anchor: i am mark owen into these e the main world news headlines. from belarus, a video showing roman protasevich confessing to terrorist activity, he was arrested after ella bruce made his passenger flight wert to minsk -- belarus made his passenger flight diverge to minsk. urszula votto line acute -- accusing belarus of hijacking the flight. we have more on this in

brussels. another month to save the iran nuclear deal. the head of the atomic energy agency says there is agreement to a one month extension to the agreement at nuclear sites. and celebrating winning league one in france. the national champions beating paris to the main prize by just one point. these are the scenes in lille a few hours ago. this is all live from paris. ♪ thank you for being with us. the belarus opposition journalist roman protasevich is

apparently in a video confessing to taking part in terrorist activity, it was posted online on the telegram app. he was arrested when belarus made his passenger flight diverge to minsk on sunday over a august bomb threat. a fighter jet from the belarus air force escorted the ryanair flight away from its planned destination of lithuania. protasevich is an opponent of the hard-line president lukashenko. we know the journalist is in jail in belarus, this has been issued or confirmed rather by the belarus interior ministry. let's go to this report. reporter: following his dramatic removal from a flight between athens and let the winnie a, roman protasevich appears in recorded video. >> [speaking foreign language]

reporter: in what has been described as state-sponsored high grabbing -- hijacking, his flight was diverted to minsk, immediately sparking the political dissidents alarm, according to witnesses on board. >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: the official reason for the forced landing, a bomb threat, which the captain said gave him little choice but to land. adding to the pressure, a belarusian airplane escorted the flight. when it landed in minsk, police took protasevich and his russian girlfriend into custody. three other passengers did not

reach their final destination, arousing suspicions that belarusian or russian security forces were aboard. the eu and other western countries have already imposed a series of sanctions on alexander lukashenko's government following his disputed reelection to a sixth term last august. and the brutal crackdown that followed, human rights groups say some 35,000 people have been detained in belarus. anchor: the eu is trying to increase the pressure on belarus over the arrest of the opposition journalist. the diversion of the flight by ella roos sparked an international incident. it was condemned as aviation piracy, state-sponsored. ursula vander line has described it as a hijacking. >> roman protasevich has to be

released immediately and we will put pressure on the regime as long as it finally respects the freedom of media and the freedom of the press and opinion. there is a 3 billion investment and onomic package ready to go in the european unio that is on hold and frozen until belarus turns democratic. anchor: the ec president calling for the immediate release of protasevich. let's give you back story. the belarus election of 2020 was condemned as rigged. lukashenko won with over 80% of the vote. his opponent is in exile. she is facing a death sentence if she returns. our correspondent joins us from russells. a pleasure to cupd -- from

brussels. a pleasure to see you. what is brussels saying about this? >> we have literally just had these unanimous conclusions adopted by the council. they were adopted weakly and unanimously, it is quite significant. i am told by an eu official there was not significant pushback against this decision, which is the maximum position on the table tonight in terms of responding to this attack. they have not only demanded the immediate release of protasevich and his girlfriend, call on the international civil aviation organization to investigate. they have adopted all three of the possible retaliatory measures on the table -- further sanctions, targeted economic sanctions that go beyond the sanctions already adopted in the autumn, they are telling eu airlines not to fly over belarusian airspace, and this is a big one, they will ban all

belarusian airlines from entering eu airspace. those last two things will have a significant impact on airlines and imposes a really big problem for countries like finland, the baltics and a lot of countries in europe are to east asia, it will be difficult to avoid television airspace. it is a big country. -- belarusian airspace. it is a big country. from what i have heard, there was not any disagreement about this, they felt they had to act quickly. anchor: protasevich and his girlfriend are among the now 400 or more political prisoners held in the wake of the election of 2020. ursula vander lyne calling for immediate release. dave: all of the leaders have called for immediate release. the question is whether that will happen.

these conclusions adopted today, will it be enough to force the belarusian government to release him? that remains unclear. if they don't, could further action be discussed and what could it be? the eu doesn't have a lot of options at its disposal, it cannot invade belarus or forcibly fly in and take him out. the key thing to watch is the sanctions have not been defined. the additional sanctions. the existing sanctions against president lukashenko and the people around him will be sped up because they had not been in effect yet. the further sanctions will target businesses, economic interests, and that's where lukashenko could start to lose the support of the oligarchs in belarus, the people who prop up the government. the key is to watch how extensive those sanctions are. anchor: how important was it for the eu that there was unity on

these issues, especially given the way things went over previous stories we have been covering? dave: this is really important. eu credibility was on the line tonight. the rhetoric around this was very extreme the past 24 hours, deservedly so. if the actual actions were not correspondingly ereme, the eu would be accused of cowardice, of dysfunction, and given the eu has made a lot of foreign policy missed up slightly or been unable to adopt strong foreign policy conclusions because of their requirement for unanimity among governments when they adopt policy stances, it would have been really troubling development tonight if they had not come out with this, frankly . it is a strong statement and

something you can feel they had to do. otherwise it would've been embarrassing and politically damaging for the european union. anchor: dave keating, thank you for bringing us that clarity into detail about the eu position on the issue regarding the diversion of that ryan airflight by belarus to minsk and the arrest of a passenger on board, roman protasevich, and his girlfriend. the belarusian authorities saying protasevich is in jail in minsk and they say he has admitted to charges of terrorist activity. he is in opposition figure, and opposition journalist who has written articles supporting the position of the opponent of the president. the president, his election last year was described by the eu and others as questionable if not

rigged. we are watching developments on the story with the eu wrapping up pressure on lukashenko to release protasevich and his girlfriend. next, myanmar's state television has added -- has shown pictures of the ousted leader for the first time, her first in person court appearance since her arrest. it showed her sitting upright with her hands in her lap and wearing a surgical mask. beside her was the ousted president, and an maire, and to police officers. -- and a mayor and police officers. we have more on this. reporter: myanmar state television broadcast a photo of

her appearing in court, the first since she was detained. one of her lawyers said she sounded healthy and confident during the half-hour meeting prior to the hearing. >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: the military seized power in a coup on the first of february. it accuses her of flouting of a 19 restrictions at during last year's election campaign, and of owning unlicensed walkie-talkies, among other charges. since the coup and her detention, the have been widespread protests and fighting on several fronts per one monitoring group estimates the death toll of more than 800 people. over the weekend, clashes reported in the east of a country with opposition fighters claiming to have killed over a dozen government troops. local media reported the fight has captured four people and

razed a police station to the ground. anchor: iran and the un's national watchdog agree to a one-month extension on a deal on surveillance cameras at tehran's nuclear site. this is buying time to save the 2015 nuclear deal. iran is producing and stockpiling iranian enriched at levels above those agreed six years ago. the downside of the deal came when former u.s. president donald trump pulled out unilaterally. the eu has been working to get the deal back on track but iran opted to up its production. tehran says it is a peaceful nuclear power, others say it is to fuel its nuclear ambitions. reporter: another step closer to reviving the iran nuclear deal, also known as the joint conference of plan of action. >> the monitoring activities we agreed will continue as a now,

for one month, expiring then on june 24, 2021. reporter: the chief of the you nuclear watchdog is speaking of aches -- of extending a deadline that falls under an additional protocol. that expired on friday. prolonging it, this allows will power's more time to negotiated the u.s. has expressed interest in lifting sanctions. >> we know what sessions we need to be lifted if they are inconsistent. as is important, iran also knows what he needs to do to come back into compliance on the nuclear side. what we have not seen is whether iran is ready and willing to make a decision to do what it has to do. that is the test and we don't yet have an answer. reporter: the answer came in the form of a tweet from iran's top

diplomat. he said on monday removing those punitive measures is a legal and moral obligation. the back-and-forth comes after a leading member of iran's negotiating team briefed the country's parliament national security and foreign policy community -- committee, saying it would be negotiated into parts. the first would be removed targeting the oil industry and banking sector. according to the iranian president, the weeks to come are likely to be the most fateful stage of the ongoing talks. the big question is will the pact be salvaged before iranians take to the ballot boxes on june 18? anchor: we are watching for develop and some that. it is time for business. a breakthrough on global taxation could be announced by the end of this week. whether that is good news for me, i don't know. >> it is years in the making. [laughter]

it could be coming out in the next few days, more about corporations. this is according to the financial times, d7 countries are inching toward an agreement on corporate -- g-7 countries are inching toward an agreement on corporate tax. last week, the u.s. agreed to accept minimum corporate tax rate of 15% rather than the 21% the biden administration had been targeting. opposition to such a framework by former president donald trump had seen him threaten tariffs on countries like france and the u.k., pushing ahead with their own tax plans in the absence of a broader deal. talks have picked up momentum in recent months and tech giants, which will likely bear the brunt of any change, are bracing for higher tax bills. thousands of residents in berlin have been protesting a court decision to overturn a freeze on rent payments. landlords could start hiking prices even as many germans struggle with the economic impact of the pandemic.

reporter: they are calling for "rent madness" to stop. protesters are worried prices will skyrocket in berlin after yemenis a supreme court revoked a five year freeze. -- after germany's supreme court revoked a five year freeze. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: the court decided rent policy can only be governed by federal law, not decided ste-by-state. avoiding the rent cap passed by berlin's legislature in 2020. it froze rent at the legible -- level of june 2019 until 2025, after which increases would have been limited to 1.3% each year,

in line with inflation. now it has been scrapped. more than 1.5 million apartments are affected. renters could be asked for backpay, money few have to hand after a difficult year marred by the pandemic. once an affordable option, attracting students and artist, prices have doubled since 2008. although berlin does not make it onto the list of the top 10 most extensive european cities. in 2020, london, zurich and geneva were the top three priciest cities to rent and. -- in. kate: wall street has close higher, tech stocks outperformed. the nasdaq up about 1.4% at the close, the dow jones ending just under 200 points. the major european indices close slightly higher, stocks in

germany were among those closed for the holiday. all that movement on the markets has had a concrete impact on a few personal fortunes. for a few hours today, a french tycoon ralph lee the world's richest person -- a french tycoon briefly became the world's richest person. the shares of his luxury group surged. it has been alternating between jeff bezos and elon musk. jeff bezos took back the top ranking as wall street opened. they may be stylish and practical, and a lucrative part of the fashion industry, but are your blue jeans bad for the environment? an exhibition in paris is dishing the dirt on denim. reporter: they are one of the most popular items of clothing on the planet, with 73 pairs sold every second. but blue jeans are among the most polluting. a new exhibition in par covers

a history of the cult garments, including how it is produced. >> [speaking french] reporter: one pair of blue jeans uses 11,000 liters of water and two kilograms of fertilizer with around 450 million pairs sold each year just in america. the environmental impact is significant. while workers who make blue jeans are often exposed to toxic chemicals. but blue jeans are big business. in 2019, the global denim fabric market was valued at around $90 billion and is expected to reach $105 billion in 2023. with no sign of demand dropping, some are suggesting they should be more ethically produced. >> [speaking french]

reporter: consumers are also called on to do their part to help the planets. by buying fewer pairs of blue jeans and recycling used pairs. kate: that is all for now. anchor: didn't someone tell you not to wash her jeans? kate: i think it's more the production. anchor: mine often need washing and i will not skimp on that. thank you very much, great to see you, kate with the business. time for sport the french league title has gone to the dogs, which means smiles in lille. simon will tell us what it is about. simon: a fourth french title for lille. and of course as you mentioned, with the added benefit of eating paris -- eating paris along the

way, it has more than three quarters of its budget. a guaranteed victory regardless of paris's results. a 16th goal of the season secured the victory for the team. the arrival of christoph gault e.a. as manager has been instrumental, he joined after the catastrophic spell of another manager, and has been named manager of the year for record third time. he steered the club to success has developed year on year until winning the title, it cost 147 million euros. it should never have statistically been able to compete at the strength and cohesion of the team and team work leading them to the title. another aspect is four of their

key players are products of the psga academy. much can be said as well about harry, is this season a success? they won the semifinals of the champions league for the second year running, but failing to win the league for only the second time in nine years will be a major disappointment for the qataris. one player is perhaps on his way out. is this a time to reflect for paris on a new strategy because they will have to rebuild season a team that has so often bullied the opposition domestically and who this year has come up empty-handed. more news from the football world, spain has unveiled their squad for the european

championships with a major name missing from the 26 man list. real madrid's captain was left out. he was barely featured this season due to injuries. taking his place is someone who makes the squad after fema approved the switch from france to spain. some of the other major names. the former barcelona manager has not selected any real madrid player, which is already leading to controversy in spain. let's turn to cycling and an italian race. the grenadiers with a brilliant ride.

the colombian took control of the shortened leg. the authority on the race leaving competitors attacking over the top and the highest points of the leg. he was able to maintain a 32nd -- 30 second lead. he increases his lead in the overall standings. let's hear from the winter. >> it is a big victory. it is special. i want to show it and it is not every day you win. as i said before, i want to show it and show respect.

>> finally, formula one motor racing, max mosley has died at the age of 81 p that is according to british media reports that have been -- age of 81. that is according to reddish media reports. he was a racing driver and lawyer before becoming president. -- president of the governing body of formula one from 1993 through 2009. he one high-profile privacy case against the news of the world after it said he had taken part in a nazi origin, and from then on became a privacy campaigner. from a motorsports point of view, he is credited with transitioning formula one into the 21st century. anchor: thank you.

thank you for watching, stay with us, more to come live from paris.

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05/24/21 05/24/21 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> the demands of new eviction, no demolishing of houses in jerusalem. asking them to demolish their homes. they should stop demolishing homes. amy: as the ceasefire between israel and hamas holds for a fourth day, tension remains high across the region. on sunday, dozens of jewish settlers, backed by israeli