the situation in our country is very serious the dictatorship that has lost it for 26 years has finally been weakened i stand here for valerie our president the only way to win is to keep showing our disagreement. a country divided as people take to the streets some to support the president of the for tell him to go as police in minsk make more arrests of the violent clashes with police in the immediate aftermath of the country's disputed election european union is taking a keen interest in events in belarus and is convening an emergency session to discuss the political crisis. another news the us democrats formally nominate joe biden is there rather in 2020 but is the party campaign promises of peace. could come back to haunt. us a military uprising in mali sweeps the president from power threatening to plunge

the country deeper into chaos. you're watching out international thanks for joining us. the belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several arrests the strikes and demonstrations gripped the country here's what some of tuesday's rallies both for and against the president looked like. was not even was yes i did was i was over there the situation in our country is very serious we are against unrest in our country i want to say one thing i stand here for valorous our president we do not condemn the question because opinions for they position so why should they condemn the us was but i

came here to support the protest because the only way to win is to keep getting out and keep showing our disagreement with the results of the election or is this i'm here to show solidarity with my people as i also want changes the dictatorship that has lost it for 26 years has finally been weakened and our country is now moving in an democratic direction. the opposition's coordination council for the transfer of power in belarus held its 1st meeting on tuesday it promises this council to maintain friendly mutually beneficial relations with the e.u. russia and ukraine it also criticizes the role of the security forces in governing by the roofs as they look at the slum the council is nothing but in legal terms to seize power. meanwhile the number of foreign countries of challenge the legitimacy as president rejecting the results of the election e.u. confirmed it is drawing up sanctions against the russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters dystonia hawkins delves

into why the former soviet republic has drawn so much international attention. just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that will change the thousands paul out of the streets in protest over the disputed presidential election it's the country's geography which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of international players intertwine and clash. officially the e.u. is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. as persona non grata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing human rights violations in the wake of police violence closer to start number we're told e.u. why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether there will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the by the russian authorities.

condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next the baltic states and poland have been the loudest critics of looking while hungary has stopped short of outright that i'll see ation others still have sought a balancing act the e.u. can't turn a blind eye neither can it risk having it be stabilized neighbor state on their doorstep and conference. asians with moscow a longtime ally of minsk are getting tiresome. so it's no surprise putin has been busy on the phone holding talks with merkel mark kroll and the european council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better routes is russia's closest historical ally a vital economic and military partner and the buffer zone against nato over recent years have seen their relationship strained to say the least nevertheless moscow would surely rather put up with a look of shame goes over towards the west and risk chaos on its borders the

russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of belarus which could lead to a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. for many years but it doesn't exactly been a top priority for the united states in 2006 they slap sanctions on minsk for you guessed it undemocratic elections and in 2008 the country's expelled each other's ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand it out of 6 wanted to help the reuss build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look who may be interested or put their bets on the opposition and it's the uncertainty in minsk one thing is clear

washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u.s. friendly state on russia's border could be a game changer and as protests grow in a country suddenly thrown into the international limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move. well the used to hold an emergency summit over the political crisis in belarus this will be later on wednesday r.t. correspondent peter oliver has more but. the virtual summit which will get underway to around noon brussels time will see leaders dial in via video conference germany holds the rotating presidency of the european union right now when chancellor angela merkel held talks over the phone with russian president vladimir putin heading into this summit and which it's important for the e.u. to speak with one voice. spoke with russian president putin and made it clear once again that freedom of expression and their right to demonstrate must be guaranteed

that prisoners must be released and that there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully in the ballots to lift the way and poland have been particularly vocal in their support for the opposition in belarus settler ticket of sky is in self-imposed exile in live your way mia and she said that the e.u. should make a statement rejecting the recent election invalid reuss this is taking place right now in the. hero i call and you are not to recognize this fraud went elections. mr quest center has lost all the legitimacy in the eyes of our nation and the wild but there's a balancing act to play for the e.u. alexander lukashenko is already claiming that foreign interference is behind the only rest in the country and the fact he's put the military on standby because of

it would you statements have been made very some western countries who don't even know where bill is and have no idea what is happening here but nevertheless they make these statements we have reacted to this and deployed combat army units on our western borders and have brought them to full combat readiness. so what can we expect coming out of where these days you saw that we can expect clarification on who will be targeted by e.u. commission sanctions most likely it's going to be belorussians curity forces and election authorities could also expect a statement of support for the opposition however for now at least the e.u. will be looking to tread lightly. eastern europe especially spend arris police the crisis is a major concern for both russia and the european union. a few days ago looking shango. to the kremlin and said that he was going to us brits and 'd it supports

the suggestion was that the present was reaching out 'd to the russians for a significant force the riot police beer troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and it's raised the question will russia invades. that i wish it was below speculation 90 times that people are for the situation firstly that idea has been pretty written off the brits it's 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 if 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. macro and merkel 'd reaching out the aid 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 new extremely quote unquote heavy sanctions if it's seen to do that but i think it is going to come back with exactly the same argument in fact and he did say explicitly that there should be no west in in the domestic politics of. the u.s. democrats have officially nominated joe biden for president in a virtual voce during day 2 of the party's virtual convention but despite efforts to attract younger voters with a star studded lineup for some events proving to be a bit of a ball. without

a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history of kooks. but. the d.n.c. feels like one long have to usually. this convention so far makes me think the democrats of the party ready to lead america into the. party crowd i'm dying which means you can see now this is goodbye to. 2 you while both democrats and republicans are making

a raft of campaign promises including about american military interventions joe biden says he wants to see and to the wars his track record and pay so well that leaves a lot to be desired culture explains. donald trump's surprising 2016 election victory had a lot to do with one golden promise and america's endless wars i am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing america's korda show interest to avoid endless wars that we're caught up in the current strategy of toppling regimes with no play and for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists we now know he didn't deliver on his promise but many americans still long for that away says of peace and in 2020 the opposition understands this all too well democrats know it's time to bring nearly 2 decades of

unceasing conflict to an end and left wing right wing it doesn't even matter polls are showing that 3 out of 4 americans want troops withdrawn from afghanistan and half of them want to see cuts to the military budget when it comes to u.s. foreign policy the vast majority of americans are fed up with never ending war and yet the democrats are supporting joe biden as their candidate a man with a track record of supporting conflicts. let's start from 2002 when joe biden jumped right on the weapons of mass destruction bandwagon and supported the u.s. invasion of iraq clearly be more secure without saddam hussein in position of weapons of mass destruction almost 5000 american soldiers dead thousands more iraqi civilians killed a catalyst for the rise of the islamic state i wouldn't say any of that fits into most people's definition of peace and security in my mind. we're. not having. there are no you know.

as barack obama's v.p. biden cheered on america's longest war in afghanistan he called it a success and promised to bring the troops home that strategy is succeeding and as a consequence the president is making good on his commitment to bring our young men and women home right on schedule well here we are 2020 and so little has changed it just goes to show us operations in afghanistan are more about dysfunction than success what are we trying to do here we didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking if the american people knew the magnitude of these dysfunction syria libya pakistan yemen the list of countries that were bombed while joe biden was vice president is very long so are we supposed to believe that he's going to put an end to years of endless war you decide well biden was there he was in the room where it happened as you say he was there for 8 years of obama so he can't

divorce and so through obama's warmongering policy pretty rich for the democrats to pretend now that they're the peace part of the because we had 8 years of president obama starting more wars i think than any president in decades before hand before him more drone strikes more volume ings more killings under president obama hope it was all for everyone's own good when in fact just last month when president trump announced he wants to remove 12000 troops from or you want to remove troops from afghanistan the democratic party that controls the house actually teamed up with liz cheney daughter of dick cheney to try to block and they actually passed legislation to try to prevent the end of the longest war in u.s. history so for them to now say we want to end endless wars it really is a farce who knows that the voters will buys that's nonsense. u.s.

senate intelligence committee has accused putin of firstly ordering the how come the democratic party of 2016 bringing the full story after this break. seemed wrong were all just don't all. get to shape our just become educated and in detroit because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i know. no

shots. actually there's. no place to. which your thirst for action. is. ok let's move on to a developing story now the organizers of the military mutiny in mali say that they will hold fresh elections and that hold all international agreements. lost was a distributor in the civil society and political movements are invited to join us

to create the best conditions for a transition towards credible general elections to exercise democracy and part a road map for the foundations of the new mali. earlier the country's president appeared on state television announcing his resignation after he was detained on tuesday during a military revolt it brought him boubacar kater said the decision to leave power would help avoid bloodshed in this country. but i would like to inform you of my decision to resign from my position with immediate effect and with all the legal consequences this entails the dissolution of the national assembly and of the government. will choose those uprising began with a shootout at the military camp which is situated close to the capital a group of soldiers detained their senior officers for their marching on bamako and storming the president's residence mutiny was swiftly condemned by the african union the e.u. the head of the un neighboring countries or close their borders calling for

sanctions against revolutionaries to follow several months of protest in mali which saw the opposition demand the president's resignation over corruption allegations and a deteriorating security situation 6. people here jumped for joy to see a final farewell to mr. archita he's no longer our president i'm going to be unseated we're here to support with you know because of the social political situation in the country i wish you could become a historian gerald horne claims that the roots of mali's latest insurrection could be traced right back to nato intervention in libya 9 years ago. this attempt was basically a result of the 2011 tragic overthrow and murder of more market off the 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 tons 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 bali if you've been killed as a result this in turn has led to a french military intervention backed by the united states of america and it's also helped to generate unrest and instability this might be on the verge of seizing power and bomb which could have a negative knock on effect route the neighborhood not least in the wall in guinea. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has released the final part of a report on the alleged russian meddling in the $26000.00 election the document accuses putin of orchestrating the hack of democratic party service but if you're hoping to find a smoking gun in this report you're likely to be disappointed in him open explains

. it is the 5th and final installment from the senate intelligence committee regarding allegations of russia and trump and the 2016 elections 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 werder the hacking of the democratic national committee server take a listen the committee found that russian president vladimir putin ordered the russian 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 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 in march 26th seen offices of the russian main intelligence directorate the g o u successfully hacked competes networks belonging to 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. royer 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 activity sort on played a key role in the russian campaign and very likely knew it was assisting russian

intelligence influence efforts from jill in a sanches 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 to charles hotel gave us 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 only to rush i have seen so far little evidence if not no evidence that that happened on the balance of probabilities again when i say the way from looking to those 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 looks very ill on september 11th 2016 she was operating with her husband a corrupt foundation has been since 1997 where hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars have gone missing their similar questions about me joe biden and his family those are the big issues that are going to animate voters in this country. the number of cove in 1000 cases in peru now exceeds haul a 1000000 with more than 26000 deaths that is the high speed tells you right per capita in all of latin america and to make things even worse many peruvian families that have lost a loved one can even give them a proper burial. all

of the body know and get it because of coronavirus they're not burying people in any cemetery around kind of bio they can only bring them here people from other places come here because no cemetery can take them the only ones that can are peacetime a terrorist but if you don't have money what can you do. people come from all over the karbala district to park down below is for people who have died of other courses and this bar up here is for those who have grown the virus. my 2 sons arrived at cape town the radia clinic this is where they died they told me there weren't intensive care beds those are for people who have money there is no salvation for poor people there is none.

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