for the same as all those the sense for fighting the moment field, they were supposed to be set longer. taking the sky was in washington before arriving here in downing street messaging in both capital with the same that more action was needed. but there was no concrete response either by the president of the united states, or indeed the u. k. prime minister. at as far as the president of better roost, confirmed, it appears from events in ukraine, said he seems intent on continuing his deadly messaging. if security agents from bella, ruth did kill 26 year old vigilance, she shut off. it is indeed a warning to opposition activists. andrew simmons, al jazeera london. ah, what's there with me to hill rom, the reminder of all top stories, india's health ministries, as the current of iris pandemic, there is still raging. and it's far from over. on tuesday cases rose by more than

42000, but say 40 percent increase on the previous day. almost half of all new infections are in the southern states of carola bobby michelle has more from the deli the numbers have been under control. if you see the picture, pan, india, the positivity rate is chill under 5 percent. that is a benchmark set by the was, has organization saying that about 5 percent is when you're supposed to be really worried. but there are some wiring trends, you know, care law is one state where unlike the other states in india, where you saw a peep rise in a peak of cases during the 2nd wave colonel has had a platter. and that plateau has to continued, which is why more than half the cases that india recorded overnight have been coming from kara last in boxes on the government says it's given 1000000 vaccine days is a single day for the 1st time. it follows a ban on vaccinated people in government, offices, schools, restaurants, shopping,

miles, and commercial flights. the delta variance is being blamed for surgeon cases. the 5000 cases are reported on saturday, the highest daily tally in more than 2 months. the capital has been shaken by another explosion near the defense facility. 3 people injured it comes a day after a car bomb went off, followed by a gun attack. the, the home of the defense minister for people were killed and fire fighters in turkey have brought around 160 blazes under controls of last week, but at least 14 remain a threat. in 6 provinces, 8 people have died and more than 16000 people have been evacuated. those were the headlines of the back with more knees and half my hair on their next. it's handsome, with inside story, to stay with us. my name is my name is on my job. find the beauty of brands to that point. if you will, if you can usually just just grab

a manager, i've only got mine on mine idea on i'll just use sport and politics clash at the olympic bella. russian athlete in tokyo thinks protection from poland saying she was forced to leave the games against her will. so what does her case say about repression and human rights in how homeland this is inside school? ah, ah. hello, welcome to the program on has him speaker christina simone, new sky. i went to the tokyo olympics with dreams of representing bella. ruth,

at the world's biggest sporting event. but the dramatic end to her campaign has triggered a political and diplomatic dispute. as princess, as bella, russian officials tried to force her to fly home when she complained about being entered into a race she hadn't prepared for seeking the protection of the japanese police at the airport. she then found refuge at the polish embassy in tokyo and was given a humanitarian visa. a russian olympic committee says it pulled cmo scar from competition because of her psychological state. but the athlete says her life was in danger. beyond the right, when you are still, they made it clear that upon my return home, i would definitely say some form of punishment. and that if i refused and ran in the $200.00 mates a race, i would be fired and kicked out of the national team. there were also thinly disguised hints that more would await to me. the key phrase is when they said that the decision to return home was not taken by us. it was taken by other people and

we were ordered to follow through. at the moment, i just want to safely get to europe. i would really like to continue my sporting career because i'm only 24. and i had plans to participate in at least 2 more olympic games for the international olympic committee. once officers from bell russian officials and has launched a formal investigation in terms of her safety and security. i think we've dealt with most of the issues that needed to be dealt with. we have decided to launch, not surprisingly, a formal investigation which will be led by the i see ministration. we need to establish the full facts. we need to hear everyone involved. that obviously can take time. and in the meantime, obviously, our 1st concern is, is for the athlete. all of the athletes case unfolded in tokyo in ukraine. a bellow russian activist was found dead in a park vitaly. she shall lead an organization in kia,

which helped bela russians fleeing persecution. elisa launched the murder investigation exiled opposition leader that lana c con oscar fears. something similar could happen to her, not everybody who is in the room and who have to take about them. so because to be see the resumes, maybe not so from. and you can reach if they want to do something, i can disappear to your moments, understand this, but i should do what i'm doing. i can't stored because i'm you know, i feel this responsibility for future of my fans with the same as all those sense while fighting the woman feel they responsibility. i know that even if i disappear one day, this movement will continue without bell. russian government crackdown on descent

has worsened since president alexander lucas shanker was reelected. last august, thousands of protesters were arrested, including several linked to svetlana to her nob sky. as campaign she fled to neighboring with you, i knew and has been drumming up international pressure. lucas shanker to step down in may. a ryan in flight, heading to lithuania, was forcibly diverted to minutes where police detained an opposition journalist on board romano pro to say, which is accused of being evolved in so called terrorist activity. and last month bell, russian police rated the offices of 14 rights groups. non governmental organizations and independent media outlets. ah, well, let's bring in august. now joining us from warsaw is anna toll quite tower international relations manager of the bell, russian sports solidarity foundation. the organization helps athletes who faced

repercussions for expressing political views in brussels. we have a cat, a lantern chief executive of the center for european policy studies, and also in warsaw, valerie sep carlo bell, russian opposition, leader and former presidential candidate a warm a welcome to all of you. so anatole, if i could start with you then 1st because i know that you have spoken to christina, tim and sky. so just fill us in. first of all, what has she told you about all this? i truly and now she's okay. now now she's a polish embassy and she's getting better after all this. ready shocking events, which should turn her out of the southern for her from senor and the very simple mistake of team officials who failed

to ensure the distant program for her for the team members. so they're mix, well, they're really even for extra $400.00 me this women they tried to persuade christian to participate in this event about. it's not her discipline, there was no, any politics or the beginning of the story. she just refused for reasonable grounds. she was twist health and live for somebody's mistakes. and all the sudden the political decision was taken a means to grip her and say, come back to means kill against her. will she informed about such a situation? and she managed home builders and own vision validates, have carlow, what's,

what's likely, what do you fear is likely to happen to her family as, as a result, as well as i'm the i'm over the left in the ukraine. i just wanted to say that he is say, now when he is in your grade, however, it would be, we know the story about the thought is just so, but he was found dead just several hours ago. he was hang in the forest. i key. so most probably, it was also the results of their actions of bella russo special forces i or somebody who raised with ukraine. so i don't think that somehow they can influence their parents. however, we had the news that they already approached their parents probably trying to

persuade and therefore it still showed them back to minutes ago, you know that they captured several people's and they started to stick on camera that deborah is fine. the re jim is good. we have to worry about in bill or was that happened when look i sent because regime hijacked the knack raft and they brought them on a beach to breeze and then she started to speak what they wanted. and the same thing happened with one of our athletes, m, m, i champion and also to be in their hands and they are old. so he also started to speak what they want from him to, to talk about. so, you know, i think that the re, jim ones now the same christina would be started to speak about good things about them, but nobody trust them any or, and what i expect, i expect that most probably the decision will be taken to the national olympic

community. from the international committee and the billing team will continue to participate on the neutral fat blacks in this olympics, carolina, given what bella bruce has done to previous dissenters to this surprise, you at all? no, no, no, no. it's totally in line to get the patients or what this look, chunk or government is doing. i mean, it's even sometimes look shank or has government or even sometimes ahead of the other states. like, for example, at home state, they have their own with love, the neighboring country. and they called back that i'm back there just because a lot embassy over there had put on a lack of the position. and they go back to the master. i mean, the, you was late to react to that and it's only, and it's monday, part of may. we take off the intersection of the lane from athens city right next

to you and both even harder sanctions. but we have, are you going to be published about a month ago that you could do much more? and for example, recall at the us and just pretty different, i think relations. and finally with the shop. i think that part of the things we can do, for example, extending group of people to which sanctions apply at the moment. that's about 166 persons. you could say that there's a lot and their assets are frozen. for example, these people have money on bank accounts and you don't be countries, the assets are frozen. but i think we can do much more than that to be much more restrictive, and to be much more forceful against the scope and talk and talk about what this has has someone else told you and your organization about how long term plans right now, what she plans to do from here actually tomorrow she comes to war. so our and we're planning to arrange a special meeting for her ministry of sports. and to reason the analogous along

the promised to. ready try to meet her requests because she wants to continue close for the career. this is quite possible and we are ready to help to assist with facilitation of negotiation with the polish officials and also polish. and i will see the late afflicted duration. so my invention to. ready come to a safe place to. ready ready re union with, with your family because her husband also had to leave from the country and because he was afraid for also repressions from this side of therapist and then to start thinking about the future plans within her career. she told us today she has

plans for 2 next olympics. so she is quietly on perspective. and we would like to help her to assist her to be per bad for about event because the main thing is her played her life and her career. now let me call to what extent has the seminar sky as case expose the tactics of the bell russian regime on de luca shanker? well, i have a question. i would say a couple words about the symptoms and you know, just all the lamps lined lamps on this junior. we also told that bill respond delegations, they were like you guys, and they were looking after sportsmen,

so they didn't allow them to be in contact with their representatives of the state . so they aware people would leave the country. oh would leave us for for it would be a big thing for the reputation. no one was afraid. and we remember somebody who fled in fact in areas believe this over to a geisha and stayed in protest at the time. i think that this is the same symptoms actual enough in the house. we bring all the lamps of this regina and when you been sports, ma'am that very well day. i'm proud of the story, jim. they want us sports definitely extend. class

even sports, man. women decided to stay away from these times. i think it's very, very symptomatic and it's kind of to be very so carolina, how should the e you react to this? now? i don't know, you kind of touched on this a little earlier. and part of the reason i'm asking is because when roman port to say which the opposition journalist was taken off, that ryan f flights earlier this year. there was this a storm of criticism internationally. and the, you almost immediately him post economic sanctions on bell roost. but clearly it hasn't changed, their behavior has it. so what do they do now? i mean, of course they have the sanction, but i think they can do much more. just a magic level. they can do much more. that is not

a thing because on the behind i preach this merger, merge of this journalist and ukraine underlines, i mean the secret police b k t b, or the secret police as possibly i mean, it's almost everywhere. so as long as we have these diplomatic relations under the cover of diplomats, she could police can be active and all of your congress, the polity, whatever been doing in our territory. i mean like russia is also used to do baltic states. so as we are much more course will it's a trying to trace what these different, different much so called diplomats are doing the different countries. or you mentally, pre diplomatic relations for the company in question. we can be much more parcel and make sure that these things happen anymore or happen less anyway. there's so much parallel between debate and government acts and debate the russian government, for example, has acted in his poisoning august opposition figures and u. k. i mean, what he's doing is of the same time, however,

i was warned against too much kind of optimism or hopelessly that these things will have rapid effect. i'm very happy to see that this. i mean, the elected president of better lucia. the kind of sky is received everywhere around the world was received by by last week is no. and california, i remember correctly was an item before she gets good support, but we'll have to company to do this eventually for years to undermine this regime . as soon as we can, but i will take, i think it may not yours because russia is behind another shot at russia, strongly supporting or putting somebody supporting the but it shows you and we've seen and syria. ho, disconcerting around. i mean, indicator, syria, we thought 10 years ago, that would be forced to step down very soon. but look where we are today is again, and it's still there. all right, we'll come come back to some of that in a moment, but i just want to come back to anatole for a moment. it should to the relevant sporting authorities have done more to help the

seminar sky. i mean, this all happened very quickly, and the court of arbitration in sport denied her. her legal bid to, to run in the 200 meters in the olympics earlier this week, saying that she didn't have enough evidence to, to make the, make her case for that. what do you, what do you take from from that was there perhaps a reluctance to get involved in a political and diplomatic. this dispute a pillar. we saw our good level of engagement of european all in the committee international it because we just had to really not so many time do not so much time to response, but they interfered immediately just one hour after they. ready have been informed about the case of christmas donaldson. unfortunately, my daughters, the delegation tried to do like a special operations. so the christina was informed that she has to go to

airport just one hour before she was actually taken from her apartment. so the plan, the action with no time to response if with you about the international for those arbitration division as procure, they did not dismiss the appeal of the whole staff. they dismissed only one part of the deal, a request for c. and the case is still under consideration of the girls and we would like to have a final decision just to point out. ready just to fix a fee show that there was a fact why elation of rise and that she was eager to participate in this of course, such as we see on the,

on this example should really be working 24 hours 7 days for sure. unfortunately, due to these differences in time and time sheets, and also due to the complexity of the situation, christina was in police with limited access or communication meals. so there should be some more efficient remedies liberated, taken into account these case. but what could have been done by the international sports for this was actually done, and we are grateful for their interference and help international because we do open the new investigation against the national and become a go go to in this to get my thoroughly christine at the moment that case

validates have caught hello, how would you characterize the current climates in bella russo right now in terms of free speech? has it, has it gotten worse since that disputed election in august 2020? definitely much worse because the political party saw band practically old newspapers, independent newspapers, even local newspapers have been very, very small newspapers that cover the life for, for some local communities. they also ban practically, they know in joe's now in the bill of ruth and it's a really very visible crime down from the sides of the regime on the civil society . and then i would try to clear the fields, you know, that it would be, you know, any attempts for resistance, even peaceful demonstrations,

hold the human race and also the wild. so i the integration with human rights is getting worse and worse. we have now about angry only think a little visual, recognize political. they need our country and the novel administrative arrest. rise in also. so you know, just, you know, they were about 40000 people that go through prisons on the presidential elections for to 1000. if you can compare with the polish silly daughter most, the largest central and his new report to the 2nd world war, they didn't fall and they were about 10000 people. i brought through prisons and poland, 4 times bigger than bella, luce. so you can imagine the scale of the terror that bill roo civil

society face is now from decide to the sprint you. but from by another point we are pre optimistic because one day it will blow up and there are no other way, but we will definitely win because you know, just, it's impossible now to breathe. but you know, the society cannot leave the same way and i'm free to call and said, all right, you know, we, on the brink of down to this ridge, you, let's, let's give what's probably going to be the last word on this to cow lando. do you agree with that sentiment? are you hopeful for the future? and what would you want to see more off from other nations in, in applying pressure on bella? ruth, i'm hopeful as well, but we shouldn't be kind of so i mean, optimistic sense that it will just be a matter of some weeks. no, it can take some time, but we have to be extremely result. very clear that and what we do and what we

support and i think this is not only the case for or you can just hold the case for all european concrete for all the confusion that we have to be on in the world as a whole. have to be very supportive of the elected residential candidate. this straight line up the final anyway, she's received all over the world traveling all over, but that's we have to continue to have the pressure because we give up the pressure . i mean, because i will say i wrong and he will stay on powerful another which is also likely. so that is extremely important to the result of all the different countries and increase our sanctions. reduce the promising presence eventually be much more forceful. eventually, activities of the police of the going to be on the federal conference, but also all of the russians who have some links with the government. we're having links over here for them to look at bank accounts we beneficial have and you don't being concrete about their relatives who are studying and european universities,

which is also happening on that if they are against for example of these, please offer belushi. we have to be very forceful against the assets of those which are part of the game. and that's we can do much more of the building already. of course we have strategies or actions, but we have to do much more just to show that we are not giving up and the supporting who is the person who's the elected. and we want to have a change in the. all right. we'll have to leave it there. good discussion. thanks very much gentlemen. thanks for being on an inside soy, anatole cow, cat, atlanta, and valerie said, carlos, thanks for me with us. and thank you for watching. as always, some of the can see the program again. any time by visiting our website, as you see in a dot com and for further discussion, you can go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a j in slides to you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is at

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