War crimes. From moscow to the world this is your r. T. International welcome wherever we find you today my names. Top german officials are calling for a wide response against russia over the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator in a berlin hospital 2 weeks after being are lifted from russia berlin said on wednesday he had been poisoned with a novacek nerve agent and russia is calling for dialogue saying it still received no data from germany on the findings meanwhile the president of bella ruse has weighed in 100 lukas schenkel claims that his Security Forces intercepted a call which counts died on berlins poisoning allegation. Because. We have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its all a full sophistication and the name didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. Or within the past hour the German Government has responded to mr lucas shinku his version of events saying that it is not true on the kremlin sees it has no details on the in president s clean our europe correspondent peter all over though has more on the International Fallout from the alleged poisoning of alexy a felony. Well im the merkel speaking hearing on alexina valmy and saying how germany would respond to russia depended on russia right now and how it responds to those allegations that came out on wednesday as it stands moscow is far from happy with at the moment in the way that that announcement on wednesday was made what weve heard from there the fact that a press conference was called before the Russian Ambassador had been summoned to the Foreign Office before. Being told that this was going to be this announcement was going to be made said again. Nechayev the Russian Ambassador said that once he was summoned to the the Foreign Ministry he wasnt given any facts about the allegations being made now the kremlin spokesperson to me to the press golf has said on thursday essentially they cant comment on what they havent seen in relation to the the evidence to back up the claims that Alexei Navalny was poisoned using a novel nerve agent while the Foreign Ministry in moscow has accused berlin of what it called make a phone diplomacy. I would be very cautious when talking about any accusations against russia in this case after all there is no valid reason to make any we hope that we will be able to determine what happened and why we are interested in that we want it and we need the information from germany for that matter if there was any data we would work with that there is no data there are only statements amounting to megaphone diplomacy because their view is by Foreign Ministry many were waiting to hear what the doctors had to see the russian doctors in syria their conclusions we the Public Employee wider facts and data thats not something we see here the why of why would novell need the poison has been raising a lot of questions in russia weve heard from the heads of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service who said that the situation regarding the family raises more questions than it does and says the statements coming out of raising more questions than they do answers he also said that the tests carried out in russia were there as far as he was gone sir and the kremlin spokesperson 3 to the press corps also saying that hes far from sure who would benefit it all from poisoning alexina volley. I cant answer the question of who would benefit from the poisoning i dont think anybody would benefit from it but tool well. The German Foreign minister heiko muss on wednesday said that they had demanding answers and their low. To russia for those answers its still true that informant soon it is over there is that one of the leading opposition figures in russia has been poisoned as specialized laborde 3 of the armed forces came to a clear conclusion that aleksey never in the was poisoned with a substance from the north beach a group hes the victim for crime someone tried to shut him up. We demand an investigation into the poisoning of alex he now while we condemn this boys name and in the near future will hold consultations on how you can adequately respond to weight loss would depend on russias response to the case chancellor merkel has said that the eyes of the world are looking at the Alexei Navalny case right now alongside her on thursday speaking in the chancery was stefan 11 the swedish Prime Minister he called for a full investigation into find they out what happened to mr volley that followed on from similar calls from british Prime Minister boris johnson. On the line the e. U. Commission president also the french Prime Minister as well all saying that there needs to be a full investigation in condemning whats being alleged by germany as the poisoning of alexina valley weve also heard on thursday from the senior spokesperson for the aid of a euphoric affairs thats. What he said that these the readiness of moscow to cooperate have pleased the new Foreign Office so far also said that an investigation should be conducted by moscow during that press briefing he wrapped up was asked a question about special sanctions against russia from the European Union over the election of on the case he said that any sanctions were down the line from now that there needed to be an investigation 1st it was up to moscow to carry out that investigation and then anything further would be discussed once they had those results. Peter all over taking us through what we asked people in berlin where mr of all these being treated what they think of the novacek poisoning story. It was good to bring him here but i dont know the details this is bishan is that he was poisoned and that hes political opponents want to shut him down but on a diplomatic level of course its complicated because we know what we read in the news but if its like there see you certainly poisoned the Charity Hospital has but who knows the background. I think they should apply pressure to clarify the case thats for sure but i would say they need to open a look at the details rather than just decided on the culprit they should investigate who was really involved in the Global Chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. W. Has said alleged poisoning of mr novelli is of grave concern and its monitoring the situation after several western politicians called for sanctions against russia are. Digs deeper into the allegations. No we talk again they say the north koreas talks and that is heaped infamy on russia over trucks a group of toxins by the way with slightly different variations of liquid gas powder one of the deadliest substances known to man rebel solves the huge operation launch there hundreds of people in full hazmat gear everyone afraid of exposure and here is apparently exposed to this new variation which by the way couldnt evaporate and become airborne at Room Temperature and hes flying on a jet where he feels sick scores of people crammed together and no one doubts reports feeling the thing including the people he was with. A laboratory examined alexina countys biological fluids the study was carried out with an american aspect trimeter which contains 240000. 00 standard sets of substances that correspond to the electronic database of the u. S. National institute of standards and technology no liquids organic phosphorus compounds or drugs that inhibit colonist juries were detected and no traces of other unknown substances were found. Organophosphates compounds are highly toxic substances and as a rule its impossible to use them just to poison a Single Person if there had been any interaction with this substance on the eve of the flight or during the flight then any accompanying persons were certainly have shown symptoms of poisoning that did not happen if the germans had got clear evidence of. Something like perhaps being used they should give that information over to the russians and the russians. That didnt happen with scruples and were sold and i doubt whether or happen again and theres many questions like you know he was on the airplane then it landed why isnt anybody else i mean again another echo of this ripple case as far as i can see we need some transparency here. Before we start escalating in this into any kind of sanctions trade war or god help us any kind of military conflict there are a lot of questions now speculation and rumors and thinks this is a time to wait to let investigators collect the facts unless you want to use the moment the confusion the hysteria the anger to tear up russian german ties to stop a pipeline for example putins regime is inhuman as the case of novell me and the support for a game show whats required is a clear and tough response that putin understands north stream too must be put up for debate anything less would only be a confirmation for him. The obvious murder attempt by the mafia like structures of the kremlin can no longer just worry us it must have real consequences that is why a very clear answer is needed here north stream 2 is nothing that we can promote together with russia hope the north stream to pipeline to hold the russians accountable germany says it will share its lab results and findings with e. U. Nations and get this nato new response to russias offers of a Legal Assistance that medical corp russia will learn that the value they had been poisoned not from the German Government but from the news if they missed to justify some previously prepared response measures that have already been agreed on it becomes clear why theyre deploying megaphone diplomacy substitutes normal corporation with an Information Campaign public appeals to the e. U. And they too and reference to the c. W. Whenever such a thing which is such a diplomatic reaching the hazards they always have to us. Who is benefiting who does something was benefiting and we have as weve already heard this equation there. Are heavy forces will go on a closer relationship between russia and germany specially according to the last 32 projects but where also the the that you have to ask what could the russian government benefit of such a thing with this whole and politicians there was no danger for the russian government that it would be elections theyre already talking about sanctions guilty by default which is remarkable given the circumstances so the russian government out of the blue decides to poison an opposition politician who has been after the kremlin for years using one of the worlds deadliest. Substances which russia has said repeatedly it doesnt have so they do this improbable and highly stupid thing and these survives it he goes to a russian hospital where the doctors do everything to save his life get him stable and they succeed the russian government which just apparently tried to kill this fellow greenlights a private jet to said him to one of europes best clinics to get help his body apparently the evidence locker treaty banned substances so far that their best version. Very onto another headline this hour the Trump Administration has said the u. S. Will redirect funds it previously owed to the World Health Organization to other Health Programs it comes to months after washington poll died at the w. H. O. Accusing it of being controlled by china meanwhile the u. S. Has ruled by taking part in a global effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. And reports. The United States will not be joining International Efforts to produce a vaccine due to political concern so many see this as yet another blow to Health Diplomacy the United States will continue to engage our International Partners to ensure we defeat this virus but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt world hopeful can i say sion and china the Global Vaccine Initiative known as hope that x. Is colead by the World Health Organization 170 Different Countries are participating the goal is to get Global Distribution for several different vaccines after theyve been licensed and approved by the end of 2021 the World Health Organization has repeatedly warned about the dangers of global disunity and a pandemic they are warning about the need to oppose vaccine nationalism and above all national unity. And Global Solidarity are essential. This virus thrives when we are divided. When we are united we can defeat to win a successful new vaccine is found there will be greater demand then there is supply excess the mind and competition for supply is already creating bucks emotionalism and risk of price gouging relations between the United States and the World Health Organization had been strained for quite some time despite his praise for the organization at the beginning of the pandemic donald trump made. And pulled the United States out of the global watch dark because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent Global Public health needs latest decision United States should not participate in global efforts for a vaccine have raised a storm of criticism for ologists and politicians have spoken out saying that the United States is essentially shooting itself in the court. Trumps go it alone strategy has already given us the highest death toll in the world at his inaugural he spoke of American College and now seems to term and to make it a reality america 1st doesnt apply to condemn excess viruses dont observe National Borders if anyone is at risk we all are refusing to cooperate with other countries on vaccines will kill people this latest decision from the United States pull out of local vaccine efforts may be seen as just the latest example of Donald Trumps ambitious americas 1st policies however i comes to a situation like this it might not be wise to put pride in politics over your population it would martin artsy new york. Washington has imposed sanctions on senior officials at the International CriminalCourt Secretary of state mike pompei it was says the i. C. C. Is corrupt and has no authority the International Criminal court a thoroughly broken and corrupted institution. The United States has never ratified the rome statute that created the court and we will not tolerate is illegitimate have to subject americans to its jurisdiction and washington is all happy with the i. C. C. Current investigation into alleged u. S. War crimes in afghanistan the court is also investigating americas close ally israel over possible crimes related to jewish settlements in the west bank and East Jerusalem neither the u. S. Or israel belong to the i. C. C. The court has condemned the sanctions. These coercive facts directed at any International Judicial institution and its Civil Servants around president did and constitute serious attacks against the court and the rule of law more generally secretary of state compares announcement today marks a stunning perversion of u. S. Sanctions devised to penalize rights abuses and kleptocrats to persecute those tasked with prosecuting International Crimes the trumpet ministration has twisted the sanctions to obstruct justice not only for certain war crimes victims but for atrocity victims anywhere looking to the International Criminal court for justice. Human rights lawyer down kabul exceeds International Law should apply to all countries with no exception the us for many. Has taken the position that because it has a mighty it military in the world. It doesnt have to be. Subject to International Law. Its above International Law and i think trump is just frankly taking that to its logical the United Statess been a pose to the International Criminal or it leashed as to the extent that the i. C. C. Could prosecute western. From the very beginning and now