and to fight the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic development that only really engages resists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. protest sparked by the disputed election in bella bruce then to their 4th day as police begin dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators. after russia claims to be the world's 1st country with a coronavirus vaccine we visit the factory now last producing it. and a week on since the devastating blast reduced much of beirut to ruins families struggle with their grief including those who lost firefighters in the tragedy. and

hopefully once she grows up she can know good father was a hero and she will know what happened to him. she will no longer died for a reason. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me making erin our top story this hour despite calls for calm the unrest in belarus continues as the country enters a 4th day of protests police have already started dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators in the campus all meant. i mean the who she is to have spoken over. the. phone companies this might be some people who don't see. a small team but there's a group of. the

i and i can run a lift now and join our correspondent rym on cars a referendum on good to see you could you bring us up to speed on the latest space . well let's start off with the with what's happening here in a moscow we're standing outside of the russian embassy right in the center of the russian capital where solidarity rallies are taking place solidarity rallies of course of the protesters in the belarus said the moment there are very few people here but little bit earlier there were hundreds of people and the police even had to disperse the crowd asking the people not to interfere with the pedestrians according to officials at least 5 people were it's a good thing meanwhile unsanctioned rallies or protests rather continue in for the

4th day in a row and police are using all kinds all thought crowd control equipment like stun grenades. gas and others as well now protestors are now using a different tactic in them and they're blocking this freeze trying to prevent the authorities from coming over and disperse and all for central subway stations in minsk have been closed off by the authorities as well once again to prevent people from gathering with no immediate arisen lucian says the conflict there. our neighboring countries such as and with the mania of poland they have offered to become mediators in the internal conflict in. for example their calling for reelection and itself foreign ministry are calling for sanctions against all those who are responsible for the human rights prime's now.

and the foreign ministry they've also added that the e.u. foreign ministry are ready to convene a soon as august the 14th in order to discuss the measures that can be taken against a bill or roosts and meanwhile a bill or russian law enforcement continue detaining people all over the country and i have just a few examples. here just recently they did sainz a man who was on route to the capital and on him he had. improvised explosive device he had fireworks he had knives we also had reports from elsewhere in bellew's where an army vehicle rammed a civilian car and was still don't know whether it was an accident or whether it was intentional but the result is a mother and

a daughter are now in hospital and and little girl is now awaiting an operation we've also seen reports. about the journalists who have been detained now a russian interior ministry are saying that those journalists have a credit station that will work in there illegally if they were detained they were released right away meanwhile a couple of foot people from iraq to the video agency pulled their fate is still unknown and they're still unaccounted for initially it was all 4 people from the agency but one of them. got in contact with. and it was a woman actually and she said that she wasn't saying she was in prison she was in a cell for 6 people that contained a lot more than the 20 people sold the the surrounding the circumstances were not in the the best if you will so this has been happening over the last still 4 days

and so we've compiled a little bit of the footage of what's been happening in belarus let's take a look. a little bit closer. to. the time if not. now we've also seen reports so from the roofs off a couple of traffic police officers who were run over by

a civilian cars and colleagues of the traffic police officer they said they had to see use a live fire in order to did say no those people the wall one of those people has been detained the other one is they still at large and meanwhile in belarus all of the protests were violence actually earlier on wednesday we saw groups off a women going out onto the streets carrying a full hours and said they joined their arms in the link and expressed their support for the protesters the passing cars they were honking also expressing their solidarity. among thank you for that just very quickly can i ask. because you've been outside the embassy oh every night this week how big of the crowd there and what are they it's a growing by the day or is shrinking and what are they chanting we have been chanting something. yes indeed the crowds have been here for 4 days straight days they begin gathering at around 6 pm moscow time they're stand here

until at least 11 12 pm they're chanting slogans slogans like along with the villagers free bill rooster calling on president bush and co to leave his post and in terms of the numbers of the people here judging from my own experience of previous protests i would say the maximum would be about 35400 people i think i saw the maximum amount of. people at the rally today but like i said earlier the police have been asking the protesters to disperse to allow pedestrians to move freely well at this moment right now it looks like the police have managed to ask everyone to leave it's getting a little bit late here in moscow but see it doesn't look like the solidarity rallies here in moscow are about to end and data is pouring with rain as well but there's still that ramon thank you for bringing us that update that thought is for monk author of. because we're going to guess now we're joined by maxine phyllis

thought the director of the ascent to full crisis society studies thank you for joining us on the program so students seeing a full night of unrest in bellary said how long do you think the protesters will be able to keep up this momentum. well it is really a great surprise for me that because of these 4 days of rest because. i just don't use the i predict that you have at least once a moment's reading. they will be finished so what we can observe is not always. unpredictable situation and not only for and the experts but for ready you are actually there are meant as well. for now i can not. make any progress seeing that. expect at least.

4 or 5 days before the summer is more let's talk about a look at shanghai china because it has been dubbed the dictator but he's always been fairly popular through his years in power what do you think changed in the last few months. you know if you had made. a few you made some strategic mistakes with this presidential campaign 1st thing was. showing that. he could do everything to use. their position. that he was a strong man in his own country. you ready are ready a member ready of ready this. so-called. russian. russian fighters who are. in means who 'd

are supposed. to organize some some wondrous country so. i think that there was one was of course there is old which no one believed in the country and this was a dream you're. actually here. to be flexible this time but. he did it right there. he's been in power for a very long time but look i think i would have claimed in the past that he would be president forever and he will know when it's time to go seems like a very convenient time to go right now doesn't it so do you believe what he said. here. he will step down he will know when it's time to step down. i don't believe that hugo ever. by himself but now we see that.

the whole situation is forcing him to make the season. now the international response to what's going on in bellary society will be relatively new to him very tame as you think that's going to change in the coming days. yes because no one likes their wireless and use of. against citizens and this why. only 3 countries or more for reelection but probably some. legit country also 'd joined. or probably even the countries that. are already accepted their results they will ask for. some as actions from the russian government to moderate. citizens maxime villas of

director of the center for crisis society studies thank you for joining us. thank you. now most of spoke to one of our correspondents thought a russian he was in the thick of the protests he was detained at one point although later released and he told us these things are something bella bruce has never witnessed before. here. the protesters have done something unimaginable nothing like this is ever happened in bella ruse to build barricades in minsk like those one seen in ukraine you couldn't even imagine but they barricaded some streets they made a really interesting strategic move they decided not to gather in one place because it would be easier for security forces to slap them down when everybody's together so the puppet masters of the opposition all call them that they really do exist it's just that i was skeptical about it but when i saw for myself that there are certain guys who coordinate the whole process when they write let's go to sport of

a nice station and people go let's build barricades and they build barricades they give coordinates where the water and medical kits is stored because you know this is the 1st case when rubber bullets tear gas and water cannons were used against protesters but i wouldn't call them protesters in my opinion those who came out on sunday were actually ideological protesters who are actually against alexander look at shingo who didn't vote for him but on monday and yesterday those who just want to have a fight with the security forces k. . more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine the day after the country claimed to be the world's 1st with a jap however much of the global scientific community has doubts about this pose at break. i hope of 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 say 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 a 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. for more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have been requested around the world one brazilian state has also reached an agreement to locally produce and distribute the sputnik 5 vaccine the old course i visited the factory in moscow where the japanese put it. 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 5 and hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here in one month for the moment our company but the farm is the only producer of the vaccine apart from the gamma layer institute the production of the vaccine has already been launched with a manufacturing capacity of about $1500000.00 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

regions a priority as i understand is medical personnel because they are on the front line of this pandemic and they are at risk from 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 bottles a day 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 quarter archie. exactly 20 years since disaster struck a russian nuclear submarine which sank in the barents sea killing all $118.00 on

board because the tragedy remains one of the worst maritime disasters in russia's modern history the 1st libyan taking part in drills with an explosion on board caused it to think 108 meters to the seabed it took divers 9 days to reach the crew but by then all were lost a note was found on board saying 23 sailors had of vives the initial plans for morals are held our newly across russia 20151 widow told us about the struggle of coming to terms with what happened. here. 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 a half and even when prosecutors called me to say they'd found my husband i still couldn't believe. still ahead from arrival to running mates we profile joe biden's pick for vice president. some are solutions that's right we solve all the world's problems bringing in the biggest geniuses that we we know better than ever bet on the show and today we're going to look at a very scary d. word and that of course is the flame joining us former tech entrepreneur jeff good he's the author of the price of tomorrow why deflation is the key to an abundant

future this book has caught fire amongst a trip documentary they call community hall communities it's really a fantastic book. seemed wrong well we just don't. mean you get to shape out just to become educated and in gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. thank you. welcome back i hear the 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 news

about their loved ones who were at the scene shortly before the explosion paula fleer spoke to some of them. while relatives 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 in mail from their fingers 40 kilometers from the scene of the blast its impact is still being felt this sign says rest in peace our heroes of carter bar 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 found 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. 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 my father died for reason szabo co i 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 whose 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 added 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 szabo he idolized his uncle and wanted to serve in the same firefighting unit as him at just 20 years old he was his family's bread when i. was only 26 and preparing to get engaged i thought should i hope god help me i don't know how to live anymore i can't imagine how can i live now because i only have one son whenever a term here or there i find something for me belongings how could i live without my son the family says he won't hold a funeral until there is someone or something to bury their way there 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 would. a passenger train has derailed in eastern scotland with the authorities declaring it a major incident police have confirmed the deaths of 3 people including the train's driver a number of other thought to be seriously injured over light heavy storms are thought to have triggered a loud flight folks there smoke when. seen billowing from the train out of the engine court. room demand for better working conditions brought hundreds of health workers on to the street police used water cannon to disperse the rally the demo comes as the country braces itself full effect and coded way the country has already had almost 500000 cases and more than 20000 death. in india and over 9 protests in bangalore by muslims over

a facebook post deemed offensive to islam left at least 3 people dead in the more than a 100 and arrested demonstrators gathered near a police station in the house of a local politician who made the post place to use tear gas and live ammunition to crowds threw stones and torched big. joe biden has named it come alive harris says his running mate as he bids for the white house she have been one of his rivals before dropping out and backing him head of more pain 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 who was part of the 2nd class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day and that little girl was me now kamel harris is known for playing. 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 to his right 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. got a lot of money kid 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 they're not happy when she was attorney general and a law enforcer a 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 the. it'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 here and on the international way back at the top of the hour. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. thinks

. we are here to ask. you to follow in welcome the cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the difference between embarrassing gaffes and elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe is the.