International. The German Government says that it has confirmed that russian Opposition Leader alexina valley was poisoned by a nerve agent belonging to the group comes to weeks after the activists fell ill on the flight to moscow before being airlifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin lets go live now to the middle of correspondent peter situated than hes following this story for us peter 1st please take us through the latest developments. Well angle of merkel the german chancellor addressed the press on wednesday evening she said that germany had clear and unambiguous proof that Alexei Navalny the russian opposition figure had been poisoned using a novacek nerve agent this was after tests had come back from the blunders very institute to German Military look oratory which is certified by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o. P. C. W. Those tests and being double checked they come back positive the only heart nor the chalk in his system now im go
There thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. Begin this hour with the very latest reaction from the kremlin on the election of the case that spokesperson says that moscow doesnt understand what prompted berlins claims that the russian Opposition Leader was poisoned by a nerve agent to me to put skull falso revealed that the russian president has not discussed the issue with anglo medical aunties peter oliver has more from berlin. Moscow is far from happy with the way this announcement was handled by their german partners the Russian Ambassador was called in for a meeting at the Foreign Ministry only after statements had been made to the press the following his meeting said again the Russian Ambassador said he wasnt presented with any facts from his german colleagues the Foreign Ministry in moscow has called this megaphone diplomacy what we knew but that only if there was any data we would work with that there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplo
Watching R T International coming to you straight from moscow 247 welcome to the program this hour. We start this hour with the latest reaction from the kremlin on aleksey it not by any means its spokesperson says moscow fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that the russian Opposition Leader was poisoned by a nerve agent Dimitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue. There are verjee joins me live now from the german capital peter what else have we been hearing from the russian side. Oh. Well moscow isnt happy with the way germany has handled the announcement in saying this to legs again of on the was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent the statement was made before the Russian Ambassador and being called into the Foreign Ministry to discuss it and. Said when he was in that meeting no facts were put forward by the german side the kremlin spokesperson demitted press corps has said that its essential they cant comme