yes, no, because we will see now what i know, my son very well. we and friends and relatives have clearly seen that there are bruises on his face is being covered well with makeup premium was more, but i see that the nose bridge is apparently his nose is broken. tv muslim . knowing also, and i can say with confidence that he will never admit his skills because 1st of all, he hasn't taken part in math disturbances. he's never organize them, his whole new world. please stand off and help. i urge you to because they will kill him. they will kill him. sophia, a pig, the companion of roman protests year, but she was also taken off the ryan air flight to entertain. will she appeared in a video on tuesday evening. i am to take us to see and leave. now. 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 llc. she now she's the europe and central asia associate director acts 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 arrest. and we've seen a similar video from roman practice, which what do you make of these videos? the 1st wall off it is crystal clear, the booth is actually made on the us, the argues without saying. and indeed, if you look at protest searches, face, it's puffy and eat lasted with pancake makeup,

which reinforces the very waiting concerns about brought the salvage possibly being tortured. no, being in doubt in recent months. so the ins and thousands is peaceful protest to the indelibly, the arbitrarily detained and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment. they have a vicious, with david, held in surely tortuous condition to the concern for the life and physical insurgency of protest. rich and sophia got extremely, extremely grave, right? very law endanger their lives are in danger. and we know meanwhile that there could crack down on journalists and bella. ruth has also ramped up. can you tell us what

the situation is for journalists right now? both the russian as well, it's a key change in treated who is doing the search. numerous offices are independent media, love the local and for in the locked up nino, you will notice including a chunk of criminal charges. they also introduce new legislation that effectively makes it impossible for independent from kimberly. and specifically to be poor on peaceful proctor. 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. with the ran the flight. incidental. lucas shameka is truly the line and became a threat to international peace and security. trans direction of the international community is justifiable or strong and effective. but i would like to emphasize the blue sense leave in this must fear of lawlessness for more than 9 months. disrespect for human rights and freedom is the feature of shameka style for the case. but since direct elections of august 2020, the regime has completely lost the boundaries of acceptable behavior. so we heard a very clear message from atlanta teacher there or to the european parliament. what would your message be to your appeal lawmakers right now and what needs to be done by forcing the slides to learned by g. soc the hijacking, the light bill,

the russian of which is clearly in to send a message to civil society that they will not talk a thing in the attempt to crush descent. the new action, what's the wall is $2.00 to the trade and to crew. and in addition to sending the message to the people, and they're also the something is to democratic governments. they're sending it to the last of the, the, in the foods to respond to the lawless action by mr. lucas, shank, gen o'clock. and government should drive the safety of rum on processor village and the fees to circle and dr. choice do 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 for around above some other headlines at this hour, a former chief adviser to british prime minister of boris johnson has been answering lawmakers questions on the government's initial response to the corona, virus crisis dominant coming. so the government failed the public by reacting to slowly. she accused johnson of not taking the threats seriously. i attended a court in brussels of hearing the european union's case against vaccine producer astrazeneca, the e u says the company violated their supply contract that says, astrazeneca owes the block of 50000000 doses, which had failed to deliver on time. and u. s. media are 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 investigation center, trump business deals, and the alleged payments of hush money to women on his behalf to us secretary of

state antony blanket has met with the egyptian president as part of his diplomatic mission in the middle east. lincoln in the region following 11 days of conflict between israel and come off his talks with the egyptian president of sci fi i do to focus on strengthening last week's gaza. see fire and getting reconstruction aid into the gaza strip. he's due to travel on to jordan later. let's get the latest on the story correspondent kareem alcohol re 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? are egypt and the u. s. and how to cement to cease fire and maintain stability in the region. well, 1st and foremost, of course, this is a thank you visit by joe biden, for to easy for brokering to cease fire. because we should not forget the relationship between the 2 countries is not without tension. i mean the former us

present donald trump called the present after his favorite dictator. and then. ready 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 and it is to start realize the title situation because they don't forget the gaza strip light on the doorstep. so the main interest of the ship is god's us stability. it's where the things might, when they 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 enter the book and said it is key to rebuild and

repair garza without re supplying hamas. so how will they be allowing aid to this border to got when egypt is sharing the only border with the gather ship, that is not directly controlled by israel, the president up to the pledge, 500000000 dollars for the reconstruction of the gods. but when comes to the question, how to circumvent the, how much in the reconstruction of gods? i think this is totally how much is controlling all aspects of life in the gaza strip and mainly it's ministration. but this is a problem not only easier has to deal with, but also of course the americans and the european because the situation on the ground is very, very different. and korean. looking ahead, you know, secretary state lincoln will also move on to meet with jordanian leaders. what role does jordan play and maintaining the ceasefire?

what i think joiners emphasis will go to other progress and got many dissertations the through the limit, the westbank for palestinians genius and the the main problem here is the israeli occupation and is the question of equal rights between israelis and palestinians. none of those issues close to be source and i think they are upset. all of them will try to remain these issues on the agenda. the talking jordan jordan most probably will focus for now on coming station eastern and the issue of force evictions of palestinians. and the moving of set us into policy and neighborhoods into eastern a lot on the agenda there corresponded kareem alcohol re speaking to us from cairo . thank you. syrians had to the polls today to vote in the presidential elections. only voters in government held areas of the war torn

countries can cast their ballots. the opposition claims to pull is a force. it says president bush are all i thought was running for a 4th 7 year term is pre ordained to win. was the 2nd presidential election since the civil war erupted. 10 years ago. suds face is all over the syrian capital, damascus. his campaign posters, dwarf 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 serious 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 this theory and consummate from registering voters. president bashar al assad is running against 2 other men. abdullah saloon, abdullah and mark mood after 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 a certain party. candidates must have lived in syria continuously for 10 years, excluding any one from the diaspora. and they must be married to a serious citizen. the united nations has said it is not involved in the election, and the us 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 landslide in a vote that was also widely condemned by the us and b. u, as neither free nor fair for 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 had 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. the though the streets of bomber seemed calm. the situation remains hence. molly's vice president, a cynic going to defended the rest of the president and the prime minister, accusing them of sabotaging the ongoing democratic process. we spoke

about the transitional vice president had no choice but to intervene in order to protect the transitional charter and different the republic may had to push aside the president and his prime minister as well as the people indicated in the situation that gave us guess you know president bon dow and prime minister mocked a wanna reportedly being held at a military base outside the capital. the 2 men have 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 rails renewal. return the call for return to the transition, which must be civil but what has happened is serious and grave. and we are ready to consider the necessary measures more of the museum necessary in august abraham

duplicate cater was acid as president, following weeks of anti government protests over rising insecurity. alice corruption and that feeling economy know most people celebrated his removal. the slow pace of change over the last 9 months has been causing tension in molly bubble. this is not good military men in politics. i think they are failing in the fucked or it's not that you're homeless for the civilians are much in the civil war . let me just out of him or normal must problem po. so we have fed up with these constant and rest by the military. now they attack people either to kill them or to arrest them. and we never know why out about a little more than a moment. money together with its neighboring countries, is finding

a growing insurgency from islamist militants. instability and molly could handle these efforts and lead to more insecurity across west africa. south africa, the former president, jacob summa has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges relating to a $1000000000.00 arms deal dating back to the late 1. 990 s u ma is accused of accepting annual payments from a french army manufacturer. in return, prosecutor say he granted that company protection from scrutiny, duma facing charges of corruption, money laundering, and racketeering. and d w. 's address increases at the court in peter murray for covering the story for us. i adrien, so jacob, to my showed up in court. he 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, all at the political trial,

that's what we hear from him before that many times in the past the business is conspiracy against them. by why monopolies capital, by foreign, by agencies, but you never put any evidence for that. any evidence on that table, but this kind of parent that here is you can hear that lucky i am right in front of the court at the moment where and with of do, my supporters showed up they set up massive states, hands of do much written on it in his home province, natalie said the very prompt, but on the whole country that has changed dramatically. he's definitely not having so much power in its own party, even as we had before. the charge of state back to the late 1990 is what took so long to get to this point right there happened that 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, i thought every got 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 of service they do much to blame and legal team. that's right. to delay the process, which is also what the pro, secure to today indicated once again, but denies that. and how likely is it that the former president will actually end up in jail? me? well, this case, it will direct for money, possibly even years, more than $200.00 businesses will testify here. but there's another case that could get them into trouble as much spot the do. my set up is states capture investigation during his time as the 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 and because of that the court here 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 dw correspondent, adrienne creature at the courthouse in peter more respect. thank you very much. and let's get some more headlines now. cycling yas has made landfall in the eastern india. coastal areas were hit by wins about 155 kilometers an hour and torrential rain. more than a 1000000 people have been evacuated in the states of west bengal. and it is the 2nd cycle to hit india in. as many weeks marchers in the columbia city of calling have demanded an end to nationwide unrest around 50 people have been killed in clashes between police and anti government protest her since april. the demonstrations were triggered by a plan tax high, but have widened to reflect anger over poverty, inequality and police violence to sports now in soccer, the europa league final takes place on wednesday in the polish city of good dance.

manchester united are the favorites to win the trophy and there are plenty of european experience under their belts. opponents v a r r in their 1st major final a. when would propel the spanish team into next seasons? champions league and their coach knows a thing or 2 about the competition tonight, emory plucking 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 villareal go into the 1st major european final is under doug him and he says, respect for manchester. united won't affect his please leave with whispered data that we have done with the other teams that you respect manchester, united. i think they arrive competition. same when the trophy alongside some other teams and the old people fall worried about and that will be at the own, but showing them respect. but we must believe in ourselves the needle,

the 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 desperate to get back to it. you repeat, glory days, their manager is parts of united folklore having scored the winner and the 1999 champions, leak final and he knows that for the funds. second is nowhere. when you get to a final you, you need to win it or you want to win it to you. it's, you don't get a price for for attending. $1500.00 funds will be a load into the stadium in the polish city of get danced 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 driven corona, virus roles could cause problems for teams that the european championships,

the summer, the german government says football players traveling from the united kingdom would be obliged to quarantine due to the spread of the indian variant there. munich alley of rena will host several games in the tournaments and some players may have to travel there from england or scotland. the german government confirmed footballers are not exempt from the quarantine order that's currently in place. tenement organizer, your wife assess is monitoring the situation. or you wafer has also opened disciplinary cases against rail madrid, barcelona, and you vent over their roles and attempts to form a super league. they were among 12 clubs to threatened to break away from your wafer, but after a widespread backlash, all except those 3 pulled out of the super league punishment for the refusal to back down could include a to your ban from your way for competition, including the champions leak let's get a reminder of our top stories now. here on t w,

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