opposition crowds flood the belorussian capital as the post-election unrest enters a 3rd week at a counter-movement in support of alexander lukashenko is also gaining momentum. 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 tehran is rejected by the remaining members of the iranian nuclear deal. you're watching the weekly here on r

t international bring you the day's news along with the biggest stories from the week just gone. we start. another huge protest against president alexander lukashenko is underway people been rolling for more than 2 weeks now accusing local shango of rigging the august 9th election in his favor our correspondents report from minsk. they were going right in front of me people have blocked independence after many. people right here right at the intersection near the cinemark 500 meters from independence square. we're sure these people have left the pavements and taken to the roads. in violation of the traffic moves or should people heading to the square to protest. was the 10s of thousands of people have decided to come out here in the central men's it is quite deafening here because they are occupying the independence square the kind of russian capital if you blonds behind me even with

a good vantage point that we have you would struggle to tell exactly where the road begins because the protest has spilled from the square and into the streets blocking the traffic and we witnessed the police reacting to it there we have response and they didn't try to break up the protest they didn't try to prevent the protesters from booking this thing 1st they should ride the way routes a city through one of the side streets but that didn't the walk out cold because now it's just so you see people yelling chants like long live but a roast on the go go leave coolly go on the incumbent president of this republic colleagues on the look the shine go to leave office because they do not recognize the protesters here they do not recognize the results of the election now the police so far they have been standing by we can show you over that far in the

distance so we'll try to zoom in the red there are police vehicles and other machines crowd control vehicles and so on and so forth so far they have been standing by and people have been chanting and protesting peacefully they have been putting on the sones from the 2nd world war in iraq so quite. peaceful ones i have to have to tell you so so far they are out here and most trying to make their voices heard we will be standing by here throughout the day to bring you all the latest on how this protest fast. the country has been left deeply divided by the disputed vote the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests but on monday supporters of the president began holding counter-rally is. it a boy ducking my heart's bleeding and i can't believe this is happening in bell labs of 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 batch tables at the grocery i told the seller i was going to attend a meeting she said you look at shingle rat i think their thirties are 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 crowd showed up for a pro look at rally in the border city of growth no the president himself delivered a speech he repeated claims that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by the west r.t. was able to speak term 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 being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out when a number of foreign countries have challenge look at those legitimacy as president rejecting the results of the election and the your house confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against russia officials for suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters are just you know 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 one. between its big east the neighbor 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 custody we start number we told you why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether there will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the building russian authorities of condemnation was perhaps predictable but there's no shared view of what comes next the baltic states and poland have been the loudest critics of looking 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 routes is russia's closest historical alloy 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 a look of shame goes over to yours that 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 unite. states in 2006 they slap 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 burma reduces 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 meanwhile the e.u.

foreign policy chief has urged her caution in dealing with belarus. europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and that minsk does not have to choose between europe and russia russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also warned against a repeat of the 2014 ukraine uprising. 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 better russian 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 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. russian opposition figurehead

alexei alive ali has been admitted to a brillant hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from the siberian city of homs and ali has been in a coma since falling violently ill during a flight to moscow on thursday artie's peter all perhaps the latest. took a lot of wrangling between doctors in the russian city of. the family but alexei navalny is here in germany here arrived on site today in a special medical plane had been chartered by his supporters as 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 shot at a 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 the berlin police have also put out the same and saying that

they are here in increased numbers due to mr vanier being in this hospital and we aren't expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. air lessin of armies wife is here so we'll be looking to see if there's any further statements from the family now russian doctors had objected to him moving initially they said that alexina vanny was too ill to be able to make that journey however they relented at the request of the family 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 alexina valmy took on well on thursday on a flight from siberia back to moscow and he was headed 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 skin that came back negative that they were treating him under a different diagnosis. 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 is flooding your putin's press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the lakes in the valley traveling here to

germany that any delays in the transportation had been jewed to the concerns raised by the doctors he said he also wished missed in the valley a speedy recovery of the european union have said they want a full investigation into what's happened to alexei navalny in what seems to be a case that's demanding a lot of answers and really 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 no one is illness broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin and all but several cases were started when the russian government was accused of poisoning people. of army is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spies on his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector alexander litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist glad amir was poisoned twice and survived hooten the torrijos

for allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target double agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin of course his supporters will not be convinced . they will believe that this is a boy's inning. 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 cliche 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 putin personally or to speculate if it could be done by russian government agents without which inseparable with putin's approval 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. the weekly continues on r.t. after this 92nd break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by one person with those words.

thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back germany france the u.k. russia and china have all rejected a u.s. request to reimpose sanctions on iran the so-called snapback sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories are just 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 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 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 difficult that's reckless acts by the united states could trigger a serious crisis in the security council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this we can all contraries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. prices are on 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 o a 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 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 about the u.s. had declined to hold a security council session on the question of sanctions against iran long time

foreign correspondent reese are like toast 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 l a that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back we've seen all kinds of procedure iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela are perfectly legal for the u.s. claims unilateral right to oppose 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 its support for any other country in the world for these. actions including britain france germany and staunch u.s. allies are completely rejected by the trumpet ministration 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. us democrats have officially nominated joe biden as their running for president and a virtual vote during day 2 of the party's virtual convention but despite efforts to talk younger voters with a star studded lineup for some the event helped flat. without a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history of. the d.n.c. so far feels like one long have to usually skip. this

convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the. party crowd i'm dying which means an instant message is good for the just in which . 2 both democrats and republicans continue to make a raft of campaign promises including about american military interventions joe biden says he wants to see an end to forever wars his track record on peace that leaves a lot to be desired on the court explains. 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 plan 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 you might find that. we're. not having it. there are no you know. as brock 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 we're obama's war mongering 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 in any president in decades before him before him

more drone strikes more bombings your killing under president obama hope it was all for everyone to own good when in fact just last month when president truman announced he wants to remove $12000.00 troops from there he wants to remove troops from afghanistan so 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 buy that's nonsense. the african union has suspended. mollies 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 reportedly shows troops taking the country's president from his residence as he was detained on tuesday

that few hours later prosecutor appeared on state television announcing his resignation. but this year 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. uprising began with a shoot out at a military camp close to the capitol a group of soldiers detained their senior officers before marching and storming the president's residence uprising has been widely condemned including by the u.s. the e.u. and neighboring african countries who fall several months of protests 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 with the hottest groups in the north people are also not happy with his backing of france malise former colonizer french troops have been stationed in the country since 2013 here he was 1st elected to keep terror at bay after being reelected and 20000 keep us i fall and his popularity with a 1000000 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. that might be that again the people here jump for joy to see a final farewell to mr walker kate he's no longer our president i'm going to be. something you're going to get it and you're doing what it was so great but the truth is now if it does not say it's over we must advocate doing the. historian gerald horne claims the roots of mali's latest insurrection can be traced back to

nato intervention in libya 9 years ago. this coup attempt 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 crew and murder of gadhafi led to 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 mali whom are been killed 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 co.