A black man shot and wounded by police in wisconsin and he issues a challenge to president truck. Plus it was 5 years ago today that thousands of margarets left budapest hungary on foot to reach germany well talk to journalists who were there and ask them about an event that changed the course of european history. I brought in thomas good to have you with us today nato members are convening in the coming hours to discuss the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexei and only germany says it has evidence that not only was targeted with a deadly nerve agent created during the soviet era the kremlin is denying the charges that it was involved and has cautioned against a rush to judgment. What while germany and the International Community wait for russia to answer questions only it can surrounding the attempted murder of anticorruption activists Alexei Navalny kremlin critics are already playing a finger at one man there is only one person can be named as one them or putin because well
The top 0 possibility of the social issues would have been pure results weve both personal mission. Also coming up u. S. President ial contender joe biden meets the family of a black man shot and wounded by police in wisconsin and he issues a challenge to president truck. Also on the show in the wake of the devastating explosion in beirut a month ago sites like this museum are trying to rebuild amidst the nation in the midst of protests and calls for reform. Our brian thomas good to have you with us today nato members are convening in the coming hours to discuss the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexina bawly germany says it has evidence that the ball he was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent from the novacek group a substance created during the soviet era the kremlin is denying any involvement in the poisoning. What if while germany and the International Community wait for russia to answer questions only it can surrounding the attempted murder of an anticorruption activist Al
E. U. Against moscow after the poisoning of Opposition Leader alexina. For learn says it has proof the politician was poisoned with a toxic nerve agent produced in the soviet era nato members are convening an urgent meeting to come up with a response. And u. S. President ial contender joe biden meets the family of a black man shot and injured by police in wisconsin and new shoes a challenge to president. Putin. Im brian thomas could have you with us today a month after the massive explosions that ripped through beirut rescue workers have detected signs of life a search and rescue team with audio equipment and rescue dogs have detected a pulse 2 meters below the rubble. Of a collapsed building they began their search thursday afternoon theyre continuing to dig and remove the debris were looking at there more than 190 people were killed in the blasts on august the 4th more than 6000 were injured. Lets go live now to. Correspondent on the scene of that rescue operation in beirut whats the
They started playing and all this was very positive in the end of those days and it just gave me the feeling that these people in spite of all the hardships and the obstacles that they had to overcome were still very optimistic that a better life was ahead of them. Back then there was a lot of criticism of course at the time here in germany of opening the borders in hindsight do you think it was the right decision to really depends who you ask of course from our perspective on the ground back then it seemed the only right decision because of the humanitarian crisis we had there but to be fair afterwards we learned that the communication of the Different Countries was very basic to put it that way and we did think about our own reporting on the ground did we do the right thing were we to one sided but you know you have to remember we were down there and hungary and authorities were definitely playing games. The migrants always distributing leaflets that were exclusively in gary and that
Russia or heart nato isnt saying at this very early stage that russian officials or the russian government is definitely responsible for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny what they are saying is that the soviet and the russian government is responsible for any stocks of nova took the nerve agent used to poison of all me and that therefore it must come clean on where those nerve agents are being stored what you know who might have access to them and that it needs to you know participate in an International Investigation that you know if russia wants to say its not responsible it needs to help find out who is terry you had the opportunity to ask. The 1st question after a statement what did you ask him. Well on my twitter feed errata get a lot of comments about why is nato involved in this at all letting of all he is a russian citizen it took place in russia nato should just stay out of this so i asked secretary general stolzenberg why nato feels that it has anything to say about this case