The thursday evening it said here in moscow my names colleen bright welcome to world news from r. T. International 1st for you then russia is accusing germany of using various pretexts to withhold information on the aleksey in a felony case the russian opposition figurehead recently came out of a coma in berlin where hes being treated for a suspected poisoning permanent representative to the Global Chemical weapons watchdog says all requests for data have so far been denied hes been speaking to r. T. The Russian Federation has been waiting for answers from our german colleagues the general Prosecutors Office has sent 2 requests for Legal Assistance unfortunately we have not received any answers there were various explanations from the german side firstly there were references to National Secrets the german said they were afraid of revealing secrets and german technologies during our specialists acquaintance with the results of the analysis in a boon to swear laboratory. Then our german
Starting with japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed shinzo. A long time ally of the outgoing Prime Minister this liberal Democratic Party leadership vote paves the way for him to be placed in a parliamentary vote later this week is japans longest serving Prime Minister resigned last month for Health Reasons robert broads following this one from seoul today hi rob this looks like almost a succession in the end rather than election will be more of the same from a longtime ally of the Prime Minister. Indeed this is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or he goes super getting nearly 3 quarters of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in a way to as shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these socalled conservative economics that were
Deeply divided ahead of the president ial election in november thousands of americans are desperate for an alternative to the 2 main runners and the countrys 2 party system. Youre watching R T International coming to you straight from moscow 247 welcome to the program this hour. All right we start this hour with some breaking news a German Government spokesperson has said that the russian opposition figurehead accent of all me was poisoned with the nerve agent known as nobody choke thats apparently based on test results analyzed by a military lab im on the is currently in a coma in a burl in hospital after being airlifted from russia 2 weeks ago and the kremlin says its received no communication from berlin on the test results now for more information on this we can cross live to our ts peter over who is in berlin peter could you tell us more about this announcement that we have coming from the German Government. Yes this is all coming for very very quickly in the last hour weve heard
Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
Program balloons are released on copacabana beach as the number of People Killed by cove at 19 in brazil passes 100000 the bars in rio still packed. Protesters are back out in west jerusalem calling for israels Prime Minister to step down. Clashes a broken out in central beirut where tens of thousands of lebanese have been out voicing their fear at the government for its role in tuesdays Explosion Police fired tear gas and live ammunition as some protesters threw stones and others stormed government ministries the offices of the association of lebanese banks were also trashed one policeman was killed during the arrest and the right cross said dozens of people were injured. By a root residents are angry that theyve been left to pick up the pieces of their shattered homes and neighborhoods using shovels and human chains no help from the state. And more m. P. s have resigned from parliament in their own protest a christian Opposition Party which lost a senior official in the blast said it