bases data of any news live from berlin dozens of anti-government activists arrested in battle routes opponents of the regime to reignite mass protests that gripped the nation last year state every correspondent nick connelly was among those detained will speak to him about the ordeal also coming up 10 miles deadliest day since february schools of pro-democracy demonstrators are killed in nationwide confrontations as the army stages a show of force. plus anger on the streets of istanbul sounds of women rally

against the turkish government's decision to pull out of the domestic violence treaty. i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program police in belarus have detained more than 100 activists and a number of leading journalists following renewed anti-government protests among 5 reporters arrested on saturday was our own correspondent made connally who's been covering the protests against all thora tarion neda alexander lukashenko it was the 2nd time this week police have taken him into custody a crackdown comes as the opposition tries to bring people out onto the streets hoping to kickstart mass demonstrations like those saying after the claimed victory in a disputed presidential election in august. when economy has since been released and he joins me now from minsk nic tell us more about your deal what happened what

led to your detention. good morning well i've it's difficult to deal with it definitely was 5 hours wasted time and 5 hours where i wasn't able to report i was actually doing my job i was at this protest that had been posted by the opposition as the 1st big protest of this bring in a suburb of minsk would have to kind of walk through side streets to avoid police checkpoints and police attempts to stop people turning up i was wearing a blue journalist special i was easily identifiable now within about 2 or 3 minutes of me coming on a mobile phone i was in a bus and being taken to a police station and this is this 2nd time that you've been arrested in just 2 days and the situation in for journalists operating in belarus is obviously quite precarious what i'd like to report there. well the most important thing is that all

rebel are russians are very wary of speaking of showing their faces of going on camera for good reason we've seen in recent months people being put in prison being fined losing their jobs for speaking out in the summer people were still very much more open about expressing their opinions the numbers of people going out and just so big that it was difficult for the regime to keep tabs on everyone but now bit for bit in the months since those protests we've seen them coming after people who went out to want to demonstrations so that's very difficult little journalists face far greater than we do as foreign journalists people have just gone to jail for 2 years for doing a live stream from protests another journalist has gone for just 6 months revealing the protesters who lost their lives were not drunk as claimed by the police so it is a very difficult situation and the question really is is journalism illegal in this country even people who have the british and i do which is pretty restrictive perhaps to try and limit what you can do to try and have something they can then

threaten to take off you even if you have that you know if you're wearing blue if you're going by would have rules it still seems that going about your job is pretty much impossible and they want to keep us in our apartments off the streets and talking to you now just from our living room as. well so these detentions clearly having an impact what impact will they have on the protest movement can we expect to say more protests in the coming days. i think the protests will go on they're going to be decentralized and it's all going to be about for the opposition trying to keep people so spread out across city that it's going to be difficult for the police to make mass arrests we were really seeing things like people. reaching fireworks in their balconies. kind of. decentralized meetings online people hang up flags things that are easier to do short of bigger demonstrations some of the summer that we saw where you know hundreds thousands of people out streets that's going to be very difficult but time and time again people here tell

me that even even in these restrictive rules are stacked against the opposition that the government isn't respecting their own rules that even their rules to the press in terms of freedom of assembly they're not basically it's all just open to their. legislation in the moment and there is really no more structure so i think what will be convinced that this needs to go on because they are seeing the government isn't sticking to it and was. correspondent nicholas connick connally who was detained for several hours in doing his job reporting on the situation there nic thanks very much for speaking to us and take care. i'll cross myanmar opponents of the ruling genter are mourning the deaths of at least 100 anti-government protesters who were killed on saturday as the bloodiest day since protests in the country began last month well over 400 protesters have died since myanmar's military deposed the country's civilian government and the

tank it's later on sun searching in february. those who came out to protest knew they were risking their lives the army said as much before saturday's protests against me and mass military coup across the nation soldiers opened fire killing dozens of protesters many shot in the head this footage shows security forces beating an unarmed man unconscious it's been one of the deadliest days since protests began a show of force as the military holds a parade in the capital not be a door thousands of soldiers flanked by rockets and tanks join to lead a young condemned the protests as terrorism and again promised there will be democratic elections. as soon as the state of emergency is over there will be free and fair elections duties will be returned to the states. but no date has yet been set protests have not let up since the military coup began

at the beginning of february demonstrators are demanding the release of imprisoned civilian leader unsung suchi. hundreds of dead thousands imprisoned me this side is backing down in this brutal power struggle. journalist dave greene about following the situation from kuala lumpur he sent us this is this meant. there's no question about it that this is an army at war with its own people in the m.r.i. i mean there are reports credible reports of more than 90 people killed today so we could be looking at the death toll potentially of more than 400 total since the military coup was staged on february 1st so many of these people shot in the head i mean the warning came on state media about the possibility of demonstrators being shot in the head today it will be been doing that for weeks protesters have been getting shot in the head so many armed civilians dead at the hands of the country's

security forces this is part of the military plan to just terrorize the civilian population just like me m.r. who does and past have done well this noon to is doing the same thing not only with a number of people that they're killing on the streets in their homes but they're just terrorizing them with nighttime raids i mean i've spoken to people in the armor this week can tell me they're terrified every time they hear a knock on the door and sometimes it's not a knock on the door sometimes it's a door being kicked down and security forces rate you see people who are in custody of the security forces wounded people without weapons clearly in custody no way to fight back and yet they get beaten by the security forces sometimes people get taken away by the security forces and they turn up dead the next day it is just terrorizing the civilian population the generals of me i am are out for the reason and to protect the fortune that they've amassed over decades through this country's natural resources to the businesses they control so many of the people in the population live in poverty these generals are millionaires and they're trying to

protect their regime. turner as dave greene about speaking to us a little earlier from kuala lumpur now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour authorities in indonesia says suicide bomber has detonated outside a catholic church in the city of mecca soph injuring 7 people a attack comes on the 1st day of the catholic holy week which culminates in aced the sunday a priest at the church said 10 papal have been hurt some of them seriously. and. thousands have rallied in cities across the united states to demand an end to hate crimes against asian americans assertion as the asian racism and violence has stoked fears and outrage in the community earlier this month 6 asian american women were killed in a shooting rampage in atlanta georgia. french energy giant her town has suspended its gas operations in northern mozambique after an attack one of its facilities security sources say several people died when militant islamists seized the town of

palma hundreds have fled after days of fighting. $5000.00 revelers have danced the night away in barcelona a rock concert was part of a study looking at ways to safely hold large events during the pandemic is it fans were required to wear face masks and test negative to cope at 19 on the day of the event. thousands of women have marched in istanbul to protest against the turkish government's withdrawal from an international treaty on abuse the a stand all convention was championed by turkey 10 years ago now with ankara as withdrawal many women in turkey say their safety is being jeopardized and a calling for the move to be reversed but. we're not afraid of you and we will not comply shot the women at this demonstration in istanbul. protesting against what they see is the government acting against women. couldn't you know i think the

number of women being murdered is growing we've hit absolutely rock bottom they should be talking about how best to finally implement the istanbul convention but instead they just dropped it it's unbelievable you know. despite a dramatic increase in femicide in recent years turkey has pulled out of the convention the international treaty is intended to protect women and sexual minorities from abuse. president wretched diabetic one withdrew in a surprise decree that he shrugged off accusations from legal experts and opposition groups that only the turkish parliament can make that decisions. our decision is final just like back when we entered into the agreement we're not leaving it no one else should get involved. in those. analysts believe one is playing to ultra conservative elements and kristof issue reasoning the convention supposedly normalizes homosexuality undermining turkish values

opponent say out of one does not speak for the rest of the country they want the government to rejoin the treaty. demesne feel unsafe when they walk home alone at night no we have to be afraid we're saying no to the system. women's groups say that pulling out of the treaty sends a completely wrong signal to violent offenders as. they operated of age of sue is can now say technical or human eric could have caused the huge container ship to run aground engine is still working to refloat the ever given the vessel has been blocking one of the world's busiest shipping lanes since tuesday. how did the ever given one of the biggest container ships ever built end up blocking one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and how long will it stay there the chairman of the suez canal authority is facing more questions than he can answer but he says more than just strong winds caused the accident.

an accident this big has several mistakes several causes a part of it could be a technical mistake which is under investigation and there could also be human error which is also under investigation and there could be a lot of mistakes but we can't say what they are now the only factors we can be sure of now are the wind and the sand story. those are not the only factors like i said but the rest will become clearer in the investigation. but while experts investigate further the ship still has to be freed 20000 tons of sand have been removed from the area around the bow and 9000 tons of ballast water have been pumped out in order to lighten the vessel the operation has so far been unsuccessful but 2 more tugs are on their way if they can't move it the next step will be to unload cargo. if the issue of lightning to load is of course planned 3

or the 3rd scenario which we hope not to reach. but if we need to we will have ships with cranes empty container ships with cranes that can remove the containers one by one off the ship and put them in the other vessel until we empty the whole load. of. the german insurance group says the blockage is costing the global economy tween $6.00 and $10000000000.00 a week a 10th of the world's merchant shipping uses the canal. you know watching david you need. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you police in belarus and arrested dozens of anti-government activists and journalists correspondent nick connelly was among those detained. at least 100 protesters have been killed in myanmar's military leaders put on a show of strength armed forces day more than 300 people have died since

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