning of mist and of on the thora leave and in a transparent manner because of the political status of mr and of ali as a political dissidents in russia survey sa

politician bars and them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin is a good sort. doc to say alexina val nice condition is serious but not life threatening and i'm joined now by allister hay professor of environmental tech toxicology at the university of leeds in northern england thank you so much for joining us tell us more about colon asterisk and what it does. cullen ester ace inhibitors are generally into 2 in 2 groups they are what are called organophosphate compounds or another family called carbonates those that are less toxic in the family are used to pesticides the much more toxic organophosphates on nerve agents and they never charge type chemicals the normal charts were the ones used to poison the former russians by surrogate script out in the u.k. in soulsby a couple of years ago. what are the long term effe

politician boris and then soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doctors say alexina vell nice condition is serious but not life threatening. for more on this story john rocker's spondon emily sherman emily the kremlin has not reacted to the statements of the chancellor of the search takes any demanding and investigations investigation what did the kremlin say well we heard from the kremlin spokesperson that me through his cough and he said that doctors had been a bit hasty because they actually haven't identified what substance may have been used against another viney or was found in his body at all in fact it's just a group of substances that had been found it's worth pointing out of course that that group of substances includes dangerous nerve agents and initially the kremlin had said that if it was fou

politician porous name soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could sort. doctors say alexina vilnius condition is serious but not life threatening for more on this story i'm now joined by respondent emily sherman emily the kremlin has now reacted to the statements of the chancellor. clinic demanding and investigations investigation what did the kremlin say. well we heard from the kremlin spokesperson that made his cough and he said that doctors had been a bit hasty because they actually haven't identified what substance may have been used against another viney or was found in his body at all in fact it's just a group of substances that had been found it's worth pointing out of course that that group of substances includes dangerous nerve agents and initially the kremlin had said that if it was found that he had bee

politician bars and then soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could sort. doctors say alexina vell nice condition is serious but not life threatening. i'm not joined by home in europe but he's a member of the german parliament and sits on the committee foreign affairs for the green party going out has made an unusually strong statement about what happens in the valley but beyond words what action should the german government be taking him . fairly obviously we need investigation but this is not enough we see a systematic since a nation of oppositional forces in the russian and not only in russia also that are sort of media burning also in great britain and it needs a. sign that we have to have to restart so i hope 'd that my government of the presidency of the e.u. and is a month coordinate this strong response of t

politician bars and them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could sort. doctors say alexina vilnius condition is serious but not life threatening from all this story. spawn of emily sherman emily the kremlin has now reacted to the statements of the chancellor of the search a clinic demanding and investigations investigation what did the kremlin say. well we heard from the kremlin spokesperson that need to keep his cough and he said that doctors had been a bit hasty because they actually haven't identified what substance may have been used against another viney or was found in his body at all in fact it's just a group of substances that had been found it's worth pointing out of course that that group of substances includes dangerous nerve agents and initially the kremlin had said that if it was found that he had be

politician porous and them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doctors say alexina vellum these condition is serious but not life threatening let's get more on this from moscow correspondent emily showing that chief international editor richard walker welcome both or start with you richard a chance or merkel reacted quickly to the hospital statement diplomatically speaking how strong was that reaction. yeah well it's being received here in germany as quite a strong diplomatic stable at least on a diplomatic level you know you have a statement produced very quickly as you said not just coming from america but also from the foreign ministers 2 very you know the 2 top heavyweight figures in the government for these purposes also representing both parties in the coalition and making it very clear in the stat

norm ornstein, it's often said or been said by norbert mccarthy, a scholar at princeton, we are more polarized today than any time since the civil war. you're an expert of party systems. can you explain what it was about the political parties right before the civil war that led us to be so polarized then? >> so, you know, you go back through history and you see echos of so many of the divisions that are familiar to people today. if you look at the period leading up to the civil war, the party system, it was very much in flux. we had a wig party that ultimately became or transformed into the modern republican party. along the way we had a no nothing party that was anti-immigration. the ire and focus was on catholics and some elements of northern europeans in part. they had a president elected on the no nothing ticket, and ultimately it became the two parties that we know today or at least that we think we know today, democrats and republicans, and of course we had that overarching issue of race and slavery and the parties stood with that. for a while the democratic party had a pretty

pallor in walking away from officers who then shot the 31 year old after a stun gun failed to work norbert manley has a story. i'm not here to get everybody motivated to come out and do stuff on the streets of fiat you know the killing of the black by us. on sunday more than 150 people block traffic on the infantrymen highway. the site of where hoffa dozen police had surrounded and then shot 31 year old trafford padron on friday the incident was captured on video by a bystander who got the money. from a gun. they will shoot. because the wait. wait oh no you got a. good omen bro. make me do i want to. be. taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead in louisiana state police say he was walking towards the store with a knife they shot stun guns at him but say they were ineffective but activists who see it as another form of police violence against black people i think one of the things that when i got here today to this site that disgusted me with the fact that this story is still open a man died on the doorsteps of it but circle k. continues to launch a business and allow people to come o