Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact, but still, we manage at least to pass some basic information about, like, whats going on. But to tell that alexei is now orchestrating the protests from his cell is a little bit too much. He actually isnt able to do it. But his political structure, the structure he has built that im now managing, is capable of, at least for some time, of keeping pace, of running forward, along with the directions we discussed with him when he left berlin for moscow a week ago. What kind of condition is he in . Because im mindful that he recovered from a Near Death Experience with the novich
Logs. A long awaited inquiry into the conduct of Australian Special forces in afghanistan has found credible evidence of multiple war crimes. The report contains details of 39. 00 unlawful killings of civilians or prisoners and the cruel treatment of a father to other allegations include weapons being planted on bodies to conceal crimes. Turning to the inspector generals report, he found none of the alleged unlawful killings were described as being in the heat of battle. None were alleged to have occurred in circumstances in which the intent of the perpetrator was unclear, confused or mistaken. Its alleged that some patrols took the law into their own hands. Rules were broken. Stories concocted lies told, and prison is killed, nigga gauges in combat, i was more on the investigation. This is been a very long running inquiry, and it has been extremely critical of the culture within a strongly is special forces unit in afghanistan, the inquiry looked at allegations and incidents that occu
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A standoff with the government over crop prices shows no sign of being resolved. Plus a backlash and boycotts the nikkei it for its provoke debate about diversity in japan. And im he said with the sport and then pick organizers say the tokyo games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than one of the half 1000000 people have died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths in new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions in the worlds worst affected countries the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs the president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 3 months in office. Its on the 1st day im an arguer had
We are starting a bikini afonso the sunday womens a vote is a casting their ballots in an election taking place under the shadow of violence and allegations of voter fraud. President not christian, a couple is seeking a 2nd 5 year term in office 2 of his main challenges of accused him of trying to rig the vote. Hundreds of thousands of people in the north and east as well will be unable to vote sundays elections to close the polling stations there for fear of attacks, violent groups. Nevertheless, its going ahead and the manager says, following events from a budget in nigeria, ive seen some pictures already of voting happening. What more you hearing well, in a short while we expect president himself to be. Hes polling booth to cast his ballot, expecting to succeed and solve todays vote. But this is a vote, but like he said in the introduction, has been overshadowed by events there and a good chance of ford or the opposition is asking. Calling the attention of the International Communit