"러 나발니, 투숙 호텔 객실 물병에 묻은 신경작용제에 중독"
It's time now for our Friday edition of Arirang's 'The World Now'. I'm Kim Jae-hee.
We begin with developments on Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny.
Aides of Navalny say traces of poison were detected on an empty water bottle in the hotel room he stayed in, before he fell ill on a flight to Moscow last month.
The team of the Putin critic had collected his personal items from his previous hotel.
They say the items were airlifted to Berlin with Navlany, as he was being transferred to Berlin hospital, and a German lab found traces of Novichok on a bottle.
"It's unclear and at this point it's just our guesswork: he was possibly poisoned before the flight, because he had touched the bottle and the poison was either on it or inside it."
The opposition leader has been recovering in Berlin since he emerged from a coma last week, and plans to return to Russia.
Germany says there's "unequivocal evidence" Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent, and two other labs in France and Sweden support this claim.
The Kremlin denies any involvement.