this is the w.'s line from by linda appealing for help from europe and germany have been abuses opposition leaders spent a lot of chicken on sky and calls for support in forcing new elections in burma roost we'll hear what came out of her meetings today with german chancellor i can now all's well the program. kurdistan's prime minister resigns as the opposition lays claim to the power of sunday's election results not a note of protest this stole in the pockets of. the smug 1st feature coronavirus

but at what cost foresee how $1.00 of india's poorest district a coped with months of lockdown. i'm helps to unlock the universe's great mysteries 3 scientists win the nobel prize in physics research into black holes d.w. speaks with one of them i've just been asked a physicist why not again so. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. we begin to. position lead. has been holding talks with german political leaders including the chancellor angela merkel the stick in the sky one european help to force new elections in. disputed poll since then the country's been gripped by mass opposition protests and a violent government crackdown mystical scott wants germany to play

a leading role in ending the unarrest. this meeting at the german chancellor berlin is crucial for. she has high expectations of anglo-american as she told the head of the talks. and we think that. in this situation. america has deep sympathy for the protest movement as a former citizen of east germany she's lived through a peaceful revolution which gives her a special understanding of. what i see the courage of these women who take to the streets to call for freedom and to corruption i can only say that i'm amazed i find it truly impressive. thank.

women have persisted turning out despite the ongoing violence of the regime nor is continuing her own fight from exile do we see her comrade maria. was put in prison for her own convictions. the protesters want alexander lukashenko who has been in power for 26 years to step down they claim the recent elections that saw him. were rigged. germany and the e.u. agree they've imposed sanctions on look at those inner circle but not against the dictator himself to know scale has called for the sanctions to be extended to look at others many german lawmakers agree including in the green party. we need to make it clear that we stand in solidarity with protesters we must offer individual humanitarian aid to people who are under threat and of those who seek help from us

because they are tortured or beaten by the regime. on monday. thank the community in berlin she likens her country to east germany in 1909 saying hers is a nation that wants to tear down its walls where at long last people want to make their own decisions about their lives let's get the latest from d.w. political correspondent welcome simon what have we learned about today's meeting. well this was a 45 minute meeting between svetlana to her on sky and angular medical and. according to her spokeswoman the same thing made clear that the opposition has one goal in particular and that is that new elections must be held in belarus free and transparent elections for the presidency she also told the chancellor we

hear that. the issue about what does make the point of the opposition protests are not directed against europe or russia they are the result of internal an internal critical political crisis in in russia and i think she also repeated that point that the european sanctions against location because circle don't go far enough that she wants to see that list of people affected by sanctions or extended that's a point that she was making now on social media after this meeting this evening so that's what she wants or what sort of answer she going to get from germany what sort of support is burning. well that remains to be seen but i think that the opposition are asking as well for practical support support for civil society organizations for independent media groups which have

both been suffering and are finding it difficult to operate during this crisis so that's one thing more widely of course there is that call for europe and other friendly nations to become involved supporting dialogue between the location care regime and the opposition that's a call that's been repeated again so i'm going to my. car we're meeting out here in berlin germany is ambassador to bella who says on his way back to germany what does this tell us. yeah officially what we hear is that he's traveled back to berlin football but that might not be unusual ambassadors travel back to their capitals all the time but i think this is being interpreted as a move in support in particular of poland and lithuania who have both recalled they had some of their diplomats to their capitals after the regime in minsk demanded

that they reduce their diplomatic presence there those 2 countries that have really backed the opposition in belarus very heavily and i think he had germany's move perhaps ease in step with those fellow e.u. member states and in support of the belarus opposition ok simon young thank you. well known to a crisis in another former soviet republic cook is stunned where the prime minister has resigned following days of protests in the capital bishkek there are reports that the parliament immediately elected beg borrow an office replacement from the opposition only for him to be forced to flee he is angry protesters stormed the hotel where the emergency session of parliament was being held this comes amid increasing chaos and unrest following sunday's parliamentary elections he can see protesters forcing their way into government buildings and destroying images of probe russian president sort of by gen backoff official results from the 500

brigades to the present and to establish what passes those results have since been a no. let's bring in colleen wood who's a central asia expert with columbia university welcome to d.w. could be stunned does have a history of revolts against its leaders what sparked this latest war yes there were about allusions in jackson 5 and 10 and this time around the 16 parties that were competing in parliamentary elections on sunday only 4 of them made it past the incredibly high threshold that the government has for parties to actually gain seats in parliament so we end up with 4 parties representing only 64 percent of overall votes and those that did make it past the threshold are all pro-government parties the people were gathering in the capital to express their frustration with both these pro-government parties but also the tactics that they used to get elected that there was industrial scale vote buying and registration

voter voter registration fraud that people are very upset with ok so the president presenters and gen bekoff says he's got everything under control but the opposition claim they've seized power what is the truth why do you think. the last that we heard publicly from president jim was early in the morning on monday in kyrgyzstan that he released a video so people do not exactly know where his wares and yet at the moment the opposition. meeting council claims that they are in control but i think ultimately the power does lie with parliament that it's the 6th parliament the last parliament that was in power is elected a new speaker has elected a new prime minister and this interim government is going to be the one to make the call on holding new elections and ultimately the decision on whether to impeach the president here because it is very carefully set up its executive branch the house balance between the president and parliament but always the parliament has more

control than the president so in the coming hours even though. i think parliament is going to wield the power over the president anymore than him over that we're going to. moscow has quite a supporter of the president and moscow's call for what they said was illegal resolution what role is the kremlin playing in this yet kyrgyzstan is definitely an ally of russia it's an area of the european economic union but i don't know that russia really has a huge vested interest in the domestic politics other than stability and even claiming that putin really likes the current president more than passed last week in a meeting and he completely messed up the president's name calling him shine on show . so i think. from the comments perspective stability is all that matters is getting us back on track to the constitutional order is what's in their interests

the actual interplay between which actors win out i think is not as much of a concern for russians think i'm intrigued by this notion of stability because at the moment we have a rest. stop 2 former soviet states just coincidence or something going on in that quarter of the world that we really want to be paying more attention to. i think by that corner in the world of complicity it states that yes georgia also but in russia's backyard has parliamentary elections later october the gigas and has presidential elections next month moldova is going to the polls in november and the frequency with which all these countries are having elections is certainly worth watching but i think that there is something specific about the frustration and the boiling up of this energy in both belarus and more so in kyrgyzstan that these are places where rest have been building for a long time frustration with the formal channels was there and was not able to be.

pushed through these legal channels and i think that that's why we're seeing this unrest i think that's very clear thank you so much for joining us at collingwood from columbia university thank you. for take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has confirmed the presence of a no veto no be chocked type nerve agent in samples taken from alexei valley the russian opposition leader has now given his 1st video interview since his poisoning and said he believed he was attacked because russia north or to view him as a threat ahead of elections or. at least 14 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an explosion in the town of alabama in northwestern syria where this is a large truck bomb went off in a crowded area near a bus station the blast also damaged several buildings. germany's foreign minister heiko masses visit browning's holocaust memorial with his counterparts from israel

and the united arab emirates the visit is part of what's being called i 1st historic meeting between the u.a.e. on the israeli foreign minister as the 2 middle east countries continue to normalize their relations with. european court of justice is struck down changes to hungary's higher education loans the court called the role rules incompatible with e.u. law critics say they targeted and budapest university funded by george soros and the us for the underprivileged is a vocal critic of prime minister viktor orban right wing government. not to the united states where donald trump's personal physician says the president is doing extremely well and reporting no symptoms of covered 19 the latest health update comes a day after the president's return to the white house for treatment after a university hospital is the trump continues to downplay the seriousness of infection and his effects on the fact of the virus itself today he repeated his comparison of coverage to seasonal flu and said he would get back on the campaign

trail and that he was looking forward to the next televised debate with his democratic rival joe biden. let's bring in dr carey to protect she's a primary care physician a known visiting fellow at the brookings institution and she also served in the obama administration as i director of policy welcome to the w. so the president's doctor says mr trump is showing no symptoms of these doing string by oh what do you make of that given that we haven't heard about his covert tests yet yes it's quite puzzling the president as we know and have had confirmed by his doctors has received at least 2 retreatment which are generally reserved for patients who are moderately or severely ill so paints a bit of a different picture of those 3 treatments an antibiotic cocktail which is experimental in the united states at this point dexamethasone steroids in high

doses and rem definitely are an anti-viral drugs so these are potent drugs with serious potential side effects especially the steroids and it just does not seem to be consistent with the more rosy picture that you just mentioned from both the president's personal physician as well as the president himself on twitter and in videos. the president has tweeted that he's looking forward to he's that 2nd debate with his democratic challenger joe biden on the 15th of october is not advisable. it's not advisable if in fact the president is only 2 weeks out from his infection and i think that's a critical reason that we would like to understand the country the world really wants to understand what the president's lab values are not because we want to violate his privacy but it is a matter of national security when in fact he might be potentially exposing others

to the virus for example at a debate with another presidential candidate on average kovan 1000 patients are able to resume more normal activity and are considered less infectious on average 10 to 14 days after being diagnosed that debate next week would put him squarely at 14 days but that's an average not all patients follow that rule and we do know that the present president is getting frequent blood draws so that data could be helpful in answering the very question you asked right so we have a president who is or you have a president who has who appears to have successfully overcome a covert 90 struck quite. a defiant in triumphant tone on his return to the white house do you see that as being sort of good for national morale. i don't and here's why i would say that what's good for national morale is knowing that the president

is recovering i think that when americans when the world heard about his diagnosis in fact i was personally stunned so it is good for morale that he's recovering what is not good for morale is to set an example that could make people believe that 5 days after diagnosis you can just bounce back we do know from a worldwide of experience patients in germany and all around the world that you can see patients feeling as good as the president does and then around day 7 to day 10 which is literally this week you can see a steep decline in fact if you'll recall in the president's close friends herman cain about the same age was positive for the virus felt very good and actually died about 24 days later so the president is 74 he's a male he has chronic conditions she is still in a very important window where he is seriously at risk good talking to you that's very clear thank you dr conveyed to the brookings institution.

the film slumdog millionaire made it well the famous that of by that of a india's a lot is this slum located in the heart of mumbai but it's not the pond that it's all thorns he's a favorite coronavirus would run from pens and one of the most densely populated districts in the whoa instead i doubt having managed to flatten the cuff without the times of the count company but containing cough it came at a price. about a 1000000 people live in this crawling slum of tired of being known quote it's multicultural and entrepreneurial spirit. with its knowledge of migrant working class. he was expected to see it is a massive 1000 outbreak earlier this year. instead it effectively containing the spread of the widest drawing global attention. to control the ball with situation

have the authority of the author to measures like aggressive testing and cleaning all the nice thing with regular of end and 14th and defining containment and the heart will get flagged down. the shutdown will all work back in march due to the nationwide lockdown which the heart of the heart the housing the small businesses and bookshops that had been trading that keen to a standstill. moment good has lived in the heart of the for 30 years working as an art isn't doing very thread book on fabric. after months of sitting idle up there has just resumed work in his workshop. earlier i used to get orders from clients but now i have to go out and look for them. and i still don't get much work there's been a lot of lost. i have to pay the room rent and the electricity bill.

he says he has never seen a slowdown like this. 6 months with economic activity limping back to like most people like up there are still struggling to on a living. come to the world of what all work has been severely affected the economy was already in bad shape now because of coronavirus people have lost whatever savings they had moving. authorities in mumbai bracing themselves as charlie has begun to see infections rising again as restrictions are eased and migrant workers are down. we have endorsed i believe we're going to. know what we have to do is we have heard their member. in case of emergency we hope to keep on posting them. their regular houses but is it turning to the street to the changing situation still require a major overhaul in part of the school nothing team in strategy.

is if you think things will pick up a bit one says craftsman back to their villages. but he is still expecting it to be hard to make a good living for quite some time to come. now is nobel prize season again and today's announcement was for the winners of the physics award is being shared by 3 people who carried out pioneering research into black holes half of the $1100000.00 prize will go to britain's roger penrose who provided the mathematical proof that black holes existed back in the sixty's and the other half is being shared by the 2 other witness american a strong country gets under german master physicist and 100 get some that work prove the existence of a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy the milky way.

what is a black hole. black holes are among the weirdest objects in the universe there traps and space time where gigantic amounts of matter are compressed to a point so massive that it curved space almost infinitely and brings time to a standstill and the border of this bizarre world is known as the event horizon. the german astronomer. did seminal calculations of the defining parameter describing the event horizon. black holes are formed when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle or when the compact remains of death star as merge that's how the light weights among these gravitational traps are born they're called stellar black holes those gravity ranges from between a few times to some 10 times that of our sun media massive black holes can have up

to 100000 times the solar mass and the really giant super massive ones lurk at the center of many galaxies millions even billions of times as massive as the sun. black holes grow by sucking up everything in their vicinity even might can't escape the gravitational traps and they merge with one another to grow. albert einstein predicted them in his general theory of relativity. but they were 1st detected around 90 years later in the center of our galaxy the milky way is one such invisible mass that accelerates nearby stars to incredible speeds. telescopes around the world were synchronized to capture the 1st ever image of a black hole. the relatively. unspectacular looking picture shows the place where time comes to a standstill a dark event horizon surrounded by

a ring of light from the heart matter that orbits the black hole with a milestone in astronomy. how well the w. has been speaking with one of the 3 winners that you have an astrophysicist right denzel so how did he and his taint go about proving the existence of this black hole at the center of the milky way. and so what we've done in the galactic center is by using the gravitational pull by the central object which she received assume might be a block whole of $4000000.00 solar masses onto the gas and a star so ron reagan by precisely measuring their motions we could show number one the newton's theory was not adequate and that you indeed need need eyes science theory and that the only plausible solution of the object is a massive black hole. easy when you can but you know how it's brought iranian

sports have taken a step towards gender equality for the 1st time iran well officially have a female powerlifting team take part in international competition for women already competing in the sport it so welcome and overdue you initiative iranian foreign honey prepares meals for her family. and she's also preparing to officially compete as a power lifter for iran for the 1st time the 29 year old has been active in the sport for several years and saw some success but the competitions weren't recognised now they will be the hours of pumping iron are finally paying off. in my opinion this is some of the best news i've received since i've been active in powerlifting. i'm sure the support of the federation inspire a lot of unknown talents around the country to blossom and step forward. i don't

they've been hesitant to do so. but it will be a lot better for powerlifting women to have the support of the federation. still. some iranians have a negative view of women in power lifting by far and he believes that could change if she succeeds in international competition the idea of female power lifting has already generated some enthusiasm time will tell if iran has the potential to become world champions one day. now the diamond one about to show you may not look down market but it's just been sold what experts say is a bargain price it is an extremely rare and flawless white diamond that's just been sold that southers in hong kong for just under $16000000.10 current stern made history as the 1st gem this quantity to be sold without a minimum bidding price was part of my knowledge of stone mined in canada 3 years

ago and was snapped up by an unnamed telephone bit on. a quick reminder about top story at this hour better as his opposition leaders falana taken the sky at school for german support in forcing new elections in country as you may be appealed and told since been made with time so i'm going to merkel and other political leaders. i would have more world news at the top of the hour stay with us i'll be back in just a moment to take you through a bit of good. if

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the students who are. training success for. such a. starts october 15th w. he's back he was president donald trump is out of hospital and actively campaigning from the white house we don't know if he's actually free of covered 19 yet because no one will say but now he's back how will he rescue a campaign that's hovering around 14 points behind his rival joe biden and how do we counter michelle obama's new attack ad i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day.