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

a moscow court has given russian opposition figure aleksei avani a 3 and a half year jail sentence over alleged parole violations of on his lawyers have already said that they will appeal the decision well i'm joined now by our. i mean igor it's not exactly the most stranding situation here in russia but world wide a seems that saturn of honest cases hitting the headlines well it is it is absolutely one of the prison term for election of ali was announced reactions started to pour in international reactions i mean will be immediately and what i see immediately i mean it literally within minutes after the judge announced his decision when he effectively sided completely with the prosecution we've read the world we just started to i just started to read these you know statements released by the u.k. the united states germany france the council you are a breed you name it's really all of them sending essentially trying to convey the same message and putting a lexan of army on a pedestal have a listen. we reiterate our call for the russian government to immediately and unconditionally relea

welcome back kremlin critic i like saying avani is back on russian soil and was immediately arrested by police on arrival they found he had been in germany receiving medical treatment after an instant's last summit in which he fell seriously ill during a flight saw the reports from moscow's winnick about international airport when of on these plane it was scheduled to land. but here i am. just to the southwest of moscow and around 7 30 pm local time russian opposition forgot it was a cue to land on that flight from belin however at the last minute we got word that all incoming flights were being diverted to other ports and the film is flight was set to shut me up to the other side of the capital now we've seen footage of him that disembarking the plane we saw him boarding a bus in will to be taken to a tunnel and it was on that bus that the he was taken in to police custody now behind me about an hour and a half 2 hours ago are once dispatched now it is minus 20 degrees i don't blame them a crowd of supporters had got that despite with ortiz all skin people not to gather on most of t

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

russia slams the report of the global chemical weapons watchdog the russian opposition figure election avani was poisoned with a nerve agent. bringing in a new round of sanctions and. its purpose is obvious denigrate russia with unsubstantiated accusations and thereby create a far fetched reason for introducing another tranche of sanctions against our country. new in the chief of the o.p.c. . he's been barred from speaking at the u.n. security council about a controversial probe into alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria it's letter from the russian side. with pride like the olympics that's how the u.k. government is saying it will look back on its coronavirus response despite britain having the highest death toll across europe and seeing a new surge in hospital admissions. bus to the u.s. 2020 vice presidential candidates mike pence will go head to head in the debates on wednesday the race for presidents been characterized by name calling and a blame game so far at least a little to educate voters about the policy. good day for russia the 7th of october just to midday. and here it artie's w

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

organization or that diplomatic spot between perlin and moscow is heating up over what happened to alexei and avani the german ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow and what cheese heard how russia is far from happy and what it sees as accusations coming towards it about the alleged poisoning of alexei navalny a strong protest was made to the ambassador over the unfounded accusations presented by the government of the federal republic of germany against russia in the context of the illness and hospitalisation of russian citizen alexina of only and the obvious use of his situation by berlin as an excuse to discredit our country on the international arena the g 7 leaders have also issued a joint statement in which they talk about the confident poisoning of alexina folly the statement also calls up for action from moscow the russian foreign ministry not particularly happy with that they say that the main obstacle towards action being taken by moscow remains germany not sharing the information it says shows the next election in a valley was poisoned with a nerve agent with

same chemical weapon against novotny and they would have failed and at the end they would have given avani to german doctors this makes no sense i mean you know that they won't be using chemical weapon invented in the seventy's and eighty's for for something that are today said this is not just the way russia russia works and it doesn't make any sense why would russia do this right at a time where it's winning and of course is a very popular blogger figure in russian politics but he's not threat to put an end to the to the russian politics he's a he's a western ass so the west is using this again to standard maybe want to show something bad on russia because the can't stand russia any course will be providing updates and analysis on that of all the case and another drug claims throughout the coming hours right here on r.t. international. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. place elation and community. are you going the right way or are you being led. to. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in

this is how they approach the knockings it is to be more defensive more cautious and then hoping folk avani as he did today and luis suarez to get them the goal is put the so ours on his own that's going to be more tricky i think so that's their problem with france i think everyone apart from pol pot by playing to that level i think he's maybe five five percent off it's just sometimes comes up a little bit short it's like he's a little bit off the pace he's very lucky to have i'm going to count the next to him who is for me one of the best defensive midfield players that i've ever seen in my life. so he helps him out and talk bok can be a little bit. not good. for them and i had another word in my no always going to say that but he can but you know this is the world cup again you allowed to sort of play your way into it and the big play is as this tournament progresses as we move into the quarterfinals and the semifinals and the final for the big players usually to step into the character and we've seen that today with the papa we've seen that with kabbani and it's beautiful to see and we c

wrote the big minute to kill in the big momma's a film that liam neeson as style than it was a mock avani once this great scotland eyes on the mongrel nation among groups who wouldn't want to be a moped the greek there is nothing pure about scotland we are me the hope of emigrants will of that be a tell you will it be irish will it be bullish so i think should immigration is much more about hey do you want to. oh man levin what can build l.a. for scotland but only because we at accept and we understand that immigrants put more ending to the economy than to take the call me that's just a fact. sure americans are stating just in the course of scotland was against brecht's that they have a different view of immigration and so there are real differences between scotland . and don't get me wrong. i'm a special show list i have a particular view on but it that is a progress of a consistent left when opposition to breaks as a barrier i'm a gratian but it's the european union as a body it's a non-democratic body we all one when we vote for a political pocket election we want that political pot th