they suggest that. the long term effects might not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term. people and dollars to take to the streets some to support their president many others telling him to go and within the anti look at their discord over the use of the flag. of the state if you look. at. the european union confirms it will impose sanctions against fellow russian officials accused of election fraud and violence against protesters after european leaders warned against any external interference in the crisis. russia's foreign minister also urges against any outside meddling and the belarus crisis after a look at raises his concerns over european interference. but it's good to see conditions deeply concerned about what's going on right now and better groups

concerned by the attempt to exploit the internal challenges facing by the race to interfere in them from a brutal. and a military uprising and mali sweeps the president from power threatening to plunge the country deeper in the chaos. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for tuning in this hour. the belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several new arrests in the ongoing strikes and demonstrations gripping the country has entered an 11th day of on the arrest earlier on wednesday crowds gathered outside the ministry of education holding the official red and green national flag or part of a movement in support of local shango that's been springing up over the past couple of days. we have stability there's no war we

have bread to eat we have jobs even if we are not rich we would like to be but we just need to work more. for the money. leave peacefully and calmly and i want to be true it's very clean here what's not to like about it. we did not like that for an ace interfere in the affairs of our republic we can manage it ourselves we stand for below as. hundreds of people are now gathering along independence avenue in central minsk carrying the red and white flag which has become a symbol of the opposition movement people are also rolling outside the interior ministry voicing their anger over the election results and the recent police crackdown. at one end of protests in minsk on wednesday some people were seen waving e.u. flags which cause concern.

this. was. just hours ago the european union held an emergency video conference on the crisis in belarus our correspondents bitter over and roman crosser who are following those discussions. you counsel president michel wrapped up the event by saying that the e.u. member states had agreed not to recognize the result of the 9th of august election these elections. free milf. did not meet international standards we don't know the results presented by the belarus authorities e.u. commission president as lafond the lion confirmed that sanctions would be put in place on both deemed to have been behind the violent crackdown on protesters in belarus also raised a few eyebrows by saying that there would be cash made available to the people of

bella ruth day we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows the european commission will mobilize now an additional 53000000 euros to support the belorussian people in these challenging times all in all though it seems that was a stronger response from the european union than we were probably expecting heading into this emergency summit but what other statements have been made by e.u. leaders. there's plenty being said by e.u.

member states during the summit before it all got underway there was a statement put out by the visit for that's made up the group that's made of poland hungary czech republic and slovakia they were calling for fresh elections to be held in belarus after the summit finished the polish prime minister chipped in again saying that the e.u. may help become ended just to clear independent from russia well germany holds the rotating presidency of the european union right now and as soon as the summit had wrapped up chancellor angela merkel was in front of the cameras and talking to the press she said that it's important that outside influence is kept away from belarus. benjamin's should on its own choose plane dependent path that the country will follow there should be no outside interference in the situation there be interesting to see how that flies with the statement from a sort of on the line what we were expecting coming out of this summit was support

for the opposition and confirmation on sign sions what we ultimately got was a refusal to recognize the election result from earlier in august and cash for the opposition coming from the european union what's the kremlin's view on the protest in belarus. because. it's the. stage. to make it so this. isn't just 5 days the president of belarus asked booth's him to send a message to german chancellor angela merkel not to interfere in the domestic affairs in a bill or he added that he doesn't see any point in talking to the european leaders by himself so it now looks like moscow is has become a direct mediator between the european union and belarus earlier. foreign minister sergey lavrov well he said that he warned against external interference in belarus

his internal affairs this idea should be a little secret just as we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and the roof's concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing bill of rights to interfere in them from a brutal and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside actors consider beneficial to everything we're hearing now from the european captions specifically from the both countries poland and the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy only with geopolitics moscow is calling for it. to have to provide for a genuine dialogue and they also said that according to the kremlin's accords of the kremlin belorussian officials are indeed ready to speak to the protesters and to the opposition however interference in provocation from abroad certainly

counterproductive alexander lukashenko he's also earlier i.q. used the west financing the opposition but it goes it's a few months you know when you see the western countries are openly without hiding it raising funds and sending them to belarus we cannot track all of the funds as much if it is in cash but we see it we know what's going on and we will focus on this issue. i had another meeting with his that country's security council and instructed it to strengthen the country's borders as soon as possible in order to prevent weapons and militants from answering beller russi he also instructed the defense minister to begin monitoring the movement of nato troops in poland and lithuania. to discuss this further let's bring in political analyst dr up now the crisis has already become a us election issue joe biden has just tweeted the u.s.

should support. call for fair elections adding that russia must be told not to interfere which is something the e.u. has actually already done do you think that's really contributing to the situation . it's not but it's completely in character through joe budden the foreign policy dimension of the something people don't talk about very much. 'd a lecture in states or wherever he was it was all well i hope all those men or russia the former soviet republics to travel to georgia to travel to same to dictate to the local what they should be doing so it's internally and he would assume the united states. not only on wisdom about how it is in the crisis. we're showing our viewers a clip showing within an anti look a single protest there was an argument over the e.u.

flag being waved to their people saying get rid of it we're not a part of that what do you think that those people are making of the response today . and i think the it's a great pity that greg seems to have. a result in the readership of the financial times in the your institutions because the financial times which is not the center of the question but then saying that if you were the last 3 days but then the truth is in the russian sphere that if there were troops has a special relationship with the russian federation the builders that the opposition in those areas is not anti russian and it's not over the new so the if mr show underlay and the other sections of the year. or think of the pieces on anschutz lines they might more what they're saying and doing today.

at the same time the european commission has pledged 53000000 euros and aid to support victims of repression and an independent media in belarus isn't there a danger of that kind of aid being portrayed as foreign meddling how are they going to hand that out. it is not to be portrayed as far more than it simply is formulated by anyone's definition that as you pointed out to me is civil society civil society is whoever did your lucretia was declared to do there is a very limited civil society within those for reasons to do with the way most of the questioning as one does government or with some 6 years if the fact remains that there are not representative it's genuine that is it was the building society we're going to those who have stepped forward as a committee of transition already are certainly not sensitive of society what are their demands before those guys present as

a transitional if you have been advanced by all the baltic states. and then of course the other thing we have coming out of the e.u. right now are sanctions what do you make of those that they've decided to employ imposed on both the russian officials. or be the person directed. sanctions or not very serious. or they're watching the ships will suffer or more there are limitations on the war on the. way it's needed in the us what is a considerable war is what most of the show is for or. that is if 53 years. there were some checks that's a vast amount of money people's minds if you turn them against their government. earlier you are pointing out that the opposition is not pro e.u.

it's not anti russia it's focused on what's happening in their own country so how do you think us that monitor sky is going to be reacting to all of this coming out of the e.u. today she did call for them to not to recognize the results of the election. i think you have to look beyond what's fair or i wouldn't want to call certain issues a play for him in other people's hands she herself admitted that she was total she's not a politician she's the wife or kids or would be one of those she certainly has a lot of constitutional vices around him who are going to give up to say i don't need to be disrespectful i'm sure she's intelligent. and she has a number of them to experience what she had written standing in their own country. we've been speaking with political analyst gilbert doctorow thank you for your time and your comments here. with the world powers turning their focus on belarus

artie's daniel hearkens find out what's at stake. just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that all changed as thousands pall over the streets in protest over the disputed presidential election is the country's geography which between its big east the neighbor 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 because it is. withheld e.u. why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether they 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 location while hungary has stopped short of outright that l.c.a. sion 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 confrontations 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 above the roofs is russia's closest historical alloy a vital economic and military partner and the buffer zone against nato so 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 to yours to the west and risk chaos on its board. there's 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 democratic 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 the 1994 minutes got a visit from the u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand united states want to help 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. u.s. democrats have officially nominated joe biden for president in a virtual boat during day 2 of the party's virtual convention but my efforts to attract younger voters with a star studded lineup for some the event has fallen flat. without a doubt they will be the most boring repetitive gold meanspirited convention in history of.

the d.n.c. so far feels like one long on you tube usually skip. this convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the 80s. called the crowd i'm dying of which in d.n.c. message is good but it was just what you call. 2 democrats and republicans are making a raft of campaign promises and quoting about american military interventions joe biden says he wants to see an end to forever wars his track record on peace though leaves a lot to be desired as teleporter 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 that. we're. not having it. 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 truman 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 what the voters will buys that's nonsense. german authorities have confirmed. but an incident on a berlin highway tuesday night is now being treated as an extremist attack authorities say a series of car remains were motivated 6 people were injured with 3 now in critical

condition i suspect in the iraqi born refugee was detained prosecutors say he deliberately drove his car into several vehicles witnesses say he began shouting god is great in arabic and threatening to detonate explosives as well authorities also confirm the suspect was known to them for extremist behavior and that he spent time in a psychiatric hospital in 20 years also apparently facing deportation from germany the suspect is expected to face 3 charges of attempted murder. the african union has suspended mollies membership due to an ongoing military coup their soldiers have overthrown the president and say they plan to set up a transitional government and hold new elections. and i should just say really 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 to the foundations of a new mali. earlier the country's president appeared on state television announcing

his resignation as after he was detained on tuesday during a military revolt abraham said the decision to leave power one avoid bloodshed and his country. 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. to say is uprising began with a shoot out at the military camp close to the capital a group of soldiers detained their senior officers before marching on and storming the president's residence the mutiny was swiftly condemned by the african union the e.u. and the head of the un neighboring countries have closed their borders calling for sanctions against revolutionaries who fall several months of protests in mali which saw the opposition demanding the president's resignation or corruption allegations and the deteriorating security situation. people here jumped for joy to

say a final farewell to mr walker kate he's no longer our president. nothing is going well and we're all suffering with the it does not suit us we must advocate for dialogue above all. historian gerald horne claims the roots of mali's latest insurrection can be traced back to natives intervention in libya 9 years ago. this coover 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 coup and murder of gadhafi led to leakage of homes 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 can 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 this might be on the verge of seizing power in bomb the co which could have a negative knock on effect throughout the neighborhood not least in the wall in guinea. that's been your global news wrap up for this hour but my colleague and o'neill will be here in about 30 minutes time with all the latest. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you than.

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