her there president and to end the rule of the man dick named europe's last dictator 24 hours later. scalia 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 lines 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 danes the 7 hours many months now. and many will hate me she's in to change she's safe united that i mean the level of violence the brutal violence it's unacceptable we want to see a new and different kind of ribs purposely put the reasons friend walking on the

road when the police stopped them 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 dose of the vaccine in this sense she took part in the experiment after the 1st vaccination she had a temperature of 38 degrees 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 who was now running for her life on sunday slot lunna 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 what

her husband had started now he had been the front runner the man seen as the one who could end president lukashenko has 26 years in power but lucas sinko 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 and 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 and the 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 bella ruse to save her life and the lives of her family we have more now in this report. crowded the president on sunday in minsk for the election

but. by monday she was gone how whereabouts unknown had tame unable to reach her. now so that line of taken off scalia has reappeared with the sunday message on line . just a companion. my you know 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 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 new game in europe a move many will understand me no food many will denounce me and many will hate me

. to you but god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced because it was here who prepared the paci came after she refused to concede defeat in sunday's vote election officials said of tarrying 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 before 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. and there has been condemnation of how the vote in bella bruce was conducted today the european union took its criticism a step further and suggested it may slap sanctions on bella ruse yet again

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. bellerose relationship can only get worse over more tonight i'm joined by failing scriven 6 with the center for east european and international studies felix good to have you on the day i want to start by watching this video which was posted today by svetlana scalia take a look or so how does the responding to their own lives lost and come to the most of them lesser chester purposes that from now until our voices tell sort. of that these 2 or 3 have a shared some past and the intense feeling more sympathy in the normal sense that

this is about us. intercept or cultural component and i see the question of us going to the states and getting more guns in proportion to student protests fish and happiness and peace and that he's. there she says don't risk your lives don't resist the police what do you make of this video 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's become the no frantic and take heat or resisting look at shane cole and and she stayed in the country they imprisoned to. discover a monster that could have led to even more protests so forcing her own of the country by offering her have to keep her children safe there was no way for the

regime to you know but to try and deal with this moment of extreme insecurity and make sure that you shouldn't criticize are a show where she made reference to the threat to her family and that decision was taken. on taking commentary do you believe her when she says that it was her decision to leave bella rules. no i think that's very possible as i said because the authorities needed her to leave and then members of her team also clearly said that she faced on that as a pressure just 3 hours on her in the election commission with security representatives. and that gives us an idea of how intense the pressure must have been on her and that ineffective 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. the roosters that have a history of opponents of. having to flee the country.

no you did people have to flee the country because they're 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 car has left the country they are cases of journalists or bloggers left the country was probably one of the young person behind the telegram turtlenecks 23 years old and left 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 the channel of channel and he has been forced to leave because of this political activists that you don't and of comparable obviously. to the pressure that we don't 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. so over the last couple of weeks anything remarkable shift in young people's political hay has all the surveys that we've been hearing at the center of this european it a national studies usually show that around 2 to 3 percent of young people have joined political protests 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 it's completely vanished. young people who have early on involved in the opposition compay and then elder people joined here by those kind of rallies and 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

well young people went 1st to the street and they were also enjoyed by people of different age and that's quite important that the protests don't stay confined to young people it sounds but growing on that age they come in we see now is that likely workers are going on strike and other people are out on the street so we see a very important diversification of who is on the street and the street eights from that we see with very young people it's probably a reason for concern for the regime because that means no parents i think they're very frustrated at redeeming 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 even young people with 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 protest he has always been able to rely on support from the kremlin

can you see vladimir putin rushing to support. if the situation becomes bloodier deadlier. it's not excluded i don't think it's the most likely scenario in all honesty i mean look i think we're improving rather cool relationships for the last few years and there in my grandmother 2100 and i could see in to create the union stage of the russian transition program in 2024 and there was no question it was a distance and i think we're now finds himself in a 3 front war 'd a faces the waste of human rights but also russia on and various issues and his own societies i think cooking is not going to rush into better or worse and at the moment the critic in quiet saying elite what is happening in burrows because the weak look at him goes certainly favorable to the kremlin because it knows how to deal with him meeting with him for a long time and so no one should get

a place in the kremlin is also a true concern about any of the opposition candidates emerging its future presidents will be so not necessarily people hostile to brush her so i think the current with in a position which still quite confident the big risk is that the mobilization that's happening by a rose by rolls into russia itself because russia's her east is heavily mobilized and they have been rings of solidarity protesters and others in the far east in general so if that continues and motivation spirals into russia and its army comes right to domestic stability in russia then the kremlin might change its considerations but not for 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 family or the importance of i would not expect personal to be more involved in the country but her team is taking over the members of her. training regime that's still. taking a bow that is like a crazed momentum and also there's no. room to mobilize forces erections over the rich person violence. felix with the center for east european and international studies students we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. you can use me this morning for the 1st time in the world as far as i know a vaccine against a new coronavirus who's registered we can only use an insect. and it is quite effective it gives sustainable immunity i know this very well because one of my own

daughters was given a dose of the vaccine. g.'s deal in this sense she took part in the experiment with . the spinning to you. after the 1st injection after 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 temperature also rose a little bit but then it subsided she feels. 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 apparently in russia. president putin what the potential e world changing and now it's meant approval of the 1st corona virus vaccine you say is alleged and i will do i know that it is effective it provides stable immunity and has gone through the necessary tests but i used. the new vaccine was developed here at moscow's gammel a 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 alongside the production of a new vaccine research it be callous sheriff says this is irresponsible but of. course that's just dealing with a hitter creating something completely new these vaccines on to bailable yet we

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. it's going to come forward to. 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. well my next guest tonight says that russia and china have violated medical ethics in their rush to develop a coronavirus vaccine lawrence gostin 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 end up with something that is highly dangerous and in my view that in my opinion is taking a reckless step that could be a gamble for the safety and health of the russian people what do you make of your putin saying that his daughter have been given the vaccine and that it works. and why do you say 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 is 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. dangerous effects. is the height of irresponsibility russia has acted against all international effort and legal standards. first of all you know 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 of war at scale population trials against a placebo. intil something as 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 dangerous 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 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 allow to be distributed of sold in their country that would be. the right thing to do the world health organization has strongly urged russia to sue 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 would 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 i want to to bang your chest as 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 have 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 that x. seen 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 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 the flu vaccine. it will partly be because we'll have better treatment center little op partly because people have been infected and have some immune remembrance of this virus but it's not going away any time soon you know we've surpassed the 20000000 cases mark worldwide and the united states it every means the epicenter of the pandemic do you understand why the u.s.

cannot get this virus under control. sure don't 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 rollout was really very poor and we simply just let it get out of control while we 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 struggle that's just intolerable i'm going to talk one minute refers 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 which kind of strongman leaders thumping their chest.

president trump. in china until that worries me the idea of 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 coverage continues online go find us on twitter either at w news you can follow me at brant go off t.v. every member whatever happens between now and this tomorrow is another day and see that everything.

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