are headline stories the president of. protesters halfway saying an election. but only if the constitution is amended. in the bell russian capital as a nationwide strike. factory workers are among those speaking out against the government people chanting the same slogans against the president resign. and so on . while the e.u. politicians warn russia against trying to interfere in belarus but at the same time brussels itself threatens to slap sanctions on top officials in minsk. but it will hold back financially it says the u.s.

to lebanon and to reforms despite the desperate situation following the deadly blast in beirut earlier this month. from moscow to the world this is our international pleasure to have your company best news hour my names you know me. factory workers have done there are 2 in belarus demanding a rerun of last week's election with many taking to the streets right across the country president alexander lukashenko. new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amend it. not in the but we need to adoption and you can situation you must adopt sits in a referendum because the previous constitution was adopted in the referendum and on the then 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 that it.

was. illegal it was look at 2nd 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 it will just leave nobody will stop you or hi to you for that you thought you would please eat some tomorrow just go sorry to put you in such harsh terms but at a time like this you have to be straight up wouldn't it. 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 question called 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 shooter. with employees of the country's largest t.v. network and also began their strike on monday and other media outlets in the bill or is also followed suit the question goes opponents in the presidential election is that line to the whole sky who's now in lithuania will 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 that 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 sproles a shadow protester. but as you can see so far it's all been peaceful. so much of the public anger and being directed against the security forces there are harsh response to the rest you can see the. lives matter in these pictures from

independence square in the capital artie's coltan to follow reports from mint. which is very similar 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 is 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 is already a sense of tiredness with no change in the situation. a lot was earlier in the day in the russian capital let's show you what's happening right now in minsk where crowds have gathered at the tensions center as they have done for a number of hours and peaceful scenes as you can see people just

a mosque thing there at 6 minutes past 11 at night in very demanding the release of activists who were arrested during the rest along with other political prisoners thousands of being detained since the election there have been widespread allegations of prisoner abuse including torture although the government has denied those claims so they're watching what's happening right now in the russian capital well the authorities are accusing anti-government activists of violent behavior themselves during the unrest know this video was released earlier on monday by the rebel and russian investigative committee that allegedly shows a month forcing a truck driver out of his vehicle at gunpoint according to investigators the protesters seized the vehicle and used that to block a rude. meanwhile the e.u. has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against bell russian officials who are

suspected of election fraud to violence against protesters some european lawmakers have challenged mr lucas legitimacy as president while claiming there's a threat of russian interference artie's europe correspondent peter all over picks up the story. well we've heard statements on monday from the number of the e.u. institutions on the unfolding situation in belarus the european parliament issued a statement in which they called for calm and for peace on the streets of minsk in 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 a 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 will 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 svetlana 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. has 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 certainly go to involve ourselves as much as we can. rapidly developing story in belarus and throughout the day we've been getting expert opinion on the in events unfolding there here's some of 'd the reaction the thoughts that we've had so far. i think

there is a problem now there's a preconception in the west that russia could maybe. be tempted to intervene in belarus by were several means largely because we're all looking back at what's happened in the rain. and i think maybe this is rather different but it's not necessarily how it looks when you look at it from london people will be expecting that maybe russia will act and one thing the european union is playing for you began to roll in the roads and the they stand out of there because they grip the size the lives of the most you look at single but they're the same time we accept the ground and we know are there is a gun free where mr hogan has more than 50000 of your poland in data and

there were no sanctions against turkey so i assume that the european union is the rain who didn't want to read so what we've been the big. winner author. and they are trying more or less certain who like the rabid guy and the who are so corner or answer that it will russian this is something unacceptable because of the problems of the middle of. the by their membership and people themselves i think the principle position anyone should be taking would be to see that no what governments outside of belarus should be getting involved in this we should leave this the people of belarus to decide their own future but of course that's not going to happen in today's world so i think the european union imposing in threatening sanctions and tell you russia and so forth is absolutely hypocritical

but also in. once again the exposes you know there's no what do you want with russia as an equal because russia's call up and this is well i mean it is support it would be should call police no particular friend more school they must be worried through but what the impact of all this is going to be so it should with the best they reach try and discover what is going on in the minds of. i'm trying to put some sort of discussion which we brussels and bought a little more school. moving on to more stories now the lebanese president has said he is only able to resign as that would cause a power vacuum calls for michelle to go been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut's port earlier this month last week the lebanese cabinet including the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming the tragedy on government incompetence recovery efforts are still

ongoing to this day in beirut the disaster has put on the strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community played some $300000000.00 in aid to lebanon now the blast killed $178.00 injured thousands and left more than a quarter of a 1000000 people homeless the u.s. is offering a financial lifeline to lebanon but only if the government agrees to certain reforms meaning more normal quarter. 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 iran if it asked for it than 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 to mandatory 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. they're watching our to international live from moscow is facebook not only tolerating but promoting holocaust denial in searches we're going to be looking into the plenty more besides after this short break.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy when foundation let it be an arms race is often scary dramatic to follow 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. minutes into the program welcome back facebook is under fire again u.k. base country extremist organization the institute for strategic dialogue or for short has warned that the platforms algorithm promotes holocaust denial in unison with holocaust survivors across the world researchers are urging facebook to 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 deal with jews or minds the suffering of the jewish people and but but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred. it's not just a few words here and there research by the i s t on earth $36.00 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust they had a combined total of more than 350000 followers scriber as you know that group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned a lot of related warped content at the level of similar criticism against twitter read it to name a few facebook ses it removes false content only if it amounts 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 on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed internet lawyer expert to your cohen ses it's facebook's judy to protect every member of the platform's community. facebook. classifying holocaust denial is legitimate political conversation is quite trite. thing touches on the whole caused to be banned from social media for the simple reason that it actively promotes hate 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. of the entire community in this. mr zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. jewish

people as well. the u.k. government has made a dramatic u. turn in a school exam greeting scandal students will now receive the grades 30 church predicted for them in their final year in levels which are crucial for entry to university examinations were cancelled nationwide due to the pandemic the government how it introduced an algorithm which adjusted score predictions on the basis of schools overall track record now that led to 39 percent of results being downgraded state schools especially those from per regions were disproportionately affected by the don't great with private schools enjoying a boom in high marks. the fiasco sparked protests across england a demonstration in central london students the moment of the resignation of the education secretary while accusing the system being classist we spoke to one people whose marks were far lower than she expected. but when i opened my results and saw

3 days i went into complete shock absolute shock and 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 i really feel for students like me and that go to a 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 there are cases and in fact many cases where people don't do as well a t.c.c. but seem to really flourish a little so. this is there's no there's no there's no way of knowing what that student would have got other than the predictions that they were given by the teacher. let's turn attention to the west coast of america now were 2 u.s. police officers are in hospital after being hit by rocks thrown by black lives

mutter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke grenades while demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office. right. hundreds again turned out in portland on sunday to protest against police brutality rocks another missiles were thrown and some tried to storm the law enforcement property the. the. sheriff's office with graffiti spray painted on the building's walls it was the 80th consecutive nights of racism and police demonstrations in the city. let's keep attention

in the us where the gap between donald trump and joe biden in the 2020 lection race is widening according to a national poll released a few hours ago the survey by a.b.c. news on the washington post gives the democrat for over 12 in the lead among those registered to vote and over half of those polled approve all of his pick of running mate. one of mr trump's advisers recently likened her voice to a famous cartoon caracter leading to some unlimited debate over twitter. as implying. i teach my children to. complain has been

destroyed by march seems. ministration. i miss the old days when this shit was fun. just cancel yourself before you completely ruin your legacy the character of literally written it's a parody disappointed middle aged woman. is real. well obvious your lot for annoyed both programs here on our team to national keep on coming find out what is showing wherever you are across the globe in moments. well the pandemic no certainly no borders. nationalities.

has emerged with the we don't look like world peace to. judge. prices. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. that's geysers financial survival bill they say money the delicate. close to these it is a central plank support dying

a common kind of problem right now so you stop the bad. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. scary dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 in 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 sent in los angeles she is host of the game iverson show and in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill right process up close and in fact that means you can jump in a while and i was 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 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 in new windows we have a lot of bloopers in retrospect they 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 lives saved 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 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 and you and go right

as far as rush are reporting a lot of it was based on unnamed sources i'd love to meet this guy named unnamed circumscribes because he gets a lot of things wrong right it's not like he gets it wrong and reporters make mistakes i heard this analogy once that the white house press corps and political media in the u.s. in general it's like when you go to the beach and you throw food up the seagulls it doesn't matter if the bread is mol good or bad or pop rocks they're going to eat it gobble it up and not verify what they're being fed so you know i spoke to one emmy award winning journalist that's been in the business for a while and she said what reporters don't realize is that they're pawns cons for political operatives trying to push a narrative out there that they know is false but they know this reporters will eat up anyway because there is no accountability when you get it wrong as we're saying right because it is like i was on so fast we forget about it and i get the clicks the ratings anyway so it doesn't matter that's your point around general plan there are documents here it's interesting how can we get this got

a lifestyle we can prosecute him.