the president of belarus offers to meet protesters halfway saying an election can happen but only if the constitution is a. nationwide strike takes hold factory workers are among those speaking out against the government. the same slogans against the president resign 6 of you and. politicians warned russia against trying to interfere in belarus but at the same time brussels itself threatens to slap sanctions on top officials. and the u.s. says it will hold back financial aid to lebanon and. despite the desperate

situation following the deadly blast in beirut earlier this month. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us thousands of factory workers have put down their tools and demanding a rerun of last week's disputed election with many protesting in cities across the country president alexander lukashenko however has said a new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amend it. 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 the when you can situation we can hold new elections if you want to palm and the presidency and local authorities latest 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 all to most of the metallurgy mining to name just a few now they have put forward their demands and they are in the 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. was. that was that it. was.

illegal it was look at 2nd visit if you locations where strikes are taking place and at one planned his departure was met with boos and whistles and and silica shank all 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 if you just leave nobody will stop you or hi to you for that you thought you would so please eat some tomorrow just girl 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 'd 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 in the bill or is also followed suit the question goes opponents in the presidential election that learn how to handle sco 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 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 and testers brolga shadow protests. but as you can see so far it's all been peaceful. much of the public anger has been directed against the security forces and their 'd harsh response to the rest you can see the message in english belorussian lives matter in these pictures from independence square in the capital

our man on the scene reports now from. 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 gathering day to day and like yesterday there are no special forces 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 of the authorities are accusing anti-government activists of violent behavior during the unrest this video was released earlier on monday by the belorussian investigative committee it allegedly shows a man 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's drawing up sanctions against bello russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters some european lawmakers have challenged mr legitimacy as president while claiming there is a threat of russian interference peter oliver picks up the story for. 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 seat

belt 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 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 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 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 blamed for you began to roll in the roads and the they there were no one stand out there because of a group the size there's a theme or so you look at single but they're the same time we accept ground and we know that there is a gun to be where most middle ground here 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 there aren't who didn't want to read self within the big. melosa. and they are trying more or less like the raper guy and the have so cords are warrants 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 and threatening sanctions and tell you russia to keep the hands off is absolutely hypocritical but also. once again exposes you know there's no. dealing with

russia as an equal because russia's call up and this is well i mean suppose it would please no particular friend. they must be worried but what the impact of all this is going to be so it should with the base 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 most. the lebanese president has said he is unable to resign as it would cause a power vacuum calls for michel aoun to go have been growing sense of the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut support earlier this month last week of the lebanese cabinet including the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming the tragedy on 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 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 comments. massive explosions in beirut during a sudden rest in its wake and it got to. lebanon. 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

reform. with 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 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 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 u.k. based counter extremist organization the institute for strategic dialogue or i have 50 has warned that the platforms algorithm promotes holocaust denial in unison with holocaust survivors across the world researchers are 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 but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as next of hatred research by the i have unearthed of 36 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial they have a combined total of more than 300000 subscribers the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned a lot of related warped contact the deal 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 at facebook's duty

to protect every member of the platform's community the fact that facebook. is classifying holocaust denial is legitimate political conversation is quite frightening. thing touches on the whole cause 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 scandal students will now receive the grades that their teachers predicted for them in their final year a levels which are crucial for entry into the university examinations were cancelled nationwide to 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 percent of results being downgraded the state schools especially from poorer regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom in high marks and 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 we spoke to one people whose marks were far lower than she expected. when i opened my results and saw 3 days i went into complete shock absolute 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 i really feel for students like me that go to a further education college or a 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 there are cases and in fact many cases where people don't do as well if the c.s.e. but seem to really flourish at a level so. is this 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. to you are so police officers are in the hospital after being hit by rocks thrown by black lives matter protesters in portland oregon police fired smoke grenades while demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the sheriff's office.

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 carried on outside the county sheriff's office with graffiti spray painted on the building's walls and with the a.t.f. consecutive night of anti-racism and thai police demonstrations in the city. the gap between donald trump and joe biden in the 2020 election race is widening according to a national poll released on monday the survey by a.b.c. news and the washington post gives the democrat runner

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landscape of sports amid the pandemic with some expert analysis we have packed show today so let's dive right it. doesn't stop with tic toc and walk away now u.s. president donald trump said saturday he will go even further and is indicating that he might be an access to other chinese companies including e-commerce giant. well the big thing is one way to read while he's not here and while we're not allowing and i've told european countries and others australia has been fantastic as an example but well he's not coming here and we told certain countries that was thinking about well way that's ok you can use them but we're not going to be sharing intelligence and they've all backed away you look at the u.k. it looked like they were going that way and now they've scotland yard and there 'd are a most well you know them who do we're looking at other things. and this comes after the president signed an executive order on august 14th which requires tick tocks parent company bite dance to divest its interest in tech talks u.s.

operations within 90 days now once again chinese foreign ministry officials say that this is just another example of how the u.s. is violating its own free market principles because it to me so we do see once again proves that the so-called freedom and security are nothing but an excuse for the digital gunboat diplomacy pursued by some u.s. politicians. do this type of bullying 'd is a blatant denial of the market economy competition that the u.s. has only has advocated. and joining us now to discuss is blue bus coast investigative journalist ben swan and geoffrey tucker editorial director with the american institute for economic research thank you both for joining us but i want to start with you here because we know you've been very critical of the u.s. stance on chinese companies including this move over to so does this latest statement i mean he just matched it over ali baba does it surprise you. it doesn't surprise me and. appoints me i continue to be disappointed by these decisions by

the trump administration really to take the stance look i have a huge problem with that i have a problem with the way the way has been treated as a private company but essentially having the u.s. government essentially launch not only a war against wall weight here in the us but to really go to bat overseas and to try to get while we remove from countries around the world which again is not a government entity it's a private company now you can argue and you can say well you know why the way they give their technology and they give access which is what the u.s. says to the chinese government but the u.s. is still never produced any evidence brant of this never shown any evidence that this actually happens now they're saying the same thing about ticktock that all this data can be kind of sent over to the chinese government but they haven't shown proof that that's happening and here's my biggest concern about all of it is when you're talking about getting rid of take top or forcing it into another big american tech companies hands when you're talking about getting rid of ali baba which is really the only true competition to amazon anywhere in.