ground the supreme court of bella russo has rejected an appeal by the country's exiled opposition leader to a know the results of the country's disputed presidential elections so atlanta to her north sky had officially challenge the outcome last week saying a country would never accept president alexander lukashenko leadership again the disputed election 16 days ago triggered mass demonstrations that have provided the biggest challenge yet the president's 26 years in power denouncing protesters as rats he's being defiant appearing on t.v. and body armor and carrying a kalashnikov in well you know the european union is preparing to host sanctions over the violent crackdown there so 7000 people detained in the days following his reelection. brussels is refusing to recognize the results of the presidential vote to drawing praise from mistaken our sky d.w. correspondent constantine eggert has been speaking with the defeated presidential candidates in vilnius lithuania where she fled after the disputed election. the

kind of scale. what do you think is going to happen in the coming days weeks and. we've seen massive demonstrations especially in this book not only as well we've seen alexander lukashenko being filmed by his press with with machine guns so he's showing that he's not going to leave. was going to happen i afraid it's going to be real violence. i have seen this medium and i can't even comment on it because it's awful but. you know our people have changed and i don't know what's going on to happen in there as days but i know what's real happen in the nearest future. people will not step away they walk up and they want you.

and. the person who has separate is installed. people will not forgive him it almost for that anything about a situation that has happened after their actions at the same time the corporation counsel of the bill russian opposition as well as you you say that in the next coming hopefully free and fair elections anyone can take part so does that mean mr look. it's only up to him we are the 3 country so i mean any person would be able to pay to support it in this elections. do you expect the european union are you satisfied 1st or are you satisfied with the support that the european union and germany including have given to to the below russian people and to you for sure we feel great support from or all the countries and the latest of many countries. contacted me and

showed their support for our people are they inspired of our people and i am sure they. do their best to agonize support to our people do what do you think the e.u. international community could do more to help bail russian people. you know it's up to every country and i had to say that we are. we appreciate have they can show by the it's up to them how they can do this thank you very much thank you. for the reason opposition leaders for long had to nova scotia speaking with constantine agate now the russian government is disputing a german allegations that i was in the valley was poisoned insisting that his grave condition may have been shifted by other causes on monday doctors treating within

the valley here in berlin said they found evidence that the russian opposition leader was poisoned today kremlin spokesman dismissed the allegations saying they absolutely cannot be true alexander valley was frozen to live in for treatment on sunday after falling ill enough on a flight to moscow he's currently in a medically induced coma his team suspect says team was deliberately laced with a toxic before the flight the in the valley cases open the rift between berlin and moscow and he's leading some german politicians to call for a tougher stance against the kremlin. german foreign minister haiku master is as clear as a diplomat can be the alleged poisoning of aleksei now via me is a serious matter for services for us it is vital that everything will be done to solve the case and to hold those responsible to account for admission suresh after . the head of the bundestag human rights committee called for european legislation

similar to the u.s. magnitsky act which anxious to punish human rights offend us we need to apply a magnitsky law on the european double that enables us as european union to individually sanction those responsible for human rights violations such as travel bans such as asset freezes germany's green party is free new call for the german government to scrap the crown traversal nord stream to gas pipeline project linking germany and russia i think the thing that it's worth to tell you why europe because of why that's wrong and the project also. is one of our founders of regime which has this kind of systematic us nation that. we should be there for germany russia has always been a complicated partner but really have relations been another this much strain.

let's get more on this from moscow correspondent emily show when that chief international editor richard walker welcome both and start with you richard a chance or a knuckle reacted quickly to the hospital statement diplomatically speaking how strong was that reaction. yeah well it's being received here in germany as quite a strong diplomatic status at least on the diplomatic level you know you have a statement produced very quickly as you said not just coming from america but also from the foreign minister so 2 very you know the 2 top heavyweight figures in the government for these purposes also representing both parties in the coalition and making it very clear in the statement that they have no questions whatever about the credibility of the findings from the hospital here and then of course going on to demand that russia find out who was responsible for it. bring them to justice into do so in full transparency and i think that's where the questions really begin

because do they really expect russia to do that i think you know people here are looking at russia's past actions of a similar cases in the past and saying that a sort of a credible transparent investigation is not really what you're going to expect from the russian side at this stage from the russian side from. moscow welcoming so how is the kremlin reacting both to the chancellor's demands for this investigation under what the doctors are saying. well so far it's kind of as richard expected we've been hearing denials on both counts the kremlin spokesperson to me that you can scoff said today that poisoning was just one of the options that was still being considered we shouldn't consider it as the final version and that german doctors were actually being hasty because they had only they had only mentioned a group of substances that could have potentially been used against me but not the

one substance that was used now just a reminder that the group of substances that the german doctors mentioned also includes dangerous nerve agents earlier when it comes to the chancellor's demands on and on and investigation the kremlin had earlier said that an investigation would be necessary if it was found that he was poisoned today we heard me say that it's not clear what has happened and that all we know at the moment about these condition is that he's in a coma and presumably that. this is part of the way russia tends to deal with these sorts of allegations no we didn't do it where's your proof and this is all on to russian propaganda. early yeah this is a bit kind of the the strategy that we have seen in other cases kind of.

questioning the evidence questioning whether the investigation is perhaps politically motivated and these are things that we are seeing now but of course it is it is worth pointing out that we don't know whether it's really is the kremlin that is behind this we may also never know in putin's russia putin is not in charge of absolutely everything there are various ministries and various agencies. acting often of their own free will he doesn't control everything in the country it is likely it does seem likely that the security forces did know about what was happening even if they weren't directly involved we have seen media reports in recent days in the russian media about the level of surveillance that now finally was under citing the security forces one paper here talked about basically what he

ate the receipts that were found what where he was staying what the number of hotel rooms his team rented was and so on but then again he has a lot of enemies in russia he's known for these anti corruption investigations and reportedly he was looking into united russia politicians during his time in siberia so ultimately we don't know who's behind this and we may never know how high up it goes to you richard while all of this is going on in germany still going ahead with this massive gas pipeline project north stream too so it does look as though. both ways in his dealings with russia. well i think that it's definitely fair to say that germany is pretty torn over its relationship with russia at the moment yeah i mean you're right on the one hand it does have this enormous and very controversial pipeline that will link it up to russia for russian gas something that's usually in popular unpopular among many of germany's european neighbors and

not to mention the united states and in fact just recently asked the former soviet been talking about when he was standing in moscow just a couple of weeks ago saying that he's not going to bow to american pressure over germany's energy needs and yet on the other side you have all of these incidents where there is no valley or the murder of a dissident here in berlin just see a year ago or hacker attack on the german parliament itself which is being blamed on russia plus of course the fact that 6 years ago russia annexed crimea something is still unresolved so you do have more and more voices coming out here in germany saying something has to give germany has to find a way to provide a disincentive to russia to pursuing these sorts of behaviors some people are focusing in on north stream to is certainly controversial here in germany as well but so far there's no sign of the government moving on that front but i think you know the more evidence mounts up over the family the more pressure there will be for more sanctions against russia certainly on the european level the question is

will they change anything richard walker. really show it in moscow thank you bill. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world we'll start in afghanistan where officials say at least 12 people died and schools were injured in a wave of attacks across the country the violence included a truck bombing which targeted a base for afghan forces in the northern province of the taliban says it carried out data time. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is in sudan a 2nd stop of his 5 day tour of the region saddam's prime minister said talks touched on removing the country from the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism. america's summer of racial reckoning shows no sign of abating as people take to the streets in wisconsin to protest the shooting of a black man by police the unrest began after officers shot jacob blake several

times in the back on sunday is the blank survived but he's seriously wounded in hospital. it began as the mournful cry for help of a community suffering under the weight of injustice. the design suited the attention some protesters in the police police fired tear gas in response. shots rang out on the 2nd night of protests in wisconsin cars were torched buildings burned the family of jacob blake who shooting brought them all here pleaded for peace. we appreciate their support but from his mother and from are from is his father courage of people to protest peacefully not to be destructive we want justice and we want proper justice this is why witnesses say his nephew was trying to defuse

a neighborhood dispute when police shot him in the back 7 times says children. 29 year old jacob blake has sustained life changing injuries his community is also hearting we are scared and they're. like me but here we are we are terrified you don't know you have no idea you have no idea how they're out that they left the house. systemically says you and police accountability are at the forefront of the black life matters movement despite the news reporter stephanie simon says many of the officers in wisconsin where we're a new id or insignia. any idea state trooper. county police city police several police. as the curfew crowd

of protesters who run the courthouse they know but their message and their movement doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon. or staying in the u.s. republicans have formally nominated donald trump as their candidate in november as presidential election will face democratic candidate joe biden doesn't trump secure the nomination on the 1st day of the republican national convention in charlotte north carolina he used his speech to accuse his opponents of trying to rig the election. this election years the battle for the soul of america america it's all on the line what the republican national convention lacks in numbers it's certainly making up for in passion. turning your destiny ladies and gentlemen. freedom and liberty and the american dream.

is yet. in a scaled back event donald trump junior partner was among the key speakers on the opening night this theme land of promise donald trump's of the sun himself went on the air trying to portray democratic candidate joe biden as a puppet of the radical left whose agenda would mean the end of law and order woman people of faith are under attack you're not allowed to go to church but mass chaos in the streets gets a pass. it's almost like this election is shaping up to be church work and school versus writing looting and america is such a great country a narrative also picked up by the missouri couple who went viral when they were films pointing their guns at black lives matter of protest as you were watching from quite neighbors so make no mistake no matter where you live your family will not be safe and the radical democrats america. donald trump made an unscheduled

appearance at the convention center in charlotte after he formally won the nomination to buy for a 2nd term. trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that the democrats would steal the election got him doing some really bad things we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole 80000000 mail in ballots that they're working on the only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election we're going to win this election right. thank you for a 4 day convention gives the republicans a chance to reassure the american public is concerned has grown over the handling of the covert crisis and racial injustice. donald trump is expected to use every one of those days to prove he's ready for a fight. 5 years ago in the summer of 2015 europe faced its

biggest migration crisis since world war 2 hundreds of thousands of desperate people fleeing war and economic hardship tried to reach the continent the largest group of migrants making the perilous journey came from syria forced to flee after 4 years of civil war president bashar assad's forces that increase their attacks on the opposition strongholds and the so-called islamic state was gaining strength and people from many other countries including afghanistan iraq pakistan and every trial also left their home loans in search of a better future a new world was faced with those of precedented numbers the german government decided to let them in and almost a 1000000 migrants claimed asylum here as part of deed look back at the summer of 2052 of them have been sharing that story with us. my name is. i was born in 1980. i fled

eritrea because i could no longer stand the never ending military service. is my name i'm 31 years old. i arrived in germany in 2015. i had to leave syria and. we did after 2 years of military service i came home for the 1st time i had only seen my daughter once at birth and never again after that when i got home i walked right past her i just didn't recognize her. nothing in life could be any sadder than that. that i was arrested by the secret service. when i got out of prison i couldn't stay in syria. i wasn't afraid to flee my you're often hungry your tired. you want to sleep in a real bed not on the ground it's often just over the media there. yeah hard to

see what's in the book i went off on my own at 1st. i didn't want the whole family to flee together. if something were to happen i wanted it to happen only to me and. i came to germany on may 2nd 2015 at 1st i was in munich then i was sent to berlin. he will get a body here. in syria i was a doctor. and i wanted to get professional training and continue that he. was not doctors here in germany i'm not allowed to work without a license so i thought ok what can i do. i could work as an interpreter as a volunteer. people were nice and told me some german words you have been all.

over the one up d.n.a. said it to 5000000 during the asylum procedure and i was told that i could apply for a family reunification. but i would then have to show documents that do not exist in eritrea like marriage certificates birth certificates wanted to behead. us in 2017 my wife finally had a hearing at the german embassy. right after that i wanted to call her to see how it went. in the uk then i found out that she died suddenly. and i didn't understand it at all i lost my will to live. that's right thousands. in 2017 are past the professional language exam at the medical association of berlin in the knowledge exam that they are not got my license to practice medicine it is they did have such as 10000 dollars when i got my 1st job as a resident in your elegy my not of my work is my life it's my whole life i was just

completely leaving. him on the bed to visit relatives i thought well. i can never be well without my 4 children to know so i said nothing to say that i cannot sleep i'm our less. mind. i can't say whether i want to go back to syria and leave there all stay here forever. live and. die just maybe i'm going back and still to be possible or teen if all goes well and that's. just someone who's with my hope is that my children can come to me. after all that's what i'm fighting for as well because i can't go back. to most moving.

why the number of new corona virus infections has passed 3000000 making it asia's worst hit country in the world behind the united states and brazil the virus is now spreading from densely packed urban environments like mumbai delhi and chennai to rural areas devastating people already struggling to make ends meet. until late march kumar was working 8 hour shifts at a plant in western india making boxes for chocolates he earned 146 year as a month but then his factory was closed under the nationwide lockdown the government hoped would control the pandemic now the 20 year old is back home with his parents in a small northern indian village being. parents have sacrificed a lot since my childhood they've been making sacrifices and are still sacrificing and now when the time came for me to do something for them in return this lockdown happened and everything went haywire. they're still sacrificing as i have been

sitting at home for so many days sitting idle and living off of them. every day he hangs around with friends in the muddy courtyard they jokingly call their office. the joa nehru university in delhi says rising unemployment will force at least 100000000 indians below the poverty line. besides covert 19 malnutrition hunger and other illnesses are also on the rise more people are turning to alcohol and drugs during the economic downturn some even feel driven to suicide. given that the youth unemployment rate was $76.00 when you took the price . of the future of these that might decrease. it's very bleak a we're heading into a devious problem. bank of india economist calculates that the economic fallout of the lockdown causes more harm and debts than the actual coronavirus itself. from

the lock down means his dream of building a little recycling factory one day with the money he's made he's on hold but at least he has the support of his family during these awfully grim times. as his day w. nears life from up next we'll let you in on some secret bundling of facts not saying kick off in just a little. pick

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