Agree on plans for a two year transition period after breakfast and well talk with take a look at what it means for businesses. And where the European Court set rule on the case of two jailed turkish journalists we look at how that countrys crackdown on the media and Civil Society is affecting thousands of lives. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. We begin in the u. K. Where International Weapons experts have begun analyzing the talks and used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of sauls berry says russia hits back at british allegations that it is behind the Attack Moscow is demanding that britain provide evidence to back up its claims but police in the u. K. Think that the. Evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state and as it did in the case of Alexander Litvinenko the trail of polonium led back very clearly to the russian state and in the end. Mr putin is in charge and that is that im afraid he cannot escape responsib
a fierce outspoken critic of the kremlin novelli refers to himself as a nationalist democrat in recent years however fighting corruption and nepotism in russia has become his priority. this video from 2016 shows several properties which allegedly belong to vladimir putin their value far exceeds the official income of the russian president the kremlin rarely reacts to these accusations but nevertheless he is repeatedly caught in the crosshairs of the russian justice department time and again his efforts to organize against the kremlin have seen him and up behind bars in total he has spent 5 months of his life in russia s prisons. and we can speak to our correspondent emily sure win in moscow now hi amalie what can you tell us about alexei navalny is condition
think that the. evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state and as it did in the case of alexander litvinenko the trail of polonium led back very clearly to the russian state and in the end. mr putin is in charge and that is that i m afraid he cannot escape responsibility and cope ability ations will have to be answered they will either need to be backed up with something evidence or they ll need to apologize. international comical weapons experts are in the u.k. to test the samples of the substance that sick in the script those results are expected to take at least two weeks. well let s bring in our correspondent emily sure win in moscow for more emily president putin s first public denial in this poisoning case came shortly after his reelection on sunday was the timing
a few officials on the royal the royal family and of course the question is how important is the u.k. to russia at this point after breakfast i think that russia will be kind of laughing that off as well all right our correspondent emily sure win in moscow and burgers must in london thank you both very much. all right let s go back to a story that we were covering a little bit earlier for you students high school students in the united states staging a walkout and holding a moment of silence in front of the white house we have our correspondent alexander phenomena standing by for us there alexander bring us up to date on what s been happening. well as you can see behind me the students are still sitting here in front of the white house two on there are seventeen people killed in the parklands mass shootings later on they are going to march towards the capitol here to try to press lawmakers in congress to.
by the kremlin to legitimize these votes by putting forward a real authorization candidate as she seems to be so far opposition candidates are polling in the low single digits however so there isn t really. a candid it that could really threatened putin all right no competition in sight that s emily sure win in moscow thank you. the upper chamber of russia s parliament has ratified a deal to extend the lease of a syrian naval port of forty nine years the vote means that moscow can now access syrian waters from the port of tartus developments part of a deal between russia and syria that allows russia to boost its military presence in the war torn country as part of the deal russia will also be allowed to maintain a permanent indefinite presence at the whom aimin air base here s a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world syrian rebel