in the main news stories of the last 7 days it's been a week of protests marred by violence in belarus where people are still refusing to accept the outcome of last sunday's presidential election during the unrest and minsk was briefly did. break police officers and asked them would be rude was blocked and if i could go through they said no it's not come with us. russia launches production of its coronavirus vaccine the 1st to be registered in the world but concerns over the speed at which it was developed persist plus. the lebanese government including the prime minister resigned amid the civil unrest in beirut following that deadly chemical explosion in the city we talked to

a woman who lost her husband in the blast. i promised my son that i me and his that are going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise. good morning from moscow just turned 11 am here my name is kevin here with the weekly in the round up of the main stories we brought you over the last 7 days to those who come to this weekend stick with me as a take you through them. seeing more unrest in the last week than in decades prior last sunday's election which handed a 6 consecutive term in office to the country's leader was disputed by the opposition who took to the streets demanding a rerun of the vote although things appear to have calmed now the 1st half the week was marred by violence. i just take people that i do not think it. was yes i swallowed yes yes i have come

out but i want to leave in a free and peaceful country mr q i. like. how much of this mass this is going on can you take this time we're told was. i i i i. i i i i i i. could what. was the. likelihood i. was it was. right that we i. was. 64 journalists were detained during the unrest among

them reporters working for artie's video agency ruptly who spent almost 5 days in jail our own correspondent belarus was also briefly held to. you know speeches. right police officers and asked them whether the road was blocked and if i could go through they said no it's not come with us they twisted my hands but i love him to put my phone in my pocket with the enough they care a lot about phones so that people don't use it or break them it was really uncomfortable my hands were twisted my head was down and i had to walk like this but charles as we're falling off the police officer from the back was pulling on them it wasn't painful it was uncomfortable they pushed me into the vehicle and put a plastic 20 k. on my hands it was difficult to breathe and suddenly we stopped the door open and they asked my surname and. to go out what's next a riot police officer said just go out and make sure we don't see you again and he smiled i could see from his eyes above his mosque. nearly 7000 protesters were

detained across the country this week the government began releasing them on thursday night promising to free them all by friday morning although as it stands at the moment it's unclear if that actually has happened doctors are among those held to is one medics firsthand account. 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 in the street everyone's riding by was shocked doctors in white robes on their knees with a machine gun to the head. so there are 2 narratives being spun around what's at play and better was right now. right now the world is being reminded that one man alexander lukashenko has ruled belarus for a long 26 years and he intends to add another 5 claiming 80 percent of all the ballots from sunday's presidential election have to take next to his name but

that's not something a considerable amount of belorussians believe taking their frustrations onto the streets it started off with a peaceful protests mass of groups coming out and shining flashlights but the tear gas and rubber bullets started flying and chaos has taken hold. there are 2 realities and deloris right now and the 1st there is location go calling the vote a celebration but one that people are trying to spoil by inciting aggression and spreading misinformation foreign powers media and social media channels are to be blamed as well so look at those reality is that the protesters are bad and the special forces have no choice but to act like this.

c around the. around $25.00 police officers have been injured legs broken they were deliberately hit so they responded by you crying now response will be adequate we will not allow you to tear the country apart the 2nd reality though is that of the protesters hundreds of thousands flooding the streets of the country calling for the president to step down and contending authoritarian rule but also posting instructions on how to make multiple cocktails on social media accounts which is literally playing with fire with tensions so high and while we can't ignore the videos of police beating people on the streets we can ignore this. clip showing a car ramming into troops in the capital either we haven't judging either of the realities but the international community is condemning the election as neither free nor fair not that they were invited to observe it so where does that leave

looking shango he's a man largely without friends the west still dubbed him europe's last dictator while he's slowly pushed away his closest ally russia but nevertheless he still claiming victory and his political rivals have either been put in jail or fled the country including his opponent in the election so. i took a very difficult decision i did that by myself my friends family colleagues and husband did not influence me many will understand me many will judge many will start to hate everyone is deafening and it's not clear who will win if anyone a number of countries are condemned what they call a rigged election and the ensuing police response to the protests is the latest reaction from europe and the us. i was glad to see the release of some protestors but that certainly is not and the common objective is to support the belarus in people to achieve their sovereignty their own freedom the european union will put

forward to the better russian authorities a proposal for e.u. support and establishing an 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 of the end of politics the key question now is what kind of policy the has towards but there is for us the european union is one of our top priorities. alexander lukashenko discussed the current situation in his country with his russian counterpart vladimir putin they agreed that it should not be exploited by 3rd party forces seeking to harm cooperation between the 2 states some of our guests in the week said they saw hints maybe of ukraine back in 2014 while others say more dialogue is needed. there are very strong similarities between what he laid out in front of our eyes now in belarus and what happened in ukraine we had a very similar scenario not a color so i tend to bring

a successful color revolution in yugoslavia the united states aligned in the line of many western countries with whatever happens at the result a loss of which when it will be illegitimate we had the same rhetoric coming out of the western capitals as we're getting it that the government that was told it couldn't really respond to any protests against even if they turn violent and that's what we're seeing so it's kind of movie that we've seen many times before and it doesn't end well that movie to that the previous lot it didn't end well for the people of your great probably the better comparison is with ukraine in 2004 at the time of the so-called orange revolution by the russian society whatever its views on who should be president. is anxious to avoid not only the kind of violence of people who saw in ukraine in february 2014 but all the problems that ukraine has had ever since and i think for those of us who want to see a peaceful and if you like a legitimate democratic outcome for both of us it's very important that the losing side in any political crisis has options of coming back through the ballot box once

you foreclose that new then do risk civil war civil conflict which is after all what has been set up parts of ukraine ever since because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided of the hair or lack of strategic vision of the situation overthrown the governmental side it would be wise to ask the opposition to least of the interests so why they are so keen to get read all the president lucas and opposition should also try to find a way to be integrated into into own 2 legal political process drive to suggest something that is acceptable to the government. this is big news in the wake of the significant of. elements in the fight against covert 19 on choose day russia were announced as it registered the world's 1st coronavirus vaccine it's been named sputnik 5 and on saturday the country's health ministry then confirmed that

production of the 1st batches had already started the breakthrough herber was welcomed with caution in scientific and political circles with questions surrounding the vaccine efficacy western media also mocked the russian innovation claim it's got no scientific value and is not safe enough and it still has not passed the crucial 3rd phase of testing i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective i seriously doubt that they've done that it is not about being 1st it is about having a try tested and see vaccine which will be given that's the important part to hundreds of millions maybe even billions of people the problem is that we know very little because the russian authorities are not being very transparent and so i am very skeptical about what's happening in russia. our foreign colleagues who probably want a kind of competitive advantage over the russian vaccine or offering judgments that

are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken excel or 80 decisions in their vaccine studies but the russian vaccine has already seen a distinct clinical trials and evidence. the vaccine was developed at moscow's gobbler institute medical workers teachers and those considered to be other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it or least the general public is set they hope for the new year the developers of the 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as the research into it continues more than 1000000000 doses then of the russian vaccine have already also been ordered from abroad requested from different countries around the globe orders mostly coming in from asia or in the middle east total quarter in the week visited the factory in moscow where the job is being produced. it's hoped to be a game changer in the fight against the corona virus and while many questions remain unanswered about russia's new vaccine the authorities are confident enough

to go forward with mass production and we were lucky enough to get an exclusive look into how it's done. by. the drug is nicknamed 5 and hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here another one for the moment our company but the farm is the only producer of the vaccine apart from the gamelan institute the production of the vaccine has already been launched with a manufacturing capacity of about $1500000.00 doses a year we understand that it won't be enough that's why we continue to invest in boosting production the 1st batch of vaccine is ready to be delivered in the region it's a priority as i understand it is medical personnel because they are on the front

line of this pandemic and they are at risk from the sheer speed at which russian scientists have been able to develop this vaccine has raised a lot of eyebrows across the world especially since russia's health ministry approved it before the end of the 3rd phase of testing still all the initial testing phases were done without any problems and the management of this factory seems to have a very positive outlook. it's absolutely accurate that specific antibodies protective n.c. bodies are being formed as unknowns that's a vaccination we can also say that for the time volunteers have been injected with this vaccine the number of antibodies has been sufficient and remain circulating in their blood protecting them. here's where the final stage of the production process takes place where the vaccine itself is inspected for the purpose of quality control if the units passon specs in there are labeled and prepared for packaging the factory said mechanic was able to tell us a bit more about what exactly takes place here. so generally we can pack up to

$120000.00 vials a day those ready to go into production are loaded onto a conveyor and off without a special marking machine then they go to the box i'm getting packed. by. the factory began vaccine production so quickly after moscow gave its approval that workers are still in the process of creating a packaging facility for the end products it just goes to show how eager russia is to get this vaccine into the hands of those who need it most dominant quarter r.t. in or the news of the week that was in a recap of those stories snapshots of one family's grief with beirut still reeling from tragedy we spoke of the week to a woman who lost her husband and whose daughter is battling cancer.

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descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. again this week beirut was gripped by large anti-government protests following the massive explosion on august the 4th that killed over 200 people the lebanese government including the prime minister have resigned over the disaster although are still acting as caretakers at the moment protesters blame incompetence by the authorities for the blast they stormed government buildings demanding proper accountability for the explosion that destroyed so many lives along with swathes of the lebanese capital.

thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded on that fateful day leveling the port area thousands were injured in the explosion it's overwhelming beirut's health system which has already been having to deal with a huge coated pandemic scores of buildings were damaged or destroyed leaving up 230-0000 people homeless. but the numbers of course don't give the full picture of how many lives there have been changed forever it's an added tragedy then for one particular family already dealing with their daughter's cancer they were in hospital when the blast struck the father didn't survive artie's been hearing this

story. forgive me if i did anything for me to carry or if i hurt you forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used to tell him i loved you oh you know you are you know i love you i love you these summer months have always been synonymous with joy and celebration for sue his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sonny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that it's classical heart i knew that it wasn't informed by that time gemma's immune system had been shot to pieces but hodgkin lymphoma is not a sentence for children it's curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldn't stay away in a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be

with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and her gemma's hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this. like this i didn't see if fair i didn't see my daughter either then and anything that i wanted to put his head like this i felt that all smashed all all smug i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul leaving his body i saw it but i didn't. i wanted to move into another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to when cancer and coping with her father's death she drew for me and around. it's circle she

she color that was red i knew it's her bed. and it was full of blood sue his heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his they're going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone sing with happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august. so. i love you i ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly there's just so much she feels she

didn't tell her husband enough sue has biggest concern now is whoa daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings. she told them here was listening they heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not i'm not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me. so can you imagine herself can you imagine the images in her a passing whenever she closes her eyes. suah finds redemption and relief in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we are sleeping our head on each other because you know as whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when he's around i don't gossip or markets i don't do anything for the house he picks care of everything everything here so think

a lot of clothes from my shoulder now this is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as i'm sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house. her. oh my supposed to put my ribs on this you know in this little room and don't know what is for or is a body 1. 000 thing for them just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. what i'm gonna. give when they entered when they smell his clothes has asked me to not remove his clothes from the house

i'm not going to remove them but soon her realize is that her life is not over she tells me its whole life mission now to eliminate the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with her mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them frozen as our. unicorn because she lied about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because mom when you're going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down you're going to lose your hair so what i can do or this is my hair i'm going to give it to you so you would wear decatur on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the bill smiling her and her brother. it is dawn of reporting from lebanon to see. the terrible isn't it beirut a city in population that continues to enjoy so much pain one funny story for me for i go for now then more than 10000 fires have been recorded in the brazilian

abba's and since the beginning of august environmentalist say the fires are not a natural phenomenon they're part of a deliberate deforestation and despite the destruction often being illegal and condemned globally the president still telling a blind eye. to the storm but 1st a fire happened on august the 10th and 11th last year where social media group coordinated farmers to burn both pasture and forest areas demonstrate their approval of the anti environmental policies the government has been implementing in prison.

back to me to answer the question and has the power to happen even generate other biomes and other acar system however what's being done to fight this fire cannot be estimated at this far has a huge impact especially during the time that we're getting through a very severe cases in with very strong winds and mr prosser wetland specifically it's causing small fast some into large ones that transplants every aside and many have tests have burned so it's a criminal fire. that's just a small selection of the very many very souls who brought you over the last 7 days all of today's headlines by the way and so much more is all that dot com if you get

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