A partisan battle over who will nominate her successor will have more on the latest issue to divide the hewitts plus. I reckon we could have managed one year without oct 1st on the weekend the world famous beer festival should have been taking place in experience. With the spirit alive in trying to ensure everyone stays safe. Im anthony held welcome to the show thousands of people in thailand have continued their protests calling for fresh elections and reform marches handed a letter to gods at the bro palace containing a list of demands to the king the protesters want the countrys Prime Minister to behave removed from office a new constitution and limits to the powers of the monarchy i also installed a pluck symbolizing thailands transition to democracy protests began on saturday at the biggest the country has seen this. Correspondent flora know she is following the story for us in bangkok florent how significant are the things that have played out this weekend in the thai capital. We
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
So im told that inside the meeting everyone was on the same page all allies believe that this was just a horrific attack something that is completely unacceptable by any standards not to mention International Law and while they are not able at this point with no investigation to say exactly whos responsible everyone agrees that those who did this those who can get their hands on this nerve agent and use it to attack private citizens to attack anybody must be brought to justice so thats the main message and im told there was no dissent inside the meeting on that on that line what do you make of what stoltenberg said was it clear enough. Well whats clear enough i mean remember that nato has in the case of the script all poisoning when the u. K. Went so far as to be able to identify 2 russian nationals and nato expelled 7 diplomats that would seem to be a very very strong response and european governments followed that up with expulsion and expulsion of Russian Diplomats punishing moscow
Era so its far too early for nato allies or anyone else to firmly point a finger at the kremlin or anywhere else for responsibility what nato and of course the European Union as well are hoping is that by putting pressure very early on the kremlin that it will cooperate that if it was not involved it will want to prove that and so it will participate in an investigation and come clean about what it knows about stocks of nova talk what it may have known about anyone who may have been trying to attack alex in of all me and simply say yeah were all on the same side here in wanting to find out what happened and you have also had the opportunity to ask stoltenberg the 1st press question directly after his statement what did you ask him. Well i took my question from there just dozens and dozens of comments on my twitter feed asking why does nato have anything to say about this it was not on a nato territory it was not a citizen of a nato country and so nato should just stay out of this and i
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