well you know welcome to. the course of the. street. protests sparked by the disputed election in baton rouge then to their 4th day as police begin dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators. also russia claims to be the world's 1st country with a coronavirus a vaccine we visit a factory now mass producing it. we can sense the devastating blast reduced much of beirut to ruin the family's struggle with their grief in

korea including those who lost firefighters in the tragedy. and who believe once she grows up she can know before there was a hero and she will know what happened to him. she will no longer guide reason. very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with mina care and. now despite calls for calm the on rest in belarus continues as the country enters a 4th day of protests police have already started dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators in the capital. i mean the bushies didn't have full control. people complained it was meant to be some people missing. person or a small team. the logo. is

. on. the way. let's get more and all this now and join our correspondent among calls were from on good to see you could you bring us up to speed on the latest place. absolutely 1st of all our crew are now outside of the belorussian embassy here in a sense or almost cold war solidarity rally is say can place just like the one happening in ukraine at the independence square to one in st petersburg the other bill a russian consulate there too now that these rallies here they've been happening for 4 days as well just like the unrest in billers however here everything is well sort of calm however this cell ones they are russian police detained at least

5 people now the reasons are unclear but for a loudspeaker i heard the police saying that this gathering was unsanctioned they were asking people to disperse and after of failing to comply some people have indeed been detained more and that as soon as be finds out meanwhile on risk continues in then minsk in the old throughout the province cybill route some police continue using crowd control equipment such as stun grenades here gas and others as will well. at the moment it's been said that heavy vehicles have moved. to the center of the rush of the bell or russian capital trying to prevent people from gathering for mass and sanctions around the central subway stations have been blocked off as well by the authorities meanwhile the protesters themselves they started employing different sides x.x.

they started blocking off the street trying to prevent vehicles and manpower of the law enforcement from coming over and dispersing them well with the no immediate resumption of the conflict inside neighboring countries to build a route such as lithuania for example they have offered their help as mediators or negotiators even. for example lithuania are the thing any and authorities are calling for reelection in belarus are also calling on sanctions against all those people who are responsible for human rights violations now the lithuanian foreign ministry added that the e.u. foreign ministers are ready to convene as soon as the 14th of october in order to discuss sanctions and what measures they can take against. the u.s. state secretary mike compel has also made as

a statement saying that they had elections in who are not free and fair at all meanwhile alexander a look at shane call himself he said he's someone's the builder russian security council and also he should another statement today talking about the protesters in belarus. too she would. go and everyone who's out of work today is supposed to be assessed and also did the underlying characteristic of all these supposed protest is that they have a criminal record in a job have no job take a hike so i ask you nicely accountable everyone who doesn't have a job needs to find one. now let's talk about some of the events happen in terms of detention of the people the police can seen you are arresting protesters they announced that a young man who was on route to minsk was detained and he had improvised explosive

devices he had my works and even knifes as well and that's just one of the incidents another one another one. we heard 25 year old man died while in custody and he was arrested for allegedly for a protest and the investigative committee of bellew's are now looking into what actually happened. there now also another incident that happened earlier wednesday at traffic police officer was around over in bill ruse and his calling were forced to open life fire in order to did saying they assailants he's now in custody as well and investigation is on their way and now we also seen reports from elsewhere in the bill a ruse where the army the cole rammed a civilian car now it's still unclear whether that was an accident or whether that was intentional however we do know that civilians

a mother and her daughter and the hospital and the little girl is now in need often operation now we've also been talking extensively about journalists who were detained in the bill or loose all over the country and they've been so far released by biller russian authorities and the interior minister of the country says that those journalists that have a proper accreditation and don't stand near being between the police officers and the protesters all those who've been there go right away. however for stringers so working for iraq tony. agencies corruptly video agency rather their fate is still unknown so they were detained wouldn't know what's happening with them and that relatives also don't know what's happening so 4 days of protests so far in the bill a ruse and this is what's been happening so far let's take

a look. here you. live. here. if not. nothing if not. well that not all of the protests in belarus resulted in violence earlier on wednesday we saw a group saw women coming out into the streets they were carrying flowers the

killing each other in a live playing cans at passers by and. motorists work to express their solidarity with the protesters in minsk more developments here and artsy a sinister find. among thank you very much for those details that remonde cultura for the latest let's bring in i guess now let's bring in charles she purchased security analyst thank you for joining us on the program mr shape which now we see in that day full of protests in belarus and quite a brutal crackdown as well do you think they protected the protesters will be able to maintain this momentum and that how long full. i suspect unless the place signs of the protests growing in a large way in multiples of people then i suspect a caucus or maybe only this it could be anybody's guess but i think that given that this protest movement appears to be foremost on tiniest and far more recent far

less organized far less orchestrated than we've seen in other countries around your particular form a senior former soviet union countries fan i suspect that it may well peter out you've got social media being used and organized you've got the main leader who's actually left the country of course i don't and you're sort of course you've got the media as we've heard orchestrates if you like against the protests and i think it's one of many better since that notwithstanding the popularity of otherwise of the president will also be i think concerned about the possibility of disorder destabilization looking at what's happened in other countries and goes to give it a broader ukraine when circle grow aleutians or a good balance are being allowed to get out of hand and i think crucially in this case it's very interesting to note that again in contrast to. your bones are cries and revolutions depending on how you want to call them the what we've seen in the

past is the involvement of foreign powers particularly the west of course in orchestrating and organizing and encouraging them once there's something pretty that's happening it's going to be set in the west media for example larry it's being reported it isn't simply simply isn't attacked in the same amount of attention that previous up license that they supported the western officials and media i support it and so therefore there are many elements missing in this another that actually we see in other scenarios around to police your way out of the billions for example and you kind. least initially successful you know the strike governments and of course that could change but at the moment it appears that this is spontaneous the. it's not as well orchestrated as ones have been in the past and the subsequent result of that it may well go but of course that's only which will continue short. and these protests of course triggered by the results of the latest the election now look at shankar it's been president for a very long time and he's always been well it's usually been fairly popular so what

do you think changed ahead of the election and i suppose his handling of these protests could be the fatal blow to his popularity. yes you're absolutely right often what we see of course and again there are many positives to this that it's not the traits or some solace that cause that because the destabilization then the . prevention overthrow governments were often delayed way that governments react or perhaps more accurately perceived to be reactive and of course suggestions in other scenarios those situations can be exacerbated indeed manipulated by outside powers but again that evidence appears to miss and here at least not since it's being pushed to the same degree we've had and of course the same got the elections appear to have been not fair and free to use that phrase eulogy until because the new elections and of course we've seen a lot of that but there isn't so far the demands that the government should fall

should collapse and be replaced and there doesn't seem to be the material support for the protesters that we see in the past and again of course we look at the greater political picture here of course the the incumbent has himself tried i think to steer path if you like playing off the west imposing a flush on the other hand. in the last few years and so i think it's some surprise as well that russia isn't necessarily giving full support to the incumbent president bush because of course he has allowed his position to be used if you like as a koan between the 2 blocks and ceasar scumming i think the west is perhaps more reluctant to see this person go because he may well be replaced of course by somebody who's actually more per russian again without and actions and i think the suggestion is that this wasn't a fair election enough to for example it wasn't term policy moments it biases monetization for soccer and your idea of how found through the elections actually

were but on possible form it's on past reports that organizations like the r c of produced it's clear there are many deficiences and shortcomings in electoral . ursus it's a movie because it's difficult to see what the action might person industry apart from those protesting actually really thinks about the situation that's it's difficult to predict the way that notwithstanding the way that media countries you're caught in the situation it's difficult to know without accurate opinion polls and also without. actually to know what actual real people think. thank you joining us on our to international charset tell us your bridge security analyst thank you. now more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine to the day after the country came to be the world's 1st we have a job however much of the global find if it community has doubts about the supposed that breakthrough i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that

the vaccine is safe and effective i seriously doubt that they've done that it is not about being 1st it is about having a try tested and see vaccine which will be given that's the important part to hundreds of millions maybe even billions of people the problem is that we know very little because the russian authorities are not being very transparent and so i am very skeptical about what's happening in russia. our foreign colleagues who probably want to kind of competitive advantage over the russian vaccine or offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken accelerated decisions in their vaccine studies but the russian vaccine has already seen distinct clinical trials and evidence. more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have been requested around the world although major questions have been raised about the lack of testing and the

facts no details of the drug have been released the world court or visit the factory where the sputnik 5 job is being produced. it's hoped to be a game changer in the fight against the corona virus and while many questions remain unanswered about russia's new vaccine the authorities are confident enough to go forward with mass production and we were lucky enough to get an exclusive look into how it's done. the drug is nicknamed nick 5 and hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here. for the moment our company but the army is the only producer of the vaccine apart from that gamma les institute the production of the vaccine has already been launched with a manufacturing capacity of about 1500000 doses

a year we understand that it won't be enough that's why we continue to invest in boosting production the 1st batch of vaccine is ready to be delivered in the region the priority as i understand it is medical personnel because they are on the front line of this pandemic and they are at risk for the sheer speed at which russian scientists have been able to develop this vaccine has raised a lot of eyebrows across the world especially since russia's health ministry approved it before the end of the 3rd phase of testing still all the initial testing phases were done without any problems and the management of this factory seems to have a very positive outlook. it's absolutely accurate that specific antibodies protective and sea bodies are being formed as unknowns that's a vaccination we can also say that for the time volunteers have been injected with this vaccine the number of antibodies has been sufficient and remain circulating in their blood protecting them. here's where the final stage of the production process

takes place where the vaccine itself is inspected for the purpose of quality control if the units pass and specs in there are labeled and prepared for packaging the factory said mechanic was able to tell us a bit more about what exactly takes place here. so generally we can pack up to $120000.00 barrels a day and those ready to go into production are loaded onto a conveyor and after that a special marking machine then they go to the box and get packed. by. the factory began vaccine production so quickly after moscow gave its approval that workers are still in the process of creating a packaging facility for the products it just goes to show how eager russia is to get this vaccine into the hands of those who need it most donald corder r.t.

. it's exactly 20 years since disaster struck a russian nuclear submarine which sank in the barents sea killing all $118.00 on board because tragedy remains one of the worst maritime disasters in russia's modern history the vessel has been taking part in drills when an explosion on board caused it to think 108 meters to the sea bed it took divers 9 days to reach the crew but by then all was lost a note was found on board saying 23 sailors had survived the initial bar memorials are held annually across russia and 2051 widow told us about the struggle of coming to terms with what. for several days we were told that everything was fine with our boys they communicated by tapping we're told that they were alive and received oxygen and me and my husband's mother were really worried about whether they had food and we were convinced they had enough for 18 days. so we were

counting the days on the 21st of august we found out in the news that the rescue workers finished and they were all declared dad i couldn't believe it i didn't even shed tears at the time of them maybe closed up or maybe because i just couldn't admit it until the last moment even when they were declared dad i waited for a year and have and even when prosecutors called me to say they'd found my husband i still couldn't believe. still to come from rival to running mates we profiled joe biden's pick for vice president. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only closely and dangers east i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time time to sit down and talk. shows seem wrong why don't we all just all. get to shape out just to get educated and in. equal trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it. was. welcome back huge protests have continued

in beirut over a week since much of the city was destroyed by a massive explosion meanwhile the families of some firefighters still have no nos about their loved ones who were at the scene shortly before the explosion paula fleer spoke to some of them while we're looters are burying their loved ones killed in last week's blast one family can only wish for that and as the hours slowly tick on they praise are fading tony to ram son grandson and cousin are missing all members of the same firefighting unit that was the 1st to respond now from a group of 10 fighters 4 bodies have been found and 6 are missing the 1st 2 days we were hoping they were live but now we're on the 8th day and now we lost hope now we are hoping that they can bring a nail from their fingers 40 kilometers from the scene of the blast its impact is still being felt the sinuses reste in peace are here as of car to buy and posters

pinpoint the way to the family's home. was father of 2 daughters the oldest is just 2 and a half years old and keeps asking for her daddy he phoned her on the way to the blast instead he'll call back later but that phone call never came. i told my daughter the 3 of them are praying from up above. i don't and she can also pray to them they can hear her and hopefully when she grows up she can know her father was a hero and she will know what happened to him. she will know his father died for a reason szabo cohen was not supposed to go to the fire he volunteered because the driver didn't know the way and he said let's get there even one minute only because maybe we can save a soul his video footage shows him in the bottom left hand corner almost out of the frame calling for backup a minute later the 2nd explosion erupted followed by deadly silence at 1st we were

waiting for all of them to come and sit with us and continue our life and then we said that maybe one of them can come home even if he's deformed even if he's burnt anything but at least one of them can come home toss any one of them not all of them but this is too much they didn't find anything belle he idolized his uncle and wanted to serve in the same fire fighting unit as him at just 20 years old he was his family's bread winner. was only 26 and preparing to get engaged what should i hope god help me i don't know how to live any more i can't imagine how can i live now because i only have one son whenever a term here or there i find something from his belongings how could i live without my son the family says they won't hold a funeral until there is someone or something to bury but their way that might not

happen or else god that no one feels what we are feeling people cannot tell us rest in peace because there is no one to rest in peace we have failed as we finish the interview tony says to me god bless you and your family is something i wish better for him to be sold policia r.t. they went. a passenger train has derailed in eastern scotland with the off orotate declaring it a major incident. police have confirmed the deaths of 3 people including the train's driver a number of others are said to be seriously injured overnight heavy storms are thought to have triggered and one flight smoke was seen billowing from the train after the engine cool. in peru a demand for better working conditions brought hundreds of health workers on to the streets police used water cannon to disperse the rally but then no comes as the country braces itself for a 2nd covert wave 2 the country has already had almost 500000 cases and more than

20000 dead. in india and an overnight protest in bangalore by muslims over a facebook post deemed offensive to islam left at least 3 people dead and more than 100 arrested demonstrators gathered near a police station on the house of a local politician who made the post police use tear gas and live on munition after the crowd threw stones and tools to vehicles. not joe biden has named camel hiring his running mate as he bids for the white house she had been one of his rivals before dropping out and backing him caleb maupin profiles the woman hoping to be the next vice president. after much anticipation joe biden has finally announced his vice presidential running mate it will be the california senator. has a long record in california politics as a prosecutor and an attorney general in the state before rising to the rank of u.s.

senator now what's quite interesting is that she was one of joe biden's opponents for the democratic nomination and on the debate stage among other democratic candidates she answered rather harsh words for joe biden she called him out on his record supporting school segregation and she invoked or own life experience to criticize him for it this is what kamel harris said to joe biden you know there was a little girl in california. because part of the feck in class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day and the little girl was away now kamel harris is known for playing up the idea that there is some kind of russian conspiracy against her she claims that russian bots were targeting her on the internet that russia was out to get hurt cetera probably the most controversial thing about kaamelott harris is her record as a prosecutor in california kaamelott harris locked up the parents of children who

were truant from school she also jailed thousands of people for the crime of smoking marijuana and then in a recent interview joked about the fact that she smoked marijuana in her south now tulsi gabbert the democratic candidate and u.s. congresswoman from hawaii called out common areas of the debate and significantly hurt her in the polls by highlighting her record as a criminal prosecutor now donald trump has already reacted to the fact that kamel harris was selected as joe biden's running mate here's what he said too is why number one draft pick and we'll see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. primaries as you know he was expected to do well. and she was headed up but right around 2 percent. spent a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked her so that's donald trump saying that he's pretty surprised and thinking that it's not a very strategic choice now what's also interesting to point out is that kamel

harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like police brutality and mass incarceration she is very much not the favorite candidate of the black lives matter movement her record as a prosecutor is all over twitter right now being highly scrutinized she could excite the black vote during the primaries she can excite anybody during the primaries the left of the party the progressives have a lot of ammunition to use against her the. not happy when she was attorney general and a law enforcement prosecutor in california they say she was too tough on criminals she was too easy on cops she's a walking contradiction and i think there's going to be a lot of just not excitement for her and if the prospect that she could be president if something happened to biden i think it's going to scare a lot of people thanks for joining us aronofsky international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.

after a tense here we're going underground back in the studio for this season's finale coming up in the show as the 75th anniversary of the u.s. nuclear attack on the or she were in august saki coincides with the world arguably never near a nuclear war we speak to one of the world's greatest join the filmmaker john pilger on the coronavirus pandemic geopolitical brinkmanship and the ongoing u.k. detention and torture of wiki leaks founder julian assange and all the civil coming up in today's going underground but 1st let's go straight to sydney in australia as new south wales grapples with a spike in coronavirus cases john pilger welcome to the show the last time i spoke

to you you were telling us what the media here wasn't.