nationwide protests sweeping the roost for a 12th day in the wake of the country's election in response large rallies take place including in the eastern city of. despite warnings against meddling in baton rouge and european leaders agreed to impose sanctions themselves on men's prompting accusations of hypocrisy. that secretary of state formally request a resumption of un sanctions against iran accusing the country of piloting the 2050 nuclear deal even though washington quit the agreement 2 years ago. and a russian opposition figurehead. is in intensive care after falling sick during

a flight to moscow prompting western media speculation the kremlin foul play even as moscow offered a broad street. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international thomas certainly that you with us now it is day 12 of nationwide unrest in bello 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 gone. people here are chanting for the president to resign in the city of gomel but in contrast you have 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 bellerose. ampitheater in vitebsk packed earlier in the day with thousands of people chanting their support for president lukashenko pro-government marchers were seen throughout the day vera as well r.t. as it was john of reports from that city. 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 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 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 or libya or 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. you our president has created conditions which allow us to think about our families about the future. they can make plans i don't want anything to change us 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 try to crash their rallies it to crash the program rallies and the pro-government protest as. has but again i have been already consecutive days of protests. and they're not it doesn't look like they are going to and anytime soon another issue that we're 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 book of the creation of such organizations is illegal and their activity violates the constitution having realized for most 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 the chief of prosecutors words are echoing what president lukashenko said on wednesday at a security council meeting the so named can't quote nation council for the transfer of power was a stablished by the opposition leaders for. she is currently in self exile in lithuania the group denies any wrongdoing a political analyst and very big check believes the anti-government movement in belarus is losing momentum due to the lack of a clear agenda. below to show you 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 aiming at something else which they really don't know what it is they are just being told and told by the opposition by the european union that they. have to demand change they have to change the system but it can see no of the support for this. kind of disappearing because people are thinking ok now for the 1st time a what is going to happen if you really. have this change or are we going to end the blake ukraine are we going to. the former soviet republics which were pushed through this independence or. 'd are we going to end up basically or not in the east the e.u.

meanwhile has confirmed it is drawing up sanctions against bell russian officials who are suspected of election. fraud and violence against protesters the bloc hasn't disclosed as yet whether alexander lukashenko is on that list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago lithuania which shares a border with belarus has banned a look at shango and 31 other belorussian officials from entering the country and the e.u. has stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in the belorussian 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 stirring up confrontation between the government and opposition in belarus that's after the e.u. unanimously rejected the results of the election and declared president look a shadow persona non-grata parties donald quarter comments now on 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 license 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 but 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 you should be able to see conditions when 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 roots

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 trade all of them 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 valorous 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 for the reduce because now it is highly dependent economically on russia poland is already presented to plan for intensive calls. in the areas of independent media the economy investment and thence national trends 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 bella russian workers just think what the loss of valor of the skilled workers would do to help democracy national. actions would not interfere with our neighbors in tone 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 spent long that's a kind 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 it's important russia everything that we hear in the western media coming out of the news of the day is. that of mere speech of both or. east. so it's really what you think is one of the should be they've made 1st of. all what we do here in. the russians and so far. they've been very patient in the. rules who are in charge of the us you. believe

that we all are one why one train that in one direction so what is the view that's been done to the lot of western thinking ever since. mr for yama wrote his book of the end of history. back and i 22. the us has formally requested a so-called snapback of united nations sanctions against iran secretary of state my pompei all met with the un security council president on thursday to make that request artie's came up and comments 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 lifted 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 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 miss west who you would know where difficult 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 can all countries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. press are in low for. 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 as i have repeatedly recalled the u.s. unilaterally ceased 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 away related activities he cannot therefore be considered

to be a participant state. for the purposes of possible sanctions not by foreseen by the resolution the 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 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 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 about it 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 russia's deputy envoy to the u.n. said on thursday that the u.s. had declined to hold a security council session on the question of sanctions against iran we spoke to journalist reece alaric the author of the iran agenda today he thinks the u.s. push for renewed sanctions is 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 o a that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back and we've seen all kinds of the seizure 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 and staunch u.s. allies completely reject the above 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 russian opposition leader

alexina vaal me has been left fighting for his life after falling ill on thursday during a flight to moscow the plane made an emergency landing in the siberian city of op square volley 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 paramedics came to his aid. after news of his illness broke supporters gathered in several cities across russia this was the scene in central st petersburg people there holding placards with the message live in a volley and a rally was also held here in moscow where several activists were reportedly detained to them on kosovo has more on the situation and the international reaction

. i think seeing the violent felt ill when he was on the roots of 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 drug however at this moment said medics can see the testing they continue symptomatic treatments of they see a lot of the but they have already ruled out several things that meanwhile want to fix a lot of these 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 there 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 critic said let's just take a look at some of what the western. have 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 true and if so asking not in there is an old russian city as many towers fell out of the steam is clearly puts a blame the governments to all they're saying got this would not have been possible without hussein's approval. is a very. silencing critics like. we always.

were being humorous examples of. well ironically while the the kremlin has been doing nothing but call parading with that nonviolent 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 he 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 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 closed had used to call that 19 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 the for russian citizens to visit other countries for medical

treatment despite of the cruise board 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 all 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 about ms. right here in the west and he's seen as a pretty powerful opponent well good team of putin so from the western border view of many western countries and he's a hero so there for anything that happens to him would be seen as criminal and it opens recounts in the kremlin. nothing else would happen to him unless he could become an did you know acted and did something so that's the way the media in the west where do things. immediately point to blame because they want sensationalism

they want headline news but of course in fact the totally false news will think. we have to wait on the medical and the medicine and find out exactly why he. descended into the cobra why he was hospitalized why he was in such paid him so on but of course it makes a great story from the from the west and what have you because most of the western press is only russian. tech a 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 it 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 some things are 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 language you say because of the pandemic it's because of the lockdowns all across the world especially in the us 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 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 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 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 oh i just think the 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 the 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 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 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 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 now or the desire for mail be back

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