in an unprecedented sway upon the home of a former us president, the search is linked to an investigation into the removal of documents from the white house. tromp claims the right is an attempt to stop him running for office again in 2020 well that's all from us for now. coming up next a day w documentary. looking at how dreams of freedom in bella. ruth came to nothing. you can always find more information on our website. brent golf will bring you the headlines next hour. i'm rebecca griffith, in berlin from mate and the entire team. hey, thanks for your company with imagine how many portion of lunch are thrown out in the world. climate trade could be very often stores. this is my place, the way from just one week. how much work can really do? we still have time to work. i'm going with

it. ah. tonight 2021. a demonstration in cologne. refugees from bella. luce wanted to draw attention to the oppression and violence in their homeland television journalist natalia maxine mother, was also forced to flee from bella bruce along with her husband and daughter. the couple had taken part in peaceful demonstrations against the regime and had only just managed to avoid arrest. oh wow. youth, what do i see?

the germans, how happy they look. and then i think what is happening in bella, bruce? it's like a nightmare. our protests are loud, so loud, i've nearly lost my voice, but i'd like to shout even louder so that everyone can hear. i don't know how i can help people in belarus, but i think what we're doing here is very important that you know after the rig general election of 2020, in bella, luce hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the regime of its long term ruler. alexander lucas shanker. nevertheless, with the backing of the kremlin the machinery of paula managed to suppress the peaceful revolution and silence opposition in the country. so what exactly happened in bella? bruce. c ah,

minced the capital of bella bruce here in a country which borders on russia, alexander lucas shanker, has had power in an increasingly or the retiree in system ever since. 1990. 4 in august 2020 lucas shanker, wanted to see himself confirm in office in a presidential election. consequently, in the run up to the election, he had the most promising opposition candidates arrested. so instead of her husband who was one of those, arrested atlanta to hon. off sky, i stood as a candidate supported by 2 other women, campaigners, veronica said, carlo maria colas. nicola india and presidential candidate red. lana. taken off sky air

with g b n b. this summer we have seen the 1st changes change does not come about immediately. it's a process and perhaps there, oh, august 9th, 2020, the historic election day. the opposition wanted to see a fair vote, one untainted by the customary manipulation which in the past had seen the media announcing the results. lucas shanker wanted among those working for state broadcast r o n t that day. but evie journalists, natalia, and mikhail maxime of your traditional book, i remember august 9th, very clearly at t. v center as a whole was sealed off. you needed a special pass to get in whenever a disturbance is expected, like at elections,

of demonstrations, troops and oman, riot police are stationed throughout the grounds. see just by here and there are more new lead, sadness quicker switched several 100 soldiers armed and wearing body armor was sitting in for army trucks. they were probably worried that the t v sent to might be attacked up the internet. there was no internet connection or not even in the state broadcasting center. our bosses were helpless because the internet had been eltoff nationwide. but we had to go on and the editor in chief was panicking. we were all panicking because no one knew what was really happening. what is that election day is also remembered in warsaw. i then mellow russians, who felt threatened, had filled refuge in poland, including former lieutenant colonel alexander essaro. for 11 years, at the ministry of the interior in bella rose,

he had had at the central department, falcon batting, organized crime and corruption. we met as are of in secret and a building guarded by the polish police. don't worry me a closer look at the time i was working at the ministry of the interior police academy, its entire workforce was dispatched to the polling stations too, as it was said, ensure public order. in the afternoon, huge queues formed as people turned up to vote. they had never been anything like it. certainly as far as i can remember, wilcock where people had really dressed up for the occasion and had brought their children along. what was interesting, the will was that they were wearing white arm bands. it was said at the time, if you wore a white arm band, it meant you were going to vote the taken off sky that was supposed to i'm of the, of the but there's that internally electoral commission staff confirmed they were going to vote for, to hon. oscar and against lucas jenko. evelyn was glad the dictatorship was finally about to collapse. like you're

in order to provide people in bella roost with independent information in 2007, the polish government and the public television channel t. v. p. set up a bell, sat tv it's chief news editor is eager, cooley. you afterwards in book us a news reduce you thoughts on that day? i was one of the presenters august. the 9th was a remarkable day when i remember very well. it was probably one of the most difficult days in my entire career as a journalist. habits of my creative, almost opened. even during the electoral campaign, it was clear everything was going to be totally different. also set her alexander location car 3, shielded by security personnel. alexander lucas shank arrives at the polling station. it was also difficult to get close to spec, lana taken off scale, but she was surrounded by supporters and journalists. all you care. picky is

renella. let's look what happened. oh, although politically inexperienced in her campaigns led lana to hand off sky, i had given people hope of change, apparently with great success insurance cover the modules. when the vote counting got underway in the evenings, i spoke with police colleagues according to a lucas jenko supporter. the head of the electoral commission would ring the police and say that an election observer, a defended against public orders. a special unit would be dispatched and the woman would be arrested. and indeed, by the end of the day, every independent election observer had been detained. tell us near bowen usa isn't one of ladaja. sibyl early stolen ulysses, same from us as this new information from minsk, the polling station in moscow. district reports 438 votes for lucas jenko and

1725. the take on off scale can also this issue some thought the assets debt. when for a marty glenora, as with know, according to the g, r u. okay. no more than 17 percent of the population planned to vote for lucas hancock. and the secret report we've seen indicates that lucas shanker was also informed at this. so initially, in order to avoid too much outrage, it was decided to announce that lucas shanker had secured 62 percent of the vote. but then something must have made him change his mind and he altered the result to 80 percent numbers. and that is what sparked off the protests or to little across the of the graph. people in many towns in bella, rows dangerously, took to the streets, security force as attacked the protest as with stun grenades and rubber bullets. officially we heard shots and explosions. no one had expected august 9th to be

marked by so much violence or by such a huge massacre. as a rule, opposition supporters assembled at a certain location where they were beaten up. this time, people from all sectors of society were involved just when the security forces started lashing out. they probably didn't realize that it was ordinary people. they were hitting not the opposition to possibly g o can yet. but if you got issues, you know, i was desperate to get to the place where the worst things were happening. but i was pregnant at the time. and misha said it was out of the question, if by during the night we couldn't sleep because of the explosion from the shooting . but the next day we went there she finished. since autumn 2020 photographer irina reckless gaia had lived in exile in warsaw as a photo journalist. in the election summer, she documented events in minsk for both at t v. this brought her to the attention of the security authorities. so she decided

that she needed to leave bellows. the photos she took created an international, thir it a pretty good chunk of each. the, on the 10th of august, people had erected barricades near the reger shopping center. for the 1st time i saw a water cannon. inaction come with i had heard of the vehicle coming round the corner with a deafening rumble. it all happened so fast. the vehicle drove straight into the barricades. here, you concede people leaping out of the way. you mean i had only seconds to take a picture of christie. she wanted to wish that afterwards. it was a nightmare. yours isn't her prefer fools against the protest this i needed to be lifecycle of machine. you right?

because they smashed car windows driver and beat them with batch owns parking devices. deposit then put it in. people ran away in 30 percent. but among riot police and fisher, miraculously, we made it home. but yet the national, my heart was pounding for the sky. i then started to lose blood, i but it possible to call an ambulance room. and when, what was the score to the hospital where i learned that i had miscarried? him in a shank of security forces, took maria out of the country to lithuania. that the 1st fatality said that alexander tara kosky was by a police robert burton dead at the scene where he died near and sky a subway station erect. but journalists would be attacked,

but drove to the spot all the same in total with them. and several many buses arrived. men, weapons and baton climbed out and headed towards us as one of the men opened fire and was struck by a rubber bullet history. e at the foot of all of mya lay de been hit 3 times. my de, my helmet was damaged in eucharist because no idea what had happened to get escaped from her pursuers the restaurant and waited in the lemonade. she was they then sent up a drone. i was really frightened and because there was no way to hide. i went to the roof completely off and become one with the engineer couldn't come on in the

system we they were all full just passes along the lines of their stamped into the ground where he put them just vermin. cannon new traitors were arrested men, piers or christina prison? super calling on duty, not christina, jail. you said miss handled out alternately. higher and interior ministry officials had been issued the corresponding orders and the aim was to intimidate people to be death, to make them so afraid that they would have the courage to take to the streets. i'm

desperate people hate my dan, missing loved ones. detainees who had been released, describe their experiences and detention as p. o. hell for bonds. novella tish guy has of the lucas, shank, i system or the system or goes through. it's on the power of one single person on the subordination to one person who takes decision single handedly lucas does influence on private enterprise and through repression. late companies have to abide by if another aspect is fear useful pervades the whole system. in fact, people are afraid of intercoastal or

bluish when i needed to switch to the side of the people and support the forces of democracy. i explained that everything in belarus was determined by the k g. b had increased many times over, perhaps in 10 fold versus last system of the cold through over was were by you either praised everything or you became an enemy or over the last few years, many corporation with the k g, b workers. not understand it, but it's many people including us really and become impossible never. so we went on strike, dig that television stuff. went on strike mike from the other side, so to speak. so television employees. and when people came to support them left on the there's not much happening, but even so i like com it be yellow roots and faces and also

mostly off of maria kalashnikov, a she she was a super star. all. and wore red lipstick. you just couldn't miss her when you're here. it was surrounding one, but couldn't miss her when you're here. we see lots of people surrounding one person, a huge happy crowd. ha ha, ha ha. ah maria kalashnikov, her sister tatiana homage has made it her mission to bring the plight of political detainees and belarus to the attention of the international public. during the election campaign, she stood side by side with her sister, mary newton, my. neither i nor masha had ever been involved in politics before, but that changed when victo bubble rico decided to run for the presidency. he

didn't have a team of professional politicians behind him. those who gave him their support when people like me somewhere older, some younger. and they came from a wide range of backgrounds, people who were prepared to invest their time. people who wanted to see change young move at a daily and i. e. we believed in what we were doing and we talked about it a lot. so even if there was only the slightest chance and this election producing a different result, we said, we ought to act and participate. now wasn't jest witness in a little much aston neither resume our views on some things might differ, but we are united in our love for belarus. we are better russians, maybe laross oh, you're reporting at the time i was not prepared to resolution. i had neither a network nor a political party. i was just like any other ordinary person,

but i was seen as a possible leader animal. could i have been a leader back then? no, i couldn't. you know, can i criticize myself for that? yes, yes, i can model can national example nationals. i was going along with the crowd. i realized that i shouldn't be making for the seat of government where i'd worked for so many years. but should be heading for the television center to take control of what was being broadcast. because what shot people when they had access to the internet, once again, was the lawlessness and the violence. had that been shown it might have shaken up the whole country at the proper noah brenner, your old, absolutely short term on august 16th minsk. so the biggest ever peaceful protest marches with you guys when she they came together from different directions. i so crowds of people approaching from all sides. there was a unity that has never been seen since. william hung up wishing

a black. ah yes, that book would be. she knew my no idea why the police didn't wait in. he's probably because so many people to take to the streets around 400000 of her. it was like a national uprising. little people had simply had enough of being rude by a dictator to which it was a popular revolt after it the boat. steven the police because they had taken part in the protests. natalia and mikhail maxim of both lost their jobs. lieutenant colonel alexander sorrow handed in his resignation bowl, shook lucas shanker, lost the election is subjugated the country illegally. yes, he was no longer its legitimate president. yes,

i saw for myself that not even 50 per cent could have voted for him. in my eyes, he was a criminal one and there was no way i could serve a criminal. i knew i'd sworn my oath to the bellow, russian people's algola was coming out of those who refused to tow. the line was subjected to massive tourette's by the government bureau is centerville. on september, the 1st lucas angle told me that i'd crossed the red line and would therefore be punished. i know lucas jenko personally. i'd also met him privately. oh, i know he is capable of killing somebody. he said that he was going to kill me, throttle me with his own hands because i was a traitor. i was fully aware of the risks iris faces supreme all cities. with the help of western diplomats, marvin leticia managed to leave the country and find refuge in warsaw. poland has supported the opposition and bella, roseville. many years after the national election of 2006, which was probably also raked. eagle calais even took part in protests against the

lucas shenker regime. as a result, criminal proceedings were instituted against him. could i ask themselves whether the opposition movement could have achieved mo, who knew of shit? does it say i find it hard to talk about mistakes made by the opposition? or if you can argue whether it would have been better to resort to more violence where the more action should have been cold for like storming the television centers or standing up to the or monte. but i doubt that any action of that kind would have resulted in lucas jenko stepping down at the most thought there would certainly have been greater loss of life. pushed nonbillable bushera ah bushels eager to represent oblivion. september 6th, 2020 immensely protest continued. it was to be maria, callas, nick of us last day in freedom.

ah, the next morning in the center of men's, she was pulled into a car by security personnel and abducted logical fallacy, procurement and approval, a passport. they tried to deploy michelle and i learned from a telegram channel that she had torn up her passport at the border with ukraine and below has more to show later the people who were with her told me more new. masha had done it of her own accord. i think it was a conscious decision figure. without hesitating, she tore up her passport, but got out of the car. so she had decided to stay and walked back to the bella. russian border fostered on the glove, couldn't you. 2 ah, it, this was

a women solidarity much for maria. callas nic cover the little boys crying because women were being arrested right in front of him. he saw everything he was right in the middle of it. all. his mother was beside herself and screaming at the police. oh ah, in the weeks after the election, de bella, recent security forces took an even more brutal approach. they used violence with impunity. luca shank, us apparatus of power had free reign because he had the backing of russian president vladimir putin on september 14th 2020, the 2 long term rulers met in thought she on the black sea. vladimir putin promised to help alexander lucas shanker and granted, bella rues alone of $1500000000.00. diaz wasn't gonna push him

without vladimir putin in 2020, alexander lucas shanker would certainly not have been able to remain in power without support from russia. he would have had far more problems and what was the assurance that putin will help him out as a major influence on the decisions? lucas ankle takes local palmer ship. also can you are watching. similarly my to shrink to bring my that was a little ah, deed, listen, beller, russian opposition leader svetlana chicken. oscar saw more support for the pro democracy movement in her country. google. here she seen arriving for a 45 minute meeting with german chancellor angler. medically the counselor and, and are thoughtful until take me newton markets. anybody we would, we would like the leaders of our european neighbors to act as mediators. so that in bella rose, we can finally enter into discussions on new elections with all those involved. was terry. since autumn 2020 said lana, taken off, sky has led opposition,

resistance from exile abroad. she meets with heads of government and has addressed the european parliament our peaceful protest, us where met with violence submitted to washing did all happen step by step. first they arrested men. all muslim women were not attacked. then the women's march is begun to take place in dog and the management just came out initially. then they started arresting women and using t garzo after they began cramming women into prison, the transport vehicles, the number of march is dwindled, valuable, then your pension has talked to the streets. but i'm concerned yet overheads in. and they did so in their thousands chanting grannies alongside the people long live bellows. lar, alexander, alexander lucas shanker,

had always been able to rely on this group of voters. it was certainly unpleasant for him to have them dispersed by his accomplices. but in the end, that's what happened. i was gonna, nor of a dog here smugly, yet people then began to protest in back yards where it was easier to assemble and leave quickly mister uh, visits. smuggling a private but the security forces succeeded in accessing the backyard chance and arresting people. so step by step, those activities also came to a halt. boxiness where dylan onions lucas shank owes attrition strategy proved effective november 2020 saw the last major protest in minsk demonstrating had become too dangerous. people were fined or given prison sentences simply for owning a red and white flag. awful. wearing red and white clothing. one more year,

which is thought the pessimism spread, as in winter we thought spring was coming and that a new life would also blossom. but when spring arrived and there was no new life, many bella russians became despondent. love after what? when you heard your from you, if i remember my feelings back then very well, we were both depressed. we couldn't sleep, you breathe every time a car drove past every time we saw headlights, like we thought, oh god, what's that look like? you can't sleep. i. it's of course, when you think about it all the time, it is great. you can use future gifts. remember, don't do much. ah, during their last few weeks in their homeland, the family had to hide in a house in the forest within the framework of an action plan for civil society and bella, ruth launched by the german government. the family were able to flee to germany in cologne. of us before refugees became their new home a

clear warning had finally led to the family's departure additional and it was in spring. i was on my way home when a man came up to me. he was an old acquaintance who worked for the k g b. natasha. he said, you're heading for a sticky end. leave the country. oh, you'll get arrested. and i am not joking. you've only got until june 1st. begin we ah yes. now i knew he really wasn't joking, and then they wouldn't take my daughter to her grandmother's. they put her in an orphanage. it was now clear that we had to leave. otherwise we'd be arrested. i cried a lot. i just couldn't imagine living in another country. nevertheless, we headed off with just 3 suitcases leaving our whole life behind. madame shaheen. shanna bras, the dumb. ah,

ah! is a merchant? this drawing shows a man being dragged by the omen to a prisoner transport vehicle. they are beating him and he is bleeding. there is blood on the policeman's baton. it's terrible. they've gone crazy. they beat people for wanting freedom of someone to perform a restore. joshua ah, that's yeah. not home. it's great concern is that the human rights violations and the political prisoners and ben, i rose, could be forgotten about here. she has come to address the british parliament. bella rose commission

a mr. chem, india, members of the group. so unfortunately the visitation in belarus is not going better. it's getting worse and worse every day. just to describe a little bit like what, what does it mean to be political prisoner in belarus? for example, my register, her sister maria clinton cover when she meets her lawyers. she is called in a room designated for meetings to be especially dangerous criminals or we can, should be trying to persuade the government to do. of course, there is a course and need to have the financial support are provided to the media cultural community because a lot of them is came to country human rights, defenders and initiatives aimed at the democratization. probably we can build together strategy for the transition from dictatorship to democracy rocked together

. you can help to educate tours suggest to give and advise how to do it. ah, alexander sarah has joined the bipolar group, which was founded by former members of the bella roshan security forces. with elizabeth, she at our main task is to investigate the crimes committed by the lucas shanker regime and to collect evidence which can either be handed over to the european union or using criminal proceedings in a new belarus was in years of loyalty. the preaching at yahoo, colona, at the associate. thou mobile wishing doorstop. when we gain access to the ministry of the interiors, internal data banking, we saw that it contains many video films taken by the body. comes of oman, policeman, these films, show them beating peel, exit of $24.00 without the store and you boom. lie down.

so this is the gymnasium of the police station in from sense ski district. normally it's useless bought them these pictures show people kneeling with their heads on the floor. yes vanished. no, she really thought of you. any one who moves is hit and even without being beaten, having to stay in this position for 8 hours, is torture with the lack of blood supply resulting from the handcuffs cause a person's hands to become numb. some victims have even had to have fingers amputated. oh oh oh, i'm for thought samples of thumb. we'll have to kiss your children. we'll have to grow up without your father. was it worth it?

get up. if you don't talk, it'll only be worse for you. you've got to kidneys, but only one life. somebody even filmed the crimes themselves with a boy. this will you will all be used against them in court on christmas or may 23rd 2021. so another shock d auto detail for italian government and bella. ruth has forced a passenger aircraft overflowing the country to lend and arrested. the disadvantage testing on a scheduled flight from athens to vilios, after the ryan aircraft was intercepted just short of the lithuanian border and diverted to mince christian authorities. there had allegedly learned that there was a bomb on board on on game hob, when the plane landed immense together with his girlfriend, roman pro, to savage,

a descendant journalist, and former editor of the next that china on the messaging app telegram was arrested . the international public fiercely criticized the forced landing and introduced sanctions against the bella, russian regime. not for the 1st time in the wake of the elections. on the 4th standing of the rhine f. flight in minutes to mr. oscar please. whither ran a flight, incidental august sent that his draws the line and became a threat to international peace and security since ranked elections of 2020. the resume has completely lost the boundaries of acceptable behavior. russia is turned in my country into a north korea of europe, non transparent, unpredictable and dangerous lacrosse, or in my view, people in europe have still not understood the dimensions of repression in belarus . can you imagine that in the space of 12 months, more than 40000 people have been arrested, there is no longer

a single human rights organization in the country, nor is there any independent prescott lucas shanker has destroyed everything from british total. so even many bella, vision sooner living abroad, did not feel safe from persecution by the regime was in your school to miss over the last few months. i've received more than 20 death threats. they went so far as to say that down by the vis dollar i would have my head caved in with an actual barrel at a rally in moscow. a young man came up to me and said, i should be scared and not attend any more rallies because someone would stick a knife in my back, so that not spawn of she, mr. i am. so yeah, she share with nasa. we try to keep our personal data address, place of work, et cetera, secretly we keep changing the places where we meet people next door. no one knows where we really are. so we've asked the polish police for health. they give us

personal protection. they guard us because the bella, russian, deputy minister of the interior, stated his intention to send death squads to poland, to eliminate by pulse on for fluke political political. that says to patricio at people, stuff at the. so the biggest and most important thing i have to battle with is fear. sometimes i think that the bloody regime will stretch its arm as far as here. but i know that i am only a small fish and you have to polish special services or at work here. so i can reassure myself that it was only after long consideration that we decided to hang our national flag in the window. ah, yes, toiling yet. this is terrace postcard street. it leads to minsk street. when bella russians travel to mince from poland, they drive through terrace pole. i imagine it is my route back home symbolically.

the road runs right beneath my window. weitzman forgot his threatening natalia and mikhail maxime of have adapted to live in germany. they have received a 3 year residence permit and are taking german language lessons. their homeland is often in their thoughts i've already written several letters to people being reminded in custody. rosalyn must we always feel so guilty, we hear we're all fine, but thousands of people are imprisoned. the government only admits to around $1000.00 detainees, but in reality, thousands upon thousands are being held. i want to give them my support. i

minced september 6th 2021, nearly a year after her arrest. according the bella rouge and capitol sentenced. opposition leader maria callas, ne cover 211 years in prison. the court found that she and her lawyer maxine snack for plotting to seize power illegally with reinforcing her mood is always extremely positive. masha ends every letter with the words. it will all work out, i'm certain, everything will be fine. even the 11 year jail sentence doesn't frighten her, and she remains very strong. and what is amazing because exactly the opposite ought to be the case. masha managers to support all of us. even the millions of bella russians are immune and bill are also in january 2022, maria callas, the cover was moved to

a prison camp in the south east of the country. ah, the laurel school for a long time, bella lucian society was non political for years. we believed that we couldn't change anything that nothing was dependent on us. but the last 12 months have shown that that is not true. in the past, we had the feeling that only a few wanted to see change. as it turned out though, those who want to see change are in the majority of our strategic efforts. emerson's thought she wasn't little bellows to days, a land of asphalt had rage. the anger is not suppressed, it's buried beneath the asphalt. according to a popular song walls will crumble and asphalt explode and flowers will blossoms to know. perkins watch out, watch eats with coopers. february 2020 to 5 days before war broke out,

and ukraine exiled bella russians and ukrainians. staged a joint ronnie into sort of under the slogan, standing together against dictatorship and russian aggression. i thought of anybody does i call on the to dis bots. lucas shank, who and booted to blank down and give back to the people's the freedom and self determination they deserve. didn't let anybody blood which are grown. there is now a massive concentration of russian military technology on beller, russian soil. lucas shanker has allowed his big brother vladimir putin to use our land for stationing tanks, but could invade ukraine at any time. we don't want that, we wholeheartedly support our ukrainian brothers. we are against the war. we are against any form of aggression. we stand united here,

we want the world to know that the people of bella roost do not want this wall because that's the word for what is the what it is now. the velocity, i got that the only 06 i wouldn't use this because here we have quickly got used to freedom. at the 1st rallies i shed tears, but now it is great. we are free. you can breathe freely with more than more. you don't have to look over your shoulder to see if any one is following. you just look at the hopefully we're clear, jackson, is it the treasure your freedom? 5th, is it if i had yes or. 2 2 ah. 2 2 2 2 i

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