this is d.w. news live from berlin keeping up the pressure tens of thousands defied a ban on demonstrations in belo rooms to demand the resignation of president alexander lukashenko he warns he could use the military to break up the protests also coming up a court in new zealand hears testimony from the families of the victims of the white supremacist who killed 51 people in a box in new zealand as the sentencing hearing ends and.

fire munich are proud football kings of europe for the 6th time the very inside defeat french tribals p.s.g. to take the champions league and yet again. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program huge crowds took to the streets in bell over the sun another day of demonstrations calling for the resignation of president alexander the go opponents accuse him of rigging last month's elections the authoritarian leader responded with a show of defiance and threatened further crackdowns to restore order. he called deem go away a rallying cry sustained for over 2 weeks amplified by one of the biggest crowds mean sq has ever seen. demonstrators repeated their

demand for new elections angry at thousands of arrests many bloody beatings and several deaths. yes i'm shocked by these lies and violence that reign in our country i have 3 children and 3 grandchildren i want them to live in a free country to have freedom to express their opinions and have great life prospects. the opposition coordination council is demanding a peaceful transition of power. not to simply believe our resistance is a marathon the regime cannot deal with this marathon but we can we have the will strength and the support of each other. that brought them as they are we've appealed to the belorussian high court to recognize the numerous violations in the sham election and we hope no we demand that the high court makes

a legal ruling and i wanted to show you. security forces held back on sunday but the army has been mobilized supposedly to protect national monuments. hovering over the crowds the man who says he's above all criticism president alexander lukashenko shows no sign he's moved by the sight of his people. once on the ground brandishes a gun he says he's ready to trigger another crackdown if opponents refuse to accept his victory. across the border lithuanians show their solidarity with the protesters forming a human chain just as they did more than 30 years ago during their own baltic revolution many belorussians are now hoping for a similar peaceful and democratic outcome. and for more let's bring in d.w. correspondent nick connelly he covered yesterday's huge demonstration he joins us

now over the phone nick massive protests this weekend the images really very dramatic are they making any. good morning so difficult to know where this is going there is no roadmap there is no clear path if the protest is what you then why would happen but it definitely was a show of strength from the position. to 300000 people taking is the estimate right now that doesn't seem to be more than last week so a sign here is that 2 weeks. is reflection people have not given and are not tied to be protests despite the threats from the government running up to these protests we heard from authorities here that any participation in these. demonstrations to the legal. shoot expected consequences they're ready now in the end that didn't happen i think the numbers were just too big there is safety in numbers but isn't

that the prospect that even so people with the. small children with graeme there really was an extraordinary strength and fearlessness for the people here in belarus and it seems like i was a little i think there was rattled and it's interesting to compare you know these images of all of these protesters out on the streets protesting peacefully then with the image of president lukashenko along with his son carrying a gun yesterday how high are the fears that he could crack down again. well those are extraordinary images jim drawing of the protest and it's interesting that he did that rather late in the day so the session being that the people in his team didn't want him to see the full extent of the protests at its height. the recording that he's read that it's really kept him looking down at the men in saying the rock is on the way meaning to protect this he has said in recent days that people here and others have not the weekend box few days to have another think

and from today to monday he would crack down the time the government show who was in charge today will show whether those where you would do if you actually need press down and show. force against your own protesting nick connelly with a view from ments khan the ground there thank you so much nic. a new zealand courts has been hearing from families of some of the 51 worshippers massacred in the country's worst mass killing parents and other family members testified about their loved ones killed at 2 different mosques in christ church a court is in the sentencing phase of the case against the white supremacist who has already pleaded guilty to the murders the court has heard that brenton toronto planned to burn down 2 mosques after carrying out the killings sentencing is expected to take 3 days with toronto facing life in prison and i'm joined

now by pete mckenzie he's a journalist joining us from wellington pete relatives of the victims and survivors they had the opportunity to speak before the court what was the atmosphere. yeah 60 years over 60 victims and survivors where it called course today are expected to speak for the course of the coming days and of the mood was incredibly somber various victims and survivors and relatives of survivors were able to deliver. damning scenarios explaining what happened on that day and also an explanation of what my life has been like since the shooter said that also involved testimony as to what they want to see out here with different perspectives from one survivor and father of a victim saying that you were one of the difficulty to be reintroduced to museums ems. to buying to how strong and united the muslim

community in christ church remains to this day. when we look at the perpetrator has there been any sign of remorse from him so today yet in the hearing the perpetrator had a had a black face large fleet of or you are more us apart from one brief moment at the beginning of the hearing where his knuckles could be seen to visibly wash as you apply pressure but apart from that he's being silent and completely blank as he receives the testimony of these victims and survivors if he's pleaded guilty we know he faces a life sentence is will he speak before the court is he due to do so. earlier this year the shoot dismissed there is court assigned more it in a move that was surprising to many it's unclear whether that's an indication that

he clams to grandstand full court as many have feared but he is expected to speak in some capacity and to some degree it remains to be seen how it will play out the judge in the case has made exceedingly clear that he will live restraint the issues testimony all delayed hearing him talk if the judge feels that it's getting out of patents but there is always that risk with a sure so light that's who star in the ability to use that as a prize that something else will have people can see joining us from wellington with the latest on this trial in new zealand as we know this crime left 51 worshipers dead in the country's worst mass killing thank you so much for bringing us up to date through all this take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world hurricane

marco and tropical storm laura have torn through the caribbean and the gulf of mexico leaving massive destruction in their wake at least 10 people have died in the dominican republic and haiti both storms are expected to hit the gulf coast soon. crews from all across the west of the united states have arrived in california to help fight 2 dozen major wildfires lazing across the state the worst of the fires are in the san francisco bay area tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. and syrian officials say that an explosion at a major gas pipeline caused widespread power cuts on sunday night state t.v. quoted officials as saying that the blast may have been caused by a militant attack the government's as power has since been restored in several provinces. the wife of the stricken kremlin critic alexina vali has visited him in the hospital in berlin he's in critical condition following

a suspected poisoning of russian opposition leader was flown to germany after becoming seriously ill last week. fans of the german soccer side byron munich are celebrating after their team won the champions league title for the 6th time the bavarians defeat paris on germano one nil in lisbon after a tight 1st half kingsley calderon made the breakthrough heading home the only goal of the game with a victory by and complete the trouble of league title domestic cup and champions league for. this is the moment that sent bind fans into ecstasy after 5 long minutes of overtime came the final whistle by in munich had won the champions league because of a coronavirus for fun in lisbon was played without a crowd but the risk of infection did not stop supporters from taking to the streets of munich. it's all so that even if it is

even if it is corona we are partying tonight 000 in this case it's a big event you have to celebrate if you're after the sounds of the mosque secretary not. for his precautions went out the window as fans came together to celebrate the sick time for bavarians have won the competition special praise was reserved for coach hands the flick he revived the team's flogging fortunes after taking over the reins made. season. it's just great they deserve it after the season they've had it thanks to hand the flick who wasn't even in charge for the whole season it's unbelievable. meanwhile long faces in paris p.s.g. had invited several 1000 fans to watch a game on a giant street in its stadium when it was disappointed supporters spilled out onto

the streets they vented bashed a stray sion with flares and fireworks requiring the intervention of the paris police. and let's bring in anthony howard from sports in joining us here in the studio this wasn't quite the shootout that many had anticipated but on the crowd sara there was no one there to make. the audience nerves if you like both things are usually really attacking by and have averaged about 3 goals a game in this amazing run they've been on in 2020 percent your man are also renowned as an attacking team but we've got to halftime it wasn't until kingsley come scored the goal after one hour that was the decisive moment incredible for him to grow up in paris and he played at the p.s.g. academy the buying coach might just the one change for this guy and it was kingsley come along to come in and he said later well he grew up in paris he played in paris he'll be extra motivated against these old thing which in the idea of analytics is such a retrograde thing to base

a selection on the critical but as with everything handy flake has touched in the last 12 months it turned to gold one will one nil was enough a bomb not because of the goal but because a man will neuer and the defense as well by were incredible so if it hits the bigger context how big of an achievement is this for a buyer historic proportions 6 titles makes him the 3rd most successful team in europe behind i see milan and the great brail madrid but it's also a bit with a kind from this season when has he flicked flick took over in the. vinda i was sitting 4th and i was struggling the champions were dean motivated and i had to right the ship and get it going and had the fleet did that a lot of people in world football were googling who is hans you think when he came in he meant something to bond but not to will football is certainly does now he's gone from nobody to somebody. it's also good for german football bonded one i thought it was in a row and the critics were coming out saying that any team can dominate like that in your league is not up to scratch what this wind does in the perspective of

german football this side of the rest of the world will have one night in a row not because the rest of the teams dortmund in shelter are no good it's because this team and this club truly something special and they proved it on the big stage hanzi flick was incredible in his import kings the c'mon men men will neuer all of these people who do it under pressure and abi envy of teams like his to tell us a little bit more about how big a disappointment this is then for p.s.g. brought so a german coach on the other side of this thomas to call who's in charge of p.s.g. he was put in charge of a luxury selection of players name on the brazilian cost an awful lot of money and go di maria locke was and kilian in it's especially disappointing because you when you look on the buy and saw that this calculation this does and they have biggest names did exactly what was necessary on the biggest stage and you looked at p.s.g. and you cannot say the same thing they were picked to do this one job and it's win the champions league for by they could tare owners and it hasn't happened big

disappointment at the howard sports thank you. authorities in spain are battling to control new surges in corona virus infections in many parts of the country last week the head epidemiologist said quote if things are not going well one problem appears to be that the government has failed to employ enough contact tracers to keep track of new cases as you know because young philip schultz reports many spaniards are angry that the country is on prepared for what looks like a 2nd wave. what happens in this building is guarded like a state secret spain's infection rate has been rising for weeks here in madrid the regional government has been so overwhelmed that it's have to hire a private health provider to help ketone salutes will track chains of infection and madrid many spaniards are demanding answers why are they not better prepared despite several requests both the company and the regional government refuse to

answer questions about the case when 1st digits emerged last week the public outcry in spain was great in particular the official justification for the award of the contract the higher urgency of the matter due to the current coronavirus crisis left many speechless after the devastating coronavirus i break in march madrid's regional government had promised to better prepare for a new ad breaks but hardly anything has changed only around 400 so-called trackers employees who tracked the contacts of infected people are currently working in the regional health authority if the international standards were being met 4 times as many stuff would be required again nobody wants to officially comment on the problems eventually we reach a contact trace or by phone he works in a health department but in another part of spain where the grievances are similar. simply need more contact tracers were all extremely stressed right now due to the

heavy workload and because now there are so many new infections every day. as well as private companies to government in madrid is hoping for volunteers it's launched an appeal at the city's largest university but the few students who are on campus over summer vacation don't understand this if that i mean it's just not the way they've managed all of this i don't like that they want all of this from us for free we've seen that they've commission private companies and they'll certainly pay a lot for that. last thing that often only. understands what the students are saying the spanish matic was once on the advisory team for barack obama's health care reforms now together with 19 other experts he's written an open letter that massively criticizes spain's crisis management there is no community transmission which means you don't have just a local outbreak control things are spread out they have to get the numbers under

control before they even try and schools or. work a contact tracing up should finally be available by the time the holiday season ends in september the 1st tests on the island of life on radar were promising but a much bigger question remains unanswered will spaniards be able to send their children back to school in 2 weeks time and we are joined from the spanish city of surveilled by philip schultz tell us will spanish schoolchildren go back to school after the summer break. well usually they go back to screw in the 1st 2 weeks of september abouts with the rising in fact numbers i think it's clear to everyone that this won't happen this year the biggest troubling at the moment is that every region of spain is coming up with their own roots with their own ideas and some say that they will be able to go back to school some say that they don't know yet some say they want to hire you teachers so

a lot of parents associations and teach us associations that express their discontent with the chaotic planning and so we might even see some strikes at the beginning of the school year letter house likes its agree yet most experts agree that that would not be an enormous good it would be blended learning it would be a mix of face to face teaching and online learning from it and your reporting also underlines the fact that spain has massive mission is with fighting the pandemic in general why is that. premise we saw in the required. week of public health care system place an important growth but i shouldn't very quickly lipstick on management of that it's not only on the national level but also on regional levels and your regions are very strong in spain that's also been a lot of talk recently about cultural factors like a strong party culture in spain of also the thankless families and very closely but i would also emphasize those cultural factors too much because in daily life

a lot of things have changed in spain since the beginning of the pandemic and just spend probably among the most disciplined facemask in the whole world oh wow that's interesting to hear meantime we know that that there are travel warnings for spain including among partners how is that impacting the country. well traditionally august is all sort of the big holiday months in spain so it's not that we see empty beaches and 2 restaurants at the moment because a lot of special also under casey but i think that 1st impression as misleading in many ways i've talked to many bar on us and restaurant owners in the past weeks and they say that the income loss this among it's between 70 and 80 percent at the moment and we have to keep in mind that that's still a lot of emergency aid programs in place for unemployed people here in spain and they wouldn't they would run out in the coming weeks so i don't want to be too

pessimistic but i think the worst of the economic crisis is yet to come in spain did have you correspondent young philip schultz with the view from spain thank you . for years environmentalist in south africa have been working to eradicate a particular type of fish which is from a lake near the south coast carp have proliferated so much there that the lakes ecosystem is now under threat the fish had previously been killed and processed into fertilizer but now they're being used to fear feed nearby communities that no longer have the means to buy food because of the corona virus pandemic. these fishermen head out on to the lake before sunrise several times a week. they go to catch cop and invasive fish in the hunt and late late on south africa's scenic godden routes. cop was stalked illegally in the lake in 1000

hundreds its numbers have grown and are threatening indigenous species we have. a program where we are decayed car. for the benefit of biodiversity here in the flesh and hopefully and this 2nd facet of the project is that the cup that we take out currently from deflate we donated to our local communities as part of the food diet because fish is actually important source of protein initially simply a conservation program the cash goes toward feeding nearby residents. volunteers have fished 13 times of car pay for the past 2 years today the fish feeds 250 people every day. tourism stops abruptly tearing virus restrictions leaving many here without an income so it's official. for that

to get food and money. so what do we thank you for the. gift of the give is a south african humanitarian group with conservation officials and experts to check the fish safety. the group then packages and hands out the fish to residents you know we get a lot of study and before we actually got to the point of where we are today and the fish itself yes needless to say it's all good very good for human consumption the the locals actually love it the handouts of a some help to a few people cheering an extremely difficult time. south africa's economy will shrink by over 7 percent this year because of code 19 the west outlook in 90 years . finally the one and only ivan is the newest film to drop on disney's popular streaming platform it tells a story based on the life of

a real gorilla that likes to paint but what sounds like a fun and a cute story has a darker twist as eve on the globe did his painting confined to an american shopping mall until animal rights activists step in let's take a look at ivan story god our. life in the relay is resigned to spending his life in a circus until he realizes he wants more and decides to take a shot at freedom this escape caper sees actress angelina jolie pushing on her producer hat she hopes children will be inspired by the tale. their needs yes things that aren't maybe as heavy and young children need something to look to give them kindness give them hope give them or give them life which it has but we are at a time where we can no longer ignore real hard realities in the world and children

also know that. the one and only ivan is based on the moving true story of a real gorilla who was kept in a circus themed mall and was known for his paintings. the comedy has a serious message about animal rights. what we. truly understand as autonomous creatures we don't care and. i think that's what. you know that. whole. very very different from very different and yet they're all. on this planet that we share and share that we really. just this latest feel good story skeptics fiasco released due to the pandemic no doubt it will still find its place in many homes.

and with that you're up to date here i did have a good news but my colleague michael jones is standing by his latest business news coming right up i'm sara kelly in berlin because so much for joining us take care and stay safe.

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