brussels threatening sanctions over belarus is heavy handed response to anti-government protests minsk in turn says it will cut all ties with the e.u. also to come this hour the german state of the area apologizes after failing to tell $900.00 people that they have the coronavirus it comes as countries across europe see cope with infections spike and u.k. holiday makers scramble to get home after france is added to britain's coronavirus quarantine list but only a few hours' notice given it does spark chaos for travelers we pay everything all the. way there was no way we could get any money back.

they're just gone 6 o'clock in the evening here in moscow you're watching international at the belorussian capital has once again become the focus of anti-government protests thousands of people have converged on men's playing flowers in tribute to a demonstrator killed in the unrest that followed last sunday's to speak to presidential election this is the same way he was killed earlier in the week his family had asked people to gather here instead of coming to his funeral our correspondent sent this report from the city. i know more spiritual really as you can see many people have come today to push the metro station or a man from minsk alexander terry koff ski was killed in the arrest it's difficult to count how many people are here they stand on both sides. here they've completely

filled the space near the entrance to the metro they're queuing to lay flowers but cars are honking as you can see for yourself. what your society i. am audience and from moscow crowds have once again counted absent the better russian embassy making a stand in solidarity with the protesters from across the death has this report. saturday saw the biggest turnout say here as peaceful rallies continue outside of the embassy of belarus say here in moscow the protesters have been gathering here for almost a week to express their solidarity with the people in bellary said it was a phone conversation between russian delegation presence took place earlier on saturday and both leaders expressed confidence that all 7 simples will the settles have very seriously that the main goal is not to let external forces that

take advantage of this is a situation and of course put a wedge in the cooperation between russia and belarus the european union is now offering its own solution on the situation in the country the european union will put forward to the better russian authorities a proposal for e.u. support in establishing in facilitating a dialogue between the political authorities opposition and broader society in view of resolving the current crisis ministers also agreed on the need to sanction those responsible for violence repression and the force of occasion of election results sanctions are the end of politics the key question now is what kind of policy the e.u. has towards biller use for osce the european union is one of our top priorities at a strategy meeting with the defense ministry alexander lukashenko noted that. the government in this country was formed in line with the constitution. and she said

that they don't need any quote unquote foreign governments for it mediators for that matter of course so washington added their own $0.02 into the conference in the recent this is what they had to say about it i was glad to see the release of some protestors but that certainly has not been an injective is to support the bill rescind people to achieve their sovereignty the end freedom a peaceful rally continues here outside of the russian embassy and of course we will be here to bring you any more developments come across that there will be asked on this by that they do think that the sanctions plan will have the desired effect there are discussion with the european union because they are in a difficult situation because on one side. they would like of course some political change to changes in their little bit in the same time they don't want binaries to . serve their eastern most and western countries and especially i think germany

wants to have that negotiation it was told a moment the sanctions they're talking about are mostly symbolic and not really profound we will see how the situation will change but it was reform in the president with the european commission said. really moving should be more careful in the way he checks the moves that american spokesman said she was very concerned about election results she says it was happening is unacceptable from the european union point of view it is very very very delicate situation they don't want it to. they don't want to call for the elimination of the removal pretty much. instead of saying who would take his place. the german state to this area has been forced on to these offensive failed around 900 travelers returning to

the region or not that they had tested positive for the coronavirus peter all of the reports. there's been a huge blunder in the german states if the varia with 844000 corona test a backlog $900.00 of those still waiting for their results and known to have tested positive the man in charge of germany's largest state says he's sorry for the delay is to the example dot secure relighting times state government is sorry that these mistakes happened both the minister and also me personally that many people are now unsure as to what happened to their test results. the reason it given is the sheer number of people coming into germany from holidays elsewhere and taking covert tests by the roadside and train stations in both areas this move was brought in very quickly by the state and the information had not been recorded digitally mistakes happen in such extraordinary times the official say the bavarian health

minister though had offered her resignation over the blunder bilinear. offered to resign twice and then asked whether she had the courage to continue to carry out these tasks with a she wanted to and could in both cases she said yes markets has made a bit of a reputation for himself during the corona pandemic as a mr fix-it that internecine his name touted as a potential successor to chancellor merkel when she steps down ahead of next year's election opposition leaders have been quick to use the testing delays to twist the knife on claims he's all talk and no final product if a state premier is always presenting himself as a crisis manager and constantly patting himself on the back he also has to take responsibility of point suring that things were when announcing new coronavirus measures he doesn't miss a press conference but when something goes wrong he sends out the health minister i

would have expected him to have the backbone to step up himself the advice for. anyone who's still waiting for test results is pretty simple just get the test done as germany and the rest of europe brace for a 2nd wave of covert 90 peter all over r.t. berlin. wall spikes of coded infections are being seen in parts of europe at the moment france is recording around $3000.00 daily infections up 10 fold on the last month and that's prompted the u.k. to add it to its quarantine least with the french government of said that unfortunately the virus been going the wrong way there's been a 66 percent increase in the number of test positive tests in the last week alone so unfortunately francis happened to be added to the quarantine list when london gave people until 4 am this morning to return to the u.k. if they wanted to avoid quarantine france is hugely popular with british tourists

and many flocked there in the lockdown was initially lifted last minute announcements or thousands they were rushing back to try and beat the deadline anybody who missed the deadline will now have to self isolate for 2 weeks when they return the rules say now applies to those coming from the netherlands british holidaymakers were given only 24 hours notice and that has angered some travelers who do claim that the areas they had been staying in had lower infection rates than at home now france is the 2nd most popular travel destination for brits some 160000 were there when the country was put on the quarantine list for all of those so he wanted to return home have been able to be caught up with some of the. travel was out. so when where was allowed before it was safe to go where no one or late so maybe we always thought so i think i made the wrong decision in the 1st oh yes

we wouldn't get one on the way we pay everything all the facilities needed both opals as soon as the government opened up the gate way there was no way we could get any money back but we were aware that. very difficult. for anything in place really that's going to stop the spread should have been very general blanket travel i mean basically that says that we got a quarantine 14 days i think testing is a better option we've already been knocked out for a very very long time. meanwhile russia says it has started the mass production of its controversial new vaccine moscow and i was this week it was 1st in the world to improve approve a coronavirus jab but this pain much concern around the globe the conus may have been cut among those worried is donald trump. ya know much about it. we hope it works we do we hope it works they've cut off certain. then and we just

feel it's important to go through the process we have numerous different vaccines that we think are going to work but we want to go through a system of. vaccine was created by russians kemel a instituted to them only year around 5 months of work critics say they can't have passed all the necessary trials to ensure it is in fact a safe while the head of the institute alexander to tell us how they achieved such quick results. this vaccine was created strictly in accordance with russian law this allows a vaccine to be developed more rapidly during an emergency and the coronavirus pandemic is definitely an emergency we haven't reduced the number of tests required to prove that the vaccine is safe rather we are running tests in parallel when the pandemic started we were working on a vaccine against mers which is also

a type of corona virus and is more lethal than covert 19 this research had almost completed the 2nd phase of tests so we had all the methodology in place. for over 3500 people have tried this vaccine without suffering any serious side effects just some minor ones that one gets with any type of vaccine for example a slight temperature which can be relieved with a dose of paracetamol and this will be made clear in the instructions for use. the. vaccine research is conducted in many countries across the world but the russian and soviet school of vaccine creation is a very serious one and our institute for example we have 4 generations of scientists working together so the knowledge we transmit is not just via papers and electronic devices but directly from one person to another when the young researcher comes to me i always know which of our scientists can give them

appropriate advice someone that's worked in the field for many many years. absolutely not the only feeling was to defend myself my relatives and our population and just to complete the task we had been given namely to find a vaccine and it was also this feeling that many in our profession have many microbe hunters the need to catch and liquidated. africa's biggest hydroelectric dam could spell disaster for sudan that is the warning from experts who do say that the country could be swallowed by sand.

well at the side of the most important factors leading to dessert occasion the incident cultural and development policy has been a $940.00 s. and fifty's agricultural policy sort to expand agricultural areas for cure screws so she's cool and says to me that the expensive natural forests consequently large areas of natural forest were removed for this purpose and were not recovered again s.s.e. says one of the main reasons leading to does it say that it was at the cost. of . a bed that in 20 years have passed since they got married and started living in this house my difficulties in life come from the encroachments of sand our lands heard. the walls of our houses have fallen and every year i use all the money that i see i need to move sand or build walls everything the earth we

used to do that we make the walls of the buildings higher but the sand continues creeping towards us. a sad fever sad old transformer lawyer michael cohen promises things the president doesn't want you to rein it in his new book a book branded fan fiction by the white house will have a look. just after the break.

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hello again you had written to the u.s. saying it is highly concerned about washington sanctioning companies working on the north stream to a pipeline project with russia. the european union considers that their. sanctions is illegal under international law at the same time european union continues to higher value just in time to unity the common foreign and security goals shared which increases the impact of sanctions we welcome the look on this issues department of state is updating the public guidance for katz authorities to include north stream to the 2nd line of turk stream to this action puts investments or other activities that are related to these russian energy export pipelines at risk of u.s. sanctions it's a clear warning to companies aiding and abetting russia's malign influence projects

will not be tolerated get out now or risk the consequences when the train to runs through the baltic sea will deliver natural gas to germany bypassing traditional transit countries like ukraine european companies are also part of the costly project which ends to double gas imports from russia to germany and while u.s. pressure on europe is increasing one regional german energy minister told us there's a real desire to see the plans through. firm intention is to bring the nord stream to project to completion but now is being hampered by many hostile campaigns because of the plans of postponed and there are complications the us side is exerting strong pressure on various companies and we see that some of them are suffering at least emotionally shareholders and everyone who finances this project is certainly worried on the other hand i heard that the russian side made it clear that it intends to complete the project probably at the

bottom of the baltic sea this should be about 10000000000 euro so all interested parties have reasons to complete the project and by the way these grounds exist both in germany and within the european union because we will continue to need large volumes of gas. so as we heard then the u.s. plans to sanction companies that don't pull out of the project and washington has repeatedly claimed that nor dream to you is a threat to european energy security christian people again to say that europe's had russian gas for years without any problems. dropping stuff by an old i believe there's a consensus in europe if any state outside the baltic sea region interferes with the sovereignty of european security of supply it's outrageous and vice versa if to have a policy would do the same with us interests in their own in the security or if the european union acted in this way any of the american continents i'm pretty sure the reactions would be very sharp in this sense it amazes me that this so determined to

be involved the headlines always say we are putting ourselves in a security standpoint danger i believe that over the past 80 to 100 years europeans have been able to assess quite well how to supply themselves with it even during the worst times of the cold war they have been always supplies of russian in those days soviets natural gas to the european continent to germany they have never been any supply issues and i see those who helped to fund this project not on your job and companies but also austrians dot's british and french the governments of these states cooperate closely in general i would like to see the same actions from federal governments use the strengths of all states for collaboration to work together. now the u.n. security council has rejected a u.s. sponsored resolution to extend the trade embargo against iran washington only to support from the dominican republic while russia and china vetoed the draft and other members abstained tenure and does expire in october with more his kind of.

well the resolution put forward by the united states would have extended the arms embargo against iran now france germany and other countries have been very vocal about the fact that they pose the united states decision to unilaterally withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement and furthermore they posed putting new sanctions on iran now in the lead up to the vote at the u.n. security council u.s. diplomats were very adamant that they felt this arms embargo must be extent. it here's some of what we heard i call upon all security council members to wake up to the real world implications of allowing this arms embargo to lapse failure to extend the arms embargo would make a mockery of that sacred responsibility in which the united nations with crédit now prior to the vote in which this resolution failed mike fails said the united states feels that if this arms embargo is not extended as it was not that the united

states will impose the snap back mechanism in the iran nuclear deal and snap back the sanctions on iran this is mike papantonio the us secretary of state i want to as i said i want to be 2 kids who are deeply aware of this that pack is an option that's available to them that it sticks and we're going to do everything within america's power to ensure that that arms embargo is extended and i'm confident that we will be successful now the snapback mechanism in the iran nuclear agreement was essentially put in place so that if iran were to violate the chase c.p.o. away they would then face the penalty of an immediate snapback of the sanctions of this world and so at the next confrontation which is about the united states seeking to impose so-called snapback inspections that are you know part of the joint comprehensive program of action which are to be implemented if iran is found to be in noncompliance iran of course is not in noncompliance and the united states

is no longer a party to this agreement but the united states is going to seek to take advantage of bad writing of the agreement to impose its will which will set up a crisis in the security council this vote is a meaningless vote it's really setting up the larger confrontation now currently mike pompei o. is in vienna talking with officials from the international atomic energy agency they say that iran has fully complied with the nuclear deal i'm not violating my font they are says however it doesn't really seem to be a 1000 nuclear deal anymore. war this isn't about the j.c.b. away this is about whether the world is going to permit iran to buy and sell weapons systems again it's that clear it's that simple so it seems that the trumpet ministrations policy of imposing maximum pressure on iran and ripping up the iran nuclear deal was essentially put to a folks at the body that meets the united nations and it seems that this policy of

the trump white house and ask for tension with iran was overwhelmingly rejected the united states as you know has a maximum pressure campaign on iran they want the iran government at least the way they put it to change its behavior radically in the region this is part of a much larger u.s. policy to help its friends saudi arabia israel and to her nik's enemies and to keep america paramount in the persian gulf the source of so much of the world's oil 50 percent of the world's oil supplies is about control of the international energy supply. and finally the saddle troubles for manoir has released the forward from a new book about his elbow say year ago found guilty of fraud in perjury and was sentenced to 3 days in jail he was released and is currently under house arrest but he still promising to dish the dirt on trump in his new book something the white

house has already dismissed as fan fiction. i am the ultimate member of the book of the month club 1st i have low life dummy john bolton a war mongering fool my lighting the lol next up is mary trump the seldom seen

niece who knows little about me says untruthful things about my wonderful parents who couldn't stand and me and violated her and. donald trump is a walking. of now and it's become yes this this day and this psychodrama yes it's absolutely in see should but what new things came news say about him he is responsible for everything for colvin for racism or sexism for dandruff the common cold venereal

disease hate bad movies boiled forward everything is attributable to donald trump. and that brings you up to date for now is just coming up to half past 6 needling here but back again at the top of. the sudden forced and illegal takeover of the government by a small group. rather than revolutionaries also just that small group the operations when you have a tiny people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the

rest of us don't get together and take it back. these are sacrificing. places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like voter suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices are well in that world for well the. question that.

i've after a time to know what you're going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until that we'll be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past star studded season stay safe. later in the show we'll find out why the n.h.s. here in britain has to import lifesaving equipment for its health workers from communist china but now world renowned environmentalist in the call of just dr london to she should need no introduction she is one of the leaders of the international forum on globalization and is one countless prizes for work. i think staying alive women the college and development of shadow for republication september she joins me now from delhi of on the thanks so much for coming on are you at least pleased that the global pandemic has not made politicians and policy makers talk about a war on nature the war is just on the coronavirus it's a problem to say you have a war against a little wireless because all the wars in the past have caused

a lot of harm coming from india the war against the barbarians we're all suppose we barbarians of you know of the civilizing mission it exterminated so many people and purchase my work in the last 35 years has been based on how declaring war on humans 1st in italy as concentration camps those same chemicals in the same i-g. father 0 and the same boys are gone 10 then turn these chemicals into every talk since every chemicals which are still killing but they're not solving the problem of control of best it creating new hits and i was also supposed to live in factories this was your own 3 you get the mad cow disease you get to by degrees assistance again the bacteria are winning when you talk about a war against microbes the war against my groups you know god isn't the root of the in.