nothing has been printed my unknown carrier into a month more than the room. i was into and more. my choice you discard because given your way to transmit the troops. an international match and i will. do to you. this is the dublin years and these are our top stories but leading opposition figure maria kolesnik over has resisted that attempt to expel her to ukraine she remains in custody after tearing up her passport to avoid crossing the border kolesnik over was reportedly kidnapped by masked men in minsk on monday she's been

leading protests against president oleksandr lucas shango following his disputed election when. top police officials in the u.s. city of rochester new york say they will retire following the suffocation death of a black man in police custody earlier this year the incident has triggered days of protests state prosecutors are now investigating the death of the departing police chief is accused critics of trying to quote destroy his integrity. so dan has announced a 3 month state of emergency after record floods left more than 100 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes the authorities say rising water levels in the now river are also putting the country's historical sites at risk. this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at b.w. news overs at our website w dot com. one

by one the leaders of the political opposition a bill or are being detained or disappearing on tuesday morning at the border with ukraine maria kolesnik ovah reportedly ripped up her passport and prevented her own deportation kolesnikov is one of 3 women who joined forces to become the opposition in another is former presidential candidates that lana to one of scalia tonight her police to europe to help the forces of democracy in bello reuss before it's too late i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. my country my mission my people no need to tell these international pressure from the streets. on this one.

front this news that. does not tend to see as the president. and the. last thing the recipients are now fighting for the bill you get these interviews issue history. and human rights tumult pursuit and there are. also coming up the west coast of the united states is on fire the worst is in california more than one and a half 1000000 acres burned in 3 of the biggest blazes ever recorded in the state our number one priority for this fire is the protection of life property situation that right now is a life threatening situation with the weather forecast that we have for the next 3

days. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day as a country tries to dispose of its political opposition for 4 weeks the streets of the capital minsk have been filled with protesters demanding an end to the 26 year rule of president alexander lukashenko last month he was declared winner of a nationwide election but the opposition claims that that vote was rigged ever since they made that claim the leaders of the opposition in bella ruse have either been detained. or they have disappear one by one the latest maria kolesnik over on monday she was seen being thrown into a van and driven away this morning she reportedly prevented her own deportation at the border with ukraine her whereabouts tonight remain unknown kolesnikov is one of

3 women who came together this year to lead the opposition in belarus another is former presidential candidates for atlanta the home of scalia last month and she lost the presidential election but she says the vote was rigged she then fled deliveries into neighboring lithuania a decision she says she was forced to make in order to save her children's lives today she delivered a plea to europe to help the forces of democracy in bella reuss she says before it's too late i refuse as the militants the dearest sense to accept it they won't they will simply stand and watch this congress abuses of human rights this blatant disregard for human dignity it's come to it in here nation of any basic respect for human decency i refuse as the militants of

belarus ans to stand down and give up my country my nation my people now need help we need international pressure on this regime on this one did he do all this perfectly clean and on to power. we need some actions on individuals issue and exhibit your criminal or this that violates international norms and human rights. we need an immediate release of all political prisoners and to start civilized in order to find ways for our country to move forward only yesterday one of the leaders of the useful for what is ready a country is nicola was kidnapped also good nap to be out until a new war and iran so all of them were members of the team that

nobody. who is in jail for simply did or in iran president. my husband still gets her musky is in jail for the same reason where there are 2 virgins tonight of what happened to opposition leader maria kolesnik over. says she tried to leave the country tuesday morning and flee to ukraine but the ukrainian government is offering a very different account. but he agrees that maria kolesnikov acted bravely preventing ballew special forces from expelling had to ukraine 2 other opposition members were forcibly expelled from belarus now the on ukrainian territory but it could never be a kalashnikov in an attempt to provoke and discredit her as if she had failed to flee belarus was said to have been detained during that attempt alexander lukashenko by the russian dictator is responsible for her health and life sounded

good to. go for more i'm joined tonight by all good friend over with the research center for east european studies at the university and braman she is following developments in bella ruse organ's good to have you on the program the leaders of the opposition in bell the roots detained and disappearing what does this do to the protest movement and the calls for president to resign. well i think it is important here to make a difference between these 2 novels you know of people protesting in the streets and other leaders of the disappearing and each disappearance or arrest of kolesnik of her and her team as i mean it's not the 1st case of such methods that there isn't a slaughter of kids will also watch other members it was like one. or the pilotless couple who were also forced to leave the state so it's kind of not supplying to me

that the state just continues to use them and you can get each and use it for but you also have to remember that even kolesnikov are not economics that actually our cultural group to some people still so organized themselves to receive a protest must implement a 4 week seems quite it's unprecedented for the history of the recent case and i really have the impression that people and learnt to silk organize themselves in this camp without any political center as well i would not think that she walked to the floor to reach their aims and to see if you didn't realize who didn't she beat people but is it. in his 1st interview since last month's disputed presidential election president lucas cinco he's signaling that even he realizes that he has been in power to law he spoke with russian reporters and he was quoted as saying i may have stayed in power a little too long but only i can really protect bella ruffian's now i'm not going

to leave just like that i've built up bella ruse for a quarter century i will just give it up besides if i leave my supporters will be slaughtered and president lukashenko he varies that his supporters would be slaughtered by whom it is here choosing the opposition if it were to come to power of being prepared to murder. well maybe not to murder but you know some aggressive reaction come from society and i think it's also not been used against you know part of this official and narratives now the protests are not really that peaceful as they seem to be and that it will just this kind of thinking out why is the society pool question going on to question so this game has also tried to organize a number a pool of look i shan't go prostate ramey's as well where their condition didn't so

i think it's what this kid message to show people those who still support question but also international public in specially the public in russia and yet he is the only person so to say sure it's killed controlling the situation in the country which is not actually the church because we've seen the how how many people. made it to the street so it's kind of a party official narrative and that. to push it also take it you know is the kind of police state narrative of the president i don't fit into the same moves to see what he does more to make about the protests having staying power i'm wondering if they do continue with that provide president lukashenko with a reason to ask for the russian military to move into the country. last section one of the biggest questions will decline been and again you're it's

actually a damn but we have to remember that i mean that there are some subtle agreements between valorously russian military agreements that's only because of that you're not a russian and we have not seen any external aggression till now also seen gets the protests up peaceful so they have been also some statements by wilson that there you know there are already some police forces a pretty actually this case in valerie's that's wonderful a case of. it rests in the sky at residents coming from the who just isn't also a big case when for example prove just as would come some actual gosh which is also not going to castell now so it's quite a cynical issue if you know if they could do that legally without any other you know in connection from normal gurps how realistic is it do you think the odds of president lukashenko will convince russian president vladimir putin to say yes to

a closer alliance with belo groups there's talk about him even giving up some of bill ruses sovereignty over to moscow. well i think it's just exactly the other way i mean the question should be asked like this anyhow why is it possible that actually wanting to do that. well octave a few minutes from the question because it's actually it has been happening for a number of years already so just this whole conversations evolved you know gets in union states and russian to belarus and about getting out there so rent economics already political slower to 6 actual want to name names of russia not to look at and it's also quite dangerous not. to have to admit because president of the has lost legitimacy within his own society so his extremely dependent now to rome

russia from time to change it economically important to got forces then just do they are i would expect if you see what made this tactical deep integration with russia these consequences i think that that would have as a consequence would have even you know at a higher wage bill who would in the recent society larry since are tired of the question go but he doesn't mean you know that they would like to become part of russia so it was not present. in the public opinion so she would just become an opera within that there's not over and over with the research center for eastern european studies at the university of breman or we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you. well here in europe governments are facing pressure to act as new corona virus infections go through the roof hitting levels that have not been seen since the

darkest days of the 1st wave of the pandemic spain has become the 1st european country to pass half a 1000000 cases with the 7 day rolling average now higher than it was when the virus 1st hit britain which has europe's worst coronavirus death toll is also seeing cases rise mostly among younger people and germany it too says that a high number of new cases are being reported among the country's young well that's good news and bad news young people are less likely to fall ill and die from the virus but they often show no symptoms meaning they can unknowingly infect those who are vulnerable despite the statistics many remain skeptical and some who reject government regulations are even making their outrage public here in germany mass protests have erupted where skeptics now find themselves marching alongside

neo nazis of right wing agitators and conspiracy theories d w news met a man who took part in one of those recent berlin demonstrations he says that he's just an ordinary citizen not a political extremist. frank about you know was at that big demonstration against the coronavirus measures here at the earliest brandenburg gate he's 50 years old and lives with his family and barely and does freelance work in advertising. frank does not believe that the corona virus is especially dangerous he says the infection numbers are low and that coronavirus mortality rates are similar to those of influence he feels the restrictions are excessive. if i go somewhere to eat i have to leave my address behind and it makes no sense if i get up to use the toilet or i have to wear

a mask as everybody knows he's totally absurd regulations that i think are in themselves pointless are based on a theory that actually doesn't justify this. thousands of people demonstrated in central berlin against the policies to tackle coronavirus such as social distancing and masks black friday protesters question the science behind them. that we are all alive because we've worn mosques simplistic thinking. think that something we should have left behind after the age of 5 or 6 it's as if we were to say someone's wearing red jim serious and has a headache and then i stand there and say oh man i'll go read gym shoes calls headaches. frank describes himself as a democratic citizen for him the people protesting the coronavirus measures come from all walks of life. as it isn't mentioned.

these people stand for democracy for freedom and so on i found it all very peaceful as if it was a very peaceful demonstration it was a huge gigantic and it showed me that there were many many people who think this way to see things similarly to me. we need stream is groups among the demonstrators cold for the german parliament building to be stormed. a few 100 radicals breached the barriers and got to the steps of the bundestag symbolic. images that made the news around the world the entire coronavirus demonstration was tainted by these actions frank says that he had nothing to do with it. this business decide to distance myself from any kind of violence i distance myself from any kind of right wing extremist ideology he doesn't appeal to me i but does it not bother him the far right radicals also took part in the demonstration this one on for good if it

was a handful of people what else can i say imagine that you're running a train and a right wing radical gets on to get off the train. i mean this. frank says he accepts that his protests will be joined by right wing extremists he says that won't stop him from attending that next demonstration in berlin. a controversial decision from a controversial president syllabi president. has pardoned a u.s. marine convicted of killing a transgender woman to tears and he issued the pardon on monday to lance corporal joseph scott tempered to who had been in prison since 2014 for the murder of jennifer well. pemberton has served just over half of a 10 year sentence for that murder. and the public is here with more on this

story public bring us up to speed on what this story is about well pemberton met jennifer loud day in a bar back in 2014 now they decided then to get a motel room and it was during that encounter in the motel room that pemberton found out he says that loud it was in fact transgender and then what happened was he assaulted her and he said that when he left the room she was still alive in fact she was found the next morning. apparently strangled subsequently he was sentenced to 10 you. years in prison and this is where we are right now just last week a local court decided that he should be released early from prison. for good behavior which of course jennifer allowed his family were outraged by. the lead to an appeal process and this is where we are up to the start of this week where the government decided to intervene you have. other ideas about how to proceed exactly

this is where president detailed at the decided to pardon pemberton for the crime and in fact it was announced on twitter surprisingly it was actually the secretary of foreign affairs who released this statement essentially saying pemberton was going to be released early from prison and used the word justice which was something. was also being used by president detent there when he spoke to the media what's also important to say about this is that pemberton actually didn't even spend his prison sentence in a regular prison in the philippines in fact he spent it in solitary confinement in a military facility in the nella and that's because of the visiting forces agreement which is an agreement between the united states and the philippines with regards to u.s. military personnel which is angered many people to what has been the reaction of the all of the presidential before obviously the family are absolutely outraged and

in fact their their lawyer virginius what it said that the decision was a mockery of the country's judicial system and we've seen a lot of outrage online we're seeing here some tweets saying that the government is trans phobic and that they deem a white murderers life more important than that of our trans sisters there's also another tweet in which they say that this pardon is an affront to the suffering of jennifer and her family and rewards criminal behavior so brant it comes as no surprise that of course this is causing a lot of upset and it's interesting the cause of that for many. different reasons is for a new to feeling of anti-american sentiment in philippines as well for how the former marine has been treated and the fact that he's going to be released early it also comes at a time to present to ted at the interesting meet back in 2016 very much distance from step distanced himself from the united states and sort of shifted the focus of the philippines towards china and most importantly this is once again

a murder committed against a member of the transgender community it's you know it highlights the fact that there are a huge number of assaults committed across the planet every year and old so there are many many murders over 300 in the past 18 months alone against people of the transgender and it brings into question how many justice systems are there one for certain people and one for other spoke of us as always public thank you. really need to the pay attention to any instructions on evacuation the fire is likely to move forward 6 communities. a lot of people a lot of property are the south of this model right now. and so we're working very hard with all the fire departments and law enforcement to make sure that we're prepared as

a liar so. dramatic images there from california where wildfires have come early this year destroying at a speed never recorded before my next guest has been called the world's leading authority on the history of fire in the latest edition of his book fire a brief history stephen pyne addresses the importance of fire in the 21st century and he contends that our fire crisis is morphing into a fire epic which he calls the piracy. i'm happy to welcome back to the day tonight steven pyne steven joins me tonight from phoenix arizona steve it's good to have you back on the show we've spoken several times the last time i think was last october we were talking about wildfires in california now we're talking about them in september and they're worse than they were last year why are these wildfires getting worse well there are

a number of reasons certainly climate change is a part but it's also the land use how we live on the land how we manage our forests landscapes in general on fire is like a driverless car it has no single sort of hands on the wheel it integrates everything around it and different things loom larger it at other times i think what we're seeing now that was an extraordinary outburst i mean california is built to burn it's built to burn explosively let's build into its physical geography but for years running of serial conflagrations and fires of this sort happening at this time of the year all of this is. the whole system has been put on some kind of performance and hits are in there faster than worse the more damaging way is there anything that can be done then to reverse this process if that can we take the

fires off steroids if you will. well we administered the steroids we can quit administering and we can start some kind of race have there are a few fairly simple things we can do. likely relatively quickly and that is get a better control over some of the ignition in this case we're talking about lightning some of that that's out of our hands power lines. gender reveal of ants where you have exploding targets just idiotic stuff like that we can control we can also harden our houses and communities there's a lot of research that points to the main vulnerability in structures as being from swarms of embers coming in and it's pretty well identified what you can do is relatively simple number of things to prevent those from taking out houses then houses taking out other houses those are things we could do with and

a couple of years a handful of years the deeper the deeper issue of course is getting did it control over fossil fuels. slowing if not stopping it ultimately reversing. the climate change that is exacerbating so much of the us and also coming to some. point of resolution or at least resolve of what to do with our larger landscapes of the countryside public lands we've been locked in to get another form of political paralysis over how to respond to these things fire isn't listening it really doesn't care ok otherwise it's like a virus so replied it unfortunately we're out of time but the thought with you wonder but we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and come back again stephen pyne thank you. thanks for the invitation but the days almost on the conversation continues online that we will see you tomorrow.

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