Postal service with billions of dollars ahead of novembers elections. On time. Its good to see you with us russian Opposition Leader alexei no is in a berlin hospital this hour receiving treatment following a suspected poisoning of all make a lapse and lost consciousness after drinking tea 2 days ago in siberia doctors there initially refused to allow him to be airlifted to germany. The final metres of a journey from siberia to. One that the kremlin critic spent on conscious. Not only was flown out on this plane chartered by a berlin and geo his supporters had feared for his life after a suspected poison attack on the Opposition Leader. Wife yulia requested treatment in germany but the medical evacuation was only given the green light after a tug of war between russian and german doctors over whether he was fit to fly. Novotny spokeswoman cure a amish thank supporters and said the transfer abroad was a 1st step in what would be a long struggle to restore nepal nice health. A hospital is no stranger to treating kremlin critics who appear to have been poisoned. 2 years ago activist was taken here after showing poisoning symptoms he helped secure the same treatment for. President Vladimir Putin sr critics the 44 year old former lawyer was barred from challenging putin in the 21000 president ial election since then he has campaigned on behalf of opposition candidates in regional polls supporters hope that german doctors will be able to get to the bottom of what caused a sudden debilitating illness in a safe environment free of any political interference. Delhi has been reporting on the revival of alexei now bonnie at the Charity Hospital in berlin there she caught up with yacc a busy founder of the cinema for Peace Foundation which paid for the airlift she asked him about Current Health condition. Well we are very happy that you finally arrived in bell and then we could fly him out. The good news is that hes stable so the whole travel did not affect him but it does doesnt mean that i mean ill see we have were kind of like very happy everybodys happy but theres no reason to celebrate because its in a very Critical Condition so we were at starts now with the doctors that are sorry to. Say that the German Government have any role in assisting or helping with the operation to bring him to berlin but were very happy to hear 2 days ago that i know americans together with the french president made a statement that we should be found out what happened and that if he needs medical assistance he is welcome in germany and france and other countries offered to so i think it was very helpful and obviously. We kept the authorities informed about our activities but this exhibit is for private. And what does the family feeling think at the moment and what do they expect Going Forward with his taking care of at the hospital when i think theyre relieved it is to be an audience yes and that theyre relieved to be in a 1st class hospital to have a good treatments and obviously now it will be the question what the doctors can do and have to do. And. I mean apparently this is not a thing for a few days as were probably a long procedure and its a long way to go i mean as we referred from the doctors if they would have not been as Emergency Landing in omsk if they would have tried to fly on to moscow he would have died. Thank you very much. For more lets bring in professor sergei gloria former chief economist at the b. Argue thats a European Bank for reconstruction and development is also one of the top sponsors of move on these Anti Corruption fund and hes a close friend of only arrived today professor in berlin for treatment you must be feeling relieved it is a feeling of relief from but as you rightly said the situation is not out of the woods yeah hes unconscious and in the best Case Scenario we probably should experiment will take several weeks when your church came back to power and indeed has you deferred to the case of. It was and fareed difficult and painful to cover. All of this is clearly sensitive stuff but to the extent that you can talk about this who do you think might be behind this apparent assault in the valley and what we dont know and. We dont know and we do not know why it has happened still i would say it is very important to remember its not the 1st attack on a number only using chemical agents he says he was attacked in 2017 and the video cameras actually identify the men who are executive that dark and this man was not investigated interrogated or prosecuted the 2nd time he was attacked last summer when he was detained in a moscow prison and that fact was actually stated within the prison within the prison cell so it was also very easy to investigate it was not investigated as well which kind of tells you how the kremlin treats people who are talking about any and even if its not. Ordered from the very top of course its the very top of russian government russian authorities that is responsible for not only this time one thing which i would like to remind you you mentioned Regional Elections there will be Regional Elections coming up in 3 weeks from now and while any has developed hadley effective strategy for abortion there wouldnt barkin those so actions it happened last year the last year was extremely. Important breakthrough in various Regional Elections including in moscow thats my number only spent so much time in jail last year and apparently government was very nervous regarding the election there this coming up the number only was still is a very fact of communicator his you tube channel his weekly you tube channel is watched by millions of people in of course the government the m one him to be on air in the coming weeks. Until this election professor what can you tell us about his current condition what have you learned. Anything except for what is and what is being reported and and this is what youve just covered in your peers and and we just know that hes unconscious and we dont know. What exactly caused. You mentioned just before that there were 2 attempts on his life that were never investigated easy you believe given the International Attention to this particular story and others like it that that is going to change. I dont expect in this particular. Situation i dont expect that as long as the station was in power in russia this crime will be investigated i havent all doubt that this poisoning was administered using special forces usually using special chemical agents not dissimilar to those that youve mentioned in the case of that it is 0 for other russian dissidents including. Actual boys and points and of course that consoles are very aware one british woman died in the russia it is still denying that russia was behind this old body poisoning and in that sense in that sense i think that is the longest and this. Is the rule in russia which wont expire transparent investigation you yourself do not live in russia do you believe nirvana will return after this latest incident it is a question for alessio not only i know him for many years he. Looks you know when youre going on hes a brave and courageous man and he believes that he will come back and i can decide for him its for him and his family to. Make this decision but every think i know about the legacy the fact that hes been out that before and still continue it is very important work i would thing that he will actually come back he will not stop his fight professor sergei guria in france thank you so much for your insights thank you very much. Lets highlight a few other stories making news around the world at this hour president Alexander Lukashenko has ordered the military to use the most stringent measures to protect the territorial integrity of the nation he made the comments at a military base near the borders of poland and lithuania authorities have blocks from news websites reporting on large antigovernment protests. Families of victims have marched in new york to mourn the 175000 americans who have died of the fires they also protested against the trumpet ministrations handling of the crisis during the candle people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to new york city. California. Has requested help from canada and australia to fight the over 560 wildfires across the state tens of thousands of people had to flee their homes at least 5 people are confirmed dead Officials Say most of the places were started by thousands of lightning strikes. Democratic members of congress forcing a vote on their bill to provide 25000000000. 00 in emergency funding for the u. S. Postal service in an unusual saturday session the bill is expected to pass largely along party lines in the democrat controlled house of representatives u. S. President trump. Has threatened to oppose extra money to help it handle expected record levels of mail in ballots this fall driven by. Trump insists that mail in voting is riddled with. Correspondent blanker is following the story from washington welcome talk to us about the significance of this vote. Well house representatives came out of their summer recess for this so that already shows us how important of an issue this fight around the u. S. Postal services as weve heard democrats want to pass this bill that would grant 25000000000. 00 extra dollars to the Postal Service and what ban and also reverse some changes that have already been made to the Postal Service this year like cutting overtime for employees and removing mail sorting machines so this this is a very big deal but it is unlikely that this bill will go anywhere after today because it is almost certain to pass in the house where democrats have the majority but Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell of the republicans has already said that he will not allow it to come to a vote on the senate floor on friday the postmaster general who is a trump appointee by the way said it was his number one priority to get election mail in ballots delivered on time how were the democrats reacted to this democrats were not convinced at all by what postmaster general louis detroit had to say theyre saying they are already seeing shocking delays in mail delivery they presented stories from constituents who been saying that theyre not getting their purse scription medication in the mail on time or from Small Businesses who are suffering because when they ship out their product it takes a lot longer to get to to get to the recipients so theyre losing business so democrats are not convinced lou detroit can actually run a smooth mail and election trump is long claimed that postal voting can lead to fraud is there any evidence of this quickly call. No there really isnt experts have spoken out multiple times saying that male unfolding as not any more susceptible to fraud than regular voting and that probably president trumpets person pushing this message so he can point back to it should elections not go his way and can say see this is all fraud i told you so from the beginning lets call a blank are there in washington for us thank you karl lets get a recap now of the top stories were following for you. Russian Opposition Leader alexei deval navy is receiving emergency medical treatment in berlin following a suspected poisoning an ambulance of brought him to the shared take clinic where doctors will try to find out what caused him to fall unconscious 2 days ago he was airlifted to germany from siberia. 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