A russian dissident tells d. W. That the order to poison alexina bali came straight from the top. To the Coalition Operation could only have been carried out but will be approval most bloody me approaching the q 3. He suffered a similar attack and other activists say that poison is just one tactic that the kremlin uses against its enemies to cluster coronavirus fatigue around the world is fuelling skepticism and outright denial we meet a man who protested and for lead and talk to an expert about the spread of conspiracy theories. And the show must go on thats the spirit of venice where the 1st major Film Festival since the pandemic hit is underway this years competition features a Record Number of entries from female directors. Im sara kelly welcome to the Program Uncertainty remains over what exactly happened on Tuesday Morning to one of the leading figures and the Opposition MovementOfficials Say that Maria Kolesnik was detained trying to cross the border into ukraine but the Ukrainian News Agency interfax says that she resisted attempts to deport her a claim backed by ukraines interior minister who said in a Facebook Post that she had successfully prevented her forcible expulsion from belo groups. Has been leading mass protests against president Alexander Lukashenko on monday the Opposition Movement said that masked men bundled her into an unmarked vehicle in the capital minsk and drove away it followed another mass protest in the city at which more than 600 people were arrested. Lets bring in correspondent Nick Connelly who is in the capital men do we have any more information about where kolesnik over could be right now. That is the sort of thing sara no one has been in touch with her for over 24 hours now since she was arrested here on the streets or. Detained rather on the streets. Not far from her house in broad daylight we have had that confirmation now from the Border Police that she was the she hasnt crossed the border that she was detained but has always been trying to find out more information none forthcoming from now the other 2 opposition members that she was traveling with have now into ukraine the classic are still in belarus and doing her best to prevent the government from throwing her out i mean the extraordinary thing shes actually better or worse and the better option government has been throwing out its own opposition citizens of people in the opposition giving them the option of either going behind bars all being sent out of the country kalashnikov i had received threats the past and said she wouldnt follow them that she would stay in the country no matter what and were now hearing from ukrainian she ripped up her passport to prevent her being sent to ukraine tell us a little bit more about now what happens to the Opposition Movement because i mean see this is a very prominent figure who was leading the protest against sankoh. Which is definitely a prominent face of these protests shes a symbol shes someone whos very media savvy and very good in gauging different groups of people but she isnt the only leader and i think shes more symbol than a leader of these protests these protests become so big now you know hundreds of thousands people coming out in a country of only 10000000 people that even without her active engagement these protests will continue people are organizing themselves on their own with some kind of hierarchy you see students organizing themselves you see the residents into 2 districts coming out not tonight dying on their pots and pans in the yards of that building organizing various kinds of protests graffiti hangouts flags all kinds of things even if the government would put her and more people behind bars that will not be enough to stop these protests nic meantime we have the Opposition Leader. Is just addressed the council of europe shes asking for more International Pressure to be exerted on the regime of. What measures could the opposition regard as helpful at this point. Its a really tough one i think the main thing for the opposition the main important step was the fact the European Union didnt recognize the results of these elections as caused by the looks i think a government beyond that this is a government that has come under sanctions time and time again over the years and it has survived them and even seen those sanctions withdrawn without them doing much in return i think if there is a section proof regime in europe or at least in this region that it is this one i think this is about symbolism right now showing that the outside world is watching but they are the success of this movement will be decided on the streets of belarus and not with the help of sanctions connelly and manske thank you next its its its on german chancellor Angela Merkel will not rule out consequences for a russian german gas pipeline project over the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexina vali the German Government has warned that it could end its support of the 10000000000. 00 euro nord stream to which is set to double russian gas deliveries to europe if russia fails to investigate in a volley case on monday devolving woke up from a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital german doctors say there is on the Clinical Evidence he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent. The case stars parallels between another russian opposition figure who was poisoned 2 years ago he says that the use of no other chuck indicates that nirvana is poisoning goes all the way to the top. Reports. P. R. Is fighting fit but 2 years ago the activist was left fighting for his life struck down by a poison his situation was similar to that of alexina volley but unlike novell knee there were no signs of the nerve agent navi chalk. Boards as you can see my poisoning wasnt as bad as his i was able to recover more quickly i was already able to speak in the 2nd week of recovery but navi chalk is an extremely strong point and we were it doesnt make a difference that we want to hurt someone or kill them. Chocolates perfect for committing murder or. For the way its. Like never. Was treated that balance Charity Hospital no one could confidently identify the substance that had been given to him his symptoms prompted doctors to suspect poisoning but which never. Says there is no doubt supports. The fact that not because bush used clearly points to the russian president up the motivation of being at this or one thing is only secret agents have access to this specific poison prison where you and your Coalition Operation could only have been carried out with a group of law dimia pretty much. With all right where there are people. Other opposition figures have been targeted with less deadly means among them the independent politician dimitri good called one year ago he was barred from standing in the mall school City Council Elections and jailed for 36 days. When he was just. Another. An independent local politician and a prominent figure in the mass protests in moscow one year ago she still faces charges for participating in demonstrations. That dog of the lets put it that we live in an authoritarian country in a dictatorship began when it was a lot into office with thousands. Of thrown in your human rights arent part of the equation here freedom and justice dont exist here you can be jailed every time you call for people to join a protest. In the face of intimidation. Refuses to stay silent since his recovery has become politically active again and that despite the fact he has a young daughter and her sister with me. I want my friends my family and my daughter to live in a wonderful country without putin and his disgusting system the years of getting war im sure we can achieve this goal when we visit the listicle. P. R. Would let his daughter go out alone at night and every morning hes by her side on the walk to school. To have a look now at some other stories making news around the world tension is escalating between india and china over their disputed border in the himalayas beijing has accused indian soldiers of illegally crossing the frontier and firing warning shots violating any agreement barring the use of firearms india says that chinese guards fired into the air a border clash in june left 20 indian soldiers stat. 2 australian Media Outlets have removed their journalists from china after police demanded interviews with them and temporarily blocked their departures Michael Smith of the Australian Financial review and bill burgles from the public broadcaster a. B. C. Sought shelter at diplomatic compounds after Midnight Raids on their homes they were the last 2 journalists working for australian media in mainland china. Firefighters are tackling a 2nd blaze on an oil tanker off the sri lankan coast stays after the 1st was extinguished the vessel is carrying 2000000. 00 barrels of crude Oil Officials have warned of potentially massive environmental damage if there is a leak or the ship explodes. Around the world many people are coming down with a case of coronavirus fatigue some who rejects government regulations as too extreme or even taking their outrage to public for example in germany mass protests have erupted the skeptics now find themselves marching alongside right wing agitators and conspiracy theorists you have met a man who took part in the recent berlin demonstration he says that hes an ordinary citizen who just questions the science not a political extremists. Wagner was at the big demonstration against the coronavirus measures here at berlins Brandenburg Gate hes 50 years old lives with his family in berlin and does freelance work in advertising frank but good does not believe that the coronavirus is especially dangerous he says the infection numbers are low and that coronavirus mortality rates are similar to those of influenza he feels the restrictions are excessive just give me. Some way to eat my have to leave my address behind it makes no sense if i get up to use the toilet i have to wear a mosque as Everybody Knows that these totally absurd regulations that i think are in themselves pointless are based on a theory that actually doesnt justify this. Thousands of people demonstrated in central berlin against the policies to tackle coronavirus such as social distancing in mosques like for god no protesters question the Science Behind them. You. I know were all alive because weve worn masks is simplistic thinking. Think thats something we should have left behind after the age of 5 or 6 its as if we were to say someones wearing red jim serious and has a headache and then i stand there and say oh man ill go read jim shoes calls headaches. Frank describes himself as a democratic citizen for him the people protesting the coronavirus measures come from all walks of life. As if you can mention to. These people stand for democracy for freedom and so on i found it all very peaceful it was a very peaceful demonstration it was a huge gigantic and it showed me that there were many many people who think this way perceiving similarly to me. What we need stream is groups among the demonstrators cold for the German Parliament building to be stormed. 300. 00 radicals breached the barriers and got to the steps of the bundestag symbolic images that made the news around the world the entire coronavirus demonstration was tainted by this action frank says that he had nothing to do with it. Because you need this i distance myself from any kind of violence i distance myself from any kind of raj weenie extremist ideology it doesnt appeal to me. But does it not bother him that far right radicals also took part in the demonstration that. He was a handful of people what else can i say imagine that youre running a train and a right wing radical gets on to get off the train. Frank but now says he accepts that his protests will be joined by right wing extremists he says that wont stop him from attending the next demonstration in berlin. Lets get some perspective on this were joined now by edgar grant a political scientist and the founding director of the center force Civil Society research and berlin welcome to the program and thank you for joining us and id like to begin by asking you because we just watched that report featuring a man who took part in the berlin protests he says the governments and to corunna measures are deaths proportional what do you make of that point that he is making i mean because especially given the fact that the mortality rate in germany is quite low. If. This is something we could call it preemption paradox if. Memory is if of course the consequences should be not this dramatic as in other countries but this does not. Mean. That there is no condemn it or that the latter is harmless so this is this is one of the difficulties a preemptive policing is. In this in which. Crises. And in the oppositions of those preventive policies that you have mentioned there are protectionist many other protest theyve clearly distanced themselves from the far right demonstrators saying that they are the minority who can be disregarded although theyre demonstrating alongside each other as a political scientist what do you make of that dynamic. Well 1st of all i think the dynamic is remarkable. In the past weeks or months because of the media. Restrictions imposed in march because. That protest. But then there was a 1st wave of protest coming up. By the end of april early in may he made it mainly mainly local protests in large cities meanwhile we have the large number of smaller protests. In various places in particular in the east of tripoli and the most recent events in the early in are just a spectacular moment in this regard so. In my house ending this indicate. Quite a significant loss of support. For. The us. And its quite interesting because there are people in germany other parts of the world who will actually go a step further questioning the very existence of covert 19 its given rise to these outlandish conspiracy theories what do you see as fueling this phenomena. Well conspiracy theories are one thing. I think. Aspects. Very relevant here the 1st thing is that a new virus was to count as a huge amount of uncertainty and not just be the only receipt it was but also with china for scientists and. For policing makers it is so there it is there is a prototype ground for any kind of conspiracy the 2nd aspect which is relevant is that. Cruel not protest. In bed it in you know way you know more general. Distrust you can go home the lack of trust in government is it is it is the most one of the most important common denominators which characterizes these very heated genius. A group of people coming together and if you. Dont trust your government if there is a lot on 3rd and if the government imposes cv restrictions these are the ingredients for. A follower of all kinds of conspiracy theories and for the for immobilize ation not just against specific restrictions but against aid and because if you show these protesters. Called. For a new constitution thats their one of their main objectives and we are seeing that really reflected by this certain segment of the population which has now been out on the streets and we thank you so much for your analysis your professional perspective on this at their ground as we mentioned you found the berlin based center for Civil Society research a facial. Well lets have a look at some more stories making news around the world a major wildfire tearing through Southern California is believed to have been started by a firework more than 500 firefighters are battling the blaze that started over the weekend scorching conditions are fueling the flames temperatures reached a record 49 degrees celsius on sunday frances Health Minister of iran says that the coronavirus situation in the country is quote worrying thats as the number of new delhi infections reaches record levels the Health Minister says that a 2nd wave is unavoidable because of the virus the virus has been spreading more slowly than it did in the spring chinese president xi jinping has defended his countrys handling of the corona Virus Outbreak saying beijing acted transparently in its response she was speaking at a ceremony honoring heroes in the fight against the virus is that china was bouncing back from the crisis and that nothing would stop the times people from achieving a better future. Its the oldest Film Festival in the world the venice Film Festival and its for its 77th edition it is the 1st to brave New Territory as a physical event in the cold 19 era there are strict rules for social distancing spares the populated theaters and its have less glitz and glamor than usual but the important thing is the show must go on. The 1st weekend of the venice Film Festival usually means stars on the red carpet for top 1st and film premieres and so it is this year with strict hygiene measures in place but there are also positive changes fate of 18 films in competition from female directors not quite parity but a new record on sunday mr moggs by italian director susannah rarely had its premiere. The film tells the story of eleanor marx a committed socialist and feminist and the daughter of karl marx she was one of the 1st activists to speak about the exploitation of women and the situation within families. Also on the weekend of the premiere of the