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a flight. western media speculation of. the world this is or to international always. it is day 12 nation wide on rest in the wake of the disputed election earlier this month large crowds on both sides of the divide are making their voices heard those who support president alexander lukashenko and those who want to see him. people here are chanting for the president to resign in the city of goma but in contrast you've got a convoy of the president's supporters driving past them with the official red and

green flying until the government demonstrators have also gathered in the capital square activists are lining up along. in eastern. i. and vitebsk packed earlier in the day with voices of people chanting their support for president lukashenko pro-government marches we're seeing throughout the day there are 2 parties spoke to me earlier from this. it's the closest large city to the russian border and that's that's where we are and few 1000 people gathered supporting the government saying that they. do think that the country needs changes but they don't like the current that the that the protesters have taken i talked to some of them and they have been essentially

saying that they indeed they do want changes but they want to make them peacefully they want a peaceful transition to something else not a transition old power but in the old policy if i may say so and they have been citing such examples as for instance syria or libya or ukraine and saying that well those countries they have seen some changes and they don't like what they're seeing there they're sort of looking over the border across the border and they don't like it they don't want to. watch the news and can see events unfold in as they did in syria libya iraq and ukraine i've seen how countries have been destroyed with people fleeing and both to europe and even in migrant camps i believe who must not choose this path this is really a color revolution. our president has created conditions which allow. to think about our families about the future we can make plans i don't want anything to change must we have peace everything is clean and great the puppet is just want to

destroy us do we need. the support fool the incumbent president lukashenko has been growing here still i have to say not as large as at least it looks not as large as the opposition protests but this could be a case of the silent majority because again who has won the election a highly controversial case but still. this similar action has taken place in other cities like in capital minsk and all across the country again people in the thousands there have been cases one anti government people sort of tried to crash their rallies that she crashed the pro-government rallies and tackled the pro-government protesters. but again i have been already consecutive days of protests. and they're not it doesn't look like they are and anytime soon. we are following surrounding the situation and

prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the opposition's coordination consul accusing them of plotting a legal seizure of power. so that lead to the creation of such organizations is illegal and their activity violates the constitution having realized then lawfulness of their actions the number of council members quit the body and reject its goals these include the illegal seizure of power words the council poses a danger to national security a direct response there from the chief prosecutor no doubt really echoed what president lukashenko said and whedon's they had a security council meeting no the so named the coordination console for the transfer of power was established by the opposition leader to come up sky she is currently in self exile in lithuania the group denies any wrongdoing. of

political analyst and revolt check believes the anti government movement in belarus is losing momentum due to the lack of a clear agenda. bill i'll show you stand the goodspeed in the studio is fired. some people obviously had little bitty an awful fall of the scum float. by this opposition and this uprising as it is being called they are are aiming at something else which they really don't know what it is they are just being told and don't believe the opposition by european union that they. have to demand change they have to change the system but you can see no the support for this attitude this. kind of this feeling because people are thinking ok now for the 1st time a what is going to happen if we really. have this change or are we going to end the ukraine are we going to. the former soviet republics which

were. through this president busy. are we going to basically or not at least the e.u. meanwhile has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against bell and russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters the blockhouse and disclosed as yet whether alexander lukashenko is on the list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago if you any a which shares a border with belarus has luca shango and 31 other better russian officials from entering the country the e.u. has stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in the ballad russian crisis moscow points. doing precisely that with its sanctions on the country's leader russia's foreign minister has contacted the e.u. foreign policy chief to urge brussels again stirring up confrontation between the

government on the opposition in belarus now that is after the e.u. unanimously rejected the results of the election declared president lukashenko persona non grata artie's donald quarter takes a closer look now at the signals coming from the european union. for the west bank it was always europe's last dictator the european union never liked the guy but they did try to play nice not anymore we stand by the people of belarus their european union student insley their routine was a piece of bread a recess by schools and most better issued on its own choose brain dependent cost of the country will follow there should be no outside interference in the situation there just off things could no longer continue as they are in belarus now it's when a dictator has come to the end of the road it's best to find a way forward without further violence to suspicious in the western powers throw

around words like dictator and regime usually it doesn't and well no wonder it sounds pretty alarming to moscow but it's going to be a looser you can use this with we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and better roosts we are concerned by the attempt to exploit the internal challenges facing bellaver use to interfere in them from abroad it goes without saying ballarat president alexander lukashenko is also concerned. that when you see 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. the european union isn't just paying lip service to the bell or russian opposition either the millions of euros in aid it promised to the belorussian government are now being redirected to so-called civil society an independent media and the european commission will mobilize now an additional $53000000.00 euros to support the belorussian people are

in these challenging times we can't forget the e.u. states neighboring balla reuss which seem to have their own agendas for one the polish prime minister seems to think belarus is close ties with russia make it incapable of democracy and there is a plan to change that an economic plan should be prepared for the ruse because now it is highly dependent economically on russia poland is already presented to plan for intensive the reuss in the areas of independent media the economy investment and international trained poland's plan involves spending a levon 1000000 euros on scholarships for media and academics that it deems to be independent warsaw is also generously offering to open its doors to belorussian workers just think what the loss of belarus a skilled workers would do to help democracy. actions will not interfere with our neighbors and. we can and should extend a helping hand to belorussians it's

a similar story in lithuania where the opposition leader spent long that's a kind of sky is in self-imposed exile and other belorussian anti-government n.g.o.s are operating from it's also where a fund raising initiative called freedom 1st to go bella reuss is being organized intended to encourage the creation of a democratic state aside from the fact that its director provided direct support to the ukrainian uprising in 2014 little is known about who is involved or where the money is coming from combined questions surrounding the opposition's shady sources of funding with the e.u. is cold shoulder to lucas sankoh and you have to ask your. self who is going to really come out on top from the on rest and valorous and stamp or to russia everything that we hear in the western media coming out of the events of the day is interference when not america speaks about foreign powers not to mean just looking to east. so the 2 sides are really pointing fingers of one another in the case of

the year they've made the 1st steps of the all lately to ference in concert of their will loose the players the russians and so far we've been very patient and liberals who are in charge of the e.u. institutions believe that we all are one why one train it in one direction so what is the view that's been done with a lot of western thinking ever since. it was difficult yama wrote his book of the end of history. by conventional you to. another story we're closely following the us has formally requested a so-called snuff box of united nations sanctions against iran secretary of state it might pump air met with the un security council president within the last number of hours to deliver not request what does that mean what's the ramifications here's

come up and so at this point we've got the united states essentially demanding that the united nations reimpose its crippling sanctions economic warfare against the islamic republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivered letters to both the un secretary-general to terrorism to the president of the security council. notify them that the united states is initiating the restoration of virtually all u.n. sanctions on iran lifted under un security council resolution $2231.00 now essentially the united states is hoping to invoke the snapback mechanism that was part of the j c t o a conclusion of the iran nuclear negotiations the iran nuclear deal now the snapback mechanism was put into the nuclear deal so that if iran did not fulfill the agreement and did not fulfill its obligations broke the agreement that there

would be an immediate snap back and all the un sanctions would immediately be reimposed on iran so now the united states is trying to invoke the snapback mechanism however it has virtually no support in the international community when it comes to this demand we've got all the other cosigners deal the united kingdom germany france china russia all staying that basically the united states doesn't have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism because the united states pulled out of the deal not iran this has been the international reaction to the united states call this was west to you and i was aware deploy concerned that reckless acts by the united states could trigger a serious crisis from the security council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this we call in all countries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. plans are and loehle. the united states has withdrawn from the comprehensive agreement on the iranian nuclear issue and he's not qualified to call for

a rapid resumption of sanctions by the security council we firmly believe that any unilateral attempt to trigger un sanctions snapback would have serious adverse consequences in the un security council we would not support such a decision which should be incompatible with our current efforts to preserve the j. c.p.o. a now the united states hold out of the iran nuclear deal in may of 28 scene and at this point we got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open. renegotiating a new deal that would restrict iran's activities more harshly now at this point people are reacting to the recent effort by the united states to extend the arms embargo against the islamic republic of iran which was roundly defeated by the international community the u.n. security council the 15 member body that leads the u.n. the only other country to support the u.s. move was the dominican republic and it seems with the world basically opposing

washington's moves against iran that iran actually has the upper hand this is what we've heard from some iranian officials in was called and on which i think today it's clear that the united states is size elated and american unilateralist is not supported by other countries with a reason reason lucian that was put before the security council the united states was defeated the slum a group public of iran has the upper hand in the international community it seems like almost a consensus that the iran nuclear deal should remain intact however washington has pulled out of the deal and they seem to be almost standing alone this point in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the islamic republic. living on russian opposition figurehead alexy vallone has been hospitalized after falling ill during a flight to moscow the plane making an emergency landing in the siberian city of me

is now in intensive care in a coma while still on the plane he was heard howling in pain as part of medics came to his aid. after news of his illness broke supporters gathered in several cities across russia this was the scene in central petersburg people there holding placards with the message live. under rally was also held in moscow where several of us were reportedly. are to. give us some more insight on the situation on the international reaction to it. i think seeing the violet felt ill when he was on route to the russian capital from siberia the aircraft counts and decided to make an unscheduled landing and once on the ground level he was probably

taken to the hospital where he remains in a coal mine now the. latest reports suggest that their preliminary diagnosis is poison by neuroleptic which is more commonly known as anti-psychotic drugs however at this moment medics can see the testing they continue symptomatic treatments of they see a lot of me but they have already ruled out several things that meanwhile one of the they say the law in these personal medics is already there in almost school where she received some information from the doctor saying i don't know if he has regained consciousness and doctors gave me general medical information that he is in a serious condition let's have it here against consciousness to morrow and all the as a high profile personality what's been the international reaction so far the western media they were very quick with their headlines and they labeled what happened as the poisoning of a kremlin critic now someone as far as speculating that

a russian leadership is somehow responsible and gave their viewers a timeline all for a supposed poisonings of kremlin critics let's just take a look at some of what the western media had to say the most outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin has been rushed to a siberian hospital doesn't seem to really decide asking is the kremlin involved it's all too early so i ask him not in there is you know the russian city has many towers falling steve is clearly putting. the government school there saying this would not have been possible without whose approval. is a very very. silence the critics like. and it's always. being humorous examples of. well ironically the kremlin has been doing nothing but call parading with the stuff in this case and helping them as much as they can and

just recently in a violent these other personal medic while he told the western media that she wants to be evacuated to the european union he added that he was even in socks with clinics in france and in germany as well well the kremlin said they're ready to give any kind of green light necessary in order for them wanted to be transported were wherever he needs to be despite the fact that the borders in russia close now g.'s to colvin 1000 situation they wish to nevada to get well very soon of course and the request to visit a foreign clinic would be approved as soon as possible if there is such a request for russian citizens to visit other countries for medical treatment despite of the coups well enough on the staff had already welcomed this offer from paris golf and will now put in a request to the kremlin to help with the evacuation if it is necessary meanwhile

elsewhere in the western media it looks like the cause and the blame of this and already been attributed and that's despite the fact that everything is being done in russia for nevada need to get better soon as possible. tech giant apple this week became the 1st ever u.s. company to be worth 2 trillion dollars apple's value puts it on a par with major economies and it's not surpassed in fact the g.d.p. of brazil canada russia unsought korea its market capitalization as doubled over the past 2 years and most about growth has happened since the start of the mc experts know estimate that if apple were a color me it would be classified as the 9th richest in the world. for more insights on this happy to say we can bring into a columnist edward hole co-founder of occupy wall street and also jeffrey tucker

editorial director for the american institute for economic research gentlemen good to have you both on the program ted can we start with you does up old sky high valuation does it bear any relation to reality or is it just a quirk of the market do you think. i mean it seems to be a bit of a symptom of outmoded of us relating with you and obviously people citizens all around the world i guess are speculating on a company that they see is valuable and the you know future generations will look back on it as maybe a little outmoded and hopefully young entrepreneurs around the world can unseat such a well established player jeffrey most of the surge in value as i said came during the pun demick several other tech giants they have been cashing in as well but it doesn't seem as if something's not quite right when millions are losing their jobs or close to it on a tiny number getting insanely rich. that is exactly right and i have to correct

your language you say because of the pandemic it's because of the lock downs all across the world especially in the u.s. governments have been bankrupting small and be medium size businesses and forced closures and stay home orders and closing schools closing borders stopping travel it's been an outrage and of course who benefits it's the big companies especially the tech giants and the rich meanwhile in this country the the poor and the middle class are suffering and medium small businesses are going under because of the lockdowns not because of the pandemic and i do think it's morally outrageous and this this whole culture of lock down crackdown command control needs to stop ted can i put an opposing view to you tech companies are among the key drivers of the u.s. economy there are a source of global innovation that we all take advantage of surely growth or at the

very least innovation should be encouraged. yeah there's well obviously there's an end plenty of encouragement for companies like apple which have received public funding. from their very get go and we really need to see far more of diversity at the grassroots of the economy to to channel that kind of innovation and it seems that. large companies like apple once they reach a threshold like this they need a lot of public scrutiny to keep up with that kind of responsibility of being so large but the scale of a company like that they can take advantage of their resources monopolize and also more or less collude with public officials to give them more or less a different rule set to play with them just the general market a company like that needs to be under public scrutiny and to perform at a higher level and providing innovation rather than at the monopolistic in their

aims. and so we you know as i say a symptom of how our economy operates and also just the motivations and the grassroots of every culture that there are such large companies that more or less can in a way stifle innovation when they get so large and jeffrey just on the issue of power last month aapl along with google facebook almost on were questioned in the u.s. congress and were told they have quote too much power under a danger to the american economy have they become too powerful. i don't want to blame the tech giants of selves i mean during these lockdowns have provided or destroyed their service i think they've earned their highest prices and they've they've earned their their wealth and through service my problem is precisely as our. guest says it's the unfair rules. right now we're living in a regulatory system and

a lot answers from the penalizing everybody but the large tech giants and it goes all the way to the retail level right i mean the mom and pop stores are being shut down while wal-mart is is thriving said i don't i don't want to blame apple and google and amazon so much as i just think that rules should be applied fairly and evenly to everyone so everyone has a chance to get to get big and wealthy and serve the community consumer to excellence i think that's most important thing and there's a that's the essence of what we mean by free enterprise it's supposed to be equal rules for everyone and that is not the situation today there's an interesting few i've been hearing ted people making the point that apple google facebook for instance have more influence than than most governments but is there anything wrong with that why should governments have a monopoly on power. that's such a fascinating question. cohen i would say that well governments are accountable to

the public trust and you know they're as governments become centralized in any fashion there is opportunities for collusion with with businesses that are succeeding at a certain level that's when we start having this stratified rule set the rule of law starts to break down in any country and there's a long history i think in just this materialistic outlook if it ideologies of just pure market capitalism or communism are fundamentally based on a materialistic outlook not a moral foundation. of our actual motivations and existential manner of our why we exist. but as these materialistic ideologies basically greed a license for immorality and that starts to creep into the institutions that are supposed to be protecting the public so i mean their companies and businesses are

not exactly a license to be looking out for public public health and they're supposed to be taking care of a service that once a company can overtake and work with the politician is supposed to be protecting the public then you can get some you know problematic behavior that's on accountable and then the rule of law breaks down jeffrey let me stick it to apple a little further and you can tell me if i'm wrong here it's it's notorious i think that's the word to use for it questionable tax practices stashing hundreds of billions of dollars off shore for example. right now you know i think the year that we're having do you think a company with such vast wealth should be forced to pay more. my answer to that is no actually i think that i think the more that apple can keep for its stockholders and for itself just to sound like a greedy capitalist from the and not give to government the the less money is

wasted because that's what governments do to governments as we've seen over the last 6 months use money to increase their oppression against the people so i don't think that's a good good idea i don't see any good coming out of giving more money money to government and by the way we're facing fiscal crises all over the world governments have surrendered. a vast amount of revenue during the last 6 months of lockdown and economic chaos that the lockdowns have been gendered so they're going to be hungry for money if you watch over the next 66 months are going to be hungry for revenue and looking for it were ever they can get it so i wouldn't be surprised to see many governments go in going after the tech giants and the public is going to be very sympathetic to this precisely because of the numbers you cite seem to have gotten rich at our expense i think there's something slightly wrong with that analysis but i i think there's going to be a populist movement against these tech giants that are going to be ferocious over

the next 6 months and i don't think anything is going to stop it actually when it's been fascinating speaking to you both thank you very much for coming on the program we've been speaking to geoffrey turk or editorial director for the american institute for economic research and ted hall co-founder of occupy wall street 2 economists thank you very much gentlemen. ok an eye opening account next year on our to international chronicling america's northernmost state on the life being lived by many of its residents losing alaska begins in a moment good bye for now.