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does your story change? always understand your culture. so you are not a visitor, not against you. want to become sticking into migrants, your platform for reliable information. i the news . this is the newsletter from berlin. you said it's a hijacking to the u. s. it's an active piracy calls for sanctions against bella. rose, intensify after one of its fine suggest forces the civilians, passenger plane, to land in men to arrest
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a prominent opposition. acquisition also on the program gathered residents confronted daunting. the building challenge after 11 days is ready and strikes destroyed thousands of homes and critical infrastructure and looks for answers after 14 people died. a cable car crashed in the house. a special commission is established to determine by the human error. ah i'm so gale. welcome to the program you lead us meet tonight to discuss new sanctions against by the roofs after authorities in men's forced a ryan and plane land. and the rest of the passenger on board excited bellows and activists, rome and put protests of which was traveling from greece to lithuania when the
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aircraft was diverted to banner roofs, escorted by a fighter jet. under the pretense of a security alert. the incident has sparked global outraged with west and the this describing it as a hijacking and ation. piracy island and ryan has site security agents run life and left it after touched down in men's la rosky recess, rejects the accusations as unfounded the crowd at vilnius airport waiting for hours for a plane that finally arrived without. robin protested as on board. a message from the regime in paris critics aren't safe anywhere even in the air. i am, we are relevant protests of ich solidarity for the blogger activist who now faces up to 15 years in prison. protests of which was living in exile. he's a co founder of nita, an activist channel on the telegram messaging app, used to help organized protests against the bella rizzi in government. on sunday,
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the ryan air flight he was on had almost reached vilnius when it was forced to make a new turn and head with military escort seen here to men's passengers described in our as long ordeal on the ground that started off with better ruthie and police taking protests of it into custody. they just came and 1st of all, they took the guy of the journalists out from the lane and then they started just a marking the passenger european and us diplomats quickly condemned the arrest as well as the diversion of the plane. you commission president or cellphone the lion tweeted the outrageous and illegal behavior of the regime and bella risk will have consequences. she continued those responsible for the ryan air hijacking must be sanctioned. that puts off of it just nice colleagues have also called for sanctions
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was once the international pressure should be increased, the protests will not help. the people cannot fight guns with don't you know, we should be economic pressure. boy, the regime and european politicians to finally ask them what would be effective in their orders. but yet europe and leaders are discussing suspending transport links between belarus and the e. u as well as suspending, better resent overflights other sanctions are in the works and effort to make the regime pay for its defiance of international and human rights law. let's get that from the betters in capital journalist hannah little be covert joins us from men's. welcome to the w, and what has been heard of roman protest of it? sure since he left the plain. so what do we know now? we don't know much to be honest, but he is been held at the kitchen. the prison must probably,
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there is no information about him and the lawyer cannot reach him. the lawyer is not allowed to submit him and talk to his defendant. so we did not know what's happening behind the walls of the prison. there are currently 3 cases that were launched against him on monday. can bill or we do not know whether his can of the fact that he was going to be a tourist list was anyhow, qualified for any terrorist accusations against him. so this is not known yet. and basically the, the authority and board was kind of silent about the situation that i'm on because i think the situation kind of the facts of his arrest was something that they did not expect. and now they're trying to, to kind of hide silence this information, right, misstate media that embedded was
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a report that the kid not order came from the president himself. why is this 126 year old, so important to him? will in there look at her and said that he himself ordered to embrace a fight, adjust to his court, the plain to the airport means among them that a month at the same issue was the list of terrorists by the k to be since november last year. he's a prominent during that, he's a prominent blogger, he's been very active on social media, and he has helped to spread information about the protests, about police brutality dissertation of the country via the influential telegram channel code next. and that's kind of the most important telegram channel the country and was so crucial. it was basically a key played a key role during the protest in august when there was no internet though and to
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the ground was only partly accessible. so everybody knows about among the savage and both we send he, he has been the problem that list and kind of people are really concerned about his safety of the moment and what's happening with him right now. thank you for that. thanks for joining us. that job is to be a cova in minsk. let's get more on the you reaction to this incident from my data abuse that brussels bureau chief, alexandra found non welcome, alexandra. so that you lead us meeting tonight to discuss the blocks reaction. what on the table? an array of potential punitive measures. that is what's on the table. some member states such as least 2 in ya or poland are saying that it's so what's needed is a non fly zones over belie ruth. they are calling on suspending old union
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flights over a be loose aerospace. they are also in favor of spending death b, l. r. risky and state own airline from landing at european union, airports, and friends has always come, come forward with a sort of proposal to also discussed. and that has pending old traffic, including ground transit from the roof to the european union. something that will have major effect on the country's economy and we will see what they are able to decide. but it's totally visible that there are under a lot of pressure to act after they have chosen very strong language to condemn the incident in minsk. so does that pressure mean that we are likely to see a unified reaction?
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while the decision today will definitely be another, a test for other blocks foreign policy that was struggling in the past. last week, the european union wanted to speak with one voice and to release a statement on the israel garza a crisis that was not possible because hungry block that statement. hungry, blocked, also a declaration condemning china for the security law in hong kong. so if you can see it's been difficult for the european union to, to find to speak with one voice. so we will see if hungry and victor all but is considered a strong ally of flooding. the 14 will be on boards. but we at least can, can expect a statement released by the majority of the member states. ok, let's talk about the influence of russia behind this will hear now from the c o of ryan. and this is michael o'leary,
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who says that there was security agents on the flight. this was a case of state sponsored. i was a state sponsored hijacking state sponsored piracy, i think was very fighting for the crew for the passengers who were held under armed guard had their bag searched and when it was clear, it appears that the intent of the russian authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion and we believed that was also some k g b agents, offloaded off the aircraft as well. i'm excited about the presumption i said president lucas shank wouldn't have taken such a dramatic step without being signed off by the kremlin. so is this likely to affect the already fraught relations between the, you and russia? well, that is something that we can really a few. i mean, russia was the reason for leaders to come together and have dinner tonight. and the 1st place to discuss the relations with russia that are being described as being at the lowest level and decades. even according to you foreign kalissa,
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chief. however, they're all always member states arguing that's important to, to try to work together with russia. because the european union needs russia to solve international crisis, for example. so we'll see if they can have a common position on that. what is clear is this, that this operation and means could not happen without the support of a russia, it's secret service. and it's also clear that alexander christian call could not be able to hold on to power for such a long time without letting me put in support. ok, thank you for that. alexandra phenomena in brussels will turn out some other stories that making use around the world. a man miles out of state later on. so she has attended a court hearing in person for the 1st time in the military coup in february, seen here in archive footage. she's facing
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a series of charges including excitement, to edition a lawyer say she remains defiant and in good spirits. she had her 1st face to face meeting with them before the hearing. so mo has its 1st female prime minister. it follows a protracted power struggle. so the outgoing plan is to try to stop the swearing in ceremony by locking the doors to parliament. for me, i know me matter. my cabinet improvised went ahead to be events. they turned police in asia and say they shot and killed assailants who stabs? 2 people in jerusalem. the wounded man was a soldier, engines in the city are high after israel's 11 day war with how much militancy. meanwhile, israelis and palestinians are still picking up the pieces after life is outbreak of violence. experts say the damage inflicted by israeli, as striking cause. it will take years to repair and cost millions. the w
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correspondent, tiny kramer census fis report from gaza city were a fragile seas. 5 been in place since friday. picking through the rubble in just 11 days, homes that shops and roads have been my town. and hundreds of lives have been not survivors on the strikes on going to city are dealing with the aftermath. idly, carnac, has lost over 10 of his family members in an as strike trauma. it's an inexplicable feeling. frustration is on the whole, i count what's happened. i don't understand timing sharps in just a couple of seconds, minutes our buildings on cool building, maybe building or say we're all flashing, nevada and medical residents are returning from when ever they could find shelter. some feel like know where it is safe in garza and i totally agree with teaching
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difficult in the law this time around the concentrated on recreational building and facility and media offices lightly. anything garza, haley, this will of course, have a logical on us 3 was have we tried to write this by bit slash and they put this back on me a bit of a target. everything that difficult even after the see sign, garza still faces another dangerous crisis. the corona virus pandemic. we had the 2nd wave, of course we didn't guys, the hospital was ever overwhelmed. you know, we have no vaccines enough vaccines for the population. we don't have enough testing. and then this came this war. there was a huge destruction of the main roads, electricity, water that with waste management. the stopped impacts will be felt for a long time. and then may as an author and professor of international
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relations that new york university center for global affairs. welcome to d. w. when the sci fi came into fact, last week, there were calls for new pace negotiations to begin immediately that you disagreed with this. why. why? because i think at this point, given the extent of the head to it down a multitude between the 2 side, the complete distrust as well. makes it impossible to, to sit down at the juncture and negotiate any kind of lasting piece. what is needed in my view is a process of reconciliation to begin with. what is being never meant as well as the people to people measures to begin to develop to trust, which is absolutely missing and sorry, the missing. and we need to restore some element of that trust, some kind of confidence in order for both to move forward to or some kind of solution that's going to have to take some time. ok,
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so you can have peace without trust. so what sort of trust building measures do you think would make a difference with that is, you know, between the 2 governors, folk collaboration and security matters and investing in the west bank and visitation.

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