the capitol they were here first where we are right now and square thousands of people with flags and banners chanting slogans calling the election of. the incumbent president and victor in this election to step down and give the people a democratic choice they then blocked off one of minsk central highways and move towards the parliament building some of the protesters tried to storm the building breaking down doors smashing the windows riot police of course tried to resist and pushed everybody out of the way not really differentiating between civilians and journalists anybody and everybody who was close to them got hit including our very own cameramen who were hit on the face with police baton police dispersed the riots very efficiently very quickly it was in a matter of minutes that the square which was filled with thousands of people was emptied by a riot police riot gear one of the opposition leaders and one of the presidential

candidates. was attacked on his way to the protest he left his office with a few of his supporters they were attacked by a number of men in black without any official law enforcement insignia the presidential candidate was beaten and hospitalized with a serious concussion and we know according to his wife a later security officials came and took him out of the hospital she doesn't know where he is opposition leaders of course calling for more people to come out on the streets and protest an election they believe to have been a fraudulent election in which incumbent president. has secured his fourth consecutive victory with a landslide win. results over seventy percent of the vote securing himself another stay in office continuing his sixteen year on interrupted power after last night's event maybe perhaps it will not be as eager to come and protest

out into the streets of the capital but opposition leaders do seem to be very determined to bring the people out again. north korea has said it will not retaliate against south korea's actions sized island close to their disputed sea border despite dumping it was a close military provocation moscow called on told to cancel the drills warning they might aggravate tensions on the peninsula cross-wind now to our correspondent sara firth was following the situation there what is the situation looking like up the moment. the north korea has now responded to these military drills to the carried out this morning by south korea despite previous threats that they said that they would respond but she was taken they've not said that the north going to retaliate the reason that they cited that this was the south korea actually changed its firing say and say the shells that came from that military. actually learned of

further away from north korean territory i know from previous military drills that are being carried out unconfirmed reports of these shells. on north korean territory and that's possibly what provoked the attack that we saw the last time this military drill was carried out but we have heard of course north korea saying that is cool. this is cool there's a military provocation and they despite the risks south korea did go ahead. to take these pills this morning on the island of. the speech at sea territory we had about two thousand feet people were evacuated from that frontline border. move people who had moved to the mainland save the weekends when the warnings had. no this also comes off to a toes of talks last night at a u.n. security council meeting this is tells russia's request but we had the russian ambassador to the u.n. saying the russian drawl statement is really cool for both north and south korea to

avoid doing anything that would escalate this conflict we can also hear now from russia's foreign. minister has commented on the situation. we cannot be optimistic in the situation that's why we suggested an urgent meeting of the un security council last weekend we did not want to condemn anyone we really wanted to show control tensions are very high the meeting took place and unfortunately no statement was made we managed to send a clear message during the discussion. one of the key issues for why the un talks fell why they were unable to come to an agreement if the statement i was saved this issue of whether to. north korea we know certainly we've heard the u.s. does want that russia and china on the other how we're leading cools to abandon this military action it was seen as provoked to play north korea that was made very clear and i both russia and china has said that she more productive than military

action right now would be to pursue a dialogue and to take efforts and there really is a real risk of war. with the military drills and the recent attacks on a south korean island tensions to really been rising between the two koreas haven't they sara. pezzini has yet the previous military drills carried out by south korea on the same island. on a fender the twenty third and that instance north korea reacted by shelling the island and that resulted in two civilian deaths and that's the team remains but it was the worst attack on south korean territory since the korean war ended in one thousand nine hundred fifty three know the first south korea saying that these astounded military tools that they carried out of a news quiz come back and said that they view it as a woman a vis others that the previous military drill in this time as he said they said that they view this as provocative action though you'll see that north korea

doesn't need the partnership between south korea and the u.s. and japan in these really. it was a great thing and it is good that the hot stuff korea. was suffering. coming under some pressure from public opinion in the wake of the previous attacks when they got to take this stuff the stuff. with north korea has said that it's not going to welcome i am inspectors to come and examine its nuclear facilities but as we said at the name of russia and china certainly made it clear that they were pacing any actions that can be seen to inflame the tensions there are existing. all right sara firth reporting live from moscow thanks for about. well professor rooty year to year frank from the university of vienna by continuing the war games south korea risks losing international support. rather cleared out solve group b.

if you think to gain and very many things to use from such a strategy it seems that domestic probably to policy considerations for a president you know mark seems to some to really be determined the process he needs to show strength through his people probably also at the cost of a boss and foreign policy is also a measure that certainly is trying since the yourself to be a u.s. ally but according to all south of the media i just returned from seoul yesterday is that it is going to cost the state of the presidency internationally south korea is taking a very great race would say because sulkily is not home rubio began to expect a new cold behavior for four year olds do the south koreans in the last few years were able to display themselves as the good guys as the peaceful ones that are constantly being provoked by the north. korea itself takes such a hard time the hard measures of approach to the whole issue. very quickly how

could the public opinion of multiples of changes and regard south korea as part of the fault so the actual moral high ground that's all who has been occupied is not all really endangered in many ways. for many people in poor central asian states russia is seen as a land of opportunity millions of migrants fok here every year in search of greener pastures but many are forced to work in legally and their life is far from perfect as arena go scott now reports. here for the federal migration service comes knocking on the door at four o'clock in the morning officers say they arrive at this early hour before the in the basement floor which usually happens around six am they do you need to produce so srijit conducted in order to find illegal immigrants usually we have about seven or eight such raids in months. this

time around the federal migration just a few people without permission to work in the country one of them is a twenty two year old. i don't have documents i don't know russia i've been in russia for about a year and i don't understand the rules and customs of the country. is one of a dozen immigrants who were apprehended during the raid but officials say there are millions more undetected in russia. currently there are about five million citizens working in the russian federation to work legally the majority. whereabouts of people living in that tiny little room right there we're going to go down the corridor into a kitchen and you can see for yourself that the conditions here are far from cemetery or convenience this is like a kitchen space something between a bathroom and basically a place where people cook and wash itself is well. so why do vietnamese chinese

from other asian countries continue to flock to russia. although they get paid a lot less than native workers were paid for the same job still a lot more than they would have been back home migrant workers are a very valuable resource countries with developed economies they do paid job security that no one in the country wants to do. russia has the second largest number of immigrants in the world after the united states and there's plenty of jobs in industries such as construction and retail the flow of migrant workers doesn't show any signs of drying up even if the hours are long in the living conditions are cramped. now with a lot of gripped by the economic recession the baltic state wants partnership with russia. the first by a lot of family to moscow says they're going to dependents in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the rise of washington. the baltic states were also the focus of

talks between the presidents of both countries let's get more now from martinez and daria push kobach following his visit now is this visit by the line field leader a sign of improving relations between the two countries. well this is. this here on a four day official visit this is the first visit by latin president to russia in more than fifteen years since one thousand nine hundred one when love the became an independent state and the two presidents discussed a number of the bilateral issues such as bilateral trade and economic cooperation lotty is currently going through a economic crisis and is actively looking for those so many analysts say that this pragmatic issues such as economic cooperation might actually be a sign of the first improvement in the relations between the two countries there are several thorny issues in bilateral relations between latvia and russia the main

one being. the status or rather of the rights all of the ethnic russians living in latvia there's more than half a million of ethnic russians living in latvia and out of them around three hundred thousand are considered or have a status of nonresidents which actually is fifteen percent of latino population now a status of nonresident was given to those who migrated to largely at all to june nine hundred forty when last year became one of the soviet republics but the problem is that they're not only those people the older generation is considered nonresidents but also their descendants. there are about eighty differences between the residents and nonresidents in the right. often deprived of many political rights such as for example. well the right to vote as well as many economic and

social rights many russians living in latvia complain they have they find it difficult to there are discriminated against when they're applying for a job as well as those people who don't don't speak latvian language they also have many many problems in everyday lives it has to this issue was the focus of. all of the bilateral talks russia's president meeting with have said this is a very sensitive issue. that has an impact on the lives of many people living in lots here who don't plan to move out of there or even don't often have where to move and the issue has to be primarily dealt with by the local authorities another thorny issue in the by the relations is the common history when. there were two soviet republics logic claims to have been occupied by the soviet troops and the

nationalist moods are quite often very strong in latvia the soviet. the selvage veterans are also often discriminated against they have lower pension pensions while the. last v.n. . troops which were. some of which were not collaborating with the nazi regime are often glorified within the republic and. that issue indeed is also one of the. let's say one of their strongest standing within the bilateral relations russia's president meet even did a. special committee commission needs to be created to deal with the common history of the two countries and that professional historians and academics should look at this issue and a common stalls should be worked out so indeed many differences. remained between

lots here and russia but still many analysts say that possibly this meeting has. the step towards normalization between the countries right diapers cobol following the first visit in president to russia since gaining independence was twenty years ago thanks daria. and with the u.s. already fighting two wars yemen has been revealed as another possible front opening up but there could be secret links between the countries that is feeding into the american media which is now stoking fears that the arab nation is a hotbed of terrorism are just going to you can report. america's secret aims in yemen are secret no more as confirmed by recent week a leaks this patch of classified diplomatic cables u.s. special operations forces are carrying out strikes against suspected terrorists in

yemen and the yemeni government is taking the credit in exchange for yemen's cooperation the u.s. heavily finances the country's fragile government but u.s. plans in yemen go further than strikes the military are discussing long term basis and asking for more than a billion dollars to fight al qaeda there some of bin laden had a dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in inconclusive fours in distant lands that would cost us a fortune there's a kind of intelligence national security bureaucracy that's said in this country also here and americans are iran surely scared when the parcel bomb hysteria broke out in october the us twenty four hour news machine did not fall short of feeding americans worst fears a second vicious package from the air it was found and a better facility that an ideal country. o'conner years ago already built out in the arabian peninsula is behind the shipment the packages from yemen gave rise to

a lot of confusion as to whether they were really parcel bombs but one thing that was beyond doubt the fear trigger has been pulled yemen was in the news as a terrorist hub in a matter of days the u.s. officially deployed predator drones in yemen and started talking about bases there they deliberately over blow all of these incidents because there is a huge constituency a huge business national security business which is paid for by the u.s. taxpayer it's a way of capturing the political support the way of doing a lot of different things but what it's not doing is defeating terrorism the most generous estimates suggest there are perhaps several hundred al qaida members in the poverty stricken strive torn. deserts of yemen u.s. special forces have been chasing them for years causing dozens of civilian deaths that what the u.s. is doing in yemen is really inflating the prominence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula this is a group that probably would have very little street value in the arab street or the

muslim street if the united states wasn't propping up a lockie of the sort of second coming of osama bin laden i think it's goes to show how little we've learned from the boogie man days of bush and cheney and how our own policies in dangerous more in many cases that his policies on the surface american leaders are motivated by the fear of one day receiving a parcel bomb but some say the sas has other layers of motivation you're not going to make the technology of a letter bomb go away by attacking what you think is al-qaeda in yemen you're just going to make it move to another place u.s. government is basically very much into a marketing campaign to make these things look like the government is being effective in light of modern us wars and their coverage in the media we've learned that the objective pros and cons of waging a military campaign can be mutate whenever fear comes into the picture and fear can justify almost anything going to check on our t. washington d.c.

and influential group of iran's lawmakers have voted for tehran to fully severance ties with the u.k. the move comes after the british ambassador to the islamic republic criticized its human rights record let's get more now we cross live to tehran where political commentator qian mokhtari joins us thanks for being on the line with us this afternoon how likely is that that iran will actually cut all diplomatic relations. it's nobody likely this is a parliamentary commission that has tabled emotion and the motion we're now have to be very good on by the parliament but i don't believe that there is a consensus among the iranian maje that parliament for taking such drastic actions at this point. should be the friction between the two countries continue we'll be talking about a different scenario old together. brown of course is not the first country by far

to criticize iran so why does tehran reacting in this way and why now well a couple of attacks were positively connected with britain proxy terrorist organizations which are known to establish links with the british intelligence services so the ties are a little bit also there are historical there's historical suspicion this is the sources pushing back a couple of centuries about the brits what they got up to in in the middle east so that that has also added to the anxiety among iranian lawmaker has now last month iran accused britain of a role in the assassination of rainy and nuclear scientists do you think that could have triggered the case. well it turns seventy helped but again implemented through remarks made by british officials does not help if you are

wrong but to take a microscope or assist or spying gloss on look at britain and go through every duke and cranny to find many many irregularities in the way they conduct themselves and they conduct matters of government. iran does tend to mind its own business and such issues because it considers the interference in other countries domestic matters whereas britain seems to you still be in a person funeral type of anger and it feels that you think speak out against the domestic affairs of other nations as well whereas iranian lawmaker you need disagree but this is to send a strong warning well a strong warning this is to send a warning to to britain that iran is prepared to go as far as that if such language and such actions such actions by proxy terrorist organizations

are not stalled but iran doesn't have diplomatic relations with the us with israel if it proceeds with cutting ties with britain what is it going to gain from further isolation. well the thing is that isolation is a two two edged sword you're talking about iran which is a fantastic important country in the world it is strategically acacia and in terms of its resources in terms of its established relations also you ronnie's has got very very good ties with upward of one hundred twenty nations around the world which make up the majority of the while. iran doesn't seem to have a problem with britain and the us for as long as it's i could i mean since scientists are not assassinated in broad daylight in tehran i reiterate this i said this in another interview very little happens when things like this happen and when

bombs go off it is almost always from overseas such as the recent. terrorist crossed the border came into the city over from from pakistan so it's not the type of country where you would get terrorist action willy nilly unless there is some foreign power behind it but as i said there is historical precedents there is historic precedent for british meddling in iranian domestic if as. commenting any key i'm. sorry i'm sorry to cut you off we've run out of time but thank you so much for being with us on the line from tehran. well it's over to business now here in our team stay with us. the business alitalia has dropped russian plane make a suhana for a possible five hundred million dollar regional jet it's a least like ship delivery delays saying called to full to wait for the super jet

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the gateway to the ground in period truly tortuous to. the let's wait till till she was sure to see don't need to go and pull a clear road to the colonel was her job as a retreat. cross-talk is coming up here on our to but first let's take a look at the headlines violence on the streets of the belorussian capital as thousands of opposition protesters clashed with police they claim sunday's presidential ballot was waged to give the country's incumbent leader alexander lukashenko almost eighty percent of the vote are two cameramen filming the clashes were also injured. north korea has said it will not retaliate against south korea's exercises on an island close to there to spew to see border that's the spite delving into provocation moscow called on seoul to cancel the war games warning

they might have a tense tense. and millions of migrants from more central asian states see russia as a land of opportunity but for many who are forced to working illegally the grass is not always greener. up next door and peter the valid his gas in a debate over whether the stalled middle east peace talks need a new broker to replace the united states crosstalk is up next. to keep. a low cost of computer a little embarrassing failure this is how many describe washington's most recent attempt to reach a peace settlement in the middle east is it time for the us to drop the pretense of being an honest broker and allow more neutral players to take its place.