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curd their president and to end the rule of the man big name that europe's last dictator 24 hours later. said the vote had been rigged and she promised to prove it but her plans and her location they suddenly changed tonight the woman who wanted to win the election to save her country she's now a woman on the run trying to save her own life her husband's life and the lives of her children i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. i made a very difficult decision for myself she it was the day of around 77 hours many will denounce me and many will hate me she's in with you only she's safe united that i made it a little file and the brutal violence is unacceptable we want to see a new and different plan to reduce. the sleeper the resentment is parental walking
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down the road when the police stopped him and told them to come with them. also coming up tonight the world is waiting for a vaccine against the new coronavirus today russia said it already has one it has not been tried and tested but the russian president says it worked on his daughter . i know this very well because one of my own daughters was given a does have a vaccine in this sense she took part in the experiment after the 1st vaccination she had a temperature of 38 degree celsius but then it subsided she feels good. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the woman who ran for president he was now running for her life on sunday slut lunna t. house of sky and was seen as the main challenger in the presidential election in bella ruse she was an english teacher turned political candidate trying to finish
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what her husband had started now he had been the front runner the man seen as the one who could end president lukashenko 26 years in power but lucas cinco an ally of russian president putin and known as europe's last dictator allegedly had the hand of scalia's husband arrested which disqualified him from running so mrs scalia took her husband's place after sunday's vote the state election committee declared the incumbent the winner with 80 percent of the vote protests erupted in minsk one person was killed scalia said the vote had been rigged and she valid to prove it but then she disappeared turning up today in lithuania tweeting that she had fled della reese to save her life and the lives of her family we have more now in this report. proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election
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but. by monday she was gone how whereabouts unknown how tame unable to reach her. now says that line of taken off scalia has reappeared with the sunday message online. said the companion. you know what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me but i could withstand anything. 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 scales 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 your play move many will understand many will
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denounce me and many will hate me. god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced because of those here through 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 vote took another scale one only 10 percent but has dismissed the results before fleeing she submitted a formal demand for a recount. of 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. well there has been condemnation of how the vote in bella ruse was conducted today the european union took its criticism a step further and suggested it may slap sanctions on bella ruse yet again
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a statement from the european council reads the elections were neither free nor fair the people of belarus deserve better since the 2015 release of political prisoners the relationship between the e.u. and bella ruse had improved but without progress on human rights and the rule of law the e.u. belarus relationship can only get worse over more tonight i'm joined by failings provide 6 with the center for east european and international studies felix is good to have you on the day i want to start by watching this video which was posted today by. sky you take a look. for some over the last images from the girls dancing around the most of them lots of chats over that on purpose and that that would go overseas to well sort. of that lasted for a week here because shares of some past and kind of intentionally portion of the
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borders and yet this is our last. question is of course in culture conan and i see the question bus to the states need to move on to the promotion to start the new president bush's helplessness to pieces that he's. there she says don't risk your lives don't resist the police what do you make of this video of felix. so this video i think is a method that she was all blush to send to the russian people telling their countrymen the regime she really needed to leave the country because she has become the no frantic and attic heater resisting look at schenkel and as she stayed in the country and they imprisoned her she would have discovered a monster that could have led to even more protests horsing around the country by offering her of to keep her children safe there was
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a way for the regime to you but to try and deal with this moment of extreme insecurity and accept that you should create is art a show where she made reference to the threat to her family that that decision was taken easily and one taken commentary do you believe her when she says that it was her decision to leave the rules. no i think it's very possible as i said because the authorities needed her to lead and then members of her team also clearly said that she faced on as a pressure just 3 hours on her indian action commission with security representatives. and that gives us an idea of how intense the pressure must have been on her for that and effective to moving her out of the country in the hope for the regime to thereby take away none of the sales of the mobilization that we see at the moment. bill of rights does it have a history of opponents of. having to flee the country.
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you. know you to people have to flee the country with their imprisoned before hand so that's what we've seen in the past. by a bunch of them just simply put behind bars. so to my knowledge there's never been a case as media types as important as to whose career has left the country they are cases of journalists or bloggers left the country the most prominent one is the young person behind the telegram turtlenecks was 23 years old and in the country 28 . running that gentlefolk also that is turning out to be the major the actor for the for the exchange of information at the moment about what is happening and also a lot of the reporting relies on the information that can get through a telegram channel and he has been forced to leave and because of this political activists that. don't and of comparable obviously. to the pressure that we don't
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see a lot of time here at the moment feelings you have researched extensively young people being political actors and agents of change political change talk to me about what you see happening in. these protests. well the around 2 to 3 percent of young people have joined political protest that number is pretty low and people usually say that they're too afraid of joining protests there are concerned about their personal health and as you can see now that are completely vanished. young people who are really only involved in the opposition compay and then elder people joined here by north korea's rallies that we've seen in the run up to the elections that tens of thousands of people of all age eventually turned out and after the election here in italy young people went 1st to the street but they were also enjoyed by people of different age and that's quite important that the protests don't stay confined to young people themselves but grow up on that age
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they come and what we see now is that likely workers are going on strike and other people are out of the street so you see a very important diversification of who is on the street and the street aides and from that we see really very young people it's probably a reason for concern for the regime because it means no parents i think very frustrated every team in 1516 year old kids here is injured in face the police violence that we've seen that will upset for the relationship between state and society so hitting brutally in young people this is really dangerous what do you see if you can change you know if he continues with this crackdown that we see more people dying in protests he has always been able to rely on support from the kremlin can you see. rushing to support. if the situation becomes bloodier in deadly. it's not excluded i don't
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think it's the most likely scenario in all honesty i mean look i think i'm cruising rather cool relationship for the last few years and there in my grandmother 2100 and i could chain to create the union stage of the russian transition program in 2024 and there was no question it was a distance and i think the question will now find themselves in a 3 front war 'd or a faces to waste on human rights but also russia on and there is issues and this is one society's i think pushing is not going to rush into better or worse and at the moment the critic in quite saying elite what is happening in burrows because the week look i think was certainly favorable to the criminals it knows how to deal with him meeting with him for a long time and so they now want to get a place in the kremlin is also a true concern about any of the opposition candidates emerging its future president is the same not there's 30 people hostile to russia so i think the current with
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governor in a position where it's still quite comfortable the big risk is that the mobilization that's happening been arose by roads into russia itself because russia's her east is heavily mobilized and they have been a release of solidarity for protestors and others in the far east in general so if that continues and mobilization cyrus and to russia its army comes right to domestic stability in russia then the kremlin might change its considerations but not all the. time being let me ask you before we run out of time so it. is in lithuania now her husband remains in prison in bellary snow if she wants to see her husband again a lot she will not do anything for the good challenge do you agree with that state . i think that's very likely given her. i would not expect her personal to be more involved in the country but her team is taking over the
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members of her. containing the nation that's still. taking a bow that is likely to get crazy the nomination also has no. right to mobilize forces erections over the rich person in the violence but it. still it's with the center for east european and international studies students we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. know who commutes me this morning for the 1st time in the world as far as i know a vaccine against the new corona virus was registered we could only use in insurance and it is quite effective if sustainable immunity i know this is very well because one of my own daughters was given a dose of the vaccine amazement at the change deal in this sense she took part in the experiment with just those experiences with me after the 1st injection after
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the 1st vaccination she had a temperature of $38.00 degrees celsius the next day a little over $37.00 and that's it after the 2nd day injection the 2nd vaccination a temperature also rose a little and then it subsided she feels good actually. when there you heard it today russia became the 1st country to register a vaccine against the corona virus a vaccine that has not been tried a vaccine that has not been tested outside of russia a vaccine that russian president putin says is so effective even his daughter has received an injection well worldwide the number of people infected with the coronavirus has now reached 20000000 it comes as researchers around the world are moving at unprecedented speeds to develop a vaccine scientists say the early is that a vaccine could be ready would be early 2021 after all trials are completed and the vaccine is determined to be safe and effective those rules apply everywhere except
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apparently in russia. president putin potentially world changing and now it's meant approval of the 1st corona virus vaccine you see is alleged and i believe i know that it is effective it provides stable immunity and has gone through the necessary tests but i you get you. the new vaccine was developed here at moscow's gamma layer institute you know collations could begin in october but it is only been tested on a few volunteers that the studies will be carried out alongside the production of a new vaccine research it be tallish barrett says this is irresponsible but of. course that's just dealing with a hitter created something completely new these vaccines on to bailable yet you 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 gloom unity lost the sense of comfort that we need to. despite many warnings 13000000 doses of the facts seem to be produced in
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russia this year another 170000000 are expected to be produced by foreign firms in the future. well my next guest tonight says that russia and china have violated medical ethics in their rush to develop a coronavirus vaccine lords gaston is professor of global health law at georgetown university and director of the w.h.o. center on public health and human rights she joins me tonight from washington d. c. as a gazan it's good to have you on the date if you were offered this russian vaccine would you take it. i absolutely would not take it and i would recommend anyone in russia or other places in the world where the russian they try to export this vaccine to take it we have ethical standards and scientific standards for vaccines for a good reason because if we don't if we don't let science take its course we could
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end up with something that is highly dangerous and in my view. is taking a reckless step that could be a gamble for the safety and health of the russian people what do you make of putin saying that his daughter has been given the vaccine and that it works. and why do you see exactly what are you saying that russia has acted unethically. well. first of all having his daughter be experimented with investigation of vaccine. is is just you know it made me shudder you know as a parent or grandparent to think that i would expose my child to. an unproven that scene that could have severe and
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dangerous effects. is the highly irresponsibility russia has acted against all international ethical and legal standards. first of all even in the early trials russia was experimenting with this on russian soldiers who have questionable ability to say no and to give informed consent away be on act you know we already have 8 trials globally including in china europe and the united states there are incredibly and say sorry trials these are war at scale population trials against a placebo. intil something a shown to be safe and effective in these large scale trials. no regulatory agency worth their salt would approve it. because it could make more
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dangers it could be less effective if you cause deaths. and so it's the height of an ethical international standards to rush to a vaccine this is not you know we don't want to be the 1st to get a vaccine we want to be the best that scene we can get what can anyone prevent russia from been selling this vaccine on the global market i mean i and i know that the f.d.a. could prevent it from being sold in the u.s. but what about the rest of the world. well you know if any country has a as a good government and has a reliable regulatory agency like the european medicines agency or the us. administration they would absolutely not allow that drug on to the market and allowed to be distributed or sold in their country that would be.
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the right thing to do the world health organization has strongly urged russia to to be slow to follow international scientific principles but even the w.h.o. has not been able to independently verify this these data the institute has not shared its trial data with anyone it's not been published in any peer reviewed journal i'm just a couple of weeks ago and there were promising phase 2 trials for an oxford and who had vaccine which showed to the scientific community here my data and me said they look good there's been no transparency act of russian no accountability and to compare this to kind of the race to the moon or a sputnik moment to want to to bang your chest as
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a nationalist populist strongman leader that worries me a great deal of as we know the v the fast is that a vaccine analogous to this new corona virus vaccine has been developed was it took about 4 years and we've been told yes beck the vaccine early next year do you do you think that will happen. he said you there are now is that mentioned 8 vaccines globally that are in phase 3 clinical trials. they've all been shown to be effective in early phase one in phase 2 trials we have a lot of optimism about the vaccine i think it's possible that by the 1st or 2nd quarter of 2021 we will see one or more vaccines on the market that does not mean that the vaccines are going to be a magic bullet i really do not believe that's the case but i think that they can
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confer partial immunity and we'll let you know coverts going to be here throughout all of our lifetimes in every country but we're going to learn to manage and live with it partly it'll be a vaccine that will be at least partially effective perhaps like of the book the flu vaccine. it'll partly be because we'll have better treatments and it will all partly be because people have been infected and have some immune remember it's of this virus but it's not going away any time soon well you know we've surpassed the 20000000 cases mark worldwide and the united states it every means the epicenter of the of the pandemic do you understand why the u.s. cannot get this virus under control. sure done
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everything wrong. and it starts with a leadership in the white house. you know if you were if you were to ask me what is the one thing that countries have who succeeded what have they done that the united states hasn't done and that i would say the instance of that is follow science have trust in public health agencies and have. a consistent message that you need to wear masks and socially distance. the u.s. hasn't done that the president has personally undermined the c.d.c. and other public health agencies and scientists in his own administration and the public are confused they're not following scientific advice to to wear masks to to be sure sickly distant to have personal hygiene or testing the roll out was really very poor and we simply just let it get out of control while we
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deflected blame to china or to the world health organization which i think it's unconscionable to support a great organization like the w.h.o. in the middle of a geopolitical brought up that's just intolerable i'm going to talk one minute left professor i want to ask you this really stood to develop a vaccine do you think we have so many people involved racing to be the 1st because they see the vaccine as being a cash cow once they are. you know i think it's partly a cash cow partly it's legitimate because we're undergoing a terrible health crisis but a lot of it has to do wish kind of strongman leaders thumping their chest. pluton president trump. in china until that worries me the idea of
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a sputnik shy from russia or operation warp speed from the united states that's not the way science operates ok professor lawrence gostin director of the devaluation center on public health and human rights closer to us and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight valuable information we appreciate it thank you thanks for your information to. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either at d w news you can follow me at brant go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day see the never.
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