huge anti-government demonstrations continue after last week's contested presidential election which saw alexander lukashenko secure a 6th term in office. says this person has been in power for 26 years. and he doesn't want. meanwhile protesters are also taking to the streets in support of the under-fire leader. i support alexander lukashenko i wasn't forced to come here this is my personal choice. i mean the story of the week russia begins mass production of its new code

. claiming it's a world 1st but many scientists around the globe express alarm huge corners have been cut. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international certainly glad to have you with us let's get right back to our top story. 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 just meters apart. opposition protesters have held a march for freedom rally 3 men are demanding that longtime president alexander lukashenko resign claiming he is clinging to power by force and ignoring people's

wishes similar marches are being held across the country our correspondent reports from the capital. thank you all the desert for 45 this is how the protests unfolding now in independence square people have moved from the monument to here in the morning there was a pro-government rally here lucas shanker but all the people of life 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 asked people not to sit on the barriers because it's dangerous and they could fall and that's about all the people are chanting all the familia 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 go i think. we're

against violence we're defending our vote we're doing the best 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 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. to show the demonstrators have also taken to the streets of minsk thousands from all over belarus gathered on independence square to voice fears that opposition violence could escalate like in that ukraine in 2014 himself appeared at the rally to thank people for their support. for some sort of predecessor. going to your. reality 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 steel. 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 in 1900 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 and protests is also being held every day outside the bella russian embassy in moscow among kosar of reports 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 himself 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 was still the largest turnout here as the line of protesters extended beyond that long over the last few days because talk to people from all walks of life but this particular protests are caught my attention issues it's a big chair there's nobody for you waiting for something to happen being anxious and there is nobody like sation there is no sense there's very space had to shift it feels like there's a trick but you did not know when it will play out today's my wedding anniversary i wanted to you know i.d.c. events because you know personal life it's turning point to 3 sent in from other states is the moment he seemed ok tonight he's in the resources for me uniting the students he was supposed to new life peaceful demonstrations continue in minsk as well where our 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 shango rally 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 shankar rallies unfolded to 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 below 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 minutes or a drills near the country's western borders. although things appear calmer now in minsk the beginning of the week was marred with on rest which left a demonstrator dead video has now emerged reportedly showing the moment of the tragedy now a bit of a warning you might find some of the following that 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 apparent moment the protester was killed interior ministry had previously claimed that the victim had tried to throw an explosive device at officers but it went off in his hand now let's take a look at how the events unfolded during the week. i . just take in people that are doing nothing was c really. yes i swallowed yes q yes i've come out but i want to leave in

a free and peaceful calm peaceful news. outlet. how much of this mass this is going on can you take the. leap. it was not so sure. i. was. but it was. the bellers authorities have also been criticised for failing to protect journalists 64 were detained during the week among various reporters working for artie's video agency ruptly who spent days behind bars. nearly 7 purchasers 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 doctors were among those being held. what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where this is that's the sort of thing they shout at you and a lot of swear words but i don't want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held in the street everyone driving by was shocked person white ropes on their knees with the head of the. alexander lukashenko has been at the helm of 1904 but this year's election has been his most challenging quarter takes a look at the shift in support. 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 look at shank oh he's held the position for decades.

the loser who shot the russians have to hold on to look even in the most critical situation as a drowning man who catches the straw that you just took my racing to be 90 percent tomorrow it 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. 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. when did you bring me here so why now tell the security service to put you in handcuffs with a 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. within europe it's been a popular stance for years but now look at those image is facing some big problems . sure look at shank oh 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 you know incidents if you would you'll 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.

to 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 responses of the police now the e.u. has voiced its plan to sanction those responsible for the violence and what it called the falsification of election results some analysts we spoke to are saying that sanctions from evil might need just a threat but not real action while others said negotiation between the opposition and the government remains key. they will probably never be another election with mr lucas now people are already fed up that shows it's very scary to see what could happen you know as a comparison with with ukraine though the situation is completely different i don't

think the sanctions would work they don't work you know we all know that but that's the only thing the european union has so they speak. i'm not sure they will impose them they speak of sanctions it seems that the protests against shrink or have quite strong support from outside if you look at the media reports in the western countries you can see a clear sympathy for the protesters against. you see all over the claims that the elections have been raped but no clear proof and evidence has been giving you can see all over the same structures the same the same procedures in all the color revolutions of the past 20 years you can see a quarter thirst which is like a trademark for foreign interventions rich in change operations so this is really alarming and we should look quite closely at this critical point.

whether they are what nature. or while it will depend on. the regional or shared goal here in doing what he has all done for the last 26 years and that has to be the grid. for success some procedures would be put in place so those are the guys who have gotten around himself is addressed corruption that's not to say that the government is entirely blameless hasn't made mistakes and so on but the only deer in the west are these only because he's a he's a dictator he simply rolled on the other and as we know from many countries in the world in the west in the east governments that are not always popular with everybody else in the interests of everybody supporters of the government and opposition to the government for everybody to behave in a sense for the constitutional flesh and it costs to look at a sheet about what might be a reason the solution that everybody can live with. 2 officers have been

hospitalized after being hit by a massive rock thrown by black lives matter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke a grenades as some of the hundreds of demonstrators allegedly gratified graffitied excuse me the sheriff's office. says. hundreds have come out in portland to again protest against police after 2 hours of relative calm some started throwing rocks and tried to storm law enforcement property that came as many demonstrated outside the normal county sheriff's office that marked the a.t.f.

consecutive night of anti-racism an anti-police demonstrations in the city. this week a beirut was gripped by large anti-government protests following of the massive explosion on august 4th they killed more than 200 people. the lebanese government including the prime minister have resigned over the disaster though they are still acting as caretakers 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. it. was.

as you can see behind me the protesters have started a fire and they throwing rocks and bits of pavement at the police officers and the army on the other side now the army has been responding with tear gas at which point the crowd this side surges back and this comes as the numbers of missing suddenly turns into. sami's and i sang tens of people did we're not hearing the sounds of tear gas so the crowd is starting to move backwards the fear is that any moment the situation here and i can i can actually smell to get the situation is becoming increasingly felt dangerous practice time is the army has a lot of tear gas in the air they've managed to push the protesters so they're away from the parliament building and down the streets and there is the least oh of a smell of tear gas in the air as you can see the riot police and the army are in

full gear they're taking this seriously they have been accused of excessive force and they've admitted that they have used knives ammunition and tear gas in the process of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded on that fateful day leveling of the port area thousands were injured in the explosion it's overwhelming beirut's health system which was already grappling with the pandemic scores of buildings were damaged or destroyed leading up 230-0000 people homeless. and of the numbers of course don't give the full picture of how many lives there are changed forever now 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 too 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 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 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 suha 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 so much that 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 and 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 sing 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 they 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 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 have i feel secured even when he's around i don't go so far marcus i don't do anything for the house who takes 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 through. her. oh am i supposed to put. this you know in this little room and don't know there is forever is about a 1. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. what i'm going to. this gives and then 3rd 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 though as 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 or so you would wear decatur on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the business my link her and her brother. it was done of reporting from lebanon r.t. . russia this week claimed a world 1st as saying it had approved a covert vaccine for use named v the authorities confirmed work was now under way for its mass production however huge concerned have been expressed around the world over the speed of the development amid fears russia has cut 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 of 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. that would be. our foreign colleagues who probably want to kind of competitive advantage over the russians acceding or offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken excel already 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 institute medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it i release it to the general public is said for new years 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 of the head of the russian foreign sovereign wealth fund investing in the country's research outlined more details about the new vaccine. what the russians are people of the wall the very body or tools the virus very tired of the restrictions of very tired all the refuse to come on. those are one of the countries.

in which we believe this very very active rate of. people now have better hope. there's a vaccination. well i'm confident enough that the injected legacy 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 so russia great historic knowledge of books you can get money interest groups has developed very successful all of it seeing and mercy and then basically current virus just proved to be very similar the merce so we've had great science and will likely that there is a good have been done really applied where 8 loza lead was a fight they're not hiring the dental for auction because. everything will be fall in almost i've seen to date i know that 100 percent always

a line cheers elop for strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals forest fires to level of immunity. it will produce stronger immune response going forward but we believe we are slowly once who have those 2 different than the virus vectors as it was used billet was a vaccine and that means that our machine responds will last longer hopefully it will be in more than a year all scientists believe that years but of course physicists act. will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. ever since people were starting to receive permission about a week more and more interest but frankel also western media outlets logged 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 as they go because

there's a cycle or involves election more countries become interested even today we showed . them by israel served us oh brazil who interest who. was the russian but she don't work with us on this our team international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race. spitting dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.