this is the end of the news live from berlin peaceful defiance in the bella rusin capital minsk thousands around the city form lines of solidarity in protest of police brutality this is the 5th day demonstrations following president bush and close disputed election victory also on the program. medical george the baby boy born within minutes of last week's devastating explosion in bankrupt. germany's health ministry urges people to stay alert as the country because it's highest daily number of new carpet infections for more than 3 months.

on a club scene comes up with new ways to reach music lovers with traditional venues closed because of the panda. i'm phil gale welcome to the program thousands of people are back on the streets of the belarussian capital minsk for a 5th day of protests against a violent crackdown on demonstrations that followed sunday's disputed presidential election in many parts of the city protesters formed human chains filling squares and lining avenues almost 7000 people have been detained since president lukashenko claimed electoral victory and spock publica. what began during the day carried on late into the night their defiance. 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 bella racine 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 angered 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 see what mir aborted everyone who is unemployed currently has to be looked after they have to be offered a job that's moved 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 are good to their lives to use tell us more stand up if you voted for t. cannot sky the opposition leader a man shouts 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 watched the protests we we urge that these that the non violent protesters be protected not armed. back on the streets the protests were more subdued on wednesday night.

go only they chanted no signs yet that this uprising has run its course. straight to minsk then where we join john this to honolulu baco welcome to g.w. that start with the president's claim that protesters on the streets are criminals and unemployed you've been at day so protester what did you see. well these are people from all walks of life basically this is you these are the elderly this a women. man this a medical workers they cited professional basis professionals this is middle class because basically every social group is currently protesting every social group is outraged by the brutal response from from the police and well it's very hard to find anyone who would not actually science that part of the added i

mean a host of state television are. using to work in you more so they they leave their channels to the pro-government station. we have immense. a large numbers of. plants across the country that stop working then they announced that they would go on strike as well so this is a popular uprising. and the pictures that we've been seeing of the these people waving flowers and lining up it all looks very peaceful so how does the violence subsided. or human from this side of the police or yet. well i mean in my hands well yesterday there was kind of a more quiet day i'd say but at the same time police. say this person people

in some means neighborhood but also outside. so i wouldn't say that it's just you know they stop the environment not at all it's just that perhaps the amount of information that appears and when the internet came bad outraged people so much that they kind of stopped also there were a lot of people prominent public figures who demanded violence to be stopped and also it's very hard to apply violence against women you know hundreds and thousands of women who are protesting across the country and there are sometimes you know children who also go up to the streets and i guess that's why there is less violence in the moment but nevertheless there are numerous reports across the country that right police specially in the horses patrol just bit people on streets random citizens and put this in some sort of context for us how the country has been to roost seen protests on this scale before. well they're actually it what has

been happening in the past 2 weeks and months let's remember that it hasn't started just on sunday this is a long trend i say it is it is indeed unprecedented but it's also this this content has been on the rise in the past years people have been showing that they are unhappy with the president and they want him to go but indeed the scale of it the current scale of it is unprecedented there where mass protests decade ago but what's happening now and it's happening all across the country not only means i think basis something to watch out and this is something definitely unprecedented. how difficult is it to be a journalist in belarus in this climate. oh it is very hard the program is that nothing can protect he is a journalist if you stay like if you are separated from the crowd and if you where i disagree i do because the cation sign you will not be treated as

a drone that he will be even targeted intentionally because they see you alone for snipers and police and fishing the forces can fire and there are actually cases when they fired rubber bullets at a drone and i well i don't feel safe at all i'm sure that i've been surveilling but also why whenever i drive even driving a car it's not safe anymore whenever they drive a car the rush on grenada and it's just not you just know what's going to happen to you in your car. think we are all here for a life not monitored and healthy just like thank you for joining us and outlining the situation that generous to honolulu in minsk. we'll take a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world gary and 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 bulgarian government will carry seed more than a month of protests as campaigns demand the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor whom they accused of corruption. lebanon's parliament approved a 2 week state of emergency for beirut in its 1st meeting after the 4th catastrophic explosion in grants the military broad powers such as prohibiting gatherings and declaring curfews protesters and rights groups fear the measures could lead to a crackdown against a crackdown on civil liberties. and staying in lebanon and lebanon where for one couple last weeks explosion in beirut will forever be bound up with another life changing event the birth of their baby boy george and the 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 the sun god.

instead he recalls the moment that a massive blast rocks beirut sending broken glass all over her. i saw with my own eyes i started feeling over but. i was looking around at the ceiling just waiting for it to fall on us but i didn't know what to do then 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 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 iman and the bee they stayed so calm they listened to everything that we said and the 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 he's very special and the whole of the light in the darkness in wreckage despite all the horror that was present around us george was born in good health. while 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 harm where his parents have been reflecting on the damage the blast did. we spent 4 days after the explosion laughing and crying the people around us were hurt so we were afraid for again what happened at

the same time the feeling is indescribable also. to his parents he is now known as miracle george but baby who survived a chaotic birth in a city left reeling from destruction. for months germany was seen as the poster child of efforts to deal with the corona crisis but now a health health minister has described the continuing increase in new corona virus infections as worrying and is urged germans to be very alert but the warning comes out as the country's a robot cork institute for public health reported the highest number of new cases for more than 3 months. trouble in bavaria the state in the south of germany has adopted a strict approach to the pandemic recently testing has been ramped up to cover a rising number of people returning from vacation but. what we've been doing for

a few days now is a service for germany varia has massively expanded its test strategy at the moment we're not only testing for bavaria we're testing at the border for the whole of germany but this strategy seems to have overwhelmed local authorities the state announced on wednesday that 44000 holiday makers returning to germany by road still hadn't received the result of their tests days later among them 900 positive cases . is this feeling you. know that many people are in uncertainty now we can only apologize for that and for teething troubles the words there should be over now yet. sign. the delay happened because handwritten information had to be entered into computers german health minister you criticize the problems. beneath that i'm very grateful that we're testing extensively and that varia is making it possible to test people when they enter the country by car

but then of course it must be possible to provide the results all. these difficulties come at a bad time throughout germany koroma infections are on the rise again the robert cock institute for public health reporting 1445 new cases on thursday the highest number since may the 1st. now let's take a look at some of the latest developments in the pandemic the world health organization says it has requested a review of results of russia's trials of the vaccine its authorized for use described meters less advanced than others which are still under growing trials the spanish region of going to syria has a ban smoking on the streets as part of social distancing measures as the country battles a 2nd wave of infections a new zealand has traced a new outbreak to a cold storage warehouse according to a breach is one of the suspected causes the war of words is brewing over the role of the tiny german port of sas and it's in the construction of

a controversial gas pipeline from russia and germany is a foreign minister heiko masses told the us to mind its own business over the nord stream to pipeline as the us secretary of state it might pump aoe undertakes a european tour some u.s. republican senators have threatened sanctions against the port washington says the pipeline will make europe dependent on russian gas well dr laura daniels is an expert on the americas and foreign trade policy at the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to d.w. how serious do you think washington is about killing this project. i think we have to acknowledge that it's very very d.n.c. very situation because of the solid legal basis of sanctions it's not just an actually threat current administration but it's also very much supported. by both parties in congress and it's been

a long time project actually on the republican and the democratic side to support sanctions to implement sanctions against russia. in the whole context of the building of the stream to pipeline i do believe that sanctions against a german port involved in this project will be caught up in the in the whole idea of sanctions against russia yes this is very much what congress says and doesn't the president should do and he may be forced to actually implement such policies and yet it's now a situation in which the e.u. really needs to think about strategies can't imagine perhaps try term measures also long term measures to retain its energy independence right now germany of course at the center of this is that anything the german government can do to protect the port against these u.s. sanctions these proposed u.s.

sanctions so that's a really tough situation we're in right now and i think the only solution that people should come up with coming up with is to stick together among the european countries to come up with a common solution common policy. the u.s. is the u.s. objection is that north stream about to pipeline will increase your dependence on russian energy do you believe that's really true. but that's not really what's essentially an out and finding solutions whether the motive of u.s. policy is something we agree with or not but if we are really within europe at least the european commission and our senate it claims to. the same degree sanctions and the us site to be in conflict with international law you need to come up with common solutions we need to have

a debate about risk sharing if you want to protect one single member states against secondary sanctions from the u.s. government you need to think about how to share the risk of being targeted by such sanctions yeah baby you has or has a bad record on this i recall this idea of risk sharing when there were sanctions against iran and they were all sorts of. methods to try and move the money around but nobody really no one's heart was really in it so no one i think the whole thing fell apart that's true on the other hand you might also argue that a financing is easy vehicle as it was created with insects to finance trade between the e.u. and iran was the 1st step in that direction and you had essentially risk sharing among among the member states the degree to support that finance in the u.k. and you you know coming from there to think about different options and how do

share the risk. how is it he said any companies european companies involved in the north stream 2 project ok good talking to thank you laura daniels from the german institute for international and security affairs thanks for having. let me bring you some breaking news just reaching us here the w. israel the united arab emirates just announced that they've reached a peace agreement under which the u.a.e. would recognize israel and establish diplomatic relations the historic deal was brokered by the united states under its terms israel has agreed to drop its plans to annex parts of the palestinian west bank israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to speak on this issue soon that will bring you more and later bulletins. now take a look at some more of the day's news i'm with stocks in israel which has imposed punitive new measures against gaza altering fuel imports and restricting coastal

fishing areas and actions in retaliation for the release of balloons carrying bombs from palestinian territories israeli warplanes and tanks most attacks on gaza overnight palestinians say a school was damaged by a missile. emergency workers have rescued hundreds of people as floods inundate central and southern china officials in sichuan province as you to read brainstorm the highest level in china's emergency response system more than 45000000 people have been affected by flooding since the start of the rainy season in june. this is d.w. news life from brown and still to come live music in the german capital amid the coronavirus pandemic early in d.j.'s come up with new ways to keep the music coming . now in football club bobby leipsic the new kids on the block in the latter stages of the

champions league faceoff that because of madrid in tonight's quarterfinal in lisbon the spanish side's more experienced having that twice having reached the final twice in the last decade it's a win or go home ahead of the 1st ever encounter between athletico and the bowls of leipsic. rb leipzig are breaking new ground reaching the quarter finals of the champions league for the 1st time in the club's history it only their 4th season in the top flight wife 6 huguenot was a man who just turned 33 last month is the youngest coach to take it seemed this deep into the competition of course there's pressure and nerves ahead of such an important match but noddles man says rb leipzig is ready for the challenge. we will show courage and present our way to play soccer we will focus on content of course and lead to coas more experience but it's also true and my firm belief that 2 games 1st leg and return match count much more than just one game because you

hardly need to maneuver it's about who will win the game and that team will reach the semifinal. rb leipsic defeated last year's finalist to reach the quarterfinals this season opponents at eco madrid despite being the more seasoned side aren't taking the bulls or their young coach lightly. we know we've got a very important match against a squad that plays really well and has a young coach that has been doing a fantastic job and he's bringing with him and the young squad of players to. we're going to do the best we can with all these position changes and try to put them off balance they're a great team the numbers show that the one around the middle they want to know on a leipzig are the underdogs against a rugged atletico side that knocked out holders liverpool in the last 16. and tennis world number one novak djokovic says he will compete at this year's u.s.

open in new york back in june he said that playing at the tournament would be impossible due to covered 19 protocols a sense then he comes back to the voters and has fully recovered having the 17 time grand slam winner they open is good news for organizers after several high profile times pulled out on issues relating to how damning stuff on the 31st of august in lasts 2 weeks. well the pandemic devastated the arts and culture scene around the world. then was world famous for its clubs and nightlife until gatherings for music and dancing were. but inventive by very nature and now techno is filling the night from the rooftops of some of the city's most revered attractions. are in berlin kovac 1000 put the brakes on the city now cultural life is gradually during again but under strict regulations in movie theaters and museums.

the pandemic has also prompted germany's principal cultural institutions to try a new path depression cultural heritage foundation has for the very 1st time open the rooftops of the boat a museum and the church for a project together with. deejays play their sets against a backdrop of treasures. event organizer in coalition. hopes the concept will spawn a series of videos for digital platforms. this is absolutely an attempt to launch something new in the midst of the corona walked down at present the agency is making a 0 revenues but still has monthly expenses so of course we hope these productions will eventually bring something in so we can make ends meet. berlin's nightlife has

been especially hard hit except for open air events pubs and bars are allowed to reopen now but the clubs have been under lockdown since mid march no concerts no dancing no all night partying. so for now streams are helping performers establish a presence and keeping the clubs afloat. now the crowd funding the united. we stream project is networked the world over from detroit to singapore over 1500 performances have been staged in 4 months. or lands clubs have made up an essential part of its cultural life since the 1990 s. and now their survival is at stake. around us there's a lot of despair that's true but we're event managers who are the ones who keep the creativity flowing and assess that he is often the mother of invention of course we

won't know till much later if what we come up with now is just as good or as profitable but it will be something new about it but. for now hopes are for a long warm summer allowing for a not so then in the open air. this is news life and here's a reminder of our top stories at this hour thousands of people have returned to the streets of the brother who since middle school a 5th day of protests against a final crackdown against demonstrations almost 7000 people in detention in sunday's disputed presidential election. on germany has reported its highest number of new confidence factions in a day since the beginning of may the health minister says the continuing increase in the worry of jobs to be very alert. to chill up to date i'll have more feel at the top of the hour stay tuned for more news asia

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