bellerose center same 10th day of anti-government rallies as more factory workers go one stripe demanding a new election after the bell russian leader makes an offer to protesters saying a rerun of the disputed presidential vote can take place only if the constitution is amended. ok. the leaders of france and germany reach out to president putin to discuss the situation in belarus russia has called on all countries to avoid interfering in the crisis. also this hour with covert $1000.00 and factions spiking throughout europe

governments across the continent are reimposing unpopular safety restrictions sparking widespread discontent. and president donald trump threatens federal intervention in new york as a wave of violence sweeps the city amid anti police brutality protests and on rest over a lockdown measures. this is are to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. well roos has entered a 10th day of protest against the president who's accused of rigging the recent election and his favor although demonstrations were initially marred by a heavy handed police response they are now largely peaceful belorussian 1 interior ministry has issued a statement saying it accept some responsibility for the way the crisis has

unfolded factories across the country have been brought to a standstill by workers' strikes and crowds are out on the streets demanding the president's resignation and vowing to keep up the pressure and till their demands are met this is how things looked on monday. ok ok. on monday night thousands gathered outside a detention facility in the center of minsk calling for the release of political prisoners among them barred presidential candidates and the husband of opposition leaders that want to check on the people also gathered at another jail where many who were arrested during the 1st nights of unrest are still being held now facing the worst rest of his 26 year presidency alexander lukashenko has made a number of public appearances but so far that's backfired he got

a hostile reception while giving a speech to factory workers on monday they chanted calls for him to quit and go have new elections can only happen if the constitution is amended. alex cross live to our to his roller coaster of european leaders have been in contact with the russian president to discuss the crisis what can you tell us about those discussions. well indeed looks like a top european leaders are currently seeking the kremlin's stance on the situation in that bella russo earlier european council president says charlene michel said that he cold blooded near putin and he said that the use currently working on sanctions against all those responsible for human rights violations in belarus machelp added though that in this situation there should not be any outside interference now in 2 separate phone calls earlier in the shaded by virgin and

paris led a mere putin told the angular merkel and emanuel mccraw mccraw on his counterparts that's any attempt by outside forces to intervene in the internal situation in bella ruse is counterproductive and say he added that any type of external pressure on minsk is unacceptable now angela merkel also made a statement following her conversation with lattimer putin and that which is a. true and help for today as spoke with russian president putin and made it clear once again that freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate must be guaranteed that's prisoners must be released and that there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus we will continue to discuss this to more. but now all the stakes are all these talks are taking place ahead of the e.u. summits on the biller roosts in his invitation letter to e.u.

leaders the euro council president said that the elections in belarus were and neither free nor were they fair and the subsequent violence. against the peaceful demonstrators was shocking and has to be condemned but say he added though that people off there are all builders can discern in their own future the meeting of the e.u. leaders is supposed to take place on wednesday meanwhile no matter their risen to sion it looks like the european union wants to know a russia is due on the conflict in belarus meanwhile president lukashenko held a meeting with his security council and he criticised the belle of the russian opposition and their plans for the future and said he also noted that say the opposition is planning to damage the relationship between russia and build

a ruse and he also agreed their goal to aspire towards a nato and the european union let's have a listen. to this is the statements have been made by some western countries who don't even know where the roof is and have no idea what is happening here but nevertheless they make these statements we have reacted to this and deployed combat units on our western borders and have brought them to full combat readiness. meanwhile the protests continue in bill roosts and they're both pro and anti the shankara looks to be peaceful so far and also rallies of solidarity continue in moscow as well where outside of the bella russian embassy here in moscow right now we've been here throughout the week as you can see people are still gathering here to express their support for what's happening in belarus part is a roller coaster of staying across the latest from belarus thank you. it's or near

a specialist spend arest believe the belarus crisis is a major concern for both russia and the e.u. . it's ironic isn't it i mean the table sits and here now you've got putin warning western leaders not to interfere in the mystic politics of another country and what puts him in a suggesting is what he's afraid of is that the e.u. comes in and tries to rationalise a capture or at least persuade the country to go and join the e.u. or. leave russia sphere of influence ignore us just interests in the country and these are just i mean there's been a rather unseemly excess or influence in these countries has been very aggressive really they've warned russia that there should be no overt or covert interference in the domestic policies under the threat of facing new new extremely quote unquote heavy sanctions it would seem to do that and all this geo political tension that's

starting to build up in the form of putin conversations is actually counterproductive who want to step back look at show and proceed contribution to his diligence my zation cry wolf using to accept the results of the office 9 elections and wait for the locals to work out with the regime some way of allowing the shank to exit without the need for bloodshed i mean the threat that look at shank was now back to the corner and as a last resort would declare martial law or is very real and i would end my suggestion and nobody has to go and. meanwhile the german government has confirmed that it's been in talks with the leader of the belorussian opposition so let it come off scot fled to lithuania soon after the election artie's adana hawkins takes a closer look at look at chicago's main challenger. but the roof is at boiling point streets and squares remain packed with thousands of voices of discontent its

people determined to be heard they feel the president just isn't listening they don't mind a new leader a symbol to unite them at a time of crisis for the lawyer to head off has become this symbol yet i'm not a politician my husband surrogate economically wanted to become the president of valorous he's now in prison for that almost unknown at the end of may the humble english teacher and interpreter to lead a quiet life until her husband is set again to cut off ski a popular blogger presidential candidate was disqualified from the presidential race and thrown in jail in an act of protest she took up the opposition husband's name and announced she would stand she said herself that she didn't want power at one point telling supporters she's more comfortable frying cutlets in her role as stay at home mom you are just as good as i want to become president in order to restore justice in this country my campaign program won be familiar to everyone the

main point is new honest and fair election. took an oscar was just a woman with a grudge like many he couldn't predict the crowds would turn her into a symbol misconceived our constitution is not for women our society is not mature enough to vote for a woman's breast things got heated it seems but was ready perhaps not specifically for to. but for change yet despite condemning the results as false protests gaining traction she fled the country putting our family 1st. i have probably remained the soft woman that i originally was i know that many will understand me many will condemn me and many will hate me but know this god forbid that you faced a choice that i had to face. children are the most important thing that we have in life yet for some in the west she really is one step away from the presidency with

the german government already confirming it's held talks with the exiled opposition figure in our shoes no long with the mother or weak woman as she described herself days later she claims she's ready to step up to the plate as head over transitional government. this is where i am prepared to act as a national leader. others could have been in her shoes but as opposition figures fell out of the picture to an oscar was left as the last woman standing the accidental candidate with her latest announcement she's upped the ante time will tell whether she can meet the expectations of those that want her to lead that change. the specter of a 2nd wave of coronavirus is haunting a pandemic where europe governments across the continent are again rolling out unpopular restrictions but the public is growing increasingly fed up as peter harper reports. tries to tiptoe back to normality

a 2nd wave of covert 19 seems set to derail those hopes here in germany daily infections passed a 3 month peak last week the health minister in the country says this is partly due to in general people coming back from holidays people attending parties and other celebrations now it in spite of it and it's very difficult to make people stick to the rules after they've had 2 or 3 beers at a party such events make it especially easy for the virus to spread so maybe we should stick to smaller family gatherings for a while longer germany has labeled most destinations in spain including extremely popular destination of york as high risk it another blow to the already stricken spanish tourism industry but i think i mean i think the measures they're taking are a bit drastic we thought we had good prospects for september but now with travel companies sending people home it's getting very difficult it's good to be cautious

but the situation here looks fine to me and now with no customers i don't know how long we can hold on you know back each of them on a plane has taken tough measures against crowded 19 social distance in masks as you can see we don't have outbreaks but the virus is everywhere you never know where you will be safe and where you can catch it let people travel because here we depend on the tourism and if we don't have to or is it will sink neighboring france has also been breaking records for all the wrong reasons marking up post lockdown high of over $3000.00 cases seen metropolises like paris and mall say expand outdoor areas with face coverings a mandatory while work spaces are also set to become musk zones so. it is a good idea but it won't be easy to make people respect the rules especially at work because they will have to spend the whole day there with a mosque on vision. i wear

a mask it work every day and i think it's normal so for me nothing will change you know more person is a surge of cases in france and all the other countries so i know it's necessary to wear a mask i wear one every day at work a spike in cases among young people has seen the italian government step in to shut down discos and night clubs they'll also be a reintroduction on rules insisting that face coverings be worn in outdoor public spaces at night it's a pity that we did not see this government response before in my piggy everything should have been closed sooner we can be i sympathise with those who own nightclubs it's not easy finding the balance between the interests of entrepreneurs and public health political events going on there are no i don't think the club should have been reopened it all should have remained closed because the clubs are not essential and closing them prevented new cases both the number of cases in year up rises so does anger over covert prevention measures the guy.

was. was. no one wants to see a return to full lock down and that places those in power in the own enviable position of having to try and balance freedom with fighting code it as we try to work out which restrictions we want to be imposed and where the virus is determined to reimpose itself across the whole of europe these are all variety bill in. the state of emergency and the lebanese capital has been extended until september the 18th beirut is still reeling from the devastating chemical blast that tore through the city 2 weeks ago some 180 people were killed. in the tragedy with over

5000 more injured all 300000 were left homeless as the explosion ripped through buildings centuries old structures belonging to lebanon's cherished architectural heritage have also been damaged the owner of one ruined historic mansion lived in by his family for years shared his loss. ancestors lived here 200 years ago and it's been in the family ever since i lived dumpsters and when the explosion happened i was sitting here with my wife and daughter and 2 grandchildren i was reading a newspaper. the stories were made of marble they don't make them like that anymore with art history

when some of the buildings everything is computerized and heartless but even the small things inherited from my grand grandparents when the temp down to my children they're throwing. us out of that once out of i never seen anything like the ford explosion we have witnessed worse lots of people nothing like this. and if they finish their investigation and the rest they won't rebuild my home and bring back our history is the politicians who should be held responsible for what happens. when live in this country and i mean to build it again like we have national unity. donald trump has renewed threats to send the federal agents to new york the city is grappling with a wave of violence amid protests against police brutality and locked out

restrictions issue could prove significant had november's election killed often explains. new york city needs saving apparently more so than oregon and media is now comparing new york city the gotham city however there is no batman here fact there's barely anyone a wave of looting crime and riots has seen many high end stores close up their windows. 50 people were shot over the weekend and there's been a 177 percent increase in gun violence this july compared to last year now donald trump blames local officials for this and says that soon washington may step in. if the new york city mckown do it we will after the city

council agreed to cut the new york city police department's budget by roughly $1000000000.00 the police officers union decided to go rogue political road that is they decided to endorse donald trump now many times people say that a union like ours lorand for sprint groups give indorsements not a new york city p.b.s. star in the new york city p.b.s. mr president you are in the endorsement and you've earned its indorsement i'm proud to get it no surprise it's got anger burning in the bellies of the democratic party here in new york. i am speechless new york city's a beautifully diverse working class democratic city the n.y.p.d. says clearly showing they're not interested in working with the people of our city this explains their continued aggression against innocent people it's time for dramatic change and why p.d. union endures trump i'm sure this is

a part of the neighborhood outreach plan also does anyone else see a potential problem with police unions enforcement arms of the state with lethal weapons promoting preferred candidates for office oh is that just me it's a political wrestle mania here in new york we've got trump versus the local officials local officials versus the police and vice versa at this point it's pretty clear new york city needs some kind of caped crusader to stop the wave of crime but will that savior be in washington. r.t. new york. u.s. intelligence agencies reportedly believe that iran paid bounties to the taliban for targeting american and coalition forces in afghanistan earlier the same accusations were leveled against russia public order has the details if you remember not too long ago the mainstream media was again citing its anonymous sources claiming that russia was somehow paying balinese to the taliban for hits on u.s.

soldiers in afghanistan russian intelligence officers have offered to pay belmonte to taliban fighters who kill americans who kill americans the european intelligence official i spoke to says that russian military intelligence officers offered money to taliban fighters in afghanistan to kill american or other coalition fighters if this times report is correct this means that u.s. intelligence has concluded that vladimir putin. is offering bounties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan now back then no evidence was provided president trump even said that the story wasn't credible enough for him to have been briefed on it and the kremlin denied any involvement it spokes person dimitri pascoe of said that it was regrettable that one of the world's most renowned international media outlets was published was publishing absolute hoaxes now fast forward to today and in the world of c.n.n. all of a sudden iran is also paying bounties to the taliban 10 has just learned that an

assessment by u.s. intelligence agencies has found that iran in addition to russia also paid bounties to taliban fighters to target u.s. and coalition troops in afghanistan all of this of course is according to anonymous sources that the channel declined to mention but who knows what will happen this time because last time a lack of evidence didn't seem to stop democrats from going berserk over the issue there is overwhelming evidence that putin has gone and he's paying significant bounties to kill american soldiers in afghanistan it seems clear from what the intelligence is real i find it inexplicable in light of these very public allegations that the president hasn't come before the country and assured the american people that he will get to the bottom of whether the russians are putting a bounty on the heads of american troops now hopefully this time american officials will wait for the facts to surface before they jump to conclusions about iran but

until then it just seems like stories such as this one only serve to make russia and iran out to be the bad guys in the in the eyes of the western public. we spoke to investigative journalist david lindorff who says the allegations against iran and russia follow a familiar pattern. russia and iran have both been demonized for some time by both the media and particularly in the case of a rand by the trumpet ministration you know when the media came out with this what clearly appears to have been a bogus claim about russian intelligence paying these bounties to tell about fighters to do what they were doing already. you know trying to kill americans and drive them out of the country the evidence turned out to be completely wrong and so now we have the trumpet ministration supporting this claim that the.

that it's the iranians are doing the same thing i don't think the rationale is there the taliban don't need as they have explained themselves don't need anybody to pay them for them to want to attack americans and to make the work to know so costly for the us that the us pulls its troops out so. you know absent really strong evidence i think it's a ludicrous claim. lasley we bring you some global news and brief mortar shell struck near a couple diplomatic districts on tuesday morning as afghan conduct independent say several people were injured no one has claimed the attack at that yet the strike comes a day after the government refused to release its last $320.00 taliban prisoners and once the insurgents to free more captured soldiers 1st. a 6.6 magnitude earthquake shook the central philippines on tuesday buildings and roads were damaged and one person is confirmed dead search and rescue efforts are

underway. and firefighters and california have their work cut out for them as a heat wave aggravates local wildfires there were 30 active fires on sunday the temperatures soared to over $54.00 degrees celsius how to say on record since 1013 . has been a breakdown of the day's headlines for this hour for further details on those stories and countless more head to our website. greetings and sal you taishan. 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 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 in 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 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 addiction 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 that 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 you really want to. see the crisis you always state see a. great city this least systemic deception is 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 these executive orders the trump did over the weekend are getting kind of attacked from all sides even republican sides republican senator ben say as so nebraska. he called them the pen and phone theory of executive lawmaking called it unconstitutional slop slop that wasn't. 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 trying 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 they 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 for the american people even though that something is outside of his powers or something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there are no laws they're not passed by congress they're not things that every citizen has to obey or every u.s. businesses do 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.