Just before. Dont tell. The program my names you know 30 minutes of news. Russias foreign minister said. To open a criminal probe into the. Complete lack of data from germany. Responded to the threats of sanctions against russia over the alleged poisoning of the opposition figure. Youre billable no one if there was no nevada on the they would have come up with another reason to impose additional sanctions our western partners have gone beyond all limits of decency in reasoning in fact they are now demanding that we confess its such a mysterious story given that on the 27th of august we sent a request for Legal Assistance from the russian general Prosecutors Office and still there is no wants or we dont have legal grounds for launching a criminal case yet and that is why we are asked for Legal Assistance from the german side and the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin is intensifying russian prosecutors have said theyve sent a 2nd request for Legal Assistance to berlin theyre
Russian Opposition Leader like cinnabon he was poisoned by a nerve agent that belongs to the group comes to weeks after the activist fell ill on a flight to moscow before he was airlifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin so lets go straight to berlin d the german capital of the peter oliver is based there and is following this story for us good morning peter we know at this point there has been a response from russia to those claims what russia had to say. Well russia has reacted to claims from germany that alexina valmy was poisoned with a novacek nerve agent both the Foreign Ministry in moscow and the embassy the Russian Embassy here in berlin have criticized the announcement. What we do but that only in liverpool if there is any day doubt we will work it there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy because there voiced by a Foreign Ministry that many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to say diversion doctors in arms share their con
By the way watching r. T. International thanks for joining us. The German Government says that it has confirmed that russian Opposition Leader alexina valley was poisoned by a nerve agent belonging to the navi group it comes to weeks after the activists fell ill on the flight to moscow before being lifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin lets go live to the our correspondent based there is peter of all of these covering this story peter good morning russia has responded to the claims that. Or moscow is far from happy with the way this is being handled by the german side the announcement was well while the us the bush ambassador was called into the Foreign Ministry after the announcement was made to the press said it did in its child have says that after he had his meeting with the Foreign Ministry he wasnt presented with any facts to back up the claims that alexina valley was poisoned using a nerve agent from the novel group the Foreign Ministry in moscow has called this m
For joining us midday here in moscow. Moscow says that it has yet to receive any concrete evidence from the German Government regarding claims that russian Opposition Leader alexina valmy was poisoned by a nerve agent earlier announced it had found traces of navi chalk on the 2 weeks after the activists fellow on the flight to moscow was lifted for treatment in germany. Has the latest from berlin. Moscow is far from happy with the way this announcement was handled by the german partners the Russian Ambassador was called in for a meeting at the Foreign Ministry only after statements had been made to the press now following his meeting said again the Russian Ambassador said he wasnt presented with any facts from his german colleagues the Foreign Ministry in moscow has called this megaphone diplomacy what we knew but that only if there was any data we would work with that there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy because theyre voiced by Foreign Ministry
Watching R T International coming to you straight from moscow 247 welcome to the program this hour. We start this hour with the latest reaction from the kremlin on aleksey it not by any means its spokesperson says moscow fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that the russian Opposition Leader was poisoned by a nerve agent Dimitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue. There are verjee joins me live now from the german capital peter what else have we been hearing from the russian side. Oh. Well moscow isnt happy with the way germany has handled the announcement in saying this to legs again of on the was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent the statement was made before the Russian Ambassador and being called into the Foreign Ministry to discuss it and. Said when he was in that meeting no facts were put forward by the german side the kremlin spokesperson demitted press corps has said that its essential they cant comme