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concerns over european involvement with. challenges facing interference from. moscow this is our team. to have you with us and we start in belarus where. in the wake of august election both supporters of president lukashenko and those opposing his leadership are flooding the streets these are 2 contrasting scenes from. on the right of your screen you can see thousands of people gathering. waving

the historic red and white flag which has become a symbol of the anti look at schenkel movement and on the left a crowd of the president's backers carrying the official red and green national flag their main message is that the country cannot afford care. must be right in the progress we have stability there's no war thank god 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 . with them and live peacefully and calmly in our mutual it's very clean what's not to like about. that witness did quit or not like that for ines interfere in the affairs of our republic we can manage it ourselves that we stand for below it's. based correspondent went to to approach and file back this report i did but just some people are protesting while others are protesting against the protests i happened to meet my university friends here i asked them did anyone make you come

out here they said no we are the organizers and i asked the same question to other people at the rally they said they wanted to be heard because those red and white flags are being shown everywhere and there's so much anger at the rallies in support of happening very spontaneously to get approval from local officials literally the day before gatherings like this are not so much for a look at but in support of some i did in building and maintaining good relations with russia. one rally in the belorussian capital on wednesday some activists had a strong message.

held an emergency video conference on the crisis our correspondents. are all over have more. you counsel president michel wrapped up the event by saying that the e.u. member states had agreed not to recognize the results of the 9th of august election this election nerd the move for him did not meet international standards we don't we could not reach the results presented by the belarus authorities e.u. commission president as lafond ally and confirmed that sanctions would be put in place on those 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 in belarus and 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 it was a stronger response from the european union than we were probably expecting heading into this emergency summit there is plenty being said by e.u. member states during this summit before it all got underway there was a statement put out by the visit guard for that's made up of 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 it. the e.u. may help the roofs become a majestic clee 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 belarus should on its own choose plain dependant path of 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 at august and cash for the

opposition coming from the european union it now looks like moscow is has become a direct mediator between the european union and belarus xander look at shank oh he initiated gets another telephone conversation with his a russian counterparts to me or putin president of belarus asked boots into sent a message to german chancellor angela merkel not to interfere in the domestic affairs inability he added that he doesn't see any point in talking to the european leaders by himself earlier russian foreign minister sergey lavrov while he said that he warned against external interference in belarus his internal affairs the swedish. we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and roosts we are concerned by the attempt to exploit the internal challenges facing bella ruse to interfere in them from a brutal and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside

actors consider beneficial everything we're hearing now from the european captain is specifically from the baltic countries. and in the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy only with geopolitics moscow is calling on all parties involved to have to provide for a genuine dialogue and is used they also said that according to the kremlin's words of the term the belorussian officials are indeed ready to speak to the protesters and to the opposition however interference and provocation from abroad are certainly counterproductive now alexander lukashenko he's also all earlier actually used to the west often financing the opposition but of those western countries are openly without hiding it raising funds and sending them to belarus we cannot strike 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 well look i had another meeting with his country's security council and instructed it to strengthen the country's borders as soon as possible in order to prevent the weapons and minute since from answering beller russi he also instructed the defense minister to begin monitoring the movements of nato troops in poland and lithuania we asked a political analyst to brno dress k. and a journalist neil clark for their views on the e.u. support for the belorussian opposition line taken by the same code has been these people are basically stooges of the west and the us should have only a statement actually backs that up she's talking about getting 3 mini euro's to the opposition so look at simply saying i'd be quite used if i believe it the opposition takes about it's the end of belarus as an independent country will become a e.u. nato satellite state. and so that whole opposition got

a quick very carefully. with this endorsement because it's exactly what the question is claiming that they are the puppets of western powers and if they are to maintain public support they've got to make clear to people that they are not i think it's a double edged sword for the opposition isn't. it looks like there is a strong pressure within the e.u. especially you. bro american allies of the united states like poland and the tech states to push you to take much more radical stands. against the need of the belarusian government and doing so to mexico and we know dutch germany and france are not sure exteriorise as of the warsaw and. news governments so i think. it's very important.

to take into account a fire don't. look as simple i don't. recall the guys decided that day will they would have a discussion with a girl in and the. bar is not wars all and the news and in this case it means. don't accept little to recognize any role to washington to the united states. meanwhile u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden has expressed his backing for the belorussian opposition he tweeted that washington should support the law meticulous guys call for quote fair elections or does daniel hawkins looks into why belarus is causing such a global stir. 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 is 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. withheld 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 bully russian north or sees. condemnation was perhaps predictable but there's 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 macron 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 alloy a vital economic and military partner and a 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 to yours that the west and risk chaos on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affair. 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 slapped 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 1904 minutes got a visit from the u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of his energy needs and extended a helping hand the united states wants to help fellow troops 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 more news after a short break this is r.t. international.

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a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history at 3. 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. party crowd i'm dying which indians messages goodbye to.

both democrats and republicans are busy making a raft of campaign promises ahead of november's election including about american military interventions joe biden says he wants to see a quote end to forever wars but critics say his track record on peace isn't exactly spotless. 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 showed interest to avoid endless wars that were caught up in the current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan 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 a waste 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 i'm.

7 not happy. there are no you. 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 bombings 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 $12000.00 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. german authorities have confirmed that an incident on a berlin highway on tuesday night is now being treated as an islamic extremist attack it involved a series of car remix 6 people were injured with 3 currently in critical condition the suspect an iraqi born refugee was detained prosecutors say he was deliberately driving his car into vehicles. several vehicles witnesses state that he began shouting god is great in arabic and threatening to detonate explosives authorities have confirmed suspect was known to them for extremist behavior and that he spent time in a psychiatric hospital 2 years ago he was also apparently facing deportation from germany the suspect is expected to face 3 charges of attempted murder.

lebanon is set to enter a 2 week lockdown from friday as it struggles to cope with a sharp rise in covert 1000 cases the country's health care system has been pushed to breaking point after a catastrophic explosion in beirut put 3 hospitals and half the capital's clinics out of operation new video has now emerged showing the destruction of some of those facilities and a bit of warning you might find the following footage upsetting according to the red cross the tragedy left at least $200.00 people dead and over $6000.00 injured 300000 people also lost their homes it is believed that a fire in a warehouse at the port caused the detonation of a huge amount of ammonium nitrate chemical compound had reportedly been stored in unsafe conditions for years it is estimated that it could cost up to $15000000000.00 to repair the damage to the city.

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you've been enlightening yourself with during the lockdown well i'm trying to be disciplined. i stay tell me and i think it's the best attitude to responsibly keep distance you know take face masks if you have to mention indeed edits huge is. starts to sucker meaning about a recess to be starved out and most offensive for attitudes. straits strain the rejections more than actually texas. so you better watch out do that. now many people maybe a different generations will know your acting as a as a star of the man the laurian but this new film family romance can you just explain why i might ask you whether there i am impersonating an interviewer

interviewing you and how that how that is to do with the film it's a deep question yes it could be you know might be an impersonator digitally this possible to plough you into some digital interview with a likeness of you a real person so we read it we have to understand that representation of self even if you were yourself has changed with the digital age and in the way family romance. has as a subject this question of performative things or fake fake news of performative appearance of people where you're meant somebody most of the people actually know exactly what they are doing they rent a friend when they're in deep salvage the woods and they have a great afternoon with a friend they go out to the bar but sometimes. that might be a case

a change missing a father. gets a rented foreign does know that a file they sent it so then it's and it's a deeper thing but of course make question is how much is your last performative. doing a conversation on the air you probably talk differently than to your own family we play roles and we are in the military service of n.p.r. with our children so we adapt different voices different attitudes. is it a kind of sequel to. tokyo story not really that mention a film of bin ventus in that case it was a documentary and i was a participant but it's more about image making. images that are wasted.