huge anti-government demonstrations are being held in the bella russian capital on sunday after last week's contested presidential election which saw a longtime presidential president alexander lukashenko secure a 6th term in office. says this person has been in power for 26 years. and he doesn't want to. meanwhile rallies have also taken to the streets in support of the beleaguered president. i support alexander lukashenko i wasn't forced to come here this is my personal choice. and in the stories that shaped the week russia begins mass production of

it's a new vaccine claiming it's a world 1st but many scientists around the globe express alarm fear and huge corners. of broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow this is our g international i'm certainly glad to have you with us right now a week after the hugely contested presidential election still seeing massive demonstrations throughout the country both pro and anti-government rallies have taken to the streets on sunday in some cases gathering just meters apart. opposition protesters are holding a march for freedom through the capital minsk they are demanding of the

a long time president alexander lukashenko resign citing concerns that he is clinging to power by force and ignoring the voice of people similar marches are being held throughout the country our correspondent sent this report from the city . through the desert for 45 this is how the protests unfolding the independence square people have moved from the monument here in the morning there was a pro-government rally here. but all the people have left now in the square it was fried and like the previous protest that happened here right place on guarding the house of the government there were only barriers that people are even sitting on the only one office that came out and as i understand people not to sit on the barriers because it's dangerous and they could fall and that's about all the people that sean single the familia slogans singing the same songs i can say there's a certain development to a change here. this person has been in power for 26 years he's clung to

it with his teeth and doesn't want to let go. we're against violence we're defending our vote we're doing this for the future of our contrary i want my children not to live in a country which has violence where there is no voice and no freedom of speech i think if i can't agree with what's happening in the country one person is trying to hold on to power by force i'm trying to show everyone that i'm against it and that's why i'm here. at the same time demonstrators in support of the president have taken to the streets of minsk to voice their opinion as well several 1000 people from all over the country gathered earlier on independence square in the capital to show their support for the president the pro-government demonstrators voiced fears about the insecurity of the country saying it's all too familiar to what happened in ukraine in 2014 himself also made an appearance at the demonstrations thanking the people for backing him. because i would prefer

to sit. down like yes i support alexander lukashenko i wasn't forced to come here this is my personal choice. i've heard so many threats but they won't break me i bought the station with my own money no one paid me. i support discipline what's happening now reminds me of ukraine in 2014 everything started in exactly the same way the young people with flowers now just don't understand what was happening here 990 s. perhaps they want to return to $117.00 when people toppled the russian empire in a similar rate and civil war but we want peace and there's a protest was also held outside the bell russian embassy in moscow it's been going on every day this week arches or mancow sort of reports now from the russian

capital. this is the 8th day where we're covering the protests here outside the embassy a bill or is let me just to give you a hint self what is going on this is a live picture you can see people lining up with a white ribbon the with flowers with red and white flags once again this has been happening here for 8 days straight on saturday with so all the largest turnout here as the line of protesters extended beyond the lawn over the last few days with talk to people from all walks of life but this particular protests are caught my attention issues it's a big chanters nobody still waiting for something to happen being anxious and there's nobody looks haitian there is no sense there's a recent piece had to change it feels like there's a trick but you did not know when it will play out today is my wedding anniversary i wanted to you know id see events because you know personal life it's sending points for someone to 3 sent in from other states is that moment nice you ok too

nice in the resources for me uniting the students being as opposed to new life peaceful demonstrations continue in minsk as well where earlier at least 65000 people came out in support of alexander lukashenko now those numbers are according to the interior ministry hours later and and see look at shank o'reilly began that building up with our correspondent in minsk reporting that there are over 100000 people the most recent reports indicate that the city's independence square is filled to near capacity similar scenes have been recorded in other places in belarus as well as pro and anti look at shanker rallies unfolded to meanwhile nato is calling on minsk silat all the peaceful protests to continue and said that they're going to as ation is following the events in belarus very closely the statement came when right out. sir look at shank awards his supporters that's

a nato forces building up their army near the below russian border lithuania's foreign minister was quick to denounce to say that statement saying that it is indeed a lie however president of belarus not exactly the shanker still announced minutes or a drills near the country's western borders. although things appear calmer now in minsk of the beginning of the week as was marred with unrest which left a demonstrator dead video has now emerged reportedly showing the moment of that tragedy and a bit of warning you might find the following footage disturbing and here you can see a group of riot police who are just meters away from the alleged victim shortly after it comes the apparent moment of the protester was killed interior ministry had previously claimed the victim had tried to throw an explosive device at officers

but it went off in his hand let's take a look now at how events unfolded during the week. just take in people that i doing i think. yes i swallowed yes q yes i had come out but i want to leave in a free and peaceful country what would mr you. know much of this mass that is going on can you take his time which. was good so. i think. that a good. many. the belarus authorities have also

been criticized for failing to protect journalists 64 were detained during this week among them reporters working for our g.'s video agency ruptly who spent days behind bars. nearly $7000.00 protesters were detained across the country this week the government began not releasing them on thursday night promising everyone would be freed by friday though it is unclear if that actually happened doctors were among those held. what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where louis is that's the sort of thing they shout at you 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 person white ropes on their knees but then they had a machine. alexander lukashenko has been at the helm of belarus since 1904 but this year's election has been his most challenging archies done quarter comments no. in

bellerose having the title go or daddy means you've got the most populist position in the entire post soviet sphere and for the recently reelected president alexander lukashenko he's held that position for decades. the russians have to hold on to look to even in the most critical situation is a drowning man who catches the straw that you just took my racing to be 90 percent tomorrow paid will be with you like we all know it is not for you to decide for. themselves i envy myself as i am the last and only dictator in europe.

i'm not going to hold this position for a lifetime as soon as the people refuse my services i'll take my bag under my arm and i'm going lucas shank i was on board the populist train before it was cool before politicians like steve bannon and donald trump probably even knew the meaning of the word one of his most recent populist stunts involved the dismissal of bellerose his agricultural minister after the minister's cows failed to gain lucas shank those approval. why did you bring me here so why now tell the security service to put you in handcuffs if the person does not understand that this is auschwitz and you put him in charge of the holding people who did not understand you were to. look at shank as a man of inspections meetings with bureaucrats and reprimands of government officials when the cameras are watching of course this puts a smile on the faces of ordinary people who struggle daily with bureaucratic red tape it's also the main reason why they call the kobach up for many baka is also a strong man who created an enclave of the soviet union. then europe it's been

a popular stance for years but now look at those image is facing some big problems . sure look i shan't go claims he won the election it seems like the security forces are on his side and for a while he only faced small pockets of pro western opposition but based on the brutality used by the police to control the situation arrests made of journalists and the death of a protester it seems like the entire country's view of the government is definitely turning sour. that it's possible lucas shank goes recent anti russia statements alley and made it

his main base of support those who want closer cooperation with bellerose eastern neighbor we need to address the russian media reduce them not to say you know incidents if you would see you need to get into the situation with dignity no gilsey good we have no gold to discredit the country clues to us arresting russian journalists didn't help the situation either. for the west he's always been europe's last dictator even look at shankar himself said he knew people would dispute the election results whatever the case the belorussian president will need to father more support if he wants to remain at the head of the table a number of countries have condemned what they called a rigged election and of the heavy handed response of the police the e.u. has voiced its plans to sanction those responsible for the violence and what it called the fall something cation of election results some analysts we spoke to are

drawing parallels to what happened in ukraine in 2014 while others said dialogue remains key. there are very strong similarities. laid out but i tell you better what happened praise we had a very civil it's already got a color so i take a pretty successful color prevalent in the slavia the united states like the mind of many western countries with whatever happens so it's a loss of which way and it will be illegitimate we had the same rhetoric coming out of the west as we're getting here that the government that was told it couldn't really respond to any protests against even if they turned violent and that's what we're seeing so it's kind of really that we've seen many times before and it doesn't end well that the thing that the previous thought it did 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 new news on who should be president. is anxious to avoid not only the kind of violence or people who saw ukraine in february 2014 because of the problems of ukraine has

had ever since and i think for those of us who want to see a peaceful 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 fall close that new then do risk civil war civil conflict which is after all what has been set parts of ukraine ever since because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided the hair a lack of strategic vision of the situation overthrown governmental side it would be wise to ask the opposition to the 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. coming up with a program russia this week announced. it had approved the world's 1st seemed the job is already in production however scientists around the globe have rung the alarm over the speed of development more on that story after a short break this is the week we on our team international. join me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to get a little bit politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for and let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic to follow through the only

closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days becomes agitated and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back this is our to international and the weekly russia this week claimed a world 1st saying it had approved a covert a vaccine for use named sputnik v

u forty's confirmed a work was on now underway for its mass production however huge concerns have been expressed around the world over the need of the development amid fears russia has cut huge corners in the race against the corona virus no mass testing has yet been carried out and no details published about the vaccines effectiveness 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 tri tested and safe 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. because. our foreign colleagues who probably want to kind of competitive advantage over the russians

acceding are offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken accelerated decisions in their back seen studies but the russian vaccine has already seen a distinct clinical trials and evidence. the vaccine was developed to add moscow's . institute. medical workers teachers and those considered to be and other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it they release it to the general public is set for the new year the developers say around 2000 people will get in the new job shortly as trials continue. more than 1000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested from different countries or around the globe orders mostly came from asia and the middle east. kill dimitri have the head of the russian sovereign wealth fund investing in the country's research outlined more details about the new jap. welcome the russians

people as a wall the very body are tools of virus a very tired of the restrictions of very tired old the refused to come on. those are fags one of the contras is approved in which we believe this very state very active rate was that if. all your people now have better hope to resume a normal life as a vaccination. well i am confident enough that they were injected myself my wife it was your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science finds a vaccine so russia great story. has developed very successful in all overseen and more sexy and then basically kind of virus just proved to be very similar to mars so we could great science and will

likely that there is a job has been done really applied very closely it was a fight they're not hiring it's beneficial for russian because you. everything will be almost i've seen the day in those a 100 percent all the lights years elop very strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals for is where is the level of immunity. it will produce stronger immune response going forward we believe because all the ones who counsels do it for and at the number i respect there is a little it was a big scene and that means that our vaccine response will last longer hopefully it will be more than a year our scientists believe that years but of course for this effect. will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. and ever since people are starting to recede from asian about how we're seeing it more and more

interest but frank a lot of western media outlets a lot access to our information so i think now we have break ins through this information bear is it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go because there's outside to learn about the exchange the more countries become interested even today with the age of onset and by israel serbia elude us though brazil who are interested who or the russian books you know work with us on. this week of beirut was grabbed by large anti-government protests and following the massive explosion on august the 4th of that killed more than 200 people the lebanese government including the prime minister have resigned over the disaster although they are still acting as caretakers protesters blame incompetence by the authorities for the blast they stormed the government buildings demanding proper accountability for the explosion that destroyed so many lives along with swathes of

the lebanese capital. outlet. for. her. thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded on that fateful day leveling the port area thousands were injured in the explosion it is overwhelming at beirut's health system which was already a grappling with the pandemic scores of buildings were damaged or destroyed leaving up 230-0000 people homeless. the number of course the numbers of course don't give the full picture of how many lives there are now changed forever it's an added

tragedy for one family already dealing with their daughter's cancer they were in the hospital when the blast struck the father didn't survive artie's been hearing their 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 love you oh you know you are you know i love 6 you i love you these summer months have always been synonymous with joy and celebration for us who has family in the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sunny 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 and i knew that it was lymphoma 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 him to 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 drove for me and around. it's circle. she she color that was red i knew it's her there. 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's going with happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august. so. 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 suhas biggest concern now is her daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings. she told them here was listening i 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. her says. can you imagine the images in her brave passing whenever she closes her eyes so you are find redemption and believe in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you

know whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when he's around i don't gossip or market i don't do anything for the house to fix care of everything everything here's a think a lot of clothes from my shoulder. 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 more of those who know in this and don't know is forever is about the 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 sue her realizes 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 a frozen. 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 to cater on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the business my link her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon r

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