this is the news live from no letup in the demonstrations against president looking . cheered on by thousands of protesters march on government buildings in the capital minsk to condemn political violence and demand their actions it's the biggest challenge the fish tank i was facing 26 years in power also on the program . in afghanistan release more taliban president as

a precondition for peace talks for the move the faces opposition. thousands of british travelers cut short the holidays and scramble to get home from france before the quarantine come into effect in just a few hours. and celebrating one of germany's best art house film makers only been venda 75th birthday a new documentary takes the legendary director out from behind the camera and puts him in the limelight. i'm phil gal welcome to the program tragic ports to be in the 10s of thousands of taken to the streets of belarus as capital minsk in another display of anger of the violent police crackdown against peaceful protesters well thor's as of now released some of the 7000 people police detained over the last week and many of them report

having been beaten and tortured in custody demonstrators have been joined by factory workers once considered loyal to president a look at. that. their defiance is growing. crowds of protesters are on the streets of minsk for its 6th straight day . there chants and banners right side the bellerose in parliament echoing across the city. and the protests aren't limited to the capital and other towns and cities of protesters have come out carrying white flowers one of the symbols of this push for change. in factories like this plant that makes trucks workers walked off the job united with demonstrators in their calls for president alexander lukashenko to step down. their workers are protesting for the election result to be an old and we want new elections and the resignation of the

incumbent illegitimate president. people reject this president. we don't need him it was a moment. he was doing we're looking forward to changes we really are the day before yesterday when the internet was switched back on i cried when i saw the brutality is happening in this country i cried because better was stood up it's real fascism you see your president lucas shango is grappling with the biggest challenge to his 26 year rule but he warned striking workers that their actions would benefit foreign business interests and ignored their calls for his resignation. our position is clear during the difficult times of the pandemic we didn't pressure anyone to work we're not forcing anyone. if people want to work there's work going to work if a person doesn't want to work we won't drag him kicking and screaming. or.

speaking from a 3 way near where she's been exiled since choose day opposition leaders fed line and called for peaceful rallies across the country. with large crowds on the streets on friday night it's clear the newsman's is growing in strength. let's go straight to minsk then and join journalist how not you'll be a cove who's up on the line welcome ana how has the day paid. well it's been very peaceful i am i've been driving around the city are in the past hours and when people actually left the area of the building all of the parliament where they got is quite spontaneously today the immense crowd. throughout the day they started coming out of the blue actually it was not an hour before just all the

southern workers of the state and surprise decided to come out they went on the strike on the school strike strike and then they marched to the area of the parliament and many many people joined many people from different areas and so well now people left the area of the parliament but the are still gathering in various neighborhoods all across the city and all these kind of gathering well organized here where i am at the moment like the ra you know trash bags even the memorial people bring flowers and people remember a person who was killed. this week. so it's been peaceful so far. now we're seeing reports that police in the town of leader have joined a protest how it sure is the presence of the support of his security forces. well i

think again the different mood among police officers well they have their families of course and and they read the news and the hear about police brutality. will rise police specially in the forces kind of not tauriel not sure if they've been associated with all this brutal response this is call them on the special forces but otherwise. they're kind of the party partners of that. i think have have to have a different repatriation and the kind of the journalists and people here. it's not like we definitely say that these stories called the kind of king. from this riot police from special forces but not the left certainly from from all departments of the police right if you could make sense so i think it's kind of divided here and.

there we divided i wouldn't talk about but some of the protesters who've been belief today from police custody they say that they've been beaten and tortured what sort of reaction has there been to the stories. the raw different reactions of course and people in the 1st place they came out recently in the past they simply stuck for their lives and they came out to the streets because of this police brutality many people cry many women they just don't understand why this is happening and since people have been released in the past they today and yesterday from detention centers massively people just now learning here of us have a patent to them and they're going to so many porus of both people who are treated so badly they're very badly injured badly beaten many people who are sikhs they've

been of given drugs so they were not taken to hospital they've been not given food . in the water and so on so it's just very appraisers and people react very well they're very scared but at the same time they have a hash they are shocked. everybody here in minsk like the rubber band is all around the city stop was hard it is the violence of the presses on the accepted. cova and meds thank you so much for that thank you. well let's get more on this from a good friend of ours who is a bellahouston born political scientist at the university of bremen here in germany she specializes in the east in europe and joins us from berlin a welcome to the w mass protests followed by strikes at state owned factories this president look at shankar facing my down moment. well if you mean that meant that my guy would meet his. kind of possible immoral yes i would say yes

but we should also not you know compare their recent story is protest talking about my down because we see that people are 100 or making 19 and a 100 chris lang next are not equal stamps and ever be useful i mean even up to the least highest level of violence that we're used to in the world sergt in observed in the last 3 not it's people austen trying to quell or to show race powers with this white collar they've given want peace they don't want to have you know any can contain this tape and they don't actually they're not expecting anything but there is an anecdote of the president so there is also know of geopolitics here and there that is the way we used to have it in their candidate and so the russians do not wind the european union or russia of egypt once they have

a better life to have better economic condition and to have and not a president and that's actually what also a workings of the state and implies dissent in minden so they are demanding a police special toys a plus years all out of town they are demanding at least of all clay to go prison s. and they also want new fair elections and it's a story in there a new tendency one of the speakers and. the last protests possibly groups. are going to get the army in the ninety's i'm in the right so he said his desire to keep hearing that this is unprecedented forgive me for interrupting time is short there in the wider political context where you said that we're very you is talking about sanctions that the u.s. is talking about sanchez where does russia sit in all this. well that of course is one of the big question now because it already hug president bush in the way that congratulated so that you can do what if usually results look nice which if

you show resolve actually in reality comes against them to about 80 percent. to their you know there are no signs of any kind of possible confrontation right now we're now against you know these private military personnel reserves group of mercenaries similar to santa of back to russia and despise them informed the russian state television has already begun to. tell about the strikes and valorous and was not good case couple of days before of course they will also see given situation is changing quite fast that i think it's it's very important good question doesn't get its feeling that it's got to back then langley had a ukraine crisis debt it is kind of as in many. cases decision making overseas and so i think maybe some kind of possible die and up within society we still cannot really really initiated we would have was just

a patient of the european union and also from russia thank you for that. got through and over from the university of bread. free in 400 prisoners the release of government help business has been a key taliban demands before answering peace talks with the government in kabul as controversial since the freed prisoners include insurgents convicted of attacks on afghans and for. their last few minutes behind bars just one more signature from the prison management and they're free these are the 1st prisoners allowed to leave this prison near kabul they are serious criminals terrorists and murderers and it seems they've memorized what they're supposed to say on camera. i am a member of the taliban and was imprisoned because of murder i wish for a long term ceasefire and peace. the president ordered my release.

part of the taliban and was sentenced because of murder and kidnapping i want peace i think god and i wish a peaceful life for all muslims. some of those released were convicted of being involved in the truck bomb attack on the german embassy in kabul in 2017 that day over 150 people were killed and more than 400 were wounded. lost her father during the attack she does not understand why the government is releasing the terrorists responsible for killing her father instead of ensuring they are punished for their crimes. they did it by my message to my father's murderers is we do not forgive you and to the government i say we will never forget that you were letting these terrorists go the government could have given them the

death sentence why aren't they doing that. you had to settle down and many are skeptical that these taliban fighters will now turn their backs on violence and campaign for peace in war torn afghanistan. now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and vice presidential contender couple hundreds of signed the documents necessary to certify their nominations biden selected paris as his running mate this week she's the 1st black vice presidential nominee in u.s. history. the united nations says the death toll from last week's massive explosion in the lebanese capital beirut has risen to nearly 180 some 6000 people were injured the agency says the blast has affected operations at 2 dozen hospitals and clinics in the city and damage schools used by 50000 students. last month there was a global condemnation of the trumps ministrations plan to revoke visas for foreign

students attending universities that offer only online courses washington state withdrew the proposal while germany was one of the critics and now berlin faces accusations of hypocrisy after the merge that many foreign students will not now receive visas if their courses are exclusively online. not long ago around 1000 german students in the united states were threatened with expulsion the reason they universities had switched to online courses because of the qur'an up endemic germany's education minister was outraged but now it has emerged that the german government is taking similar action in relation to foreign students here as if it is up to the war at all and i think it's absurd and strange education minister curley checa foreign minister must need to make changes to international students and scientists should not be facing hurdles because of stupid bureaucracy in this crisis international exchange and mobility are especially important. it was taught

. at the moment germany is only issuing visas to students who can prove they're required to attend a university the authorities say foreign students do not need to enter the country for 9 studies critics of the policy say this is double standard given the response to u.s. action but the government in berlin points out that none european students already living in germany will not be expelled from the country. it is not the case that students and research. use who already have a residence permit or a valid visa for germany will be expelled just because their course of study has moved online if they are in the country they may stay. because of the federal association of foreign students knows the problem well it has received several emails from desperate international students but it's spokesman says this

problem can be overcome. the whole problem can you. also want to get found or the foreign ministry of. germany because they don't have any through. any post they have. to. come to germany your fee has been negative. and you don't have any problem going to immigration you can go to the embassy and for me to file and you will get to be studying all the seasons not only about attending lectures and seminars getting to know the culture and the people is also part of it but in the time of corona that aspect of foreign studies seems in danger of being forgotten on the right of all possible right thousands of u.k. residents on holiday in france are rushing home before new quarantine bills come into effect on saturday a britain has put france back on its list of countries subject to a mandatory 14 day quarantine on arrival this follows

a jump in new corona virus infections that it's one of many restrictions being implemented as europe grapples with a new spike in infections that's being blamed in part on some. rushing to get back home. with just over 24 hours warning the u.k. announced the mandatory 14 day quarantine for all those returning from france. that sent u.k. residents that for french airports ferry ports and train stations with many connections sold out. at the channel crossing in cali long lines of cars queued to get across the border in time for many travelers the new quarantine measure an ounce by prime minister boris johnson is puzzling. i would rather hear it in regions of france problem just to hold a private shutdown for the children different regions that have higher numbers. so i'd rather look at the bigger picture but i think there must be better ways to live

but i suppose i understand and respect why it's important to do it. it seems bizarre that we can go home today. and not be obliged to quarantine for tomorrow is a different. in a similar move germany has now declared the whole of spain with the exception of the canary islands a high risk region. those returning from spain will have to be tested for the virus or go into quarantine the country has seen cases rising for weeks the government has now introduce new measures closing nightclubs and prohibiting smoking in public places to try to curb the spread. of global groups from which i want to make clear is that what we are going through now is not what it was in march or april in terms of pressure on the hospitals the situation is totally different but we cannot allow an increase in cases and so we are taking these measures today. new measures and restrictions are being introduced in many countries across europe as the number of

new coronavirus cases continues to climb across the continent the infections haven't yet reached the level seen at the height of the pandemic but concerns are growing that the seeds are being planted for a major resurgence. the german biotech company cure vacas set to go public on the nasdaq in just a few hours analysts estimate the faxing specialist could raise as much as a quarter of a $1000000000.00 backers been drawing investor attention because it's working on a vaccine against coronavirus it says most of the money will go on research last year the company sold 18000000 euros worth of drugs but it's also been working on treatments for lung cancer yellow fever and fibrosis. from a business correspondent quarter in new york welcome yes how much of a boost is this for kids back. well i mean clearly who doesn't need 200000000

dollars sent the i.p.o. has been very successful i'm standing here in midtown manhattan in front of a nest egg where trading started 2 year on friday and the stock went up by a good 250 percent meaning at the stock price has some more than tripled but it's clear the company will need even more money to get the development of a scene going german media reporting the cure about once to partner with other drug manufacturers who are so who are the likely contenders. well i mean it's really wide open everything the company was saying is that yes they will need a partner for distribution and also if the senior successful also to mass produce it by the way if i saw correctly there are also teaming up with tesla when it comes to some of the production side but it's very open and it's all for speculation which other big pharmaceutical company maybe or investor might help on

board in the near future while the search for a cover vaccines turning into a modern day space race how is cure doing. well it's really in the early stages so they just got the thumbs up for a phase one other companies are a bit further advanced in phase 3 trials if you look at pfizer if you look together was the german company beyond tech if you look at more of x. or more also saw there really early on in the game and there were other biotech companies have already gone public to try and raise cash for vaccine research what sort of differences that may. well i mean $100.00 millions of dollars saw that's clearly needed if you look what happened in the past couple of months a lot of the competitors so to speak for cure i mean they got sometimes billions

of dollars from governments to. prefer to develop c n and then they also sold to earth for billions of dollars of ricin if successful so clearly it's crucial to get this investors the money and that's why. i decided to go public to just be a more powerful and can speed up the process i thank you for that quarter in new york. i've invented one of the world's best known film directors paris texas and wings of desire among the many movies he's made in the long lost risk career to celebrate his 75th birthday a new documentary looks back at his contribution to the art house film that. portrait of him vendor in the style of a vin the endos movie the producers of a new documentary sent the legendary german director on the road to the locations

of some of his best known films each shot could be event us out take. a view. we started on this journey without knowing exactly what would happen when we actually shot in the way vendors makes his movies. every vendor's film is an adventure he starts shooting with actors and a camera not knowing where the story will end then does is fascinated by the idea of america the wild west the wide open spaces and the endless search for the american dream. when it does beautifully is put together the images with sound and light and music that are that once you see them they stay with you forever in the late 1990 s. venders reinvented himself as a documentary filmmaker it was a perfect fit to his improvisational style when a vista social club sparked

a worldwide renaissance in cuban music. his tribute to dance choreographer pina bausch was groundbreaking shot in 3 d. the film gave the audience the direct experience of live performance. salt of the earth a portrait of photographer sebastiano salgado was just as powerful venders received oscar nominations for all 3 documentaries. then does another passion is photography. the director is a digital film pioneer but his photos are analog only his pictures are exhibited around the world. last year venders turned his life's work into

a monumental installation at the go home polly and paris. in wings of desire vendors masterpiece a sad angel gazes down on a divided berlin. his movies are like paintings but why are they modern classics i think because they are portrayed and one painting with cellulite in light of inventors has made indelible images for the screen and inspired a new generation of filmmakers. this is d.w. news life from burley and his reminder of our top story hour thousands of factory workers in bellerose a joint demonstrations on the streets of the capital minsk to demand new presidential elections and and to the violent crackdown. there forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download the app for the google player from the obstacle to

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