what should be done with the still north africa. starship commercial do you don't you. this is the w. news live from berlin in belarus more public support drops away from president alexander lukashenko. a veteran leader is shunned by the factory workers meant to be rallying around him as more strikes get underway how long can he stand up to domestic and international pressure. also coming up migrants are arriving in italy to face

a lengthy and complicated asylum process and poor living conditions now fears of the spread of the corona virus has made their plight even tougher. and as an unprecedented pedophile case comes to trial here in germany do you have your meets an abuse survivor who hopes to go in public with his experience can help bring justice to other victims. i'm sumi so much guy glad you could join us in bellerose public support for president aleksander look i shan't go seems to be crumb crumbling as more belarusians had he had opposition calls to join a general strike look who was consistently given a defiant response and rejected any calls for him to step down they have been growing louder ever since he was returned to office over a week ago and a contra. national election. the red and white flag of the opposition has one small

been right used on the streets of mince this time by the work is about livers gathered outside factories and the state television headquarters. you can all go away they chanted directly at president alexander lukashenko who had arrived to win them over. their protests have been fueled by the promises of their restored leader. ted to take responsibility and act as the nation's leader ensuring this period so the country settles down and gets back to normality so that we can release political prisoners and prepare a legal framework and conditions to hold another round of presidential elections in the shortest time possible. the exiled opposition leader made her address from the way mia just one day off to calling for

the biggest protests in bellerose yet an estimated 200000 people marched through the streets on sunday calling for the president to step down they maintain that the national election earlier this month which gave look at 80 percent of the vote was rigged. she shows we're all united and that we want to protect our right to choose we want fair elections was explained this is a celebration of freedom we've done this dictatorship if you look at shankar is no longer in charge the power has been taken by those who deserve it the people of fellow workers. that protest wolf luka shanker supporters who also staged a rally in which the president rejected demands for reverse. and this. poor little way mia latvia poland and unfortunately now do you crying and its leadership ordering us to hold new elections. put it. if we follow their lead

we will fall into the abyss and never get out house in order to send them since. we will perish as a state agency and as a people. did this he gives a little. as the internal pressure continues international concern grows with the e.u. to hold an emergency summit about belarus on wednesday. let's get the latest on the story now we have our correspondents standing by for us your ear chateau is in moscow and band report is in brussels good to have you both very i want to start with you we saw those images of workers striking and protesting but at the same time president look i shan't go does not seem to be backing down at all tell us more about what we've heard from him. well assuming from all official and less official statements by exxon to look at shankar that we have heard in the past few days and today one message is very clear he doesn't want to give up his power he

repeated this yesterday as a rally of his fans in minsk as well as today at his appearance or during his visit at one of the most important and largest factories in the country as we just heard in the report he is determined to continue ruling no matter the prize the crucial question is how these so-called see lovi ki will react more specifically the power ministry the defense ministry the secret service and to the army if they all continue to stand by him the opposition could face a further escalation of violence at the in the coming days but as soon as the seal of the key changes their minds and take the side of the demonstrators and it's on the question will be gone very quickly from the political state of the 26 years of presidency men don't come to you in brussels now because we know that the european union is watching all of these developments very closely and the e.u. will now hold an emergency session after already greenlighting sanctions last week

so what further steps could be taken. there at this special summit on wednesday which is a video conference the you once to increase the pressure on the president of bill rose alexander lukashenko and shall be sure the president of the council said that the the people of the roosts have the right to choose their leadership freely and to choose their own destiny in the future and that violence cannot be accepted so if you has not called for the resignation of flu question because that can happen on wednesday that would be the next diplomatic step in the letter and the you could also tighten the sanctions the use in visioning now the they're working on the list to sanction people and some companies maybe look at shankar himself would be enclosed on that list and there's also the possibility through the neighborhood policy of the you to for those things in the civil society and bill rose yury i

want to come back to you know and ask you about the opposition leaders that linus's i know sky in her exile in lithuania we saw her saying she is ready to lead the country how much pressure does she add on the question. i think pretty much because the pressure from me is actually the pressure from hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across belarus as it has a huge support base yesterday we saw the biggest and most peaceful protest in the history of belarus told by spitler from lithuania and that support has been rising in the last weeks. however has shown in recent weeks that she is actually ready for her role as a national leader. or now in exile in little area also she isn't alone in her role as a leader she has strong support from a listener who says the official representative of another candidate who wasn't

allowed to run for presidency and idealistic has become another face of the in the russian opposition she's in minsk right now and she has been staying in touch misfit line that you can also go all the time there and how does this look in brussels because she is in exile in lithuania which is an e.u. country and she's saying i'm ready to take the reins of the country does that put the european union in a difficult position. it's not unusual that the. opposition leaders of operating from the neighboring countries like poland lithuania and latvia but the u. has to walk a fine line they don't want to give. putin the russian president any excuse to somehow militarily do something like he did in ukraine so the rest should not give him any reasons for that sofa or was tended to be in the russian camp but now we have to see how that works out our correspondent reporting

for us ben recruit in brussels yuri chateau in moscow thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world firefighters in california are working to contain a wildfire threatening thousands of homes north of los angeles the blaze has already destroyed more than 15000 acres as of rages through bush covered mountains california is currently experiencing a heat wave that is fueling the fire. in central india a man stranded in rapid waters at a flooded dam has been rescued in a dramatic helicopter airlift the indian air force was called in after several failed rescue attempts the flooding was triggered by the monsoon rains. and house speaker nancy pelosi says she will call back u.s. lawmakers early from the summer recess to deal with the crisis at the u.s. postal service president trump who has admitted to holding back funding for the service has repeatedly claimed that

a certain mail in voting would lead to voter fraud in the embers election. the number of migrants arriving in italy by boat has already surpassed the total for last year that's according to the un refugee agency so far there have been more than $15000.00 sea arrivals with many people rescued by coast guards in italian waters that is up almost $4000.00 on last year islands off southern italy like lampedusa and sicily have attracted the majority with more than 40 percent of migrants arriving from tunisia in north africa our correspondent max under reports now from the sicilian town of qahtani seta where authorities say they're struggling to cope. the coronavirus pandemic has made life even more challenging for some of the most vulnerable people here in the south the sicily. there is no justice for migrants no justice each month should pay bills how can i possibly do this. this man from somalia tells us he is stuck here without work or

a place to sleep authorities at the migration center promised to return his passport last december but he still hasn't received any papers people who showed up for their appointments this morning tell us the pandemic has delayed processes here not having the necessary paperwork can affect their legal status in the country and ability to work life underneath the bridge is the only option for some of those lacking their paperwork 8 people have been sleeping in this wall that camp for the past 25 days one of them tells us with no money or support they are holding out until their cases can be heard incidents like this have managed to stir up public opinion against migrants and refugees a few dozen new arrivals escaped from an overcrowded current in the city of 2 weeks ago most were found by police none tested positive for the coronavirus not fear but seeing the good in people is what migrants and refugees need touring the pandemic omar so knows this from his own experience the 31 year old gandhian works in

a center that houses migrants and refugees and helps them prepare for their life in italian society when saloon arrived in italy in 2014 he was initially presented with limited opportunities to help him integrate health because you can be able to get from morning to night and to the best thing that you could do. so. you can. it's like something that is killing you intimately so. because most of the people who will be sent something to be in this country after finally coming to this center so will get lucky he was able to find work here is a cultural mediator helping minors living at the facility with her asylum cases and everyday needs many migrants in sicily are forced to make a living here in the countryside as daily breeze in the greenhouses they earn as little as 30 euros a day medical doctor. looks after my going to workers many of them undocumented she

has been treating back injuries and the forces in her mobile clinic free of charge and anonymously she says precarious working conditions make migrants more vulnerable to coronavirus but they're also being stigmatized by the thought there was the vicinity mangano i am worried because these people still continue to be invisible this is a big problem for all of italy especially if these people are seen only as people who are sick and spread the virus sauna so. jaring the interview a patient shows up he says he escaped the cornered facility and is now showing symptoms of code 900 the team are 1st into a hospital for testing though it is unlikely the tunisian national will go there out of fear of being deported. migration was a divisive issue in sicily long before coronavirus far right leaders have been using the issue for political gain claiming migrants are bringing the virus to the

islands says the mayor of port and. she's been trying to drum up support for a tangible solution new arrivals would need to be distributed across sicily and the whole of italy reducing the numbers of people in the cilia reception centers and limiting the spread of coronavirus there the night scene that. we mayors of the area asked the government to use the same health care particles we have for italian citizens for migrants and recently our party leader the myer the clear that the problem is not migration now the problem is the health care issue the outbreak of corona virus not imagined not vehicles. sicily is currently experiencing a rise in cold 19 cases after the peak of the holiday season containing the virus is likely to remain a challenge here throughout the islands and tire population. you're watching d.w. still to come on our show the arctic heatwave did he visits a siberian town whose very foundations are threatened by rising global temperatures

. but 1st the trial starts today at the main suspect in what could be germany's largest ever organized child sex abuse case more than 70 suspects are being investigated in the case involving an online pedophile network that shared images of child pornography d.w. met up with the man us some idea of what the victims have gone through himself is a survivor of abuse who is now fighting for justice. as a child marcus dyckman was sexually abused for almost 10 years by 3 different perpetrators in his home town of coton. today he's returned to the scene of the 1st crime. this is where a shooting gallery owner funfair lured him into a caravan and raped him the shop was on food and i have this movie playing in my head that i haven't been able to stop since the trauma how do you know i'm lying here as a little boy 5 years old all shoulder length blond hair naked on

a bed with a priest white sheets with. the shooting gallery owner was lying naked next to him for 4 decades mustique man repressed what had happened today he drives his motor home through germany and fights for justice for other victims. i have always had to somehow figure out for myself what's right and what's wrong because you don't believe anyone anymore you don't trust anyone and. the under a huge victims in the back in case of probably going through something similar 130 investigators are now working on the case the largest known abuse scandal in germany history so far they have identified more than 80 suspects but there are 30000 leads to other potential perpetrators person suspected of exchanging child sex abuse photos and videos on chat forums. renzi and trips but if you read the chats in particular you get the impression that by

communicating with each other the participants reinforce in each other the believe that their child abuse is a socially accepted sexual preference to adequate friends many perpetrators have no sense of wrongdoing it's a case of appalling dimensions and goes far beyond germany according to the senior prosecutor marcus dyckman is still not free of his trauma with his group he supports other victims the group wants the statutes of limitations for sexual crimes to be eliminated as for the trial against the main suspect he has hopes that will extend beyond the baggage blood back case starts off more than twice with a signal is now being sense that the perpetrators can no longer feel safe and that they will now be dealt with severely. marcus dyckman sets off again to continue his mission of drawing attention to the fate of abuse victims it's become his life's work. not one that he chose for himself. for more on the

story we can speak to you really often via she's the director of innocence in danger that's an international organization fighting against the sexual abuse of children and child pornography it's good to have you with us how can it be that children are being abused in child pornography has been shared and spread so widely over so many years without anyone knowing it. well that's an excellent question the thing is that we need to understand in all of these cases i would say 90 percent of these cases are going to as crime cases the sexual abuse begins within the family or the close around things of the child which means we are all should be able to detect something is going on we all should be able to detect something is off with the child and we should be able to detect a grown up person is doing weird things with children but we do not want to realize that we all know perpetrators in our close around into this is

a reality that we do not want to face so we leave it up to the children to sort of come to us in a way that we are able to digest and to understand and that's too much for these children so we need to get better in detects and intervention if children do come to us or report his cases what kind of support structures are in place to help these victims for cover. well what they need is they need therapeutic help they need counseling they need support their parents need support the nonviolent parents support but in the in tases where there is where there is a court case going on children are denying the source this kind of support because there are witnesses to their own crimes and the courts say well if there get there if you seek help there there might be. some sort of suggestive. intervention and then we cannot attack they cannot account for the crime any longer so we need to

speed up the court cases and we need to find ways to support these children and in germany at least i can say we need more of these centers to support children and their. parents because there are far too few still while the german government's commissioner for fighting sexual abuse says this is a national crisis that needs to be a national priority what do you think needs to be done to stop perpetrators and also better protect children well we need to raise awareness not so much much amongst children of course also monstro them but we need to raise awareness amongst adults and we need to and able adults surrounding children to take 1st action and the 1st action any adult any parent any teacher can take and should say in case they're wondering if a child might be sexually abused is to call the national how pliant against child sex abuse in order to a sort themselves out and see who they can turn to and they're closer on things so

do not be the person where this information gets stopped but be the person who deals with with such a suspicion and then you might be able to help a child and you may want to ask you about the trial that started it's being called the largest child sex abuse trial in germany what precedent do you think this trial can set for how the country deals with sexual abuse and pedophilia going forward. well what we need to understand is that it's the media and the internet really change the dynamics and dimensions off child sexual abuse we have we have things like live stream sexual abuse we have things like swapping children back and forth the internet really changes the game and actually it's quite interesting that some people are saying this is a whole new dimension and we had a case in 2007 or ready by they were 112000. users of child

porn sites so we need to understand our my how this game is changing and we need to put law enforcement in place to be able to tackle these this dimension of crime we'll have to leave it there you leon find out from innocence in danger thank you very much thank you. now temperatures across the arctic have been increasing at a rate that is about twice the global average causing a record heat wave in siberia this year a small remote town above the arctic circle in the russian region. so temperatures that were nearly 20 degrees higher than the average scientists now fear that the heat is causing the permafrost to thaw spelling catastrophe for both the environment and for the people who live there. emily sherwin reports from that hideouts. you can see the heat shimmer even now at the end of summer a few weeks ago they have set a new record 38 degrees celsius that's the highest temperature ever recorded within

the arctic circle people here are usually proud of a different extreme their town is one of 2 places that claim to be the coldest on earth. we're used to the cold people here can't handle that sort of heat everyone bought electric fans they were totally sold out here people had ice cream and cold drinks we aren't prepared for these conditions. we swam and worked it was fine even in the winter when it's minus 60 degrees centigrade here we eat ice cream so working when it was 38 degrees wasn't a problem either moshi again with me i had discussions with all of them. the climate is changing every year and the ice is slowly melting people say the winters have gotten a bit warmer and the summer has moved by a whole month it's longer now to the. more severe than that's really nice it's the building's investors are on stilts designed to drive down into the

permafrost and give them a solid base the pillars also keep the houses raised so they don't melt the ground underneath but rising temperatures could threaten the very foundations of this town . because the permafrost is melting houses here could collapse because they're built on pillars our public utilities are built on supports which have their foundations in the ground and if they move there could be accidents and there will be all sorts of problems of global warming intense allies. russia's arctic has already felt the effects of unstable foundations in late may a fuel reservoir near no real sq collapsed and 21000 tons of diesel spilled into surrounding rivers and subsoil the russian metals company in charge said the thawing permafrost was to blame scientists hope the environmental catastrophe in

the reals will be a wake up call for off the already it's. the war. until this happened no one paid attention to the issue with permafrost the 1st thing that contributes to its thaw is the climate and the summer temperatures to some of summer temperatures here in central yakutia so in the taiga forest has increased by 10 to 12 percent since the year 2000. this year's summer may have been a novelty for people in bed but it could spell an unstable future for russia's arctic. in formula one world champion lewis hamilton won the spanish grand prix for the 4th straight year on sunday the result was the british driver is a $156.00 podium finish breaking a record long held by a german racing legend. 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 cruise to victory 24 seconds ahead of his closest title rival max 1st stop in the red photons finishing 3rd. but what if the double today is a real surprise because we had this problem with the ties. management was. very very good at. understanding what happened nothing could go to this weekend. never

sleep they would have to do it today. hamilton celebrated his 156th podium finish surpassing the record held by the great michael schumacher. the win increases his lead in the title race to 37 points ahead of her stuff and. coming up next on new our environment show eco india looks at how education can help us towards a greener future. the

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