in minsk the capital of bella ruse demanding new elections rejecting last week's reelection of president alexander lukashenko and. reaction and i'm quoting here until you kill me there will not be any more elections tonight defiance and denial the leader known as europe's last dictator could these be his last days in power i burnt off in berlin this is the day. through. the fall the whole world knows that the one stop that's been the rules will be a free and independent country. for the. markets this is a protest against the current government. because we do not agree with the election results and with the current regime and use new and different for you to look. up.

to which the more people realise the inevitability of regime change in our country the faster this will happen for all. also coming up to 9 to no was skipping the summer a heat wave in the arctic has siberians hot under the collar everyone bought electric fans they were totally sold out here people had ice cream and cold drinks we aren't prepared for these conditions in the clear new couple cars. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a desperate president against his defiant nation it has been a week since the people in belle rouge went to the polls to elect a president incumbent alexander lukashenko says he won by a landslide fair and square but many voters do not believe him they say the vote

was rigged on sunday more than 100000 people gathered in minsk demanding a new election 2 people have died in clashes with police in just the last week but there are reports of officers refusing to follow orders rejecting any further crackdown on peaceful protesters even his base is turning against him today at a state run factory the president was heckled in boot and there are other signs that the president's twenty's. 6 years in power may be nearing their end on sunday and said russian president vladimir putin has offered help but so far the kremlin has played down any promises and the opposition's presidential candidate the woman who fled bella ruse after the election last week she says tonight that she is willing to come home to lead an interim government we have more tonight beginning in this report. the red and white flag of the opposition has been raised one small on the streets of minsk this time by the workers of bell averse who gathered

outside factories. go away they chanted at president alexander lukashenko who would come to win them over the heckling continued and the president walks off the stage into the crowd in an exchange with a worker. who said new elections were possible but only after the country holds a referendum. on president should not make decisions as a result of pressure both make the president must find a compromise exactly that's how. we need to approve a new constitution so the opposition won't be against it it needs to be approved in a referendum because our previous constitution was approved in a referendum and based on the new constitution and if you want it we will show you

elections for the palm and presidency and local government bodies. the protests being fueled by new promises from the exiled opposition leader. i'm prepared to take responsibility and act as the nation's leader cheering this period so the country settles down and gets back to normality so that we can release all political prisoners and prepare a legal framework in conditions to hold. another round of presidential elections in the shortest time possible. were. taken of made her address from the way nia a day off to calling for the biggest protests in belarus yes. as the internal pressure grows so does international concern the e.u. has announced it will hold an emergency summit about bella roofs on wednesday because today we start in humble and sure we have already agreed on sanctions

against the responsible for these human rights violations how the sanctions will be designed and whether further restrictive measures will be taken depend on the future behavior of the bellary so you know it already. until then protests is sure no signs of relenting. more tonight i want to bring in miriam cause male she's a senior expert on eastern europe at germany's barrels meant foundation miriam it's good to have you on the day based on what we have seen in the last week would you say that alexander lukashenko his days as president of belarus are now numbered. yes definitely. president. now number i would have been more hesitant a week ago but the pressure from what used to be his own to the state sector rework us mention to pull out and from this decentralized demonstrations and

strikes all over the country even though i'm like the institutions like state t.v. . it's clear. what about the russian factor here we know that russia has intervened in other republics before georgia in 2008 ukraine in 24. it's impossible to rule out a russian military intervention but would you agree that the chances of vladimir putin sending in his troops to prop up. or anemic at best. well it would in my view not at the intake just if president putin sent in troops because that would completely destroy the otherwise good relations sense have other feelings the good feelings they have talked to russians overwhelmingly however the situation is not very pleasant for cuttin as well he has demonstrations to hand in

russia and he is not interested in. playing as a more democratic democratic country because that undermines his argument that the slavic nation needs to not talk crissy to be a successful state so i wouldn't exclude it i do not think it would be an open intervention it would be but the threats have been there also by the question call was mentioned the collective security treaty organization that and russia topped off and he has mentioned the troops the messman to the western borders of fellows which of course it's not taking place but they are keeping that option open and we know that the european union plans to hold an emergency summit on wednesday to discuss. what role does europe have here i mean is this an opportunity.

closure. i wouldn't speak about pulling but others closer to europe because the belo who sense do not want to be a geo political spectrum or they just want a better life with their civic rights being taken seriously and to human rights violations however i would expect that the european union makes it very clear. that any at intervention would be met with economic sanctions that do it because at present the situation still is very dangerous and here the european union should be very clear . we know that the presidents of lithuania poland latvia and estonia have sent a letter to bill and offering cooperation if 3 demands are met they want to see an

end to the use of force against protesters they want detain protesters to be released and they want to see organize a national reconciliation roundtable what leverage do these countries have right now with. well particularly lithuania has longstanding relations and they have managed to do it policy off on the one hand supporting activists misdefine australia is currently in the queen yeah but also having economic relationships that simply gift them knowledge and context however you are right a singular countries their power is limited however they could. team up with the o.s.c. need. currently we have the a daily and share we will have sweden next year as of next year and i think together with the oas. they could support such

a national we consideration round table that has actually been already started to be organized by the band of recent opposition and we also got reports today that all of the protesters you have been arrested in the last week and detained they have been released so do you see that as proof that the pressure coming from its neighbors is working and. yes and no right this is a huge success however there is information that between 70 and 100 people have gone missing and this is another thing that the new coach demand this summit to. immediately know learn about the whereabouts off these people. yeah that's a very good point they these people remain missing tonight because males in your

expert on eastern europe at germany's barrels a day should marry we should do time in your insights tonight thank you you're very welcome. siberian summer 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 of. so temperatures that were nearly get this 20 degrees higher than average science is now fear that the heat is causing the permafrost to fall spelling catastrophe for both the environment and for the people who live here. emily short reports tonight from very young. you can see the heat shimmer even now at the end of summer a few weeks ago they had 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 experience 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. and up 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. me i've discussed them with 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. it is. nice

it's the buildings in venice 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 but if they move there could be accidents and there will be all sorts of problems if global warming intense ally's pollution. 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 afterwards. when you might until this happens no one paid attention to the issue of permafrost the 1st thing that contributes to its thought 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 invent but it could spell an unstable future for russia's arctic. and the arctic is not the only place affected by rising temperatures thousands of miles away in california's death valley researchers have just recorded the highest global temperature in over a century the u.s. weather service confirmed the record heat of $54.00 degrees celsius that's

a $130.00 degrees fahrenheit on sunday afternoon if that record is confirmed in a formal review it will be the hottest temperature witnessed on our planet's surface since the year 1913. our list bring in correspondent jason campbell donia now he is in los angeles he's bureau chief for n.b.c. news radio and i heart media it's good to see you again jason you know we wanted to talk with you tonight because of the extreme weather that we're seeing in california so let's start with the summer heat do they even make air conditioners strong enough to handle the heat in death valley. not really i mean under 30 don't mill your shoes right off luckily not much lives out there including you know desert rats and everything else is really not much in death valley there always are people who live you know on the outer line areas valley and it was about

a 20 out there over the weekend and that's that's pretty hot. and i was checking the weather for death valley the humidity there was only about 7 percent on sunday so that's a very dry heat and i guess meteorologist have to advise people to do certain things if they're going to cope with that kind. of heat and dry heat i mean what they've been telling people to do. drink lots of water that's number one drink as much water as you can make sure you don't leave your kids or your pets inside the car because if it's if it's a 130 degrees outside and you're looking at pushing 200 degrees on the inside of a car and that that will likely lead to death if you leave pets they're asking people to check on the elderly elderly neighbors help me see them leave members make sure that they're staying cool as much as possible. and really the biggest

warning out there is just stay out of the sun it's difficult but if you can stay out of the sun either have at you know white brim or stay indoors mainly that's probably the best piece of advice and if you're going to stay indoors obviously you're going to have your air conditioning on and there's so much air conditioning being used right now we understand that it's a little too much for the power grid in california. yeah where we have what's called rolling blackouts happening across the state and it's crazy you know you're at home everybody's at home due to the pent demick everybody's working from home and you know with years with your kids doing the distance learning thing online and all the sudden your power gets cut for a couple of hours 2 the governor just came out and said it a we want to know why and has launched an investigation into figuring out why there hasn't been enough power to like you said our all these air conditioners.

throughout heat wave which has gone on about 4 days now maybe 5 but it's going to last another 4 or 5 days so the power here is just getting sucked up quickly. but yeah it's crazy to think that in a state like california i think we've got like that i think where the 5th biggest economy in the world and i've enough power to power a few air conditioners that's that the governor says that he wants to get debt to the bottom of that you know we reported on that several times about these rolling power outages in california let's talk about the wildfires in northern california on to saturday the weather service posted an unusual warning about possible fire induced tornadoes known as fire nago did you hear about that. oh absolutely and are they spectacular what i mean it right it's the extreme he makes with swirling winds and what happens is that those wits they start to pick up

embers and basically it's lighting the air on fire as the wind swirls and i mean i've seen i'm not personally but i've seen pictures of them that are like a 100 feet tall. and they aren't stream of the estate move very very rapidly and they just true through whatever is in front of it whether it be vegetation or you know while forest anything and it will just chew right through it it's an edible you're looking at some images right now of these fire natives and you're right i mean there's spectacular to look at we understand there may have been 5 of these over the weekend in california i mean that must be a nightmare for firefighters are they even trained to deal with this kind of threat when they're in of fighting of wildfire. absolutely it's get out of the way get out of the way because they're too unpredictable it's too dangerous to even try to you know doused those flames at all they're really really dangerous so the fire

crews basically take cover when they start to see swirling winds in the area and in some cases here in southern california los angeles county fire department will keep track of the winds in the area that they're fighting a wildfire and if those winds start to shift they move those firefighters out of that area yeah i mean i guess you don't want to be one of those storm trackers or storm followers when we're talking about a fire nato jason campbell to commit to a los angeles bureau chief for n.b.c. news radio and i heart media jason always good to talk with you we appreciate the latest and to everybody in california stay safe you too thank you so much fun. well it is only august and the un refugee agency says the number of migrants arriving in italy by boat has already surpassed the total for all of last year so

far there have been more than $15000.00 sea arrivals with many people rescued by the coast guard in italian waters that's 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 sunder reports now from the sealion town of calton it's where authorities say they are 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 i should pay bills how can i possibly do this and that is that 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 has 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 well the kaffir the past 25 days one of them tells us with no money or support they're 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 and facility 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 during 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 helped. people get from morning to night. so that. created you going to. something that is killing you intimately is easy 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 viewers 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 is not a bit of. 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 cold 19 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 nice enough. that we mayors of the area asked the government to use. the same healthcare particles we have for italian citizens for migrants and recently our party leader the mire the clear that the problem is not migration now the problem is the health care issue the outbreak of corona virus not an image and sokoto 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. in the day is almost on the conversation continues online join us on twitter either d.w. news you can follow me at brant off t.v. we're always happy to hear from you see you tomorrow everybody.

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