comes down to it and it. equals betrayal. when so many. choose to look for common ground. opposition crowds love the belorussian capital as they post election on rest and there's a 3rd week but a counter movement in support of alexander lukashenko is also gaining momentum. but actually not only is that a berlin hospital after being airlifted from siberia to receive emergency treatment the russian opposition figure has been in a coma since thursday. and a u.s. request to re-impose sanctions against iran is rejected by the remaining members of the reigning nuclear deal.

welcome to the weekly where we bring you the latest news along with a roundup of the biggest stories from the week that was. we start in belarus where another huge protest against president alexander lukashenko is underway currently people have been rolling for more than 2 weeks accusing look of rigging the august 9th election. download and constantine pretty bhalo report from mitt. romney right in front of me people have blocked independence after me. right now right at the intersection near the cinema 500 meters from independence square the 1st of which is the people have left the pavements and taken to the roads. in violation of the traffic. people heading to the square to protest. people behind me on the independence square of the belorussian capital minsk they

have been chanting slogans like leave calling on the president of but a recent example of the shuttle to go long live belarus right now they're clapping and my cameraman is just going to zoom in to show you the scale of the protest right now we have a really good. vantage point so you can see for yourself people are flocking i can see them flocking from all sides now the opposition has been promoting this action as a really really key one in fact the nation committee this is what the what they call the people sort out who have decided to have those anti government movement they are in fact expected to address the crowd today and lay out the plan as to what they're going to be doing now again a lot of chance a lot of slogans being yelled out and the police so far have been announcing from the loudspeakers above the square saying that well people should disperse this

gathering is unlawful because because it has been authorized by the authorities now speaking about the police they have not yet intervened but over there in the distance you can see police vehicles and well police vehicles and crowd crowd control machines they again they are so far standing by they are here they have not intervened well yet we do not know whether or not they will but so far from what i've been gathering speaking with law enforcement and the army they are saying that while the people want to just come out and just make their voices heard there won't be a problem but one of broken one broken window will change everything when you more from the word we cannot stand by and just watch as the protests which are taking place at sacred sites use the flag of the nazis used in organizing the massacre of by the russians russians jews and other nationalities we cannot allow this to happen that's why from this day on we take them under our protection we will if you

disturb the public order in these places you would have to deal not with the police but with the army. also we do know that the government has called on its supporters to stay home because we have been traveling all around the country to cover some of the action organized by the pro-government people by the pro-government crowds we've seen them with phil we've filmed them several 1000 people and each and every rally that we personally i personally witnessed so all these people they have been called on to stay home this has been done in order to avoid any potential confrontation and you know brawls between some of the more passionate protest as we will be standing by here all throughout the day to bring you the latest. the country has been left deeply divided by the vote the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests but on monday supporters of the president began holding town or rallies. it

a boy ducking my heart's bleeding and i can't believe this is happening in belmar of the all of us equities and i love i love the. thanks it is opposition we are strong it is them who made us united we are the people we've been living in fear for a week we've been crying all these calls for change i was buying vegetables at the grocery i told the seller i was going to attend a meeting she said you look at i think death or it is all wrong the election results are a complete lie it's very sad the more the authorities deny ever the things the worse it is for the state i feel bad for the country and for the people i believe that the people's voices that we hear now justify what people decided in the election they have been heard now they will have to listen every day to what's going on here. on saturday a 1000 showed up for a pro on the question go rally in the border city of god now the president himself

delivered a speech he reiterated claims that the political turmoil within the country is being stirred up by the west r.t. was able to speak to him right after his appearance on stage. oh i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during that critical period they were preparing for that they were going to work for i came out i was afraid that these people would have suffered that is why we took a break look at that there is a sea of people outside i did not expect to see that here on the western border where been bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out well meanwhile a number of foreign countries have challenge look ashamed as legitimacy as president rejecting the results of the election the who has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters artist and hawkins delves into why the former soviet republic has drawn so much international attention. just

a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that will change the thousands poured over the streets in protest over the disputed presidential election is the country's geography. which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of international players intertwine and clash. officially the e.u. is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. as persona non-grata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing human rights violations in the wake of police violence in closer to start number we're told e.u. why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether they will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the bully russian authorities. condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next the baltic states and poland have been the loudest critics of location while

hungary has stopped short of outright that l.c.a. sion others still have sought a balancing act the e.u. can't turn a blind eye neither can it risk having it be stabilized neighbor state on their doorstep and confrontations with moscow a longtime ally of minsk are getting tiresome. so it's no surprise putin has been busy on the phone holding talks with merkel mark kroll and the european council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better roof's is russia's closest historical ally a vital economic and military partner and the buffer zone against nato over recent years have seen their relationship strained to say the least nevertheless moscow would surely rather put up with look at those overtures to the west and risk chaos on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of belarus which could lead to

a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. for many years but it doesn't exactly been a top priority for the. united states in 2006 they slapped sanctions on minsk for you guessed it democratic elections and in 2008 the country's expelled each other's ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand the united states wants to help build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look at who may be interested or put their bets on the opposition and it's the uncertainty in minsk one thing is clear washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u.s. friendly state on russia's border could be a game changer and as protests grow in

a country suddenly thrown into the international limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move. the e.u. foreign policy chief has urged for caution in dealing with belarus isabel said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and that minsk should not be forced to choose between russia and europe russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also warned against a repeat of the 2014 ukraine uprising. we're not going to we support any decision that the bell or russian government will take in relation to dialogue with its people but when western countries say that mediation will only be effective with its presence of course ukraine is still fresh in the memory we negotiate with our partners failed so that is why the belorussian people will decide for themselves how they want to come out of this situation there are obvious ways to normalize it which is very important for us at the same time i know not

everybody likes what is happening there are those who want to abuse any peaceful course to provoke bloodshed and turn it into a ukraine like scenario. of the. russian opposition figure not only has been admitted to a berlin hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from the siberian 30 of the bali has been in a coma since falling violently ill during a flight to moscow on thursday artie's bitter over has the latest from berlin. took a lot of wrangling between doctors in the russian city of scanning the valley family but alexei navalny is here in germany here arrived on site today in a special medical plane had been chartered by his supporters and he landed here in berlin and arrived at the hospital flanked by a column of blue flashing lights police motorcycles and other vehicles accompanying the ambulance that he was in to to shut the tape hospital he's receiving treatment

and undergoing extensive testing at the hospital to try and determine what is behind his illness that resulted in him being in a coma since thursday early in police have also put out the same and saying that they are here in increased numbers due to mr vanney being in this hospital and we aren't expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. carol lexing of armies wife is here so we're looking to see if there's any further statements from the family now russian doctors in had objected to him moving initially they said that alexina family was too ill to be able to make that journey however they relented at the request of the family we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family he will help organize the transportation alexina valmy took on well on thursday on

a flight from siberia back to moscow and he was supposed to be in some clear distress while on that flight the plane made an emergency landing in the city of on skin he was rushed off to hospital by paramedics that has been claims that he was poisoned with some of his team suggesting there was a poison was put into his t. doctors say that they ran a talk screening on him while he was in the hospital in on the skin that came back negative that they were treating him under a different diagnosis and if you will for the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered emitted by disruption with a reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off . this isn't the 1st claim of poisoning against alexina van the last year he was hospitalized from prison his team at the time said that he had been poisoned it later turned out that he suffered

a severe allergic reaction claims that there has been a poisoning in the kremlin of the hind that is being strongly denied by denethor the press corps who is flooding your putin's press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the legs in the valley travelling he had to germany that any delays in transportation had been due to the concerns raised by the doctors he said that he also wish mr in the valley a speedy recovery for the european union have said they want a full investigation into what happened to alexei navalny in what seems to be a case that's demanding a lot of answers in re raising certainly a lot more questions than we have ounces at the moment a lot of eyes focused on the hospital just behind me in a case that is becoming increasingly politicized. as soon as the news of illness broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin and while that several cases were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people. the

vani is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spy surrogates cripple and his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector alexander litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist glen amir karim was poisoned twice and survived the tourists for allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target double agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin course his support us will not be convinced they will believe that this is a boy's inning. i am at a war so who would be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty it's a it's a cliché for their weston 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 personally i want to speculate if it could be done by russian government agents without which inseparable with potence approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because it's much more dangerous to really investigate and to see probably the role of are the exodus both in the story or. and or in the story or. the weekly continues after this short break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if that.

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request to reimpose sanctions on iran the so-called snapback sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signature is killed off and picks up the story. 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 u.n. 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 u.n. 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 snapback 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 in all the u.n. 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 muscles west to you and i wear different concerns at 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 with carnal contraries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. prices are unlawful that they will use in the united states has withdrawn. 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 seize participation in the j.c.b. away by presidential memorandum on the 8th of may 28th and has subsequently not participated in any j c p a way related activities you can know that for 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 c. and at this point we've got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to read negotiating 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 calm and on which i think today it's clear that the united states is size a limited and american unilateral ism 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 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 one time foreign correspondent reece erlich told us america's actions are more for a home audience. 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 are 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 straightening 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 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 an effort to gain reelection i think frankly it's quite the opposite. joe biden was officially nominated this week as the democratic candidate for the white house i mean he's already made a raft of foreign policy pledges including ending forever wars public order to get a closer look. donald trump's surprising 2016 election victory had a lot to do with one golden promise and america's endless wars i am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing america's korda show interest to avoid endless wars that we're caught up in the current strategy of toppling regimes with

no play and for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists we now know he didn't deliver on his promise but many americans still long for that away says of peace and in 2020 the opposition understands this all too well democrats know it's time to bring nearly 2 decades of unceasing conflict to an end and left wing right wing it doesn't even matter polls are showing that 3 out of 4 americans want troops withdrawn from afghanistan and half of them want to see cuts to the military budget when it comes to u.s. foreign policy the vast majority of americans are fed up with never ending war and yet the democrats are supporting joe biden as their candidate a man with a track record of supporting conflicts. let's start from 2002 when joe biden jumped right on the weapons of mass destruction bandwagon and supported the

u.s. invasion of iraq clearly be more secure without saddam hussein in position of weapons of mass destruction almost 5000 american soldiers dead thousands more iraqi civilians killed a catalyst for the rise of the islamic state i wouldn't say any of that fits into most people's definition of peace and security in my mind. we're. not having it. because there are no you. as barack obama's v.p. biden cheered on america's longest war in afghanistan he called it a success and promised to bring the troops home that strategy is succeeding and as a consequence the president is making good on his commitment to bring our young men and women home right on schedule well here we are 2020 and so little has changed it just goes to show us operations in afghanistan are more about dysfunction than

success what are we trying to do here we didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking if the american people knew the magnitude of these dysfunction syria libya pakistan yemen the list of countries that were bombed while joe biden was vice president is very long so are we supposed to believe that he's going to put an end to years of endless war you decide well biden was there he was in the room where it happened as you say he was there for 8 years of obama so he can't divorce and so through obama's warmongering policy pretty rich for the democrats to pretend now that they're the peace part of the because we had 8 years of president obama starting more wars i think than any president in decades before hand before him more drone strikes more followings more killings under president obama hope it was all for everyone's own good when in fact just last month when president trump announced he wants to remove 12000 troops from or you want to remove troops from

afghanistan the democratic party that controls the house actually teamed up with liz cheney daughter of dick cheney to try to block and they actually passed legislation to try to prevent the end of the longest war in u.s. history so for them to now say we want to end endless wars it really is a farce who knows that the voters will buys that's nonsense. the african union has suspended molly's membership due to the military coup their soldiers have overthrown the president and say they plan to set up a transitional government and hold new elections this video we're showing now reportedly shows troops taking the country's president from his residence as he was detained on tuesday and a few hours later present appeared on state television announcing his resignation. i would like to inform you of my decision to resign from my position with immediate effect and with all the legal consequences this entails the dissolution of the

national assembly and of the government. disease uprising began with a shoot out at the military camp close to the capital a group of soldiers detained their senior officers before marching on bomb and storming the president's residence the uprising has been widely condemned including by the u.s. the e.u. and neighboring african countries who fall several months of protest in mali over economic hardship and alleged government corruption. the former leader has been accused of mismanaging the economy corruption and worsening the security situation which is hotter screwups in the north people are

also not happy with his backing a friend smalley's former colonizer french troops have been stationed in the country since 2013 the year he was 1st elected to keep terror at bay after being reelected in 2018 kid a softball and his popularity with the mali an army facing losses from terrorist attacks and after dozens of legislative elections were disputed the spring demonstrators began taking to the streets calling for his resignation. historian gerald horne claims the roots of mollie's latest insurrection can be traced back to nader's intervention in libya 9 years ago. this coud accept was basically a result of the 2011 tragic overthrow and murder of more market doxie in libya engineer by the united states of america and its nato allies particularly britain and france that food and murder of gadhafi led to a leakage of tons of weapons into neighboring mali which got into the hands of religious zealots who call themselves muslims who since that time have been waging

a brutal and bitter war against the soldiers in bali of whom can kill as a result this in turn has led to a french military intervention backed by the united states of america and it's also helped to generate unrest and instability this might be on the verge of seizing power and bomb a ko which could have a negative knock on effect throughout the neighborhood not least in the wall in guinea. that's been the weekly here on our to international for further details on all the stories and up to met reports at our website r.t. dot com. when else seems wrong. why don't just tell. me we'll

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