in minsk the capital of bella ruse demanding new elections rejecting last week's reelection of president alexander lukashenko and co's 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 bring golf in berlin this is the day. through. the fall the whole world knows that we won't stop that's been our rules will be a free and independent country. or up. up. north in accra 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 it is literally

a. from which the more people realise the inevitability of regime change in our country the faster cars will happen up. also coming up to 9 to know was scaping this 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 with when you couple that. 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 bell rooms 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 and boot and there are other signs that the president's twenty's. 6 years in power may be nearing their end on sunday a look at said russian president vladimir putin had 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. to go by the 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 polman 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 and conditions to hold. another round of presidential elections and the shortest time possible. ticking of scale made her address from lithuania 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 in case of a humble and 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 to depend on the future behavior of the bell aris you know it already is until then protests is sure no signs of relenting. over more tonight i want to bring in miriam cause now she's a senior expert on eastern europe at germany's beryl's mint 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 deliveries 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 fiscally onto the state sector we work us mention to court and from this decentralized demonstrations

and strikes all over the country even though i'm like the institutions like state. 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 g. 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 taught so russians overwhelmingly however the situation is not very pleasant for cuttin as well he has demonstrations in the last

200 in russia and he is not interested in that was the bad up thing as a more democratic democratic country because that undermines the 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 rules and russia caught 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

to. close your. i wouldn't speak about pulling but i was closer to europe because the belo 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 whom and 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 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 bellerose 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 also on the one hand supporting activists misdefine osco yes currently in the queen yeah but also having economic relationships that simply gives 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 balian chair we will have sweden next year as us next year and i think together with the oas. they could support such

a national we consider taber that has actually been already started to be organized by the bend the 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 demands this summit to. immediately know learn about the whereabouts off the specific. yeah that's a very good point because people remain missing tonight. your expert on eastern

europe at germany's beryl's men foundation miry we should do time in your insights tonight thank you you're very welcome. now into a 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. salt 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 we use emily short reports tonight from very young ski. 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 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. me i had discussions 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. really 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 if they move there could be accidents and there will be all sorts of problems of global warming intense allies. to meet with. russia's arctic has already felt the effects of unstable foundations in late may a fuel reserves. are near no real school collapsed and 21000 tonnes 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 a real scheme will be a wake up call for off the already it's. at the well. you might until this happened no one paid attention to the issue of power in the frost the 1st thing that contributes to that 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 2002 station a record. 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 now if that record is confirmed in a formal review it will be the hottest temperature witnessed on our planet's surface since the year 1913th or at least bring in correspondent jason campbell only 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 130 dental mill your shoes right off luckily not much lives up 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 of death valley and it

was about of 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 that 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 only 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 a 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 figured 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 the i think where the 5th biggest economy in the world. but 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 nato's 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 are extremely this thing 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'll 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 going 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. 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 or correspondent max sunder reports now from the cecilia town of health and it sets 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 should pay bills how can i possibly do this. 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 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. 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 healthy. people people from morning to night do anything. so. you can. it's like something that is killing you intimately if you 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 is it a bit about 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. jaring the interview a patient shows up he says he escaped a 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 a 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 italy and the

whole of italy reducing the numbers of people in the cilia reception centers and limiting the spread of coronavirus there nice enough. 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 mio declare that the problem is not migration now the problem is the health care issue the outbreak of corona virus. not vehicles. cicely 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.

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