well i'm glad merkel speaking here in live alongside the swedish prime minister stefan levin briefly touching on alexina valmy and saying that how germany would respond to russia depended on russia right now and how it responds to those allegations that came out on wednesday as it stands moscow is far from happy with berlin at the moment in the way that that announcement on wednesday was made what we've heard from the head of the fact that a press conference was called before the russian ambassador had been summoned to the foreign office before. being told that this was going to be this announcement was going to be made. of the russian ambassador said that once he was summoned to the the foreign ministry he wasn't given any facts about the allegations being made now the kremlin spokesperson to me to the press golf has said on thursday essentially they can't comment on what they haven't seen in relation to the the evidence to back up the claims that alexei navalny was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent while the foreign ministry in moscow has accused berlin of what it called make a

looking at the alexei navalny case right now alongside her on thursday speaking in the chancery was stefan levin the swedish prime minister he called for a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr volley that followed on from similar calls from british prime minister boris johnson. on the line the e.u. commission president also the french prime minister as well all saying that there needs to be a full investigation in condemning what's being alleged by germany as the poisoning of alexei in the valley we've also heard on thursday from the senior spokes person for the aid of e.u. foreign affairs go to cooperate have pleased the foreign office so far also said that an investigation should be conducted by moscow during that press briefing he wrapped up was asked a question about spatial sanctions against russia from the european union over the election of on the case he said that any sanctions were down the line from now that there needed to be an investigation 1st it was up to moscow to carry out that investigation and then anything further would be discussed once they had those re