we'll be talking. to tender 16. this is d.w. news live from berlin and the fountains of women take to the streets and railroads demanding the resignation of president lukashenko dozens are arrested by masked men in uniform and dragged away a much larger rally is planned for sunday with tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators expected to fill the capital. also on the show tensions rise on the

greek island of lesbos thousands demand to leave after a fire destroyed the notoriously overcrowded morio migrant camp. and it's time to hammer out the details representatives from the afghan government and the taliban are face to face again in contact to meet their demands for afghanistan's future clear. american evan steyn thanks for joining us in the bellerose capital minsk dozens of women have been arrested after taking part in a protest against authoritarian president alexander lukashenko many of the women were forced into unmarked vans or beaten by masked security officials belarus has been swept by daily anti-government protests since last month's disputed presidential election it's an. president

a challenge to lucas shango who's been in power for 26 years. a fresh show of determination and defiance thousands of women braved heavy security and an official warning to raise their voices against the government once more. they're demanding that president look at shank step down and that jailed opposition fakers be freed. after more than a month of protests this rally is just the latest evidence that the ruffians are not going to accept. those people get out of i don't know how many times i've been out here you just can't sit back and watch what's going on but if you don't come out today tomorrow your children will live as slaves and i'm a mother i how children. with previous demonstrations this one took a violent term shortly after the rally began scuffles broke out between protesters

and riot police in the capital's freedom square masked men could be seen aggressively confronting demonstrators ultimately making dozens of arrests. but they're grabbing everyone in sight do they think they can look at everybody or not the. president lukashenko says he has no intention of stepping down he's denied allegations of fraud in an election that saw him win 80 percent of the vote. but for lucien's are planning to keep up the pressure on the president on sunday tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are expected to flood the streets of minsk once more. in standing by for us in minsk connelly hello to you nic so we saw there more arrests and more violence this time targeting women who were demonstrating what's been the reaction in minsk to yesterday's events. well definitely anger if little shock i think

this had been factored in in recent days we've seen the police getting more aggressive and using more violent tactics towards women after a period where as you must remember there had been. the like to touch 2 was a protest as we've seen protests where women would stand in front of men who are protesting or journalists who are said to be arrested and preventing their arrest by standing between them the police that is now definitely over but interesting enough those those arrests came right at the beginning enough that 5 minutes of shock and confusion people the women out demonstrating did manage to get regrouped and spent the next 2 hours protesting walking through the city center getting their message and getting a whole lot of support from people on the streets clapping them keeping their homes i think example marie classic of a who was abducted here in minsk last week and who really successfully resisted the attempt by authorities to throw her out of her own country by ripping her jumping out of a car window that has definitely galvanized many here in minsk. this nic nic where

it does where do things go from see here i mean look as cinco is still refusing to meet with the opposition how does the opposition intend to proceed. that's the $1000000.00 question i think there's no clear answer to that this is unknown territory for a country which basically for a quarter century had no politics in which one man called all the big shots i think this is a kind of cultural protest now where protest spreads beyond the city streets beyond the sunday demonstrations i was in a residential district i mean just yesterday evening in a yard a building presidential building where there's been a mule of some d.j.'s who but he came up with the soundtrack to these protests that mural has been painted over time and time again by the authorities here and time and time again the people living there have replaced the mural but now the police is there 24 hours a day essentially guarding the rules prevent people from the place you are and the people who live in that yard are out talking to the police reaching every evening

drinking tea there was even an impromptu called 6 is the level to which the more the government clamps down the more they're actually forcing people closer to one another bring them closer and actually encouraging this come out to protest just out of out of a spirit of resistance to these attempts to really clamp down on their every day life and their surroundings. well more protests are planned for today so did yesterday's violence and not intimidate people are we expecting a large turnout today. will definitely that arrest of. a disappearance rather last week is definitely something that has angered and shocked many who thought they'd seen everything here so the streets where i'm standing now looks set to be tens if not hundreds of thousands of people today we've seen for the warnings from the government basically trying to make people think again about coming out reminding people to any station this guy demonstration is illegal and we have felt schools for them so far we've seen those threats aren't working. funnily

reporting for us from minsk thank you. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world authorities are reporting more dance. due to raging wildfires in the united states at least 20 people died in california 8 in oregon and one in washington state thousands of firefighters struggle to contain the unprecedented blazes the governors of california and oregon told residents to expect more fatalities in the coming days. mali's military junta which staged a coup last month has agreed to an 18 month transitional government and then to hold fresh elections the agreement came after 3 days of talks with leaders from political and civil society groups the leaders of the transitional government will be chosen by the. greek police have fired tear gas at migrants protesting on the island of lesbos thousands spent

a 5th night without shelter after a fire destroyed the overcrowded morea refugee camp the greek army has begun building a replacement facility but most of the migrants say they just want to leave the island. hundreds of people made homeless after the movie i can't burn dian gathered to protest close to the site of new temporary accommodation. this woman is suffering from the effects of tear gas fired by greek riot police after tensions boiled over after days of largely peaceful demonstrations children are attempting to diffuse the situation. medical aid is arriving but conditions are dire many of the people here have been displaced by the fires are exhausted and weak. executed treated people didn't need to put their hungry

federation's in moria what from a year ago some people think maybe some people have more no they really. the 1st police broke out shortly after 35 people tested positive for corona virus and were facing isolation measures a range of 12000 people had been living in the camp the for the fires in accommodation originally meant to heist just 3000 people the new camp will provide shelter for a similar amount many here are angry not just at the greek authorities but at european governments. you've got a future but we're not having all the lost over everything else and our clothes we still have our car more than of all the people who are dying here but maybe in here . because 50 in europe we're coming in show therefore you have to save but you can hook up 4000 children are among those who've been displaced by the morea fire. and this stretch of road is blocked off in both directions the

greek government is encouraging people to go to the new temporary accommodation but many are weighty fearful that what happened at noria could easily happen again in another camp. historic talks on the future of afghanistan are underway in the gulf state of qatar with the taliban meeting representatives of the afghan government for the 1st ever face to face negotiations between the 2 sides after an opening ceremony on saturday more detailed talks are expected today aimed at finding a power sharing agreement the western backed afghan government and its allies are calling for a humanitarian ceasefire agreement women's rights is another key issue for government representatives including several female leaders afghanistan has suffered decades of instability and war which has left thousands of people dead.

and journalist ali latif he is standing by for us in kabul hello to you ali so talks have finally started but the afghan government and the taliban have very different visions for the future of the country is there any room for compromise. this is what. everyone is going to wonder is that and i think this is why mike from a.o.l. was sent there the u.s. secretary of state to make sure that they come to some sort of an agreement because if you were following this process all of the preconditions to start these talks included the release of tall upon prisoners in the taliban releasing government prisoners and they all stalled they found different ways to stall the process along the way and it was only a couple weeks ago that the national security adviser of the united states called that afghan president and basically said you need to be sincere about this you need to move on this is taking too long and so pump alles position there is most likely

to do that to ensure that these groups actually sit down and come up with some compromise as much as he said the political system the future is up to you his presence is not there by accident. well what about the people of afghanistan and what do they make of the negotiations are they hopeful that this will lead them out of decades of war. what everyone and i want to see on wants is peace nobody is saying that there is an alternative to peace because there really isn't. and what they're hoping is that these is that the taliban and these political representatives put their personal interests aside and really actually start to think about the people because you have to remember that it's been 4 decades of violence here and it's you know the civilians that are constantly paying the price i mean the city of kabul is increasingly insecure their roadside bombs their sticky bombs all over the city the provinces are less and less secure than

they've ever been services are not reaching people so to a lot of people this idea of maintaining the republic doesn't entirely even matter because they never had access to you know education to health to roads to electricity to things like that so what matters most is peace and you know can they have peace and also retain their rights at the same time these are the kinds of questions that need to be asked you know was it just an absence of war or is an absence of war also with with rights and even the chance for transitional justice all right journalist reporting from kabul thank you so much in few. all right turning now to sports news and tennis gnomeo soccer has beaten victoria azarenka in the women's final of the u.s. open in new york and belarus and veteran as a rank dominated the 1st set 61 but then the japanese youngster

a duck dave to win the 2nd set 63 and she sealed the deal by taking the 3rd set 63 this is a 2nd u.s. open win in 3 years and her 3rd career grand slam title. in formula one defending champion lewis hamilton has secured his 95th pole position after topping qualifying for sunday's tuscan bronze prien the britain will share the front of the grid with teammates voluntary but toss as mercedes dominated the field yet again red bulls max 1st stop and finish 3rd in qualifying meanwhile german drivers of us and federal continues to struggle and will start sunday's race in 14. the venice film festival has wound down with a gala night of stars on the red carpets glittering awards and facemasks winner of the golden lion for best film was nomad land starring frances mcdormand and this

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