nationwide protests this week. in the wake of the country's election and. despite a new warning against meddling in belarus the european leaders agreed to impose sanctions themselves. against iran accusing the country of violating the 50 nuclear deal. 2 years ago. and russian opposition figure. is.

prompting western media speculation of. even the. treatment. of this is. having with us now it is 12 nation wide 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 gone. oh. for the. people here chanting for the president to resign in the city of gomel but in contrast you got a convoy of the president's supporters driving past them with the official red and green flag anti-government demonstrators also gathered in the capital minsk where

activists lined up along a central avenue meanwhile in eastern bellers. and half a theater in a very back to earlier in the day with thousands of people chanting their support for president lukashenko pro-government marches were seen throughout the day there as well are to see where john off reports now from the city. it's the closest large city to the russian border and that's that's where we are and 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 to it 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 while they don't like what they're seeing 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 kind of revolution. you our. president has created conditions which allow us to think about our families about the future we can make plans i don't want anything to change we must we have peace everything is clean and great it 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 it she crashed the pro-government rallies and tackled the pro-government protest as. has but again have been already consecutive days of protests. and it doesn't look like they are going to anytime soon another issue that we are following surrounding the situation in belarus prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the opposition's coordination council accusing them of

plotting an illegal seizure of power. so the lip of the book of the creation of such organizations is illegal and their activity violates the constitution having realized lawfulness of their actions the number of council members quit the body and reject its goals these include the illegal seizure of words the council poses a danger to national security the chief prosecutor's words echoing what president lukashenko said on wednesday at a security council meeting the so named coordination council for the transfer of power was established by the opposition leaders for vanity she is currently in south. lithuania the group denies any wrongdoing now political analyst rejects believes the anti-government movement in belarus is losing momentum due to the lack of a clear agenda. below shows standing going to speed in the store is fired. some people obviously had little bitty an awful lot of discomfort.

by this opposition this uprising as it is being called the are are aiming at something else 'd which they really don't know what it is they are just being told and told by the opposition by european union that they. have to demand change they have to change the system but it can see no of the support for this busy. kind of disappearing because people are thinking ok now for the 1st time or what is going to happen if you really. have this change or are we going to end the blake ukrainian are we going to. the former soviet republics which were pushed through this independence or. are we going to basically or not at least the e.u. meanwhile has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against the bell or russian

officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against. protesters block hasn't disclosed as of yet whether alexander lukashenko is on the list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago lithuania though which shares a border with belarus has banned lucas and go and 31 other bell russian officials from entering the country the e.u. has stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in the bell russian crisis moscow claims though that lithuania is 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 against a stirring up confrontation between the government and opposition in belarus that is after the e.u. unanimously rejected the results of the election and declared president lukashenko persona non-grata on 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 the

european union student in so we didn't reach it was a piece of better research by skills than most benefits should 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 this is when a dictator has come to the end of the road it's best to find a way forward for the 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 good there should be a looser you can use this with we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now in better roofs we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing by the roofs to interfere in them from a brutal it goes without saying belorussian president alexander lukashenko is also concerned that in the. western countries are openly without hiding it

raising funds and sending them to beller we cannot track all of the funds as much if it is in cash but we see that we know what's going on and we will focus on this issue. the european union isn't just paying lip service to the ballarat 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 in these challenging times we can't forget the e.u. states neighboring ballerinas which seem to have their own agendas for one the polish prime minister seems to think belarus has close ties with russia make it incapable of democracy and there is a plan to check. change that such of an economic plan should be prepared to bend the rules because now it is highly dependent economically on russia poland is

already presented to plan for intensive course. in the areas of independent media the economy investment and international trains 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 valor of the skilled workers would do to help democracy. actions will not interfere with our neighbors in total the fact is we can and should extend a helping hand to the russians it's a similar story in lithuania where the opposition leader settle on a take on of sky isn't 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 yourself who is going to really come out on top from the on rest and valorous is an important russian everything that we hear in the western media coming out of the news it was because it is egypt. that of mere speech of both or of the east. so. really what you think is one of the we should be they've made 1st of. all what we did here in. the russians and so far. we've been very patient and we. those who are in charge of the. believe that we all. are 111 train that is

one direction so what is it to you that's been a lot worse than thinking ever since. mr booker yama wrote his book of the end of history. by conventional you too. the u.s. has formally requested a so-called snap back of the united nations sanctions against iran secretary of state my pompei all met with the u.n. security council president within the last few hours to deliver that request our teams came up and have more. 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 notified them that the united states is

initiating the restoration of virtually all u.n. sanctions on iran listed under un security council resolution 2231 did i say it will never allow the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons now essentially the united states is hoping to invoke the snap back mechanism that was part of the j c p 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 that we've got all the other cosigners of the 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 different concerns 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 recall in all countries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. press are and loehle that they will use in the united states has withdrawn. in 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 as i have repeatedly recalled the u.s. unilaterally seized participation in the j.c.b. away by presidential memorandum on the 8th of may 28th in and has subsequently not participated in any j c p a way related activities he cannot have for be considered to be a participant state for the purposes of possible sanctions not by foreseen by the

resolution united states hold out of the iran nuclear deal in may of 28 scene and at this point we've got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to 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 un 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 the reason reason lucian there was put before the

security council the united states was defeated the slummy 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 at this point in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the islamic republic. he spoke to journalist and author of the iran agenda today reason eldritch he thinks the u.s. and push for renewed sanctions are a sign of weakness rather than strength. the u.s. has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this it's very quite explicit in the terms of the j c p a way that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back and we've seen all kinds of procedure iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way

to venezuela all perfectly legal but the u.s. claims the unilateral right to impose its interpretation of sanctions anywhere in the world against anybody it wants. but frankly rather than a sign of strain of it this is a sign of weakness because the u.s. is unable to get support from any other country in the world for these. actions including britain france germany you know staunch u.s. allies completely reject the about the trump a news station on this issue and it's a sign of desperation frankly that they're hoping something will happen between now and november and turn things around and trump hopes to use these efforts to gain reelection i think frankly it's quite the opposite. the tech giant apple's value has now hit the 2 trillion dollar mark surpassing the g.d.p. of a raft of countries including russia brazil and canada after the break we asked 2 experts what that means for the global economy they would.

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international the russian opposition leader. has been left fighting for his life after falling ill on thursday during a flight to moscow on thursday the plane made an emergency landing in the siberian city of. is in a coma and connected to a ventilator the anticorruption campaigners allies say they believe he was poisoned while still on the plane a volley was heard howling in pain as medics came to his aid.

after news broke. supporters gathered in several cities across russia this was the scene in central st petersburg there holding placards with the message live. more on the situation and 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 council decided to make an unscheduled landing and once on the ground the valley was probably taken to the hospital where he remains in a coal mine now the. latest report suggests that their preliminary diagnosis is poison by neuroleptic which is more commonly known as anti-psychotic drugs how

ever at this moment medics can see the testing they continue symptomatic treatment of they see no money but they have already ruled out several things that meanwhile one of the they say that personal medics is already there in almost school where she received some information from the doctors i don't know if he has regained consciousness the 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 russians are going to as many towers fall the steam is clearly put saying. the governments do or they're saying this would not have been possible without whose approval. is a very very. silencing 6 like. and it's always. being humorous examples of. well ironically the kremlin has been doing nothing but call parading with that stuff in this case and helping them as much as they can just recently in the garden these other personal medic while he told the western media that she wants his patients to be evacuated to the european union he added that he was even in talks with clinics in france and in germany as well while 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 covert 900 situation they wish to end the violence 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 the for russian citizens to visit other countries for medical treatment despite of the cross border well nevada staff had already welcomed this offer from peskov 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 devoutness quote here in

the west and he's seen as a very powerful potent well good team of putin so from the western border of your many western countries in eastern europe deliver anything it. would be seen as criminal and you know obviously coming from the kremlin. nothing else would happen to him unless he could become an did you know acted and did something is wrong not the way in the media or in the west where do you think. the media played going to be made because they want sensationalism you want headline news. but it goes. to the false news news. we have to wait when the medical and the medics find out exactly why. it's a little why. you know why you would pay him but it makes a great story removed from the western border view because most of the western gross is only russian. tech giant apple this week became the 1st ever u.s.

company to be worth 2 trillion dollars apple's value put it on par with major economies and has now surpassed the g.d.p. of brazil canada russia and south korea its market capitalization has doubled over the past 2 years and most of that growth has happened since the start of the pandemic experts now estimate that if apple were an economy it would be classified as the 9th richest in the world earlier my colleague you know neal asked economists edward hall and jeffrey tucker for their thoughts on apple's 2 trillion dollar valuation does it seem as if something's not quite right when millions are losing their jobs or close to it i'll a tiny number getting insanely rich. that is exactly right and i have to correct language you say because of the pandemic it's because of the lockdown it's all across the world and especially in the u.s. governments have it's been bankrupting small and b. 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 obviously there's and plenty of them current for companies like apple which have received public funding. from there 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 company a leg 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 last month aapl along with google facebook amazon 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 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 but i think that's the most important thing and there's a that's the essence of what we mean by free enterprise it's right it's supposed to be equal rules for everyone and that is not the situation today people making the point that google facebook for instance have had 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 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 once the company can overtaken and work with the politician is supposed to be protecting the public then you can get some you know problematic behavior that's unaccountable and then the rule of law breaks now. more news in about 32 minutes this is art international clout have with us. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just bought into nationalities. has emerged with turkey we took a back seat the whole world needs to be. judged

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