yes peter all of whom felt was saying a berlin next to get some more thoughts on this from thomas fassbender journalists north or how the thomas thanks for your time why is germany refusing to work with russia directly on this if there's nothing to hide if it's also clear cut the board what's the problem with telling russia what it knows or what he doesn't know as well as the o.p.c. w. well we have no official statement from the german government as to the reasons why do they not why don't they disclose this information what we have is a statement by one of the blonder star parliamentarians actually one with access to the secret information of 2 or 3 days ago he stated he gave a very clear and rather rational explanation by saying that the germans do not want to disclose the level of analytical capacities or 'd finesse which they possess in order to or. towards or prove the presence of the nerve agent not shock and this of course works on the assumption that the russians are burra trees still continue door to engineer and are able to refine the nerve agent in accordance with the state of the

top of this a journalist and author of thomas fassbender is still with us thomas thanks for stickingwith us. one of the big issues here is that germany has been reaching out to western allies but there's been a distinct lack of communication as i've been going through with moscow. the russian foreign ministry is saying that requests for crop aeration have gone on. do you think it would be or would it not be in berlin's interest to work with russia here in such a case but what we know is that the request. was received from the russian authorities quite a few days ago the necessary judy to your procedures where open. before today. it is indeed. the german government. issues a press statement. with the content it did the day announcing that it would share the information with e.u. will need to its that road visuals but at the same time it was announced that they summoned the russian ambassador. they will not. some of the russian ambassador without bruising to him or some necessary or at least minimal evidence otherwise it looked what make no sense to sit down with him. it boils down i s

have all been there before only now it is quite a totally grotesque form journalist and author thomas fassbender believes the standoff over the valley could escalate. well i would say we have 2. more and more colliding narratives here because germany cannot. germany is. more more or less directly disclosing their growing mistrust as i said they're growing there some part of the russian authorities state authorities are part of the book the traders and on the on the other side russia is not a bit will not be able to accept that sort of treatment by germany so as i say colliding narratives i'm sure there's there's a lot of arm twisting going around behind the scenes we probably know a couple of percent of what is really going on but as i said on the on the public side colliding narratives both sides will get more and more are getting more and more no consequence. formula one superstar lewis hamilton could be in hot water for breaking rules and politicizing sport this comes after his victory and us can go on sunday it took to the winner's podium wearing a t. shirt highlighting police brutality hami

all been there before only now it is quite a totally grotesque form of journalist and author thomas fassbender believes the standoff over not only could intensify. well i would say we have 2. more and more colliding narratives year because germany cannot. germany is. more more or less directly disclosing their growing mistrust as i said the growing concern that some part of russian authorities state authorities are part of the book but traders on the other side russia is not able to will not be able to accept that sort of treatment by germany so as i say colliding narratives i'm sure there is there's a lot of untrusting going around behind the scenes we probably know a couple of percent of what is really going on but as. on the on the public side. both sides will get. more and more are getting more and more of course. formula one superstar as how alternates facing an investigation after talk taking to the podium sporting a t. shirt highlighting police brutality the british driver just won the toss going to grand prix on sunday motor sports world bodies now looking into whether he broke its rul