huge anti-government demonstrations continuous dello russo after last week's contested presidential election which saw alexander look at and go secure a 6th term in office. this person has been in power for 26 years he's longstreet with his teeth and doesn't want to let. meanwhile protesters also take to the streets in support of their under-fire leader. i support alexander lukashenko i wasn't forced to come here this is my personal choice. and in the other stories that shape of the week the russian.

government begins mass production of it's a new cold bit of vaccine claiming it is a world 1st but many scientists around the globe expressed alarm fearing puget corners have been cut. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. a week after the hugely contested presidential election belarus is 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 have held their march of for freedom a rally through there demanding that longtime president alexander lukashenko resign

claiming that he is clinging to power by force and ignoring people's wishes similar marches are being held across the country our correspondent reports now from the capital. through the desert for 45 this is how the protests unfolding now in independence square people have moved from the money went to him in the morning there was a pro-government rally here lucas shanker but all the people of left now in the square was freed unlike the previous protest that happened here right place on guarding the house of the government there only buried its national guard people there even sitting on this one office that came out and as i understand people not to sit on the areas because it's dangerous and they could full force and that's about all the people are chanting live familias slogans singing the same songs i can't say there's a certain development or 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 it go i think. we're

against violence we're defending our boate we're doing this for the future of our country i want my children not to live in a country which has violence where there is no voice and no freedom of speech thank you 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. demonstrators have also taken to the streets of minsk thousands of from all over belorussia gathered on independence square to voice fears and that opposition violence could escalate like in ukraine in 2014 himself appeared at the rally to thank people for their support. them good sort of. going to your coming her.

way out of it yes but 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 still shit with my own money no one paid me. i support disability 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 when people toppled the russian empire in a similar way and civil war but we want peace a protest is also being held every day outside the bella russian embassy in moscow robin kosar 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 hand self what's going on this is a live picture you can see people lining up with the white ribbon the flowers

with the 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 that long over the last few days with talk to people from all walks of life but this particular protests are caught my attention issues and it's a big chance there's nobody still waiting for something to happen being anxious and there's nobody looks haitian there is no sense there's various pieces had to show it feels like there's a trick but you do not know when it will play out today is my wedding anniversary i wanted to you know id see events because you know a personal life it's turning point for someone to 3 sets in for motorists this is the moment he's you ok tonight he's in the resources for me uniting the students being as opposed to new life peaceful demonstrations continue in minsk as well where earlier 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 shango rally began it 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 shankar rallies unfolded meanwhile nato is calling on men silat all the peaceful protests to continue and said that they're going to as ation is following the events in bella ruse very closely the statement came when right out. cira look at shank award to his supporters that's a nato forces on a building up but they are army and near the bill a russian border lithuania's foreign minister was quick to denounce that say that

statement saying that it is indeed a lie however president of belarus site exotica shankar still announced military drills near the country's western borders. although things appear calmer now in minsk of the beginning of the week was marred with unrest which left a demonstrator dead video has now emerged to reportedly showing the moment of the tragedy and a bit of a warning you might find the following footage disturbing here you can see a group of riot police who are just a few meters away from the alleged victim shortly after comes the moment the apparent moment the protester was killed. 3 had previously claimed that the victim had tried to throw an explosive device in officers but that it went off in his hand let's take a look at how events unfolded during the week. i. just say can people. really. yes i swallowed yes

q yes i've come out but i wanted to leave in a free and peaceful calm and you knew. how much of this mass that's going on can you take the time to tell. me what. was so sick. i. was a little bit. but it was. the belarus authorities have also been criticized for failing to protect journalists 64 were detained during this week among them reporters working for artie's a video agency ruptly who spent days behind bars. nearly 7000 protesters were

detained across the country this week the government began releasing them on thursday night promising everyone would be freed by friday though it is unclear if that actually happened docked. were among those. what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where will this is that's the sort of thing they shouted at 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 shocked the person white ropes on their knees with a machine gun to the head of. how xander who has been at the helm of belarus since 1994 but this year's election has been his most challenging artie's done quarter looks at the shift in support. in fellow roosts 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 look at shank oh he's held the position for decades.

who shot the russians have to hold on to look even in the most critical situation as a travelling man to catch a stroll that you just a good deal my raising to be 90 percent tomorrow will be with you like we all know it is not up to you to decide for. themselves i envy myself but 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 gone. 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 belarus as agricultural minister after the minister's cows failed to gain lucas shank those approval. what did you. bring me here so why now tell the security service to put you in handcuffs the person does not understand that this is auschwitz and you put him in charge of the holding people who did not understand he was tool. is 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 it a shame kobach up for many baka is also a strong man who created an enclave of the soviet union within 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 belarus is eastern neighbor we need to address the russian media reduce them not to say no incidents if you will see you need to get into the situation with dignity you know you'll see 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 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 falsification of election results some analysts that we spoke to are drawing parallels to what happened in ukraine in 2014 while others said dialogue remains key. there are very strong similarities he laid out but i tell you better what happened praise we had a very civil it's got a color code it takes a pretty successful color prevalent in this lobby of 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 rejected let's 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 20 protests against even if they turn violent that's what we're seeing so it's kind of going to that we've seen many times before and it doesn't end well that we think that the previous thought that it did well for the people of your great probably the better comparison is with ukraine in 2004 was the time of the so-called orange revolution because 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 ukrainian february 2014 because you know the problems in the ukraine has had ever since and i think for those of us who want to see a peaceful like a legitimate democratic outcome for the 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 clothes that new then do risk civil war civil conflict which is after all what

has been sacked parts of ukraine ever since because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided of the hair a lack of strategic vision of the situation overthrowing the governmental side it would be wise to ask the opposition to the least of their interests so why they are so keen to get rid of the president lucas and opposition should also try to find a way to be integrated into into into legal political process drive to suggest something that is acceptable to the government. coming up in the program russia this weekend. it had approved the world's 1st covert vaccine the job is already in production now however scientists around the globe have rung the alarm over the speed of development one that story after the short break this is the weekly on archie international.

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. welcome back this is a weekly on our to international now this week i'm a rude was gripped by large anti-government protests following the massive explosion on august in the 4th of the 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 to government buildings demanding proper accountability for the explosion that destroyed so many lives along with swathes of

the lebanese capital. i. thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded on that fateful day leaving leveling the port area thousands were injured in the explosion it is overwhelming at beirut's health system which was already grappling with the pandemic scores of buildings were damaged or destroyed leaving up 230-0000 people homeless. the numbers of course don't give the full picture of how many lives were and changed forever and it is 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 or t. has 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 sue his family 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 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 i didn't see any and anything but i wanted to put his head like this i felt that all smashed all all so much that i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul leaving his body i saw it but i've answered i want to move on to another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to

win 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 dead. 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. my love. 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 a but 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 brave passing whenever she closes her eyes. suah finds redemption and relief in family pictures now as she relives of 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 was at around i don't gossip or

markets i don't do anything for the house to fix care of everything everything here's a think a lot of lords 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. this you know in this little room and don't know it's whatever is above the 1. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. what i'm going to.

give when they're in 3rd when they smell his clothes his meter not removing his clothes from the house i'm not going to remove them but sue who 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 frozen. unicorn because a lot about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because when you're going to take this medication your head is going to fall down you're going to lose your hair so what i can do 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 bill smiling her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon r.t. . russia this week a claim to

a world 1st saying it had approved a covert vaccine for use named sputnik v the authorities confirmed that work was now under way for its mass production however huge concerns have been expressed around the world over the speed of the development amid fears russia has cut huge corners in the race against the crown a virus no mass testing has yet been carried out and no details published about 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 vaccine or offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken accelerated decisions in their vaccine studies but the russian vaccine has already seen a distinct clinical trials and evidence. that the vaccine it was developed at moscow's institute of medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to to receive it they release it to the general public is set for the new year the developers say around 2000 people will get the new job shortly as trials continue more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested from different countries across the globe orders mostly came from asia and the middle east carol dimitri i.v. head of the russian sovereign wealth fund investing in the country's research

outlined more details about the new vaccine. welcome the russians people as a wall to vary by their tools a virus a very tired of the restrictions of very tired tones they refused to come on. those are fags one of the contras is approved of x. in which we believe this very state very active rape was it if a month of all the people now have a better hope to resume a normal life as a vaccination. well i am confident enough to inject good looks in myself my wife my of and your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science behind the vaccines though russia great story knowledge of books you can get money interest groups has developed very successful in all of our seeing and merced pixie and then basically current virus just proved

to be very similar the merce though we had great science and will likely that there is a good has been done really applied where 8 blows a lead goes a fight they're not hiring you tend to chill for russian because. everything will be almost i've seen to date i know as a 100 percent always a line cheers elop for a strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals for as you bias the level of immunity. it will produce a stronger immune response going forward but we believe because only ones who have those 2 different than the virus vectors is a miller was a vaccine and that means that our books in response will last longer hopefully it will be more than a year all scientists believe that years but of course physicist act. will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. and ever since people

were starting to receive permission about a week see if more and more interest but franco also western media outlets lost access to all information so i think now we have break ins through this information be there is it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go because there's a will cycle on the files of x. more countries become interested even today we showed. them by israel serbia it's over it's still cool interest who was the russian books you know war is awesome i'll be back in about 30 minutes with another look at the weekly this is our 2 international.

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