security's power here until 20 or 36 change in the constitution of the rules doesn't necessarily mean that we could stay in power as long as what it means is that from now on the kremlin strategists will probably be able to work hand in hand with the political advisers especially on the future political model for the country so make calmly how important it is russian support for. it's vital you have nowhere else to go think the past quarter a century has tried to keep hold of position between the west and russia essentially trading loyalty to russia for financial and other support from the kremlin every time the kremlin doll down that support he made overtures to the west trying to get more support from vladimir putin's kremlin most of the time successfully now that option is gone the west is not going to give him any kind of support given the brutality we've seen on the streets of minsk in recent weeks and so now basically i go look shanker is in the position where the refuting is always

wants him to be totally dependent on russian support financial and military to put down these protests and soon he will have to make significant concessions to the russian side. it's what putin wants putin wants out of this essentially for. about a ruse to become a puppet state. well as we've heard it from nick needs money and he has to remold all of the belarus economy all of that putin has to be has a very carefully hinted at supporting look at shankar his support comes of course with conditions some of it could include all this possible of financial concessions from moscow to minsk if you're taken into account of that the fact that the external debt of belarus is about $18000000000.00 u.s. dollars and about that the how of false on russia's shoulder both countries have already agreed to $1500000000.00 u.s. dollars loan another possibility possibility is that the deepening of economic ties

which could result in belarus being even more depending dependent on russia which is syphilitic of an advantage for putin as look at shanghai remains one of the last allies of putin is the last of its base russia russia call it can also take advantage of the weak but there was an economy that wanted for example in exchange for cheap russian oil which belarus needs russian banks russian businessmen could get assets off the state owned cars. and increases their profits for. those protests. we're seeing the police and security forces become increasingly heavy handed should be worried about this meeting between the 2 presidents. well there is definitely worry here in that region will give. to crack down with greater violence against demonstrators we've seen recent weeks the tone change just a few weeks ago police were treating it at least with slightly greater concern and

consideration there with those famous images of women being able to stop police arresting journalists or male protesters that is now over yesterday and the day before we saw. the women's protests to happen here in minsk but i think the big question is. what is going to happen to. the discrepancy between 10000000 population and russia 140 essentially would mean some kind of integration. and now where desperate for cash but also for boots on the ground if these protests continue he may be signing away. in some form so we might see an outcome where he stayed in power able to put down these protests but then eventually find himself. in his own country. in moscow. well doctors here in germany treating her like say in the

valley say the russian opposition leaders condition is improving the kremlin critic has been has been abroad in hospital since late august after falling seriously ill during a russian domestic flights it was also announced on monday that lab tests performed in france and sweden supports germany's conclusion that mr novelli was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent not be chock european leaders have demanded an explanation from moscow the kremlin denies any involvement mr novelli it was woken from a medically induced coma last week. political correspondent julia sobbed other top politicians she just could tell us will welcome julia bring us up to speed mr nirvana's condition doctors at the shopping to hospital here in berlin said his condition continues to improve has been taken off mechanical ventilation has now been put through a process of mobilization and he is reportedly able to even leave his bed for short periods of time this is certainly these are certainly encouraging signs also seen

as last week that doctors have said that now the only response to vocal stimuli although they have warned that it is still too early to tell whether there will be any long term consequences from his poisoning. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov have been has been speaking about this today what's he been saying. level of said that he actually accused the west of taking advantage of enough on these case to impose new sanctions on russia just quite an inflammatory statement of the foreign ministry in russia also announced today that it was planned trip to berlin planned for tomorrow has been canceled citing scheduling changes by his german counterpart but tensions between russia and germany have been running high since the fell ill on the one hand we have germany insisting on russia to start an investigation into not on these poisoning and russia not doing that not starting an

investigation and denying any involvement there have been talks in germany about possible sanctions there have also been calls coming from german lawmakers to put a stop to an infrastructure project between russia and germany to the north stream to that is a gas pipeline that is a very important projects between the 2 countries and with russia sticking to its ground and not really wanting to engage with and of on the case and germany calling for more action the relations between the 2 countries are definitely on the rocks julia political correspondent thank you. to israel which has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd national lockdown to try and control the spread of the coronavirus all of this new cases that begins on friday i will district daily life or lead at least 3 weeks as israel's outbreak threatened to race out of control benyamin netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision really going to be today

we decided on a strict lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now we've decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. health ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application of immediate measures. a part of the medical staff and the hospitals are overwhelmed. israel has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the world over $1100.00 people have died for days israelis have been protesting to demand netanyahu stepped down for a legit corruption and for bundling the response to the covert 1000 crisis. after the lockdown announcement on sunday demonstrators blocked roads at israel's ben-gurion airport were netanyahu was due to fly to the u.s.

to sign a peace deal to normalize ties with bahrain. we want the cause. for war. he says the good thing is booking agency for the mortal danger as if. he's a new thing here and the unity of the mosque. netanyahu will fly back to israel after formally signing the agreement with bahrain on tuesday when he returns the crisis will be waiting for him. from school children in italy have begun to return to school following more than 67 months after they were closed because of the pandemic a some regions have postponed the reopening of some schools are unable to meet the new requirements but for those children going back it's

a time of excitement and apprehension 3rd. social distancing has already been abandoned in this school as children flock back after half a year without class. not to that guy it'll be somehow different. but it will be an unforgettable experience. that will set up you can the school year will be more difficult because of the coronavirus my previous school had fewer pupils but let's see it'll work out some how. many schools don't have enough desks to ensure the kids are kept apart teachers a voiced concern that infection rates could soar in classrooms which do not look less crowded than they did before the pandemic the prime minister acknowledges the problem with. it will be difficult especially in the beginning. our schools have been underfunded for years and the pandemic has made this even

more obvious. if you have to do your part by following the rules so that your health and that of your loved ones is protected. the pupils are forbidden from sharing school material which is kept in a box after lengthy preparations the measures are put to the test but not in all parts of the country rising infection rates of delayed school reopening in some regions. a new leaders have been holding trade and investment talks with china's president xi jinping and germany currently holds the bloc rotating presidency german chancellor angela merkel has been briefing the press on the results of the video conference the german chancellor summarize that the e.u. top e.u. talks with china focused on while. cooperation with china must be based on the principles of reciprocity fair competition as well

we are different societies we have different social systems but we acknowledge the importance of multilateralism importance of rules when it comes to climate change and climate protection. the e.u. and china welcome the paris agreement that is extremely important and we want to have a high level dialogue take place which doesn't just take place off the cuff but it's rather more of a systematic nature to a dialogue between the e.u. and china where we talk about the close go climate conference at the end of the year we managed to talk about other topics which shamshad as already mentioned. topics which are difficult where we don't always agree hong kong for example the treatment of minorities and the issue of human rights. so i feel that today we had a good open honest dialogue which should be continued. well that's period for

international editor richard walker. welcome richard we just had the chance of going through quite a list. yeah that's right phil and it was interesting to compare with the press conference which happened after the last round of talks which the 2 sides had which was back in june when. on the line the president of the european commission and show the president the council came out and they were they were pretty glum in their moods and their mood music surrounding the talks that they had had saying that they were not seeing enough progress on the investment treaty that they want to negotiate with the chinese side and also being very notably open in their criticism about china's breaches of human rights in hong kong . where but i think it's interesting that was in june when hong kong was much fresher in people's minds it was much harder to duck that it's quite interesting to

compare the tone just now where hong kong that all did get mentioned but it was not a tool the centerpiece the mood music was much more positive talking about some steps forward in trying to get the sort of reciprocity in the relationship that we just heard angela merkel talking about and even saying that there had been one sort of many parts of this investment deal which had been agreed which is about each side recognizing designations of food and drink products or things like champagne or even saying that today was a good day for german wine growers but i think critics will be saying that that is you know it's really just a very small piece of the puzzle and overall both sides are still saying that this investment treaty is not done an investment treaty that supposedly been in negotiation since 2037 years in the works well i don't suppose we would expect it to be to be done and dusted over one meeting richard but but just listening to

about mood music does it sound to you as though progress has actually been made or is this just. trying to make the best of a bad draw. well i think they're trying to play the ball back over to the chinese so they say that there has been some progress on some further elements of this investment deal but don't but that on a very big things like market access which is really the crux of the whole thing the complaint that more and more german companies have that they don't have as good access to the chinese market as chinese companies have here they played the ball back to the chinese with a slightly more positive sort of spin around it saying over to you are you going to come up with the concessions that you need to do this deal and try to say well in fact he's basically saying that it's up to the chinese to convince us there is worth doing this so. to an extent that's true the ball is in the chinese court and will be interesting to see what they do with that on the one hand you might argue that they're in a very strong negotiating position the e.u.

just really have a history of standing up to them so it will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of months but i think one particular interest that china has right now is trying to drive a wedge between the united states and europe and i think that is one kind of geo political incentive to do some sort of deal with europe is to try and stop more united kind of transatlantic alliance developing against china i would do that before notably in italy where there's a lot of investment to go in there how how has the foreign policy chief joseph barrel how far has he got his way in demanding unity from member states instead of fighting for individual priorities. well that's right i mean i think the european union often finds it hard to find unity which is not surprising there are many members of the block but on china it's particularly difficult and that's something that china certainly plays into it tries to do deals with countries

individually the whole block is trying to pull together on this but still you do see there are simply different origins in different countries bottom line germany its ultimate priority is always going to be business because china is germany's biggest trading partner the car german car industry is massively dependent on the chinese market so there's obviously a huge lobby here in germany for a trade taking pride of place whereas other countries might be more interested in the geopolitical issues europe is not there yet on finding that unity. thank you richard walker. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world of bytes dance the parent company of a popular video sharing app to talk says it's chosen oracle as its new u.s. technology partner though it will not sell the all part with its source code president trump has threatened to ban take talk unless its chinese parent company

sells the u.s. business. full russo is a bad leader who was portrayed as a holiday as a hero in a hollywood movie about rwanda's 1994 genocide has been charged with terrorism appeared in court for the 1st time in kigali on monday following his arrest his family say the charges are politically motivated and tried was kidnapped from dubai . rescuers are resume the search for survivors after a landslide struck 3 villages in the polls mountains at least 11 people have been killed dozens more missing continuous to renshaw rainfall has made it difficult for rescuers to operate in the area near the border with tibet. shahid a asuka has been elected new leader of japan's governing liberal democratic party paving the way for him to become the country's next prime minister the 71 year old previously held the position of chief cabinet secretary government spokesman and key adviser to outgoing premiership. last month mr japan's longest serving prime

minister announced that he would resign because of health problems and yes he had a super will inherit some tough challenges including the coronavirus underpants ailing economy of the country was already in recession before the pandemic hit part of its economic trouble relates to its rapidly aging and dwindling population in just 5 years a 3rd of the population will be $65.00 or older that means japan is running out of work because new laws were introduced this year to encourage companies to raise the retirement age to 70. at 72 tadashi sato is already well past usual retirement age but a recent change to the law in japan is attempting to encourage companies to keep employees on much longer. given that the are all fathers that i had imagined that a person at the age of 72 was someone quite old but once i reached that age myself

i realized that it wasn't a case if you like i'm in my fifty's i'm doing my best to keep up with young people . aging japan is in desperate need of more workers to sustain is soaring social security costs from next spring japanese companies will be required to make an effort to employ workers until age 70 satchels company is taking that even further. from where but here we have many elderly customers although we have a lot of young staff i think it is quite prefer for those customers if they are served by staff of a similar age to them. such as says he still enjoys working and would like to use his expertise to help his younger colleagues for him and many other aging workers in japan this move is a staff in the right direction. and u.s. president donald trump is due to visit california on monday to me heads of

emergency services who've been supervising efforts to battle the unprecedented wildfires their days of dry windy conditions of dozens of blazes across california oregon and washington state and the 35 people have been killed and officials are warning there could be more fatalities the w.'s washington bureau chief in this poll reports from northern california where thousands of people are returning to was left of their homes and scenes of utter devastation. nothing but destruction this is all that is left on the 5 acres so far with and in northern california where sorrow hawkins and her husband have created a little paradise over the last 17 years to go only 4 hours before everything was destroyed left are only shards of memories programmed mother's good china items they collected over decades the fire was coming across short grass it was coming

across dirt there was no place that we knew for sure would be safe here in this barn several lost all her 17 baby goats to the flames we didn't have time to get the trailer. we didn't know that we were in any kind of danger no fires ever move this fast out here ever you know and when we came back the next day . i'll never forget seeing the burned bodies in the barnyard. people like sarah who are living in this part of the world are used to wide fires but they have never experienced something like this year multiple mega fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in talk seek air the whole west coast seems on fire some climate experts say climate change is smacking california in its face. in claremont

we speak with the director of environmental analysis char miller human beings are driving climate change they're driving it because in fact we're on cars in southern california and elsewhere that we're pumping up went into the air that's heating up a planet and the atmosphere and so when the fire starts burning they're actually burning as a result of our own actions. sarah hawking's is not willing to give in and he's already building a new barn knowing that the next fire might take everything away again all the hot weather in the us has helped to found the fires that western europe is also experiencing a late summer heat wave in red in northwestern france temperatures currently stand at $34.00 degrees celsius and they're expecting temperatures across the country that expected to set new records for mid september. summer blazes

on as the season shows no signs of changing in france much of the country is experiencing a heat wave with some regions juicer reach highs of 35 degrees. the french are taking full advantage of the long hot summer i'll be it amid concerns of global heating. the national some were lucky it's a beautiful day also filmed in september it's really no usual to go to the beach as well you can't complain but when we think about it we tell ourselves that it is normal. in paris where the temperature lingers around 30 degrees the heat is worrying experts say these exceptional temperatures and extreme heat or vents will likely continue in the years to come so. this year we had a hot summer but that doesn't mean that the summers to come will necessarily be hotter on the other hand the underlying trend tells us that we are going to have longer and hotter summers with. tourists and parisians

alike enjoy the un seasonal heat in the capital the climatologists warn of the consequences on the planet as the climate continues to warm. new life from our next could play and soon fly without it we think greenhouse gases tomorrow today poses that question in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour project.

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