is what allows us to live and survive the ideas the environmental suit global 3000 on g.w. and on. this is the w.'s live from berlin a tough decision to leave bella rose but how much of it was out of. the book god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced in the clubs of opposition candidates flatliner to kind of sky us a she left under duress she's calling for an end to protests over an election that she herself described as really also on the program. as

a global coronavirus cases past 20000000 russia becomes the 1st country to approve a vaccine it's taken just months to develop so how to say effective is it. professional wrestlers in mexico say they've been pinned down by the coronavirus restrictions or put all fights on hold leaving thousands of them out for the count . i'm so gail welcome to the program we start in balad ruz where the top opposition candidate in sunday's presidential election has left the country amid a massive police crackdown on anti-government protests in a video message from to kind of skier said she was safe with her children in neighboring if you weigh in here she also wrote supporters to end their protest against the election. result which gave president alexander lukashenko

a 6 but mystic kind of sky's ally say she was pressured into her latest moves. yet proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. by monday she was gone her whereabouts on earn her team unable to reach her. now svetlana taken off scalia has reappeared with a somber message online. to say the companion. i knew what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me that i could withstand anything. new but perhaps i'm still the weak woman that i was in the beginning but was initially. the opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the country's foreign minister taken off scale 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 decision for myself and i've made it absolutely independently the it's in the knee in the game in europe a moot many will understand me those who did many will denounce me and many will hate me. god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced. her departure came off to she refused to concede defeat in sunday's vote election official 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 fulfilling 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 of foreign

officials have also expressed doubt about the election outcome. more deeply concerned by the bellary 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 cold for the european union to discuss 3 imposing sanctions on belarus but for now with the backing of russia and china president lukashenko remains defiant. another svetlana to kind of video is also circulating on social media showing the opposition leader reading i prepared statement it's believed to have been recorded in bella ruse just hours before she and her family left for lithuania almost. all the girls. formed almost. the last of chess.

or. shares a simple question. to somebody. boreholes is above us. or a trick on. the question bus to the states and he'd see more caution to slow down the path that has just passed and he says he's. a w correspondent nic connelly in kiev can tell in kiev can tell us more about this video welcome and nic i want to do you make of it. looks anything but comfortable she barely looks in the camera in those 30 seconds of that video her body language is very tense and most important the tone basically sounds like government press release and still if you can ask a someone who is known for a very personal personable style of communication so all of those things raising

red flags looking at that video we also heard today from people her campaign team who say she entered the meeting with the head of electoral committee and was then joined by 2 top ranking security officials who spent 3 hours talking to her on top of that more members of her campaign team are still in government attention so if the government media needed any more ways to put pressure on her they have them and we have to remember how it's been said a gay has been in prison for weeks now so a situation which makes it really pretty clear that this video was recorded under duress in this very as she also calls on protesters not to gather and not to resist the police do you think they're likely to listen. well phil if tonight is anything to go by they are not listening i was reading the comments under the 2nd video that we saw in the report that she recorded in freedom in lithuania people really speaking they support her personally but saying they would continue the protests tonight we've had video from groups of protesters small groups protest is moving around different sites and city trying to spread the police thinly across the

capital. meeting in any one central place with things like molotov cocktails off the police had used and rubber bullets against them in recent nights hand the government moving in heavy technology bringing in vehicles the center so it really looks if anything like this video has really brought about an escalation and really made the protesters even angrier so given the present. one again what is his next move likely to be in the face of all this unrest. well the 1st thing he's done is shut down the internet they've seen instant shutdowns in belarus on a scale even in a country as the lead as belarus is indeed since 6 pm local time there's been no mobile internet in large parts of the big cities people having to coordinate by a semester or phone calls some messages still working but we've also had reports that up to 2000 people have been detained so that obviously is a ploy to try and intimidate protestors and get people to stay home for fear of the

consequences again this seems to be having an opposite effect bring out more people on the streets radicalizing the protests and an issue development today we've heard about large scale strikes at government run factories so people who maybe weren't willing to risk the wrath of bullets in the streets coming out onto the streets with their colleagues and protesting against the results of this election that they deemed to be illegitimate so the risk really here now for alexander lukashenko who's been in charge batteries for a quarter century this spreads to a wider part of society that this leaves the streets and comes a bigger threat to his rule certainly looking very uncomfortable for him tonight nick connelly on the situation in about a ross reporting from kiev thank you. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in lebanon which has marked a week since a massive explosion tore through its capital beirut hundreds marched in memory of the more than 170 people who died in the blast and in protest of the failure of

your thoughts is to prevent it more than 6000 others were injured when a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate to blow up at the city's port. media tycoon jimmy lie has been released on bail the owner of one of the city's most prominent tabloids is facing charges and the territories under the chinese territories new national security law is the lives of prominent to pro-democracy activists and was arrested during a crackdown on critics of beijing. powerful storms swept across the u.s. midwest causing widespread damage and leaving more than half a 1000000 homes and businesses without power it tore through eastern nebraska iowa and parts of wisconsin as well as illinois also injuring several people. and the number of confirmed covered 19 cases around the world are supposed to 20000000 but 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

have only limited testing meanwhile russia says it's the 1st country to register coronavirus a vaccine but there are questions over it quality and safety to president putin potentially world changing and the instant approval of the 1st coronavirus vaccine years. i know that it is that effective it provides a stable immunity and has gone through the necessary tests. but you. the new vaccine was developed here at moscow's gamma layer institute you know collations could begin in october but it has only been tested on a few volunteers for the studies will be carried out along side the production of a new vaccine. resetted be cali sheriff says this is irresponsible but of. course the dealer they had to created here is something completely new what these vaccines aren't available yet they don't know how it will behave and what will happen when

someone is infected with the virus we also don't know how long the unity lasts the sun for going forward with the new flu. despite many warnings 13000000 doses of the facts seem to be produced in russia this year another 170000000 are expected to be produced by foreign firms in the future. so how reassured should be be by russia's claim to have approved a coronavirus vaccine i ask you kerry health analyst nurse and educator john campbell i think the answer is not very reassured i mean the u.k. in europe and the united states is being absolutely flat out on these spikes in development since since the coronavirus pandemic became an issue and we are still have only a few sample vaccines at what we call phase 3 clinical trials i think there's 4 vaccines in our phase 3 clinical trials and this means that we vaccinate a large number of people with a 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 have passed to do such

a study in russia the level of reassurance and validity and safety testing and efficacy testing that we would expect in western coaches for a new drug or new vaccine to come on line they simply has not been the time to do that. john campbell in sports a preliminary qualifying rounds for the upcoming champion's league season has been called off because of a corona virus outbreak after a 2nd class from a cost of league champions dritan tested positive european football's governing body you a finance that it was calling off traitors game with northern irish club linfield that much have been shadowed for tonight the meal in friends. some professional sports around the world of managing to weather the pandemic many of us haven't been quite so lucky and mexico's unique style of mass to wrestling known as the do to leave break depends on ticket sales to staff lowered social distancing rules have left the sport on the ropes and put thousands of restless out of work. lead break

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 rest less the people in the top now. we don't need to simply food. we need more we need a low one. 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. i don't agree with those underground fights here or anywhere because i doubt they are complying with safety measures being alive maybe even. according to the boxing and wrestling commission at least 30 mexican wrestlers have lost their lives to cove it 19. of the u.s. space agency nasa says it's found water on a so-called 12 planets nasa scientists say there are reservoirs of salty water beneath the surface of senna's they largest object in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter i think it's a crack a surface could have been formed from. out of cracks and then freezing researches

don't know whether the planet has ever supported living organisms. essential to dates kate ferguson will have your business update in just a moment and your world news at the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site t w. i the day.