china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th. indonesian recovery teams to locate the flight data recorders of a passenger plane that plunged into the java sea investigators hope the data will reveal why the aircraft went down just minutes after takeoff from jakarta for thousands of people on board also coming up. choose a new president after violent protests ousted the country's previous government in october preliminary results show. the front runner who is promising

a fresh start and an end to corruption. and sex workers face financial distress and increase risk to their health during the. major restrictions. unless they defy a ban on prostitution we talked to a sex worker in belgium. so . it's nice to have you with us indonesian search teams have located the flight recorders of a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea on saturday 62 people were on board the boeing 737500 aircraft authorities now hope the black box data will clarify why the plane came down only minutes after taking off from jakarta. looking for clues to make sense of tragedy indonesian search and rescue teams sort

through debris found by divers in the java say. body parts and children's clothes were among the 1st items retrieved from the water. at the plane's black box recorder confirming the debris is from the missing boeing 737500 . still hoping for unlikely good news the relatives of the 62 people on board with authorities where they hand over d.n.a. to help identify potential victims. 4 people on the plane. her husband lives and works here so his wife and 3 children planned to visit and holiday here. but it ended like this.

air flight left to kata airport on saturday bound for a 90 minute journey to pontiac. but lost contact only minutes after takeoff from online service flight right out 24 so as the plane suddenly losing altitude and speed. boats will continue to search the ocean as authorities try to piece together what happened to flight. preliminary results in the presidential election are pointing to a landslide victory for the populist candidate. he has received nearly 80 percent of the vote in the early count the nationalists. for the central asian country and in. the election comes after violent protests ousted the prevent government last october. for more on this i am joined by our correspondent emily sure when in moscow emily just recently came back from reporting in bishkek. emily greetings the

previous head of government disorders apart is considered the favorite what how do you how do would you define him politically in other words what can you tell us about his platform was that a shot of is kind of a divisive figure in some ways though he has now become very popular he was actually in prison on charges of kidnapping a public official until he was freed by protesters in in that revolution that happened in october when people took to the streets to protest against the recent parliamentary electoral election results. and he then became acting president he's known as kind of a nationalist he's become known for wanting to nationalized the country's gold mines for example and he's been presenting himself as kind of a man of peace of the people he comes from the countryside himself where he's now

very popular and he's been saying that he wants to reform the country and get rid of the corruption and the kind of clan politics that kyrgyzstan has become kind of known for when i was in bishkek people told me that for them a lot of people told me that for them he kind of stands for stability and that they kind of that they finally want a strong hand especially after the recent protests the recent revolution will you know to where the kyrgyzstan is known as the island of democracy in central asia citizens also voted on constitutional changes including limiting the power of parliament is shifting back to authoritarianism. well i think that's a concern among some of the experts that i spoke to and also some activists who have been taking to the streets every weekend every sunday to protest against these constitutional reforms they say that not only do they give the new president who

most likely will be part of too much power but that they also could limit kind of democratic freedoms like freedom of speech they say that part of himself has actually just written this constitution in order to have more power and that he'll be kind of on using this word that refers to the former central asian author or a tarion rulers of your as it were this is a country that has seen 3 revolutions in the last 15 years and i think everyone agrees that they want change i think the question is just for many people how they want it whether they want stability or whether they want to continue on the sort of democratic path that the revolution heralded we only have about 30 seconds or so but the virus pandemic has. cash strapped economy hoard pushing up prices on everyday goods how is that likely to impact the country's political future.

well the experts that i spoke to say that the economy is the economic situation is actually so bad that it could next year be a poison chalice for whoever takes over in the country and that it could actually lead to new protests and potentially even a new revolution in the country and really sure and thank you so much for the. highlighting now some other international stories vote counting is underway in kazakhstan elections the ruling party is expected to win the vote cementing its influence over the central asian country there's social democratic opposition boycotted the election dozens of protesters have reportedly been detained in the country's largest city after publicly supporting the boycott. at least 3 people have been killed by a bomb blast in the afghan capital kabul officials said the victims were employees

of a security firm affiliated with the interior ministry the country has seen a spate of targeted killings as government negotiators prepared to resume talks with the taliban and ending decades of conflict. tech giant amazon is removing right wing social media app parlor from its cloud servers in the aftermath of the u.s. capitol siege it follows similar steps to limit access to the network by google and apple bills itself as a free speech alternative to mainstream platforms and has seen a recent surge in popularity. has signed a deal to conduct a last stage trials of its most advanced grown a virus vaccine on volunteers in iran the agreement between the 2 countries came on the same day that iran's supreme leader banned the import of american and british produce vaccines calling them completely untrustworthy. now

pakistan's energy minister says power has been restored to most areas after disruption in the national grid left the entire country in the dark overnight authorities say they're investigating the cause of the blackout which has been blamed on a technical fault pakistan is no stranger to outages but this was the worst it's experienced since 2015. punched into darkness street lamps replaced by vehicle had lights normal nighttime. black and. i left my home thinking only our house had no electricity but then i saw it was dark everywhere i was shocked and i said there's no light in karachi businesses are closed other activities are shut down. people are worried because they can't contact anybody because their mobile phone batteries have. this situation is causing

a good deal of trouble the blackout happened suddenly nobody anticipated. this weekend's brings back memories of 2015 when around 80 percent of pakistan was left without power the country's energy minister. said that sunday's blackout was caused by a fault in the power transmission system here and people to remain calm. dealt with the problem. in the meantime only those with their own generators can get some light relief from the darkness. the pandemic has surely brought economic upheaval into many people's lives for sex workers it's meant a choice between knowing come in serious new health dangers. reports from belgium she says she loves her job but for belgian sex workers life has become an uphill struggle. because i want to it is also you know day is

a challenge i notice that every day i'm getting stomach cramps because the situation is so stressful because if i get caught i'll lose everything if i get find out today tomorrow and be in history of the national and i think the 27 year old left her job to begin sex work full time a year ago letting strangers into her home was never entirely safe but by defying the lockdown ban on prostitution now she's taking an even bigger gamble sit back and i can see that i'm not close out of it if. it isn't like aids for example where you can just wear a condom and be protected end of story it's much more delicate it's like playing russian roulette but the end of the day i'm an adult and i'm choosing to take the risk so are my clients on their own dude a common point so this she says she has no choice but to keep working like many others she operates under the radar because there's no legal recognition for self employed sex workers that means no state benefits for income she'd lose during

lockdown well prostitution continues behind closed doors the windows here against red light district remain empty buying and selling sex isn't illegal in belgium but making money from the sex work of others this campaign is warned this grey zone offers fertile ground for discrimination if a sex worker wants to have a loan an insurance if she wants to rent a house she doesn't have baseless to show how much she earns. if she goes to a bank and the bank has some suspicions the bank will say like ok maybe you're a sex workers and if you're a sex worker we will not give you a loan will not give you no accounts we will give you insurance because then we are punishable by law there is hope for a change in policy belgium's new government has vowed to improve the living and working conditions of sex workers but some more this misses the point entirely support organization for women working on the streets of brussels wants to see the

evolution of prostitution. thank you inside from what we see on a day bases prostitution is sexual violence and sexual exploitation and women are women and to them boys and go are. main victims of a fate aws he also wants things to change but for her the priority is legal recognition to give thousands of sex workers here the security to weather future crises the people at the heart of it say this debate can take place without them in bundesliga actually norbi leipzig wasted the chance to take advantage of buying munich's defeat to glom on friday they could have claimed the top spot with a win but lost 31 at home to dortmund jayden santos scored a classy opener in the 2nd half and then norway striker erling holland started a fine move 74 minutes in dortmund toyed with the leipsic defense with some suit

her passing. eventually finishing himself for 2 nil he scored again before a late consolation unwittingly did old rivals byron a favor and the champions stay top. here's a look at the other results from saturday's bundesliga games again leipsic wasted an opportunity to seize the top spot in a 31 home defeat by dortmund jayden sanch own early holland's classy double sealing that when leverkusen could only draw with bremen we knew in berlin also drew but freiburg one minds lost to frankfurt and replace shaka at the bottom. beat leaders by and munich on friday there are also 2 matches on sunday and a reminder of the top story we're following. indonesian search teams have located the black box flight recorder of a passenger plane that crashed near the job as she on saturday 62 people were

onboard investigators hope the data will clarify why the jet came down just minutes after takeoff. watching the news coming up our series reporter followed. who fled to lithuania to escape the dictatorship back home more news as always at the top of the hour we'll see that. what secrets lie behind the. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. to double your world heritage 360 get that. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken.

what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus up to the code of special monday to friday on. bloggers students activists and bad children they have all fled bella ruse and the old fart tarion regime in power that surprises and persecutes dissidents over the past months and a mole people have been fleeing the country they had to neighboring lithuania an e.u. member and southern most of the 3 baltic republics. vanna taleo and her team do what they can to help a lot that just 25 kilometers from here and dello russo but the people are fighting

for their freedom the power of freedom of expression for the right just to take to the streets. natalia kodiak of our lives in lithuania as capital will need us we spent a few days with her that. natalee was born in belarus but she's lived in lithuania for 20 years now enjoying success as a real estate agent since the summer of 2020 she's taken on the town of helping her compound treats to cross the border and escape the dictator's regime and balor owes . the people who come to us have to get out really fast like running from a fire and they don't have anything to eat and no roof over their heads because they're on the run so far we've taken in 210 people that's quite a lot i never would have thought we could do it. suddenly

a core from bella rose from an activist in need a name is. she asks natalia for news of her children natalia lets her know that lithuanian immigration has approved that entry visas it's a huge relief for you alone or what she thanks natalia for of support but yet natalia has to hurry to pick up the activists job done at the border a friend will be driving them as far as lithuania while their mother has to go underground simply because she aided the victims of police violence she faces criminal charges and loss of the custody of her children it is barely 30 kilometers from vilnius different worlds thora terry in belarus and eve you member lithuania which opened its borders to regime opponents. not hello i have to pick up refugees from bellows may i come then i did. not tell you colia give always

carries how white and red flag a symbol of the better routes you can protest movement beyond this border she could be fined or even arrested for having it. natalia looks for the new arrivals she recognizes alyona the activists friend by her red half. give me a hug. daniela 6 years old his sister because sr is that teen between if you want something to drink there is water and juice in the back down there. it just looks quite relieved but both are children who are wondering when they'll see their mother again. i mean we're waiting for the right moment but mary thought and said waiting until the way changes it's only a few minutes drive on the highway until they reach vilnius all decked out in its

christmas finery. alyona and the 2 children can stay here for the time being and wait for ilona. that was the shit the caresses that will. hear are the keys you can use them to lock the gate and the apartment. she went over with but i mean. now it's up to natalia to direct ilona into lithuania. ilana is going to try to slip across on her own she wants from natalia is a map if she doesn't make it she says she'll follow the roots natalia show. little . children it will give you strength just pick up the trail like a tigress you can make it. there. it'll be alright ilona will look after your children in the meantime i send you

a hug. and. that's how we love no. you don't know what the other day will bring what children the weather is or traumas they'll bring with them. it must be very tiring yes you get tired but when i get home i work for another 4 hours or so but i have to check all the names that have been added to make sure we've entered them and all the right lists and that we've answered every what and haven't forgotten anyone but on. the next day natalia colia gave us a visit spell a russian exiles and a hotel in the old town yong going pandemic unable to how to negotiate special conditions without tell ionas the refugees only have to buy about $400.00 euros

a month for a room. their expenses will be covered by donations until they get on their feet. that fellow and i know that. until 2 days before there's nikita was imprisoned serving 20 days for taking part in the student strike as soon as he was released his parents contacted natalee and followed her advice to bring him to the border before he gets thrown in jail once more the fact that you're even here is a success if the my last week was very hard edible 6 people were not allowed out of their roofs that's how it goes that is if you make all the preparations direct the person as far as the border and you suddenly find out you can't help anymore you feel sorry for these people and what will happen to them is a known thought about when you see a anyone who protests against the luger shanker regime is taking a big risk after students or workers suddenly they find themselves here without

a home. and with what's happening in belarus a sick thousands are being tortured and oppressed they're getting raped or one people have been killed the brutality is taking on even more terrifying forms yet i never thought anything like this could happen. with this for the because. they obviously fraudulent election and august sent tens of thousands of people into the streets of belarus to demand the resignation of alexander lukashenko widely known as europe's last dictator he's held on to power for 26 years now his security forces responded to the protests with violence mass arrests and torture. over 30000 people thought to have been arrested since august all the opposition

candidates are now either in prison or in exile. back at the lithuanian border a blogger from a ghillie of another critic of the regime is trying to enter the way mia. andre by daily off has actively opposed lucas franco for years he stood up to the pressure from the state security agencies for months until he was beaten by masked attackers then he flat. give us team consists of about 20 helpers one of them makita upon a show also from belarus has come to pick up a blogger for 300 days visibly relieved to be out of harm's way the key to knows all too well how he feels and dr will have to adjust to not having to watch his back constantly for fear of being abducted beaten watched or stalked and checked he's been under almost constant surveillance for weeks andre collected signatures

for opposition candidate street lana an off sky and live stream to the protests for that he sat in jail for 9 days. and yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah saif at last ilona the activist has made it out of balance and contacted her children they missed each other i don't know yet i had no other choice but to cross the belorussian border illegally on foot. i was terribly afraid that they'd start shooting at me. now that i am safe what i wish for most of all in my life is to hug my children. yes i know it will be easier for us here in the through lane yeah yeah i won't be harassed here that nobody will make fun of my children and bully them because their mother has different views. for

a while with me where you can have. daniel and his sister will have to be patient so they can see their mother in person loaners waiting for her temporary protection visa and the results of corona test. meanwhile under a but the only off the blogger from the gilly of has arrived at the hotel and vilnius he's on the phone with his new mentor who will help him get settled in lithuania. says months to be taken care of andrei needs a yearlong visa and a work in part that will have to learn lithuanian and find a job in short build a whole new life abroad. but 1st he's got to see the doctor so i have brains around my ribs on the left near my heart where they kick me that's the main thing for now . some of. it's likely to be some

time before he's really settled in lithuania. but i wasn't afraid to leave valorous rather i only feel pain because i love my home and the water because i want to live there it was a pain deep inside because they're not just chasing away lucien's love our home for the visitors. although plagued by a guilty conscience for those he has left behind andre intends to join other dissidents and continue to fight for a free ballot from exile and eventually to return to a country without the shango. that was a vigil for the victims of police brutality is held in front of the bella rusian embassy in vuln the us here natalia meets up with many of the better ruffians she helped to escape the dictator's clutches and rich freedom but i simply can't do it

any different they came up with i can't go on vacation and close the door on this helping these people here has become my life and you are you understand that everything you've accomplished the for your business and all your skills are only of there so you can fulfill this task. natalia hopes to continue helping people fleeing their home country as long as they need her support or not many here say the end of lucas shanker his regime is only a question of time and of how. ill owners escape and it while at last she can take her children and her arms and do it in freedom and safety but not yet in belarus. yep.

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