This is our teams or National Bring you your live news update this hour straight from the russian capital welcome to the program. Russias foreign minister has urged germany to provide whatever information it has on the alleged poisoning of onyx in the mali the russian opposition activist has been in the hospital in berlin for almost 3 weeks and recently emerged from a coma and some veil of stress that berlin has an obligation to hand over data on the case. But still you to go minute video on top of the german representative to the u. N. Said the data is no longer a matter for bilateral relations between germany and russia but a matter for multilateral proceedings what kind of proceedings the germans are talking about they were unable to say in the interests of our german colleagues we urge them to provide all necessary information which might in any way shed light on the absolutely unfounded accusations. And moscow are both demanding answers germany says its passed on all its informati
Right now the German Parliament has just held a session dedicated to the alleged poisoning of. The russian opposition activist has been in hospital in berlin for almost 3 weeks now and recently emerged from a coma several german politicians are calling for action to be taken against moscow lets go live to europe correspondent. Tell us about whats been said in the. It was a fiery session on friday afternoon into early evening here in berlin in the german bund the stock the majority of those who spoke with pointing a finger of blame directly at russia and the russian government for what they say was the poisoning of alexei novelli Christophe Martin shoes a senior figure within the social Democratic Party saying that the future of the relationship between russia and germany would have to be completely rethought following what he described as this attack on mr novelli there were some voices that question the official government line not many i have to say but there were some poor hampel fr
Announced that theyll normalize relations at a white house meeting their leaders also committed to opening embassies in jerusalem. It has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent we look at the fight to protect young girls in the philippines. And in sport leno messi is to remain a boss on a player messi says hes changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal dispute with the club. Commemorations have been held in lebanon marking one month since a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people poorest in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm thats the time almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited in the ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city 200 people died and thousands will. One of the many buildings reduced to rubble one is now the focus of a search for a possible survivor off the signs of life were detected on thursday but so far scans of the building a fail to find anyone alive what we have seen so far is unfortunately no trace of any big
Can osha wisconsin testifies from his hospital bed as he faces charges of Sexual Assault. Lebanon fall silent a month after the explosion the toll through the capital beirut. And the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activists behind the nations fight for womens rights. And i welcome to the program 2 countries that for one of the most devastating wars in the balkans are normalizing economic ties in a deal announced by the u. S. President on trump trump has called the equipment between serbia and kosovo a major breakthrough kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 but is not recognized by the government or its allies trying says serbia will also follow his controversial diplomatic policy and move its embassy to jerusalem while kosovo will establish ties with israel lets go live now to the white house our correspondent kelly halkett is following all of these developments and of course kimberly President Trump will be hoping that these cour
Kosovo agreed to normalize ties also coming up on the news hour lebanon falls silent one month after the explosion that tore through the capital beirut and the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activist behind the nations fight for womens rights. In school enormous see is to remain a barcelona player messi says hes changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal disputes with the club. Welcomes the news our top story Donald Trumps allies are scrambling to his defense amid growing backlash of the u. S. President s alleged remarks on war veterans suckers and losers are amongst the times the president has called americas war dead according to an article in the atlantic magazine but given trumps support in the military and with less than 60 days to go until the election its become the focus of both campaigns of a night party call hayne has more. The u. S. Military and veterans are a big part of u. S. President Donald Trumps base he needs th