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party. the document. with. safety. broadcasting live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know 30 minutes of news start. people are now in central 10 of protests against the russian president opponents accuse alexander lukashenko of breaking the recent election they're calling on him to resign right now there is

a very limited security presence in the rally appears to be largely peaceful the initial demonstrations were marred by heavy handed. it's the belorussian interior ministry has said it accepts some responsibility for the way the crisis has unfolded belorussian factories have been brought to a standstill by ongoing strike action of the crowds on the streets are vowing to keep up the pressure until their demands are met let's take a look at the scenes in minsk on monday evening. i thought i. was. i was i well several culture protests are now being held across bella reuss the largest is in the eastern city of mughal you off as you can see people are waving their reading green flag they did in 1905

a year after all of them to go into power that's in contrast to the older red and white flag used by opponents of the president people have been speaking out in support of mr ricocheting girl then seeing the unrest needs to store. the situation in our country is very serious so we have come out here to show our support for the president we are against unrest in our country. there should be new rights we should find compromise says we do not condemn the support for the position so why should they condemn the us. not betray us which i ask you live and be asunder his presidency and you have confidence in the future. and want to say one thing i stand here for belarus for our president for our prosperous and beautiful country will never give up to anyone or earlier in the day the leaders of france and germany contacted president putin to discuss the crisis in belarus with more on the

ramifications as well here's our tease ramon. rallies in support of what's happening in belarus have been happening in front solve the country's embassy in the russian capital for 10 days straight we've seen different turnouts here with the largest probably the past we can probably see the protesters so it will supporters have behind me carrying flowers and holding white ribbon meanwhile protests continue in belarus as well where on cheese that we've seen both pro and anti look at shango rallies all over the country present look at shanghai held a meeting with the country's security council where he criticized like he said opposition's plans to damage their relationship with russia and its nato and e.u. aspirations however the opposition holding those statements issued their own saying that their falls have nothing to do with the reality and it sounds at manuka lation

and they also said that they plan to on or all of the existing agreements with russia and other partner countries as well as here with the shango had to say it is 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 o. me units on our western borders and have brought them to full combat readiness meanwhile top european political figures continue seeking the kremlin's stance in the issue in a bill or rousseau european council president charles michel said that he spoke to blood may putin on tuesday and said that the e.u. began working on personal sanctions against all those responsible for human rights violations against peaceful protesters michelle added that there should be no outside interference in this matter now in 2 separate cell phone calls and shoes

day and they shaded by burned and paris let him is. and spoke to his counterparts angela merkel and emanuel mccraw on and he said that any example by outside forces to intervene in the internal political crisis in bella roosts is counterproductive and he stressed that placing external pressure on the officials in the bill of rights is on acceptable now a german chancellor angela merkel also outlined germany's position after the phone call with a lot of my position let's have a listen to issue and help 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 prisoners be released and that there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus and we will continue to discuss this to more all these talks with the russian leader are taking place as head of the european union summit on bella ruse the e.u. leaders up planning to meet via video conference on

a wednesday and meanwhile no matter the resolution it's clear that the european union one says is in no rush as huge in the internal situation in belarus some reaction from eastern europe specialist benares who believes the belarus crisis is a major concern he says for both russia and the e.u. . a few days ago a look at. the kremlin and said that he was going to ask for it supports the suggestion was that the present was reaching out to the russians or 'd you know significant force the riot police bit troops in order to quell the process by brute force and it's raised the question will russia invades. russia where there's been a lot of speculation navy terms of the people to follow the situation closely and that idea has been pretty written off putin is unlikely to do that and the veteran

population has actually warm image of russia and see them as friends and they fought so hard to oust look the shanker that it person came in and crushed the. demonstrations by force and kept the percent go in office by force then the entire population with then suddenly turned against russia and putin and then you'd end up with another ukraine situation which the kremlin doesn't want so because of these. you've got macron and merkel 'd reaching out the e.u. has been very aggressive they said they've warned russia that there should be no overt or covert interference in the domestic policies under the threat of facing new renewed extremely quote unquote heavy sanctions if it's seen to do that but i think it's going to come back with exactly the same argument in fact and he did say explicitly to merkel this morning in that telephone call that there should be no western interference in the domestic politics of. more of the e.u.

all this talk of values and said ideals will not actually do much to help in the short term even if there were she did ask for help that programs the role that matter a few $1000000000.00 a year they come with a lot of strings and they're implemented very slowly. and. in order to help in this time of need and struggling economy hope it crisis everything on top of each other is russia which will come in rapidly help with money with investments lots of russian businessmen would love to expand their businesses there and do so very quickly and have some world class companies as well you know all the german government has confirmed that it's been in talks with the leader of the bell russian opposition svetlana to kind of scarf led to a few manias soon after the election artie's dunny a hawkins has been taking

a closer look at look at his main challenger. but the roof is at boiling point streets and squares are main 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. 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 a set again took off ski a popular blogger and 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 elections. to 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 but as things got heated. 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 the 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 while she's no longer being a steve ship mother or weak woman as she described herself days later she claims she's ready to step up to the plate as head of a transitional government and. i am prepared to act as a national leader. others could have been in her shoes but as opposition figures fall out of the picture taken off there was left as the last woman standing the accidental candidate with her latest announcement she's upped the ante time will tell what if she can meet the expectations of those that want her to lead that change. let's move to another headline stories today the u.s. senate intelligence committee how's release the final portion of reports on alleged

russian meddling in the 2016 lection a tick some reading into a 1000 pages the document accuses lot of more potent orchestra being the hook of democratic party service a claim that the russian government has repeatedly this mist came up and can take us through the latest findings. it is the 5th and final installment from the senate intelligence committee regarding allegations of russia and the 2016 election now the report is over a 1000 pages long it takes us to quite extravagant places from the ritz carlton hotel to the miss universe pageant and the ultimate conclusion of the report the long awaited conclusion is that russian president vladimir putin himself ordered the hacking of the democratic national committee server take a listen. the committee found that russian president vladimir putin ordered the brush an effort to hack competes networks and accounts affiliated with the

democratic party and leak information damaging to hillary clinton and her campaign for president do they offer any proof well no they just simply state that they have high confidence this is an intelligence community assertion that the russian government is responsible and that lattimer putin himself ordered the hacking of the d.n.c. and phrases like high confidence show up throughout the report for example the phrase likely is used 139 times furthermore the phrase almost certain shows up 23 times and the phrase seems shows up 39 times however despite all this high confidence and almost certainty the russian security services are blamed for the hacking of the d.n.c. server take a listen to this passage from the report. beginning of march 26th scene offices of

the russian main intelligence directorate the g.r.u. successfully hacked competes networks but long into the democratic national committee and the democratic congressional campaign committee and the e-mail accounts of clinton campaign officials and employees including campaign chairman john podesta the report claims that russian security services in gauged in spirit fishing and this gave them access to the d n c server now at this point the main piece of evidence that they put forward to back up this claim is testimony from the tech firm known as crowd strike crowd strike you'll recall was hired by d.n.c. lawyers to look into the matter now crowd strike has come under a lot of scrutiny crowd strikes president x. f.b.i. official shawn henry testified that they saw a quote activity that we believed was consistent with activity we'd seen previously and had associated with the russian government in the same testimony and we also

testified that crowd strike never had any evidence the data was actually exfiltrate it i.e. stolen from the d.n.c. servers but regardless and not surprisingly we see wiki leaks also thrown into the report. wiki leaks actively sort on played a key role in the russian campaign and very likely knew it was assisting russian intelligence influence efforts the committee found significant indications that julian assange and wiki leaks have benefited from russian government support from julian assange on says long denied these allegations and said he is simply not a russian operative however the allegations persist many americans looking at this report as well as many people around the world have got to be asking themselves how much longer is this russia gate story going to keep going is this final installment really the last report or will they find a way to get it back into the news once again. in investor writer charles or tel

spoke to me earlier this is his reaction to the intelligence report. whether one or another country may be interfering in our elections i think people are tired of that frankly and tired of the endless investigation of the same issue 20 only to rush i have seen so far little evidence if not no evidence that that happened and on the balance of probabilities again what i what what i say the way from looking to that 16 hillary clinton ran an atrocious campaign that's why she lost you've got to look at 16 and understand that hillary clinton went out of her way to offend a large percentage of the voting population she did not campaign effectively in key states she you know she looks very ill on september 11th 2016 she was operating with her husband a corrupt foundation and has been since 997 where hundreds of millions if not

billions of dollars have gone missing or similar questions have all been joe biden and his family those are the big issues that are going to have an 8 photos in this country. army mutiny is unfolding in mali with soldiers capturing the president and the prime minister we've got that story like reaction as well right after the break.

summer solution that's right summer solution. whether or not gold prices are signaling and so the u.s. dollar with. the clout of gold when he got there was. approaching 20 minutes into the program welcome back soldiers in mali captured the country's president prime minister in what the army has the scribed as

a mutiny news confirmed in the past number of hours by a government spokesperson let's take a look at some of the latest images we have from outside. of the west african nation today's offense began with. the military group of soldiers detained their senior officers before marching on the capital on storming the president's residence there's still plenty of uncertainty around the situation it is unclear whether this is a coup attempt it follows several months of civil unrest in mali with the opposition demanding the president's resignation over corruption allegations. of history at the university of houston welcome back to the program journalist for as we know the soldiers haven't made any demands as yet some sources are saying this is a coup attempt others that it's a pay dispute how does it appear to you at this stage. i think it's possible for

the combination of the to keep in mind that this unfortunate turn of events in mali which has been criticized by the african union headquartered in addis ababa ethiopia the kind of african body not unlike for example the european union this coup attempt was basically a result of the 2011 tragic overthrow and murder of more market doxie in libya engineer by the united states of america and its nato allies particularly britain and france that crew and murder of gadhafi led to leakage of hones of weapons into neighboring mali which got into the hands of religious zealots who call themselves muslims who since that time have been waging a brutal and bitter war against the soldiers in mali of whom have been killed as a result this in turn has led to a french military intervention backed by the united states of america it's also

helped to generate unrest and instability and i said also ette that these religious zealots who are waging this war in mali are to act at least on officially but many gulf arab states who are quite friendly to washington and i should also say that the events in mali or a direct outgrowth of the cold war in so far as a founding father of independent mali decades ago motorboat kate was deposed in a coup sponsored by france because he was considered to be a socialist and a pan african is and that in turn helped to create this illogical vacuum that now is being filled by these religious zealots who despite this coup it might be on the verge of seizing power and bomb a ko which could have a negative knock on effects throughout the neighborhood not least in cote d'ivoire

in guinea perhaps northern uganda or how northern nigeria is it likely that thought would help and that jihadi groups are going to take advantage of this power vacuum . well thus far i'm afraid to say that the religious zealots have been doing quite well on the ballot field that's what necessitated a french military intervention and french soldiers have been carried back to paris and body bags recalled that that after the 2011 overthrow of mr gadhafi which helped to instigate these tragic events and mali that the zealots have taken over a good deal of northern mali and in fact were advancing towards the capital while mco before the french intervention this event today may not necessarily forestall the zealots taking over in fact it may be throwing gasoline on the flames and helping to throw the entire region into a raging fire let's bring in the the issue of france than it has been quick to

condemn the mutiny as you say of course mollies a former colony in france as a a recent history of military interventions there do you expect another french intervention if things escalate. i think that's highly possible not only ate beefed up french intervention because of course french soldiers are already on the ground in mali and in neighboring this year as well but keep in mind that washington has a number of military bases surrounding mali the united states has been helping france in terms of this intervention but once again u.s. and nato policy is incoherent because at the same time they're dispatching soldiers mali they're basically friendly with the gulf arab states nationals or helping to fund and finance and support these religious zealots washington and paris or supposedly combating was incredibly rapid series of events today it's

a story will be following very closely jerrold thank you for giving us some. jerrold horne chair of history at the university of houston. governments across europe are bracing for a 2nd coated 1000 wave again rolling on to unpopular restrictions the public is growing increasingly fed up as peter all of our reports. tries to tiptoe back to normality 2nd wave of covert 19 seems to derail those hopes here in germany daily infections cost a 3 month 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 is to buy into that and it's very difficult to make people stick to the moods they've had 2 or 3 because it's a party such events make it especially easy virus to spread say maybe we should stick to smaller family gatherings for

a while longer germany has labeled most destinations in spain including the stream of the popular destination at mcgill as high risk it another blow to the already stricken spanish. tourism industry but i think i mean i think the measures they are 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 east at the moment is my spain has taken tough measures against condit 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

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 mask on visum which 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 is 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 beauty and then we did not see this government response before in my opinion everything should have been closed sooner. but i sympathise with those who own

nightclubs it's not easy finding the balance between the interests of entrepreneurs and public health what will prevent going to honor i don't think the club should have been reopened it all should have. remain closed because the clamps are not essential in closing them prevented new cases both the number of cases in europe rises so does ungar over covert prevention measures lead almost. no one wants to see a return to full lockdown in fact places those in power in the own enviable position of having to try balance freedom with fighting with it as we try to work out which restrictions we want to be imposed and where the virus is determined to

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