beethoven is for. the token is for. beethoven 202250th anniversary year on do you. believe. this is news and these are our top stories in battle belarusians president alexander lukashenko and his high ranking officials are barred from entering estonia latvia and lithuania the baltic states blacklisting comes in response a look at this crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in the wake of disputed elections more than 100 people were arrested during protests on sunday. president emmanuel by phone has arrived in lebanon on his 2nd visit since the

massive explosions that destroyed beirut's port for weeks ago he's calling for a quote deep reform of the country sectarian political system president will also attend national centennial celebrations. the 1st ever commercial passenger flight from israel's of the united arab emirates has landed in abo dhabi u.s. president donald trump senior adviser jared kushner was one of the officials on board the historic flight comes after israel and the u.s. a agree to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the united states. as you know you news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram a t w news or visit our website w dot com. and israeli al plane bearing the word peace in english out of

a can hebrew touchdown in abu dhabi today the 1st of a passenger flight between israel and the united arab emirates the u.a.e. broke ranks with its gold founder of neighbors this month by normalizing diplomatic relations with israel the palestinians describe the deal is a step in the back but will other countries not follow i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day. we just completed a truly historic flight. the message that we carry for the palestinians is also one of hope you have a little knowledge of it is very painful for us today when it is really the plane lands in the emirates we put an offer to their leadership on the table that will enable them to have a state and self-determination know how you do to position of some arab states who

are against normalization with israel. we can't want peace more than they want peace they can't be stuck in the past they have to they have to come to the table. also on the day lebanon's president has asked a career diplomat to become the country's next prime minister but some on the streets of beirut think the new man is part of the problem. i'm here to say thank god you are safe and we are here for you and i am one of you and hopefully we will work together and form a government as soon as possible. we don't need you we have the revolution we are the revolution. the 1st of a commercial passenger flight from israel to the united arab emirates and landed in abu dhabi from tel aviv on board with top israeli and u.s. officials including president trump senior advisor and saudi jarrett caution a historic flight comes 3 weeks after is rather you establish diplomatic types and

a u.s. brokered deal to many residents of both countries the agreement to means they can finally bring their business and personal relationships into the open. down of them here these are unusual days for mark a jewish israeli palestinian businessman from his small office in jerusalem and through travel he has been doing business with the united arab emirates for several years but always under the radar the country's had no diplomatic relations until recently as a 1st step phone lines were officially established but right now my friends are just call me for the fun of it hey man i wired the call it got i just heard the news that we could call it sort of directly communication. is something we humans are known for civilization requires communication to work together. i really praise that wonderful great vision of this country you know their parents. who are

facilitates the certification of helen crucial projects between the. is on isn't cold to the emirates for years people had to use foreign providers or the internet to connect and to leverage. o.b.i. . actually great just imagine the deal breaks with the long held view among arab countries that normalizing ties would only come after israel and its military occupation of the palestinian territories in israel there have been a lot of firsts in the past days 1st direct interviews with and morality officials like here a t.v. channel 13 tell of the reporters were sent immediately to upper darby and israeli new sites have reportedly unplugged in the emirates you know what is amazing normally in those cases it takes time but now everything is on the table

relationship embassies flights tourism everything is moving very fast we can phone the emirates we can go there we can ever interviews there only egypt and jordan have signed peace treaties with israel in the past. hopes that this new agreement to go beyond business and security matter this i suspect that this will be a war more peace than the relationship with jordan there was never about what there was never wars there was never any misunderstanding or political disagreement direct between us and the united arab emirates or anybody in the gulf for that reason so i'm really optimistic if you arab countries have signaled that they might consider following the u.n. this move it could affect a fleet. of the 9 says in the region. so how big a deal is their state now is professor of middle east studies and international

affairs at johns hopkins university he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to day to. start with the point that we heard at the end of that report how likely do you think. countries are to follow suit. not immediately at least not in the way that the. administration would like for them to be in washington in september for a signing ceremony and the reason is that other countries don't necessarily have. already the relationships that you he had with israel they don't have necessarily the incentives that u.a.e. has for signing the deal at this point in time and also most of them have much larger populations that they have to listen to the u.a.e. has a very small indigenous population and it can contain any kind of adverse reaction that the population may have had the leaderships move at this point in

time very successfully other countries don't have that calculation but but nevertheless i do think it creates momentum for additional countries to come forward over talks ok so you could i would suppose the question has to be asked what's in it for them what you know what shifted abu dhabi from the long held arab position the relations with israel would be no lies once israel ends its occupation of the palestinian territories. i don't think this was ever set in the manner in which now the administration is putting it. a new way had pretty much normalized relations with israel over several years there were meeting of intelligence officials military officials there was business relationships it's just that he was not completely out out in the open. right it's a listening tour to israel because it has an. i'm sorry line for moving towards

israel because. well because 1st of all they have what is about iran they have worries about turkey you know he's a very small country is looking for israeli support against iran and against turkey u.a.e. as sees itself as a modernizing developing country that sees israel as a market and not so as a result it has been building these relations with israel the reason why you can make that recognition right now at this point in time i think has a large measure to do with coming in american elections so the trump administrations put a lot of pressure for this to happen now so president trama can claim a victory and also u.a.e. has been very close to trump and would like to basically. have something to show the democrats if they come back into power that it is on the right side and it has built relations with israel and protect itself in what might be adverse reaction in congress if the trump administration were to lose the election ok so the

palestinians have talked about this deal in terms of being a stop in the bath and the betrayal where does this leave them because they must be wondering well who else is next. well you know the palestinians have not been at the center of middle east politics for some time you know the region has been focused on civil wars in iraq in syria in libya on isis you not find this thing and have for a while been an afterthought and in fact the region did not react when the u.s. embassy was moved from tel aviv to jerusalem they have not reacted to news of an extension they did not react to news of the united states recognizing annexation of the go on hikes and so in a way. this is already been happening for a while and it just shows that the palestinians or the palestinian issue has lost its hold on arab politics and that arabs are making strategic decisions based on

larger issues like their confrontation with iran and turkey like the balance of power in the region and as a result this is this is really reflects the shifting reality in the region and supposedly the just look at the u.s. and of this do you think that the president trump is going to get a lot of credit for this still and called press. not in congress. he definitely would like to claim some kind of a diplomatic success he doesn't have much to show up for. it was unable to bring iran to the table for negotiations he doesn't have it deal with north korea so this is something that he wants to show that he's successful with but what is really is particularly very popular with evangelical voters within the republican party and that obviously will it will play very well with them and also he's hoping that he will impact the jewish vote as well and so it's not so much in terms of. you know

how much coverage he's going to get on a daily basis in the u.s. that's not likely to happen but that. at least he will have some kind of it important foreign policy speech 32 counts during the election understand thank you for that professor professor massa from johns hopkins university. i was on today to meet the president of the republic michel who informed me of the decision of the legislators in the binding consultations to designate me to form the new lebanese government. i thanked him and the legislators for their confidence we prayed to court to enable us to form a new government as soon as possible. to make it last mr deaves having got the job lebanon's prime minister designate that went out onto the

streets of the capital beirut to talk to the people and get an idea of the scale of the job facing. nothing can xpress words fail to describe this horrific scene but. i hope we can join hands as soon as possible to rebuild what has been destroyed by this explosion somewhere that awful we will try as soon as the government is formed to speed up the investigation. and to have the investigations result made public as soon as possible yes i was in. jail much way they must do more to help people people want to go home many have moved in with their families it's hard we were already suffering economic hardship this idea. this will be our 1st priority i'm here to say thank god you are safe and we're here for you and i am one of you and hopefully we will work together and form

a government as soon as possible in order to start working immediately and i didn't believe we should follow the church. we don't need you we have the revolution we are the revolution. if you're ready. for let's look at the scale of the job so you sing the stuff. a mile the deep from a d.w.i. arabic is with me now welcome to the studio i'm out of prime minister of lebanon sounds like a job that can only and in failure not only does he have to make sure the various clans and religious and sectarian affiliations feel like they're getting what they're entitled to but he also has to bear in mind the desires of the bigger regional powers like iran and saudi arabia. if the regional powers hadn't approved 10 he wouldn't got to that to where he is today there was definitely some sort of agreement among the regional powers through their through their tools and political parties and levanon that allowed for naming

a diva as the prime minister designate it even though we haven't heard any reactions from regional powers like saudi arabia or iran. all we've heard from there from the political parties backed by either saudi arabia or iran in lebanon who named. the prime minister designate today he has to definitely to go through a lot of a lot of dirty water and. his new mission and some say some others say it's a suicide mission that he's that he's taken what can he change he said it himself that it's a short chance for levanon it's a small chance he will either make it or not the question is what will he do and how will he might actually let's let's let's just stop all that question and talk about the issue of change we'll listen 1st to the lebanese president michel i would say in the country's entire political structure needs reforming to turn it into a secular state he's part of his speech and something it's. time to think of

a new way of co-existing or a new consensus lebanon's youth are calling for change. their voices are everywhere calling for a change to the system so should we listen to them. these young people are the future of lebanon so for best sake and the sake of their future i say yes their time has come. at this at the outset this looks like you should be a great job because the political elite wants change the people want change but we know that the people within the political establishment the clans and the religious sects is that i mentioned earlier are they really going to allow much change which is likely to diminish their power by choosing someone from that exact establishment it's highly doubtful that any real change will come oh it's

a deaves relations are very powerful within the system he might be he might look right now as someone who has never heard of but he has been an advisor to to one of the previous prime ministers of lebanon as you've mccarty's been his political advisor has been a number so there are 2 germany since 2013 and we all know the power and importance of germany as european countries in international politics but also has good relations with the french his wife is french herself and he's on good terms with french diplomats so given all that context he is parts of that establishment how could someone from inside the establishment can bring any change that could jeopardize the existence of such a power sharing formula a wow so that this sounds like you're saying that nothing's really going to change it's highly doubtful that anything will drastically change there are calls for reforms and that's what the various lebanese components agreed upon and also based

on the upon the quest of many donors and supporters specifically european donors to lebanon such as france and we've all seen the arrival of emmanuel mccrone just this evening to be a do it and his main. sh was let's do let's change let's have some reforms the government should have a clear mission he didn't specify what that clear mission is but reforms and changes on the top priority let's guess at it because what you have in lebanon is a country that was in economic meltdown before the pandemic 8 now the new prime minister has to deal with the disasters of the economy on the pandemic and the aftermath of this beirut airport explosion so why should he starts the report came out today by coincidence probably by the world bank assessing giving a 1st assessment of the major losses and money needed to rebuild beirut the number

the estimated number has ranged between $8000000000.00 and $10000000000.00 and this report issued by the world bank was also done in accordance or and collaboration with the if united nations and the european union this huge amount of money is needed to reform beirut and this way for income or this money in order to rebuild with comes with a clear agenda of freeform and the country a country that has been already dealing with economy crises end up endemic where will that money come from very brief and very briefly where where will that money come from and upon which agenda will this money be dealt with ok m l m l d n from deed of the arabic thank you so much thank you so much for having me. chance of under machall has condemned a shameful an attempt by the far right to storm the german parliament here in the extremists broke through police lines during a larger value against the government's pandemic policies chance of nat'l says

those who try to access the building abuse the right to demonstrate peacefully a condemnation has been echoed by leaders from across the political spectrum. it looks like a normal monday in central berlin the tourists are back the price tag is open for visitors again but the scenes of unrest at the weekend are on many people's minds. saturday evening far right extremists pushed through police lines to the top of that i stuck steps. just pictures that my generation just isn't familiar with. and the these people stand for different values and to see that also here in germany there are so many people who think differently and have different values that pains me. to. weed out the demonstrators shouted resistance. and the isn't us folk we are the

people. the black white and red are the colors of the old imperial german reich used now by neo nazis in front of that i stuck it makes for shocking symbolism. other demonstrators who filled berlin at the weekend and consisted largely of peaceful coronavirus skeptics were no longer the center of attention. 6 policemen and women were invited to the official residence of the german president frank photo steinmeyer thanked them and their colleagues for their composed reaction at the weekend and had a message to the demonstrators mine 1st and ended of a dog my empathy ends where demonstrators let themselves be instrumentalist by enemies of democracy and by political agitators. they often. if you close ranks with right wing extremists in the streets or even if you just

walk side by side with new nazis xenophobes and anti semites if you don't distance yourself clearly and proactively you're on their side. an accusation that corona skeptics have rejected in a heated discussion with journalists they insisted the far right where a fringe group and that the organizers had indeed distanced themselves. according to polls the vast majority of germans support the government's anti corona measures . that's also the message anglo-american spokesman had. merged i want to thank the vast majority of the 83000000 people in this country all those who behave in a reasonable prudent and respectful manner and adhere to the rules in this pandemic even if that's not always easy. the coronas skeptics are making plans for their next demonstration observers will be watching to see whether they succeed in

distancing themselves from far right groups more clearly. it was a joel doll roy can tell us while can juggle so least started of course with a demonstration against coronavirus restrictions that did seem to be a lot of people there is a resistance to the government's coronavirus measures widespread well the numbers are quite impressive $38000.00 people were estimated to be at saturday's demonstration that's almost twice as many as were estimated to be at the last demonstration resort about a month ago so there does seem to be this growing number however they still are in the minority in germany the latest opinion polls show about 90 percent of germans actually against these coronavirus skeptic demonstrations and are supportive of the government's measures to control the coronavirus and those measures are actually quite lenient when you consider what's going on in other countries and here in

germany schools are back in session public life is generally resumed and you can go out in the restaurants of full i actually had some guests visiting here on the weekend who came here from spain because they said they wanted to enjoy a bit more of nightlife and so forth and i don't that we should be encouraging that but that's what's going on so the measures here are quite large in comparison there isn't that much to complain about the majority of germans are supportive of what the government is doing to control the coronavirus measures that these demonstrations although they are quite vocal they are still in the minority is interesting when you look around the world pandemic control measures have become politically charged nowhere most of course in the united states i mean the case here in germany is that a particular posse leading what you might call the anti masking charge well what people were so upset about on the weekend when that group stormed the steps of the reichstag and waved those flags was that seemed to be an affront an attack on germany germany system of democracy which of course if you want to have your voice heard inside the parliament is supposed to get elected to go in there and raise

your points now this movement has not yet got that kind of democratic legitimacy there is one party that is trying to position itself close to these demonstrations and that is the alternative for germany the. deep now the leaders of that party actually called for people to take part in these demonstrations the flags of the party have been seen waving on the streets as part of these protests but it hasn't really translated to electoral success for the f.t. as of yet their polling numbers have not about start as a result as of movement in fact of deep down slightly since the last election and it's angela merkel's christian democrats party that has actually gone ahead in the polls another sign that while this movement is loud is vocal it can mobilize people it has not yet gotten any kind of legitimate to democratic support and the startling pictures that we saw a of these people trying to break into the reichstag being held back by by police at one stage they reached the doors of the building just it looked like just sleep

police officers one of whom didn't even have a hell which is how is that police operation being viewed as a success since nobody actually did burnished a break in or a failure while the individual police officer involved are getting a lot of praise we remember those scenes that you saw you talking about that one police officer who took off his helmet and yelled at the crowd to get back down off the streets they're really being held up as heroes they were invited to meet the president of germany today and some politicians have suggested that they should be bestowed the civil medal of honor in recognition of their services however the police service police force in general and that response has been heavily criticized the way that they mobilized against this demonstration and seem to be rather disorganized former police officers who led demonstrations in berlin have come out saying that they've never seen such a disorganized response to a demonstration for example at one point they tried to block the street marches which forced people to come closer together which is the opposite of what they were trying to achieve in terms of of social distancing and one thing of the other

really stands out is the policing numbers it's a sign that the police force seem to not take this demonstration very seriously and underestimated the potential for far right. members to be infiltrating the what was going on there's a lot of focus on left wing extremism in the german police force i'll give you an example the last major lesson demonstration in bowen was the 1st of may demonstration which was around 5000 people to pot and that had 2000 officers on the street on saturday we had certain 8000 protesters and only 3000 police are a few in number so it shows that there's a fall they're taking a fall is seriously deluded towards a joel dolla thanks. and that was the day ever the conversation continues online. of the.

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