let's see now, what if i know my son very well? certainly we and our friends and relatives have clearly seen that there are bruises on his face. being covered well with makeup pre mom, one more. but i see that the nose bridge is apparently his nose is broken tv loss muslim. knowing all so i can say with confidence that he will never admit to because festival he hasn't taken part in master. stepan says he's never organize them. he's all your son. well, please stand off and help. i urge you to because they will kill him. they will kill him, sofia up hagar the companion from on practice here that she was also taken off the ryan air flight and detain a she appeared in a video on tuesday evening. i am so take a sophie and the reason i was born on february 10th, 1998. i am

a citizen of the russian federation. i live in lithuania, vilnius on may 23rd 2021. i flew on the same plane with rum on potassium, which i am the editor of telegram channel, black book, which publishes private information about internal affairs officers. let's speak more about this now with tanya. look. she now she's the europe and central asia associates director at human rights watch in moscow. thank you for joining us. we heard there what was likely a confession from sophia, a paper that was recorded under the rest. and we've seen a similar video from roman for this year, which what do you make of these videos? lynch, 1st of all, ah, it is crystal clear, the booth is actually made on did us the dog is without saying. and indeed, if you look, protest searches face, it's puffy and eat blasted with pancake makeup,

which reinforces the very weight and concerns about throttle, salvage cost being tortured, no, the new doubt in recent months. so there isn't as peaceful protest up to the embellish, arbitrarily detained, and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment. they were vicious, with beaten, they withheld in truly tortuous condition to the concern for the noise and physical insurgency of protest. rich and sophia got extremely, extremely grave, right? penny law in danger, their lives are in danger. and we know meanwhile that there could a crack down on journalists and bell roof has also ramped up. can you tell us what the situation is?

a for journalists right now. both the russian authority of the change in treated the search, numerous offices, independent media love, the local and for in the locked up nina and you know, including on chance to criminal charges. they also introduce new legislation that effectively makes it impossible for independent from kimberly. and specifically to be put on a peaceful process. we would see like streaming from unsanctioned process is no effectively bombed in ok. she. so it's an extremely dangerous situation for both protesters and journalists now the opposition leader to set on a teacher know guy. i spoke to the european parliament about this incident

a little while ago. let's listen to what she said. they're in their flight incident . lucas, santa cruz, the line in became a threat to international peace and security. hence, direction of the international community is justifiable, is strong and effective. but i would like to emphasize the sense leave in decent, must fear of lawlessness for more than 9 months. this respect for human rights and freedom is the teacher of caution for the keys. but since strict elections of august 2020, the regime has completely lost the bond, the risk of acceptable behavior. so we heard a very clear message from the atlanta teacher. there are to the european parliament . what would your message be to your opinion, lawmakers right now and what needs to be done by for saying the slides belonged by the fact the hijacking like bill russian of which is clearly in to send

a message to civil society does the will not tool a thing in the attempt to crush you sent the new action. what's the law, if you will, all is to the free and to crew. and in addition to sending the message to the people and they're all to something is to democratic governments, they're sending it to the roster and in the foods to these corns to the lawless action by mr. lucas, shank. gen o'clock. and government should drive the safety of rum on protest savage, and to see the circle and draw which is the well being of bill of russian civil society that needs like novel before. we'll have to leave it there, tanya looks, you know,

europe and central asia associate director of human rights watch. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. now to some other stories making headlines at this hour, a former chief adviser to british prime minister boris johnson has been answering lawmakers questions on the government's initial response to the corona virus crisis . dominic coming so the government failed the public by reacting to slowly. he accused, john said, not taking the threat seriously. of course in brussels, of hearing the european union's case against the vaccine producer astrazeneca that you says, the company violated their supply contrib contract. it says astrazeneca owes the block, $50000000.00 doses, which had failed to deliver on time. us media reporting that new york prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to decide whether to indict former president donald trump on criminal charges. they say the jury will look at evidence from investigations and the trump business field, and the alleged payment of hush money to women on his behalf to us secretary of

state and any blinking has met with the egyptian president as part of his diplomatic mission in the middle east, lincoln is in the region following 11 days of conflict between israel and hamas. his talks with the egyptian president, i've got a c, c, r do to focus on strengthening. last week's got a cease fire and getting reconstruction. 8 into the gaza strip is due to travel on to jordan later. gentlemen, any comment ahead of me? let's get the latest on the story correspondent kareema. go. how are you standing by? in cairo kareem. it's good to see you. egypt brokerage. this sees fire between israel and hamas, so how closely are aligned or egypt in the u. s. and how to cement to cease fire and maintain stability in the region? well, 1st and foremost, because this is a thank you visit by joe biden, for to easy to brokering the ceasefire because we should not forget the relationship between the 2 countries is not without tension. i mean,

the former us president donald trump called interest to present to see his favorite dictator. and then on the other hand, biden, when he started office, he said he would put more emphasis on the simplification of human rights. that seemingly, of course, the date is not on the agenda. washington is simply simply recognizing the strategic importance of egypt. when it comes to god. of course, both countries have a common interest that is to stabilize the volatile situation. because the don't forget the guy's a strict lies on the doorstep. so the main interest of egypt is god's us stability . it's where the things might escalate. they might be stuck with the problems that follow for washington. on the other hand, of course, egypt is the main channel of communication to us because you're not directly talking to them. well, we know that the secretary said anthony,

blinking said it is key to rebuild and repair garza without re supplying hamas. so how will they be allowing aid through this border to gaza when egypt is sharing the only border, was the got the ship that is not directly controlled by israeli is present up to the pledge 500000000 dollars for the reconstruction of the gaza strip. but when comes to the question, how to circumvent the hama and the reconstruction of god, i think this is a totally illusion. how much is controlling all aspects of life in the gaza strip and mainly it's ministration. but this is a problem not only usually has to deal with, but also of course the americans and the european because the situation on the ground is very, very different. and korea looking ahead. secretary state blanket will also move on to meet with danny and leaders. what role does jordan play in maintaining the fire?

what i think joiners emphasis will go to other progress, think mainly dissertations, the limit the with think for palestinians just indians. and the main problem here is israeli occupation and is the question of equal rights between israelis and palestinians. none of those issues close to the source and i think the arab states, all of them will try to remain this issues on the agenda. the talking jordan jordan most probably will focus for now on coming. this patient is chosen and the issue of force evictions of palestinians and the moving set us to policy and neighborhood center eastern a lot on the agenda. their correspond kareem, alcohol re speaking to us from cairo. thank you. you wake up now syrians head to the polls today to vote in presidential elections. only voters and government held areas of the war torn country can cast their ballot. the opposition

claims to poll is a force itself. president bush are asa was running for a 4th. the 7 year term is pre ordained to win. it is the 2nd presidential election since the civil war ruptured 10 years ago. for shar allison face is all over the syrian capital, damascus. his campaign posters dwarfed those of the other 2 candidates cleared by the legislature to compete. the final vote tally is expected to show similar dominance by assad. so why is everyone so sure of an assad victory? to start with? not all syrians can participate. only residents of areas under government control can vote in the country that has the largest number of displaced people in the world. those in rebel held districts are ineligible in the autonomy. curtis regions in the north are not participating. millions of syrians have fled the country during its years of civil war. some of those living abroad can vote like here in

lebanon. on the other hand, germany has forbidden the syrian consulate from registering voters. another president, bashar al assad, is running against 2 other men. abdullah saloon, abdullah and mock mode of mud marie who stand very little chance of winning they qualified for the vote after an extremely restrictive process in parliament. all candidates must have the support of 35 members of parliament, which is overwhelmingly dominated by us. as party candidates must have lived in syria continuously for 10 years, excluding anyone from the diaspora. and they must be married to a syrian citizen. the united nations has said it is not involved in the election, and the u. s. says without un involvement, it won't recognize the results. syria media says the regime has invited observers, but from regime friendly countries like russia, iran, china,

and venezuela. the last elections were held in 2014, at the height of the civil war and saw a sod when in the lands live in a vote that was also widely condemned by the us and b. u, as neither free nor fair. the un security council will hold an emergency meeting on a growing crisis in molly the military there has stripped the countries, transitional president and prime minister of their powers. the 2 leaders have been tasked with steering the country back to civilian rule after a qu last august. but the military accused them of trying to sabotage the process. though the streets of bomber co seen. com, the situation remains, hence molly's vice president. i see me going to defend it. the rest of the president and the prime minister accusing them of sabotaging ongoing democratic process. but the transitional vice president had no choice but to

intervene in order to protect the transitional charter and different republic. they had to push aside the president and his prime minister as well as the people indicated in the situation that you gave us. yes, you know, president dow and prime minister mocked a wanna of reportedly being held at a military base outside the capital. the 2 men had been leading the process of returning molly to democracy of the law. she is qu against president abraham booker cater. both the united nations and the european union have criticized the renewal of the call for a return to the transition. it must be civil. what has happened is serious and grave and we are ready to consider the necessary measures more on either the museum or mississippi. in august abraham bouquet cater was acid as president,

following weeks of anti government protests over rising insecurity and its corruption. and feeling economy though, most people celebrated his removal. the slow pace of change over the last 9 months has been causing tension in molly, senate bubble. this is not good for military men in politics. i think they are failing in the suck or it's not that you're homeless for the civilians are much in the military or normal. and what's the problem so far we have fed up with these constant, arrested by the military. now they attacked people either to kill them or to arrest them. and we never know why. or who more than one moment. molly, together with its neighboring countries, is finding a growing insurgency from eastern east militants. instability in molly could handle

these efforts and lead to more insecurity across west africa. south africa, the former president, jacob's duma has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges relating to a $1000000000.00 arms deal dating back to the late 1990 s 2 months accused of accepting annual payments from a french arms manufacturer in return, prosecutor say he granted the company protection from scrutiny, summa is facing charges of corruption, money laundering, and racketeering. and that means that your increases that the court in peter murfreesboro covering the story for us. i adrien, so jacob, to my showed up in court. she pleaded not guilty. tell us more about what's happened. i both take up to my as well as the company involved pleaded not guilty of do my indicated once again that the all the that all at the political trial, that's what we bid from him before. is that many times in the past that this is

conspiracy against them by white monopoly capital, by foreign, by agencies. but they never put any evidence for that. any evidence on that table. but this kind of conspiracy theories, you can hear lots of them right in front of the court at the moment where unrest of do not support us showed up. they set up a massive stage, hence of do much written on it. in his home province, natalie says a very strong support debate, but on the whole country that has changed dramatically, he's definitely not having so much power in its own policy, even as yet before the charges back to the late 1990 s. what took so long to get to this point? right, the i'm still happened to 998 in 2005, one of my former financial advisors was convicted for accepting a bright from the manufacturer and passing it onto zoom on after what the prosecutor started to investigate. you might as well, but drop the charges shortly before he became president, not south africa, only after his presidency in 2018. the investigation started again,

the case started again, but even ever since then they've been a lot of delayed because of legal technicalities. mainly, some observers they'd do much to blame and a legal team that's right to delay the process. this is also what the pro, secure to today, indicated once again, but do not deny that. and how likely is it that the former president will actually end up in jail? well this gate, they will drink 4 months, possibly even years, more than $200.00 witnesses will testify here. but there's another case that could get them into trouble as much spot the do my set up as state capture investigation during his time as president of panel that is investigating corruption and the high level institutions taken over by corrupt individuals. he testified for a few days and then refused to go again. thing the commission is biased because of that the court decided he has to testify. he has to come back, he refused to do so. so in the next week, possibly, they might rule that he is facing zeta term. even this year he w correspondent,

adrien creech at the courthouse in peter r. richberg. thank you very much. thailand is tightening border controls to contain its worst corona virus outbreak. cases have searched over the past 8 weeks. authorities are especially concerned about the arrival of variance that are believed to spread faster. the indian variance has been detected in several migrant worker camps in bangkok and the south africa variances believe to have entered from malaysia. authorities have isolated a number of villages along the border. security forces control of road and thailand, southernmost region, behind the barbed wire village under locked down. cases of the very interest discovered in south africa where detected hit after a person infected with the very end is to leave, to cross the border from malaysia, get more bonding. we'll look now knowing villages in the tucked by district,

the district officials with checking on how many cases we have in each village to lower this regional cluster. as part of a nationwide rise in cases, infection rates and thailand, imaging new peaks less than 3 percent of the population have been vaccinated so far . while getting his 2nd curve, it shot prime minister prior channel check. so to allay fears, we have to assess the situation of the news with areas of high risk, moderate and you have to adjust our vaccination plan, but i can assure you that everyone will be vaccinated from a national vaccination campaign. won't kick off until the 7th of june. the government says 70 percent of the population will get vaccinated by the end of the year. meanwhile, ban cox, public transport workers have been queuing for their shots at the city's new

railway hub. their 1st in line at this new vaccination center that was open to the general public and soccer. the europa league final takes place on wednesday in the polish city of good dance. manchester united, other favorites to win the trophy and plenty of european experience under their belts. while opponents are in their 1st major final, a wind would propel the spanish team into next season's champions league and their coach knows a thing or 2 about this competition. tonight, emily plotting his route to the police title. it's a familiar role for the spaniard because when the competition 3 times with severe, he might be no stranger to european glory. but his current club is hillary. i'll go into the 1st major european final as underdogs. the emory says respect for manchester united won't affect his play leaf. was lisbeth data that he

was we have done with the other teams that you respect manchester, united, i think they arrive competition, us favorite to win the trophy alongside some other teams. and these people fall worried about and that will be showing them respect that we must believe in ourselves. the needle is unless fatal coffee and manchester united won't be short of belief themselves after finishing 2nd in the league, but with no silverware since 2017. the club is desperate to get back to its european glory days. their manager is part of united folklore. having scored the winner in the 1901909 champions leak final. and he knows that for the funds. second is nowhere. when you get to a final you, if you need to win it or you want to win it year, it's you don't get a price for for attending. on 1500 funds will be a load into the stadium in the polish city of gdansk, with capacity restricted because of the pandemic. united supporters are hoping for

another european title to add lustre to their legend. well, hillary owls small by the followers want to give this iconic trophy pride of place in another wise bear display cabinet. your pan football's governing body your way for has opened disciplinary cases against round madrid, barcelona, and you vent of over their roles and attempts to form a super league. they were among 12 bug threatened to break away from your wafer, but after a widespread backlash, all except those 3 pulled out of the super league. punishments for their refusal to back down could include a 2 year ban from your way for competitions, including the champions league. let's get a reminder of our top story. the mother of detained a fellow in journalists, remo process, which has appealed to international leaders to say person, say he had obviously been tortured since being hauled off or defer to brian air flights on sundays. she said she feared the government would kill her. and us

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