From moscow thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program. In germany is refusing to respond to moscows requests for information on the alleged poisoning. Thats the claim at least made by russias permanent representative to the International Chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. W in an interview to r. T. The Russian Federation has been waiting for answers from our german colleagues the general Prosecutors Office has sent 2 requests for Legal Assistance unfortunately we have not received any answers there were various explanations from the german side firstly there were references to National Secrets the german said they were afraid of revealing secrets and german technologies during our specialist acquaintance with the results of the analysis in a boon to swear laboratory. Then our german colleagues started talking about the necessity of the prior approval of look sane of all these relatives after that they referred to in a volley himself all in all the germans have delayed the respo
Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Lets go straight to our breaking news story right here on our International Germany has claimed that russian opposition figure alexina volley was poisoned with a nerve agent from the group is currently in a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital after being airlifted from siberia 2 weeks ago the Russian Foreign Ministry Says its requests to berlin for information on the case have so far gone earlier my colleague you know neil was joined by our correspondent peter out of. Well german chancellor Angela Merkel said that there was clear and unambiguous evidence that Alexei Novelli the russian opposition figure had been poisoned using a novacek nerve agent she said this they come to this conclusion following testing of samples taken from alexei in the valley at the bundeswehr institute a german military. Tree this credited certified by the organization for the
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By the way watching r. T. International thanks for joining us. The German Government says that it has confirmed that russian Opposition Leader alexina valley was poisoned by a nerve agent belonging to the navi group it comes to weeks after the activists fell ill on the flight to moscow before being lifted for treatment at a hospital in central berlin lets go live to the our correspondent based there is peter of all of these covering this story peter good morning russia has responded to the claims that. Or moscow is far from happy with the way this is being handled by the german side the announcement was well while the us the bush ambassador was called into the Foreign Ministry after the announcement was made to the press said it did in its child have says that after he had his meeting with the Foreign Ministry he wasnt presented with any facts to back up the claims that alexina valley was poisoned using a nerve agent from the novel group the Foreign Ministry in moscow has called this m