rulers want to be joining us to story. we're the only. source of cumber 68 i want to tell you. this news live from berlin to rival rallies in the bellers capital and up 210-0000 opposition supporters gathered for the biggest protest in recent history calling for president the shanteau to die while the authoritarian leader urges regime loyalists to disband the country and its independence and rush out off 1st military help. also coming up

a deadly gun and bomb attack on what would be shown photo leaves teeth dead and raises new fears about the strength of the islamist al shabaab militia plus overtaking a legend formula one world champion lewis hamilton cruises to victory in the spanish grand prix at breaks with details schumacher has practiced for a career podium finish. i'm sure kelly welcome to the program strikes are expected in bella bruce today after president alexander because shan't go firmly rejected calls to step down well now the political discord in bellerose he is beginning to take on an international perspective russia has offered military help and lucas shan't go has accused nato of deploying military forces near the country's border a sunday saw thousands joined the biggest anti lucas ship go protest yet but it

wasn't the only place that a rally was taking place. opposing demonstrations in the streets of central minsk. with this man at the heart of both embattled politician president alexander lukashenko. dear friends i didn't just call you here to defend me you came here to defend your country your independence your families for the 1st time in a quarter of a century. dress thousands of loyal supporters on sunday after days of protest put belorussian domestic politics in the international spotlight he accused foreign powers of organizing the opposition against him forever the opposition has all paid off their provocateurs who went into the crowd where are the parents of the children who went to the protest it's criminals who are committing these violent acts against our riot police here that have to remember.

luka shankar has ruled the former soviet state since 1904 and after his disputed reelection victory last week he is determined to stay in power moscow says it's ready to help militarily after the crushing reached out to russian president vladimir putin twice in recent days. but just 2 and a half kilometers away from the main government building immense an entirely different sentiment as a much larger crowd of tens of thousands poured into a rally at victory park organizers called a march for freedom. movement continue we want changes and not just in the political sense we want human life to be valued in our country and that's the main demand so the current authorities are in no way supporting this if they're only making it worse. they say for all of this to happen luka shingo has to go they reject official results that say the president won his 6th term with 80 percent of

the vote and are demanding a new election and a new beginning for the people of ballerinas. let's get more of these developments we are joined by the ws your ear shadow who is standing by so yuri tell us more about the accusations that president lukashenko has made against nato. well gushing goes clearly using the pretext of an external threat to distract from the real problem sorrow for it is that he obviously has very little support in his own country right now. has disparagingly coulter the demonstrators sheep are being controlled from abroad and this isn't the 1st time look at shanghai has talked about the threat from abroad in the election campaign he even bought trades russia as a threat but know that he is looking to close the ranks with president putin the subject of the so-called the russian threat is suddenly off the table and now he is saying that nato is that the real threat from today the been there you see an army will be

holding military exercises on the border with loosely india but that stair step and the question of course talk about of the need to threat seem to me to be purely a propaganda measure nothing more let's talk a little bit more about those relations with russia and the role of russia and all of this because we know little shango spoke with russian president vladimir putin on saturday again yesterday on sunday what can we expect from russia in this situation. well i don't think this is only about military support and i don't think a lot of that putin will really be sending he's armed forces to belarus all of the bellicose has remained a close ally of russia's 1st look at schenkel doesn't need more troops he seemed to be or to have enough security forces of his own to crack down on the demonstrators we saw that last week and secondly putin seems to be very reluctant in his response to what has been happening in belarus in recent days we haven't heard

a single public comment from him about military support is not everything belarus and russia are already very close but it is possible that the putin wants to further deepen economic called the ration with belarus and to that he's pushing for that and it's also possible that to look at shanghai has been discussing a plan to escape to russia with love and putin after all the pressure on him is clearly rising talk a little talk with us a little bit more about that pressure how big is the threat of these protests too little shanker right now. all the british bigger it's quite clear that the opposition will not give up and it's clear that there will be more protests on the streets of many below since it is especially off the guest of the protests and the opposition doesn't want violence but rather die like that even prepared for dialogue with will question caught if he's smart and if he doesn't want to end like all the autocrats or dictators before him he will agree on how to dial it with the

opposition and maybe even lead it maybe we could see a roundtable with. representatives from different groups of society and even the local shameka said yesterday that and you election would lead to the downfall of the country nevertheless and you election is becoming more and more likely but that very much depends on how many people protest in cities across but there was in the coming days if you have easier if shadow reported from moscow on the situation in belarus and the international fallout thank you gary. well at least 15 people have been killed in the militant siege in the somali capital mogadishu the militants attacked a popular beach hotel before big killed by security forces is on this group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility. and on mistake it will sound. people take cover as best they can as somali special forces exchanged gunfire with militants. the assault began when 4 attackers detonated

a car bomb at the hotel's entrance then making their way inside foreign assault weapons and taking hostages. on the field and it's terrible many people are dead others are wounded and a large number are accounted for they took some people hostage. the sage was handed off to 5 hours when all the gunmen were shot dead resulting in the rescue of hundreds of people. insurgent group al-shabaab says it was behind the assault claiming they targeted the high end hotel would you twist connections to the somali government. the hotel is owned by somali m.p. and former finance minister abdul he mohamad nor does a popular destination among government workers and officials. al-shabaab which is linked to al qaida has been waging a brutal insurgency in somalia from over the decades. this attack shatters

a relative calm that has lasted a few months in the city. restrictions on south africa's economic activity will be eased from today after president obama post the code 19 infections had peaked with more than half a 1000000 confirmed cases south africa has been hard hit hard by the pandemic the country implemented strict measures to curb the spread of the virus including a ban on alcohol and cigarettes sales but its lockdown has crushed businesses and livelihoods. here people are helping themselves we've been from this area in cape town and cooking for their neighbors who are even worse off than they are nearly 5 months of lockdown has pushed many into deeper poverty than they were before. my daughter can only work 2 or 3 days a week without the people from the soup kitchen i don't know what our children would eat. the women at the soup kitchen buy the ingredients for donations but like

many other volunteer groups collecting enough money is getting tough. july to nations have ever. been struggling a lot. up until today we haven't had any assistance from the state demonstrators clash with police or to protest for better living standards there was sometimes violence like this before the pandemic but now it's getting worst aid organizations are predicting more unrest as millions of jobs are lost forever and the support offered by the state is not enough. there is some positive news the increase in covert 19 cases is slowing and some lock down measures are being loosened. but not for the international tourists who are crucial for the economy restrictions on international travel will remain in place. no gatherings of

more than 50 people will be permitted. the women from the soup kitchen to expect the pandemic to go away quickly they are starting to grow their own vegetables to make sure that there will always be enough ingredients for the soup. former u.s. intelligence contractor edward snowden has been living in exile in russia for the past 7 years after leaking u.s. intelligence documents now president trump says that he's considering a pardon supporters view snowden as a whistleblower who revealed the extent of u.s. government surveillance but he's charged with violating the country's espionage act . here's what trump had to say i mean i'm not that aware of the snowden situation but i'm going sort of looking that there are many many people it seems to be a split decision that many people think that he should be somehow treated differently of other people think he did very bad things and i'm going to take a very good look at it ok i mean i've i've seen people that are very conservative

and very liberal and they agree on the same issue they agree both was i'm going to take a look at that very strongly and earlier to w. washington correspondent carla bleecker explained why trump is considering a pardon for the man who leaked secret u.s. government intelligence to the media there are various reasons for president trump to bring up a potential pardon for edward snowden right now on the one hand it's a welcome distraction from the disaster that is male in voting from the conversation that has dominated the last few days and that saw accusations against trump that he was trying to sabotage the postal service and meddle in the elections on the other hand this is also a way for him to make joe biden look bad after all snowden exposed far reaching surveillance under the obama administration when biden was vice president so

liberal americans who were appalled by these practices back then might now reconsider whether biden really is the candidate that they want to vote for and november that was the view from washington looked at uses for its news now because in formula one motor racing world champion lewis hamilton won the spanish grand prix for the 4th straight year on sunday the result was the british drivers $156.00 podium finish breaking a record long held by german racing legend schumacher. some of the drivers took a knee on the track before the race to show their support for the black lives matter of movement. and then they were off with world champion lewis hamilton starting from pole position and his mercedes teammate valtteri bottas also in the front row. and in a masterful performance hamilton managed to hang on to the lead throughout the race

on a sweltering afternoon outside boss alone with very little drama or suspense hamilton cruised to victory 24 seconds ahead of his closest title rival max 1st stop in the red with botox finishing 3rd. but. that's a day's is a real surprise because we've had this problem with the ties. management was. was very very good at this understanding of what happened off the ball to just be dead is that it's really they would have to do it today. hamilton celebrated his 156th podium finish surpassing the record held by the great michael schumacher. the wind increases his lead in the title race just 37 points ahead of her stuff and . a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you here on news fell a verse in president alexander lukashenko has rejected calls to hold

a new election he told supporters in minsk that moscow was ready to step into well the protests against his person at the same time opposition protesters held their biggest demonstration get against the shank those disputed election. you're up to date here on d.v.d.'s i'll be back at the top of the hour you can keep up to date by downloading the news app on your smartphone or go to the top cop i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching. up to date don't miss our highlights w. program online w dot com highlights. that 77 percent clapping are younger than thanks doc. that's me and me and you.

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