walking to freedom better riggs begins releasing some of those detained during mass protests over last weekend's election amid claims of widespread police brutality one doctor shares her experience. the women were lying on the floor and the men were in the next hour they were constantly so badly that they just how warm it was also this hour palestine slams a new peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates as an act of betrayal brokered by the u.s. it will see israel's west bank and exciting plans put on hold but not abandoned and tensions spike in the mediterranean this france says it will bolster its military presence there to monitor activities in disputed waters.

hello good evening you're watching r.t. international just on 7 o'clock here in moscow protesters detained during a week of anti-government demonstrations in better roofs over what they claim was sunday's rigged election have started to be released early today the final official result of the vote was given handing president bush a landslide victory meanwhile protests to continue with the country's capital once again being the main focus will these are images from the square in front of the main government building some protesters rush to hug in fact and hand flowers to security forces there after they laid down their shields that is after groups of demonstrators converged on the area with the striking workers among them so let's hear now from our correspondent at the scene. pushes

a dismissive means we're at the independence square is currently something that's absolutely unique an interesting story of the races happening here you're here you can see the special 2 this was entirely false is standing behind me or divorced right behind my back with the. national house of the government only on the side where protesters have gathered everything is peaceful new provocations and says we can see your cynicism down there she'll. pass the situation there's minsk attractive factory workers arrive here with red panic stricken and well nothing else is going on there were people chanting slogans are going to leave no part of this is going on and frankly without provocation this one hour operation or not in force one just isn't just are you going to be standing next to do a good look at this it's a unique picture if i haven't seen anything like this before. ok when i get your sense of what things are like on the ground in a better race there is a name to mend sca with more now on today's developments in bellary says roman cost

of. all this friday night will see a lot of families who will let's see there are a lot of loved ones after almost a week long absence and that's because the bill russian authorities began releasing all those of protesters who were detained in that mass rallies that sunday right after they were right after the presidential election in the roost many of the detainees who are being released right now have been sharing their harrowing experience this take a look as if it was just to divide police asked us to show all hast bullets but i didn't have one and then they asked for my phone and saw what had been feldman they said i should go to them and one by a police officer grabbed me i tried to resist and he invited 5 others as 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 to the police man so they called me a prostitute. and the whole when we felt sick they said you can urinate on vomit we

don't care that your body. we should not stuff 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 we stopped in the for the men were 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 they were sent him i was not going to look up and push and he was detained as who he asked also to put into the police van conditions at the christian detention center there's much to be desired there are 30 to 50 people who once how no food just have 4 to and human treatment of interior ministry pledge that they will let all of the detainees go by the end all for this friday now so for around 2000 people have been freed and that's approximately a 3rd of all those who were detained during our weeklong almost

a week long rally of not among those people who were detained were medics as well let's take a listen to this firsthand account of the women were lying on the floor and the men who were in the next hour they were constantly so badly gray just how lonely it was a terrible how the bloody frozen highlanders were just what we heard every night the basement was terrible prison guards were saying what's wrong is your life that's bad decided to act out how we live work here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where low this is that's the sort of thing they shout at people and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held in the street everyone driving by was shot person white ropes on their knees with a machine guns they had a motion of protest in belarus have moved beyond the streets as factories bland's and different markets began protesting expressing their solidarity with. that those of the mass rallies as well one of belarus is the biggest set tracks

there's a tractor manufacturers well they suspended their operations partially after employees decided to walk out on strike now prime minister all deliveries decided suv visits at this plant and talk to the strikers however they were not satisfied with with the meeting and now they're heading towards the russian capital often minced now they're calling for reforms 3rd calling to bring justice to those who were hurt during the mass rallies and they're also calling for the departure of president look at shango now the president himself all here reacted to the growing number of work your support testing and address the strikers by calling on them to get back to work and he also promised that all of the detention cases that sit place to last so all almost a week will be investigated meanwhile in syria minister all bill respond he

he apologized to the people who are hurt during the protest in a statement earlier on friday as well now about the 1st official results of the votes which took place last sunday was announced on friday and gave president lukashenko a landslide victory his opponents said minus the kind of scale she dismissed the result state and it has absolutely nothing to do with reality as you call it she said that she will create a cold the nation council that will see to the peaceful transfer of power in the bill or reduce meanwhile this comes as the european union is also mulling sanctions against a bill or is germany and the european union have both expressed concern and support for science sanctions on the the bill or russian officials falling mass arrests off the. there's also a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel she said at that point in

post-election president bill aris was on except civil and the chancellor was shocked by what she had seen now these statements a game just to head off a special video called off e.u. foreign ministers on friday who convene to discuss the measures that they will take on the situation in belarus and so from an costs that are commenting further on claims of violence against journalists the interior ministry does say will investigate every single allegation economist manchu meanwhile says that despite the latest protest remaining relatively calm people are still very angry. it was truth said peace for people are calm but there's a lot of joy in the whole but their gender change b.l.s. drop that broke the camel's back was the mass joining the protos the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial entities joined the protest saying

that we demand not perks from the government we need need for elections to look at himself put into position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election officials deliberate fraud and election and vote out definitely ignited that kind of protest and anger because nobody believes in ballard because you've got 80 percent of the well. look at other news now in the united arab emirates and israel have struck a pace accord the deal brokered by washington will seize hold his west bank and exciting plans although the palestinians aren't happy after these ready prime ministers said that an exception isn't completely off the table. 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 last palestinian leadership rejects what the united arab emirates has done and considers it a betrayal of jerusalem and the palestinian cause of a lesser scale of more pain now reports some do believe too that it is another player in the middle east which does lie at the true heart of this new accord. 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 toes 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 the 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 resolved 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 conversation 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 year storage deal is being revealed not so much to be about getting recognition for israel or protecting palestinians from an explosion 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 disagreement 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. fronts is ramping up its military presence in the eastern mediterranean off to turkey began oil and gas exploration in disputed waters there paris to say that its deployment is only a temporary measure but its relations with ankara are already strained a shot had been skiing now reports. president matt corn has signalled that the along 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 fiats 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 cross has also found itself clashing with

turkey in the mediterranean. these past few days we have seen turkish warships deliver syrian mercenaries to libyan soil this is a serious and explicit in french moment of what was agreed upon in berlin 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 to engage in solving all the open issue. with principles of good neighborly relations international law and positive engagement with fronts now bolstering its military

might to aid greece's plight greece is perhaps now 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 fronts rather than defeating the situation could in fact escalate it challenged even ski r.t. paris. the massive explosion last week in beirut destroyed much of the city and like most have been left trying to pick up the pieces not just of the shattered buildings though but also of their lives one fashion designer shared his story.

like i was always so happy we were facing the putting seward is very artistic and inspiring because it's industrial enriching details now 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 that we can't but thank god that we're all alive and well and no one was hurt to live this building 10 minutes before the blast hit and thank god the most current that's the most important thing. is. most of the hard work of 20 years was destroyed in mere

seconds it was because of this tuesday explosion which went up just across the street. smaller he says another challenge for us and 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 do use to 11 and i hope we can get compensation to rebuild. 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. the best of the nash to dance in germany have been funding the controversial activist group and teeth without even knowing it it sings because it has come to light that part of the cherishing phase paid to the university of

a. actually been going to the group for years peter all of the reports. the anti fascist organization have received a lot of press in 2020 with even the president of the united states china in the united states of america will be designating 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 is 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 on too far

a cake it's delicate because while anti far on demonized 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 in turn and not so happy that they have to contribute to a case without a 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 the. please dealing with

many board and social issues there let it we ended and improve an overall well being so i think it's a good idea to support them and. i think it does make sense and i think it is important that a wide political spectrum is represented 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 these are all over. facebook is being accused of illegally harvesting the facial recognition data or if it's instagram uses class action against the social media giant could actually cost the company up to half

a trillion dollars. once facebook captures instagram users protected by metrics it uses them to both or its 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 the required notices or disclosures required by illinois law. well it is claimed that facebook violated the privacy rights of $100000000.00 of its uses and under the current law companies can be fined up to $5000.00 for each individual reckless or intentional violation and it therefore means that the total fine could potentially reach 500000000000 last month facebook did offer to pay $650000000.00 to settle a similar case when the company was accused of illegally collecting biometric data through a photo tagging to or however it does maintain its facial recognition software is not used on instagram. this 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. as the activists and technology expert bill me believes the facebook really is collecting biometric data that could be huge repercussions. 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 how many uses to a large extent the law being used here is the one in illinois which is the strictest biometrics security or privacy law anywhere in the world and has been brought in balt of us users which are a significant proportion of. facebook is telling facial recognition software without any form of consent then this is of real abuse and i could be take

only damaging because if it loses the files to protect as it has started out there it's then all of the people it's collective pleasure information could be vulnerable to identity theft to the rest of the lawyers. now with a cry for feedback life matter movement following the killing of george floyd some of the biggest companies on the planet were quick to publicly denounce racism but a recent poll to show that few people actually think that the statements since say in the survey in the us did find that 7 active 10 people believe corporate america is anti-racism stance is just down to the public pressure rather than actual concern nor to fancy that people were split over whether such messaging is necessary at all.

this while black americans set out to make their. little commentator anthony brown now you can believe that companies are only looking out for their profits. 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 come in a direction they don't want to get your stores they don't want to have a negative representation so to go out there is a thing as i always support black labs black lab matter 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 these things 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's no reason to pick sags. so that's how the news is looking so far today here in r.t. don't forget that you can always keep yourself updated on our social media pages and which. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours 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 but to that's been a problem with the city will always turn a return and told me stay away almost. 2 sons of the food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible class. i know no crowd. no shots. actually felt i. was trapped no. point ch your thirst for action. we had a period of time where we had 7 and a half miles of mills

a cake continuous so one and a half miles of mills there is none left ok and all our manufacturing left this country all these things and i blame it on the politicians it's. it's washington d.c. they've got their little click they've got their thing. they don't care about anything else. and it doesn't matter democrat republican they're all the same they're all i'm sorry to use that language but. they're in there for one thing they're in there to get elected. the reason donald trump's in there is because he's a celebrity or he did this or he did that he is in there because he is not one of them and we are so frustrated. we had to vote him in if donald trump goes away

we'll find another trump believe me we'll find another one the people dreamed this couch the people built this cut at it's the people who are making america great again. the clintons and the obama was all oh they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that would out north america i mean we created huge pockets of poverty we've never had in 100 years the same difference between rich and poor the the class differences incredible they set the stage for a savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasn't and what happens after

a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for donald trump success do you find this contradictory in any way to the. cabin. full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the lavishness of those offices so on and so forth. to trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i don't think he drained it i think he moved it into the white house so he didn't drain a swamp and is moved to dinner. and i think every politician has probably abused their office. why don't we totally drain the swamp right away playing up b.c. altogether. why are we the people more actively involved in. the.