it's monday morning on r t. t government supporters of leader alexander lukashenko held their 1st rally since the disputed presidential election in a peaceful climax the week of protests modified by the. caps they want to return to 117000 people topple the russian empire and civil war this is a celebration of freedom we dump this dictatorship i support alexander lukashenko this is my personal choice yeah we changing history. pushing to make reforms in lebanon the condition for the release of financial support for the country struggles to recover from the deadly blast in beirut. to germany a grim paedophilia case gets underway

a 43 year old is accused of abusing his own baby daughter and sharing videos of his crimes. you're watching are to international thanks for joining us. now we will start with bellary square hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the country in peaceful demonstrations on sunday the capital minsk 1st so i rally of supporters of the country's leader alexander lukashenko it was the 1st public gathering of his backers since the disputed results of the recent presidential election were announced a bit later in the day opposition protesters held a huge march for freedom through the capital and other belorussian cities they accuse of clinging on to power by rigging the election while the head of the opposition movement us from atlanta says that she's ready to assume power. ok let's

get an update now from altie correspondent of mine cautiously through the by the russian embassy here in moscow the morning remonde last week we saw violence of the stall it moved on to a very large piece would have been stray sions so where does it look as though this situation of others has had a. full 1st of all of the rally in support of the protesters and killers has been taking place here outside of the country's embassy for over a week already and for from the numbers in belarus was all the largest certain out here just this past weekend as people voiced their anger at the results of the election in the builders and the in suing violence as well throughout the week here was sold both anti and roll the schenkel protesters as you can see right now it's morning monday morning and not

a lot of people here actually just the police and some reporters but we are expecting a rally here after business hours and meanwhile diesel demonstrations continue in minsk where on a sunday at least 65000 people came out in support off alexander lukashenko that's those numbers are courting to the interior ministry look at schenkel supposed to use a supporters at length and thank them for their dedication now for many have belorussians somewhat over a father figure who took the country out of the abyss back in the ninety's though some are a not very happy with his 26 year tenure now the european union and nato both supported to peaceful opposition protests and said that the election in bill reuss was neither free nor it was fair also calling for personal sanctions

against all those. sponsible for rigging then action and that violation all fight human rights now when addressing his the supporters of leadership to said that said the election in villa reuss will not be rerun now if that happens he said that would mean the death of a nation that's i just. remember. her . my grandmother yes it is and 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 suppose 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 die under stand what was happening here 990 s. perhaps they want to return to 117 when people toppled the russian empire in a similar rate and civil war but we want peace. now just hours later and and to look at shanksville rally began the building up in minsk as the city's independence square was filled to capacity as well as some other places in the russian capital of course a similar similar events unfolded elsewhere in billings as set up role and day until the shekel rally began spreading and now while there were reports all for our wrists however the shills the dismissed all those claims saying that's the old the office for the work he's there now our correspondents it is working in minsk and she sent us this report.

people talked about her. this is how the protests unfolding now one independent square people have moved from the monument to here in the morning there was a pro-government rally here for lucas shanker but all the people have left now in the square was fried unlike the previous protests that happened here right place on guarding the house of the government there only barriers that people are even sitting on the only one office that came out and as i understand asked people not to sit on the barriers because it's dangerous and they could fold and that's about all the people are chanting all the familiar 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. we are against violence we're defending our vote 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 in

which now we're changing history blood was build and the people will never forget that that's why i came here i have an obligation to be here it's my duty that's what this is a celebration of freedom we've dumped this dictatorship because franco is no longer in charge power has been taken by those who deserve it the people of belarus. well you still threatening meds because sanctions over the election and the ensuing crackdown discussed what kind of deterrent they proved to be. there will probably never be another election with mr no question about the people that really found out that shows it's very scary to see what could happen you know as a comparison with our 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 of sanctions i'm not sure they will impose them they speak of sanctions it seems that the protests against look i think or have quite strong support from outside bailout or was if

you look at the media reports in the western countries you can see a clear sympathy for the protesters against shanku you see all over the claims that the elections have been raped but no clear proven evidence has been giving you can see all over the same structures the same the same procedures as in all the color revolutions of the past 20 years you can see a quarter of a fist 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 or while it will depend on both sides that would be reasonable or questionable to be undoing what he hasn't done for the last 26 years

and that has to be given the original scores that such some procedures we couldn't close so what he does of the document political document around himself is addressed on corruption that's not to say that the government is entirely blameless hasn't made mistakes and so on but the idea in the westerlies only because he's a is a dictator he simply ruled on the other hand as we know from many countries in the world in the west in the east government. that lot always popular with everybody in the interests of everybody supporters of the government and opposition to the government sure everybody should behave in a sense the constitutional flush the lowest cost solution about what might be a reason the solution that everybody can live with. the lebanese president michel aoun is adamant that he won't resign calls for him to go been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut sporter earlier in the month last week the lebanese cabinet including the pm resigned amid protests with

people blaming the tragedy on government incompetence in more recovery efforts are underway in beirut to the disasters but added strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community had played some $300000000.00 in aid to lebanon blast itself killed $178.00 people injured thousands and made 300000 homeless. in the meantime the united states says its own pledge of financial support to lebanon following the port blast will depend on the country's reforms to tackle corruption as artist on a quarter explains now american officers help aren't always what they sing. massive explosions in beirut your hassan rest in its wake and it got to. lebanon chaos capital in ruins and leaders across the world have no doubt opened up the foreign aid relief valve as a result countries like germany the u.k. and even the u.s.

have stepped in to help out but when you accept money from washington you need to read the fine print when we see lebanese leaders committed to real change change in word and deed america and its international partners will respond to systemic reforms a sustained financial support of course mr hale forgot to mention that u.s. sanctions are what many to believe the key cause of lebanon's economic woes but there is always someone who remembers. you have seen some countries hypocritically trying to portray themselves as defenders of the lebanese people and expressing sympathy for the lebanese people if they are honest they should remove the sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels and at 1st donald trump said he'd be willing to give coronavirus aid to iran if it asked for it then when the country needed a $5000000000.00 loan from the i.m.f. to deal with the pandemic washington protested for some reason even the united

nations called on the u.s. to lift its sanctions against the country only to get a big fat no from pompei oh i've heard people talking about sanctions there know that the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance medical supplies pharmaceuticals from going to iran and war torn syria it's a similar story washington announced a nearly $1000000000.00 increase in 2020 humanitarian assistance at the very same time that it was creating a brand new sanctions regime against the country we are maintaining our maximum political and economic pressure to suspend the imposition of the sanctions the government of syria must meet similar conditions to go. for a country in crisis it's not really difficult to get humanitarian aid from washington what they usually have to give in return however might not be that worth it. the child sex abuse trial is underway in germany in a case that has lifted the lid on a large paedophile ring the main suspect as have been accused of abusing his own

baby daughter filming his crimes and sharing the videos with a network of tens of thousands of all of the reports. lost or some place were called to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against a child at a home near to cologne that resulted in a discovery of terabytes of images and videos of sexual abuse of 43 year old man is on trial. the main suspect named only as a new york worked in the hotel industry lived in a typical street in a typical suburb near to cologne he's accused of making and sharing images of abuse

online in a network of paid of files that could spawn tens of thousands neighbors of the accused have been left stunned by the claims. his house is right on my daughter's way to school and she sort of prayed to god side we said she should no longer go on supervised when she's outside i often call for hot check that everything's ok that i get this is crazy especially when it's your own father when he abuses and sells his children i only hope that they will be punished by judging by our german legislation in recent years the perpetrators will go unpunished while the one who was harmed will be punished that's how it is with us now it's all a mess but they should publish the names of these people because that would scare them off the investigation is also had an impact on the place who had to watch and continue to troll through thousands of images and videos of child abuse 3 of the officers involved had to be placed on sick leave due to the impact of the content.

i think images and videos like these are always going to leave their mark and those who watch them even experienced investigators the trial in cologne is just the 1st of what may be many related to the home search last october investigators have established as many as $30000.00 potential identities and pseudonyms of perpetrators later this month a 38 year old man will appear in court and wiis barton charged with $291.00 offenses including serious sexual assault and distribution of child pornography all linked to this case in cologne peter all over r.t. . new research has found that facebook not only tolerates but actually promotes holocaust denial in searches we'll bring you more details on that story after this short break.

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based counter extremist organization found the platform's algorithm promotes holocaust denial and unison with holocaust survivors so over the world research is the raging facebook to ban that type of content. this misses the reason why people engage in holocaust denial in the 1st place denial of the holocaust is a deliberate tool used to dealing minds the suffering of the jewish people and but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred research by the i.d.f. another $36.00 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial with a combined total of more than 300000 subscribers the group also found searching the term holocaust in facebook returned similar content level similar criticisms against twitter read it and you tube facebook says it removes false content only if it amounts to hate speech we remove groups in pages that discuss holocaust denial

from recommendations and references to it in search productions while we do not take down content simply for being on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed into law expert eric cohen says that it's facebook stuti to protect every member of the community the fact that facebook. is classifying holocaust denial is legitimate political conversation is quite frightening thing touches on the whole caused should be banned from social media for this simple reason that it actively promotes hate it promotes violence against jewish people it should be. removed from any website that bullet boards to be a website for the people at large facebook is not designed for a very nice type of people it is made for the entire wall to the entire community

and is such mr zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. jewish people as well. the future of thousands of british students is up in the air made a scandal over how their exam grades were determined the results are critical for entry to university many received though lower grades than expected after exams were scrapped because of the pandemic and to add insult to injury the appeals process whereby students can have their grades reconsidered has just also been scrapped with a level examinations council nationwide grades were based on teacher's predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of a school's overall track record and this led to 39 percent available results being downgraded from predictions state schools especially from poor regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom in high marks the whole fiasco the spark student protests across england

hundreds of students held a demo in central london demanding the resignation of the education secretary gavin williamson accused the system of being classist exams regulators said that there was no evidence that a bias in the system by mr boris johnson defended the results calling them robust we spoke to one student. this is not fair i know that if i don't my i would do better than what i have got now i think i would i would shift it should have a big impact with their. fate in our final fried they know. more than any computer system does or any minister does i think that the students who are in private schools and who live in more educated areas where they have a chance of getting the higher grades in the appeal system isn't the best we don't know when we're going to get our final results back it's going to be in time for me to go to university so i don't have to see that exit time. 2 offices have been

hospitalized after being hit by a rock thrown by black lives matter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke grenades on demonstrators allegedly sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office . i. think. hundreds again came out in portland to protest against police 2 hours of relative calm some started to throw rocks and tried to storm the unfortunate property and demonstrated outside game of moment county sheriff's office the small b. 860 tonight at 90 racism and anti police demonstrations in this.

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confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development is only going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. 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 then we'll be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past star studded season stay safe coming up in this episode it was a strange connection with animals i connect with people with with animals that small mind to mind one of the world's most famous conservationists

jane goodall tells going underground that finger wagging at china from elites won't stop the global industrial farming practices and environmental destruction that may cause the next pandemic only some more coming up on today's going underground but 1st to a scientist who has transformed our definition of humanity itself while leaders like boris johnson and donald trump attempt to reignite new liberal economics after coronavirus the pioneering primatologist dr jane goodall argues we need mastery education about what it is to be human without that education promoted in $140.00 countries by n.g.o.s roots and shoots we are condemned just suffer not just coronavirus but one pandemic after another she joins me now via skype from bournemouth in england jane thanks so much for coming on everyone here is talking about restarting the economy the u.s. and u.k. saying we've got to fight china yet few people really talking about environmental

or industrial farming what do you make of the origin of coronavirus. well you know i obviously personally haven't studied the transmission of barristers from animals to people as so-called zoonotic diseases but i've read an awful lot about it it's very clear that most new diseases in people today have spilled over from bacteria or in this case of iris from animals sometimes it goes from a reservoir speed to another animal which ystem the intermediate host and from that down i'm allowed to people and we brought this on ourselves because of our terrible disrespect of the natural world and animals and so you know we take wild animals we kill them eat them we trafficked them we send them to meet markets in asia well marked animal meat markets in asia and meat the bush meat

trade animals also meat markets in africa and we breathe down domestic animals billions of them in terrible cruel. you know conditions and all of this terrible conditions in the meat markets and our factory farms are creating absolutely super environments as far as that this is a 2nd sound to animals to people who move to the markets there no less than a celebrity like support mccartney who is quick to say we must close the wet markets down i notice you've been keen to emphasise the difference between wet markets per se and wildlife markets perhaps seeking not to oriental eyes this pandemic yes well the thing is the point about a wet market is that most wet markets in china don't sell wild animals they're more like.