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they will kill him. they will kill him. well please stand up and help. these are the words of the mother of the chain delusion. dissident remind for the savage who was dragged off a plane on sunday, arrested, and presumably tortured by president lucas and because secret service. meanwhile, lucas franco claims the west was waging a hybrid war against bella arose, having abandoned human morals. i'm going to have elses in berlin. this is the day the news i acted locally to protect people and so it will be in the future. the question is turn in my country into a new career of non transparent, unpredictable and dangerous for clinking with arms. next to our border,

for sure thing you don't, you realize which catastrophic consequences can bring it up, saying that the groceries, this is the case, all also retiring regime attacking international community. if anything explodes here, it will be another world war. the also on the day serious presidential election, the sharla start is poised to tightened his grip on power. in a poll, his opponent say is neither free nor fair. that's the thing. the soda story, about 10 years after the syrian revolution, we've come out to tell the criminal syrian regime. and the murder is russians that the elections are illegitimate, having a lot of us on p b. s, and the united states sent all around the world. welcome, and we begin the day with a defiant bella version leader alexander lucas shanker says he acted lawfully to

protect people by picking a commercial flight out of the skies over bella roost forcing it to land in minutes . his address to parliament is his 1st public remark since the country forcibly rerouted the plane and arrested a dissident journalist who was on board rahman prosthetics and his girlfriend were taken into custody and billiards after their ryan f line from athens to vilnius was forced to land in minsk, on sunday this week the you imposed sanctions on billers over this incident, the 26 year old co founded social media channel that helps mobilize anti government street protests last year. i found that shanker defended the decision to divert the plane and condemned the international response customary program as you do nothing in the predicted r l wishes from outside and inside the country and changed the methods of attack on the stay on you, but is to be the, they have cross many red lines and have abandoned common sense and human morals,

central america, those informal, this is not information warfare anymore. this is modern hybrid warfare. we must do everything to prevent it becoming a real war, it at a flood good, actually. meanwhile, the mountain concern about bella was treatment of the detained journalist this week, but a savage appeared in an alleged confessional video. the illusion opposition says he was tortures before the video was filmed. now for the service parents are calling on the international community to help. yes, now across the way it will say not what if i know my son very well? certainly we and our friend and our relatives have clearly seen that there are a bruises on his face. being covered well with makeup premium with no. but i see that the nose bridge is apparently his nose is broken in north national center

muslims knowing also and i can say with confidence that he will never admit his guilt. because festival you haven't taken part in mass disturbances. he's never organize them, is all new world. please stand off and help. i urge you to because they will kill him. they will kill him. robin savage is not the only journalist who is being silenced by the television authorities doesn't have been arrested since protest erupted last year. i went precious against president alexander lucas shrink wrapped at last august. authorities quickly retaliated the they cut down hard, not just those taking part in the protest, but those reporting on the delivery. stan association of journalist says that nearly 30 media work as a currently in prison awaiting trial of serving a sentence. foreign correspondents don't get accreditations and even

if they have official permits, they are always safe. less than 2 weeks ago, alexander borrego, w correspondent, was sentenced to 20 days in prison. after attempting to report on a trial of opposition, politicians. he says he was subjected to torture in humane treatment in the detention facility, local journalist and media outlets have fed even west. one of the country's most popular independent new sites took by was stripped of its official media license last autumn. this is actually nice. it was impossible to normally our gen and should be arrested after the events in august out janice with constant this is written by the editor in chief was summoned to the home department for a conversation and so on. when i got up in march this year,

one of 2 by journalists was sentenced to 6 months in jail. finally, last week, police raid at the offices of pi, detained at least 12 staff members, and shut down its website. the social media channel, next up that arrested blogger ram on potassium, which co founded was labelled extremist by authorities last october. protest rich and his colleagues charged at cynthia with inciting mess, riots and signing social hatred. next and tucked by with the main sources of information and footage of the position protests on monday after petoskey which was arrested president lucas shanker. took a further step in silence and critical journalist signed a law that severely restrict news reporting and allows media outlets to be shut down without a court hearing. effectively stifling any news coverage that doesn't have the

president's line, except for the w spoke to andre sunny coffee, better vision activist and former presidential candidate who ran against lucas ankle in 2010. and we asked him what his message to e u. law makers might be with that tension right now. turn to rice abuses in valdero's. my, but it should be that the logo, so i always have good to hear people discover insulting you. but my, my daughters who are living in this, in this, under this long as this for morgan quarter century. and now i think before you was trying to ignore this problem, considering the humanitarian problem and not very dangerous for, for europe and the deal church. i've chosen to deal with to have business from the

question could today. i think his problem was going to be talking for a number of years that he is a vengeance for international security. he's in danger for, for europe. he's a danger for, for our neighbors spoke extensive pool of ukraine, and i think the danger she's been dressed and the very solid danger. and if you will know that you are speaking today about the 3rd. busy roll board courtroom and that's what she is actually driven about. and he is provoking and she is doing everything. and there was an activists under the senate, cough speaking that still come on that day. the u. k. government under a taco, it's initial response to the pan demik, the criticism coming from the ultimate insider, the prime minister's former advisor. i think in retrospect, it's clear that the official time was wrong. it's clear the whole advice was wrong . and i think it's clear that we obviously should've locked down essentially like

the 1st week of march at the latest time now to the middle east and diplomatic efforts to show up a cease fire between israel and mos militants in garza. today, us secretary of state antony blink and continued his tour of the region. following talks in cairo with president of lincoln described egypt as a real and effective partner in shipping chance a border with gaza played a key role in brokering the c. 5. lincoln has bound to rally international support to rebuild gaza, promising that none of the aide will reach amongst securing the cease fire was important to me because of the devastating toll violence took on families on both sides. but we see the cease fire not as an end, but as a beginning, something to build on. those version thing is managerial assistance for the

people in gaza and particularly water sanitation, electricity. we all have to come together to answer those immediate needs. and there was also joined european diplomats in rejecting the legitimacy of today's presidential election, syria, president bush oral assad is almost certain to win a 4th 7 year term. and a pull. the west says is neither free nor fair. only people in government held areas allowed to vote hundreds of demonstrators in the rebel house. it took to the streets to denounce the boat, which your position has as 5 as a fall. it's the 2nd presidential election since civil war broke out 10 years ago. our al assad's faith 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, and another 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 35 members of parliament,

which is overwhelmingly dominated by a sub baptist 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 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 a landslide, in a vote that was also widely condemned by the u. s. and the u. as neither free nor fair of more this i'm now joined by journalists, kristin hel bags. she's one of germany's leading experts on the middle east and syria in particular. kristen and no one doubts that assault will be the can't the winner and secure another 70 year term in office. so there anything we should watch

out for that could come as a surprise. i don't think that we are going to see any kind of surprise what surprised me most today was basically a banner in the southern city of dana, which is controlled by the regime, but used to be the credit of the revolution back in 2011 and the banner on the look and read that there is no future for you with a murderer whose top kept close there and sign of a protest to the election. so this was surprising because this is officially regime held areas where the country is in ruins. the economy in free fall beyond the propaganda. how much support among ordinary assyrians is there for us? od. i mean, it was quite impressive to see them mobilize agent, all the loyalist in, find syria to day. and we have to take into consideration that obviously there are supporters of, of thought because these are people that benefit from his regime. they are members

of the business, the lead to can make good deals through bribing, through the by using the black market by using smuggling, for example, the militias that play an important role. and obviously you have people who are afraid, i mean the majority of people who use the d to prove the loyalty, wanted to guarantee that they are not going to be detained. that they might gain some more humanitarian 8 that they might get some commission by a secret service to return to their health. because within a police state, within a dictatorship to prove loyalty, really secure your daily life. we have to take into consideration when we see the large crowd of people waving flags and shouting for us out today. stop has crossed opposition with the help of russia and iran. how much does his own personal faith depend on those allies and all the reliable partners in the long term?

but i said very much one, the war with the military held, especially the air force from russia and the local militia on the ground, organized and managed by you wrong. so these, his main beckers and he completely depend on them, which does not mean that he always does what, what bloody me putting the rest president, one thing to do. but she has to reward them, obviously, which means that russia, for example, has already secured some contracts when it comes to oil and gas and for, for especially in the country. yvonne has secured a long term control within the country, politically, militarily and economically. people from militia, for example, radiance has ball and members, has access to housing, for example, of opposition. figures are activists who had to leave the country. so this is a way for us to pay off these strategic allies. and this is exactly his problem because he cannot secure stability. he cannot make the economic situation better

when he has to reward the people who keep him in power. these are not only russia and iran as external forces, but it's as well the businessman and the local militia leader wall that he has to reward which creates a, which makes syria and must state basically. and this machine does not take care of its own population. and this is why we see some criticism actually and discontent even within his own supporters. and this is going to be difficult for him because he cannot deliver the piece and the stability that he tries to to get the image that he could deliver. journalist kristin, how back drawing us here on the day. thank you very much. thank you. the here in europe. many countries are starting to gain some ground to the fight against the corona virus, but few vaccine rollouts have been as successful as the case with 61000000 shots

delivered more than a 3rd of the population on our fully vaccinated. but a year ago, at the onset of the pandemic, it was a very different picture. the government was on the fire for a slow and chaotic response. prime minister for his johnson was accused of downplaying, the dangers of colbert 90 before who he himself was infected and landed in intensive care. voluntary inquiry is now looking into the government's handling of the outbreak in those early stages today. lawmakers questioned johnson's former advisor, dominic cummings, gave a damning account. if you took any body at random from the kind of top percent competent people in this country and present them with the situation, they were differently mystified. he was cross with me and for others into what he regards to basically pushing him into the 1st time. his argument after that happened was literally quote, i should have been,

the marriage was cut the teachers opened. did you see them see the body's pedal high in their stations? are only killing a 2 year olds? version b, b c reports, it was accurate. and you had, i heard that in this study. when the public needs is most government failed. and i'd like to say to families of those who are who died uncertainty, how sorry i am for them to make my own mistakes. are coming still lawmakers that early decisions lead to thousands of unnecessary death prime minister boys, johnson defended his government's response. when none of the decisions have been easy to get into a lockdown is a traumatic thing for a country to deal with a problem on this scale. has been appallingly difficult and we've, at every stage, i tried to minimize loss of life to save lives in it. and we followed the best scientific advice that we had that we can assist. while the w correspondence hall

itself pill has been following this story in london and joined us from that charlie johnson saying he did the best he could under difficult circumstances. how damage is this testimony from dominic cummings? well, this was an over 7 hour demolition. i think it's fair to say all the government and strategy, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic, or johnson, the prime ministers. so my hope aid describing painting a picture of a government within k all. he said that it was being run by a prime minister. he was on a fit for his position and that the health minister should have been facts on multiple occasions through the course of the last year. streaming extremely dumbing allegations, going into the very early stages of the pandemic. he accused the government to being far too slow to recognize how serious this was going to shape up to be. he

said prime minister boris johnson. 1 had essentially had called gas dory wasn't taking it seriously. apparently don't want to come and suggest the even use that he wanted to see or should get injected with kind of at 19 live on television to show that there was nothing to fear going on. and so when the government did realize what they were facing, dominant, come in, coming the ledge that it was discovered no plan was in place. but how to handle a pandemic of this kind, sparking panic, he described in government and then said that the wrong strategy was pursued as wow . delaying that lockdown extremely serious allegations. and then moving forward to the later months, he said probably in the bar, johnson has actually been very against a 2nd block down coming into place and essentially dominant coming just to the main take away the dominant coming. so said that those failings,

as he described then cost tens of thousands of lives. he will say level a very serious attacks at the health minister hancock who he said should have been fired at least 10 or 15 times. but what he said was, was lying by the health minister, both in meetings and public, accusing him of criminal behavior. now, as you heard, or johnson has rejected some of the allegations i've had the health minister here as well. so he could have mrs. was as a former age of the prime minister. why do you think cummings came, came out like this? well, he was off to exactly that question. what was his motives here in, in, in laying out exactly what he happened in the, in find inside the rules of governments and a dominant coming, put it forward really, as a public interest argument that his, his actions were unable. he said people how to write know the doctor as he described it, early in the early stages, essentially, because the public inquiry,

he said into this, we're going to take too long people how to write know that is the same people who are physicians of power. now, but there are a lot of people think that dominant cummings, of which there are many who will question his motives isn't streaming devices bigger? here in the u. k. had a very public fall out with the prime minister. he's obviously less government as well. that will be some who will say that this is a man who simply has an axe to grind. he has got revenge, that he wants to take regardless of his credibility though and with his most of the giving for making this testimony. he was a man who was at the top table when these decisions were being made and his allegations are going to mean that they are serious questions facing the government . the government changed talk at some stage and the vaccination drive was a tremendous success. well,

johnson be able to shake off this criticism better. i think people in the new k recognise as well, that the, the new case vaccination campaign have been a big success with gradually emerging from lockdown as well. 5 in stages, people clearly very happy about that and the conservative party or johnson party is doing very well in the polls. but the fact is that the u. k. a will say, reported some 128000 the last ones. and then we'll want to going forward over how this happened. so this has been built in london. thank you, charlotte. the privacy advocates hailing it as a victory europe stops human rights court has ruled that the united kingdom broke the law with its ma surveillance and intelligence gathering techniques. the course

unanimously decided that the lack of proper oversight violated european privacy laws. the case followed revelations by us this blow at snowden in 2013 would show that british intelligence was sifting through billions of phone calls, emails, and other digital communications. snowden, who is still an exile in russia, said this about the decisions didn't mind. it's hard to overemphasize how far we've come from the pre 2013 world when even the highest traditional authorities are beginning to acknowledge the devastating consequence of 2 decades mass surveillance of the w spoke with a theater, saw the us yet it's the acting, a legal director at privacy, international and organization that monitors the abuse of technology to curtail freedoms. we also bought the court ruling and the role of edward snowden and feel this northern relations in 2013 no one knew. i even knew about the match manager's

name. there were, we were suspecting aids, there were the other generally, and whistleblowers thinking about them. but we didn't have a clear picture. it was all in the study which without any oversight work on the, the, the ruling of the grants made to chambers sent a strong message. but then they'll just say, just things are not above the law. they will need to follow the same standards and the same rules as everybody else and ensure that their actions do no job by our fundamental rights and democratic principles. the day is almost done, but the conversation continues online. you will find us on twitter, d, w news or follow me ask. thank you very much for joining us today. on the day, the

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