me the jailed kremlin critics house is failing after 3 weeks on hunger strike also coming out germany's parliament passes a national lockdown law to contain the covert 19 pandemic health minister calls the situation if stream is serious but opposition parties want the lordships by the constitutional court. plus the race to stop global warming the u.s. prepares a virtual summit to tackle climate change on the day when over 5 decades ago people 1st rallied to sound. as welcome to the program rights groups say police have detained more than $1400.00 protesters in dozens of cities across russia demonstrators marched for the release of jailed opposition leader alexander vanny whose health is said to be deteriorating the protests were held on the same day as president vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address. a forceful message delivered on a grand stage at his annual state of the nation address russian president vladimir who. warned western powers not to meddle in moscow's affairs. we just wiggling you could usually must we really don't want to burn any bridges. but if some mistak

it is clear the kremlin does not want to give into pressure from abroad. anchor: stay with me on "outsid e source." we will turn to india, being ravaged by a second wave of covid-19 in hospitals being overwhelmed with oxygen supplies being reported widely. ♪ tiktok is being sued for billions of dollars. it is a video sharing app and it is being accused of collecting childrens's private information illegally and making profits from this, an allegation that tiktok denies. if successful, the children affected would be owed thousands of dollars. it is worth mentioning back in 2019, tiok was given a record of $5.7 million fine for mishandling children's data. as the former children's commissioner for england is making these allegations. >> the balance of power between the kids that spend so much lives on the sites and the multibillion pound companies that are running them, it is completely out of sway. all the power lies with the companies. in this case in particular with tiktok, it has come about because of the excessive nature of their harvesting of persona

and once they were loyal to the kremlin but now russia's communist party politicians are crying fall gets to the city of seattle to meet a local politician who is determined to have his voice heard at the door. hello i'm christine window it's good to have your company. indian state is all calling for a wider vaccination rolled out as the country faces a staggering surge in corona virus cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported on tuesday hovering near monday's record high now many hospitals are being overrun by patients for example in the west affected stage. that's india's richest stage and has to be commercial capital of. the day. new restrictions including a night curfew have been announced now so far 165000 people in the country have died from cold hit 1000. and i'm now joined by the delhi bureau chief chima good to see you what is driving be current surge of infections hi christine yes it came must want to shock people here because they spread it easing there be under the pandemic and then we have high numbers at the weekend what's driving it it's very alarming for the lit

once they were loyal to the kremlin but now russia's communist party politicians are crying towel heads of the city of saratov to meet a local politician who is determined to have his voice heard a few months. and in sports store plans are ling call in the red hot striker sought after by several major clubs in europe including darkens opponents in the champions league tonight manchester city. that's good to have you with us. indian state leaders are calling for a wider vaccination rollout as the country faces a staggering surge in corona virus cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported on tuesday hovering near monday's record high many hospitals are now being overrun by patients for example in the worst affected state. it is india's richest state and host of the commercial capital of mumbai and it has imposed fresh restrictions through the end of april. let's go right to delhi for more we can speak to a public health expert dr joe she's the south asia head at the center for disease dynamics economics and policy thank you so much for joining us here on let's start 1st of all with th

moment all kremlin friendly t.v. channels are closed to be put in the last one of his last tools of influence in ukraine and is now likely to take revenge and finally there are parliamentary elections in russia in a few months probably the kremlin needs and you have gender that distracts from the real problems and seeks an enemy outside ukraine seems to be the best candidate for it let's get the view from kiev now david you know ukraine earlier this week called on nato to create a way for ukraine to join the military alliance what did you make of that. he said 1st of all that this is a switch from previous position of presidents alinsky when he was a presidential candidate in tripoli after he called for a referendum to determine whether or not ukraine should join the alliance but i've been speaking to people who are talking to people in the administration and they say this reflects a frustration in a certain puzzlement over the what russia is ringback up to selenski is basically that he wants a deescalation in the ea

kremlin. ., , , ., the kremlin. there has been an an: the kremlin. there has been an angry resnonse _ the kremlin. there has been an angry response in _ the kremlin. there has been an angry response in moscow- the kremlin. there has been an angry response in moscow to i the kremlin. there has been an l angry response in moscow to the sanctions and the russian foreign ministry has accused america of aggressive behaviour and a dangerously raising the temperature of confrontation between the two countries. there has been reaction from the svr, russia's foreign intelligence service, which washington believes was behind the solar winds hack so the svr described that activation is meaningless blubber and what did russian state television say tonight about the new sanctions? as america gone bananas? how other two presidents going to talk after this? and that is a key question because talks or the prospect of a summit is exactly whatjoe biden offered by the putin earlier this week when the two men spoke on the television, t

the kremlin critic was jailed in february and has been on a hunger strike since wednesday to protest the lack of medical care. with parliamentary elections less than six months away, authorities are cracking down on kremlin critic's, but they could be facing new enemies. emily sherwin traveled to the southwestern city of charlotte of where she met a local politician who is determined not to be silenced. emily: in the footsteps of lenin, nikolai sees himself as a politician of the people like his communist forefathers, but he has a huge social media presence. his youtube channel has over one million subscribers. fight for your rights is the motto. his social media accounts show him fighting against corruption and for more equality, including as a representative in the regional parliament, and he does not shy away from criticizing the kremlin and the united russia party. >> it is your actions, the actions of the russian government, of your president, of your united russia party, you gave our national riches away to oligarchs. emily: now he is facing what he says is a political campaign

you mentioned the kremlin critic alexina of all that he is in a hospital now after being transferred from his prison cell do you think western pressure had anything to do with that. but 1st of all i have 00 confidence that mr putin the kremlin will do the right thing in terms mr ball these health i think there's many people here come to the conclusion that they would like to see that mr putin would like to see him dead and so i think there's no confidence here because his doctors and others and not allowed in and so right now are relying on the kremlin which is locking luckier political prisoners like mr vantine for this type of support this is the same government it just several months ago tried to poison and kill the leading opposition figures so i think that it's really it's important for the u.s. and others to keep focus on this all right jonathan katz with the german marshall fund joining us tonight from washington as always jonathan we appreciate your time in your insights thank you absolutely. for most european countries have been relying on measures such as lockdowns mask man

experts agree that the kremlin might try to keep people like out of federal politics. ahead of the duma elections the kremlin makes clear arrangements with the main opposition parties about which candidates can run and what results they should get they don't want to let anyone in who will rock the boat. but despite attempts to intimidate him but isn't ready to give up. people today are hungry for justice and for truth they don't trust the authorities on the whole. i went into politics to prove to citizens that lawmakers can work honestly. the choice. is already preparing his campaign for the duma elections and he hopes he will be allowed a fair fight. our take a look at this in iceland hundreds of hikers have been evacuated from the site of an erupting volcano near the capital ricky of bitch that's after new fissures opened up on the mountain spewing smoke in steam the fire respectable has proven to be a huge draw for thousands of tourists ever since the volcano ward to life last march . a sight to behold iceland's spectacular nearly 3 week old bookending corruption ha

and once they were going to the kremlin but now russia's communist party politicians all crying fall he heads to the city of seattle to meet a local politician who's determined to have his voice heard at the do not. call for a hard knock down in germany they head off and get a magical c.d.u. party and would be chancellor ses tougher restrictions what's slow the 3rd wave of the pandemic. hello i'm christine one it's good to have your company. indian state leaders all calling for a wider vaccination rollout has the country faces a staggering surge in corona. iris cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported on tuesday that's hovering near monday's record high many hospitals are now being overrun by patients for example in the west a fix it stays. this is in disarray to state and host of the commercial capital of mumbai it's announced new restrictions including a night curfew that so far 165000 people in the country have died from coal that 90 . and i'm now joined by the daily bureau chief cheema good to see you what is driving be current surge of infections hi christine yes it came

has warned of consequences if kremlin critic and they see no valley dies.

this is all just here of these of the top stories from russian state media saying kremlin critic alexina vonnie is being transferred to a hospital for prisoners his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal the u.s. has warned of consequences if he dies in prison well earlier the e.u. foreign policy chief said russia is responsible for me and must provide him with medical care very much worried about the health situation at least in the valley yesterday we finished a minute behavior the 27 member states hosking to russian authorities to provide. the health care he needs and they are responsible for their safety india's capital region of delhi will be under a week long curfew for monday night as the country battles a record surge in infections in the 274000 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours and more than 1600 deaths there's concern a new variant identified in india could be driving infections hundreds of passengers from the sternly have arrived in new zealand after their governments reopen borders families and friends a

time could be ticking for these tiktaalik bloggers the unlikely new enemy for the kremlin. the social network is mostly about entertainment with videos of cranks and dance routines. but this month at a meeting with the police russian president vladimir putin made it clear he wants the authorities to be watching anyway. it was limited to the green unfortunately we all know what the internet is and how it is used to promote unacceptable content it's critical for you to unite with other government agencies in order to monitor the web and be more proactive in identifying people who are dragging minors into committing illegal actions but the fact that minors are being dragged into illegal on authorized street protests as well is of course the violation of the law. to talk in particular has been on the authorities radar since the return of opposition politician i like see now by me to russia his arrest in january caused a wave of opposition protests across the country and a sudden explosion of politics on tick tock. teenagers filmed themselves at schools replacing portraits of pu

well 1st of all the language coming from the kremlin i think that the kremlin has been preparing the russian population for an escalation of the conflict for the last few weeks with talk about ukrainian aggression. the creation of false pretext about a humanitarian crisis in crimea. talk about a huge nato buildup on their border this is all part of the fairy tale that the kremlin uses to prepare their own people and to try to justify or whether doing so it's language it's the scale of forces missed the logistics for doing this. i don't think that they intend to go into the donbass they already have thousands of russian soldiers in the done best leading and supporting the so-called separatists i think with their cheating their what they want which is to destabilize ukraine and make it impossible for ukraine to join the e.u. or nato you know other forces are intended i think to increase their control over all of the c. of s. of them perhaps more of the black sea coast. do you think a full scale invasion of ukraine is on the cots. now i don't think when you say a full scale invasion you

the kremlin has denied any involvement. close allies of kremlin critic alexina valley have called for massive protests in moscow and st petersburg on wednesday it's happening as the health of the opposition figure rapidly to terror the velma his daughter is calling on russia to allow him medical treatment after doctors warned he's now at risk of kidney failure he was jailed in february for violating parole conditions as a result of traveling to germany for being treated after being poisoned as you're castro has more on the response to develop these deteriorating condition. it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina vali launched a hunger strike after russian prison officials denied him access to private doctors to treat back pain and the loss of feeling in his legs the symptoms possibly lingering effects of the poisoning of all he suffered in august but the opposition leader barely survived and blames on the kremlin now his colleague tells al-jazeera the bombing may be near death situation deteriorated on friday when we seized

elections to help the kremlin critic alexina vaulting and the recent massing of russian troops along the ukrainian border as it has done before ukraine is asking the u.s. and europe for a joint response ukraine's foreign minister labor wants more western economic sanctions against russia and he says the time to act is running out predicting that more than $120000.00 russian soldiers will be near his country's border by the end of the week ukraine's military has begun reinforcing its border presence here is the country's foreign minister earlier today. the cost of preventing the russia fill the escalation will always be lower than the cost of stopping it and mitigating ensconce sequences and i hope our friends and partners understand that. it is way more effective to clearly make moscow understand that a new stage of aggression will have dire consequences for russia. international isolation and painful and comic sanctions. but what can we realistically expect from the west especially from the u.s. now that joe biden is president let's bring in jonathan katz from the german marshall fu

the kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. troops are reinforced if their school ation continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defenseman. history says this who teaches recent exercises if the situation escalates t.v. screens may soon be showing the real thing to bring in our correspondent yuri rachet oh in moscow yuri it was suggested in that report there that russians saber rattling as part of an effort to blackmail ukraine and the west can you explain the rationale behind. well terry the experts i spoke to says several reasons for that 1st of all they're all say the trash doesn't want to annex dong boss as it once did with crimea instead moscow sees don't buy us as a part of ukraine but on its own russian terms and to that means on the largely russian control through the politics in gone by small skull could put pressure on all ukrainian politics that's what moscow obviously vaughn's new president selenski understands that and that is why he has changed h

as concerns grow over the health of kremlin critic alexei navalny — russia's ambassador to london says he won't die behind bars. of course it will not be allowed to die in prison but i can say that mr navalny, he behaves like a hooligan absolutely. a study finds one in ten households have food shortages. football chiefs warn europe's top clubs not to join a new super—league, after reports of an announcement, on a breakaway tournament. how nasa is attempting to make history with the first powered flight on another planet. hello and welcome to the programme. tensions between moscow and prague have escalated — russia has expelled 20 diplomats, a day after the czech republic announced they were expelling 18 russian diplomats identified as secret agents. this includes two men suspected of involvement in a deadly explosion at a czech arms depot seven years ago. britain claims they're the same two men who tried to kill a former spy with a nerve agent three years ago. our security correspondent gordon corera has the story. the aftermath of a deadly explosion. in october 2014, this arms dep

they say that konstantin kilimnik part of the kremlin's elections to cover up what russia did. russian tried to cover it up by concocting the story that blamed another country, that blamed ukraine for doing that, not russia. it should be noted that almost the whole republican party and most of the conservative media went for that hook line even though it was russian disinformation designed to get them off the hook by disguising their own rule and blaming it on somebody else. right? everybody ran along with that, it was really ukraine, you were playing the russian disinformation game. but they are saying that he was part of the kremlin's effort to cover the track of what they did in 2016. but the other assertion that they make their, which a brand-new assertion that we've never have from the u.s. government before about what happened in 2016, they did not mean to include that today. but they did. what they just disclosed about what happened in 2016 was, i think, you would call it collusion. the trump campaign chairman was paul manafort, he was recently pardoned by donald trump.

experts agree that the kremlin might try to keep people like john that anchor out of federal politics. ahead of the duma lections the kremlin makes clear arrangements with the main opposition parties about which candidates can run and what results they should get they don't want to let anyone in who will rock the boat. but despite attempts to intimidate him but isn't ready to give up. people today are hungry for justice and for truth they don't trust the authorities on the whole. i went into politics to prove to citizens that lawmakers can work honestly. that ankara is already preparing his campaign for the duma elections and he hopes he will be allowed a fair fight. you're watching news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight. iran and the us help to put a broken nuclear deal back together again we'll be right back. some of. the times are good or the be. warming doesn't. turn to the most well not yet. the industry is controlling your thoughts the great books of the 20th century. present a hope. says. the trader the root of manufacturing ignora

foreign policy chief says russia is responsible for kremlin critic alexina vonne the un must provide him with medical care but on his allies say he's near death and has been on hunger strike for more than 3 weeks. we have very much worried about the health situation and. in a statement of behavior the 27 member states hosking to russian authorities to provide. the health care he needs and they have responsible for their safety. the u.s. has also warned of consequences if the fall need idol castro has more on none from washington d.c. . it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina volley launched a hunger strike after russian prison officials denied him access to private doctors to treat back pain and the loss of feeling in his legs the symptoms possibly lingering effects of the poisoning of all these suffered in august but the opposition leader barely survived and blames on the kremlin now his colleague tells al-jazeera the bombing may be near death situation deteriorated on friday when we seized his blood which showed up normal level of the touch which is associated with imminent risk of

and once they were loyal to the kremlin but now russia's communist party politicians are crying foul you hits to the city of set out to meet a local politician who's determined to have his voice heard in that. and she has one of the fosters call that 900 vaccination rates please take a look at how forward planning and casting bread take help the country get an attack over the 10 day. i'm christine wonder it's good to have your company indian state it is all calling for a wide a vaccination rollout has the factory face. a staggering surge in corona virus cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported on tuesday of ringing in monday's record high and many hospitals are now being overrun by patients for example in the west affected state. now india's richest state and host to the commercial caps off mumbai has announced new restrictions including a night curfew. and i'm now joined by the delhi bureau chief cheema good to see you what is driving be current surge of infections hi christine yes it came must want to shock people here because they for the easing they're being under the pand

i believe not because that's what we hear from kremlin it's not a but it's not in our 'd interest to have a mess confrontation of what to be seen now in terms of don't bust well we'll call the skirmishes but let me remind you has it officially what we have right now is a full door though ceasefire and nevertheless there is an aggravation and since the beginning of this year certainly ukrainian soldiers we're killed soul deaths the problems of problems that we don't have ceasefire actually is a ceasefire was promised in september 2014 but since since there was no way he'll ceasefire so. what portugal is doing good i not mean he's definitely trying to test has a vest to steph than you will if they're that president of the united states and also he's going to test ukraine ukrainian government as well and i believe that we will have disabilities to talk about this in a bid richard if you could expand on something that alexey was saying to us there he said that he believes that this is essentially a test by russia's president vladimir putin to see how far he can go when it comes to joe bi

they say kilimnick was part of the kremlin's efforts to cover up what russia did in 2016. russia tried to cover it up by concocting this story that blamed another country, that blamed ukraine for doing that, not russia.tied they're saying kilimnick was part of that on behalf of the kremlin. got it. it should be noted that almost the whole republican party under donald trump and most of the conservative media world in this country went for that hook, line, and sinker, even though it was russian disinformation designed to get them off the hook by disguising their own role and blaming it on somebody else. everybody who went along with that "it was really ukraine," y you were playing the russian blame game. got it. but the other assertion that they make there, which is a brand-new assertion we've never had from the u.s. government before, about what happened in 2016, they did not need to include that today. but they did. and in so doing, they made big news. i mean, what they just disclosed here about what happened in 201s was, i think you would call it the collusion. the trump

the kremlin is reacting to u.s. government decision to blacklist russian companies expel russian diplomats and bar u.s. banks from buying sovereign bonds from the central bank in moscow russia continue to interfere with our democracy all this because washington says russia is involved in malign acts including the persecution of opposition politicians alexina valmy interfering in elections engaging in cyber hacking as well as occupying crimea that the toughest sanctions since 2018. if the government is frightened by the way the events are developing but they will change course and will continue to be confrontational but the question is how far will the kremlin push it they will try to make it look as though nothing has changed but in reality they will be much more careful in the waging of the consequences of their actions the kremlin says president putin has yet to decide if you'll take part in a u.s. led climate summit next week russia's government seems to be open but a line is now being drawn up a response to the

the campaign manager more involved than previously thought in stuff that went all the way to the kremlin. it's coming out in part because president biden is slapping new sanctions on russia, dropping the hammer on putin. the republican leader facing questions about this ongoing scandal engulfing matt gaetz amidst a doj sex crime probe. we begin with our top story that involves these two important and developing situations in minnesota. former officer kim potter charged with manslaughter in the killed of a 20-year-old. she made her first court appearance today. this is moving swiftly. meanwhile, the deens if in the derek chauvin trial resting their case. we can now confirm chauvin never took the stand. potter is out on bail facing up to ten years in prison if convicted. meanwhile, wright's family speaks out about what they have been going through this week, about what they think justice should look like. they spoke in a press conference today. >> my son was very much loved. we loved him a lot. and the way he was killed, he did not deserve that. these young black men being killed, can you

warns russia of consequences of kremlin critic alexina around the dies in prison on the 3rd week of a hunger strike. ruling party wins the election on its promise to revive the economy world football bosses wave the red flag a sign of europe's biggest clubs announce a new super league competition. now the world is currently experiencing its highest infection rates yet of the curve of 19 pandemic this by the ongoing vaccination rollout fuelling the rise is india which is recorded over a 1000000 cases in the last 4 days it added over 275000 cases on monday the highest single day's bike so far since the pandemic began scientists are studying a new variant with a double mutation to see if it's behind the rise in infections. christopher thompson is an immunologist an associate professor of biology why only university in baltimore he explains how the double mutation will impact how the world tackles kind of it in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the original virus in this case we have 2 separate me taishan sites which is really concerning because as you know yo

volley is being moved to hospital concern about these health has grown during the last few days the kremlin critic spin on hunger strike for several weeks protesting against his jailing of what he says are political charges his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal and smith has more from moscow. the prison authorities in russia say alexander valley has been transferred to a prison hospital it's about 90 kilometers away from the penal colony or colony where he's serving 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations they say he's also receiving a vitamin therapy by his own consent valley started his hunger strike on march 31st of this is now day 20 and since then he'd only been drinking water his via his wife visited him last week in prison she said he'd lost a lot of weight he had difficulty speaking he's suffering from spinal problems and he's on the weekend is our eyes said his life was hanging by a thread and a valley supporters are also called for nationwide protests from on wednesday evening they were calling for 500000

experts agree that the kremlin might try to keep people like john that anchor out of federal politics. ahead of the duma lections the kremlin makes clear arrangements with the main opposition parties about which candidates can run and what results they should get they don't want to let anyone in who will rock the boat. but despite attempts to intimidate him it isn't ready to give up. people today are hungry for justice and for truth they don't trust the authorities on the whole. i went into politics to prove to citizens that lawmakers can work honestly. that anchor is already preparing his campaign for the duma elections and he hopes he will be allowed a fair fight. i could line of sports on the organizers of the tokyo olympics are continuing to deal with covered 900 disruptions which have not seen some pool based qualifying events cancelled international swimming federation house or council the limper qualifiers for diving on doctors to disciplines that wish that will take place in tokyo next week on the meets with council because the rules may not technical officials unable to enter

experts agree that the kremlin might try to keep people like john that anchor out of federal politics. ahead of the duma lections the kremlin makes clear arrangements with the main opposition parties about which candidates can run and what results they should get they don't want to let anyone in who will rock the boat. but despite attempts to intimidate him it isn't ready to give up. people today are hungry for justice and for truth they don't trust the authorities on the whole. so i went into politics to prove to citizens that lawmakers can work honestly people will be able to choose from. is already preparing his campaign for the duma elections and he hopes he will be allowed a fair fight. did have a nice emily show in reporting there let's get a reminder now of our top story at this hour indian state leaders are calling for a wider impact and they should roll out as the country faces a staggering surge in corona virus cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported tuesday covering their record high in the western state of my restaurant has seen more than half of the total cases re

. >> today, the greatest threat to peace is the expansionist aims of the kremlin. already, one out of three, 800 million people, are prisoners of the iron curtain. just outside the soviet orbit, another billion in europe, the east and far east are threatened. freedom everywhere our freedom , is in jeopardy. a primary tool of soviet expression is propaganda. it is through propaganda that the north koreans were prepared for their attack on south korea. between they were saturated with 1945-1949, soviet propaganda. by june of 1950, the north koreans were soviet-ized to make a fanatical onslaught against their brothers and accept the signal from moscow. soviet propaganda can also be measured by the money they spend. right now, the soviet union is spending more than a billion dollars a year on propaganda. if we add the expenditures and satellites in red china, it is $3 billion. expensive lying. the principal target of these lies is the united states. since 1948, the soviets have been carrying on a vicious propaganda attack on every phase of u.s. life. typical of the way

swarms russia of consequences of kremlin critic alexina found the dies in prison some 3rd of a hunger strike and for tat moscow expels 20 czech diplomats in a growing dispute over a 2014 explosion. i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from coming up. ruling party inches towards election victory on the promise to revive the economy. countries in latin america struggle to make progress with vaccination plans as coronavirus cases saw. the us president is threatening russia of consequences if kremlin critic alexina boundary dies in prison joe biden is denouncing his treatment as unfair the found these health is rapidly deteriorating and runs the risk of kidney failure calling to his personal doctor he's on a hunger strike for over 3 weeks now i do joe castro reports from washington d.c. . it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina vali launched a hunger strike after russian prison officials denied him access to private doctors to treat. back pain and the loss of feeling in his legs the symptoms possibly lingering effects of the poisoning of all he suffered in august that the opposition l

about the health of kremlin critic alexy russia.

the kremlin has basically — level of incompetence? the kremlin has basically been _ level of incompetence? the kremlin has basically been operating - level of incompetence? the kremlin has basically been operating in - level of incompetence? the kremlin has basically been operating in a - has basically been operating in a wartime footing since 2014. they're much less bothered about being named and shamed, called out and activities being identified because they feel they are in this existential political struggle with the west. in the past, the gru has not suffered political damage from apparent embarrassments. they set the moment that russia feels that it can and must operate these kind of covert sabotage operations which are nudging closer to the boundaries of what we would consider to be an act of war because it can get away with it, basically. until quite recently, the czechs have been quite reticent but they have now pivoted. the russians are _ but they have now pivoted. the russians are almost proud of these covert operations tha

you mentioned the kremlin critic alexina of all that he is in a hospital now after being transferred from his prison cell do you think western pressure had anything to do with that. but 1st of all i have 00 confidence that mr putin the kremlin will do the right thing in terms of mr ball the stealth i think there's many people here come to the conclusion that they would like to see that mr putin would like to see him dead and so i think there's no confidence here because his doctors and others are not allowed in and so right now we're relying on the kremlin which is locking lucky of political prisoners like mr to volunteer for this type of support this is the same government it just several months ago tried to poison and kill the leading opposition figures so i think that it's really it's important for the u.s. and others to keep focus of this all right jonathan can with the german marshall fund joining us tonight from washington as always jonathan we appreciate your time in your insights thank you absolute. or most european countries have been relying on measures such as lockdowns ma

warns russia of consequences if kremlin critic alexina violently dies in prison is on the 3rd week of a hunger strike. about the right wing group in pakistan releases police officers that are taken hostage during protests demanding the expulsion of the french ambassador. and the world football bosses wave the red flag as many of europe's biggest clubs announce the formation of a new breakaway super league. we're going to begin in india where corona virus infections a reached record levels since the start of the pandemic and 274000 cases were recorded on monday and more than 1600 deaths and the government has just announced a weeklong curfew in the capital region of delhi the search has put a huge strain on hospitals with many around the country already struggling with a shortage of beds the demand for oxygen is forced the government to divert supplies meant for industry to medical uses several states are running short millions of pilgrims have been ordered to quarantine for 2 weeks if they return to the capital the more than 3 and a half 1000 people tested positive the call made in th

kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. if truth be reinforced if they escalate and continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defense minute. street says this footage shows recent exercises if the situation escalates t.v. screens may soon be showing the real thing. let's get more on this now with our correspondents yuri were shadows standing by in moscow and david stern is in do you have welcome to you both here and let's start with you it was suggested in that report that the saber rattling we're seeing from russia is part of an effort to blackmail ukraine in the west can you explain that strategy well some or all experts i spoke to assumes that russia isn't going to annex donbass as it once did with crimea instead to moscow as soon as possible once done bus to be integrated into ukraine but that's important to me on the largely russian control through that political control in donbass of the ground and could put pressure on the old ukrainian politics and

arrests in russia as people turned out in the thousands demanding freedom for alexei navalny the jailed kremlin critics health is failing after 3 weeks on hunger strike. plans create ukraine seeking international help against russia's military build up day w visiting ukrainian city where residents are preparing for the worst. thanks. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program india's being shaken by a wave of new covert 19 infections like nowhere else right now the country has recorded the world's highest daily tally ever with nearly 315000 cases in the last 24 hours this latest wave has overwhelmed the health care system some hospitals in the capital delhi have already run out of the oxygen needed to keep people alive. families of the sick wait helplessly outside of the hospital india is facing an acute oxygen shortage as covert 19 infections skyrocket. 22 patients died at a hospital in maharashtra state after a leech cut off their oxygen supply. this woman's mother was one of them. was she had any other 5 days and had recovered there was no oxygen she died in agony she had trouble breathing sh

the leaders of the separatists in eastern ukraine financed and armed by russia it's all part of the kremlin line that russia is just a mediator an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win let's go all day w. our correspondent marina strauss in brussels welcome marina so what can the european parliament to do if it decides that russia does need to be punished for exactions against ukraine especially given that russia is already under sanctions by the e.u. and others. members of european parliament are preparing a so-called resolutely to impose new sanctions on russia this time if russia for the escalates a situation at its border with ukraine or even considers an invasion but it's actually not the parliament that decides it's e.u. countries and last time their foreign ministers met it's not a long time ago a couple of days ago they decided not to impose new sanctions on russia they

for jailed kremlin critics health is failing after 3 weeks on hunger strike. also coming up with ukraine seeking its national help against russia's military buildup visits a ukrainian city where residents are preparing for the wars. and the race to stop global warming the u.s. prepares a virtual summit to tackle climate change on the day when more than 50 years ago people 1st rallied to sound the alarm. as well come to the program rights groups say police have detained more than 1400 protesters in dozens of cities across russia demonstrators marched for the release of jailed opposition leader. whose health is said to be deteriorating their protests were held on the same day as president vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address in it he warned foreign powers against what he called provoking russia the un the us have told moscow it will face consequences if he dies in prison. i mean of all these supporters who want him set free of course but all likely as. in russia well i think that the chances of that happening are pretty much slim to none after all

time could be ticking include these tiktaalik bloggers the unlikely new enemy for the kremlin. the social network is mostly about entertainment with videos of pranks and downs. but this month at a meeting with the police russian president vladimir putin made it clear he wants the authorities to be watching anyway. it was limited to the green unfortunately we all know what the internet is and how it is used to promote unacceptable content it's critical for you to unite with other government agencies in order to monitor the web and be more proactive and identifying people who are dragging minors into committing illegal actions but the fact that minors are being dragged into illegal on authorized street protests as well is of course of violation of the law. to talk in particular has been on the authorities radar since the return of opposition politician aleksey not by me to russia his arrest in january caused a wave of opposition protests across the country and a sudden explosion of politics on tick talk. teenagers filmed themselves at schools replacing portraits of putin. with po

nato has called on russia to withdraw all forces that the alliance says the kremlin has been deploying their ukraine kids former minister is in belgium meeting with nato officials over russia's increased military activity along ukraine's borders there's growing concern that the kremlin is moving towards wrote war ukraine says moscow has sent thousands of chips for its northern and eastern borders on the annex crimea peninsula. russia must end this military buildup in and around ukraine stop its provocations on the escalate immediately we do not and will not recognize russia's illegal and illegitimate and accession of crimea we continue to call on our show to end its support for the militants in eastern ukraine and withdraw its forces from ukrainian territory well the kremlin denies moving toward conflict here says russia has amassed thousands of military personnel and equipment on its northern and eastern borders near the separatist held areas in donbass ukrainian government says it's also happening along the border of the crimean peninsula which russia annexed 7 years ago and has a bu

the kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. of. truth reinforced if they ask elation continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defensemen. if the situation escalates. the real thing. the stories making headlines around the world today help has come. to indonesia the country's navy delivered supplies to the hardest hit area of the. authorities declared a state of emergency until early may after. stated small communities the death toll has risen to more than 200 people most of them lived in the poorest provinces. and. petrol bombs of police and fire. spread parts of belfast crowds have ignored lawmakers pleas for calm the unrest began last week in pro british communities tensions have been fuelled by the pandemic and. trade. of st vincent and 16000 people to evacuate increased activity has been observed. in 1979. president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle gun violence acting on the issue was a key campaign pledge in a spate of shootings has increased th

wants rusher of consequences if kremlin critic alexei navalny dives present. a diplomatic standoff after the czech republic implicates russia in an explosion and finds a link with 2 men charged for poisoning attack in the u.k. . well again i'm come out santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera 8 people killed almost 100 others injured this is a train de railing north of cairo. also india's covert 19 infections rise to more than a quarter of a 1000000 a day surging well ahead of its capacity to supply vaccines to the world. and germany pays tribute to the nearly 80000 people who died even as it struggles to control contain new outbreaks. so the united states has told russia that there will be consequences so quote if kremlin critic alexei navalny dies in prison president joe biden's national security advisor jake sullivan says the message has been delivered after the u.s. imposed its new sanctions on moscow in the wake is in the 3rd week meanwhile of a hunger strike in prison and according to his personal doctor it's actually close to death my