the president of belarus offers to meet protesters halfway saying an election. but only if the constitution is amended. in the belorussian capital as a nationwide strike takes hold medics workers are among those speaking out against the government. people chanting the same slogans against the president resigned we are sick of you and so. you politicians warn russia against you trying to interfere in belarus but at the same time brussels itself threatens to slap sanctions on top officials and. says it will hold back financial aid to lebanon until reforms happen despite the desperate situation

following that deadly blast in beirut earlier this month. we're broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. factory workers have put down their tools and demanding a rerun of last week's election with many taking to the streets right across the country president alexander lukashenko however has said a new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amended. not in the but we need to adopt and you can situation you must adopt sits 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 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 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 so 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 there. 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 my children. are 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 to final 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 and to the question of protest there's prologue a shadow protest. but as you can see so far it's all been peaceful much of the public anger in belarus has been directed against the security forces and their harsh response to the unrest you can see the message in english belorussian lives matter in these pictures from independence square or his correspondent on the ground there in minsk reports. 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 drones gathering day to 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 resigned we are 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. you thought these are accusing anti-government activists of violent behavior during the unrest in this video was released earlier on monday by the belorussian investigative committee it allegedly shows a man of forcing a truck driver out of his vehicle at gunpoint according to investigators the protesters seized the vehicle and used it to block a road meanwhile the e.u.

has confirmed it is drawing up sanctions against a bill of russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters so i'm european the lawmakers have a challenge mr lucas legitimacy as president while claiming that there is a threat of russian interference. 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 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 ticking off skier stefan who's 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 are certainly going to involve ourselves as much as we can throughout the day we have been getting expert opinion on the events unfolding in belarus here are some of the reactions we've gotten so far. i think there is a problem now there's

a preconception in the west that russia may. be tempted to intervene in belarus by whatever means largely because we're all looking back at what's happening frank. 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 case of belarus and the they hear her standards there because of a group this size there's a bemis here of liquid single but they're the same time we accept the ground and we know that there is a gun to the weirdness that organic is there more than 50000 of your poland in

danger and there were one or sanctions against turkey so i assume that the european union is the rain who didn't want to read self within the big. miller officer. and they are writing more or less like the raper guy end of it so quarter or answer it will russian this is something unacceptable because of the problems of the middle of. the my membership and people themselves i think the principle position anyone should be taking would be to see that know what government's out said billoo should be getting involved in this he 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 exposes you know there's no. dealing with russia. because russia is caught up in this is well i mean it is suppose it would please no particular friend. they must be worried too 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 between brussels and the wind and most school. the lebanese president has said he is unable to resign as it would cause a power vacuum calls for michel aoun to go i have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut's port earlier this month and last week the lebanese cabinet including of the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming of the tragedy on government incompetent recovery efforts are still ongoing in beirut the disaster has put added strain on the

country which already was in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community pledged some $300000000.00 in aid to lebanon 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 artie's done quarter comment. massive explosions in beirut during a sign rest in its wake and it got to. lebanon to pay off. 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 or respond to systemic reforms

. the 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 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 2022 minutes tearing 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 that'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. is facebook not only tolerating but promoting the holocaust denial and searches we look into that after the shortest of break this is our 2 international.

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welcome back this is our to international now facebook is under fire again u.k. based encounter extremist organization the institute for strategic dialogue or i esteem 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 jews or 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 an act of hatred. researcher by the north $36.00

facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial they had a combined total of more than $300000.00 subscribers the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned a lot of related warped content. leveled similar criticisms against twitter reddit and you tube facebook says 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 law expert cohen says it's 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 touches on the whole 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 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 u.k. government has made a dramatic u. turn in a school exam grading scandals students will now receive the grades that their teachers predicted for them in their final year a levels which are crucial for entry to university examinations were canceled

nationwide due to the pandemic the government had introduced an algorithm which adjusted score predictions on the basis of each school's overall track record that led to 39 per cent of results being downgraded state schools especially from poorer regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom in high marks the fiasco sparked protests across england at a demonstration in central london students demanded the resignation of the education secretary while accusing the system of being classist he spoke to one people whose marks were far lower than she expected. when i open my results in school st d.'s i went into complete. 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. to further education college or a 6 phone call a 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. but seem to really flourish a little so. this is there's no you 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. to us police officers are in hospital after being hit by rocks thrown by black lives matter protesters in portland oregon police who fired smoke grenades while demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office.

hundreds again that came out in portland on sunday to protest against police brutality and rocks and other missiles were thrown and some tried to storm law enforcement property demonstrations carried on outside the. county sheriff's office with graffiti spray painted on the building's walls was the 80th consecutive night of anti fascism and anti police demonstrations in the city. the gap between donald trump and joe biden in the 2020 election race is widening this according to a national poll released on monday the 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 approve of his pick a running mate. one of mr trump's advisers recently like in her voice to a famous cartoon character leading to some animated debate over twitter.

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mail me back at the top of next hour with another look she has this is art international stay with us. solution that's right some resolution now today we're covering whether or not gold price lives are a single thing in the end so the us dollar aware of yes superstar out of the clouds of gold money god house their wealth. has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs the people who are chronic pain and believe that their prescription is working for them and the remedy be said to. price that they

pay closer dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggested that the long term effects might not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm 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. you cross up this and more i'm joined by my guest k. my present 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 across up rose of the fact that means he can jump in income 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 been at its very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer new news outlets from the powers that be what we'll call it. we have opinions a new way and. we have

a lot of bloopers in retrospect but 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 getting moving on i mean i find it really quite a stone age you know we were told that it 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

a name he certain times 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 us in general it's like when you go to the beach and you throw food up to seagulls it doesn't matter if the bread is molded 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 conte's they're pawns 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 staying right because the news cycle goes on so fast we forget about it and get the clicks and the ratings anyway so it doesn't matter that's your point around general fled there are documents here it's in writing how can we get this guy to lie so we can prosecute him i would think that reporters would be 2 things right now pissed off

and curious and when you're those 2 things that's when you're doing your reporting but instead we don't see it at all we saw them put adam schiff on the air for 3 years adam schiff is in michael evan oddie of lawmakers ok near a member of an avi you know he was on cable news hundreds of reborn lawyer less knowing the words yes i heard somebody call him that once on cable news hundreds of times even touted as a presidential candidate and you know it yes president right now of the cell block at rikers but still we put this guy in there all the time just like we did chef and the wall street journal editorial board give them credit because they said don't put this guy on air. again it may seem to me he is not to be believed you're going to see a lot more adam schiff and anybody who reports on michael flanagan catherine herridge of c.b.s. news all now just right wing reporting and conspiracy theories and this is why i trust the media is where it is right now and american society somewhere around where we view lights and that's not and. it's very interesting can we leave the

f.b.i. knew long before to use the. dossier this new in the us a they knew it was basically banks not using it they willingly use this document and that they did they knew it wasn't. actually real but they still use it for a finds of warrants i mean it's the same thing with joe if you're saying that we have you have reporters knowingly know that this is a farce it's a hoax but they go along with it anyway because it serves a political purpose 1st and foremost ok and an ideological one on top of that ok i mean i well he's made it clear i program i don't really care one way or another about it in the white house ok they come and go ok with this type of behavior if that isn't put in check now will be common normal weight and that's certainly not what you want down so kim and i mean again you know there's a there's no self interest action no matter what the democrats the introspect after the 2016 election they're doing it again they've been hell.