i don't think. that. the belorussian opposition leader urges citizens to keep up the pressure on president bush and go with more strikes and protests but there's also a growing show of support for the embattled leader. i came here because i want to give balanced away ted i don't want to invest in this outrage that your position provoked creates forces to some i saw it myself i'm for peace in our country. russian doctors give the green light for alexi to be flown to germany for treatment the opposition figurehead is in a coma with ruling out poisoning as the cause of his illness. apple becomes the 1st ever u.s. company to be worth 2 trillion dollars we look at the soaring wealth of the tech

giant since the start of the worldwide lock down. 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 the new leg that needs to be under public scrutiny and to perform at a higher level and providing innovation rather than to be monopolistic in their. broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with all right now rallies and to counter protests have swept to belarus for a 13th day in the wake of this month's disputed election throughout friday large crowds gathered in support of president lukashenko in the country's west. was among them. it's really really loud here what is playing behind me right now is the national anthem of the republic of the us

a little bit of context we are right still in the west in the country in the city of rest to see a lot during the time the 2nd full as it is the great feel because your guess is as good as mine here when it comes to scale but i would say there's about there's definitely thousands of people maybe close to 10000 basically people who have to look to a number of them and the message is some of them one don't want change but none of them want. ukraine. to be played out in their public also a lot of people are making a huge point about the flag you can see how many better russian flags official by the russian flags are behind and just around me essentially they have been saying that white red and white flags the colors chosen by the opposition they resemble. the. collaborates history of the 2nd world war and they have

a huge problem with that because a lot of people in. history those it. was good to get. your vote. they take it seriously so even those who may have supported your position. was what was centrally the flag because of the fact that was what. broke the camel's back. i came here because i want to keep belarus the way to i don't want unrest i'm a mother i have a small child i want him to grow up you know peaceful and beautiful but nobody forced us to come here everyone has their own opinion and we should not prevent each other from expressing our views. i am from belarus for a peaceful i'm 60 years old and i've been working as a dr all my. i have a life and i've traveled to europe i have not seen the best the country been

bellerose and i was outraged that your position provoked our security forces to violence i saw it myself i'm for peace in our country and we just need to start talking to each other. so this is the hand they are supposed to do you know you can go home i think this is not only an example of. they have come here. just from here not just within the city they've come from neighboring cities as well to know that sort of an open the lid open mike going on around him anyone from the ground can get in the spotlight can be in the center stage and speak their mind meanwhile this was the scene outside minsk people standing alongside the highway into the capital carrying red and white flags used by opponents of look at shadow that line started outside the detention center where demonstrators arrested during the early days of the rest were held but elsewhere in the city there was a very different picture parties correspondent on the scene took a ride with the belorussian motorists getting behind the president. offered up as

you can see i'm now in a car it's a convertible this convoy in support of the government has just set off people are driving their cars around the capital waving these official red green belorussian flags to be honest i didn't have an opportunity to count all the cars but i can tell you it's a huge line. i couldn't find the organizers of this event i thought it would be great to get an interview but i went up to several people asking if they could tell me which car the organizers were in and they told me that there are none. somebody just created the chat and more and more people joined it wanting to participate so the guys are telling me that's what's great about this event is that people have done everything themselves they bought the flags themselves can you see this flag that's actually not a flag pole it's a spade handle so as you can see many cars waving red and green. i guess this is how minsk looks right now another thing that's interesting about this convoy is

that opposition was planning a completely opposite event they wanted to block the roads of the city. but as you can see they didn't succeed but i don't think many people would be disappointed about this you can imagine the anger of ordinary people if the roads were completely blocked. well russa's exiled opposition leader has given her 1st media conference since fleeing to lithuania svetlana to use the opportunity to tell foreign countries to respect the sovereignty of bella ruse earlier she addressed her fellow citizens in a new video message urging them to keep up the pressure on president lukashenko with more workplace strikes of us talk at that so you try to entirely legal and powerful weapon against the regime and they know it that's why they intimidate you leave the fear mongering to the dictatorship remember you are not alone i'm asking you to keep on striking who will make the college hear our voices the voices he has stolen from us well despite those calls for industrial action most employees are

going about their business as normal over the last few days there have been no protests at factories and most enterprises are fully functioning that is in contrast to earlier scenes we spoke to some of the workers. yes let's just give them what it's us you know i view it negatively a couple of people from my team went to the strike state devil 10 minutes and came back they were not interested in what was happening that they didn't like it it's a good deal on you but i was going to go by dealing with those who support should have shown that they are the majority by taking to the streets it would have been a different picture now if only they had shown up at the anti-government protests we should have started rolling earlier in support of the current president more almost 2nd question you don't see my basically everyone has a negative view of this strikes because this is a key enterprise and the well being of the entire city depends on its stable operation there for such actions of the plan itself aren't except

a bill moscow based political scientists are told us how he thinks will go will seek to end the crisis. in such case it's battle to i'm dissipate future demands of the opposition that dissipate crisis and get dry to. setup some instruments for dialogue maybe like public dialogue roundtable discussion about the future of develop bellary symbology economic development about social and political development and somehow to incorporate. moderate opposition into political process try to maybe not sharing power but drive to allow them to participate in decision making at the local level regional level at maybe at the national level so that they can express the ideas and interests of those who are intending to make sure their present well he doesn't want to maybe do

our direct negotiations with the council because they are self appointed people so all the legally they do not represent us and the population so it's not clear who they are representing in this and this can include council but i think that he is very likely to agree to have dialogue with the labor unions with the local local leaders lexi to me. local officials. russian doctors have given the all clear for a lecture hall need to travel to germany for emergency treatment the opposition figurehead is in a coma and medics have ruled out poisoning as the cause of his illness or him or if a national report. the doctor is in charge of treating alex st of ali in russia's siberian city of almost now agreed to allow his transportation to a clinic in germany this is something his family has been repeatedly calling for

with his wife julie or even appealing to president why demur putting the medics say that the vine is still very weak and he's not stable they smallman he's not strong enough for travelling but they say they're ready to allow these trust potations at the german doctors and the family's risk. but we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family we will help organize the transportation earlier the russian doctors after discussing the vollies house with their german colleagues who came to all my earlier on friday said that air transportation could be specifically dangerous for aleksey because this is what caused his condition in the 1st place just to remind you of the scene of violent felt very ill while on the plane on his way back to. he felt ill no one could understand the reason it was very very sudden.

and almost immediately after that the video emerged in the internet where we could hear alex cena violently crying and shouting and in distress and in pain. * but. earlier we also heard from the russian doctor is that tough to testing alexander violations blah than urine samples absolute no traces of any talk 6 substance have been found this is the conclusion they came to the room with the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered immense about disruption with a reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off

. well alex cena vilely is known as a prominent opposition figure here in russia and of course. the situation with his health attracted a lot of international attention in the veneer if you demo bones mist in the valley we of course extremely preoccupied and saddened by the situation of alexina valmy we heard this morning what happened to him and i want to see here that we give him all our support his family his loved ones for a prompt recovery and we send by their side hopeful intervention or through to us i hope and wish of course that he will recover as quickly as possible we will of course offer him all the medical help he needs and he can turn to german hospitals . were looking at that advice going to be reporting to me despite what the russian doctors say about toxic materials we still here are saying that violence supporters talking about poisoning and if we have to remind you that this is not for the 1st time just last year there was

a very similar situation when alex saying the violence suddenly felt ill and there were very quick to say that he was poisoned but it turned out later that it was just an allergic reaction well as soon as the news of the illness broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin involvement several cases that were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people political analyst dmitri bobbitt claims that the poisoning rumors don't stand up to scrutiny. course his supporters will not be convinced they will believe that this is a poisoning. i am at a loss who would be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty it's a it's a cliché for their western media the western news agency is to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions unanswered and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much

easier to blame russia putin personally or to speculate if it could be done by a russian government agents without which inseparable with putin's approach is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because it's much more dangerous to really investigate and to see broadly the role of are the exodus both in the story or. and or in the story or. lebanon is facing a threat of famine the deadly blast earlier this month destroyed grain silo storing most of the country's weak supplies and badly damaged beirut port which receives 85 percent of the country's food imports but locals are doing their best to help those in need.

lot. of. basically civics also use the stairs to this initiative one day after the bust we decided to that we have to do something since in lebanon the government doesn't care and doesn't do the government job of. war. or packaging flick boxes where you see your plans you know the nation has found people in the country and also from people abroad everything that this giant consulate that's what the family oh i.

saw she had never seen worse times never need to move would never go hungry even during the week as shelter there was food every way we had bread and meat vegetables but now god save us he still even had a. lot of. very little if. it really is a genuine place to put the words because they want to it's not because they have a political agenda or someone is paying us to do this work we just do it because we have to sit in a few minutes here knows. that. apple has seen it through. share prices skyrocketing from the start of world wide lockdowns we look into the ramifications of the financial and social power after a short break this is our internet.

this is. the system then it was. my 1st impression is all these years. before she. was back to you guys reported summer solution siri on that was daisy harbor and today we're going to be talking about the pending selves of money soccer teams self custody and soft reliance joining us great quickly will be change of key stocks cost a. small seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any new world that is yet to

shape out these days become educated and in gains from an equal to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back this is our t. international now a gas explosion has killed at least one person in a russian apartment block and it is feared that that figure could rise with $28.00 people unaccounted for including one child in the blasts occurred on friday evening in the city of the slava located around 250 kilometers to the northeast of moscow because the force to collapse in one section of the building destroying several homes residents have been evacuated from the building search and rescue teams with

sniffer dogs are at the scene looking for people who may be trapped under the debris a criminal probe has been launched into potential violations of gas safety rules. or. it is a lucrative time it to be a shareholder in apple the tech giant 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 economists edward hall and jeffrey tucker shared their views on the 2 trillion dollar valuation it was 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 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 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 supposed to be equal rules for everyone and that is not the situation today people making the point that

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 and once 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 unaccountable and then the rule of law breaks down . a court in germany has sentenced a woman to 21 months in prison on terrorism charges the 30 year old dual citizen of syria and germany was found guilty of sending several young women to syria to

become brides of islamic state fighters the prosecutor was asking for 3 and a half years in prison however the court counted time the defendant had spent in a turkish deportation center and noted the alleged a short time she had been a member of i so apparently less than one year additionally the sentence took into account the defendants 4 young children. when someone distances themselves from terrorism as she did then you have to give them a chance this chris said to president for the trials for other people who wish to reintegrate themselves in our society that the state gives them this chance. we're not convinced by how display a radical change in how ideology we believe this is tactically that's why we're skeptical journalist adel darwish told the program earlier that places a former islamic state members successfully reintegrating into society are rare. there's a big problem because the. defense

is paid for by taxpayers money the only way that is not enough evidence or as the defense. pleading in germany is that they. are convinced that i haven't actually come across many of them who have entered into society in fact on the commissary even the ones who work at the start. because that kind of ideology that's inseparable from the nazi ideology is just a way of life for them you were talking about leniency there and it was also said that having children this woman having 4 young children was also take into account is that correct. again you see this is a point argument because. of liberal minded left wing social services will

take away. from the loving. if the woman happened having a problem of unity happening or this sort of a history of some kind of fight between being a father and the mother and the flimsiest of evidence that courts will actually take that children away for their own protection i don't see why that social service don't actually take that children away from the influence of parents who might but it grew with and through with the idea of you have the. hong kong has joined beijing in denouncing washington's decision to suspend a series of bilateral treaties in the latest spat between the 2 countries this comes just weeks after the u.s. began targeting high ranking hong kong officials with sanctions including the city's a chief executive. the united states' unilateral decision reflects its disrespect for bilateralism and multilateralism under the current administration and should be

condemned by the international community the hong kong government strongly objects to and deplores the united states' action which is widely seen as a move to create trouble since china u.s. relationship using hong kong as a pawn on wednesday the u.s. announced it would be suspending 3 treaties with hong kong they cover the surrender of fugitives as well as extradition and a shipping tax exemption has been scrapped as well the trumpet ministration has cited china's new national security law which it claims is a roading the city state autonomy but china expert professor benjamin chow says the u.s. doesn't hold the moral high ground on this issue. the u.s. says it is trying to protect its freedom and human rights of the ongoing people but the us itself is ranked much lower than hong kong in many related measures and demaris no police kneeling on the neck of people choking people to death is that many a very being angry with washington who is

a plank that was then to come simply ignoring the fact that many people do not want themselves to be represented by a foreign entity we have dealt proper authorization remember 3 mm median home the rest of the half of the population signed a petition to support the new necessary law that has been set to spark a new round of action from the us it doesn't for me this hour i will be back with more news and let's say 33 minutes hard watching our 2 international. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water then escaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest

coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how ben was or i think were part of her purse for her. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated

loyalist attacks protect the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants and the burning of coal streets in belfast at the train more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the inclusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named the england gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is the phones frost's. the water where politicians you thought was cool enough on until the go ahead. an urgent warning from a former u.s. secretary of defense about the new nuclear arms race under way on this in politics

. the politicking on larry king the authors of a recently released book a warning about a new nuclear arms race that they say is currently underway joining us for an urgent in-depth discussion about that book show to you right here which is called the button they always in perry the former secretary of defense during the clinton administration he's in california and tom collina director of the policy ploughshares fund and he is in new hampshire secretary perry i don't hear talk about a nuclear arms race and it's not discussed in the presidential race why not we were assuming it's over. everybody believes that the dangers of nuclear weapon ended with the cold war ended which is not today in fact the.