Clean house. The fall out continues at the silicone valley organization with a major announcement from the chairman of the board. I would like to announce that matt mahood former ceo and president. Svo has resigned. The abrupt departure is the latest in the flood of Community Backlash over this attack ad on the website. It was for race for Council District 6 and depicted black protesters on a smoke filled street and tag line do you really want to sign onto this . It was widely criticized as being racist and svo removed it, hired a Third Party Investigator and Political Action committee for svo has ceased activity. The executive Vice President announced staff, Board Members will undergo sensitivity training. I am very aware that svo has made several mistakes over past years that were culturally insensitive, racist, wrong. For that, we deeply apologize. Its a culture within this organization that is toxic to our community. Reporter jake tonkel, the candidate who was the target, says the
Scientists here publish more details about the general day its effectiveness. On the french its a recall magazine surely to reprint its controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad igniting to bait. To mark the terror trial getting underway 5 years after the bloody attack on the publications offices and us. With the big stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well welcome to the weekly an R T International im you know neal. Berlin and moscow are locked in a diplomatic route over the alleged nerve agent poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina volley on sunday the Russian Foreign ministry questioned berlins ultimatum to provide an explanation for what happened suggesting its the german side thats not being forthcoming if the German Government is sincere and instead months it should respond to their quest of the russian general Prosecutors Office as soon as possible that was passed along on the 20 sounds of forgets it is the german side that really
Down again just one week into the Academic Year as the country suffers another coronavirus. Hello there just midday the 7th of september here in moscow so good afternoon for me live from martys world news h. Q. My name is kevin 0 in welcome to the program 1st germanys foreign minister has threatened sanctions on russia if it fails to clarify whats behind the sudden and so far still unexplained illness of problem top position activists alexina valmy arties berlin correspondent peter all of a more. The German Foreign minister has demanded answers from russia over Alexei Navalny wants those answers in the coming days or you says talk of sanctions is back on the table hes also hinted at the 1st time certainly the 1st time weve heard from a Senior Member of the German Cabinet talking about this about the future of the north stream 2 gas pipeline previously started being put to one side even angloamerican the german chancellor saying that wasnt at risk it does seem like that may be changing
Or world news from r. T. International calling bray with a moscow news team and the headline stories that were across this hour 1st for you then the prominence russian opposition activist alexina valmy is out of an induced coma the hospital treating him in berlin made the announcement earlier but it said its too soon to say if he suffered any long term effects earlier the Russian Ambassador in london was summoned to the u. K. Foreign office over the case he told the meeting they had been nothing but unfounded accusations against russia peter all of the reports next from berlin. Of the statement put out by a shot at a hospital here in berlin says that Alexei Navalny has been woken from the induced coma hes been in for just over 2 weeks that hes starting to breathe on his own and hes responding to verbal stimuli the patients artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off mechanical ventilation hes reacting to being spoken to but long term
Russia when they do between one meets putin on thursday. You know what youre describing of course is the dangerous balancing act that the put in has been playing in syria when it sat on the one hand of course he doesnt want to throw away this very carefully build relationship with syria where he invested so many years in for the last 5 years but also of course the relationship with iran is very crucial so this is this very dangerous balancing act and there has been no official statements about of course their strategy because the official line from russia maintains to be there needs to do this offensive because turkey has reached agreements they were they had promised that they would this on this what they call terrorists here and they didnt do it so assad has this right to to have this attack on the on the rebel groups and russia is basically backing him off but in the last couple of weeks there have been many meetings between turkey and russia and it hasnt been any result because rus