President ial election in. Welcome to the program. And we start with breaking news this afternoon the European Parliament has just passed the resolution urging sanctions on russia if it should fail to carry out an open investigation into the alleged assassination plot against Alexei Navalny straight to from our boat in studio for the latest people as for staying across this lot of unanimous vote here but clearly heavily in favor of sanctions against russia just tell us what this vote could mean what is the outcome here. Well what we could see essentially is tougher sanctions against russia on russians 532 m e ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in a is asset freezes travel bans another sanctions against those that are featured in alecks involving these Anti Corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexina valmy when they talk about an International Probe thats including
Program. The European Parliament has just passed a resolution urging sanctions on russia and response to the alleged assassination attempt against. The latest update a little while ago. Well what we could see essentially is tougher sanctions against russia on russians 532 m e ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in is asset freezes travel bans another sanctions against those that are featured in Alexei Navalny zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexey in the valley when they talk about an International Probe thats including the United Nations the European Union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from us th
U. S. Troops die. American president ial hopeful joe biden fails to recall the country he infamously helped to send the military back in 2000 and. Good morning from russia this thursday the 17th of september live from our teams world news h. Q. Here in moscow my names kevin though in here for the next half hour with the update stay with me the 1st the European Parliaments expected to vote later thursday in a couple of hours time on a resolution relating to the alleged poisoning of a russian opposition leader. And while Member States are reassessing their relations with moscow right now the kremlin is urging them not to politicize the case saying a proper investigation is needed be to roll over in berlin has more. But be voting later on thursday in the European Parliament on a resolution to do with russia relations between e. U. Member states and moscow what this resolution does is it calls on russia to cooperate with an investigation into what happened to alexina valley to provide imme
Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program. The European Parliament has just passed a resolution urging sanctions on russia in response to the alleged assassination plot against opposition figure. And hes got more details. 532 m. E ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in a is asset freezes travel bans another sign sions against those that are featured in the zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexa and of ali when they talk about an International Probe thats including the United Nations the European Union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from us about l. The e. U. High representative for Foreign Affai
Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program. Other European Parliaments adopted a resolution calling for even more sanctions to be slapped on russia in response to the alleged assassination attempt against opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny russias foreign minister has responded by saying many politicians in the block are all too happy to pass a promised your judgment well before any due process has been conducted. Any discussions about the naming of the sanctions mechanisms are seen as an unhidden attempt of given in the mornings you your restrictions and you and to russian sentimental nature while at the same time that our proposals to berlin to conduct a joint investigation of the incident are continuing to be ignored the meat of pretexts the nature of the statements made in brussels makes one think there are all western partners do not wish to find out the troops while the action goals are to support the information pain unleashed in the European Union in order to ensure that t