the 13th in the headlines this. is. working for roughly video agencies who were detained while covering the disputed presidential election. u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden's choice of running mate doesn't go well with black lives matter activists citing. previously served as california's top cop. for the half of beirut hospitals declared nonfunctional following last week's deadly blast as nation scramble to try to send help follows one russian surgical team assisting lebanese doctors with treating the most seriously wounded.

from arts international's world you say moscow kevin i'm with you for the next half hour with me as we go through those headlines in more detail than 1st released to freelance staff working for video agency they were detained on sunday while covering the disputed presidential election there are crossed developments. well we have been talking extensively about journalists who were detained during mass protests and mass rallies in that bill or if there were at least a 50 according to official figures and many of them i were working for a russian media now some have been deported from the country and they're already in russian across the belarus similar however until this morning freelancers working for a ruptly media agency were still unaccounted for they were detained on sunday soon

after polls opened in belarus and we haven't heard of from them for days on wednesday we received a message from one of the stringers who was detained and released a little bit earlier all in all there are 4 up the stringers and 2 of them were released earlier and 2 of them this thursday as well she said that the cell where she spends a few days was immense for 6 people however there were 37 women there and so in the men's block which was also meant for 6 people there were 50 men she said that they had to take turns sleeping and there was no food and only. water this time it looks like a ruptly free lancers have been released and finally they joins with their loved ones now interior minister a bill or oops well he claims that. these reporters with proper papers proper

identification should not be touched or something it's hands over journalists is my essential position apart from cases weatherston between law enforcement and rolled well protests and continued for a 5th day in a row be the last 4 days we've seen quite a lot of violence with police say using all sorts of crowd control equipment will see what will be happening on thursday the 5th day off the protest and bring you up to date as soon as we get it. meantime a fellow r t correspondent who was also briefly detained in minutes talked to us through his experience. you know speeches. of right police officers and ask them what the route was blocked and if i could go through they said no it's not come with us they twisted my hands but still loving to put money in my pockets with enough they care a lot about phones so that people don't use it or break them it was really

uncomfortable my hands were twisted my head was down and i had to walk like this but shelves were falling off police officer from the back was pulling on them it wasn't painful it was uncomfortable they pushed me into the vehicle and put a plastic 20 k. on my hands it was difficult to breathe and suddenly we stopped the door open and they asked my surname and said to go out what's next a right police officer said just go out and make sure we don't see you again and he smiled i could see it from his eyes above his mask. protests against the election result and intense police of currently being held in a number of eastern european capitals including here in moscow for 4 consecutive evenings have been gatherings outside the belarusian embassy campaigning for change most are experts working here in russia locals joining in solidarity the heavy handedness of the belarusian police has been widely criticized as has the detention and suspected beating of journalists covering the election and its aftermath. and

the long standing president of xander lukashenko charges 994 but this year's election has been his most challenging double quarter looks at the apparent shift in people support for their leader. in fellow reuss having the title go or daddy means you've got the most populist position in the entire post soviet sphere and for the recently reelected president alexander look at shank oh he's held the position for decades. the russians have to hold on to look at shanghai even in the most critical situation is a tremendous man who can show the strong to just my racing to be 90 percent of the road it will be. with you like we all know it is no no for you to decide.

i envy myself as i am the last and only dictator in europe. i'm not going to hold this position for a lifetime as soon as the people refuse my services i'll take my bag under my arm and i'm going lucas shank i was on board the populist train before it was cool before politicians like steve bannon and donald trump probably even knew the meaning of the word one of his most recent populist stunts involved the dismissal of bellerose his agricultural minister after the minister's cows failed to gain lucas shank those approval. what did you bring me here so why now tell the security service to put you in handcuffs if a person does not understand that this is auschwitz and you put him in charge of the holding i did not understand you wish to. look at shank as a man of inspections meetings with bureaucrats and reprimands of government

officials when the cameras are watching of course this puts a smile on the faces of ordinary people who struggle daily with bureaucratic red tape it's also the main reason why they call the kobach up for many baka is also a strong man who created an enclave of the soviet union. within europe it's been a popular stance for years but now look at those image is facing some big problems . sure local claims he won the election it seems like the security forces are on his side and for a while he only faced small pockets of pro western opposition but based on the brutality used by the police to control the situation arrests made of journalists and the death of a protester it seems like the entire country's view of the government is definitely turning sour.

its possible locus shank goes recent anti russia statements alley unaided his main base of support those who want closer cooperation with belarus is eastern neighbor we need to address the russian mass media to say you know instance if you would see you need to get into the situation with dignity you know you'll see good we have no gold to discredit the country clues to arresting russian journalists didn't help the situation either. for the west he's always been europe's last dictator even look at shankar himself said he knew people would dispute the election results whatever the case the belorussian president will need to father more support if he wants to remain at the head of the table don't kowtow to the direction of the low council international

relations told us he thinks the situation may be reaching a critical moment. but we have at the moment is partially the result of several really big mistakes his government government made over the last years but most particularly the way the government traded the coronavirus crisis is this situation has us collate to very very dangerous level and reporting just seeing seems to point to that where soon approaching a critical point where it's either going to be a kind of military or state of emergency was wired and that will be the only way for the government to deal with the situation or. new negotiations should be against. us democratic presidential hopeful joe biden raised a record $26000000.00 for his campaign funds within 24 hours of picking his running

mate campbell harris is the 1st black woman to run as vice president for biden she could be the people's v.p. but there are a few doubts too over choosing the former california prosecutor given the reputation of america's police right now more on it. from rival to running mate joe biden is hoping that carmel harris will be a powerful weapon in his arsenal as he selected her as vice president as he prepares to go to battle with donald trump for the white house i decided that comma harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then lead this nation starting in january 2021 i need someone who understands that we're in a battle for the soul of this nation and that safeway going to get through these crises we need to come together a new night for a better america come and i gets that but unity it seems is not the word on every democrats' lips. biden going with the strategically pretty loose of picking

somebody for v.p. who is displaced by both the right and the left where in the midst of the vice protest movement in american history the subject of which is excessive policy on the democratic party chairs a top cop and the outcome of the joe biden crime bill to save us from trump the contempt for the faces. at perry a young to take meaningful black life is someone who helped pick that change to open up usually well letting the powerful in silicon valley and wall street is like steve knew change with impunity head to 2020 let's not forget that for the past few months the united states has been gripped by a wave of protests against police brutality sparked by the killing of george floyd . her.

so joe biden has selected kamel harris as he is vice presidential running mate and with her jamaican and indian roots she is the 1st woman of color to be selected by a major us political party as a vice presidential candidate this may sound like a smart move generating enthusiasm among the democrats base among african-americans however the holes are suggesting otherwise we protest build more schools less jails put money into education our prisons there's a fundamental problem with that approach i agree with that conceptually but you have not addressed the reason i have 3 padlocks on my front door. kamel harris has

got a resume full of working with the police locking people up and being unnecessarily gleeful about doing so she even took the move of jailing parents of children who were truant from school as california's attorney general camila harris fought against moves to release nonviolent offenders even after the court ordered her to do so as san francisco's district attorney she secured the conviction of over 1900 people 1st smoking marijuana these folks got a life long criminal records and often jail time however she then joked about the fact that she's a pot smoker herself have you all smoked i have ok again i had to and i have my name and i did it. with a long time ago. at a time when police are not necessarily the most loved among rank and file democrats a certain catchphrases spreading across social media.

kamel harris has done a lot in recent months to try and clean up her image she's gone to police brutality protests to shake hands and take photos she's a published an autobiography that presents herself and her career as a prosecutor as if she was fighting against racism on behalf of the downtrodden but some people just aren't buying it i watched the poll numbers go bomb bomb bomb down to almost nothing donald trump has indicated that he is not too worried about camila harris as she is not polling very well around the country however many are jubilant about the fact that a woman of color as finally joined a major presidential ticket in the united states. but many of the people expected

to vote for kamel heiress in november have got pretty big questions it will mop and artsy new york. exactly 15 minutes past the hour thanks for watching us today were if you change it around the world is international from moscow with me kevin now in this hour coming up beirut's buckling to treat thousands of engine even though more than half of its hospitals are out of action we're going to follow the russian medical team sent in to help they've been well treated to a correspondence that will tell you more.

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again dealing with the aftermath of beirut's chemical explosion trying to do is seeing the health service stretched beyond its limits the world health organization says that more than half of the city's medical facilities are completely nonfunctional after building sustained heavy damage with many staff injured as well in what went off around then there beirut's 3 major hospitals are out of action the ones that are left are obviously overwhelmed last week's port blast killed more than 200 and left thousands injured countries have been rallying to send support and aid to lebanon russia of course among them he goes down of them spent some time with a team of russian medics flown in to help with some of the most urgently needed surgery . we're about 7 kilometers outside of the roots in the mountains here is one of lebanese main hospitals and we have come to witness the work of a top surgical team of russia they have come here to help lebanon deal with the

traumatic fallout from the blast in the port. so russian surgeons with the help of their lebanese colleagues have just finished administering and his teacher here and have begun the surgery from being told this woman has a lot of bones in her face broken and they are not in the right places this is the primary thing that doctors here are dealing with right now also she has a severe head trauma. larry material is leading the medical team overseeing the surgery they have decades of experience between them specializing in treating the injured from natural

disasters and was syria palestine indonesia nepal armenia just some of the places where they've been saving lives here in lebanon and the groups worked alongside local doctors in more than 200 cases but some of the most difficult procedures like the one we saw earlier they have been taking on themselves or open centerboard is the most difficult surgeries that our team carried out here with the severe cranial traumas and face skull fractures one patient had there all with bones completely fractured but the surgery was successful everything was reconstructed and the patient is feeling better. their work here has been made possible thanks to russia's official aid agency russell trood new just up by larry says that being deployed to trouble sports can sometimes take up to a couple of weeks this time it only took around 24 hours a remarkable difference and the swiftness that's likely saved lives. during surgery

russian medical aid also arrived at the hospital we received this donation from the russian humanitarian mission we thank them a lot for this generosity and we want to say russian cultural center because at that moment. because you know nowadays. we have a crisis the explosion that that happened and we need every every help we can get from anyone many injuries like this require complex delicate and lengthy procedures during a break away from the operating table the surgeon tells me everything's going well broken bones are reset stitches are applied the start over healing process for a girl who's seen more than enough trauma in her young life it was done from lebanon r t. you guys are young ones death from a normally survivable condition a shine

a light on deadly decisions in treating palestinian patients in israel. who was just 22 had waited a month for treatment on referral israel initially rejected the request citing his mother as a security risk but by the time approval was finally given it was too late general's father talked us through his son's final weeks. condition was discovered in mid january we noticed his face was turning yellow we hospitalized him and after a few days of tests they found out that he had a plastic anemia after 3 and a half months he got a referral to go to the hospital until his from there at that time his condition was deteriorating and he needed a blood transfusion every couple of days on sunday at 10 am we were told that the application for the patient and his escort had been rejected by the israeli authorities for security reasons finding an escort wasn't easy because the corona virus was spreading across israel finally my cousin agreed. and she was accepted

but the time was after 9 pm and the border was closed on sunday a week after the initial application was scheduled we were arranging ambulances both in gaza and in israel we were still doing that until july died at around 1 pm his heart just suddenly stopped any patient can have setbacks at any moment so these delays played a key role in his death. so just how was a palestinian living in gaza he graduated as well could university with distinction and had plans to become a teacher at the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees israeli officials maintain that his death was not a result of the decision giles 1st request was approved for july the 16th but this permit was not utilized for reasons unrelated to the israeli side on july the 16th any request was received to coordinate the patients exit for an ambulance after his health deteriorated tutus dispersion of coordination by the

civilian committee the organization made the request was asked to provide the missing details on july the 19th the missing details were received and his exit for treatment was approved immediately the ngo physicians for human rights told us access to israeli health care from gaza has been limited after security cooperation was halted since june since then only urgent cases have been processed in fact we look at the stats in june and july of 195 urgent patients only half of the requests were approved by israel family say right now the feeling of helplessness is the biggest. it was hard not to feel helpless condition was worsening and we couldn't do anything about it we could only give him pain killers he was always happy to see me and we used to stay up late in the hospital and have fun and laugh he used to ask me to take him to the beach for a few minutes to cheer him up was a very social person beloved by everyone he wanted to build

a house and get married and wanted me to get married to him to become his neighbor so he wanted to become a teacher in the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees he even managed to finish his college education but it wasn't god's will. sick people who get rejected pose no threat to israel but these measures are taken to torture people this is one of the ways of besieging gaza these past days since his death were the hardest days of my life i never had a situation this hard in my life i was a helpless father unable to help my dying son even though we had all the papers to do it even when in a very bad condition joy was still talking about getting married and having a happy life in any other country this would have been a simple transplant. some of europe's biggest banks have been called out over their green credentials despite publicly backing calls to deal with climate change a few are also vigorously the same time financing oil extraction in the amazon

which environmentalist say dangers its fragile ecosystem and indigenous populations from charlotte to bensky. banking institutions such as the m p 3 bad credit suisse and i n g say they are committed to backing action on climate change they also say they hold themselves to account on issues such as social responsibility but now with these european banks being accused of double standards a new report claims despite their pledges these banks are major players in the trade in oil from the amazon rain forest millions have helped us in the amazon sacred headwaters region and now on the imminent threat due to the expansion of fossil fuel production since 2009 private financial institutions have provided trade financing for approximately 155 minute barrels of oil from the amazon rainforest in ecuador to refineries in the united states worth about

$10000000000.00 they say expansion of fossil fuel production means more drilling that not only impacts the bio diversity of the rain forest but also indigenous populations in april an oil spill in ecuador contaminated hundreds of miles of 2 rivers affecting some 35000 people in the local communities are the steelers easy us huge information administration. as well. as the fears of the amount of oil in dollars and barrels these you're being since i mean it's a little less this equates to over on this is $11000000.00 barrels of oil worth about $10000000000.00 u.s. the report says these banks are skirting a thin line instead of financing projects to develop oil wells and extract fossil fuels they are instead trade financing this means putting up the capital

to move the oil gas from where it's produced to refineries rather than the dirty work of actually drilling but one. goes hand in hand with the other foreigners crude oil commodity trades the banks provide their clients with in-depth knowledge and expertise of the supply chains and liabilities and a proven track record of supplying the credit needed to get oil to u.s. refineries some of the banks named in this report say that trade financing doesn't fall under that standard pledges in regards to sustainability essentially meaning that while they are happy to hold themselves accountable they are not responsible for those they know money to the report refers to our oil and gas policy and mentions requirements that apply to project related transactions with respect to indigenous people and areas of high conservation value however these policy requirements to not relate to trade finance services while others outright

questioned the credibility of the report the lack of explanations of the methodology and the aggregation of data whose provenance cannot be verified make any analysis. we do not recognize the calculations of aggregate exposure in the report but standoff and is on watch see the banks are not clipping up to the spirit of their own environmental and social responsibility commitments they are calling on the banks to hold all over latest activities in the amazon saying it's time to change course and to play a more responsible role in advancing life over profits these financial institutions are morally responsible for what their money is used for because of the flow of commodities that are going on in the other person. there are human and i mean on

the surface. you can look you know like they might reach you know maybe they're you know in the past the space we're going to enjoy you know that. there are so at the end of the day any beings are very simplistic. and just wanted to just. be you know this. is seen to be big mixed messages from those banks well that's it for this update from the shield you keep across so much more oddity delcarmen of various social media it's 29 minutes past midday moscow time if you are in steady watching the clock back with more and half an hour than if you hard between now and then have a great day and thank you for watching. and

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