this is the w. news live from berlin scenes of peaceful defiance in the capital makes thousands formed lines of solidarity in the city and protest against police brutality was the 5th day of demonstrations following president lukashenko is disputed election victory also coming up. germany's health ministry urges people to stay alive as the. highest single day number of new infections in more than 3 months. cost of

a project white house hopefuls joe biden and top of the harris bury the hatchet and deliver the 1st campaign rally together. joe biden all their community named running mate is the 1st woman of color to run a major party stick. needs medical george the baby boy born within minutes also devastating explosion in beirut. thanks for joining us thousands of people are back on the streets of the pollution capital minsk for a 5th day of protests against a violent crackdown on demonstrations it follows sunday's disputed presidential election in many parts of the city protesters form human chains filling squares and

lining avenues almost 7000 people have been detained since president claimed electoral victory and spock's propaganda. what began during the day carry dong late into the night their defiance and. earlier hundreds of women stood arm in arm on the streets of men's protesting their government crackdown on free speech following sunday's disputed election. i came here to support our bellary seen people our women children being killed and beaten up violated taken away we do not even know where they are taken there must be some justice. that was videos like this one that i'm good so many appearing to show protesters being beaten up in detention centers. under pressure president alexander lukashenko penned the unrest on

a disgruntled unemployed run. to a suit would be mere aborted everyone who is unemployed currently has to be looked after which they have to be offered a job let's move here it's the core of these so-called protesters are people with a criminal past on those who are unemployed. that all. these factory workers suggest otherwise definitely a good future left to us tell us more stand up if you voted for t. cannot sky the opposition leader among sharks the room rises as one. elsewhere signs that trust in the system is running out. all markers help this man in orange escape the clutches of police. outsiders are paying attention to the u.s. says warren sanctions are on the table what people deloris to have the freedoms

that they're demanding that they think are in their best interests. we watch the protests we we urge that these that the non violent protesters be protected and armed. back on the streets the protests were more subdued on wednesday night. go only they chanted no sign yet that this uprising has run its course. and the post-election protests in belarus were also at the top of the agenda talks between the german and no weeds in foreign ministers him a balance that a chief political. was at those talks and joins us now for more mahela. you know erikson so rated the foreign minister of norway is with me here right now minister can you tell us you spoke to germany's foreign minister what kind of historic moment is this what is the west called upon to do right now 1st and

foremost we are very concerned about the developments right now and we have condemned the use of violence by cute forces and also of course criticized the lead up to the to the election and what we have seen over the past days is of course people who want free and fair elections which is a very clear and also very understandable demand people should be entitled to have free and fair elections and they should be entitled to have democracy now you had eased sanctions norway is not a member of the u. but that was conditional it wants to see progress what is your expectation looking towards that meeting of foreign ministers in brussels tomorrow well i suspect that they will of course have this very high on the agenda and also have discussions on whether or not the conditions that are now no longer in place for easing the sanctions again will make it necessary to again start discussing sanctions now is this crisis now past a point of return could there at all be any kind of return to normal with the

current government and president bush saying well as it seems right now there is of course very strong pricing for those who want free and fair elections and who want to mock recy at the same time we see that the opposition the leader has come to look to india and is there for the moment and we of course want to see democracy rise in bellerose and that is also why we want to support forces who are able to make democracy also a part of belarus now this is all taking place in a context after all bella bruce is firmly within the russians fear of influence what kind of signal would you expect now from your allies in the united states looking at this. also down really what it is politically between a european union a proto mop or c. movement and the current regime well as you correctly point out in your earlier

question there has been a development in belarus over time that gave the reason for some optimism and now we see that with conducting this election that optimism has managed again and that is also why it's important for all western countries and all democratic societies to support the quest for free and fair elections that is something that every citizen in the world is entitle to and that is also why we support that demand in other words now that we are lit the throughway india and poland the say they want to stay you want to do once a potential mediation process organize some kind of transition what are the chances of that actually dig successful the trace of democracy is something that you always have to pursue and to see that there are countries who would like to start a negotiation process or facilitate immediate immediate is of course positive but we also have to bear in mind that for this process to continue and for it to be successful we also have to have observers to elections we have to have lead up to

an election that can be called free and fair and those are the main challenges that lie ahead of us right now that we heard the german foreign minister with germany having the e.u. presidency right now hoping that the e.u. can find a common line what if the e.u. doesn't what kind of symbol what up well i'm also hopeful that the e.u. will find a common ground on this this is a question that engages most of the countries in europe and as i as i said we were cautiously optimistic and hopeful some time ago that the development belarus also would go in a more positive direction and that optimism is now gone and that is why we have to support those forces who want free and fair elections if you have to describe this is a story moment in bolivar's. right now in one sentence what with that it is difficult to describe these moments in one sentence but i do think that there is a milestone taking place to receive a milestone in valerie's right now and we are of course hopeful that that there

will be free and fair election that can be observed also by international observers in erikson's aerated of foreign minister of norway thank you very much and with that back to the studio thank you very much in for. we continue with germany which was for months seen as europe's poster boy for dealing with the corona crisis but now health minister says an ongoing rise in new corona virus infections is worrying and has urged germans to be very alert warning comes as the institute for public health reported the highest number of new cases in more than 3 months temperatures aren't the only thing rising jaring germany's heat wave the robot cock institute for public health reported 1445 new cases on thursday the highest number since may 1st. i want to say on behalf of the government the development of these numbers is worrying and they should laureus we don't have

a single big outbreak but many small and medium sized outbreaks across the country . many cases have been traced back to holiday makers returning from vacation as well as family gatherings and parties at 34 the average age among positive cases is also younger than in previous months. that means that infections are prevalent above all among younger people but thank goodness that means fewer serious cases that said there's still a risk because at some point you visit your parents your grandparents maybe there are people among your friends with chronic illnesses underlying in a sister congo there are people that work in health care in hospitals and other areas. testing meanwhile is on the up but the process isn't always going to plan the southern state of bavaria announced wednesday that 44000 results of tests taken by holiday makers returning to germany by road still hadn't been relayed among them

1900 positive cases the delay was due to the manual input of handwritten data the consequences on the region a still unknown. some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization says it has requested a review of results from russian trials of a possible the vaccine and says moscow's vaccine is less advanced than others the spanish region of banned smoking on streets of social distancing measures spain is battling a 2nd wave of infections new zealand has traced a new outbreak to a cold storage warehouse quarantine bridge there was among the suspected causes. but look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world gary and anticorruption protesters have marched on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bar garion government protests have been held

for over a months now demanding the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor who they accuse of corruption. the world's biggest tourism group to eat has posted a 1500000000 euro loss for the last quarter the shutdown of global tourism has forced the company to slash costs by one 3rd as revenues are down 98 percent compared with last year the company has already received 2 huge bailout was from the german government. the u.s. military has released footage claiming to show commandos of the iranian navy seizing an oil tanker near the strait of hormuz the ship was held for several hours before being released with no explanation that's according to u.s. officials last year saw several ships captured in the strategically important wars way through to the u.s. now where the democratic presidential candidate joe biden and his running mate

carla harris made their 1st campaign appearance or is the 1st woman of color on a major party's presidential ticket event comes prior to biden formally accepting the democratic nomination next week. historic debut for the biden heris ticket even though the pandemic kept the crowds away the democratic duo campaigning in person together for the 1st time in joe biden's home state of delaware the former vice president called harris a tough proven fighter whose background reflected the diversity of america. and this morning all across the nation. little girls woke up especially little black and brown girls who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities but today today jess maybe they're seeing themselves for the 1st time in

a new way. as the stuff of president and vice president harris is the 1st woman of color to be the vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket she used president trump of bungling the coronavirus response and failing to confront racism. the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. and we're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change. america is crying out for leadership. but harris and biden haven't always seen eye to eye last year she attacked his judgment on racial issues as she campaigned for the presidential nomination. it was

hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country risk your race my position across the board i did not praise racist yet the pair now stand united ready to take on donald trump and mike pence in november it's a dramatic reversal of fortune for the california senator after a disappointing presidential campaign donald trump is trailing in the polls and biden has signaled he could serve just one term that means harris could now have an inside track to the presidency in 2024. u.s. election so 1st time we've seen the 2 together. since he's become his running backs how would you describe the done that if you watched the whole thing yeah. did

they had a genuine chemistry it seemed and biden said he was looking for somebody he could be some pasta cope with and it seemed like he has that in harris and they worked actually really well together they were stronger together and they humanized each other in a way that we've yet to see a president donald trump and his v.p. mike pence so they seem like they were ready to try to you know rebuild the country . what did she contribute to those voters well the 1st she thanked all the strong ambitious women that came before her but the 2 main components of her speech was the arguments against trump and a strong argument for biden she reminded us about biden's human side the struggle that he had early on in his political career when he lost a wife and child in a car accident and she reminded people about his country contributions to the civil rights of efforts by reauthorizing the civil rights act and by reauthorizing

the anti-discrimination and housing so these are some things that we feel like people have forgotten because we feel like we know joe biden and she just really went after trump one point she says that he has a delusional belief that he knows better than the experts when it comes to the coronavirus and she pretty much put it at his feet that the reason why there are so many people who have died and why the economy has tanked is because he is an effective leader and she also talked about us so. this isn't new people said that she seemed kind of cold when she was running for the democratic nomination that she didn't share enough about herself but this time she was more of an open book she talked more about the immigrant story which a lot of people like myself nigerian and cuban can relate to growing up in the united states and she talked about how her parents brought her along to civil rights marchers this and she talked about black last matter so she was a little bit more human herself some people say that she could actually out sean

and. the presidential candidates what do you think well i mean that might be true but i don't think joe biden cares he's not like a donald trump where he cares so much about his own ego that he can't share the spotlight i think that he just wants to win and he wants to contra contribute to a realignment of think american public if you were my parents watching comma harris speech what would you be thinking i would be thinking i don't want to go up against her she's a really tough she's very strong and you know trump tries to portray her as this angry black woman but she showed that she has this class a misdemeanor in this way of just slicing it with words and having a smile on her face so it's going to be interesting i'm looking forward to the debates as there's a big thank you to lebanon now where lawmakers have met to prove emergency measures following the devastating explosions which destroyed the port area of beirut the move gives the government wide ranging powers some critics worry it could be used

to crack down on protesters who blame politicians for the disaster volunteers from across lebanon meanwhile travels to beirut to help residents clear the streets of rubble plastic sheeting is being used to replace the countless windows shattered by the blast the army is distributing food boxes to residents hundreds of thousands of them have been left homeless more than 170 people were killed in last week's blast and thousands more were injured. but for one couple last week's explosion in beirut will be forever bound up with another life changing event the birth of their baby boy george a father to be caught it all on film. watching his wife being wheeled away had been thought he was about to film the 1st moments of his son's life goggle . instead he recalls the moment that a massive blast rocks beirut sending broken glass all over her.

the richest and most i saw death with my own eyes i started feeling over a lot i was looking around at the ceiling just waiting for it to fall on us but i didn't know what to do that i said that's it george should come he has to come to life and i have to be very strong i shouldn't break down. but. emanuel was quickly moved into the corridor or but without electricity nurses relied on the lots of people's phones to deliver baby george my team i'm extremely proud of i think the true heroes are men and to be they stayed so calm they listened to everything that we said to me trusted in us to be able to take care of their son when the whole world was literally falling apart as chaos reigned in the hospital and the streets of beirut in

a dimly lit corridor or george's birth was a success those words that he's very special and the whole of the lighting in the darkness the wreckage despite all the horror that was present around us george was born in good health. to me how. well george and his parents escaped unscathed 17 other people died in the hospital and dozens more were injured edwin's mother suffered several broken ribs and a punctured lung. george has now gone home where his parents have been reflecting on the damage the blast did. not about we spent 4 days after the explosion laughing and crying the people around us were hurt so we were afraid for again that happy at the same time the feeling is indescribable also to his parents he is now known as

miracle george a baby who survived a chaotic birth in a city left reeling from destruction. you're watching the news still to come preserving the sounds of a bygone era unique online museum that's keeping obsolescent every day sounds from disappearing altogether. the 1st the rest of the world news in the brief hong kong media mogul jimmy lay has urged democracy movement supporters to be persistent and patient in their fight for freedom they held an online address after being released on bail on wednesday the newspaper publisher was arrested under draconian new chinese laws which restrict protests and trial rights in hong kong. firefighters in california are struggling to control a brush fire burning north of los angeles hundreds of residents have been ordered

to evacuate from the area several homes have been destroyed in the blaze more than 400 hectares has already been scorched. almost a 3rd of bangladesh has now been inundated by floodwaters from extreme monsoon rains affected residents received emergency supplies by boat more than a 1000000 people have been displaced and many have died in the floods which the country's agriculture ministry has called the worst in more than 2 decades. now here to w. we often report on vanishing species disappearing glaciers and threatened or very important subjects but have you ever noticed that once familiar and comforting sounds have also been disappearing well in a studio german man and his fascination with a clue stick obsolescence has led him to create a unique online museum listen to this was.

the sounds of time. he remembered him. this man laughs. if not me on the x. in my project is conserve the sound and on my museum for vanishing sounds. he's already collected about $120.00 from the clatter of a slide projector to the well with a polaroid. the archive keeps growing all the time because all kinds of sounds are disappearing from our lives. young texan's daytime job is in communication design he keeps some collectors items in his office the men take a sip sounds past. and classic a true classic which you also find on our website is this rotary dial telephone.

you have a 1st pick up the receiver. yeah some generations later it's a great little mobile phone. hindis. it's much less noisy. and tiny sounds if you listen carefully. later still became entirely silent with the 1st smartphones where you swipe in silence. it became confused. after a little post production the new recordings from the fairground museum pair on the conserve the sound website it's not a money making enterprise that gets funding from the state and it could go on forever. and there are loads more sounds you could look for and find. it's a lifelong venture. actually the project to keep going for as long as there are humans producing sounds. kind of the sound is nerdy

and wonderful the past in the present and for a half hour. before i let you go have a look at this remarkable encounter at the coast of southern california a part of a ranch 300 dolphins caught on camera down a point the dolphin stampede is not only a sight to behold it's also the fastest mode of travel for dolphins because there's less resistance in the. water area is the highest concentration of coffins on the planet. you're watching the news coming up next in the news asia with. hong kong pro-democracy leaders released from police detention are they returning to a weekend movement and a look at the meet to movement in south korea we meet a poet who sacrificed a lot to fight against sexual harassment. and that's it's

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