avani: and what do you do? rory: i am a full-time tiktoker. ♪♪♪ rory: so in the morning, i'll wake up maybe 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, and i'll check my phone, check if my videos have done well, or you know, how my followers are reacting to the content that i've just posted. tiktok, honestly, i get so much love on there. it's so weird because that's my biggest platform, it's tiktok with 5 million followers. it's crazy to think that 5 million people, that's people, it's not just a number. and if you really think about it, it's 5 million people that have tapped that follow button. they're all just so friendly, and they're kind of like your family. it's just weird, like, you don't know these people, but they know so much about you that they treat you like a family member. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ rory: and on that note, welcome to the new rory eliza, avani: rory eliza is one of millions of young australians recording virtually every moment of their lives to get famous on tiktok. rory: get ready with me for a date. yo,

that could mean lengthy prison sentences for an avanti staffers and even some of his supporters not avani himself has been in prison for the last 3 months after having been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison but it's clear the authorities aren't stopping there is that because the kremlin fear the. investigative journalism the political documentary is that not all these team has been produced well that is definitely what sets new vonnie apart from say your average opposition figure writes his anticorruption foundation has been producing documentaries for more than a decade investigating put into inner circle his personal wealth and their latest documentary is called pitance palace and that racked up more than 100000000 views but these new restrictions on the f b k mean dept that organization can now no longer post anything online and if the court does rule that the f b k is indeed an extremist organization and even sharing their content or linking to their articles or videos could be deemed a criminal offense which could be problematic for russian journalist reporting on this story

back from 21 down to thrash italian side roma 62 in the semifinal 1st leg for no fernandes and sink avani scoring 2 and set up this goal for masing greenway united with a 4 goal advantage heading into the 2nd like. on the other semifinal is a lot closer villareal beat arsenal 21 in the 1st leg the spanish side are led by had coach and i am weary who was sacked by arsenal a year and a half ago of the premier league side will have home advantage in the 2nd like ahead of world athletics abco says doubts remain as to whether fans will be able to attend the tokyo olympics international fans have already been banned from going to the games which are due to start in july about look isn't being allowed to watch the next 2 legs of the torch relay due to the risk of coded $900.00 spreading cosas athletes have now adapted to competing in n.t. venues. given that there is still a question about whether there will be crowds in the tokyo. stadium but at least they have now got used to the concept of competing and competing at turning credibly high level because there's been no diminution in the quality

a political network linked to kremlin critic alex and avani has been suspended from operating while a court considers whether it should be outlawed prosecutors are seeking to have the anticorruption foundation which they founded declared an extremist group of ani was jailed for a parole violation and recently ended a hunger strike in prison he says the charges against him are politically motivated bennett smith has more from moscow. what will happen is that later this week prosecutors will ask a moscow court to declare his organization isn't a corruption organization and he's affiliated political groups all around russia as extremists putting them on a level with al qaeda now in the interim prosecutors of ask the court to make a ruling to essentially stop the activities of those groups while the court decides on a final ruling so we're expecting that now tomorrow on choose day now the volleys group say that they have stopped the social media postings they've closed the telegram channel down they've closed there are the social media groups but they will reemerge under different names t

of moscow now authorities have jill several of his supporters who staged a protest outside to demand avani receive proper medical care. he's getting a lot of media attention but that's all alex in the valley supporters can achieve at the moment earlier this week a group of doctors including the vollies family physician honest. came to the pokrov prison camp to get an idea of nevaeh in the state of health but they weren't allowed to enter. morrow and the day after tomorrow until they let assent and will observe how they treat alexei until he is taken to a normal hospital and gets normal medical treatment. alex a nepali seen here in a black prison uniform on surveillance camera footage 12 days ago russia's best known prisoner has been on hunger strike since late march in a letter to the prison director he demanded medical help sarcastically saying i've gotten used to my leg over the past few years i don't want to lose it now he is also suffering from fever and a cough and he says 3 fellow prisoners have been diagnosed with tuberculosis novell knees lawyers also visited the prison they were l

will see a unified country in elections in december and jailed russian opposition politician alex and avani has confirmed on instagram that he's being held in a remote penal colony is precisely cation has not been officially released since his move from a nearby prison and his social media post he calls it a concentration camp saying that he's working every hour through the night you know he's been classified as a flight risk the penal colony known for its strict regime is in the vladimir region east of moscow. you can an opposition leader by the wind has been arrested while leading a protest in kampala. the. wine called on authorities to free hundreds of his supporters arrested around the time of january's presidential election he lost the vote to longtime leader you were $71.00 disputes the results one says he hasn't been charged but says his home is still surrounded by the police and military. the to the arab league qatar that the mother and the and the you have to respect the will of the other going to work with what is a military and the curriculum at the end of the year to respect the

biden has made his 1st major move against russia over the poisoning of opposition leader and explain avani the white house has announced sanctions against 7 senior russian officials including the heads of russia's f.s.b. security surface the prison service and the prosecutor general irani who's the most prominent critic of president vladimir putin fell seriously ill last august the u.s. accuses the kremlin of poisoning him with a nerve agent something it denies never only was jail last month on his return to russia for violating parole whilst being treated in germany european union is also imposing sanctions on 4 officials close to president putin. it was not meant to be a silver bullet or an ending to what has been a difficult relationship with russia we expect the relationship to continue to be a challenge we're prepared for that and we're neither seeking to reset our relations with russia nor are we seeking to escalate 279 school girls kidnapped last week from a government run boarding school in northern nigeria have been recounting their ordeal after being freed they say their abductor

calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of russian opposition leader and extend avani no money was poisoned with it no a check nerve agent in august he was later arrested and jailed for violating his parole because he went to germany for emergency treatment you know experts and yes kind of mad and irene khan believes the russian government may have been responsible and that a domestic investigation went uncover the truth. eet ees our conclusion that trust ease response to both hold the attention on the tree keeping of me still number of time on me still not on the spot you was under intense you'll be almost by russian intelligence you just try again the fact of the earth in the face of the fact that people are other than those money caring is a marine who could have introduced to themselves in the uk at home with a highly dangerous poison and new way and how to handle each in the ok home so as to poison me still never and nigerian officials say they're close to rescuing $317.00 girls kidnapped from a school in the northwestern state is on fire and it's given their fami

but if we're living in a police state and avani went to prison for absolutely nothing. in the nationalist of how a state speak some people speak some moves the quantity. it's not that he's be moved. i don't really believe it i think will happen but i hope that justice will prevail and he will be free to do what you can that it doesn't matter for us which prison he sent the most important thing that he's behind bars for what he has done but. they say it's one of the most severe colonies in russia maybe that's why he's been transferred here. the conditions there are such that god willing he will come on to life but he definitely won't be coming out of that healthy nothing good will happen to putin const and he's the source of all this. on my 1st guest tonight presented the findings of the u.n. human rights investigation into the case of a legacy of all me. that is the u.n. special reports here on summary and extrajudicial killings she joins me tonight from maher say his government is good to have you on the program you said today that russia is responsible for the attempt

and a kremlin critic i'll explain avani has appeared in court accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran the russian opposition leader is already in jail for violating his probation while recovering from a poisoning attack leaders are now calling for an avanti is released and considering sanctions on russia the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has in returned in return for and to sever ties with the bloc. how russia treats this man and his supporters is affecting the country's relations with the european union opposition leader alexina val name was arrested in january after he returned to russia and jailed soon afterwards never only is facing more court cases which his supporters say a politically motivated the e.u. is considering new sanctions on moscow during an interview with the russian new to child russia's foreign minister suggested that the country could break ties with the e.u. if sanctions become a reality we should if we don't want to be isolated from international life but we must be ready for that if you want peace be prepared for war which group of screen . a spokesman

you but we don't he going to push on just a little bit because short c 100 he's a new jeep is isn't avani even popular enough to challenge president putin let me share with you shortly a great question thank you let me share with you this on my laptop what do russians think about the valley this is a recent poll and the blue people who are proven avani the orange the disapprove look how big this is in russia right 56 percent and then a good 25 percent don't care but no and then looking at people thinking in russia you think that nobody should have come back to russia because of course he when he came back he was arrested 22 percent as a tiny percentage think that that was a good idea 51 percent a neutral let's just make that a shrug and 25 percent disapprove this is a very different annex in the valley pool inside russia than they appear to be outside of russia go it. yeah tired he's not a particular tickly popular person and that's true even among liberal oppositionists a number of whom i think regarding river a certain amount of suspicion. for a number of reasons the 1st 2 were of his.

and dismissing it as foreign interference and avani was sentenced this way to just under 3 years for breaking parole he goes not off spoke to saskia taylor about the reaction to the verdict. well it certainly gain some traction internationally it has been covered in russia for sure but the amount of attention it's getting from international sources it is almost like they are the russian media within minutes after the ruling we started to receive statements from all over the world from the u.k. from the u.s. from germany france the council of europe really you name it all of them almost following the same the very same time template all of them calling putting alexina value on a pedestal and calling for his release we reiterate our call for the russian government to immediately and unconditionally release mr no vani as well as the hundreds of other russian citizens wrongfully detained in recent weeks for exercising their rights including the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly today's verdict against gelatine a violent is a bitter blow against fundamental freedoms

in berlin then at western relations with russia are very strained after the conviction of election avani what options are there for addressing these tensions diplomatically. that's a very good question and that's the idea of the book to the well of the who are presented if that we've just heard about to attempt to use a diplomatic path instead of the sanctions the u.s. ambassador have already announced that they will because you like distillation after the conviction of alexei navalny the e.u. has so said we will wait when the money was arrested and i think the visit of the well might also be one of the test cases to see what kind of with dollars will he be able to bring home will it be in the end of the good of bad timing and bad blokes and might that be for the youth an occasion to think about sanctions when diplomatic means especially when it comes to washington method policy usually that those successful. europe and germany in particular walk a fine line trying to maintain business relations with russia while addressing numerous disputes not least over ukraine these interests are cla

heavy security on the streets of moscow as kremlin critic and explain avani is sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violating his parole. protests ring out in yang gone against me in law's military coup. she is now back under house arrest. britain battles a covert variant that's mutated again but there's more encouraging vaccine news in both the u.k. and russia. and after a successful test launch a giant rocket space x. hopes will one day go to mars explode on landing. on side of us i'll have all the sports we'll hear from one of capsules biggest football stars and why is that he is this team to hail gets ready for their fast speed club while comp appearance on home soil. begin in russia where a court has jailed a prominent putin critic alex in a valley for violating parole while he was recovering in germany from being poisoned he's been given a 3 and a half year sentence but his lawyer says he'll serve 2 years and 8 months because of time spent on the house arrest in court a defiant mocked russia's president saying he would go down in history as putin the underwear poison while

moscow it's the 2nd consecutive weekend tens of thousands have rallied in cities across russia to demand avani be freed. reports from opposition stronghold st petersburg. leaked. to of the opposition's challenge to vladimir putin thousands have gathered again in the center of st petersburg as they are again demonstrating for the release of opposition politician alex enough me i had of the protest the austerity is called and of many areas of the city center. for many people here this is the 1st time they have ever attended a protest until recently they didn't care about alexander valley but his arrest at a moscow airport on return from germany outraged to many russians and many are also here to demonstrate against corruption perceived to police violence and elect of democracy in russia they showed up even though organizers didn't receive a permit for the protests from the also reaches. him in the most seriously why it leads. directly in light of that secondly i'm against corruption and thirdly i'm against political prisoners in our country or the people who tell the truth in russia should be fr

our news now from around the world the brother and several allies of the kremlin critic i like saying avani has been put under house arrest for allegedly violating coronavirus restrictions by calling for people to join protests the court decision comes ahead of new rallies planned for sunday authorities have warned protesters they could face charges of mass arrest. portugal's parliament has voted to legalize euthanasia the bill passed by a large majority allows assisted suicide for terminally ill patients the bill still requires the approval of the conservative president if he signs it into law portugal will become the 4th e.u. country to permit the practice. italy's president said it has a parliamentary leader to carry out further talks to try to form a new government roberto faecal leader of the parliament's lower house has until tuesday to determine whether the parties that formed the previous ruling coalition are willing to come together again in a new government the political crisis was triggered this month when a small coalition partner withdrew its support of the government of prime

russian place to time more than 3000 people during rallies to support child kremlin critic elects and avani. in an asia has seized an iranian tanker and panama and invest all suspected of illegally transferring oil in the country's waters with already said the 2 ships were spotted sunday off kind of comment on indonesia's section of cornell island the vessels were captured after crew members failed to respond to radio calls than 60 people are being held for questioning. the hate wave in southern australia where is southeastern australia rather is stoking bushfires near the city of adelaide 6 firefighting aircraft and crews have been battling blazes in the adelaide hills where a number of homes were damaged or destroyed temperatures soared above 40 degrees driving crowds to be his authority cycle the conditions on monday are expected to ease high conditions. in chinese state media is reporting 9 miners have been confirmed dead after being trapped under. around for 2 weeks and 11 others were rescued an explosion at the gold mine in chandon province blocked the exit and cut them off from the o

released from custody i'm just seeing the reuters report is quoting an unidentified ally of election avani saying that there should be fresh protests next weekend and looks as though this is gaining momentum. well yes indeed we also read these announcements that the next brought this should happen the next weekend and indeed it looks like it is gaining the momentum because it was. me and his supporters showed he said that there are big numbers of them that they are willing to take to the streets whether it's a minus 50 like you mean with school or. face seeing and having the colombine and clashes with that with the police like it was here in moscow and also in petersburg so today's protest has been shown indeed very ease big numbers behind aleksei now by me at least willing to protest on the streets for his freedom and also against the routine and he is out for you know sandra thanks very much indeed that his son and sons are going for talking to us from moscow. with another man's is imposing its toughest measures yet with a nation time nation wide a night time curfew against covert 19 fro

team says they're worried about him and they have been granted access to him in a video posted online avani lashed out at the russian judicial system and my own city but they're saying this is an open court decision on the police chief's motion for my wrist why is court in the police station why didn't they inform anyone why was i not served i've seen nonsense in the justice system before but this apparently that old men in the bunker is so afraid of everything that they defiantly ripped up and threw away the criminal proceedings code what is happening here is just impossible this is ultimately lawlessness i cannot call it something else however russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says no values detention is lawful solution is lowering on the case of novelli has gained foreign political resonance artificially and baselessly everything is happening to the valley in connection with his returning and detention falls within the competence of the law enforcement forces live to moscow and al-jazeera as alexandra go to the hearing is continuing alexandra so what are the possible outcomes for m

nerve agent attack last august which people aims on the kremlin russian authorities said they detained avani for violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence. a kiss goodbye and he's taken it was. arrested at passport control just minutes after expressing hope he might go free by use i'm not afraid. to go through border control cross the border and go home i know i'm right. against me are fake. just minutes earlier the plane had landed unexpectedly at moscow's sheremetyevo airport it had been diverted from a different moscow airport where it had previously been expected to land. dramatic scenes unfolded police arrested dozens of supporters who wanted to greet the kremlin critic personally authorities had declared their presence illegal and blocked access to the terminal with police vehicles some kremlin observers say the response shows the russian government is afraid of. me is dangerous otherwise they wouldn't want to imprison or kill him but he's fearless and now he's also famous even outside of russia that is exactly what the kremlin doesn't want. who are recognized by 70 or 80 perc

post as well as the ban has been fined $136000.00 and must complete a face to face education programme avani apologised shortly after posting a message saying it wasn't his intention to cause offense that is always sport for me in 2020 or in general thanks very much see you had 2020 what happened they. found a spine coronavirus concerns that some countries have still welcomed in the near. there are large celebrations in new zealand one of the few countries able to hold relatively normal festivities after gaining control over the spread of the virus dubai rang in the new year with the fireworks and lights display at the bush family for the world's tallest tower giving the residents a view from all sides of the city and in the city where kevin 19 originated thousands gathered in the city center to celebrate by releasing balloons into the air. first 2020 draws to a close we're reminded of its defining moment the coronavirus pandemic brought historic loss but also global solidarity away from covered 19 protests war and the fight for justice affected the lives of millions we look back now at 2020

all manchester united will be without ed sink avani for their next 3 matches the year why and striker pleaded guilty to using insulting and improper words in a social media post since apologized saying it wasn't his intention to cause offense at the sporting year has been defined and disrupted by coronavirus major events like the olympics a face costly delays while top level athletes have gotten used to performing in the stadiums at the richardson reports on how sport has got through the pandemic at 0. in march basketball star really go attempted to make lots of concerns about catching coronavirus what can you say hands over the assembled media as equipment. holders are gone back to the sea to keep heading back to the water 2 days later a game involving his utah jazz team was called off for the last minutes it later emerged had become the 1st n.b.a. player to test positive for cope with 19 the team's departed the scene it will be more than 4 months before they returned. the olympic flame continue to flicker on even after most other sports have been snuffed out but at the end of march

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vaccine and has dismissed allegations that he ordered the poisoning of opposition leader and explain avani russian president was speaking at his annual news conference which was held at his private residence in moscow because of the pandemic so we're going to go has more. the annual presidential press conference with a marked difference it is always a marathon event last in close to 2 hours with relatively few surprises from his home in the suburbs of moscow president vladimir putin fielded questions from all over the country his thoughts on current issues foremost the pandemic and whether he'd been given the russian vaccine sputnik v. which is yet to meet international approval standards. the vaccine is like going to civilian circulation are currently provided for citizens in a certain age range and vaccines have not yet reach people like me but i'm a fairly law abiding person i listen to the recommendations of our specialists so i haven't had the shot yet but i will absolutely do it as soon as it becomes possible there were also questions over the attempted assassination of his opponent

there has been a new development in the case of the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei in avani a media investigation has found that a group of agents from russia's security service f.s.b. had followed the phony for years shadowing him on flights across the country alexey ivanovitch bonnie is still recovering in germany after collapsing on a domestic flight in russia last august doctors found he'd been poisoned with the nerve agent choc a joint investigation by website belling catch and the insider together with spiegel and c.n.n. discovered telecom and travel data showing the f.s.b. agents tailed lavani including on the day last summer when he almost died. and joining me for more in the studio is a reporter rebecca ritter's rebecca thanks for joining us what more do we know about the people who have been implicated in this report where you mentioned a lot of it we're talking about 8 people the reports has named 3 of them and they were all working for the russian domestic security agency the f.s.b. as you said now all of that either medical training the 3 that were named were me

have photographs he has the names of course now for the moment moscow says there's no evidence stanton avani was poisoned and that there is nothing to investigate yeah of course that's what we would expect to be coming out of the kremlin with this explosive information. as always public thank you here in germany a tougher lock down is coming today german president from falter steinmeyer pleaded with the public to abide by the new restrictions as the country struggles to fend off the surge in covert 1000 cases germany will enter a strict lockdown on wednesday after weeks of a partial lockdown which failed to drive down the number of new infections steinmeyer and other leaders are urging the public to make sacrifices as the country prepares for a holiday season like no other. last minute christmas shopping came early this year people are still roaming bellowing streets looking for gifts but from wednesday on the shops will have to close as germany enters a tough and lockdown why polls show around free quarters of germans backing the measure opinions on the high street are mixed. then for if ev

they're disappointed or 1st thing is are i strongly opposed to the combined and avani question with economic sanctions and especially with the gas pipeline laws for him to why we do that. there is no reason to combine it. we should, we should look at a separately imagine when mystica shockey was murdered in the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul, where the evidence is clear, different in the money case, new one ever tried to connect it with all oil business, that saudi arabia sophists and why we do that with russia. the 2nd is that we see a clear illegal 3rd party sanction by the us again, small stream to which connects russia and germany directly from natural gas. and now obviously to the money is used to justified is illegal sanctions. and to make pressure on the pipeline project. and that is not russian policy. that is anti-rational sentiment from the us and from parts of western europe. and suv of my position is let's separate it. and then if we go to this is as an isolated case, then of course we should also all the question that or that or a and in the room. we should share the inform

most recently, the opposition leader alex in avani. it has its cyber chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish its democratic systems while promoting its phone version of democracy. it is deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence at home, its hospitals are filling up fast with coated patients as its president hides out in his villa. i mean, add some dramatic music. do a cool video, add it pepper the whole thing with a few explosions here and there, and you've cooked up a trailer for the next hit limited series on netflix. but no, it's not that not by a long shot. it's actually the opening of a job advert for a russian reporter with the new york times. page searches for unbiased to impartial or balance. come a blank, no results found in the text. not that it's much of a secret though, that the new york times isn't that interested in covering a happy russia. but some readers weren't that impressed with the sudden spasm of honesty from the paper did the see any right. new york times new russ

organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons confirmed the deadly nerve agent nabil chalk was used on avani and now the e.u. is preparing new sanctions against russia. to try catch often along with france are proposing sanctions be imposed on those individuals we believe to have been involved in this crimes which often be it so. that could mean asset freezes and all travel bans for those names that appear on the sanction list. you're watching news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by of the day tonight a stress test for the u.s. supreme court a test like never before the to see the. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. our corona update. with 19 special next on d w. can you hear me now yes yes we can hear you and i lost you gentlemen sound so that we're bringing you i'm going to back off and you've never had to have a surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical what is that. who talks to people who follows her own. the way my runs and critics now is the world's most

valmy has accused president vladimir putin of being behind his poisoning with a soviet era nerve agent avani has posted comments online as his recovery in germany progresses in his 1st interview novelli said i don't have any other visions of how the crime was committed at least 9 people have been killed in a dozen more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the country region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by the fierce flames residents of being evacuated from the area. spans government has ordered the capital madrid to lock down amid a surge in the number of corona virus infections the country's health minister said thursday that new cases in the madrid region accounted for almost 44 percent of new of new infections across the country in the previous 24 hours the regional government had opposed the measures but now says it will comply and instead launch a legal challenge against the lockdown. this house and bustle could soon become a thing of the past as madrid prepares for its 2nd lockdown. it's exasperating not knowing what's going to happen tomo

photo he shared on the social media network instagram said his path to recovery was clear although long avani is being treated in a hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent that's been used before against kremlin critics. the greek government says over 200 people have tested positive for corona virus at a new refugee shelter on the island of lesbos europe's largest refugee camp burned down earlier this month even as some 12000 people homeless the migration ministry says 3 quarters of them have to move to a new camp which is already full. pro-democracy protesters are rallying in thailand to demand the prime minister's resignation tens of thousands of people are gathered near the royal palace during watts planned to be a weekend long protest demonstrators are calling for an end to military rule and a return to democracy. where better regime police detained around 250 people on saturday during a women's march in the capital minsk the weekend demonstrations have become some of the largest anti-government protests since a disputed presidential election triggered unrest in better routes but

to gas pipeline project with russia in response to the reported nerve agent poisoning of alec's in avani berlin says it has evidence they promised kremlin critic was targeted with never choke moscow rejects all claims of involvement and says it can't investigate without being given access to berlin's test results meanwhile the heads of key german regions have come to the defense of the major energy project the bad one is economically necessary force but it's also necessary that we stay together with the russian it's a project that plays a decisive role in the framework of altered energy and climate policy and therefore we've come to the conclusion that we want to carry on with it and to those that advocate closer ties with russia. i say that the poisoning of alexei navalny with an advanced chemical agent is not a one off. now it's time to will pump russian gas to germany and then on to other european countries via the baltic sea when completed it will stretch 1200 kilometers 90 percent has already been built it finish it will double the amount of gas falling from russia to germany constr

every possibility you get to do so and of course there are nuclear incident that occurred with missile avani is such an opportunity to push the own again. and so it was clear from the beginning. this chance would be used and i'd say novell they he's our conscious and recovering from his suspected poisoning has been posting on instagram about what he believes happened to him according to a new video and accompanying text a water bottle with a trace of the novacek there beige it was found in his hotel room in the city of tomsk his colleagues say they took the bottle as evidence just an hour after in the valleys alleged poisoning came to light r.t. is because diana has been looking at the clay. this is it amateur footage shot in election of ali's room according to his supporters about an hour after the russian opposition figure started showing the 1st symptoms of the poisoning and the 1st thing that jumps at the viewer is that all these people in the room normally it is advised to wear more protective gear to protect oneself from covert and this here they were potentially dealing with a militar

to the case of the russian opposition leader alexei and avani foreign ministers of the group of 7 leading nations of condemned what they described as the confirmed poisoning of the kremlin critic for its part moscow has someone to the german ambassador over statements by his government about the case on monday of audio work from a medically induced coma in a hospital here in berlin his doctors say there is undeniable evidence the volley was poisoned with a form of novacek a soviet era nerve agent the german chancellor has called the poisoning attempt at composing and attempted murder. 2 australian journalists have returned home from china after being caught in a 5 day diplomatic standoff michael smith of the australian financial review and bill birtles from public broadcaster a.b.c. were forced to take shelter in australian diplomatic missions in china after their homes were raided before they left the country chinese authorities questioned them about an australian t.v. and go working for chinese state t.v. with smith and birtles departure there are now nor australian journalists reportin

here in germany to confirm that this was a chemical weapons a substance that was used to poison and avani at the same time there is a lot of discussion about what kind of consequences that might have full the relationship between germany and russia and in the center of that is discussions about the north no 3 true pipeline a gas pipeline going through the baltic sea from russia to germany which is about to be completed hasn't been completed yet and germany has been saying that this product line might possibly be affected this pipeline project by the situation at the moment let's hear what the german foreign minister and the government spokesman said about this today. france's offer for. their the phone for now as i believe that would be wrong to rule out these having any impacts on the project for the. very shells for. the chancellor of greece it's wrong to rule anything out. you know the u.s. has been pressuring germany to scrap this pipeline project for a long time so could this dispute over the poisoning of me actually end up killing this deal. it's a possibility that's certainly in th

herein avani is pushing for change shortly before he's poisoned in the siberian city of tomsk. because i'm traveling around the country to declare war against united russia it's clear that this place should be one of the 1st it's sorely needed in this war. in the footage recently released by his team and if only challenges united russia party members in tomsk calling them corrupt let's looking creatures and urging the community to both him out and the september 13th local elections his supporters hope the 44 year old will be awake to witness the outcome of the. us democratic presidential candidate joe biden has met with the family of jacob blake the black man who was shot by police last month sparking days of unrest in the city of can osho wisconsin after meeting relatives in private biden joined a community discussion at a local church he also spoke to blake himself on the phone from hospital the victim was left paralyzed after police shot him in the back as he tried to get into his car or 3 of his children were sitting well let's bring in dave. in who's standing by for us in

due to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during take off but it did but i see alex in avani is well known for his fight against corruption in his country. but right now his fight is just to survive dominic cain al-jazeera. well still ahead here on al-jazeera he's japan's longest serving prime minister. could take a hit to explain why. no end in sight firefighters in california struggle to contain massive wildfires why it could only get worse. however we've got some welcome showers pushing towards japan as we go on through the next couple days say welcome because that will help to break the heat you can see little more cloud just sliding its way in the south quite so welcome this is tropical storm barry that's going to make its way further northwards as we go on through the week ahead gradually pushing up towards the korean peninsula round about wednesday so that's some way off ahead of that well as i say 30 celsius in tokyo with those showers temperatures to pick up a little as we go on into monday prices guys come back more in the way of sunshine not so much sunshine for no

to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during takeoff but if you ask but i see alex in avani is well known for his fight against corruption in his country but right now his fight is just to survive dominic cain al-jazeera. well u.s. house of representatives is meeting in a rare saturday session to discuss funding for the postal service which has become a key issue in the run up to this year's presidential election the democrat controlled house is set to approve $25000000000.00 of extra funding and blocked changes to the system before november's election representatives a holiday store over concerns cost cutting measures planned by the services boss a trump donor could slow down the delivery of ballots or shihab rattansi joins us live now from capitol hill and shall of course awaiting for this vote to take place even if it passes as expected it's still very uncertain that the measure will be taken up. the final passage is actually underway now the vote for final passage democrats are well on their way to the 218 or so that they need to get this through but yes this goes nowher

russian opposition leader nixon avani is airlifted to germany where he's being treated for suspected poisoning. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to people also ahead. these guys who are in the. very top of that they have an order and they have or they can do whatever they want evidence of torture and abuse by police in the days following the disputed election. the u.s. house of representatives is to vote on emergency funds for the whole still service democrat samael operations are being slowed down to favor president trump in november as election. and fires forced tens of thousands from their homes in california at the governor for help from canada and australia. russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been transferred to a hospital in berlin to receive imagine c. treatment for suspected poisoning russian doctors had initially said he was too sick to be moved from a hospital in the siberian city of homs but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane has more from berlin. this is where. his journey has brought him burlington's world renown

thursday when it's now speak to john mccain he joins us from berlin dominic i can see the hospital when avani will be treated over your right shoulder it is one of europe's best. this hospital of them are right shoulder is one of the world's leading hospitals in all manner of different fields of medicine but it has the people there have specific direct immediate experience of treating patients who present with the same sorts of symptoms the same sort of condition as alexei navalny is presenting them with right now here arrived here within the last hour and so now at last the medics are able to begin treatments clearly they have to diagnose what's wrong with him but they've been told by the people who arranged his flight here that's the cinema for peace foundation that he is in a stable condition well no great surprise there because he's been in an induced coma for some considerable time now since his ordeal began on board that flight from tomsk to moscow several days ago now the point to make very clearly here is that the doctors here in germany are looking to find out what is in his system a

now we go to correspondent only go avani 1st or more redacted story it's the lane maxwell the name that launched a 1000 lawsuits the alleged coconspirator of jeffrey up staying in the potential person we will say didn't kill herself was arrested after a year in hiding where did these diligent investigators find her brazil balrog. monaco santa rainey no the f.b.i. arrested her in a new wave oh ham she writ. officers are said to have broken down the front door at the 156 acre property which is called tucked away in new hampshire how did she find that place through a travel service just for wanted rich people like on the run being a hide anywhere with the literal go to ways we service to osama bin laden and saddam hussein. the sex trafficking case would ordinarily be staffed out of what's known as the violent and organized crime unit but it's stamped out of the public corruption meaning a public official past or present is involved in at least some capacity reportedly the procuress maxwell who's facing a minimum of 35 years behind bars is ready to cooperate with the f.b.i. and name some na