it's because of what more some. explosions and gunfire heard in the belorussian capital according to witnesses because a lot of the presidential election result sparks mass anti-government demonstrations throughout the country leading to leaving the thousands of arrests including a nazi correspondent who was later released. let alone the entire cabinet resigned on the last following ever increasing pressure over the last week's devastating blast in beirut a. conference reportedly tells the u.k. it's happy trying to help stop the increasing flow of migrants coursing being

wished chano as long as london stumps up to 38000000. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me making erin our top story anti-government protests in bella bruce are continuing tonight with witnesses reporting blasts and gunshots throughout the capital videos have also surfaced online of police forces beating and detaining people after the government issued a crackdown on orders on the demonstration demonstrators and r.t. correspondent was also arrested in minsk while covering the protests but has since been released and demonstrations erupted on sunday after longtime president alexander lukashenko claimed he'd won a landslide victory in the election. it. was a. moon

through her. let's cross live now to our correspondent among calls a ref among good to see you could you give us the latest developments place. absolutely wall and the moments we are just outside the bella russian embassy here in the russian capital we'll talk about what's going on here a little bit later but 1st i want to mention something about there are about russian journalists who were arrested and later released in the belarus now all that happened after russian foreign ministry. talks with the russian authorities

and just about less than an hour ago. most of the russian journalists had been released now this problem to the rest of the media prompted. their colleagues to come out here to the. to the belorussian embassy to ask the authorities to release the journalists and so far it has happened now the protests say here or rather people here are standing in solidarity with the opposition members in bella ruse now they've been here for about a boat said about 6 o'clock and judging from my experience i calculated about 25300 people here now all the around me for journalists is now over and these people are i hear his side with the opposition i asked a couple of them what this is all about why why are they here and this is what they told me. through we've come to support them. the russian people because at this difficult time they are not only fighting against the seizing of power but their

own police aren't supporting them you know you're muscular yesterday i was watching a broadcast of what was going on in pillar roosts and i was shocked by the violence and the better russian police they were shooting people and beating them out i came to support the russian people. belorussian investigative committee have launched a wall several. legal inquiries into what happened there and delivers about a legal approach as unsanctioned rallies and they said at least 80 people have been detained that's according to the official authorities of course so all the latest footage that we have seen from a bell or rousseau shows that said just like on sunday a monday again saw all the thirty's use a rubber bullets stun grenades tear gas and apparently shots were fired as well now according to the belorussian the president well he says these

elections were best ever it was something resembling a holiday if you will but he says any kind of interference that happened in dollars all came from. outside of the country meanwhile the opposition all they claimed that the election was rigged and the numbers that were awarded to preselection call were inflated let's have a listen to the opposition right now. yes. it's clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers of the top of someone's head the real results are exactly the opposite we support all citizens are doing because the votes have been stolen has started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. it's now seizing power by force and he is the one who is carrying out a coup. and you know he didn't. here there in the studio but so the people are chanting once again long live bella ruse asking

the president lukashenko to leave his post the police here sometimes asking the people to disperse because they're in the way of regular pedestrians who are not taking part in this rally meanwhile we're following the developments in minsk very closely as the heard latest internal army is used as law enforcement to disperse the crowds of course any further developments will bring in 2 years and as we can. thank you ramon we appreciate that both parties that were among. the last of spoke to a girl who claimed she and her boyfriend were detained in the streets by police for seemingly just taking a walk satisfaction for me and my boyfriend who were out for a walk and we saw several special police unit buses and men cross the road in front of them and they suddenly stopped until him to lay on the ground then they noticed

us and said you 2 we were confused there were no other people around no crowds just me my boyfriend and this man we complied got on the crown and they put us in the buses as a girl i was placed alone but the guys were 1st but up and then put in a bus with 4 other people along the way we picked up more people and then they took us hit another girl that they put in with me had all of her things taken she was searched and had to strip naked after that we were put in a cell with 17 other girls the room had only 4 beds there was spend the night with the lights on. the crossing live now to gregory copley edison of defense and foreign affairs thank you for joining us on the program relations between minsk and moscow that just all in what they were how is this going to affect them now. well i think the problems for president bush in cairo are only going to get worse the the genie is out of the bottle as far as the concept of public protests are

concerned in minsk and. throughout all of us so i think that president bush in go may not even see his full term and there's. declining credibility for him at home. the people in bell roofs are seeing the examples of protests around the world they're certainly taking heart from this and i think they're going to give the valorous security authorities a great deal of concern and i don't believe that this is the kind of unrest which can be easily suppressed unless the president. is prepared to take really significant steps towards changing the situation. the president is saying there is claim there's been a lection meddling from abroad do you think his concerns are justified. well i think there's always the concern of election meddling from abroad in their

elections almost in any country however the middling in the elections at home is quite evident there's no question that there have been. a use of the party of the incumbent to an excessive degree in bellerose. now it's also clear that there are a lot of people in any country who really do not like change so certainly the incumbent will get a lot of votes i don't believe that it's credible that he received 80 percent of the vote so. the election meddling in that respect was. clearly not in favor of the opposition it was in favor of the present look at shaker himself. the opposition meanwhile says it's ready for the long haul but these protests when you see the situation going to think they will and deal. it seems this time the protests have some legs to them that they have some jura realty.

that's not to say that. could not achieve a total crackdown if he wished but at what cost so the question will then become if the protests continue as to whether the security services would go along with the president in this or whether they would try to seek some kind of accommodation which would enable the country to transition to a new leadership prism look at sugar has been very inflexible in this and. he hasn't changed with the time so he is going to come up against a hard war i think of protesters and international isolation which will be something even greater than that he said to bear in the past. thanks for talking to us gregory accompli editor of defense and foreign affairs. lebanon's anti cabinet including the 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 deaths and utter 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 designed 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 but that's we going to move forward again because the 2 deaths are coming in this direction and to some even towards us but as i say the situation in baby to a lot of and a lot of frustration not only about the explosion at the port but also the whole mismanagement of the government and its failure to take accountability and responsibility. for life now to international affairs commentator donovan steele thanks for joining us on the program so the entire cabinet ever has resigned does that come as a surprise to hear. naturally this is the main demand of the just as they also want new elections and they want all of them to be ok to just well this is actually the 2nd government had to resign much of chad months. harry reid government to resign

well job last year and then hariri remainders the tragedy is that was achieved once so it may well be that house and you know remains in power is a church a prime minister for another 2 so you're 4 months so the protesters will not be happy with that so will this lead to any political changes at all well it's difficult i mean you're going to mischaracterize why they are judged politics people vote according to their religion. there's a going to have forces rich can be tracked people who say you know. certainly one christian in same party you voted for one party or not they're going to they're against you and you will be take a long time to administer some kind of issue based politics roseline judged. then you could get real debates of the policy options and you've got a much fairer system. these process people took the streets off to this said

devastating blast no they get there they've been calling for the government step down now they have do you think that this will satisfy the protesters will they will the protests stop or do they want more is this a bigger issue here. you know isn't there one more there when we certainly want an international investigation of what went wrong at the moment she was president of mission iron said it would be the domestic lebanese investigation because it's a violation of sovereignty and an insult. foreigners running the investigation just as don't trust the government whether it's a solution or christian government they want they want to depend and people who have some kind of reputation of credibility and continuity so that's one thing one second saying as i said here was that i think that people want a new parliamentary elections the new kind of its will emerge won't the same old problem where was the past 30 years in getting your session you the.

foreign government offering but also putting pressure on lebanon is that pressure likely to make any difference in the coming days well i think that's another big problem because the kind of reforms that necessary which he is pushing for. getting out of contention that a lot money and it's agreed would be very tough to strengthen economically it's a lot of the people would come in surgeons for each of the women because that would cut government spending on jobs many of the jobs that people have on government jobs and if you cut them them on the street on employed service will be a holiday and you're not near liberal kind of. promise and the americans are pushing and pushing is and it could cause a lot of economic hardships and it's hard to see really limited to relaunch of the end of china lives an economic time as opposed to the political 2. 1000 still

international affairs commentator thank you for your time. they explode in beirut has changed many lives in the city forever for one family is only added to their heartache they were in hospital dealing with their daughter's callous when the blast struck and the father was killed forgive me if i did anything for me to 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 loved you oh you know you are you know i love 6 you i love you these summer months of always being synonymous with joy and celebration for us to his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sunny 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 was 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 either then and anything but i wanted to pull his head like this i felt that all smashed all all smug i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul living his body i saw it.

and i wanted to move on to another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes and only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to win cancer and coping with her father's death she drew for me and around. a circle. she said she color that was red i knew it's her there. 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 they're going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone sing with happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august.

so. my love. 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 he was listening he heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me so can you imagine. her says. can you imagine the images in her brave passing whenever she closes her eyes so you are find redemption and believe 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 have i feel secured even when he's around i don't gossip or markets i don't do anything for the house he picks care of everything everything here's a take a lot of lords from my shoulder. 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. her. oh my supposed to put money on this you know in this little room and don't know this for over is about

a 1. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. what i'm going to. give him the 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 sooner realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole life's mission now to limit the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with her mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them frozen as our. unicorn because she learned about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because when you're going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down you're going to lose your hair so what i can do or 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 the bill smiling her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon r.t. . first 1000000 pound splash the price france is reportedly demanding to up its efforts to stop migrants trying to reach the u.k. the news has not gone down well in downing street which is said to be drawing up plans to deploy the navy to help 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 is put the 2 countries holds 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 do you with the issue of these illegal crossings properly on the aids now that's left apparently westminster pretty scathing this shut down those proposal saying it won't hand 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 so 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 saw a 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 with the u.k. it's just north and nothing so much so you can home secretary pretty bitter. has announced a new appointment this is the appointment of cotton desk dining channel 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 who 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 reach 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 votes 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 the doctor who rules to send any 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. 3 russian diplomats are being thrown out of survivor care news of the explosions was confirmed a short time ago by the slovakian foreign ministry we're joined now by dawn course our correspondents find out exactly what's going on i don't know what do we know at

the moment. well nicky it was after the silver the slovakian government said that these diplomats were suspected of espionage that they gave them until the end of the week to vacate the country now slovakia's ministry of foreign affairs says that it's of course interested in goods to weigh relations with moscow but it also said that the diplomats in question had committed a serious violation says that and we also do have actually the response from the russian ministry of foreign affairs they said that there will be a mirror response to the expulsion of these diplomats and as for the russian the russian diplomatic mission to slovakia we actually haven't heard anything from them yet now while this was the 1st diplomatic mishap between russia and slovakia back in june there was actually one between russia and the czech republic when the czech republic actually expelled 2 diplomats from their country the prime minister of the

czech republic said that they were suspected of spreading misinformation about a possible attack on czech diplomats so who knows if these 2 situations are connected but it certainly is an interesting coincidence. thank you for those days how 1000 quarter. and thank you for joining us here and i think we're back in festive minutes with all the latest for you that. i should reach out to you watching a lot that in addition all going on to grow this the penultimate episode of this

season. coming up in the show after 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of beirut killing injuring and displacing thousands of what caused lebanon's biggest ever explosion we speak to former lebanese member of parliament got some look aver about an arguable israeli p.r. exercise in the wake of continued bombing and has space violations and book of those black lives matter protest is continuing the fight against racial capitalism in the u.s. learn from their country's history of oppression and imperialism around the world we are spack jackpot because daughter of the wire and spike please defy blood all this more coming up in today's lockdown edition of going on the grabber 1st let's go to beirut to form a lebanese m.p. for the 10 in the east beirut macgyver all our condolences sonnet some days after the explosions at beirut port where were you in the catastrophe struck him or your 1st thoughts as to its course i was in my hometown

by many which is about. 12 kilometers away from beirut and we shot we found a shockwave and my mother's house. broken glass and we thought that it was 'd an israeli or a flight that broken the sound barrier all over the road down it was so loud and so dangerous then the stories came flowing on television and we tried to call friends some went to see some went dead many were wounded houses were destroyed lives were shattered and it is absolutely and percent that it's a catastrophe this is anything short of a nuclear bomb has exploded in the middle of beirut. one could not describe what has happened courson i've lived through all of the war ever since that is that it defied i've heard explosions of blue to it but none as bad as what we're going through right now.