initially supposed to kick off last year but mr lonnie's poising with a soviet era nerve agent nova chuck and his then resulting recuperation in germany prevented that trial from taking place now now that he's returned to the country and is in police custody they've decided to go ahead with those slander charges. gerri what is the german reaction to this. what germany has consistently condemned i guess this pursuit of alexei navalny through all various avenues since he returned to russia in january it's also condemned the sentence given to him and the crackdown. by authorities on his supporters we saw last week these kind of tit for tat expulsions all of diplomats from 1st russia and expulsion of german polish and swedish diplomats in these countries responded in kind i guess all this is led to questions as to what to do now one thing that's come under the spotlight is the the future of this very important nord stream to gas line project that will pump natural gas from russia to germany uncle americal has said that this will remain unaffected by the diplomatic tensions that europe should

i'm i'm still going to understand it he's he makes the claim that he was poisoned by some kind of nova chuck agent inside of russia he was allowed to leave russia to go to germany for treatment he could maintain that claim and then we have for some bizarre reason what western intelligence are somehow confirming this instead of should have been kind of the other way around with his the physicians that treated him and so he comes back to the country that claims that tried to kill him i deem it can you explain to me how that works i mean if you're being hunted down why do you go back in the country to torments you go ahead well obviously. it does not meet that actually we can try to poison him because otherwise he would not have returned to such a dreadful place you know russia who want to just kill one him that he would be arrested when he returns on purely legal grounds like any other person if you always state you know oh even if you have a suspended sentence and you will have brought that's already a huge gift from the state especially during the been de mint you know when people cannot tra

german civilian doctors have found the thing that was allegedly seen into his body the nerve agent nova chuck was only discovered by german military doctors which says a lot. in the news ahead. i another show of resistance against the coup in me and maher is a senior party figure and loyal supporter of unsung suchi is arrested and a new covert 19 test is being rolled out in indonesia we wonder how accurate is it a report from the counters on the way. how are we going to have a round of snow coming into japan over the next couple days that fanned out it is actually going to be warming up we have got winds coming in from all of a westerly direction for the time being high pressure very close by but as we go on through the next day or so we will see rain pulling out of the way perhaps one or 2 snow flurries there into all caught and then signs of clear weather across the korean peninsula and bunch of japan's push on into the 2nd half of the weekend there we go with a few snow showers into western areas of honshu and also into quite a keen drift on the wind here this stays but said other side of

originally slated to take place last year but of all these poisoning with a soviet era nerve agent nova chuck and then his resulting recuperation in germany prevented the trial from taking place and of course he returns to the country earlier this year was arrested and that's part of the reason that prosecutors are now going ahead with this latter case aaron any indications of potential verdict. well no of course we don't know exactly how the court is likely to rule but it bears saying that the russian judiciary has never been very sympathetic to alexina volley in the past now if you were to be sentenced he could be facing additional jail time or a fine or something akin to community service but at least here in moscow it's not expected that he will be facing additional jail time specifically because he is already looking down the barrel of a 2 to 3 year sentence on a different fraud charge instead talk to people around you have all these orbit they say that there's a little bit of a different motive is behind this slander charges right now they say that the kremlin is attempting to hurt alex

trial was supposed to take place last year but of course due to know of all these poisoning with nova chuck they actually ended up in pushing it off until his return to the country earlier this year well is there any indication of when we can expect a verdict then and what that verdict might likely be. what we don't know exactly how the court is likely to rule but it does bear saying that russian courts have not often ruled in mr know all of these favor i've been paying attention to some of the the arguments that prosecutors have been arguing throughout the day and it seems that they are are not necessary. trying to focus on adding some more jail time to move on the sentence but rather they seem to be focusing on some type of monetary compensation potentially for the veterans.

originally slated to take place last year but of all of these poisoning with a soviet era nerve agent nova chuck and then his resulting recuperation in germany prevented the trial from taking place and of course he returned to the country earlier this year was arrested and that's part of the reason that prosecutors are now going ahead with this latter case aaron any indications of potential verdict well no of course we don't know exactly how the court is likely to rule but it bears saying that the russian judiciary has never been very sympathetic to alexina volley in the past now if you were to be sentence he could be facing additional jail time or a fine or something akin to community service but at least here in moscow it's not expected that he will be facing additional jail time specifically because he is already looking down the barrel.