the headlines in r.t. bellary starts to really people who took to the streets after sunday's disputed presidential election amid claims of widespread police brutality towards detainee we hear from a doctor who was jailed. the women were lying on the floor and the men were in the next hour they were constantly leaving so badly just how long you could post them on the stand announces a u.s. brokered peace deal between israel and united arab emirates it will see tel aviv suspend for now it's a plan to annex parts of the west bank and tensions spike in the mediterranean france says it will bolster its military presence there to monitor turkey's activities in disputed waters.

below there you watching hearty international this friday afternoon on 4 o'clock here in moscow betteridge says releasing protesters who were detained during the unrest that followed sunday's disputed presidential election the final official results were announced on friday and give the country's longstanding leader a landslide victory some of the people freed today have been sharing their experiences. as a child it was just the right police asked us to show all passports but i didn't have one then they asked for my phone and saw what had been film so they said i should go to them and one by a police officer grabbed me i tried to resist and he invited 5 others i said how are you going to look into your mother's eyes they shouted shut the fuck and hit me

in the head while we were walking. the police so they called me across just an a hole when we felt sick they said you can urinate obama we don't care. we should not show the feds use we spent 17 hours outside without water or food or anything on the cell we were given only bread and water there were 40 of us in there on the floor the men will beaten so badly that they scream which 247 they beat them to within an inch of their lives imported water on them and beat them again. or send him i was not born or a person and he was detained who he asked also to the put into the police van conditions at the christian detention center there is much to be desired there are 30 to 50 people no food just have water and human treatment. the reason that a russian started it nice in the interior ministry to pledge that all detainees

detainees go on friday currently around 2000 people have been freed unless the making of the total arrested this week doctors were also among those to tell his one medics 1st time the case. so there was that women were lying on the floor and the men were in the next out they were constantly so badly that they just how wont it was a terrible how all the blood frozen my veins just what we heard every night it was terrible the prison guards were saying what's wrong is your life that bad decided to act out a little war here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are werewolves that's the sort of thing they shout it and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held on the street everyone driving by was shocked doctors and white ropes on their knees with a machine gun to the had. one of bettering trees the minsk trying to work says partially suspended its operations after employees there went on strike local media

to. report the thousands. of taking pot direct to hope the company has met with to discuss that demands they are calling for police reforms and the dismissal of those involved in beijing protesters they also want the president to go country's prime minister refused to meet with the strikers who are now i'm making their way to the center of minsk phone call to report on the latest protest against police brutality and the weekend's election. by the looks of things the abnormal brutality with which the ballarat police is using to handle the protesters seems only actually to be strengthening develop russian opposition we saw protests called lines of solidarity of women dressed in white holding flowers and portraits of loved ones that were arrested since the beginning of the on rest we also saw workers from some of the country's several major factories going on strike so the sheer scale of this

protests in bellerose says definitely grown massively since the beginning. you should not be. allowed out so. i don't. believe a lot of work for most of what he was looking for. was going to deny that it was. very. serious. we've also seen protests in front of belorussian embassies in a number of different countries in kiev for example we saw protesters throwing

orange smoke bombs at the building and. here are the protests in front of the belorussian embassy we've seen belorussians as well as native muscovites were formed to protest against the police brutality and president alexander lukashenko is a legit election raking now let's not forget that russian journalists were among the many who have been arrested in these protests including artie's correspondent in minsk and a number of roughly workers now we did hear from the belorussian minister of internal affairs who apologized to those who were injured and were not violently protesting let's take a listen to what he had to say. some took to the streets before the voting had even finished they decided beforehand that they would protest on the 11th they put up barricades using ripped up benches from bus stops and flipped over flower stands was that a peaceful act of protest in any mass confrontation when dealing with widespread violations of public order bystanders would inevitably get caught up in the action

as commander i take responsibility and apologize for the injuries to people who received them for no reason so with these protests intensifying and no sign of the government really looking to give in to them we'll definitely keep watching this story and give our viewers the latest developments as they become available. don't quarter that are outside the better russian embassy here in moscow further commenting on the claims of violence against journalists bellary says ministry of internal affairs has now pledged to investigate every single allegation earlier we spoke to the economist from one chook he says that while the 4th day of protests in batteries were relatively calm people are still very angry. peace poor people work for them. all but their gender change because of those drop that broke the camel's back was the mass joining the problems of the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial lending to join their products saying

that we demand not to purchase from the government we need fair bold god need for elections to look at himself in the position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election commission. or or the election board definitely ignited that kind of criticism dangar because nobody believes in butler that we should go to 80 percent of. the united arab emirates and this rail have agreed to normalize relations the deal brokered by washington includes a promise by israel to delay the annexation of palestinian lands in the west bank palestinians though have reacted angrily to this with the israeli prime minister even saying eventual annexation is still on the cards. oh sure i'm sure there is no change in my plan to implement our sovereignty in today and somalia in full

coordination with the united states i'm committed to it it's still on the table. the new leadership rejects what the united arab emirates has done and considers it a betrayal of jerusalem our x. and the palestinian cause but some do suspect that this deal between the u.s. and israel is actually meant to target another regional player this kind of explains. israel and the united arab emirates have formally agreed to establish diplomatic ties now many see this as a historic move as for many years arab states have not recognized israel as a country this is a monumental step to forging ties of cooperation in the middle east donald trump's supporters say he deserves the nobel peace prize for arranging this but the palestinians aren't exactly thrilled with this new arrangement the deal between. united arab emirates and israel is a betrayal of palestinians given the historic. relationship that

israel has had with the arab states in other words no peace. according to the old formula no peace was possible until the palestinian issue was resolved in the past the mission is not result the palestinian authority is now formally withdrawing its envoy from the united arab emirates they say recognizing a country that is occupying them is simply unacceptable now in the diplomatic fallout of this deal we're starting to see what this is really all about aside from the u.a.e. israel in the united states there is a 4th country that is now showing up in a lot of the conversations surrounding the deal iran peace between the arabs and the israelis is in rome as well as nightmare no one has done more to intensify the conflict between the arabs and the israelis of iran what we see today is a new middle east the trend lines are very different today and we see the future is

very much in the gulf and with israel and the post is that the iranian regime it clings to power on the basis of brute force iran often labeled as israel's largest regional opponent has denounced the deal the islamic republic of iran is confident that history will show that this was a mistake made by israel and this dagger that has been unjustly through. lost by the united arab emirates into the backs of the palestinian people and all muslims will lead to strengthening resistance and the unity of the muslim people against israel as well as fuel confrontation in the region when donald trump visited saudi arabia he spoke of building an arab nato that would work as a coalition in the region opposing iran and fighting terrorism and it seems now this you story deal is being revealed not so much to be about getting recognition for israel or protecting palestinians from an exaggeration but about targeting one of washington's most longstanding opponents in the region there is definitely the

pattern isn't toward iran and i think the timing is ideal given what's happening in beirut. the fact that hezbollah is now under pressure in lebanon with the government having resigned there so we have a coalition building this agreement rather than easing tensions in the gulf within the arab states will. harden stances or at least continue to maintain the antagonism that we have. another nice today tensions are escalating nice to mediterranean where france is building up its military presence it is off to turkey started oil and gas exploration in disputed waters there and that greece as well as cyprus paris says its deployment is a temporary measure designed to monitor the situation well they were lation is with ankara already strained to show it to be reports. president matt corn has signaled

that the along as tensions continue to rise between greece and turkey the situation in the eastern mediterranean is worrying tookey is unilateral decisions on oil exploration are causing tensions these must stop in order for a peaceful dialogue between neighboring and nato allies to take place but this seemingly didn't stop the french president from reinforcing france's military presence in the mediterranean it's confirmed paris will send to ref a and fighter jets and the naval frigate fiat a move welcomed by the greek prime minister i think president mccraw on for his cell a dirty emmanuel mccraw on is a true friend of greece but also a fervent defender of european values and international law the greek pm bill this as an act of solidarity but you only have to scratch the surface to see that there

is more going on here in recent months process also found itself clashing with turkey in the mediterranean and. these past few days we have seen turkish warships deliver syrian mercenaries to libyan soil this is a serious and explicit intrenchments of what was agreed upon in berlin and i must reiterate the prerequisite for any political solution in libya is the cancellation of this document but with that incident still rushing from his mind it appears to have been keen to show solidarity with a fellow member in this case greece last month macko an even cooler for sanctions against turkey over these purported violations in the eastern mediterranean now the arrival of turkey's new seismic civvy vessel this caught the attention of the e.u. the latest developments rick stream the worrying what is needed to be done is think

gaijin solving all the open issue. with principles of good neighborly relations international law and positive engagement with france now bolstering its military might to aid greece's plight greece is perhaps our feeling in bold and its place its military on high alert recalling naval and air force personnel from their holidays turkey for its part says it will protect its rights toys and interests in coastal areas and with france now wading into this pact turkey's president is accused of provoking regional players into taking wrongful steps there is concern that this action by france rather than defeat using the situation could in fact escalate it. r.t. paris. people in beirut are still reeling as you would expect from last week's devastating explosion that killed over 200 people injured thousands and

left up 230-0000 homeless buildings as far as 10 kilometers from the blast destroyed well here's the story of one lebanese designer who is trying to rebuild his life's work from scratch. the work i was always so happy we were facing the court we saw it is very artistic and inspiring because it's industrially rich in details of how everything is rick's look at the destruction the wreckage i don't know how much time it would take to be rebuilt. there are no words to describe it my team and i a feeling we can't but thank god that we were alive and well no one was hurt we

left this building 10 minutes before the blast hit and thank god no one was hurt that's the most important thing. is. most of the hard work of 20 years was destroyed the mere seconds it was because of this tuesday explosion which went off just across the street. small and this is another challenge for us how we can get our hands on funds to rebuild they say there will be compensation but that's not certain and this isn't something we used to 11 and i hope we can get compensation to rebuild. this thinking of coming out with a new collection inspired by this very heartbreaking incident my team and i are really picking up the pieces i really want to come out with a collection inspired by beirut the suffering of beirut. wishing the best of luck

last still to come here this sad students in germany have inadvertently been funding the radical anti for act is the activism group via phase will follow the money after the break. join me every thursday simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the sport i'm sure i'll see you then. lead.

welcome back to ascertain ash teens in germany have been funding the anti familiar without knowing it it has transpired that some of the tuition fees paid to cologne university have ended up in the controversial activist groups and. peter all of us has been following the money trail. the anti fascist organization have

received a lot of press in 2020 with even the president of the united states chime in the united states of america. as a terrorist organization here in germany they haven't received that type of criticism but there is a controversy surrounding the use of university students fees from cologne to go towards a contribution to the group for the 2020 to $21.00 winter semester each student at the university of cologne pays $280.00 euro and $0.95 for $205.00 euro and $0.95 goes to the student council and it's meant to pay the transport discounting worker's salary and for the department's work out of the $10000000.00 euro the council will take in around 8 and a half 1000 will be paid to the student branch and to far take its delicate because

while auntie far on demonised here the way they are in the us a report by germany's internal security service that has some pretty strong things to say about a cake and the groups it's associated with conservative student groups and not happy that they have to contribute to a cape will. out choice it shouldn't be that every student has to subsidize a group that has been classified as extremist by the office for the protection of the constitution we regularly demand that the funding of n.t. for a k. be cut the majority of students who spoke to r.t. said they had absolutely no problem paying a contribution to our k. i don't know how much the payment is but i'm sure it is not enough and it should be higher i think it's good because it's important to thought. and deeply is dealing with many important social issues and they're less you know we ended in improving

wellbeing so i think it's a good idea to go and. i think it does make sense and i think it is important that a wide political spectrum is represented here and i see no problem that it is fine and from the student piece a k. has received funding from students at the university of cologne since it was set up 15 years ago neither the student body that doles out the funding nor the students themselves see any reason why that should change any time soon but while the name until far continues to be mentioned in trembling tones by those in power the group may find themselves coming under more scrutiny peter all over r.t. . facebook is being accused of illegally harvesting the facial recognition data reviews of his social media platform instagram and it's thought through that a class action against the tech giant can actually cost the company up to half

a trillion dollars. once facebook captures instagram users protected by metrics it uses them to both areas facial recognition abilities across all of its products including the facebook application and shares this information among various entities facebook does all of this without providing any of their acquired notices or disclosures required by illinois law it is claimed that facebook file ated the privacy rights of $100000000.00 of its uses under the current law companies can be fined up to 5000 dollars for each individual reckless or intentional violation and that means the total fine could potentially reach $500000000000.00 well last month facebook offered to pay $650000000.00 to settle a similar case when the company was accused of illegally collecting biometric data through a phone save tagging tool however it does maintain is face recognition systems are not used on instagram. the suit is baseless instagram doesn't use face recognition

technology if we introduce face recognition technology to your instagram experience we will let you know 1st and you will have control over whether we use this technology for you. privacy activists and technology expert bill new believes that despite the controversial nature of the lawsuit there are potentially high risks if facebook really is collecting uses biometric data. this is to a large extent a claim that is being brought on a speculative basis because we don't know whether instagram used facial recognition software for sure and we don't know the extent to which it used and i'm going to use to a large extent the law being used here is the one in illinois which is the strictest biometrics security or privacy law anywhere but world and has been brought up all of us uses which are a significant book portion of. facebook is collecting facial recognition software

without any form of consent then this is a real abuse and could be ripped equally damaging because if it loses the files to protect as it has done without for instance it's then all of the people it's collected pleasure information from could be vulnerable to identity theft to the rest of the lawyers. now with the black lives massive movement gaining traction around the world since the killing of george floyd some of the biggest companies from silicon valley to wall street have publicly denounced racism etheridge though may have been in fein is a recent poll has revealed that very few people actually think that the statements are sincere the survey found that 7 eye to 10 americans to believe the n.t. race is messaging coming from corporate america is simply due to public pressure rather than actual concern for black communities it was a fancy that people are divided over whether or not such messaging is necessary at

all. that's what black americans set out to make their. political commentator and he's one of those he says think that companies are supporting the b.l.m. they've meant just to keep their profits up these companies are just trying to be virtuous in as of their consumers and they don't want to have any kind of cancel culture or to cancel coming your direction they don't want to get your stories they don't want to have a negative reputation so to go out there is a thing as i always support black labs black lab is all about just p.r. company relation is trying to appear virtuous and good in the ads of those that are

out there protesting and also and as a of those that are out there sympathetic towards the protesters if a company had a reputation of being pro social justice and pro you know black labs and anti police for loans then it would make sense for them to have this stance now but if you're not that kind of company if there's a company that sells hamburgers ought dogs i mean there's no reason for you to go out there and talk about anything political at all no reason whatsoever there is no reason to pick sags. this i will be back at the top of the next one to keep you updated particularly all know these events some strikes taking place and batteries in the. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40

hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city knows turn every turn and told me stay away oh miss. before that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible to us. i don't think. those souls even some of them a training school jane dish if you're mediocre guys east is your style for a mouse you are going by each. even in a moment if you show us. our life if you look of. change or more of our life's change.

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 then escaping climate change poses 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. it is fast and that means the river is $35.00 closer to the power than was for i think were a part of america 1st for. greetings

and salutation. as we stand in the afterglow of the democratic party's great vice president's election extravaganza warmed by the burning embers of a crumbling republic that now gives us voters the most exquisite of candidates to choose from this november either neo liberal pro wall street corporate yes folks like biden harris or the narcissistic be fuddled flag humping sexist racist want to be strong men that is why our great president donald trump it's important for us not to predict that ultimately it's the u.s. military industrial complex that calls most of the shots here in washington no matter who occupies the white house and this military empire built on u.s. taxpayer dollars is still wreaking havoc in the name of by.