he. says. three thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines poles apart caracal bomb and says the u.s. will locate part of its missile shield in poland urging russia to get involved despite moscow's strong objections to the plan the move is seen as highly controversial with moscow saying the shield would compromise its own national security the lawyers for former bosnian serb general ratko moderates say he accepts will be extradited to the hague for war crimes he's awaiting the outcome of an appeal i get instant earlier ruling that he was fit to stand trial. georgia's

opposition says the government's now targeting families of dissidents dozens of whom are still missing after a violent crackdown on protests two days ago earlier the u.s. state department joined russia a demanding a probe into the actions of the police that left several dead. and a lot of the end of the tunnel for people of gaza as egypt opens a border crossing ending a four year blockade of the palestinian territory human rights groups say the decision will ease humanitarian crisis for the million plus palestinians facing shortages of food and medical supplies. coming up on spotlight the currency crisis in belarus is plunging the country into a financial abyss we speak with a former bellerophon leader stanislav should have a chance to shine a light on the political implications of the looming crunch.

hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i am now going to name my guest on the program. which i've ridden the news yesterday that a man in minsk has bought thirty two refrigerators and brought the no the problem is the severe financial crisis and by the russia that's turning into nover all economic crisis at least it may turn into such a crisis prices are skyrocketing nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow people are buying all they can the country desperately needs cash injections from the outside can this economic situation influence the self isolated political

regime and we'll be talking about it from the former leader of the country the first president of independent spends laugh which. the currency crisis he missed his pride panic among the population the people have been allowed to paint the us dollars and euros for petrol and tourist services proceed as a recognition of the defeat of the russian ruble in this situation present only solution for suddenly made a statement he could release political prisoners many analysts said he was trying to bargain financial aid from the west was elated to admit to the shrinkers political rivals was sentenced to long prison terms to crack down on the opposition leaders has made the aid from the i.m.f. virtually impossible and still can receive a one billion dollar tranche from russia but can only do so if some key state assets experts say missiles which includes finding himself in a very. if situation if he doesn't find a way to stabilize the feverish national economy he may lose the grip of the country has been ruling with a strong hand during the last seventeen years. the

first with a good day mr savage. thanks very much for coming to our show it's an honor to have you here today we will be discussing the situation valorous it is a dire situation that russians are very concerned about. why is bellerose facing this crisis today some people certain media and kremlin sources say that the main reason for it was that it was never meant to prompt a lot of money into the bell russian economy in the run up to the elections do you support the theory that it's no creases this crisis these are all illegitimate presidents for make sure you put it the cash injections were his fault too he lied to russia europe and he's own people on television and on the arena it was also started quite some time ago a very long time ago. absolute power corrupts absolutely. such

people don't care about democracy and elections any longer. and he's this way because at least obsessed with power that is the main reason but he's are an illegitimate president i say illegitimate because he was never elected he lost to the latest elections. he completely subdued everyone he worked with turning them into conflicts is what the people of belarus have suffered. i wanted to say bill russians but i'd rather go with the people of bill or to boyd is sounding like a nationalist or was this just that well but nevertheless the outcome of the last year's presidential election in belarus is still way among the major. reason for the current devastating economic situation in the country there is this report from spotlights villain the senior. when he was running for his fool's

consecutive term last year luca shankar spelled nothing to ensure success one of his carrots was unsuited percent increase in wages extravagance might have added to look a shame because popularity but it didn't help the country's economy which only went from bad to worse the opposition never trusted the official results of the presidential vote the night they were announced thousands of people went down in the streets and names to protest location as real action a disciplined south they really were dispersed by the police more than six hundred protesters were arrested last attentions of the valorous opposition during the election were harshly criticized abroad as i dead dozens of protesters accused of when i was in the rally i've been given prison sentences the e.u. and the us condemned the repressions and introduced sanctions against our ruse taken on it pressure combined with extravagant reactions spending but eventually

led to the financial crisis this week the bellers currency was devalued by more than a third eating into the pre-election wage increase ours was granted and three billion dollars on from the eurasian economic community a grouping of almost soviet republics that's considered no more than time for relief good fiscal and monetary paul seriousness i needed because the economy is still mostly been running a soviet style the first time in the seventeen years president will push and there has been an hour finds himself under severe pressure both internationally and at home base and trials of the opposition leaders combined with the current financial turmoil make the prospect of public congress to have done more. mr cabbage you just said look at chan co has lost the latest election spur.

of the opposition because he claims he won it december nineteenth saw a mass protest against election rigging one of the next day will russian chords started handing out guilty verdicts one after another day after day but i think thirty people were convicted in total only almost all opposition leaders were sentenced to time in jail some of them got suspended sentences some didn't does this mean there is nobody left in bellows who can protest against it was that over there when they go it you know they had this saying during the war you can't change everyone the same is true today you can't jail everyone don't go it will be jailed the best there are people up and also you have to realize that the belorussian opposition is merely nominal because the real opposition like the one they have in the west or like you have in russia our parliamentary opposition was wiped out it

was they what those were the people who had the courage to rise up against the legal regime at the state terrorism here so you're right he really. quite hard but still i think we have enough people. to transform them with him and improve should be overall situation in belarus there's not much on this is coach minsk saw a terrible terrorist attack in april it was a terrible tragedy but immediately after it occurred because people started saying that look i shall go at it as a shrewd politician and used to strengthen his own political standing and. weaken the opposition. do you think that's true. he said straight away that it could only be the opposition who could have done this

just one which was proved not to be the thick later but still no but them and this only because they were real professionals only investigating. this our police are too stupid and busy battering civilians if we did so why did the russians and israeli investigators. when they conducted a quality investigation when it turned out none of the culprits who were involved with the opposition but look at shank of course will still claim it was the opposition's fault and all he blames seoul the earlier attacks from them but at the moment but this i think was done by other people than those who investigated this attack so whenever things get difficult third did you know it was broad his son which any explosions site before the bodies were removed news every child has to be protected from seeing such horror but you brought his son there to show everybody

how much he cares about the bill or russian people and the victims so the attack you're saying look and sound is a bad father and urgent president to use strong words like stupid no i said other people who are stupid going to do well why are you still not in jail. you well. you see the truth try know what kind of person look here is the good stuff so i never do anything that can land be in prison. nevertheless i'm still the most persecuted man in biller it's. now can you see those people are not stupid if this special benefits i receive for my services to the people of the bellary will still be in mounds to fifty cents a month to what at the top it used to be a dollar but now it's just fifty cents with the so don't you think this is stupid because i was the poverty line well even if you are ready to live in poverty

you still have to spend a couple of dollars a day are in employment benefit is twelve or thirteen dollars which is also true to say your pension is less than the unemployment benefits yes and less than the minimum pension but that's just and then if it for my special services to the people of billers would you call a man who paid pyrrhus such a bill if not stupid well they're not actually stupid but they have to work in such a way that clinician would be able to see on the boss in your stupidity and he would be right well another reason you're free must be that look at what he doesn't see you as a political rival what you will question was well i think it is because i'm a lloyd biding citizen of my dishes and i observe even the clause which we have in deloris illusion so he can suffer criticism you know he can't take it when you know why aren't you in prison. i'm sorry but he's not an educated man and.

i can be more delicate when i criticize saying that he's a when he talks about garage or the ukrainian president i don't call him names i'm just saying he's a not very educated man and i have evident. it's going he wore it someone would be francisco arena ward and cisco arenas strolled around st petersburg you know sgrena died welsh hundred and fifty years before the city was even founded because what do we call a man who says such statements would says. the former president. well of course life will be better off the record shows being said stay with us we'll be back here in this room at the left i wanted. to get.

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a reminder that my guests here on the show today is. the former leader the first president of the republic of belarus. mr cisco bitch we have already discussed the difficult economic situation that belarus is going through the value and the demo ation of the bell russian ruble developed as the financial crisis and the devaluation of the bell russian ruble hit the bottom yet it's really by no means all the experts agree that they should have evaluated the belorussian herbal guy for more than fifty six percent of the prices keep growing of course they will through a couple of people in jail naturally they will blame it all on them it will address the nation on television accusing them of all the hardships that people of belarus have to endure it will all be a bundle of lies. but there are a lot of people in russia who admire the dollar rushing it cannot make model well the left for that model use complete e.t.c but you know it and i can prove it

they deal with it i can consider this the russian ruble the end of the russian ruble both came from the soviet herbal. moreover we had a denomination to increase their roubles value by ten what to do your russian ruble is worth over three hundred belorussian roubles strip this means delarue says currency has depreciated thousand times compared to the russian ruble and not just to solve your trouble. i also know that we didn't have a black tuesday which our economy never defaulted it was a gradual depreciation which. patient people of belarus haven't matured to what they how can we call an economy that slaughters its own currency like that as a success i don't know where you find academics who are willing to praise that system. look at how it affected the people's lives thanks to lucas shan co.

as one of the lowest to life expectancy rates in europe. since the districts is completely distorted yes i was in that conference to say that if a look at the official figures of the russian statistics committee they say that we are flourishing our life is arrayed apparently and this is served by the media to the naive russian audience russian journalists who come to look good to get present leave information about how beautiful life in belarus is a year is like anti-crisis fund is going to run goes three billion dollars i think that will help the economy it will help but not for long the money will be used to sustain the repressive machine and crammed down the opposition are stupid law enforcers are very well paid what europeans have already realized where the money goes so we won't see any money from them. that your country mandeville russians

how are they reacting to the economic shock that the country is going through with it but if it will they're used to this sort of thing well it is already told you diller who says i'm in perpetual state of shock our currency has depreciated by two thousand times was this in the papers if you don't know it the way you do nothing of this is in the people or is it people is right about lithuania for example and they tell us look they're only used in seventy percent of their cultivated land the corps is collecting forms used all of it what they don't see though is that at least the winnies able to cover all its neat using always seventy percent lethal when your produces more green than ever if we don't have free media. just tries taking to a television draw as we're talking now over a news monopolized semi-independent self censored newspapers have a circulation of fifty thousand a week and at the same time we get two million copies of sylvia bill or is telling

us that the president is a saint and we've never had a better leader and that we shouldn't look for anything and he's lickspittle riders will drive you mad well hillary is infected with the serve all mentality is people are actually no longer bill are russians their location because. well whatever you call it servility or whatever the fact is that people are voting for a local chunk of you know they're not most of them support nothing of the sort i say this time and again no civilized country has recognized these elections because your votes were not counted. people simply can't imagine the scale of the fraud with which we are talking about people and we were do you know what sort of letters bill or it's rights to the european parliament. they say we have seen you used to measure is to disperse demonstrations. but when we use water cannons and

police for taunts against civilians you condemn our actions. there's another lie for you it was because the police was obviously just trying to beat people into submitting to this monstrous government that has been feeling office for sixteen years and where it has brought deloris i've heard that one of the reasons behind the opposition is defeat and the size location is tough measures of course is that none of the opposition candidates have so far forward a solid program best they could come up with was let's do it like lucas handle it better this is entirely. wrong here are confusing two things nine presidential candidates who are united by a common desire to change the political system is in order to do that they would have to get out of the way that was their common goal aside from that their

programs were completely different look at sonny cosa program for example i was in his team and his program was great the primary objective is to change the political system this doesn't mean doing the same as look at those very pro european is not quite good we could never reach up to europe the objective is to liberalize the economy we can't save the economy without a free market the current polluter ships as a free market can lead to anything and in a sense i agree with a yes sure yes well first state which billers is according to the constitution. we do need if you greedy of government control over the market how do you agree with the notion that pollution can see regime can only be defeated in a single tended it is nominated by all opposition parties no more and no i can't agree with that fact that our strategy was right if we cared

a single candidate would be allowed very little air time and media attention when we had non on the other hand all agree that the political system needs to be changed and that was great as a way to make noise but not to win but they did it with good voice look at last in the six polling stations where the old thing was monitor you quoting to exit polls at other at polling stations he lost as well he could have collected thirty two percent of the most of it with a margin of error off seven or eight percent but it wouldn't if you live above that on the other seventy percent would still have to be split between untended itself which leads to a runoff in which only new candid. and when. those son has been getting more and more media attention lately people started speculating that lucas xango might be trying to make him his successor. do you believe it's possible there with

a lot of the ability to deal with that yep well i know this boy's mother and i don't think he can be raised to brightish to become a good president because he's essentially raised without a mother was and still would be so i don't believe in this theory it's focused at the same time i'm sure he would like this to happen although maybe a little look at sean cook yes it was a last question or uprisings against the third carrion regimes seem to be the zeitgeist today i dismiss it taken into account events in north africa as this effects and those that all well you know or as those completely isolated and unaffected well what i think is this bill or has suffered heavier casualties and world war two than any other country or thousand people and we lost more people than anybody due to be required souls and we have behaved casualties in the afghan war perhaps it's time to stop using access cannon fodder we will find it

a peaceful way out of this situation because this bigotry cannot continue as law itself some more evil and we will find a way to revive our economy and make it competitive by ciba thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest on the show today we're staying slap trish kid which the first president of independent republic belittles spotlight will be back with more of the help of the ailing and in and out of the event they are to eat take place if. i am. did i kill innocents here or was it

a call this of course and that's never answered. tom a song from the cosco for me i think of it every day. of the flyers fired from the memory. of so much a long time serious crime. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had been neutered i was ashamed that i had been a hero why. are my go lower legs. what i wanted to be out. for. what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good feel. for you now most older on the other side and i think i'm just a good. down

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