when in the next moment and i want. to talk. this is g.w. news live from berlin germany's angela merkel steps into the fray and urges a national dialogue and ballard's and she warns alexander lukashenko that is government must avoid using violence against peaceful protesters and release political prisoners we'll hear from our foreign policy spokesman. also coming up the u.s. democrats launch their national convention with some straight talk from some big

name if we have any hope of ending this chaos we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depend on it because the 1st ever virtual convention culminates thursday with idol's nomination as donald trump challenger and november. plus lines form in south africa as alcohol and tobacco go back on sale the government is easing coronavirus restrictions after a 5 month lockdown. i'm sumi so misconduct you could join us german chancellor angela merkel has urged the government in ballerinas to avoid violence and to start a national dialogue with the opposition this as the standoff over disputed elections between belarus and president aleksander look i shan't go and the growing public's while ago. enters its 10th day today but despite signs from the question

that he might be prepared to hold new elections under certain conditions many people want change now. demonstrators demand. for the political prisoners and arrested protesters after 9 days of unprecedented protests calling on president alexander lukashenko to resign. workers across the country joined a nationwide strike called by the opposition. go away chanted factory workers at the president who had come to shore up support in an exchange with a worker has said new elections were possible but only after the country holds a referendum so. president should not make decisions as a result of pressure the president must find a compromise exactly that is 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 parliament presidency and local government bodies. new and fair elections are what the opposition leaders fitzalan a chicken off sky now in exile lithuania campaigned for. i'm prepared to take responsibility and act as the nation's leader during 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 in the shortest time possible. as the

internal pressure grows so too does international concern. yeah the e.u. is planning an emergency summit about bellary some wednesday the block is already making a list of people who will face sanctions for the violence that followed the disputed elections in belarus striking workers adjoining determined protesters and calling for their leader to go. for more on the story we can speak now to york and hart he's the foreign policy spokesman of chancellor angela merkel's party the christian democrats the c.d.u. good afternoon mr hart it's great to have you with us and you called for a new elections in that is does that mean that you do not see alexander lukashenko as the rightful president of the country. i think it's obvious that the elections presidential elections 10 days ago were money plated we have so many hints on. money palatial that elections that new elections

need to be necessary and i think a democratic the start of the country needs to have new elections but the elections under conditions as we have for example stated and. treaties of council of europe where we have free press where we have free. movement and free activity of candidates for running president xi and neutral observation from outside and i think the o.c.e. are the council of europe should present. a proposal to to the people in belarus that we are able and willing to observe free elections so that at the end of the new elections we can say the elected president is the really elected democratic president of the country otherwise we would have something like a. better restart. and therefore i think new elections are necessary now

i want to ask you about germany's role in all of this we saw that chancellor and an actual spoke to the russian president putin today urging for dialogue between the government and the opposition and also an end to violence towards demonstrators how far will germany go to make sure that that will happen. i think the message that european union and also the german chancellor. gave has to give to it to the russian president and also to catch and course that 1st we want to have a stop the violence on the streets 2nd that. we want to have information about the rumors that potentially. russian police are russian russian military in civilian clothes is moving towards barrows i think every activity from outside needs to be bent and would be a huge. disturbance of the european peace order

and said we want to try to have put in on the side of those who want to have a new future for forbearance and look at shake or looking to that what happened the last 24 hours is a lame duck and put in a might fail but it's a broad check to do to support him in the future i think he's also he has to say find a way out for himself out of the situation because look i check cannot any longer if 70 in belarus but as we see you know johnny does have his direct channel some dialogue with moscow so can germany really serve as a mediator here in belarus between the government to and the opposition. i think european union tried to speak with one voice as to what's better i rose and towards russia and toward the others and therefore i would appreciate if the european union itself would take this all off and negotiate a mediator between the country parties but if of us are asked for german

politicians to do that all for the german chancellor i think we should step into that role and at the end of the day the results counts and the results has to be from my point of few new elections because otherwise it will be a failure of that necessary restart of that country it can only be a democratic restart and thing in between we'll have to leave it there you're going to have foreign policy spokesman for the c.d.u. thank you so much for joining us and. there's much let's catch up now on some other stories making news around the world a special u.n. tribunals in the netherlands is hearing the verdict in the assassination case surrounding former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri before members of the hezbollah militant group were tried in absentia for the 2005 bombing in beirut that killed her and 21 others judges say there was no direct evidence of evidence of direct hezbollah or syrian government involvement. reports from the west african

nation of mali say gunfire has been heard at an army base outside the capital bamako the norwegian embassy warned that a possible mutiny might be underway mali has seen mass protests in recent months of a corruption and security in the country. at least 10 people have been wounded in a shelling attack on the afghan capital couple of already say more than a dozen mortars that struck central coupled including the presidential compound injuring 6 guards now the attack came on afghanistan's independence day as the afghan government prepares to start peace talks with the taliban. in the united states the democratic party convention has kicked off with a rousing speech from michelle obama the wife of former president barack obama this year's convention is unlike any other because of a coronavirus pandemic the event is being held online without crowds or confetti the democrats will formally nominate joe biden as their candidate for president to take on republican incumbent donald trump in the november election. and we have

stacy bivins with us to tell us more about what we are seeing at this convention hi stacy what do you think day one of the convention told us about what the democrats are trying to achieve with this embed kratz of trying to do is for change joe biden as an every man somebody that regular voters can relate to somebody who is sympathetic to their struggles and somebody who has enough big ideas where he can draw a big tent so we saw progressives represented moderate democrats and also disenchanted republicans who once voted for trump but are now looking for another option ok so the democrats are trying to pull all the strands together a lot of people are saying the highlight of day one was the speech from michelle obama let's talk about that 1st let's look at a clip of what you have to say we have to vote for joe biden in numbers that cannot be ignored because right now folks who know they cannot win fair and square at the ballot box are doing everything they can to stop us from voting they're closing

down polling places in minority neighborhoods they're purging voter rolls they're sinden people out to intimidate voters and they're lying about the security of our ballots if they say it's not us. prize that michelle obama is delivering a strong endorsement of joe biden but she really took on president trump in her speech didn't she yeah i mean as a fellow chicago and i know when somebody is going for the juggler and that's exactly what she did and she put aside the niceties that usually come with being the 1st lady where you speak kindly of your candidates and you refrain from disparaging the incumbent she pretty much said that this man is a clear present danger and americans need to act they need to vote and she said. she's known for talking about when they go low we go high and some people have thought of that as oh you just say nice things about people issues like no that means that you fight fiercely for what you believe in and you walk in truth and the

truth is that donald trump cannot meet this moment and she says he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us what's the message in a speech that seemed to really resonate with a lot of people there was a lot of strong reaction also on twitter i think we have a few of these reactions we can take a look now here franklin leonard who is a film executive said i've just never seen a political speech like michelle obama tonight it's a singular thing one of one and another user here saying enough that we can cancel the next 3 nights yeah i mean this was something that if you were a political nerd this was like your n.b.a. championship. but she was really shooting 3 pointers and she was speaking as a mom who is worried about the example that president trump is setting she was speaking as a minority who is seeing black and brown people and their allies marching in the streets for social justice and then hearing from the white house that these people are nothing more than agitators and she's speaking as somebody who knows what it takes to be in the white house and so as much as she was

a character witness for joe biden she was a character assassin for president donald trump or we have to look also at the unity of the democratic party real so i heard form one of joe biden's biggest adversaries in the primaries bernie sanders a he delivered a ringing endorsement of biden here's what he said. joe barton will end the hate and division from paris crewed he will stop the demonization of immigrants but coddling of white nationalists the racist or whistling the religious bigotry and the ugly attacks on women so stacey you know bernie sanders is someone who really took a shot at joe biden during the primaries how important was this endorsement and a strong message of unity of the democratic party it was fight all it was also a full throated endorsement something that he did not give hillary clinton and i think that that speaks to the urgency that he feels so he was reaching out to conservatives saying i want to work with you and he was spoke to his supporters

directly said saying look if you want to be able to see our progressive agenda go forward and we need to have joe biden in the office because it's not going to happen under donald trump but we have to talk about how convincing this is the people i mean where do the polls stand right now how do things look in the race between joe biden and donald trump. the polls are so scary though right. you can't really always trust them and but. the gap has kind of narrowed so joe biden was up by 12 points and now it's kind of contracted to 9 points and but this is just the beginning of the. conventions for the democrats and the republicans will have theirs and so they'll be a little bit of back and forth so it's too early really to tell what's going to happen next a lot of time left till november 5th or a face of evans our reporter thank you so much. you're watching the news still to come on our show a look at the growing mental health problem in nigeria where there is just one psychiatry's for every 800000 people. but 1st let's get some more

headlines from around the world california's death valley has recorded what's believed to be the highest temperature ever measured in the month of august the 131 degree fahrenheit or 54 degrees celsius reading is just shy of the planet's all time high of 134 degrees which was measured nearby in july 19th 13 death valley is the lowest spot and north america and surrounding mountains help trap the heat. firefighters in brazil are struggling to contain places in the world's largest tropical wetlands brazil's pantano region has seen a 3 fold rise in the number of wildfires compared to last year the marshlands are home to thousands of species unique to the region. and china's southwestern sichuan province has issued its highest ever flood alert for areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping

started in 1961. let's look now at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization says the spread of the virus is increasingly between being driven by people between the ages of 20 and 40 the organization says many young people don't even know they're infected and pose a danger to more vulnerable groups in australia an epidemiologist has testified that 99 percent of current infections in the state of victoria can be traced to 2 melbourne hotels where families returning from overseas travel have been staying in philippines president barbara go to terra to is further easing the coronavirus lockdown in the capital manila and surrounding areas shopping malls restaurants and churches are being allowed to open from wednesday on. south africa imposed one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns 5 months ago today the country is easing its restrictions that includes allowing alcohol and cigarettes sales again which had been banned during the long down schools will open in phases starting

next week south africans are also allowed to visit family and friends for the 1st time since march with nearly $600000.00 and factions south africa has more than half of all coronavirus cases in africa and the correspondent is in cape town following the story for us hi adrienne good to see you so how are people feeling about the relaxation of lockdown measures where you are. well so we just came back from a liquor store where already an hour before the official opening time people started queuing to get some alcohol and many i talked to where happy to finally be able to buy legally alcohol again and cigarettes as well many admit as though that even during the lockdown it was possible to buy both bought at higher prices on the black market i was also surprised though that many at least some told me they supported the measures of the government they supported the idea of shutting down the sale of alcohol for a limited time when the coronavirus cases reached their 1st peak because the logic

behind this quite simple the government wanted to keep the hospitals empty so nurses and doctors can focus on 1000 patients and apparently that walked quite well quite well the trauma admissions caused by accidents and alcohol related incidents went significantly down but let's listen in what some of the people had to say. what are you going to find out even in this industry which i think are locked into come back again if we don't behave ourselves. because like you it's maybe likely and dependent on now people that. i'm a smoker. our secret a few months without most of my specialty so yeah i make you happy to be back again i can smoke what i want to smoke but why did i come here today because i'm desperate to all muddy kansas are empty i. got nothing left in it. before they put another restriction all the on on coming here to stoke up so that i

will be out of you know. how i will be out in it. and you really hear the relief there in people's voices but the lifting of these measures comes as south africa's president cyril ramaphosa said that the country has reached the peak so how confident are the words that the outbreak is really under control. well i mean the numbers of really been going down in the past days and weeks like a few weeks back we had daily infection rates of round about 10000 a day right now in the past week we've seen an average of less than $5000.00 a day so that leaves some room for optimism there's also an 80 percent recovery rate and also the death rate is much lower than i originally anticipated however we're not sure if these numbers are really true because up until now if you go to a public health care facility you will only be allowed to get tested if the age of 55 or if you have morbidity is otherwise would not get tested it is likely that

fishel numbers are not much lower than the actual numbers and there's still a lot to do testing capacity still has to be improved the time until results are coming back still takes ways too long so up until now proper contract tracing is not even possible so this is something the authorities definitely have to to walk on because experts if you do all of just warn already of a 2nd wave they say open and are allowed to serve alcohol again we have seen that in other countries it is likely that we'll see another spike in cases in the weeks to come when the economy is also an important factor south of africa as unemployment rate increased over 30 percent in the 1st quarter of 2020 so we'll be easing restrictions how to revive the economy. absolutely well to some extent there will but the economy will not get back on track anytime soon already 2 to 3000000 people lost their jobs because of the lockdown this is a massive problem and this is a problem that also affects the state in terms of tax revenues they're making the

south african ticks off 30 already said they will have a shortfall of about $15000000000.00 euros and tax revenues this year because of business closures and people losing their jobs and this is going to be a massive problem for south africa in the months to come because remember this is still one of this is already one of the most unequal societies in the world and this problem might increase even in. weeks and years to come. reporting from cape town thank you the significant changes that 19 has brought to our daily lives is taking a toll on people's mental wellbeing all over the world in nigeria even before the pandemic one in 4 people struggled with their mental health according 282-1900 report by the w.h.o. on top of that help isn't scarce supply as is funny for char reports from like us. this is a hard place to catch a break millions of people here are struggling just to get by and there are

concerns the pandemic could push even more people into poverty and depression. he don't have to look far to find people struggling many are trying to protect their livelihoods and their mental health. so how much is a great fish. to fight not to last it's time to fight and i don't miss 1290 prize. ammara is self-employed her job buying a crayfish at a good price for resale but with a pandemic most of her clients restaurants have shut down when i bought the news from my customers that it's interested i was forced to close like this serious so i didn't take this i catch my science then messages i call one of them respond no it's america let's see how schools talk over how how am i supposed to know when

call vigil over the insurgency was too much she says it started to weigh her down back in april she began to experience symptoms of depression. in 1990 i was just thinking i was thinking of doing all housewife money the house like a lot of things so around the house our take responsibility and all that and mara is one of millions suffering from panic attacks and. that there is a stigma associated with any form of mental illness. once you come out to talk about seats you'll be town was a little bit more recently it's gone halts for a lot of people see it sounds easy exude all the big c. professional help is expensive so far ammara has only been able to afford one

therapy session for 50 us dollars not enough to heal. 250 that's the number of psychiatry available in. 250 in a country of 200000000 people 1st so many struggle become filled up. but only very few have access to their helping. because one of the few psychiatry's through remaining in nigeria most of her colleagues have left seeking better payment abroad she decided to stay if we don't take mental health seriously. as we would expect and of course eventually the comic the country. economy can put mental health on the on the front she wants the government to subsidize treatment and mental health right now and could have more more more more.

more infanticide more issues going on because people want to help but it would take out take it out on someone else with many nigerians only beginning to feel the economic and mental impact of the call they depend the situation remains highly volatile time. funny for char reporting there from lagos. let's check in on the football now and tonight's champions league semifinal between r.b.i. think and paris entre is a battle of 2 german coaches with a long history like 6000000 august man once upon a time was under the tutelage of paris's coach thomas tucker now this man never imagined that he'd be competing against an old friend. the protege faces off against the mentor. you leonardo's man was about to abandon his life in football after injuries brought his playing career to an end but. his

reserve team convinced him to stay on as a scout to try to be mentors are not going to i'm really happy i made that decision but i could not have foreseen that one day i'd be coaching against thomas in the champions league semifinal. but he will be on tuesday night when noddles mon and rb leipzig lock horns with to fill in. the huge challenge for the young coach and yes we saw gans and lead to go we're a team that can create goal chances against europe's best i count p.s.g. among its peers you noted it all goes money is known for exploiting an opponent's weaknesses now it's time to see if he can do that to the man who gave him his big break. let's get a reminder now of our top stories here on t w in the ballad risk crisis german chancellor angela merkel has urged the government to avoid violence and start a national dialogue with the opposition this sounds the standoff over disputed

elections to tween belorussians president aleksander. and the growing public swell against him enters its 10th day today. and in the us the democratic party has kicked off a virtual national convention that will culminate in joe biden's official nomination she speeches came from michelle obama and bernie sanders. coming up next on new spain's a fight with the coronavirus on our documentary series close up that you. can

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