of politicizing, the investigation into what happened to alexei novelli. russia says that the hague based chemical weapons watchdog, is serving the agenda of all the nations. instead of trying to look into what had happened, germany and its allies resorted to make a phone diplomacy, unleashed a mass disinflation campaign against russia, and started to demand some independent international investigations. under the, auspices of the o.p.c., w. $56.00 o. p. c, w. member states put their signatures to a statement saying that the russian opposition figure mr. novelli was poisoned in russia using a chemical weapon, a nerve agent from the novacek group. mr. valley was flying from siberia to moscow back in august of this year when he took ill on the flight and had to make an emergency landing in the city of. he eventually ended up here in berlin to receive treatment. moscow has made numerous requests that share data that is at the very heart of the allegations against russia. so far those requests have fallen on deaf ears. the kremlin, says berlin is actively tryi

novelli, if you provided no proof for whatever. and we are sanctions imposed by the european union are totally unreasonable and deserve a response. the point is that ever since the 2016 election of donald trump, russia has been instrumental, has been used by 1st by americans, by the democratic party, or for its fight as the mystic fight with, with mr. trump and the republicans. but i see in the case of novell only is that europeans are taking that period. and that made a miracle is tomorrow, decided to instrumental lives. russia to solve some of europe's problems. in the case, america was clear as day with the problem is the united states was piling on sanctions against to prevent the completion of the, of the north stream by quantum the, these were directed against german and other companies. it could have terrible effect for or german problems. medical i believe, decided to show that she, germany and germany would be tough in dealing with russia. and not way to diffuse the political pressure in congress on germany, on europe for

novelli was taken to a local hospital, he was put into juice. coma remained for 2 days. his samples were sent to several russian labs where tests were run. none of them found traces of any toxin in his system in the valleys family insisted his life would be in danger if he stayed in russia and arranged for his transportation to a top clinic in berlin. and in early september, german authorities concluded that novelli had been poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group. we discuss the case with a german member of the european parliament. maximillian craw the who play and the whole plot on of army is shaming. germany is doing a lot of accusations against russia, but is not delivering evidence. and so i'm very critical to what the handling of that case by did to him and political class by the government. and i'm, i'm fully with the russian authorities who demand stronger evidence. but for me, my, my greatest concern or my, my most serious concern, is to german russian relationship, especially. concerning does got gas project and north rim 2. we are in the, in a spira

novelli 1st fell sick on an internal flight in russia. back in august, the plane made an emergency landing in the city of lifted to germany for treatment . in a felony case, much more was the scales, then an interview with the kremlin spokesperson. dmitri peskov, he talked to our chris, the exclusive interview, will be airing, unfold throughout the day for now. here's a taster. we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened if we want to know the truth. so we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. sometimes it seems the patient does not want that truth to be out himself. but sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well, you have to agree that there are more questions than answers this is r.t. international still ahead. a report in the u.k. finds an alarming number of todd

for joining usch today, piero novelli. the investment bank at ubs, you're expected for anything to happen in the election. but what does the scenario now mean for the markets? francineod morning, and tom, and thank you for having me on the show. it is generally an important day, an important time. we have seen significant changes in the market environment over the last few days. clearly there are three factors that will drive the markets going forward. number one is the u.s. election outcome, and focus on fiscal stimulus. number two is clearly the vaccine, both in terms of the phase three trials and deployment of the vaccine and production, and approvals. number three is of course the development of covid-19. the unfortunate development in europe and the lockdowns that may -- that are following that. clearly as it relates to the first topic, it seems that while any election outcome may face core challenges and potential recounts in several states, investors seem to have decided on the outcome of a biden presidency and on a

figure alexei novelli. a. you imposed sanctions against several russian officials. after accusing moscow of complicity in the attack, russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says in the valley, he could have been poisoned in all on the way to germany, where he was that treated mckubre us president elect joe biden has chosen a long time aide wrong claim to be his white house, chief of staff, is the claim was a key figure during the presidential campaign and served as joe biden's top left tenant. during his time as vice president in barack obama's 1st during the years of the trump presidency, millions of americans have become followers of a right wing conspiracy theory known as q a known for the most received information in the form of clues dropped by an anonymous person. known as q, who says hate, or indeed she worked within the trumpet ministration. you has been spreading the idea that president trump has a plan to take down the democrats and win the election. but now after a final post on election day, q. has gone silent. well they don't, the reporter on the soccer

however, moscow insists that novelli was tested for multiple toxins, including your evasions. while he was still here in russia, all of the results came back negative. russia has repeatedly asked the o.p.c. w. to pass on whatever evidence it has. those requests have been denied, leaving russia's un envoy to question the organizations neutrality. i will be blunt, the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary is increasingly turning into a tool in the west. ham's, which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed up by the watchdogs involvement in anti russian campaigns earlier with this creep our case and now with the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy. well, earlier we spoke with alexander sure can russia's permanent representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. he explained the months long effort to get answers from the organization and also from germany. russia has contacted the director general of the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretariat, offering to arrange for an expert miss

future there were some outside of germany who thought that the poisoning of opposition leader lexi novelli may 4th the chancellor angela merkel to change her thinking on this what is her calculation head do you think. there really was a debate that started. in the summer here in germany whether or not in response to the poisoning of alec saying that our new best should be a priest a poor perhaps even a council agent of the north stream to pipeline project there seemed to be quite some momentum there were many senior policymakers including from chancellor merkel's party who demanded that this would be the appropriate response and even the chancellor at some stage herself seemed to indicate that this is not only a commercial project as she has maintained for many years but also one that has a strong pull its for that now unfortunately this concession has not gone and gone the any further the momentum seems to have seemed to fade in the meantime and there's no indication at this stage that. the chancellor and her government. would take measures against those projects what i can really only do

sanctions over the novelli case, and since these sanctions directly affect hiring in stouffer's of the russian president's administration, we will respond in kind all russian requests for proof or any alleged date or were politely denied. so i would like to reiterate that we do not expect the bearer of the bad news, namely us to be criticized that it will be better to deal with the news itself. we have informed b, o, p, c, w, and urbanization that the russian side can approach to ask further questions., ironically, when addressing the o.p.c. w., russia was told to go back and ask germany, which made moscow doubt their organizations motives. i will be blunt, the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary at is increasingly turning into a tool in the west and which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed by the watchdogs involvement in, and russian campaigns early it with the script case. and now with the alleged poisoning of alexina violently and now russia says it may consider leaving the o.p.c. w. . so the ball

think that it is very regrettable that this kind of nonsense should carry on because i believe the novelli accusations to be complete nonsense. but on the other hand, as you just said in your question, not stream to seems to be slightly on the backburner. so my suspicion and indeed hope is that the sanctions and the noise about the o.p.c. w. is a cover for the fact that the pipeline will go ahead. that's my feeling right now. we haven't got to the point where the construction of the pipeline has been definitively abandoned. it hasn't been completed, but it hasn't been definitively abandoned. and so i suspect that the political class is finding a way to save face. in other words, to put symbolic sanctions on russia to up the ante on the diplomatic level, but probably my guess is to complete the pipeline. let's go ahead and look at that possibility of russia leaving the o.p.c. w. how likely do you think that is and what kind of ramifications could that cap'n? well, it's difficult for me to say how likely it is. i mean, i think that russia is camp conducting a campaign against the o.p.c. w. b

novelli 1st fell sick on an internal flight in russia. in august, the plane made an emergency landing in the city of he was taken to hospital and put into an interest call. the opposition activists was there left to germany for treatment. the only case, much more was discussed in interview with the kremlin spokesperson to make your press cough. he spoke with our teams aren't on the exclusive interview, will be airing in full throughout the day. here's a taster, entities for. and we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened if we want to know the truth. so we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wanted to cooperate. sometimes it seems that the patient does not want that truth to be out himself and i regret the world or anybody. sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness to.

the novelli case and much more was discussed in an r.t. interview with the kremlin spokesperson, their interpersonal exclusive sit alone, will be airing in full throughout the day, including again in 10 minutes time. here's a taster. we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened. we want to know the truth. so we said please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. sometimes it seems that the patient does not want that truth to be out himself when we were doing it, but sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well, you have to agree that there are more questions than answers a new study has pointed to an unexpected consequence of covert 19. it found that infection can trigger mental disorders. the research was conducted by a team at oxford university in the u.k. . no, they found that one