of course of the. calories releases to freelancers working for artie's ropy video agency who were detained while covering the disputed presidential election also this us democratic presidential candidate joe biden choice of running mate doesn't go down well with black lives matter activists having previously served as california's top cop and more than half of all schools are the head nonfunctional following last week's deadly blast as a nation scramble to send help r.t. follows a russian surgical team assisting lebanese doctors with treating the most seriously would.

be watching r.t. international this thursday afternoon just gone 2 o'clock am in moscow and we start with a development and better race because it is being reported the moment that the local offices of the russian internet companies have been blockaded by protesters let's get more details now from marty's only because if he were joins us and is across developments we do know that this comes after days of protests following the reelection of the president and better research of the 2 connected what want to be nice so far. news just came out so. we got confirmation from the press service yes. indeed searches are taking place at their premises at the moment earlier that reported that or and masked men wearing all black entered their offices now we know that this. searches are taking place more from. of course

as soon as we find out meanwhile another company. they're saying of the same thing is taking place at their offices as well so we're waiting on the confirmation on that suit now meanwhile earlier we've been talking extensively about journalists who were detained during mass rallies in minsk at least 850 of them were detained many of them were working for the russian media because some of them have been deported from the country and they're already in russia however until this morning freelancers working for our iraq lee video agency were still i mean council before they were detained on sunday that happened soon after polls opened in belarus and since then we have not heard from them for all these days and on wednesday we received a message from. one of the from our other stringer who was the detained and released

little bit earlier and she said that the cell where she spent a few days was meant for just 6 people however there were 37 women in there so it was very cramped up and she said in the men's block there were 50 people to 50 people to a 6 person cell and she said that she had they had to take turns sleeping and there was no food and only water and this time it looks like all of the freelancers have been released and they're ready to join their loved ones and 3 i'm going to strobe. while he said he claims that all the reporters that are working in minsk should have proper papers and they that happens and they would not be touched that he will personally as he said that. thanks to a man who was not the sort of man caused the death well and in the meantime another reporter he was working for some was also briefly detained in minsk talked to

spring his experience. you know if you. wrote police officers and asked them where the road was blocked and if i could go through they said no it's not come with us they twisted my hands but the loving to put my phone in my pocket we enough they care a lot about phones so that people don't lose or break them it was really uncomfortable my hands were twisted my head was down and i had to walk like this but shoulders were falling off a 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 to mackay on my hands it was difficult to breathe suddenly we stopped the door opened and they asked my surname and said to go out what's next 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. or protest against the election result and intense policing are currently being held in

a number of eastern european capitals including here in moscow for 4 consecutive evenings there have been gatherings outside the better russian embassy campaigning for change or ex-pats working here in russia and some locals who want to show their support the heavy handedness of the better russian police has been widely criticized as has the detention and suspected beatings of journalists covering the election and its aftermath while the long standing president had better resign xander lukashenko has been in charge since 994 but this year's election has been his most challenging on court and the apparent shift in people support their leader . having the title but to 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 shankar he's held that position for decades.

the locals who push on the russians have to hold on to look even in the most critical situation as a drowning man to catch a stroll that you just took my racing to be 90 percent to the roof will be with you like we all know it is not for you to decide for. themselves i envy myself i see 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 god. was on board the populace 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 involve the dismissal of bellerose his

agricultural minister after the minister's cows failed to gain lucas shank those approval. when did you bring me here so why now tell the security service to put you in handcuffs with a person does not understand that this is auschwitz and you put him in charge of the holding people who did not understand you were to. look at shank oh 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 it a shame kobach up for many but because 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 look at shankar claims he won the election it seems like the security forces are on his. sighed 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. that it's possible location calls recent anti russia statements alienated his main base of support those who want closer cooperation with belarus is eastern neighbor we need to address the russian media reduce them not to say you know incidents if you would you'll 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 us arresting russian journalists didn't help the situation either.

for the west he's always been europe's last dictator even look at 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. of the director of the men's dialogue kinds long international relations thinks the situation in better reduce might 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 truly 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 kind of military

or state of emergency wired and that will be the only way for the government to deal with the situation or. new negotiations should be against. the u.s. army classic presidential hopeful joe biden a record $26000000.00 for his campaign funds within 24 hours after picking his running mate come out of harris is the 1st woman to run this vice president biden she could be the people's v.p. however there are few doubts too over the former california prosecutor given the reputation of america's police at the moment more on that from. 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 comment i gets that but unity it seems is not the word on every democrat's lips. biden going with the strategically brilliant move 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 wheaties excessive policy and the democratic party chose 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 put that change a lot of them up usually by letting the powerful in silicon valley and wall street days 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 . the. cat. so joe biden has selected comma heris 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 i went over 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 didn't handle. it it was a long time ago. at a time when police are not necessarily the most loved among rank and file democrats a certain catch phrases 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 i've got pretty big questions it will come up and artsy new york. still to come beirut is battling to treat thousands of injured with more than half of his hospitals currently out of action we follow a russian medical team sent in to help us to come just off the bridge.

seemed wrong but we're all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days to educate and indeed train because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i don't. give some of my friends who do in this issue of your humanity if you don't die before him out you are going by each. moment. a life. change or more. change.

hello again dealing with the aftermath of beirut's chemical explosion disaster has stretched the health service there beyond its limits the world health organization does say that more than half of the city's medical facilities are completely nonfunctional but after building sustained heavy damage with many staff injured themselves they reach 3 major hospitals at the moment are out of action the ones that are left are overwhelmed last week support blasted kill more than 200 people and left thousands injured since then though countries have been rallying to send aid to lebanon with russia among them he was done of has spent time with a team of russian medics flown in to deal with some of the most urgent cases. 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 the lebanese colleagues have just finished administering and his teacher here and have begun the surgery i'm 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.

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 new 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 they open the borders 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 and just up by larry says that being deployed to trouble

spots 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 for the because you know. we have a crisis the explosion but 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 of a healing process for

a girl who's seen more than enough trauma in her young life because diana from lebanon r t. bearing guards are a young man's death row from the normally survivable condition has shone a light on deadly decisions in treating palestinian patients in israel will share free was 22 and he had waited a month for treatment on referral israel though initially rejected the request calling his mother a security risk and by the time approval was finally given it was too late father told us about his son's last few weeks. condition was discovered in mid january we noticed his face was turning yellow we hospitalized 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 house 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 coronavirus 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 to al how to graduate from university with distinction and had plans to become a teacher the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees israeli officials do maintain though that his death was not a result of that decision making. 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 63 new request was received to coordinate the patients exit foreign ambulance after his health deteriorated due to suspension 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 well the n.g.a. physicians for human rights says that access to israeli health care from gaza has been limited after security coordination was halted inching since then i urge and cases are being processed but in june and july out of 195 urgent patients only half of the requests were actually approved by israel folau family says the feeling of helplessness has been 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 who 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 working 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 are being caught out over their green credentials despite publicly backing calls to deal with climate change if you are also vigorously financing oil extraction in the amazon something that environmentalist say does threaten its fragile ecosystem and indigenous populations on the story now from charlotte the penske. 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 you see us huge information administration as well as ecuadorian export. out of here is the amount of oil in dollars and barrels these your 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. the banks know everything because every organization needs to know where their money is going and they are financing crude oil commodity trades in the amazon area so yes we think there is a responsibility on the part of european banks if they participate in the crude oil trade they sponsor the expansion of oil extraction from amazon soil that we oppose 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 do 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 and. we do not recognize the calculations of aggregate exposure in the report but stand and 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. the flow of commodities that are highly impacting on the other person. there are you mean i mean in a certain sense they fit if you look you know like they might retreat you know maybe they're not you know in the past the special going to show you know they're still there it's ok and that's all i really there are so the end of the day things are very much time for us in any. industry on indigenous peoples on the east side of the of the streets. trying to escape of course he never says coming up to half assed he will have 30 men.

an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they are skipping the climate change plans as the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. he is fast and that means the river is 35 closer how. long was your boy i think were part of the earth from.