without beethoven starts september 16th on w. . this is the w. news live from berlin a tough choice she says but how much of it was hers the opposition challenger in belarus his presidential poll leaves the country supporters say under duress. to kind of sky is now calling for an end to the protests of the election that she herself described as rigged also on the program. global coronavirus cases surged past 20000000 in new infections doubled over 6 weeks needs to be done to slow the spread.

i'm still gal welcome to the program the opposition candidate in better russa's presidential election has left the country svetlana to kind of sky has joined her children in neighboring if you wait here she'd sent them to have before the vote and before accusing president alexander lukashenko of rigging the result now germany has called on the european union to consider imposing sanctions against ben a rose by u.s. secretary of state my palm pilot said the photo had been neither fair nor free of a russian president vladimir putin has congratulated president bush and co on his win was to kind of sky has good had given no hint that she was leaving the country . proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. by monday she was gone her whereabouts unknown her team unable to reach her. now so

that lot of taken off scalia has reappeared with the sunday message online. said the companion. man you know what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me muse that i could withstand anything. but perhaps i'm still the weak woman that i was in the beginning. the opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the country's foreign minister taken office chaos says she was not forced out of her country and the government also insisted that she left on her own accord. i made a very difficult to sit in for myself and i made it absolutely independently the it's in the knee ligament to play moot many will understand me and many will denounce me and many will hate me. to you but god forbid

anyone should face the choice that i faced because i was here who prepared a part she came off to she refused to concede defeat in sunday's vote election officials said authoritarian president alexander lukashenko won his 6th term in office with a landslide 80 percent of the verdict took another scale one only 10 percent but has dismissed the results but full fleeing she submitted a formal demand for a recount. thousands of belarusians have also rejected the results taking to the streets for a 2nd night of protests demonstrators in minsk were met by security forces who deployed stun grenades rubber bullets and tear gas injuring dozens. foreign officials have also expressed doubts about the election outcome. more deeply concerned by the valorous our presidential election severe restrictions on ballot access for candidates prohibition of local independent observers at polling stations intimidation of opposition candidates in the detention of peaceful

protesters and journalists have marred the process german officials have called for the european union to discuss reimposing sessions on valorous but for now with the backing of russia and china president lukashenko remains defiant let's explore this further with journalist an analyst a from income via chocobo welcome to d w there are of course widespread suspicions that the kind of sky was pressurised into leaving the country but what do you think all i am pretty sure government is trying to employ the same tactic they did in 2010 when some presidential candidates went to k.g.b. it and then came back and said that all pollution is guilty and thanks for helping us. at the same situation as to the last guy right now and apparently they put pressure on my truck family i think to a last call yesterday it was shoulder something extraordinary your head she was

given the choice between the health and life of a relative or her husband and that the choice to leave the country to go to the us and of course she. preferred the 2nd one. and nobody expected her to go does anyone expect her to come back. i don't think she will come back any time soon and all visually it's very difficult to manage their evolution from outside and this means that even the broths will continue today and the further days and weeks they will be leaderless and it's similar missions are learning quickly to be to self organize it started in the during the call of it to $1000.00 and then week when government didn't do anything and people organize their special support of each other and gather in money to buy for the gear for doctors and now miller stand together money to build some equipment and some stuff to build barricades some

organizations. are leaving what there are leaving some protective gear for protesters near the metro station and everywhere in the means you can find medicaments some drugs left especially in case if someone will be beaten and will need some. urgent medical help so now that so the presidency is rule for 26 years he's now he's one again what's the likely to do next is it business as usual at present. no it's not usual i think it's a very very special extraordinary situation here understand that he's losing control over the situation and he wants to. stay in power so long as he can but i'm sure he feels that his time is over and this pro this this process of transition from look up to the new government it may it might last that beat the question this

is it will last 4 weeks or it will last for months and years and everything depends on to day to morrow and this week even the progress sort of life if they will continue then look at us and it will be very very soon we thank you for joining us and outlining out for us are clearly better russian journalist and analyst from a very chaka of a number of confirmed covered 19 cases around the world has surpassed 20000000 with more than half of those in the united states india and brazil health officials believe the number of people infected is likely to be much higher as many countries especially in the developing world have only limited testing facilities meanwhile russia has declared itself the world's 1st country to register a coronavirus vaccine the country's health ministry says it could be available for mass use by october but the speed of the vaccines approval has raised doubts over

its quality and safety. let's get more on this from john campbell he's a health analyst nurse and educator from carlisle in england welcome to d.w. 20 really cases worldwide a number that has doubled in just 6 weeks so is the rates of infection around the world increasing. well there's increasing number of people becoming infected yes there's more people who are infected they're going to pass the virus on to more people so we do get this exponential growth where the acceleration in the number of cases is actually accelerating the greater the number the faster the rate of growth and i think that's what we're starting to seeing quite a few places now we've seen this for some time in the united states and as you rightly say brazil and india and russia and south africa are unfortunately not far behind as well so increasing cases in all of these areas now there has been some leveling off there's been made a lot of it's been there's been a lot of publicity about the amount of leveling off in new cases in the united

states for example but this is the lead this is a leveling off in the number of new cases that are increasing so the actual cases the still a lot of cases there but the rate of increase is not quite as high as it was but globally we are seeing many cases and as you rightly said there feel that this is this is really only the tip of the iceberg the real number of cases are going to vary perhaps 10 times higher than this we know this from syria logical studies in the u.k. the office for national statistics goes out and takes a representative sample of people and they've estimated about 2.8 to 3000000 people in the u.k. have actually had coverage 19 infection right and that's way higher than the official numbers that we see in these numbers around the world the u.s. brazil and india accounting for half of all cases. why is there something beyond there just being more brazilians russians and americans. yes very good question i think a lot of it is the way this pandemic started off how there was

a small sort of cluster of cases and how they would dealt with in the early stages so in a sense we're paying the consequences now for what was done probably way back in january or february so for example to take an extreme case new zealand had a small number of cases around about that time but were able to isolate them very. actively whereas in the united states there's probably a degree of denial about how serious this virus was and how transmissible it was and what sort of burden of morbidity and mortality it could carry india and brazil are probably slightly different in india and brazil although the one different continent you do have quite a lot of common problems that you have relatively poor health care infrastructure you have a lot of poor people living in fairly close environments perhaps several people or even a family living in one room you also have quite a lot of multigenerational families as well so there's a lot of close contact drug initiative and that allows that we can number of cases

to increase quite rapidly in those countries but i just want to get your reaction to today's news that russia claims to have proved a corona virus vaccine about how reassured should be baby that news briefly if you wouldn't mind. yes i think the answer is not very reassuring i mean the u.k. in europe and the united states is being going absolutely flat out on these fancy developments since since the coronavirus pandemic became an issue and we are still have only a few sample vaccines what we call phase 3 clinical trials i think there's 4 vaccines now of phase 3 clinical trials and this means that we are we a large number of people with the vaccine a large number of people with the placebo and then we see how that happens now the simply has not been enough weeks and months of passed to do such a study in right so you're sure it's just you just haven't been a tom it's perhaps been rushed in russia. character well here i don't know is any

question about the sort of the level of reassurance and validity and safety testing and efficacy testing that we were expecting western countries for a new drug or a new vaccine to come on line they simply has not been the time to do that good talking to you that's very clear thank you so much john campbell health analyst and educator. take a look at some more of the latest developments in this pandemic will start in new zealand which is registered its 1st infections in more than 100 days with 4 people from one household testing positive all clint's has been placed under a new lockdown following this outbreak the u.s. administration is reported to be considering blocking citizens and permanent residents from returning to the country if this suspected of having the virus and there are signs that an outbreak of covered 19 in australia state of victoria is subsiding with case numbers forming after

a week of lockdown restrictions and an evening curfew in the state capital of melbourne. and while some professional sports around the world are managing to weather the coronavirus pandemic many of us haven't been so lucky mexico's unique style of masked a wrestling known as new can leave brain depends on ticket sales to staff loads social distancing rules have left the sport on the ropes and put thousands of restless out of work. lieber a is a celebration of culture and mexico which draws thousands of wrestling fans like characters straight out of a comic book the wrestlers don masks to capture the crowds imagination but no one could envision the effects coronavirus would have on the sport with all of the arenas still closed in mexico the sport remains at a standstill there's no telling when or if this electric atmosphere will ever return the bulk of these wrestlers don't have health insurance or a pension plan no wrestling means no way organizations committed to helping have

provided food and other provisions for out of work wrestlers but some say that isn't enough. the restless the people in need help now. we don't need to simply food. we need more we need a. sport organizers have insisted wrestlers will continue to be paid but according to some payments never reach them there are plans to launch a format similar to a drive in movie theater to bring spectators back in the meantime some wrestlers have organized their own fights on the internet north florida where the i don't agree with those underground fights here or anywhere because i doubt they are complying with safety measures that they're known as the movie does no good here this time we saw them according to the boxing and wrestling commission at least 30

mexican wrestlers have lost their lives to cope at 90. and situ up to date k. defenders and how is your business updates in just a moment i'll be back with more news at the top out in the meantime of course as always the web site called i'm going to. stay up to date don't miss our highlights. program. w dot com highlights. like. this. for the russians so. steve. so many different walks of life. some are.