i've been speaking about the ambassador�*s remarks with maria snegovaya from the george washington university's instituteuropean, russian and eurasian studies. the reality is that he is not wrong. russian _ the reality is that he is not wrong. russian authorities have a history since _ russian authorities have a history since the — russian authorities have a history since the soviet times of letting people — since the soviet times of letting people die outside ofjail. what they do— people die outside ofjail. what they do instead, they destroyed the health— they do instead, they destroyed the health of— they do instead, they destroyed the health of people while they are kept in health of people while they are kept thait, _ health of people while they are kept injail, irreparably, to the extent the damage is done and cannot be cured _ the damage is done and cannot be cured subsequently. then they let the person outside the prison, so that this — the person outside the prison, so that this person dies outside the prison— that this person dies outside the prison and — that this person dies outside the prison

s capital city. yogita limaye, bbc news, delhi. professor nathan grills is a public health physician at the university of melbourne, and australia india instituteo are going through similar situations, and i get constant phone calls and whatsapp messages from friends in india with similar stories to what�*s being recounted there, trying to find oxygen and treating sick ones at home because there�*s no hospital beds. it�*s really dreadful to see the health system so overwhelmed like this. it raises the question of, given the scale this problem, a lot of people might say, "well, surely, why notjust have a national lockdown? bring every thing under control, stop people moving around the country, try to restrict the opportunities for transmission?" in yourjudgment, why wouldn�*t that make comparatively little difference? it goes back to what level of infection you have in the community. i think the first lockdown to happen last year in india did slow the transmission of the virus, obviously, and i think that�*s an option now. the government�*s weighing up the effect of a lockdown onjobs, the economy. in india, where you�*ve got a large number of pe

and cooperation in europe or o s c e and back in moscow maria lipman senior associate at the institute for european russian and eurasian studies at george washington university a warm welcome to you all maria let me start with you today this move to ban all of all these political organizations to declare them extremist i mean not only supporters see this as an inevitability at this point right i mean that's why offices are in the process of being disbanded correct yes this is correct and i think the government is out to destroy. his organizations formal and informal and actually it is on a broad campaign to destroy anything and anyone who would dare is express open and vocal disloyalty to the regime it is not limited to the knob on himself and his organizations it goes much broader to some media outlets to lawyers to on non-governmental organizations and it seems that the campaign will continue the government is very serious about it it is determined to put any end to open disloyalty alexander picking up on the point that maria was making there let me ask you how dangerous will this extremist label make things for in of all these supporters for staff members

george washington university's institute for european, russian and eurasian studies, on the remarks by the ambassador. since the government would want to be be blind by mist and navalny�*swould not be want to be blamed for his death. the reality is that he is not wrong. russian authorities have a history since the soviet times of letting people die outside ofjail. what they do instead, they destroyed the health of people while they are kept injail, irreparably, to the extent the damage is done and cannot be cured subsequently. then they let the person outside the prison, so that this person dies outside the prison and the kremlin that way is left without any blame for a person's death. de facto, the goal is achieved. adding to the diplomatic tensions between russia and europe, moscow has expelled 20 czech diplomats after prague sent a similar number of russians home. it's all about russia's alleged involvement in a deadly explosion at an arms depot seven years ago. the czechs say it involved the same two russian agents who britain claims tried to kill a former spy with a nerve agent three years ago. our security correspondent gordon corera has the story. the aftermath o