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whole financial. situation for. every hour of the day this is r t international my name's you know neal hello and welcome to the program. of workers down there are too. demanding of last week's election with many taking to the streets right across the country president alexander lukashenko said a new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amend it. number of the we need to adopt and you can situation you must adopt it's in a referendum because the previous constitution was adopted in the referendum and on

dylan you can situation we can hold new elections if you want to palm and the presidency and local authorities because the mass protests continue in belarus where the workers from a various a major manufacturers factories plants and other places have walked out on a national strike and i'm talking about said different industries ultimo they have metallurgy mining to name just a few now they have put forward their demands and they are new elections with all of the candidates release of all political prisoners and dismissal of all those people who were responsible for the rigging of the election and the violation of human rights. groups. was was was.

was. was. was. there was. a visit if he'll occasions where strikes are taking place and at one planned his departure was met with boos and whistles and and television gulped the slogans that's after he warned the protesters that they might lose their jobs just to put on you if you don't want to work here fine or just leave nobody will stop you or hi to you for that you thought you would so please eat from tomorrow just go sorry to put you in such harsh terms but at a time like this you have to be straight up there. the front on sunday at least 65000 people came out in support of alexander lukashenko and that's in minsk alone according to official figures from the interior ministry he spoke to his supporters

at length thanking them for their dedication and support now for many a bill or russians alexander lukashenko is a somewhat of a father figure who helped the country move out of the abyss back in the ninety's however not all of the people are happy with his 26 year tenure now earlier on monday r.t. spoke to want to answer the shankill protesters and here's what he said. 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 to me money or much children. employees of the country's largest t.v. network also began their strike on monday and other media outlets and belarus also followed suit. opponents in the presidential election that led to the whole sky

who's now in lithuania while she recorded and video addressed to her supporters saying that she is ready to become the national leader. we all want to break this endless circle to 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 do turns in the months and. pull the rally and support all father protesters in belarus continues in the russian capital as well for a 9th day in a row we've been here every day to cover it as you can see behind me well now the largest search now today they're all largest one was recorded on saturday when this line of protesters extended beyond the block difference people here from all walks of life angelica shank a protester prologue a shadow protests. but as you can see so far it's all been peaceful. so much else very public. trials being directed against the security forces and their harsh

response to the arrest in the latest pictures from independence square you can see the message in english better russian why are our key. prebuttal is out the scene for. the bush it is very sinister there's a crowd of protesters here on independence square which is where they've been gathering every evening there are factory workers who went on strike this morning and medics running outside the health ministry which is just off the square so it's already become a tradition crowds gathering day after day and like yesterday there are no special forces out here just metal barriers so everything's moving along quite peacefully people are chanting the same slogans against the president resign we're sick of you and so on it's noticeable that there are fewer people here today than on previous days there was already a sense of tiredness with no change in the situation. the e.u. hers confirmed it is drawing up playing sions against beller russian officials who are 'd suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters some european

lawmakers have challenge mr lukashenko legitimacy the president while claiming there is a threat of russian interference artie's europe correspondent peter oliver picks up the story well we've heard statements on monday from the number of the e.u. institutions on the unfolding situation in bellary the european parliament issued a statement in which they called for calm and for peace on the streets of minute skin other major cities but within that statement there was also a warning for russia we call on the russian federation to refrain from any interference covert or overt in belarus following the election and call on the e.u. institutions and member states to vigilantly counter any russian actions in this regard the parliament wasn't the only european institution to be charming in on monday. we also heard from the high representative for foreign affairs your state bar l. pretty much the e.u.'s foreign minister he said that the protests that we've seen

over the weekend particularly that huge one in minsk that the sheer numbers clearly show that the belorussian people want a change but he also announced that the e.u. is currently drawing up a list of people that would be the target of e.u. sanctions the e.u. is working on new listings for sanctions against those responsible for violence repression of peaceful protests and the fortification of election results so while the parliament says that russia must keep out of bellary says the e.u. drawing up sanctions against russian officials hardly shows that they are willing to keep out of belarus themselves in fact senior figures senior leaders of member states have been chime in saying that the e.u. should get involved more should interfere more particularly money would not go on the french president now when it comes to how this is developing on monday the german government confident that they have been holding talks with spittle on it to

kind of scare. the spokes person for the german government confirmed that the talks had taken place but he wouldn't be drawn on what exactly had been discussed is taken off sky of course is in self-imposed isolation in lithuania another e.u. member state and has expressed a want to be installed as an interim leader in belarus until fresh elections can take place but all of this coming from the e.u. site doesn't really fit with that statement from the european parliament but ultimately the message coming from brussels coming from the e.u. in general seems to be russia you don't get involved in belarus but we are certainly going to involve ourselves as much as we can. well let's pick up on some of our 2 with former member of the european parliament live on the pro. notice as always good to have you. let's just speak about the block 1st in fact at 100 far do you expect the e.u. to go with sanctions against belarus if it comes to that will we just see targeted

asset freezes travel or could it be something more radical. i think the european union is playing for you to got a role in the rules and they have double standards because they criticize the lives of the most you look at single but that the same time he accepts edible grant and we know that is a gun to be where mr bill graham has more than $50000.00 the future of poland in jail and there were no sanctions against durkee so i see that the european union is that i ain't too involved with self what we've been in the case of. and they have to write in more or less who lack of a big guy and of the so core. or answer it will russian this is something

unacceptable because of the problems of the middle of the sure the my their membership and people themselves this should not accept to any of the free have him served for a lot broader and they sued to close in 3 or. reforms soon within their own state there and then expect the here not the rights but we see a sanctions that the european union is that i now believe that they could give us the bill or rush out and i believe that they would not support to put it on the sanctions against percivale's but they might to take sanctions against the of the state of bitterness itself i meant go for it on sanctions and in that aspect it's an interesting one notices ned it boils down to this doesn't it doesn't make sense for e.u. politicians to be warning russia against interfering in belarus while the e.u. itself is drawing up sanctions surely that is a form of interference. well i think this is

a big joke had they stated to asset you stay out grown women who are set bats or the european union wants to be involved. and that is you said. but it is the 2nd the revenue talks with the big brother of the opposition in my letter sia also it is very interesting to state that greece last friday be asking for sanctions against turkey because. the system really said to reappear when the member silver and the sanctions were not actually accepted but now we are going to have sanctions against them. there for a case we sincerely courted domestic issue ok of the way that the elections took place in reverse and that's where you see there it's mud. in the soup of the european union let's just move to the menus for

a few hours ago notice presently go is saying i new election code happen if the constitution were amended via a referendum do you see that as a genuine offer could we actually see a new election taking place and would that appease the people on the street. well i said that it's a case for to be below seems to decide that there are no i mean you should slip concerning the little speck of human rights where you become free of them in the invaded osha and this is something that they did of simple but it was in the political system because god rested i believe that the ability to see unconstitutional must be changed and then the people in the stand would give the chance to prove what article handled and in this sort of how to build they will decide what kind of political future they want what kind of floaty forms the want and that that once of course or they can have new elections for a president or give more strength that to their parliament and try to be below are

simply able to should get to offer and ask for your ear out of the. reform so even later on constitution and then with that in front of them we'll see where the people are of. would like to change as well kinds of changes ok they should i think. people in the later serious should really really really careful they should not become the rich should not become the front with nato in the european union is important to which 3rd within britain said this is a dangerous situation we must not. look at an aviation when this is ok but something else i've been reading about quite a bit today that's what vladimir putin might do in ballarat c.n.n. for instance claimed he offered to quote quash the on rest radio free europe has

said something similar although it must be stressed lemaire putin has never said any such thing what do you read into that kind of analysis and those kind of remarks. well what they see is that we see that the nato has its own forces really close to the border because of what it was yeah we have summa soon we did that in maneuvers taking place at the beginning of august i understand that many people in the west would leg to become a member of nato and this is big for them to explain their in their gaze so i think the west the us used this situation and the out of rest of the people in butler rusia in order to proceed with their own strategic. blunder this is very dangerous and this is what the. people are certainly very careful

for they should fight of course for war or freedoms for what you think other florence etc but they should orderly of domestic boarding fixed this should not accept any interference my 3rd planet makes them forces otherwise we might see a candle can get along. in the in but lucia and we might see it cases that we could see in the brain there are also we can see in cases like that the it in other places are. so big should not go into guy and a new order and that it will be used on constricted by the west what thank you very much for your time today professor noticed madi asked a former member of the european parliament thank you very much. ok moving on now to another story we're following the lebanese president has said he is on able to resign as that would cause

a power vacuum and calls for michelle in to go have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through the favorite sport earlier this month last week lebanese kalma. including the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming the tragedy and government incompetence recovery efforts are still ongoing in beirut the disaster has put added strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community pledge some $300000000.00 in aid to lebanon the blast killed $178.00 injured followers and left more than a quarter of a 1000000 people homeless now the u.s. is offering a financial lifeline to lebanon but only if the government agrees to certain reforms that. porter. 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 these sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels that 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 a rule 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. facebook is under fire again the institute for strategic dialogue r i s t a u.k. based country extremist organization has warned that the platform's algorithm promotes holocaust denial in unison with holocaust survivors across the world researchers are urging facebook to ban such 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 to minds the suffering of the jewish people and that but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred or research by be i is the on earth 36 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial they have a combined total of more than $300000.00 subscribers the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned similar content it leveled

similar criticisms against twitter reddit and you tube facebook says it removes false content only if it aligns to hate speech. 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 untruthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed or internet law 'd expert here your koan say it is facebook's duty to protect every member of the platforms community. the fact that facebook. is classifying holocaust denial is legitimate political conversation is quite frightening thing such as. 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 purports to be a website for the people of facebook is not designed for a very nice type of people it is made for the entire world of the entire community in this mr zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. do you see people as well. the future of phocians of british school pupils is op in the year a scandal over $100.00 or exam grades were determined the results are critical for entry to university with final school year 11 examinations council nationwide grades were based on teachers' predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of a school's overall track record that led to 39 percent of results being done graded from initial predictions state schools especially from pearl regions were disproportionately affected by a dying grade with private schools enjoying

a boom in high marks the fiasco has sparked protests across england the demonstration in central london students the monday the resignation of the education secretary while accusing the system of being plus ist the exams regulators said there was no evidence of bias in the system we spoke to one people whose grades were far lower than she expected. when i open my results and saw 3 d.'s i went into complete. shock i went to complete meltdown and i thought my last was just completely over i think to me it's a very clear case of discrimination and they're denying now i really fear for students like me. to further education college are 6 phone call it 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

positive really hopeful and i want everyone to be aware as i'm trying to get my voice you know it's not just me that's then affected it's other students and i think eventually something will come of it and students will eventually hopefully get the grace that they worked for. women's rights groups organize the march through mexico city calling for it into sexual violence. it marks the one year anniversary of a must protest held there over allegations that teenagers were raped by police officers almost 2000 police were deployed to keep water out this latest rally also . protests in iraq kept descended into clusters with security forces in the eastern city of demonstrators blocked roads using burning tires on set fire to a police car they are demanding the local governor resign following the murder of

a social activist on friday. with heavy rain on the way. being evacuated from china's north western regions 219 people have died or are missing in floods already this year the worst in years millions. to us police officers are in hospital after being hit by rocks thrown by blocked lives mutter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke unaids while demonstrators allegedly sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office.

well hundreds again came out in portland on sunday to protest against police brutality rocks and other missiles were thrown and some tried to storm law enforcement property the demonstrations outside the. sheriff's office it was the consecutive nights of hunting racism and anti police demonstrations in the city. staying in the u.s. the gap between donald trump and joe biden in the 2020 election race is widening according to a national poll just released a survey by a.b.c. news and the washington post the democrat a 12 point lead among those registered to vote and over half of those polled approve of his running mates horace mr trump's attorney recently like and heard to a famous cartoon character and even to some animated debate over twitter. as

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the day or thinks. week to ask. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle the collapse of the russia gate hoax has exposed yet again the unprofessionalism and bias of the corporate liberal media the same media consistently project their own claimed values and political preferences and even the truth are conspicuously absent in their news report.

due process up this and more i'm joined by my guest imbiber st in los angeles she is host of the jim iverson show and. in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill right up close and in fact that means he can jump in income and walk now us appreciate it ok 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 been at its very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer news outlets from the powers that be what we'll call it deep we have opinions a new way and. we have a lot of bloopers in retrospect they should be the leaks that no amount to anything or dead ends or basically wrong and then you know the flip side is over the last.