Putin, Navalny and yet another novichok poisoning
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The Times
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On August 20th, Russia's most prominent opposition politician was taken ill on a flight after a suspected Novichok poisoning. Alexei Navalny was put into an induced coma and flown to Germany. What does this latest incident mean? And why was Angela Merkel's government keen to take him to Berlin?
Guest: Edward Lucas, Times columnist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | In a hospital in a hospital in Berlin a man is being weaned off a ventilator. |
| 0:11.3 | After days in a coma he's awake and responding to speech. He's being monitored |
| 0:17.0 | day and night by a team of doctors, but he's used to the sensation of being watched. |
| 0:24.0 | As the chief Russian opposition leader and official thorn in President Putin's side, |
| 0:29.0 | Alexi Navalny has been watched for years. |
| 0:34.0 | He's subject to a lot of harassment, but it has been a big question, |
| 0:38.0 | why aren't you dead yet? |
| 0:39.0 | It certainly came pretty close. |
| 0:42.0 | Three weeks ago, Alexi Navalny was taken ill on a |
| 0:46.0 | flight from Siberia to Moscow. He'd been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. |
| 0:51.6 | Tonight this incredible story, the most prominent Russian opposition leader is in a coma on a ventilator. |
| 0:59.0 | Was this another attempt by the Putin regime to eradicate an opponent. |
| 1:04.0 | Why did the German Chancellor Angela Merkel intervene |
| 1:08.0 | and what happens next? |
| 1:10.0 | You're listening to stories of our times, |
| 1:12.0 | from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:17.0 | Today, Putin, Navalny, and yet another case of Novichock poisoning. Last week as Alexi Navalny Leinakoma in a hospital in Berlin, Germany released the results of his toxicology tests. |
| 1:45.0 | Navalny had been poisoned with Novichock. |
| 1:48.0 | The same deadly nerve agent that almost killed the former double agent |
| 1:54.3 | Sergei Scripple in Salisbury back in 2018. |
| 1:58.2 | The normally unflappable Angler Merkel was clearly livid. unfl, the victim of a crime. He was meant to be silenced. I condemn this in the sharpest |
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