A Senate Committee that ballots will be delivered securely and on time. And turkey finds a massive natural gas reserve in the black sea discovery which could dramatically reduce the countrys dependence on energy and. Low welcome to the program our top story russian doctors treating one of the kremlins biggest critics in intensive care of agreed to let him fly to germany for specialist medical treatment the doctors in siberia backed down after initially insisting that alexina volley was too unwell to be moved the Opposition Leader collapsed on a plane on thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his aides believe was laced with poison around the supporters accuse russian authorities of trying to stop his evacuation or a challenge reports. Whats going on inside this regional russian hospital is army slightly clearer than whats going on inside the body of its most famous patient with a plane waiting in to take it on conscious alexina valmy to germany doctors spent most of the day saying he was too sick to move then late on friday a change of position also used to show you the relatives the wife and the brother of the patient who are fully immersed and have all the doctor about the diagnosis and condition of the patient a ready to take the risks weve decided not to oppose transferring the patient to another clinic. Its expected in a valley will be taken to the airport and flown to belin nobody would really believe that the Opposition Leaders spokeswoman and another 8 struggled to speak to the german doctors who just been to scene about only to. Look at doing a moment ago with lisa force you know wasnt allowed to meet with german doctors as you saw they pushed me away just like they pushed her when she is the wife and has a full right to know everything about alexis condition which is the full right to speak to germany talk shows you should transport him from this to a normal hospital and soon as possible in the valleys wife yulia suspects the delay in releasing him is so any poisons in his system would be harder to detect if it does business with this situation is outrageous authorities want to give alexei to us we think its obvious that something is hidden from us but the allegation that never drank poison tea in the cafe at tomsk airport before boarding a flight to moscow is being denied by the omsk hospital medics if you will for. We have come to the conclusion that judging by the fact that there were no poisons found in his blood or other biological materials he has a metabolic disorder lowering of the blood sugar levels to be specific due to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during takeoff. When he arrived. In germany tests and treatment given to me will confirm whether doctors outside russia share this opinion but in Moscow St Petersburg and other cities supporters of being gathering and getting detained putin stop poisoning people says this blackout never alley live says another like the Opposition Leaders closest aides theyre convinced this was an attempt on a nice life and the fighting me putin has to play. Down to 0. From the charity organizing alexina valleys flight to berlin and says his safety is the 1st priority our mission is a human Cherry Mission bringing a plane making sure that he can come safely to billin and get his treatment all the speculations about poisoning a pretty good backgrounds is not read our business obviously to share it yes its famous for doing a very good job in trying to save such people and obviously also to find out what kind of substances and waltzed so we will see what the charity will actually define and find out personally on my side was very important to have good german men medics with us who actually checked if hes able to fly nevertheless that hes unconscious that hes under until ation and they came to the conclusion a difference in the russian doctors the can fly and we will fly well tell me again is in berlin for us now what sort of treatment is in a valley likely to get that. The sort of treatment that alex in a van is going to receive in the building behind me the shiite a hospital a world renowned hospital a very long standing is pretty similar to the sorts of treatment that were given to the person 2 years ago who was presenting with similar symptoms similar conditions at the time this was a person who is an associate of the pussy riot group vocal and outspoken critics of president Vladimir Putin in russia he came here to escape he was treated in the house from what he believed at the time was a poison and the point is that the organization who we were hearing from just the organization whose source this flight all they very much believe the cinema for Peace Foundation they believe that poison is in mr van the system they believe certainly they hope that it can be found that it will be found by the professionals working in the hospital behind me remember also theres a political aspect to this certainly in so far as western europe is concerned because chancellor merkel of germany but also the french president emmanuel mccaw in the course of the last 2436 hours of both expressed their concern about what has happened to mr narayanan both said they expect that aunt says need to be provided not only about what actually is in his system but how it got there but for the moment at least officials in berlin in the in the building behind me at the shady hospital they just want mr nardelli to to get here so they can start to treat him thank you very much from berlin dominic kane. Oh there is a brief or a spy perhaps and libyas divisive and chaotic civil war the internationally recognized government in tripoli has declared a cease fire thats also. Been backed by a rival parliament in the east when terms of how the country has been divided you have the un backed government controlling the area in blue and its headquartered in in tripoli and then wallah 25 to who is allied with the east in parliament and tobruk controlling that part in red both sides were gearing up for a battle over the city of sirte the gateway to libyas prized oil fields but there are now proposals to jointly demilitarize the area one with the for at base in the south crucially sir is controlled by forces loyal to have to have imposed an oil blockade since january causing around 8000000000. 00 in losses to country the cease fire calls for production to resume there and it wants elections to take place in launch as long as libyans can agree on a constitutional basis for that Charles Strafford looks back at the recent conflict in a country that. Libya has been in turmoil for nearly a decade. Nato bunker full season overthrew its longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 with the roots of whats often described as this all rich countries civil war started after the disputed elections in 2014. Disagreement between the then house of representatives and the General National Congress made worse over a socalled road map for libyas future. The country split into 2 rival administrations the house of representatives led by the warlord 34 have to move to the eastern city of 2 broke and what became the un backed government of National Accord led by Prime Minister fayyad as raj remained in the capital tripoli in the west. Thousands of people have been killed and many more forced to flee their homes by 6 and a half years of fighting. The un accuses regional powers of repeatedly breaking a 2011 arms embargo on libya by supplying weapons to both sides egypt the u. A. E. And russia have supported hafta while turkey and qatar have backed the government of National Accord. In april last year half to ordinary fences to take control of tripoli aiming at what he described as cleansing the western zone of terrorist groups. His forces have shut down or taking control of major Oil Facilities in Eastern Libya depriving the country of billions of dollars in revenue tripolis only International Airport has been repeatedly bombed using heavy artillery many civilians have been killed and wounded large areas of southern and western tripoli have been almost completely destroyed in the fighting repeated attempts at un bank cease fire talks of failed. A cease fire is a decision made by the power brokers by the circumstances and it is not necessarily a libyan decision this spike the fact that its the d. N. A. And who announced his decision this time to decision is not libya and the decision is uniquely turkish russia with some input from some of the International Powers and as long as it stays that way its unlikely the ceasefire will bring. Friday cease fire announcement comes amid fears of an escalation by both sides mobilizing for a battle over the town suit the gateway to the major also some of those which are under the control of pro have 2 forces for now at least theres hope that agreement between powerful countries many say have contributed to libyas suffering a backing a cease fire that could end it civil war chance transferred. Up that of the u. S. Postal service says mail and balance ballots will be delivered securely and on time for novembers election you know as to joy was testifying before a Senate Committee over concerns his cost cutting measures could mean millions of ballots would go uncounted postmaster general who is an ally of President Donald Trump had ordered the cuts but hes now suspended the changes after that public outcry of how it could affect the election trump who himself votes by post as suggested that mail in voting could be susceptible to fraud as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the American Public that the Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nations election manal securely and on time this sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day i did or castro is following the developments from capitol hill and says the Postal Service chief distanced himself from the president. Lista joy is fielding the accusation from democrats that he is essentially trumps accomplice in trying to steal the upcoming election detroit has said that insinuation was outrageous today he said that he has had no communications with President Trump or the Trump Campaign as far as these changes to the u. S. Postal service that he has implemented he committed again to postponing further changes these cuts to services that he says are intended to bring the troubled agency to financial solvency and has nothing to do with complicating the Upcoming Elections with mail in ballots now the joy has vowed to the senators today on this panel that every ballot will be counted in time that is a dramatic departure from the warning that his Agency Issued to states a month ago saying that millions of votes may be uncounted because of these delivery delays now turkey has announced its biggest of a discovery of natural gas president. Has been saying that 320000000000 cubic meters have been found in the black sea the areas actual reserves are even lancia comes at a welcome time for techies struggling economy and edgy imports cost 41000000000 dollars last year president wants the gas to be extracted and used just as soon as 2023 when turkey 100 years since becoming a republic and he hopes to find even more reserves in turkey is controversial explorations in the mediterranean. Well muscled out of order weve been making concerted efforts over the past years both the exploration business we doing the same in the Mediterranean Sea both princes of juggling worlds in both the black sea in the mediterranean by the grace of god we found this big discovery and im certain that we will have similar good news from the mediterranean but analysts have been warning that the gas discovery is not necessarily a game changer and it could take up to a decade to extract it the exploration took place in the black sea off the north coast of turkey simcoe sulu is in istanbul and says that the discovery is not big enough or extensive enough to have a long term impact the size of the gas reserves found by that by turkey is of course very small compared to energy giant countries like china or United States or russia but will it be a remedy for the ailing turkish economy thats the question and this is what the turkish government is very positive about turkeys and that Energy Importer country for instance in 2900 took imported 45 building to big meters of natural gas and it costs around 15000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars for turkey and it constitutes a Police Health of turkeys current account deficit so for a country like turkey totally dependent on Foreign Energy supplies even though its a short term gain its when of course the size the scale of the. Resource is not enough to be a game changer but its going to provide tricky a lever it in the black sea also a legitimate station of Energy Exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean this is how the government sees and of course this is good news for the ruling party to consolidate its electorate given a fragile economy to ribbons turkey is going through. So halfway on the program far from the world class hospitals in major cities americans and towns on the southern border are suffering the worst from that 19. Past the point of no return 2900. 00 so a record melt on greenlands ice sheet with irreversible consequences for the global sea level by 40 percent. Weve got plenty of summer heat across central parts of europe but ive it was a Northwest Well were still looking at some rather lively weather. Bands of cloud continue to wrists well away in from the atlantic deep area of low pressure this one more the sort of weather of expect in the autumn well see these showers long spells of re gradually getting drifted away as we go on through into the weekend say things will gradually quieten down thats the remnants of what was a storm alan thats a cold front last making its way further south was in the swiss will see west of weather grassing making its way up its was the Baltic States latvia down across potence seeing some sundry downpours and breaking the heat whether those heavy showers they will extend their way all the way into austria and across the aisle still a blustery day for the northwest into the British Isles as we go on through saturday 22 celsius in london 25 in paris much colder than of late in berlin at around 26 celsius in the submit picture as we go on through way into sunday whats a weather mess for the south whats in the sweats to the east of that right across southern parts of through the med its fine and dry lots of warm sunshine thats the case too close northern parts of africa more heavy showers into the heart of africa little further north they should be running all the way over to the west. 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Postal service has denied claims hes been trying to undermine mail in voting for this years president ial election its off to concerns cost cutting measures could mean millions of ballots would go on counted. Now thousands of opposition supporters a celebrating in malis capital bamako days after the government was toppled in a military coup president to announce his resignation after soldiers detained him and choose day the Economic Community of West African States has closed its borders with mali and is setting a delegation on saturday to discuss the countrys political future amid addresses following the story from nigerias capital where eco us is headquartered and he explains how the mali military will want to handle a visit from the west african bloc. Im sure by the time the course delegation arrives malia obama could tomorrow there will be one to show them that the people are with the militant new military leaders and they want to inform them that it was a necessity that the army intervened of course the narrative now is that they did not intervene in bramber work or to the left and so they wanted to fill up a vacuum so as to stay the course of the country so but what is important for them is that they want as much as they can to show to the rest of the world that they still have been x. That they have been accepted by men by georgia of money and and of course they want to use it as a bargaining chip for whatever sanctions but may come their way especially now that the west african power block or the Economic Community of West African State