in today's headlines belarus hosts its largest ever anti-government march while supporters of alex on a look at all their 1st rally since the disputed presidential election a peaceful climax to a week of protests by violence perhaps they want to return to 117 when people toppled the russian empire and civil war this is a celebration of the freedom to dump these dictators if you are supported alexander lukashenko this is my personal choice now we're changing history. also this hour washington makes reforms and lebanon a condition for the release of financial support as the country struggles to recover from the deadly blast and the route. and in germany a grim pedophile case gets under way in 43 year old is accused of abusing his own

baby daughter and sharing videos of his crimes with a network of thousands. this is our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start with bell roofs where another day of nationwide strikes is underway thousands upon thousands of workers have downed tools with many taking to the streets across the country they have no financial demands but are calling for a rerun of the recent presidential election and vowed to maintain their strike until their demand is met for a defiant alex and a look said there would be no fresh elections and political change may come but not under duress from protests and rallies some state run t.v. employees have also joined the strike though others are refusing to go against the current government meanwhile the head of the opposition movement. says she's ready

to assume power on sunday in minsk saw a rally in support of lucas franco 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 though through the capital and other belorussian cities think is a shadow of clinging on to power by rigging the election here's our tears from on closer with a quick recap. full 1st of all of the rally in support of the protesters and villagers has been taking place here outside of the country's embassy for over a week already and although for from the numbers in bellew's was sold 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 the violence as well throughout the week here was sold both anti and roll schank old protesters as you can see

right now it's morning monday morning and a lot of people here are just the police and some reporters but we are expecting a rally here after business hours and meanwhile be settled in a stray sions continued in minsk where on a sunday at least 65000 people came out in support all that xander lukashenko that's those numbers are courting to the interior ministry look at schenkel spoke to his supporters at the length and thank them for their dedication now for many a belorussians look at shankly somewhat older father figure who took the country out of the abyss back in the ninety's those some are and not very happy with his 26 year tenure.

around here it is not that i support alexander lukashenko. i wasn't forced to come here this is my personal choice. i thought so many threats but they won't break me i bought the station with my own money no one paid me or really just wanted you to know i suppose discipline what's happening now reminds me of ukraine in 2014 everything started in the 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 now just hours later and antilock the shank already began the build 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 bill a ruse as droll and angela the schenkel rally began spreading and now there were reports all 4 arrests however officials that dismissed all those claims salah saying that so all of the demonstrations were peaceful now our correspondent said is working in minsk and he sent us this report. 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 have left now in the square it was fried unlike the previous protest that happened here right place on guarding the house of the government there only barrier stance because people there even sitting on this committee one office that came out and as i understand people not to sit on the barriers because it's dangerous and they could full and that's about all of them which people in chongqing live familias slogans singing the same

songs i can say there's a certain development to a change here the city do not need to. this person has been in power for 26 years. he's clung with his teeth and doesn't want to let go and when we are against violence we're defending our vote we're doing the best for the future of our contrie i want my children not to live in a country which has violence where there is no voice and no freedom of speech 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 up for this is a celebration of freedom we've dumped these dictatorship because franco is no longer in charge power has been taken by those who deserve it the people of bell are. the leaders of major parties in the e.u. parliament are urging minsk to rerun the presidential election in addition brussels is threatening sanctions over the disputed vote and the ensuing crackdown our guest

discussed what kind of deterrent they may prove to be. the company was not worried about certainly there was an economic problem upcoming i think it's no longer relevant for the discussions that are taking place here and of course everyone it is now focused on one single issue and that is that all those an election should go away so those who are take an active part in those strikes and as we can see by developments in the last several days and particularly today the number of those who are ready to protest by taking part in strikes is growing and growing very rapidly but they will probably never be another election with mr no question about the people are already fed up it 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 from crane 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 the ladder was 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 proven evidence has been giving you can see all over at the same structures the same the same procedures as in all the color revolutions of the past 20 years you can see of the hearts 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 nuts not to say that the government is entirely blameless so hasn't made mistakes and so on but the only deer in the west because he's a he's a dictator he's simply rolled on the other hand as we know from many countries in

the world in the west in the east governments in order. 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 because juvenile flesh and ultimately of course shouldn't give a shit about what might be a reason the solution that everybody can live with. the lebanese president is adamant he won't resign calls for him to go have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut support earlier in the month last week the lebanese cabinet including the pm resigned amid protests with people blaming the tragedy on government incompetence recovery efforts are still underway in beirut the disaster has put added strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community pledged some $300000000.00 in aid to lebanon the blast killed $170.00 people injured thousands and maybe 300000 homeless. meanwhile the u.s.

says its own pledge of financial support to lebanon following beirut's port blast will depend on the country's reforms to tackle corruption as a quarter explains american offers of help aren't always what they seem. massive explosions in beirut during his unrest in its wake and it got to. lebanon a 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 those sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels 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 5 $1000000000.00 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. a child sex abuse trial gets underway in germany and a case that's lifted the lid on a large pedophile ring the main suspect is accused of abusing his own baby daughter filling his crimes and sharing the videos with a network of tens of thousands are speeder all over reports. last autumn 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 a 43 year old man is on trial for.

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 pay to files that could span 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's so afraid to go outside should no longer go on supervised when she's outside out in court for hot check that everything's ok 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 though 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 i was going to leave their mark on those who watched 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 charged with $291.00 offenses including serious sexual assault and distribution of child pornography all linked to this case in cologne cathedral overall see the lid. still to come a scandal over exam results in the u.k. after examinations were scrapped due to the pandemic we hear from one student who said her life has been ruined details on that and more after this.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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dialogue or i guess a u.k. based counter extremist organization found the pop forms algorithm promotes holocaust deniers in unison with holocaust survivors all over the world researchers are urging facebook to ban this 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 jews or 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 on earth $36.00 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial with a combined total of more than $300000.00 subscribers the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned some are content and level similar criticism against twitter reddit and you tube facebook says it removes a false content only if it amounts to hate speech though we remove groups and pages

that discuss holocaust denial from recommendations and references to it in search predictions while we do not take down content simply for being on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed and are not law expert here cohen says it is facebook's duty to protect every member of the community. product 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 the simple reason that it actively promotes hate it promotes violence against jewish people it should be. removed from any website that 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 day in title to the entire community

and it's 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 amid a scandal over how their exam grades were determined the results are critical for entry to university and many received lower grades than expected after exams were scrapped due to the pen demick to add insult to injury there have been mixed messages over the appeals process whereby students can have their grades reconsidered with a level examinations cancelled nationwide grades were based on teachers predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of a school's overall track record as lead to 39 percent of a level results being downgraded from the predictions state schools especially from poorer regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom and high marks and the whole fiasco has sparked students to protest across

england hundreds of students held a demonstration in central london demanding the resignation of the education secretary gavin williamson think is the system of being classist exams regulator says there was no evidence of bias in the system and prime minister boris johnson defended the results calling them robust we spoke to nina bunting micho who's grades were far lower than she'd expected. when i open my results and so 3 days i went into complete shock. i went to complete meltdown and i thought my loss was just completely over i think to me it's a very clear case of discrimination and that deny now i've really found for students like me. a further education college are 6 phone call an agent just a normal college radio affected by this whereas they should just based on the college that they go to they have chosen to go to i'm trying to stay very close to

really who. i want everyone to be trying to get my voice you know it's not just me that's that affected it's of this you. and i think eventually something will congress and students will eventually get the grace to say what. 2 police officers had been hospitalized after reportedly being hit by a rock thrown by a black lives matter protester in portland oregon police fired smoke grenades while demonstrators allegedly sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office. was. and. hundreds again came out in portland to protest against police after 2 hours of

relative calm some started throwing rocks and trying to storm a law enforcement property many demonstrated outside the county sheriff's office it marked the 80th consecutive night of anti-racism and anti police brutality demonstrations in the city. we now turn the sum of global news in brief women's rights groups organize a march through mexico city calling for an end to sexual violence it took place on the one year anniversary of another large protest over allegations that teenagers were being raped by police officers almost 2000 police were deployed to keep order at the latest rally. people in madrid have been venting their anger at having to wear masks the authorities increased restrictions on friday because of the spike in kobe in $1000.00 and factions and other measures including closing night clubs and the ban on smoking in public without social distancing. and authorities in china have activated emergency

measures to evacuate thousands of people in the country's new. north and south west regions as heavy rain is expected to continue in the coming days so far over 28000 residents have been evacuated and the province 201000 people have died or are missing in this year's floods the worst in years and more than 63000000 residents have been affected. with the u.s. elections looming even cartoon characters are being dragged into the political sparring arena after terms attorney like in joe biden's 2020 running mate to one such animated hero.

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actually i'll speak up. well. no 1st. point show your thirst for action. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle the collapse of the russia gate hoax has exposed yet again. unprofessionalism and bias of the corporate liberal media the same media consistently project their own claimed values and political preferences in even the truth are conspicuously absent in their news report.

you crossed up this and more i'm joined by my guests in my present in los angeles she is host of the game iris in show and in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill rules of that that means he can jump in in coming what now is appreciated let me go to joe 1st here joe over the last 3 and a half years we've been fed this russia gate hoax and it's bait and it's very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer news outlets from the powers that be well we'll call it deep we have opinions a new way and those we have a lot of bloopers in retrospect be the the leaks that no amount to anything or dead ends or basically wrong and then you know the flip side is over the last let's say

2 weeks and i have we're getting real facts i even to the point of hand written notes something attached to a name a face a big here we have congressional records that have been released or madam ships. investigation with all of his witnesses and the names are attached to the words under oath and never mind it doesn't make any difference it's keep moving on i mean i find it really quite astounding that you know we were told that there was a grand conspiracy but now there is a grand conspiracy of silence. well you're exactly right about innuendo right as far as russia reporting a lot of it was based on unnamed sources i'd love to meet this guy named on name circumscribes because you get a lot of things wrong right it's not like he gets it wrong and reporters make mistakes i hurt this analogy once that the white house.