Competition and illegitimate sanctions but also by creating instability on our borders. And joining us now to discuss this boom bust cohosted investigative journalist bents one whos been following the story now but i want to start with what we know about the poisoning of alexina bali. Yeah we actually dont know a whole lot about it according to reuters there is some information he was traveling apparently between siberia and moscow in august he became violently ill he was an air flight into germany where doctors began to treat him and they say that he was poisoned with some kind of a nerve agent and so the details of exactly how he was poisoned are not known at this time and the fact that russia and specifically certain members of the russian government have been accused by the french of the germans as being responsible for this is a little bit strange because we dont have any details surrounding that having said that it was enough as you just said for the e. U. To say that theyre goin
These critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities no bawly is in germany and is now recovering this week e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on russian officials fish tales and organizations blame for the poisoning these sanctions according to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov are not surprising and could lead to further economic strains between the 2. The question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down with russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we
Religious views would not influence her decisions and 2nd day of confirmation hearing saw a devout Roman Catholic amy kone berridge question by the Senate Judiciary committee which. Germany has pledged solidarity with greece and cyprus and their dispute with turkey over sea boundary issues for mr want to turkey of a major setback in relations with the e. U. Turkish ships have been searching for gas reserves and waters that greece and cyprus also claim. This is news from berlin follow us on twitter and on instagram news or visit our website w dot com. For. Just 3 weeks until election day in the United States this was supposed to be done will trump selection to lose despite the hundreds of thousands who have lost their lives to cohabit 19 well that all changed 2 weeks ago when the coronavirus turned the president positive his reelection chances negative tonight trump is once again campaigning once again denying the dangers of the virus and this time hes risking peoples lives in the proce
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A setting the Global Standards intake theyre drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the upper hand with an immense amount of financial firepower but chinas also highly secretive fad restrictive the question is is china more of patna old rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the world to lead in International Investment and allow for a level Playing Field german executives are spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on investment for 7 years now but after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. The skyscrapers of shanghai have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German Companies have an office in this business metropolis but some are starting to get nervous. 5000 German Companies operating in China Business is good but for how