well in the world the world of. course of the creatures. and r.t. correspondent is released after being detained earlier in minsk while covering antigovernment protests there must demonstrations in bella bruce event in their 2nd day over claims the weekend's presidential election was rigged. lebanon's entire cabinet resigns on months following gathering creasing pressure over last week's devastating blast in beirut. and france reportedly tells the u.k. it's happy trying to help stop the increasing flow of migrants crossing the english channel as long as london stumps up to 30000000 pounds.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me thank you arun. an r.c. correspondent has been released in minsk after being detained earlier along with thousands of others during our government protests this demonstrate these demonstrations reps on sunday after long time president alexander lucas shango claimed he'd won a landslide victory in the election. but joined now by our correspondent ramon calls around the room and one of the latest developments developments. but take a well we are outside the russian embassy here in moscow and i'll tell you what's going on here in just a little bit but 1st regarding r.t. correspondent who was detained in the men's and later released while we're going to

hold of him as well and this is what he said he said on his on the when he was going into the park he spoke to the police and they detained him to put him in their police car put had handcuffs on and took about 2 or 3 kilometers away from the epicenter of the protest and then let him go he says that he was not hurt and actually his words were they were quiet gentle with me so he is ok meanwhile there are other members of the russian press who have been detained in minsk in the building rooms and those people are still behind bars to some abilities by the russian authorities russian foreign ministry says that some of them should be released any moment actually could be happening as we speak we'll bring you those developments and a bit later on us so now getting to the reason why we are here outside of the bell

russian embassy well out there you can see a crowd of about i would say around 2 to 20250 people judging from my prior experience and the protests some of them are i here to support our russian journalists who have been detained others are here to support opposition in. who have. the they claimed they hope it was the opposition that so won the elections and not the standing president alexander lukashenko now i spoke to one of the protesters here all picketers or rather who spoke about why she is here to support russian journalist in belarus. detaining journalists while they are working goes against all rules and norms i know sunanda go personally and i'm absolutely sure that she was not participating in the protests he's a journalist who is doing his job as well as all other journalists that were

detained yesterday during the protests in belarus they were not supposed to be detained they should all be released immediately bringing in our good things they investigated committee all fabella rues say they have launched at least 21 criminal investigations into a legal mass protests and sit around 80 people have been detained once again this is according to the bella russian authorities and the latest reports from minsk say that said the police are once again using stun grenades in order to disperse the crowds now the bill also it says the russian authorities are also checking the ole of the documents all all of the journalists all present their chicken very of the really to make sure that everybody who works there is doing so illegally meanwhile standing president alexander lukashenko says that these have been one of the best elections today to end any kind of interference with election

process came from outside of. meanwhile the opposition say that the election was rigged it was that not fair and the numbers have been inflated let's have a listen to the member of the opposition right now. it's clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers of the top of someone's . the real results are exactly the opposite we support what citizens are doing because the votes have been stolen the start of this campaign the brutal violation of the constitution. it's now seizing power by force he is the one who is carrying out a coup. protests or the kids rather of being held not just in belarus spot like i said here in moscow as well in kiev ukraine and some other cities too meanwhile violence is only taking place in belarus we all saw what was happening there on

a sunday night once again the police are using stun grenades. on monday they are preventing the crowds from reaching the center of minsk they did that by closing at least 4 subway stations and of course were full of this situation there and bring you updates as soon as they become available we appreciate that thought a that ramon culture of thank you well let's get more on this now in cross live to martin some of the independent journalists trying to on broadcast on eastern europe thank you for joining us on the program it's great to see you know it's always going to put a strain on relations between minsk and moscow to thank. well obviously the situation in better response a strain on the whole geo political structure in europe. recent years has been trying to pursue a more independent course from russia and he's been making overtures to the west but the same saw him the western powers have never been very happy about his his

position this regime. and of course we've had the recent very strange circumstance where some russian military personnel there weren't direct the military personnel but they were ex military personnel were arrested and they were accused of trying to cause problems around the election that looks as if it was some kind of provocation by the security services in ukraine but at the same song you've got necessarily a 26 years in power for the younger generation in. iraq want some kind of change they want to see feel very frustrated that the election hasn't gone their way but if you actually look at the results 80 percent and one percent that doesn't seem right to me but on the other hand with the idea that some. 2 to can also 2 can last guy who's the leader of the opposition is a relatively new figure cousin got huge recognition in the population and it's unlikely that it should have come from nowhere to defeat

a sitting president but of course the real problem here is the potential for conflict and therefore potentially drawing nato powers and russia into complete confidence ation as we saw previously in ukraine. see i think that these concerns raised by president lukashenko about the election meddling coming from abroad are justified. well as i say we meant i mentioned the incident with the russian military personnel it's looks like they were on the way to syria to do various jobs in syria and then they were told that they weren't flying on the new schenker was told boy. the ukrainian secret service that they were in the country to interfere with the election and then they were arrested but i think that movie cleared up. about lucas and those obviously willing to believe that. we know that western intelligence services would like to create problems for russia in belarus they've been trying to do it for many years and of course many of the protesters

for example might want to talk about joining the european union as people in ukraine didn't like in 2014. i think the real danger here is overreaction. by the government in the loose to protests and also the protests may through various machinations and playing into the hands of some kind of repressive. reaction by the authorities and the real danger of those outside the us is the sense into an ongoing crisis of legitimacy which then drugs in all the forces in the baltic states in poland in russia and of course in the wider world. martin summers independent journalist right on broadcast on eastern europe thank you for your time thank you. now lebanon's entire cabinet including a prime minister has resigned following last week's devastating explosion in beirut mass protests have been held every day since people have been demanding

accountability for the $150.00 plus death and destruction caused by the blast our correspondent paula slayer reports from the area. situation here is becoming more and more unruly behind you you see the lebanese police they've managed to push protesters all the way back from the parliament building we're now in one of the side streets but there is tear gas and we're going to move forward a little bit because rocks are being thrown in our direction by the protesters now the protesters are still out on the streets despite the fact that earlier the lebanese prime minister resigned he resigned along with his cabinet but what the protesters here are telling me is that they're not going to stop taking to the streets until the whole parliament itself resigns so it's possible that scenes like this will continue we've witnessed people being wounded again we've witnessed ambulances ferrying them to and from the scene so a lot of the same scenes unfolding as we've witnessed over the past 2 days this is violence that started on saturday night more than 700 people have been injured one

policeman so far has been killed i know we're getting tear gas ok at our break for a moment while i put on my mask and we'll show you what the last few days of violence have looked like. the time. that. was. now people here are calling this a revolution i've been talking to protesters and they say that this revolution is not going to be over as i mentioned until the parliament itself resigns beirut really hasn't witnessed scenes like this in many many years we've had lots of tear gas on the streets there but the camera man was injured at the same time the police

are being accused of using excessive force and they have admitted to using both tear gas. and live bullets we're going to move forward again because the tear gas is coming in this direction and apply to some even towards us but as i say the situation in baby to a lot of anger a lot of frustration not only about b explosion at the port but he also on the whole mismanagement of the government and its failure to take accountability and responsibility. a beirut based investment banker khaled said down believes the resignations will eventually lead to positive changes in the country. and i think the majority of those that are for testing today like myself are angry. they are angry because obviously all of the magnitude of this catastrophe and they are also angry at the magnitude of their incompetence on dealing with this. it isn't as if the government is not it at least creates an opening for you know

a new management and new dynamic which can potentially need to a more stable and acceptable strain want to run or to basically be able to undertake the huge adults. the explosion in beirut has changed many lives in the city forever one family is only added to their heartache they were in hospital dealing with their daughter's caliph when the blast struck the father was killed. forgive me if i did anything made you carry or if i hurt you forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used to tell him i love you oh you know you are you know i love you i love you these summer months have always been synonymous with joy and celebration for sue his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sonny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon

early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that it's classical heart i knew that it wasn't informed by that time gemma's immune system had been shot to pieces but hodgkin lymphoma is not a sentence for children it's curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldn't stay away in a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and her gemma's hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this like this i didn't see if fair i didn't see my daughter i didn't see any any any anything but i wanted to put his head like this i felt that all smashed all all so

much that i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul leaving his body i saw it but i didn't. i want to move on to another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to when cancer and coping with her father's death she drove for me and around a circle. she she color that was red i knew it's her bed. and it was full of blood. sue his heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his the going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone's going with

happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august. so. i ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly there's just so much she feels she didn't tell her husband enough suhas biggest concern now is her daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings she told them here was listening they heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not i'm not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me so can you imagine. herself. can you

imagine the images in her a passing whenever she closes her eyes. suah finds redemption and relief in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you know whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when he's around i don't go so far marcus i don't do anything for the house to fix care of everything everything here's a think a lot of clothes from my shoulder now this is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as i'm sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house through because they're good they're used to. her. oh my supposed to

put my ribs on those who know and this and don't know is forever is about their one . 0 was waiting for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms the secured a how. what i'm going to kids this gets when they're in 3rd when they smell his clothes there's some mean for not removing his clothes from the house i'm not going to remove them but suha realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole life mission now to eliminate the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with the mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them a frozen. unicorn because a lot about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because mom when you're going to take this strong medication your hair is going to fall down

you're going to lose your hair so what i can do this is my hair i'm going to give it to you so you would wear to cater on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants to visit smiling her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon. those conference wants persons financially help stem the flow of migrants crossing the english channel but the request is in getting a warm reception that's coming up off the pike. i don't know. no shots. actually

felt. well it's true i know it's one. which your thirst for action. isn't really usually truth is there any truth in the news also but there's this one creature known as eliot gave from say about trump's evolves. welcome back $30000000.00 pounds that's the price france is reportedly demanding to up its efforts to stop migrants trying to reach the u.k. the news has no it's gone down well in downing street which is said to be drawing

up plans to deploy the navy to help show the deep end ski reports from paris. well the clash over migrants between the u.k. and france seems to be escalating and that comes as there has been in recent arrivals from france to the u.k. which has put the 2 countries that owns the number of illegal smuggled crossings is appalling and unacceptably high the figures are shameful france and other e.u. states are safe countries genuine refugees should claim asylum there not reach their lifes and break the law by coming to the u.k. france is apparently demanding some. pounds from the u.k. government before it says it will deal with the issue of these illegal crossings promptly on the aids now that's left a parent in westminster pretty scathing this shot down those proposal saying it won't hand over any will cash and less it has

a hand in how the money is spent now there are also accusations that paris is trying to milk the u.k. all while these number of illegal crossings are increasing day by day let's have a look at some of the figures now just a few days ago on august 6th 235 people made it across from france to the shoes of england now in 2020 so far more than 4000 people have succeeded in making that crossing that's double the number in 2019 so real increase that we've seen now french patrols are trying to stop some of those migrants leaving french coastal shores and we know that the french interior minister has sort of back saying you since january its operations have stopped 5 times as many people as they did in 2019 in the same

period but for the u.k. it's just north and nothing so much so you can home secretary for tickets. has announced a new appointment this is the appointment of contest dining channels direct command of this somebody who is going to be monitoring all the agencies that watch the english channel for things like illegal migration somebody should be able to sort the problem out and the u.k. government is even suggested that it may have to use its own maritime assets to deal with this we determined to stop this illegal route into britain for humanitarian reasons as much as anything else we are talking to our french counterparts and we in order to find a solution using maritime assets so safely to try and return boats to france trying to prevent people from leaving france in the 1st place while talks between the 2 countries are due to continue this week but the core is taking up the moment the u.k. has the right and of the doctor who rules to said that the asylum seekers back to

france but that will end at the end of the break that transition period which will finish in december 2020 so only a few months away that's of course unless the 2 countries reach a new deal something at the moment that seems highly unlikely given that the 2 countries are not seeing eye to eye on this issue. fatal shootings in new york up by nearly 2 thirds compared to a year ago despite that the city's police budget is being flashed under pressure from black lives amounts of protest but fervor is that just even black americans don't think it's a good idea and has the details. across the country many cities have cut the number of police officers and reduce the funding for police departments in response to the explosive mass movement of protests against police brutality.

and. oddly polls show that this is not exactly what the public wants 81 percent of black americans say they want the police to spend the same amount of time that they already do in their communities or more this may be influenced by the overall breakdown in law and order gun violence in new york city has risen by a 177 percent this to wine and at the same time as a rise in crime is taking place homelessness is also on the rise making many locals very disturbed it's not the city that it used to be before march you have to take

certain precautions judge me i have to be in fear of these men doesn't mean it old these men know predatory but a lot of them they'll start shelf pleasure writing them show still pass out on the street from k. to smoking crack shooting when i haven't seen anything to old but there have been some birds in the neighborhood that i that doesn't make me feel that a woman was attacked in my building at that day and it was only 10 o'clock at night so i haven't seen anything but if i did it would certainly bother me but it may be just because these people should be taken care of and obviously the rest of us should not be unity at the concern for somebody who's not in control of himself. causing trouble if you have men with drug problems why would you put him into. a place where there is no security whatsoever to make sure that they don't keep feeding the abbot the rise in crime and homelessness has got many new yorkers fearing this could be a return to the old new york of the seventy's and eighty's many wealthy folks are packing up and leaving governor andrew cuomo is urging them to change their minds

begging wealthy folks to stay even offering to cook the dinner you gotta come back when you come back we'll go to dinner buy a drink. come over i'll cook but despite his pleading good minutes new york city is getting the last say we're trying to get them to come back. cold we're going to control we're going to make progress helping the homeless we're going to clean up the graffiti we're going to fix these problems of rising crime homelessness and violence on the streets of new york are something that most average new yorkers can't afford to just pack up and run away from it governor andrew cuomo would give an attention to these problems that affect lower income new yorkers then perhaps these same problems that are now driving the wealthy folks away wouldn't have risen so dramatically up and artsy new york. thanks for joining us they are not the international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines with senior.

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