sometimes. what connects people is stronger than what separates the. new mall is so strong that it can not be torn down. we celebrated the 30th anniversary of its reification october 3rd on d w. alexander lukashenko has been president of bella ruse for 26 years he is known as europe's last dictator today staying true to his moniker. was sworn in in secret snow public ceremony no public protests it is impossible to predict what will happen next in this divided country tonight the leader of the opposition is making no

secret of where she stands. she says stole the presidency i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. i step down next to chanel sky and this only elected private that it was seen people. today china hold his own no convention in secrets from the nation. it was an attempt to propel himself leaches to meet leader which only means that his previous monday send it spicy i am sure that very soon all of you will understand that you saved the world on this piece of land and defended this offer in tea and independence of our country. even after today's ceremony mr lucas shank it cannot claim democratic legitimacy who for. also

coming up in the late u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg america remembers a woman and i call on of justice for all. coming up everyone of the response from her father the belle of. the. other if there are 3 or are you sure that i'm right. and i. were to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the president who tried to keep a secret today in belo roots in a secret inauguration alexander lukashenko was sworn in as president for a 6th term the ceremony was not public there was no televised coverage all a continuation of the government's crackdown on dissent however the secret today it

got out fairly quickly the country's opposition called for nationwide civil disobedience on top of what has been almost 2 months of nonstop demonstrations tens of thousands of people demanding that lukas shingo resign demanding a free and fair election the woman who ran against look at sago in last month's election today called the secretive inauguration a farce slit lunna the hound of sky was forced to flee bella ruse after the election she has made public appeals to the european union to help the forces of democracy in bello rube's on monday the e.u. failed to agree on sake sions against those administration undaunted so atlanta de haan and scalia today declared herself the legitimate leader of bella roofs the real presence. dear bene rescind today look a child to hold his own inauguration in secrets from the nation and we all

understand what has happened it was an attempt to proclaim himself the illegitimate leader which only means that his previous monday's has ended the nation hasn't given him a new mandate. nor skier and the soul leader elected by the better racine people and our common goal now is to build a new batteries. are pulling our correspondent nic connolly he is in the capital. for us tonight good evening to you nic this secret inauguration did not remain a secret very long as we have seen has it triggered more protests and i'm wondering has it strengthen the resolve of the opposition. well there were a few hours brant where you got the sense that everyone was just shocked no one could actually believe that this was happening this seemed like a dress rehearsal there wasn't much urgency about it i certainly just heard the roads go silent but you know roads being shut down essential is no rarity these days in the russian capital some people had seen you uniforms dress uniforms on

soldiers in the capital but no one could imagine that he would pull this off without foreign dignitaries to add legitimacy to the event without the russians not even the russian ambassador was there and extraordinary that those $700.00 people all top officials in the regime managed to keep a secret no one releasing information no one letting out about this event but it definitely seems to have changed the tone people were very anxious today but angrier than i've seen them in the last few weeks just appalled that after weeks of refusing to talk to what to call the streets and people he accuse of being agents of foreign countries he's now gone one stage further and proclaimed himself president and we also saw the western world reacting countries from germany poland even ukraine saying that he is no longer the legitimate president of and they were treatments such you know the optics of this secretive inauguration they certainly were not good nick from the outside it looks like an admission of guilt by the

mission that his election victory was indeed fraudulent what do you say about that . i mean this is definitely a regime that is stressed that is feeling the heat that is running scared to an extent i mean we saw the extraordinary photo ops the last few weeks you everyone will have seen. coming out of his presidential palace in a flak jacket carrying a rifle without any ammunition in it him flying over the protests at the end of those protests calling the people down in the streets protesting rats claiming that they'd all been sent out by the cia operating out of warsaw this is just one further example of p.r. opportunities going wrong and really a sense of connection a lack of reality a lack of a sense of what really people here on the ground all feeling i think there is definitely a sense that they are living in their ivory tower and really you know unwilling to engage with the mood on the streets yeah it looks like this has been a good week for luke usually go on monday the european union failed to agree on

saying sions against him in his government a couple of weeks ago we had lattimer putin guaranteeing bella ruse another major injection of money and even what we saw today the military appears loyal to. so his power seems to be rather solidified. i mean obviously he is holding things together fun now but i wouldn't overestimate the reserves of stability that this regime has every week protest is costing them dear in cash in dollars they're having to pay the riot police coming out every week and huge bonuses several multiples of the normal pay just to ensure that loyalty that goes for the riot police but the army is a lot less willing to really get its hands dirty for him and make themselves culpable in front of potentially future leadership i think if they're in the reserves really running out we've already heard they're trying to save money on

pensions nothing to really keep all these boots on the ground it's fascinating. specially with the economy in the country what will the opposition be able to do moving forward help powerful is. reach from outside the country. i mean there is obviously a limit to what she can do she is very well and this proved to be very effective communicator something that people hadn't expected of her after all she wasn't a politician herself she had no real experience in politics until her husband was put in jail and she took over from him so definitely she's been putting on a very solid performance in front of the u.n. in front of the e.u. but i think this protest is going broader now this is not about a hierarchical top down organization of sending messages to people here from her ex on the you're seeing the protests moving off the streets off those kind of sunday big square meetings into an every day life of seeing people in the residential

district meeting evening for evening talking politics talking to neighbors who maybe they never engaged with the police being forced to play a kind of cat and mouse game trying to take down take down flags every time the police comes to remove flags or murals the next day they're back up there's a. situation one district where the police was guarding a wall of a residential building 24 hours a day to prevent the residents from putting the murals in the graffiti back i can't really see that. the riot police here in the world will be enough to really guard every square inch of this city so i think very difficult times ahead for us. only giving us excellent analysis tonight in minutes nic thank you. while the president of bill ruses contending with mass protests and perhaps more civil disobedience next door in russia the picture looks completely different

russian president vladimir putin's grip on power is practically locked in for years to come and the country's main opposition leader he's not even in the country and as of today he is no longer in the hospital either alexina vallone was discharged from the berlin hospital where he spent the past 3 weeks being treated for poisoning last month in a volley became suddenly ill during a flight across russia after 2 days in a siberian hospital he was brought here to berlin tests showed that he had been poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent know each of the german chancellor called the poisoning and attempted murder and has demanded an investigation by the kremlin so far moscow has offered nothing but denials of any involvement the poisoning of the valise and european and russian relations to a new low it has not had the same effect apparently on mr know of all the kremlin critic says as soon as he is fully recovered he plans to return to russia.

not long ago alexina valen he was at death's door and this is how he looks today drawn thien visibly aged but very much alive it's now just start for a month off he fell ill and 2 weeks since he awoke from any jews coma and the valley is no longer in the intensive ward but russia's most prominent opposition politician will stay in germany with wife yulia and his children for now to continue his rehabilitation. he wrote on instagram my doctors have decided that my recovery requires a regime in normal life rather than treatment in hospital walking spending time with my family i've already stumbled to the pock in pants 3 sizes too large. 44 year old invalid me got sick while campaigning in siberia last month. he was lifted to believe in. and then tests in germany france and sweden confirmed he was

poisoned with a military grade nerve agent nova chalk the west holds the kremlin accountable from the valleys poisoning but moscow denies responsibility and says he's welcome home when he's ready. we wish him a speedy recovery. as a russian citizen he has the right to return to moscow at any time. it's still highly uncertain he would be safe there last week ally said traces of navi truck had been found in a water bottle from the siberian hotel but the kremlin still says he wasn't poisoned in russia too many think it's pot once and says for must go about who attack the valley threatening action if that's not forthcoming if russia is not cooperating i think we should. be and nato partners to think about what measures should be but 1st we have to said those questions to russia and russia should have

the chance to answer but there's little sign the kremlin is ready to cooperate leaving relations between bilin and moscow i ling even as alexina valmy recovers as . it has defied the political powers of political giants such as german chancellor angela merkel and it has allowed europe to become home to humanitarian disasters the european union does not have a policy on migration that works today the e.u. unveiled a new plan that on paper attempts to bring fairness and equality to a policy that has been anything but a camp on the greek island of some most fit for 500 people it houses 5000 it was meant to be a transit point but a backlog migration system has turned it into a home for so many. routes on the 2 years i've been here not in good.

conditions are squalid this place and these people are why europe is finally confronting this crisis. presenting her proposal the european commission president called on member states to rise to the challenge. this package reflects a fair and reasonable balance between responsibility and solidarity among men but states we all share the benefits we all share the burden the migration pact includes compulsory pre entry screening with fingerprinting and a health check a faster 12 week asylum processing target and a sponsored return scheme that would see member states take responsibility for returning migrants on behalf of other member states. the plan abandons previous efforts to relocate new arrivals around the 27 member state something opposed to by

the likes of hungry i'm paul and n.g.o.s see that could create havoc in the mediterranean. member states front line member states like italy greece and. will be reluctant to cooperate if there isn't any sort of mandatory relocation and then they might not disembark our ships that have been rescued and then migrants remain stranded so a lot will depend on the willingness of either member states which in the last 5 years has not been a very high the commission hopes the scenes of a farming migrant camp on the greek island of lay's poles will be the catalyst for change. morea is a stark reminder we need to find sustainable solutions on migration and we all have to step up. moreas resident no rehire used in another makeshift camp can only hope that action comes sooner rather than later. for more now we're joined by our

correspondent barbara veins all in brussels she is standing in front of the european commission building where a special display is taking place tell us more. you know this is a group of political activists they call themselves led by junkies they were quite active during the sit in london and they have come out here tonight to sort of project images of migrants and the police of migrants onto the commission building here in the back of us because they want to remind the european union that they say we don't deserve to be treated like this we're human beings we deserve more than just to be managed because that is really at the core of this new proposal that's on the table it's supposed to manage migration better and it's supposed to read pell people more and faster from the borders off europe so this might be fortress europe 2.0. but the people we see here in the front in the back of us they

say we need to be considered as human and we need to be treated better and you know we've been hearing from n.g.o.s helping refugees they've criticized these new proposals because they fear that refugees who are already in camps without any mandatory redistribution within the e.u. that those those refugees are just going to stay put do they have a point. they do have a point because of course camps to still be part of this project and this new program because people who arrive they will again have to be put in camps now the promise is that they will then be proses much quicker that the whole asylum request and the whole legal process that follows it will be done much foster that it has been in the past but we've put these promises for years and nothing has happened so far it is also not easy legally because after which the rule of law are they

supposed to be then judged on their asylum request all that is quite unclear and it is quite complicated so no easy solutions and there will be camps and there will of course now the e.u. trying to have a pilot project in. greece unless boss to help greece managed to manage things better but whether that is the solution and whether that is a big step forward there is a lot of doubt about it so you know we've talked about this policy migration policy many times before what's your verdict on this plan will be part of it work or do you think of the end of the day. you know it's all going to be a big failure. it will parts of it might work because if they really work on repealing more people make the borders even stronger discourage more people have more agreements was the countries of origin is to take this it is inspect that might work to

a certain extent but on the other hand they have completely let drop the idea of relocation because it is just voluntary now which are if you a peon member state apart from germany and maybe a few others are willing to take people in everybody is going to turn that backs if it's not mandatory and so there is no real solution and politically this will remain a minefield and things will more or less carry on as they are there is no good future for migrants on the border for the border of europe if these plants as we have heard didn't today are being really put in place all right barbara visual a story force in brussels barbara thank you. the us has begun 3 days of tributes to the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg she died last week from cancer at the age of 87 mourners are gathering at the u.s. supreme court in washington d.c.

that is where the casket of the legal and feminist icon arrived on wednesday for 2 days of public viewing on friday ginsburg will become the 1st woman to lie in state at the u.s. capitol. was a leader among liberal justices on the supreme court. her death has ignited a bitter political battle over her replacement president trump plans to announce his nominee on saturday until then the u.s. will mourn the loss of a remarkable legal mind and a remarkable human being. for days people have been armoring a legend at the supreme court. and in brooklyn new york where ruth bader ginsburg grew up in the 1930 s. and forty's the daughter of jewish immigrants from eastern europe she lived in a modest house in an ethnically mixed neighborhood ginsburg's career was a life long battle against sexism despite being one of

a handful of women to attend harvard law school in the 1950 s. she was rejected for prestigious training by a us supreme court justice because of her gender she was paid less than male counterparts in university appointments she eventually worked for the american civil liberties union and in the volatile 1970 s. she went on to argue cases in front of the u.s. supreme court to advance gender equality. president jimmy carter selected her in 1980 for an appeals court seat in 1993 president bill clinton nominated her to be the 2nd ever female just as on the u.s. supreme court there she made a name for herself as the leader of the court's liberal wing and later in life gained unlikely famous r b g a celebrity justice who inspired countless women and girls. worried about.

this is that. it is amazing. that my. so many people want to take the way. with ginsburg's death the supreme court has lost an iconic liberal and her replacement could tilt the court in a conservative direction for decades. yeah in his poll joins me now from washington our washington bureau chief she's on the story for is just not going to need to you in is so we're looking at 3 days of official remembrance in is is that what this icon of equitable justice justice for all is that what she deserves what your take. you know brenda i spend a couple of today in front of the supreme court as she is laying in response for 2 days before then she will be the 1st woman to lay in state in the capital and i had

the chance to talk to very many people who came from all across the country and i had the feeling this is the right thing to do 2 full days. to spend respects to go there to cry and to mourn and then we have the ceremony at the capitol and then after all she will be buried at arlington and that is also a huge honor so my feeling here today in washington is yes it's the right thing to do. she was known for her liberal stance on the supreme court and she was also known for holding the balance on the court will that balance be maintained moving forward or does or b. g.'s death does it mark the beginning of a new era of conservative jurisprudence in the u.s. . this is that's a big fear of the liberal part of this country i mean the supreme court now is

with 5 conservative supreme court justices and. ruth bader ginsburg's death down to 3 moderate supreme court justices the liberal supreme court justices and it might happen that donald trump takes the towns to put a 3rd supreme court justices in place before the election and that will make then like 6 conservative supreme court justices to 3 liberal supreme court justices and you know it's just this balance of this lack of balance the world's talking about the world is talking about our b.g. and the u.s. presidential election as the supreme court story has replaced the pandemic in this presidential campaign and i'm wondering has has her death has it helped trump's reelection chances. it's

a little bit too early to answer if it will help him or no it's most definitely it's very very controversial if donald trump should pick a new supreme court justice before election day and we have to say our b.g. put kind of and a discussion about supreme court justices into the public discourse course which has never happened before so more people are interested in the supreme court justice supreme court than ever before so yes for the moment it's discussed by the pandemic we just had the 200 thousands dead person who died of the pandemic i think it will come back to to the mind of the voters because the pandemic is far from being over and this kind of hits so many families and so many individuals so i think it will come fake to the headline so to speak all right our washington bureau chief newspoll on the story of the worst was analysis as america mourns the loss of

an iconic legal mind in his thinking. the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me at brant t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then of.

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october 16th own daughter. this is g w news winds are from berlin europe's a 2nd coronavirus wave france clamps down as code cases surge the government in paris has just announced sweeping new measures to curb the resurgence as new cases are topping 13000 per day we'll go live to paris also coming up the european union makes another attempt to repair its spoken migration policy an overhaul has been

unveiled but will the emus 27 members will they find unity in this plan and criminal critical like you have only is released from a grueling hospital after treatment for poisoning his case triggered a diplomatic crisis between russia and the west what will mr nifong what will he do next. i'm off it's good to have you with us we begin with what is looking like the 2nd coronavirus wave here in europe germany has added regions in a love in the e.u. countries to a list of coronavirus high risk zones and they include dublin lisbon and copenhagen parts of the netherlands austria and the czech republic as well as the major french tourist destinations of brittany and norman now this as france has again reported

more than 13000 new code with 19 infections in just the past 24 hours the french government is now announcing sweeping new measures to curb the resurgence in the hardest hit area. our this is a developing story for more we want to go to journalist and these are bets would change she joins us from paris good evening to you tell us more about these measures of the french government has just announced. the government has announced a measures the restrictions in. which all of 3 kinds and the restrictions in the. free neven cities and provinces losing of balls for men day they cannot remain remain open below 10 pm they know that maximum capacity can get very little outside 1000 people they ban mooste major declared events such

as little testicles or student culture this gatherings that mall and 10 people in public spaces like beaches parks etc closure spot schools and invasions find spaces where wearing the most is impossible complex and clues or of all the countless whole festive activities is as is he ations that section of this comes into force on monday and that's that's these measures can be revalued and reinforced they will stringent every 15 days yeah and what we know that the numbers the numbers don't look good we're talking about between 10 and 13000 new cases per day there are new cases not necessarily new hospitalizations so the question is can france's health care system cope with this increase. soof all the fresh caste system can't cope with it but the expectations are all that things will become tight if we called the progression round mid 2 there are about 6000 people with

qubit in hospitals but not close not that many. in emergency can. not that still is manageable but it comes pretty soon after the last crisis and own the campus now the doc to the nurses that are also exhausted so that also has to be taken into account when you ask whether the system can you can deal with it right now because it's younger people who can and who get to some extent it's here people in hospitals can beds compared to mulch how close would you say france is tonight to a new national walk to hell it's the thing that the government absolute she wants to prevent and so i would say because the get out the christ economic crisis is going to be disastrous. and i would say that now not yet and i

think all those strange measures being taken precisely because they won't involve much as possible knock down journalist and elizabeth joining us tonight the latest on these new restrictions in france and was with we appreciate it thank you thank you the european commission is trying again to create a coherent and humane way of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers is unveiled a plan by which e.u. member states like hungary and poland which refuse to accept migrants would instead offer money equipment or personnel to help patrol the borders european commission president or so of underlying today appealed to member states to show solidarity with one another and to rise to the challenge of migration. a camp on the greek island of some most fit for 500 people it houses 5000

it was meant to be a transit point but a backlog migration system has turned it into a home for so many. routes on the 2 years i've been here not a good open or the conditions are squalid this place and these people are why europe is finally confronting this crisis. presenting her proposal the european commission president called on member states to rise to the challenge. this package reflects a fair and reasonable balance between responsibility and solidarity among men but states we all share the benefits we all share the burden the migration pact includes compulsory pre entry screening with fingerprinting and a health check a faster 12 week asylum processing target and a sponsored return scheme that would see member states take responsibility for

returning migrants on behalf of other member states. the plan abandons previous efforts to relocate new arrivals or rome to 27 member state something opposed to by the likes of hungry on paul and n.g.o.s see that could create havoc in the mediterranean. member states front line member states like italy greece and and multi. will be reluctant to cooperate if there isn't any sort of mandatory relocation and then they might not disembark our ships that have been rescued and then migrants remain stranded so a lot will depend on the willingness of either member states which in the last 5 years has not been a very high. the commission hopes the scenes of a foreign migrant camp on the greek island of lay's poles will be the catalyst for change. morea is a stark reminder we need to find sustainable solutions on migration and we all have

to step. moreas residents know rehung in another makeshift camp can only hope that action comes sooner rather than later. and for more now we're joined by our correspondent barbara veto in brussels she is standing in front of the european commission building where a special display is taking place tell us more you know this is a group of political activists they call themselves led by junkies they were quite active during the sit in london and they have come out yet tonight to sort of project images of migrants and the police of migrants onto the commission building here in the back office because they want to remind the european union that they say we don't deserve to be treated like this we're human beings we deserve more than just to be managed because that is really at the core of this new proposal that's on the table it's supposed to manage migration better and it's supposed to

repel people more and faster from the borders off europe so this might be fortress europe $2.00 you so wish but the people we see here in the front in the back office they say we need to be considered as suman and we need to be treated better and you know we've been hearing from n.g.o.s helping refugees they've criticized these new proposals because they fear that refugees who are already in camps without any mandatory redistribution within the e.u. that those those refugees are just going to stay put do they have a point. they do have a point because of course camps will still be part of this project and this new program because people who are rife they will again have to be put in camps now the promise is that they will then be pros much quicker that the whole asylum request and the whole legal process that follows it will be done much foster that it has

been in the past but we've put these promises for years and nothing has happened so far it is also not easy legally because after which the rule of law are they supposed to be then judged on their asylum request all that is quite unclear and it is quite complicated. no easy solutions and there will be camps and there will of course now the e.u. trying to have a pilot project in. greece unless boss to help greece managed to manage things better but whether that is the solution and whether that is a big step forward there is a lot of doubt about it so you know we've talked about this policy migration policy many times before what's your verdict on this plan will parts of it work or do you think of the end of the day that you know it's all going to be a big failure. it will parts of it might work because if they really work on repealing more people make the borders even stronger discourage more

people have more agreements with the countries of origin is to take this citizen spec that might work to a certain extent but on the other hand they have completely let drop the idea of relocation because it is just voluntary now which are a few of peon member states apart from germany and maybe a few others willing to take people and everybody is going to try in that backs if it's not mandatory and so there is no real solution and politically this will remain a minefield and things will more or less carry on as they are there is no good future for migrants on the border for the border of europe if these plans if we have hurt them today are being really put in place already w.'s barbara visual a story force in brussels barbara thank you here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world police in belarus have fired water cannon the interior and arrested more than 150

people after protests in clashes in minsk following president alexander lukashenko it's unannounced inauguration. was soon his 6th consecutive term with hundreds of officials present the protesters and the opposition say the presidential election last month was rigged. a grand jury in the u.s. state of kentucky has charged one police officer in the raid that led to the fatal shooting of briana taylor police shot the black medical worker in front of her boyfriend after they forced their way into her apartment kentucky's attorney general said the officers had acted in self-defense after taylor's boyfriend fired at them. yes. the russian opposition figure alexei has been discharged from a berlin hospital he'd been undergoing treatment here for poisoning since being airlifted to berlin at the start of the month snowballing has made it clear he wants to go home when that will be no one. not long ago

alexina valen he was at death's door and this is how he looks today drawn thien visibly aged but very much alive it's now just start for a month off he fell ill and 2 weeks since he awoke from any jews coma and the valley is no longer in the intensive ward but russia's most prominent opposition politician will stay in germany with wife yulia and his children for now to continue his rehabilitation he wrote on instagram my doctors have decided that my recovery requires resuming normal life rather than treatment in hospital walking spending time with my family i've already stumbled to the pock in pants 3 sizes too large. 44 year old invalid me got sick while campaigning in siberia last month. he was lifted to believe in. and then

tests in germany france and sweden confirmed he was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent nova chalk the west holds the kremlin accountable for the valley's poisoning but moscow denies responsibility and says he's welcome him when he's ready. we wish him a speedy recovery. as a russian citizen he has no right to return to moscow at any time. it's still highly uncertain if no valen he would be safe there last week ally said traces of not the chocolate being found in a water bottle from the siberian hotel but the kremlin still says he wasn't poisoned in russia too many feel it's pot once and says for must go about who attack the valley threatening action if that's not forthcoming and if russia is not cooperating i think we should ask pete in union and nato partners to think about what measures should be but 1st we have to said those questions to russia and

russia should have the chance to answer but there's little sign the kremlin is ready to cooperate leaving relations between belin and moscow i ling even as alexina valmy recover as you're watching news from berlin up next business news with ferguson stick around she'll be right back. invites us to see people in particular. some time. might. refer. to the books on you tube. how the virus spread.

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