it was 77 percent. this weekend. place. and this is you know we use live from berlin a crackdown on journalists and dello russo ahead of sunday's presidential election and you know we reporters for puerto rather is sentenced to 10 days in prison rights groups say several journalists have been detained the crackdown comes as president alexander lukashenko faces growing public anger for his failure to act on the coble no virus pandemic also coming up grief turns to fury growing public anger

in lebanon not over the government's negligence that allow tons of volatile explosives to be stockpiled in the capital international donors pledge aid for rebuilding but demand high level swarms from with it plus health officials in germany continue to sound the alarm over spike in corn a virus infections there are now fears returning holidaymakers could bring the virus back with them just as schools are reopening and the u.s. steps up efforts to digitally deep couple from china to new executive order targets social media sensation tick-tock and china's payment and messaging service we chat . thank you so much for your company everyone and we start in delaware so that country is getting ready to hold its. most hotly contested presidential election in

years and there are clear signs that the government is looking to hush up the media rights group say several reporters have been arrested including freelance journalist alexander berkoff who were ports for d.w.i. news he's been sentenced to 10 days in prison meaning be unable to cover the election this weekend while he was arrested in his home town of mostly off in the country's east prisons alexander lukashenko is facing a wave of dissent with the anger over his dismissal of the covert 1000 pandemic and grievances over human rights abuses as get you now the very latest are already w.'s director general peter lindbergh has written to the bella russian embassy here in germany to protest against the reporter's arrest and now i want to get you some more information my colleague irina filatov is standing by in bonn.

irina 1st of all i just want to know how is our colleague doing is he safe and secure. yeah a colleague alexander burke of has been convicted of petty hooliganism by. a court in his hometown magaluf ethic immediately and. we haven't been able to contact him because his cell phone is switched off all the time not to. get a you know well i'm very sorry to continue continue with your reporting irina maybe just tell the people there that you're not live on television set all the time i don't. like whatever. i'm headed their way not to continue reporting. yes. so i don't know that i remember every now hold the hold that thought we're just going to go to your is report now and i will pick up our conversation right

over that. your receiver has been covering the elections in belarus and push for change let's take a look at that for a moment. tens of thousands of people have come to the capital minsk in recent days. she's telling the incumbent president alexander lukashenko and has become the face of the opposition here. i don't want to be silent anymore i don't want to be afraid are you also tired of staying silent. but. doesn't want to be president in case she wins she has promised to release all political prisoners and then call new elections she's campaigning out of

solidarity with her husband is a popular blog again. who wanted to run for the presidency himself but was not authorized. he had traveled across the country revealing abuses of power corruption and poverty and was charged with inciting popular unrest has been in jail since many. critics of the regime see him as a political prisoner who is apparently a threat for president lukashenko. the dispute is ill this is completely arbitrary in our country be just eliminate the competition that's me but i like that in such as it is where you just go it's unfair it shouldn't be allowed he was jailed over nothing here now they're making him into an enemy of the people it's a dictatorship. navasky isn't. alone in challenging little gushing call but 2 other serious contenders have disappeared from the political stage one of them the view from

a bank of victoria bob i recall has been in prison since june on charges of money laundering and tax fraud. the other of a businessman valérie said carlo left the country and saying if he had for his safety. that 3 other candidates have stayed in the presidential race with city atlanta. sharing chain. are now counterparts ghajar and underrate dimitry of the old know they have a virtually no chance of winning but they aren't giving up or. on the in a dictatorship victory doesn't mean bringing an election victory is mobilizing society did change things. so. believes the good people of bel-air roups are ready for a new chapter you. can show you. can literally feel

the unity of my compatriots their self-confidence and pride at finally being a people that is ready for change. i need. it in. the election on august 9th i will show you how much power one of the opposition here really ass president lukashenko has ruled to the country for 26 years and says he's confident of victory. has revealed herself to be a poor little girl who doesn't know she's doing. her work reporting for us apologies we were having some technical issues before and we're trying to resolve but now we want to turn our attention to lebanon because in the way. make of the massive blasts 11 and leadership is now facing growing anger over the deadly explosions that have killed more than $150.00 people and injured

thousands more shocking is now turning to fury it's always responded with force when protesters gathered outside that country's parliament opponents accuse the government of corruption incompetence and failing to avert an economic meltdown while the government has meanwhile opened an investigation into whether external interference played a role in the explosions and let's go to lebanon and now to our reporter there best in the lebanese capital to. tell us more about that people have gathered are protesting since last night near the parliament in beirut what's happening now they are for a day and good and to judgment by 2 models old jeep or just good old you could watch that protest at since 75 october 102019 they they called themselves they

called all these groups to gather to model saturday morning. to square for the day of anger and the judgment judgment full of old people if you can system old the current the current and former government they believe that they don't they don't trust with all these political system anymore that's why they said they the day they could defend the old what's going on all the corruption that that that made this country a fake state. now it's been a couple of days since those devastating blast has anyone in the government step down resigned i mean what has been the reaction from the leadership. yesterday the minister of justice should try to visit should mazie district area well one of the most damaged or uses places in downtown beirut the residents over there they kick out today the minister of education try to have the residents over

that area in cleaning their homes also they kicked him out so it's so all of us want to talk about it off and get that's true because the citizens are so thank you . consistent political leaders what that they are ministers m.p.'s of former or current. politicians they don't want to listen to any one of them. t.v. stations sent a statement and i want to go. that it will boycott the state and spot put politicians that's why we can say that the it's going up tracing it day by day specially that it seems that the investigation some politicians are trying to move the the investigation to say that it's due to an external force or a mistrial or it's you know in another way it's not an accident while all of the evidence all according to my sources in the intelligence agencies and in the.

investigations that taking place at the hard work right now although my sources told me that it's obvious that the explosion skew to the. store which is in other in other words it's due to corruption at that responsibility now and this and many people are still missing and we understand how the rescue effort yes. i couldn't my sources also or in the investigation team at the hard work told me few moments ago that it's so hard they believe that they can't find any survivors anymore right now all the research all the the dangerous to gauge and old what's the action that they be placed at the artwork there are seeking for human bodies for parts for pieces together pieces together they think that there is no way no chance that they can find any more survivors at the same time until this moment we don't know the number of the missing people we don't have

a money 1st or anything that he did that in the mansion or indicate the number of them missing people some of the attendees are still gathered from the porch forts asking for that we lost one and members of the family total agony is still for the people in bay would be reporting from the lebanese capital thank you. thank you so the blast destroyed much of the capital's vital infrastructure authorities are worried now about maintaining suit stocks while the lebanon relies on important imported wheat and its only grain silo was obliterated in the explosions. this is where nearly all of lebanon's grain was stored thousands of tons was lost during the explosion there is now less than a month reserve left. a chain supply problem is also looming the port was the main entry point for food imports now the grains must be rerouted to smaller storage

sites. the un's food agency is scaling up its operations in response before the tragedy there where 1000000 people living in dire condition have lost their job some people are suffering a lot to with this tragedy we are we think that this number will increase and in particular in beirut she itself so we stand ready to provide emergency food as she stands to separate out the lebanese government and to support social protection programs plans to build a 2nd silo out a smaller port were scrapped years ago due to a lack of funding and this isn't that could now prove costly with ships carrying grain already on route to levanon a plan of action is needed soon. for here in germany hundreds of students have been

sent home now from 2 schools in the northern state of mecklenburg western pomerania a teacher and his student have tested positive for the corner virus in the 1st week of the new school year on health officials are now were very worried about a steady climb in infections the number of new cases nationwide has topped a 1000 for the 2nd consecutive day. summertime and the leavings easy. the threat of the coronavirus is waning for many in the country. i don't think about it at all not at all. when they come to you remember to wear your mask. but when you leave public areas it's easy to forget one child. discipline is falling to the wayside. people are letting their guard down because the threat doesn't seem so serious anymore according to the psychologists.

people are at a point where they think of testing the limits some say maybe i can take my mask off here when it's actually necessary you just met another person sees that and then there's a snowball effect of people not wearing masks of clusters have emerged there's also the danger of people bringing back the virus from other countries frankfurt airport is offering free voluntary tests and starting this saturday returning to germany from high risk areas will be required to take a test free of charge if it's taken within 3 days. i am very aware that this is an infringement on personal freedom but i think it's a reasonable one if. those who don't get tested in time face a fine of up to 25000 euros so will there be state funds for those who don't wear masks or practice social distancing this government official says yes. there

are states in germany that already have been teasin place and i have the feeling that people are becoming more aware of the importance of wearing masks but if it's necessary then tough penalties should be implemented so you'd care for a summer while trying to contain the virus a balancing act for germany. so how worried are germans about the next stage of the pandemic a new dawn trend poll suggests that much if found that 59 percent think the government's current measures are adequate let's find out more about this with our political correspondent simon met a young. some good to see you you for ported on the 20000 people in berlin last weekend that demonstrated against the government's coronavirus restrictions but according to the findings of this new poll a very clear majority is still ok with these measures actually as

a matter of fact they're supporting them so was that just a vocal minority that showed up over the weekend. absolutely like a vocal an angry minority of in many cases frustrated people who think really the government's measures have been too heavy handed but it's a small group really compared to the vast majority of people he back the government's measures they think they've got generally the right approach with face coverings and with distancing and with all the other things that they've asked people to do to avoid spreading the disease and i think we may see as time goes on perhaps as infections ramp up a little bit again is they're doing at the moment we may see tough measures imposed for instance people are talking about having police checking and trains and things like that so there is widespread support for this type of measure now on thursday

simon germany's the health minister announced that travellers returning from the so-called high risk regions will face mandatory testing let's take a look now at what the survey tells us about the reaction to that new measure well the testing by the way applies to people returning from most countries outside of the european union 93 percent of those who responded said they support the measure which kicks in on saturday simon how is this going to work in practice and how will it be enforced. well so as you said it's it's focused on airports in many cases people will be able to have the test immediately in the terminal building when they arrive i think some of the details of it still have to be worked out because you need a legal basis to impose these kind of medical requirements on people you can't just do that although the government does have some some powers under the emergency

corona legislation that is introduced they will have fines up to 25000 euros to back up their requirement to have the test which is also being made available free at the moment so that should help people to decide to do it some people some politicians are going a bit further saying they think this should be a ban on all private travel to places heavily infected with corona virus because the risks it is too high. and other people are saying that actually all returning past people shipped from those areas should be required to go into quarantine because that they say is the best way to stop any spread of the virus and that's i mean the schools have asserted to reopen social distancing in times you measures are in place but many families are still concerned let's take a look now at some numbers on that well a 58 percent of parents with their school age children say they believe schools are not well prepared to deal with that pandemic that's a really that's

a concerning number simon but many parents of course do want to see their children finally get back to school what can they expect moving forward. well the state authorities who are in charge of education around germany say they're being very vigilant but they do want children to go back because it's important for their education it also will take some of the pressure off parents as well of course but we've seen as you mentioned a couple of schools closing in mecklenburg western pomerania where the government had said they hoped to avoid that with measures separating the students out by closs but obviously that hasn't been possible in these couple of cases i think as we go through the next weeks and months we will see more such incidents in schools but i think the authorities in general they have a plan and their ability to implement it will increase as the time goes by i mean reporting thank you. let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories

making news around the world. residents and tourists have been evacuated from an italian resort at the border with france as a nearby among blong glad glace year rather threatens to collapse amid a heat wave while he created a layer of water of around $500.00 cubic metres of ice under the police here only the size of the milan cathedral. thousands of young doctors in south korea have staged a one day strike and gather in the capital seoul they're angry and government plans to expand admissions to medical schools as a way of resolving the shortage of doctors critics say the plan would nurture a low quality medical schools and worsen the quality of health care in the country . the us out of $1800000.00 jobs last month more than expected overall unemployment fell to just over 10 percent most openings were in services but jump lieschen has

been slowing leading to muris about the economic fallout from the penn demick and racial an artist. is a trade dispute now moving into the digital world the us president all trumped escalated tensions which china on thursday by issuing an executive order their forces americans to stop using chinese own apps like tic talk and we chat while the move against it talk the world's fastest growing social media site was expected the best know we chat was not. in just 6 weeks those uploading videos like this one to mobile app tick-tock could find themselves on the wrong side of u.s. law. the u.s. has around 100000000 take talk users but not for much longer. on thursday washington issued an executive order banning u.s. transactions but tick-tock parent company the white house. leaves the app threatens

national security saying it allows china's communist party to spy on u.s. citizens china refutes that saying the u.s. is merely upping the ante in the ongoing trade conflict with. the u.s. taking national security as an excuse frequently abuses national power and unreasonably suppresses companies of other countries this is an outright hegemonic act china is firmly opposed to it the controversy centers around this company by dance based in beijing it owns numerous apps including tech talk and residents in beijing were not happy about the american moves. because i don't agree with this move from the u.s. it restricts the free business growth of tech talk but it also affects those american youth who like tech talk so much. it will be a while back i don't want to use american products anymore and i will support the chinese alternatives and economic self-reliance what have you that way that.

recently u.s. software company microsoft expressed interest in buying tick tock from byte dance the white house says if a u.s. company bought the app the ban could be avoided the u.s. government's executive order also focuses on 10 cent holdings the chinese owner of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media could soon be banned in the united states as well. and football now in the 1st leg of their champions league round of 16 clash took place way back in february or tonight real madrid finally visit manchester city to complete the match up. it's a rare sight these days gareth bale kicking a football in real madrid colors the lesser spotted welshman didn't train with his team mates in england ahead of their clash with manchester city though and according to his manager that is purely the players' decision. many things have been said. but there's

a respectful relationship between the club and the players. i will say is that he preferred not to play. the rest is between us and him. this entirely new sources close to bale say he told the don that he didn't want to travel because a so often recently he knew he would be left out of the team whatever the real reason behind bill's absence a few clubs could do without a 100000000 euro signing and expect to win a game but rio one of those despite his site being 21 up from the 1st leg city manager pep guardiola knows he is up against top quality players and a wily operator in sudan. and all been judging going to lose it when i think you've got one of his tactical plans covered you'll hit you with another or revert to the one that you thought he would start with so it's very very difficult to analyze me if you had a 3rd of those who wondered if the former barcelona player does win the tactical battle over rio he'll take his side into the quarterfinals on

a step closer to the champions league glory that city's big spending owners crave. coming up and you have your news asia. 2000000 and counting why india now has one of the largest khulna buyers caseload. and so was really pretty notches up a landslide election victory a look held that way you could shape the country for years to come. and a whole lot more coming up in just a moment the rush of battered and you can find much more about heading to our web site at c.n.n. dot com and on twitter and d w news and thank you so much for watching rockefeller we'll have more world headlines for you at the top of the hour.

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