in today's headlines in belarus enters a 2nd week of protests against its president the thousands of workers now striking across the country calling for a rerun of the disputed recent election. also this hour washington makes reforms and a condition for the release of financial support as the country struggles to recover from the deadly blast in beirut. and in germany a grim pedophilia case gets under way a 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 belarus where another day of nationwide strikes is underway thousands upon thousands of workers have down tools with many taking to the streets across the country and across live now to our correspondent room on cluster of for all the details on what else has been happening in the country today. well mass protests continue in belarus and on monday workers from a various a major factories a lot of the country decided to come out on a national strike and their demands are another election with all of the candidates release all political prisoners and dismissal of all those who were responsible for a violence and the rigging of the election president the shankill attended some of

the rallies that were taking place in different class and factories on the monday he flew the helicopter. one of them and once on the ground he warned the people who are striking that they could lose their jobs that have a listen. just exploded if you don't want to want to get you know fine just leave what you do nobody will stop you all hate you for that and that's a please from tomorrow just sorry to put it in such harsh terms but it's a time like this and you have to be straight with people. who added that said there will not be a rerun of the election and that no one is able to force him to do anything that he does not want meanwhile the president's a departure was later followed by a booze and whistles and answer the question to slogans meanwhile on sunday there was a prolific shango rally in minsk in another places and deliveries talking about missed

there were at least 65000 people there according to official figures for many below russians look a single is like a father figure if you will who was able to tell you that country. out of the abyss back in the ninety's however not many people many people are not happy with the his 26 year tenure now earlier today we managed to speak with one of the protesters outside one of the major plans to civilization. says we are really fed up with these people that's why we want to change this regime they beat my son when they release him and he came back he was so badly bruised that he couldn't even sit down so how should i work what's more important summary money for my children. for. employees of the countries a largest t.v. network joins of the protest as well as their colleagues from other belorussian media as well because she goes opponent in the presidential election said latinos

who is now in lithuania recorded a video address where she said that she's ready to become the country's national leader let's have a listen. we all want to break this endless circle that you go trapped in 26 years ago i'm ready to take responsibility and become the leader so as to come the country and lead to turn to in the months and. now they are natural response was largely that no one is recognizing this election with a european parliament deputies said being at the latest to say so and they're saying the election in belarus was neither free nor fair and now europe and they saw calling for personal sanctions against all those involved in the brutality and the rigging of the election. among cost of bringing us the latest on the unrest and dollars thank you. we discussed the situation with how many prefer the director of

the mint style council he says looks like those days are numbered. company was an odd word of uncertainly there is an economic problem coming think it's no longer relevant for the discussions that are taking place here and of course everyone is now focused on one single issue and that is that all lives on a looks good should go at least 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 4 ready to protest by taking part in strikes is growing and growing very rapidly. the lebanese president michel aoun is adamant he will not resign calls for him to go have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut's port 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 and last killed $178.00 people injured thousands and made 300000 homeless. meanwhile the u.s. has its own pledge of financial support to lebanon following the blast will depend on the country's reforms to tackle corruption as don 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 the chaotic 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 tehran 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. the child sex abuse trial is under way in germany in a case that's lifted the lid on a large pedophile ring the main suspect is accused of filming his crimes and sharing the videos with a network of tens of thousands are reports. last or someplace will call 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 pay to 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's so afraid to go outside should no longer go on supervised

when she's outside often cool 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 probably do the names of these people because that will scare them off. the investigation has also had an impact on the police who have to watch and continue to troll through thousands of images in 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 the doosra and these are always going to leave their mark on those who would use them even experienced investigators the trial in cologne is just the 1st of what may be may be related to the home 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 in. 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 receive lower grades than expected after the exams themselves were scrapped due to the penn 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 canceled nationwide grades are based on teachers predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of the school's overall track record this led

to a 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 student protests across england hundreds of students held the demonstration in central london demanding the resignation of the education secretary gavin williamson think is the system being classist exam regulator said there was no evidence of bias in the system. and prime minister boris johnson defended the results calling them robust we spoke to me not bunting mitcham whose grades were far lower than she expected. when i opened my results and saw 3 days i went into complete. shock i went to complete meltdown and i thought my life was just completely over i think to me it's a very clear case of discrimination and that deny now i really fail for students

like me that go to a further education college or 6 phone call age or just a normal college really affected by this whereas they should have just based on the college that they go to that they have chosen to go to i'm trying to stay really close to really hopeful and i want everyone to be aware so i'm trying to get my voice had you know it's not just me that's that affected it's other students and i think eventually something will come of that and students will eventually hopefully get the grace that they worked for. still to come here on our t.v. new research has found that facebook not only tolerate but promotes holocaust denial and searches bring in the details on that story and more after this break.

but the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. as americans we don't have a charity we do a back seat the whole world needs to be ready people. judge you. come in every crisis at least this time to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the world is driven by shaped by those great.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. 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 is on all sides very dramatic developments 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. with.

welcome back to the program facebook is once again under fire after the institute for strategic dialogue or i as today a u.k. based counter extremist organization founded the platform's algorithm promotes holocaust denial in unison with holocaust survivors all over the world researchers are urging facebook to ban that this type of content. this misses the reason why people engage in holocaust did not in the 1st place deny the holocaust is a deliberate tool used to dealing to minds the suffering of the jewish people and the but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as next of hatred. research carried out by the i honesty under $36.00 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial but the combined total of

more than 300000 subscribers to those pages the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned similar content at levels similar criticism against twitter reddit and you tube facebook says it removes 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 well we do not take down content simply for being on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed. we spoke to internet law expert here cohen about the story and he says it's facebook's duty to protect every member of the community product that facebook. is classic finding holocaust denial a legitimate political conversation is quite frightening thing such as a loophole caused should be banned from social media for the simple reason that it

actively promotes. it promotes violence against jewish people should be. removed from any website that boards to be a website for the people of facebook is not designed for a very nice type of people it is made a full day in title to the entire community and his son mr zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. jewish people as well. we now bring you some global news in brief women's rights groups organize a march through mexico city calling for an end to sexual violence also marks the one year anniversary of the larger protests over allegations that teenagers were being raped by police officers almost 2000 police were deployed to people order at this latest rally. people in madrid have been venting their anger at

having to wear masks the authorities increased restrictions on friday because of a spike in coded 1000 infections their other measures include closing nightclubs and a ban on smoking in public without any social distancing. and with heavy rains on the way thousands are being evacuated from china's north and south west regions at this point 201000 people have died or have gone missing in this year's floods the worst. better been seen in years feel ians have already been affected. 2 police officers have been hospitalized after reportedly being hit by rocks thrown by black lives matter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke grenades

while demonstrators allegedly sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office. right. hundreds again came out in portland to protest against police brutality after 2 hours of relative calm some started throwing rocks and tried to storm a law enforcement property many demonstrated outside the county sheriff's office to mark the a.t.f. consecutive night of anti-racism and thai police brutality demonstrations in that city alone. were. staying in the united states the poll got between donald trump and joe biden in the

2028 presidential race is apparently widening a survey by a.b.c. news and the washington post gives the democrat runner a 12 point lead among those registered to vote and over half of those polled approved of his pick a running mate harris terms attorney recently likened her to a cartoon character leading to some animated debate on twitter. as a flying hours suburban. little speech. i teach my children . that. one complaint has been destroyed

by mark seem to. come from march to some gentle. name calling is the ministration is good for. the old days when this show was. just a chance for yourself before you completely ruined your legacy as a character that was literally written to parody a nagging and disappointed middle aged woman come on the simpsons is real. that's been our breakdown of the day's headlines for this hour here on our team international for the details on all those stories and all of our shows head on over to our website r.t.e. dot com. live.

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stop the global industrial farming practices and environmental destruction that may cause the next pandemic oliseh 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 our ngo roots and shoots we are condemned to 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 viruses from

animals to people as simple 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 multi 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 breathed 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 the farmers' markets that we have while we have them in britain and america but not wild animals that's now been closed in china the trading and selling of

wild animals for troops the problem here is you sell one program again another looms something one looming here is all the thousands of people who actually have no other likelihood so you have to help them get through changing from breeding and selling wild animals hunting wild animals for food and finding another way of making money so you see poverty is crucial eradication of poverty is crucial to your environmental concerns absolutely and you know we mustn't forget the climate crisis and our concern for the cove it 19 because that's something which will carry on into the future this this pandemic will get through b.s. that out of many many places are going to have very serious economic problems people have lost their jobs people are mourning family members who know it's been

awful but we will get through it just as we get through really been through a lot of very unpleasant times in my life 9 live 86 year old so. when you hear leaders like boris johnson babson certainly don't trump repeatedly claiming no one could have predicted this pandemic you know you don't think that's the case. and i know it's not it's not like because people studying these these soon arctic seasons have been predicting a really long time and you know that learns ok hiv aids started problem until. and selling eating chimpanzees in 2 different parts of africa sars that began problem another wild wild animal market in china and then again from probably camels in the middle east.