A good afternoon from moscow this monday the 14th of september when i was kevin owen here with this live program for you for the next 30 minutes from new sent to moscow 1st rallies again took place throat sunday calling for president alexander looking to resign in the capital 1st off there were brutal clashes between demonstrators and Security Forces at least 400. 00 arrests were made crowds are keeping up the pressure more than a month after the contest election which the one with 80 percent of the vote opposition claims the election was rigged. Up the. 4th. And there are also several counter protests and mills called sunday 2 people voicing their support for president looking schenker and calling for an end to the postelection unrest meantime Alexander Lukashenko himself plans to meet his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later on monday in the black sea resort of sochi in southern russia is on route now apparently to get late storm from our correspondent if a trinket earlier hey th
This is our 2 International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. Roland says its assessment that alex in amman it was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the never took group has been confirmed by laboratories in france and sweden earlier a German Military lab found traces of the poison and the russian opposition figures by a samples russias request to access that evidence has so far gone unheeded arties peter arbor has the latest from berlin berlin is now saying that 3 laboratories have confirmed that not a chalk or a substance from the of the truck family was present in samples taken from the lexan of ali weve also heard that the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is starting its process to verify. Those results that have been taken we heard from stephens i burst on monday hes the German Government spokesperson basically the voice of bangalore merkel and he said that look bora trees in france and in swe
Good afternoon just turned one of the afternoon moscow time money was kevin though in this is out International Life my world new center one story dominating this out of the Committee Following in great detail. Again taking place throughout sunday calling for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign well talk about that 1st in the capital minsk of a brutal clashes between demonstrators and Security Forces at least 400 arrests were made crowds are keeping up the pressure then after more than a month now the contested election which Alexander Lukashenko won with 80 percent of the vote the opposition though still claiming that election was rigged they say. The pope. There are also several counter protests in minsk on sunday 2 people voicing their support for president looking good and calling for an end to the postelection unrest thats pretty much weve been seeing over the last 4 weeks or so but the main news today Alexander Lukashenko them planning to meet his russian counterpart Vladimi
That except. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow lets get started with your live news update. The president s of russia and belarus are now meeting in the black sea resort city of sochi im going to look at shadows visit comes at a time of on rest in his country where theres been more than a month a protest song the contested election trying to reports on the talks. The republic of belarus has been on the brink of turning into a new violent crisis hotspot and Eastern Europe protesters keep filling the streets of bell russian cities although president Alexander Lukashenko has been able to avoid the worst Case Scenario for him a nationwide strike and a full scale revolution the longstanding bela russian leader often called the russian president after the vote as he was trying to bring the situation in his country under control and now after a bit more than a month he is in tsotsi now many are expecting the belle russian leader to seek for help and s
Dont tell us. From moscow 24 hours a day or are to International Welcome to the program. Diplomatic standoff is deepening and poisoning russian opposition figurehead. Russias foreign minister has said no. To open a criminal probe into the case due to a complete lack of data from germany where not only is being treated. When no one will if there was no nouvelle me 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 answer 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 of the diplomatic standoff between moscow and berlin is intensifying russian prosecutors have said theyve sent a 2nd request for Legal