actually suggested. actually that. the president of belarus offers to meet protestors halfway saying. but only if the constitution is a. nationwide. workers are among those speaking out against the government. the president. warned russia trying to interfere in. brussels itself. officials and. despite the desperate situation following the deadly blast from beirut earlier this

month. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national i'm certainly glad you're with us. workers have put down their tools in belarus 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. non 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 and i'm talking about said different industries ultimo have 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.

legal. to 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 gulp 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 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 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 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 shooter. employees of the country's largest t.v. network also began their strike on monday and other media outlets and the biller 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 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 into turns in the months and. pull the rally and support all father protesters and dealers 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 are 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 in dollars has been directed against of 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 in the capital our correspondent in minsk report. published these are the same 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 out here just metal barriers so everything's moving along quite peacefully people are chanting the same slogans against the president resign. and so on it's noticeable that there are fewer people here today going on previous days it was already a sense of tiredness with no change in the situation 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 that allegedly shows a man forcing a truck driver out of his vehicle at gunpoint according to investigators the protesters seized a 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 lucas legitimacy as president while claiming there's a threat of russian interference artie's peter all over picks up the story for us. 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 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 svetlana tickin of 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 well throughout the day we have been getting expert opinion on the events unfolding in belarus here's 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 could maybe. be tempted to intervene in belarus by whatever means largely because we're all looking back at what's happened in ukraine. 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 if we began to roll in the roads and the they hear her stand out there because of a group who saves the lives of the most you of liquid single but they're the same time we accept ground and we know that there is a gun to be where mr morgan has 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 what we've been the big. miller author. and they are writing more or less like the rabid guy and of the 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 to 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 the exposes you know there's no. dealing with russia as an equal

because russia's call up and 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 base they reach try and discover what is going on in the minds of applied to move. on trying to put some sort of discussion which we brussels and go in 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 have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut's port earlier this month and last week in the lebanese cabinet including the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming the tragedy on the 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 the blast killed $178.00 and injured thousands 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 artie's done quarter comment. massive explosions in beirut during a sudden rest in its wake and it got to. lebanon they have 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. 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 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. facebook is under fire again u.k. based counter extremist organization of the institute for strategic dialogue or i asked d. has warned that the platforms 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 mind the suffering of the jewish people and to point you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred research on earth $36.00 facebook pages dedicated to holocaust denial they had a combined total of more than 300000 subscribers the group also found that the searching of the term holocaust and facebook returned a lot of related warped content leveled similar criticisms against twitter read it 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 says it's facebook's

duty to protect every member of the platform's community. the fact that facebook. is classifying holocaust denial a legitimate political conversation is quite frightening. thing such as only 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 a full day in title to the entire community and is such mr zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. jewish people as well.

u.k. government has made a dramatic u. turn in a school exam gradings scandal students will now receive the grades that their teachers predicted for them in their final year at levels which are crucial for entry to university examinations were cancelled 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 percent 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. if you ask oh sparked protests across england at a demonstration in central london students demanded the resignation of the education secretary all accusing the system of being classes we spoke to one people whose marks were far lower and she expected. when i open my results and saw 3 d's 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 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 in in fact many cases where people don't do as well if the c.s.e. but seem to really flourish a little 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 us that police officers are involved at all 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.

sunday to protest against police brutality rocks and other missiles were thrown and some tried to storm a law enforcement property the demonstrations carried out outside the. county sheriff's office with the feeding spray painted on the building's walls was the 80th consecutive night of anti-racism and anti police demonstrations in the city. switching gears now the gap between donald trump and joe biden in the 2020 election race is widening this according to a national poll released on monday surveyed by a.b.c. news and the washington post gives the democrat running a 12 point lead among those registered to vote and over half of those polled

approve of his pick of running mate come along harris one of mr trump's advisers recently likened her voice to a famous cartoon character leading to some animated debate over twitter. as inclining. little speech. i teach my children. from complaint has been destroyed by march seems. it's just. name calling administration is good for. miss the old days when this show was fun. just cancel yourself before you

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greetings and salyut asian. well hello hello hello and welcome back everyone to a brand new week of hawk watching and my goodness is the august news cycle started off with a bang a quite literal and deeply tragic bang for the people of lebanon over $200.00 souls and counting of lost their lives to an ammonium nitrate explosion in the port of beirut in the aftermath and fall out of this tragedy of the peers to be the dire results of government negligence ignored warnings and failed infrastructure it is now being reported that the lebanese government is resigning amid all of the

outrage over the blast there resigning meanwhile here in the land of milk and honey and coded leaders of the united states of america are still deadlocked in the goshi ations negotiations over how little they should have to spend on the care and safety of u.s. citizens in a time of pandemic and how much they can funnel to special interest groups and corporate bailouts instead of u.s. citizens but thankfully over the weekend u.s. president donald trump finally took action from his underground bunker on the 9th hole of the trump national golf club in bedminster new jersey from up on high and the president signed a series of executive orders and proclamations that well according to the hill extend unemployment benefits suspend payroll taxes and offer federal a big. and student loan relief well woohoo this is wonderful this is great great new. sort of kind of not really you see despite all the legitimacy

a ball room full of golf club members brings you many legal experts and news outlets are questioning whether trump's executive orders are actually constitutionally legal the new york times is reporting that it was not clear what authority mr trump had to act on his own on the measures or what immediate effect if any they would have given that given that congress controls federal spending even the wall street journal got in on the game their editorial board chimed in writing mr trump is commandeering the power of the purse but the constitution reserves for congress. so my friends while lebanese leaders are resigning in shame for their failure to protect their citizens from tragedy u.s. leaders are governing from golf resorts while brandishing election year band-aids for an empire in collapse. i think that's a good place to start watching the hawks. what's going on in

a city street you want to. see the crisis you always state see a. great city this least systemic to sepsis late show which. some things go as. well going to watching the hawks i am tired and i'm sick well well well i'm a look at this brand new slate of executive orders don't really know if they really will amount to anything but let's dive in and see what they're all about show. it's interesting because republican so there is these executive orders the trump did over the weekend are getting kind of attacked from all sides even republican sides republican senator ben say it's so nebraska. he called them the phone theory of executive law called it unconstitutional. slop and that was

a pretty hefty thing to mount and i think that that one of the most interesting things that you point out is that trump is taking fire from both sides on this because congress doesn't like being overstepped. so you have people on the democratic side a lot of house members who are taking trump to task but you also have a lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump is done in this and think that you point to some interesting things here. he's using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and he's fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now we're seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that. he basically sizes things up for this election he

knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe i'm doing something where they're american people even though that something is outside of his powers something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there and they're not laws they're not passed by congress they're not things that every citizen has to obey or every u.s. business has to but in truth they're really just for government employees at the end of the day they're really just like here's the president's kind of idea of the direction the government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but they're not like you're going to get in trouble let's say with the tick-tock ban that's a private company a bigger that it's not like you can ban tick tock it's absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know what's what some of these executives really it's you know it's not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors their years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser he's a great marker of himself and i think that he's selling things that the general

public doesn't understand know one of his new orders allows employees that make less than $104000.00 that's the majority of america to delay their payroll tax until january he no january is obviously act after election day but to do that you also have a massive bill post-election trying doesn't care because well it was already over you know these are deferred payments meaning rental you do have to pay them exactly what his argument is he can change the federal laws to make those part those into a permanent tax cut that will permit tax cut only happens if he's elected and the payroll tax funds would come directly from social security and medicare has been wanting to pull away from payroll taxes since before he got elected he doesn't believe in social security or medicare and he's fine with getting them both it's interesting too because the other order that he talked about that's a great great point made from an issue brought up the other order of the $400.00 a week which is in the $600.00 extra that we're getting the word we were getting but now the $400.00 extra that would come in federal unemployment out of that.