opposition crowds flood the russian capital as the post-election unrest and turns a 3rd week account of movement and support of alexandre looks like go is also gaining momentum. alex in a lonely is at the 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 rejecting 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 cause. we start in belarus where another massive protest against president alexander lukashenko is currently underway people been rolling for more than 2 weeks accusing look shango of working the august 9th election in his favor our correspondents report from misc. writes in front of me people have blocked independence after you were right at the intersection near the cinema 500 meters from independence square. the people have left the pavements and taken to the roads . in violation of the traffic moves. people heading to the square to protest. tens of thousands of people have decided to come out here in central minsk it is quite deafening because they are you buying. the independence square they've got

a russian capital if you blondes 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 witness the police reacting to it that we have response and they didn't try to break up the protest they didn't try to prevent the protesters from booking this train 1st they tried to we routed through one of the side streets but that didn't get work out a lot because now it's just a sea of people yelling chants like long live about a roast and go go leave coolly go on the incumbent president of this republic i'll examine the lukashenko to leave the 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 i will

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 iraq so quite peaceful ones i 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 weeks 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 hearts leading up to my current believe this is happening in belmar see at the bottom of the last 7 days and i know me right now the. my 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 shingle rat i think their thoughts 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 haven't been heard now they will have to listen every day to what's going on here. on saturday a crowd showed up for a prologue showing a rally in the border city of the president himself delivered in emotional speech where he repeated claims that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by the west r.t. was able to speak to him right after his appearance. 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 we're being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out. you know our number of foreign countries have challenging the question as legitimacy as president rejecting the result of the election and the e.u. has confirmed it's also drawing up sanctions against belorussian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters are just general harkins 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 all changes thousands poured over the streets in protest over the disputed presidential election is the country's geography which between its big east the neighbor europe

sees the interests of international players intertwine and clash. officially use this missed the elections as neither free nor fair. persona non-grata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing human rights violations in the wake of police violence because it is. withheld e.u. 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 bully russian authorities. condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next . xed 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 macron and the european council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better roofs 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 towards 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 slap sanctions on minsk for you

guessed it undemocratic 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 his energy needs and extended a helping hand it out of 6 wanted to help the reuss build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look 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 law in light and with multiple interests at stake all the actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move meanwhile the iau foreign police chief has urged caution in dealing with

belarus as a brawl said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and that means 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 will support any decision that the belorussian government takes to promote dialogue with its people but when western countries say that mediation can only be effective with their presence of course we all remember what happened in ukraine when the goetia sions with our partners failed that is why the the russian people will decide for themselves how they want to emerge from this situation i think the clear signs of normalization that we are seeing very important but i know that not everyone likes what is happening there are those who want to shift the current flow of events and better use which is normal and peaceful to a path of violence to provoke bloodshed and create another ukraine scenario.

if you are in you are declaring that she wanted to take care of her children but evidently she wasn't allowed to settle that so she started making political statements quite harsh ones demanding more strikes and protests it's significant that she's making more and more statements not in russian or below russian but in english her target audience is in the west and it's possible they don't insist on this the whole goal is to ensure that they don't calm down but keep stirring up the situation some by the russian opposition figures who live in the west and are trying to influence the events in their country from abroad want everything to be different they want blood they want to provoke the belorussian security forces who are not touching anyone right now and not intervening against peaceful demonstrators we think this is criminal. russian opposition figure alexei navalny has been admitted to

a berlin hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from the siberian city of arms and only has been in a coma since falling by a will during a flight to moscow on thursday it all 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 the berlin 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. less in of on these wife is here so would be 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 claimed 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 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 and claims that there has been a poisoning and the kremlin of behind it is being strongly denied by the need to the press corps for his flooding here putin's press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the legs in the valley traveling he had to germany that any delays in transportation had been due to the concerns

raised by the doctors he said he also wish missed in the valley a speedy recovery of 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 normality is the illness broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin and well meant some cases were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people. vonnie is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spice 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 worry is for

allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target double agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin course his support the 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 cliche for the west on media the western news agency is to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions on 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 fortunes 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. the story

or. the fatal police shooting of another black man in the us this time in the state of louisiana has sparked an outpouring of public anger video of the moments leading up to his death has gone viral and warning you may find it disturbing. that confrontation happened in the city of lafayette on friday and was caught on camera by a bystander 31 year old her friend helen was pursued. police after entering a gas station officers claim he was carrying a knife and making him disturbance several officers caught up with him at a convenience store half a mile away the suspect was tasered and then shot the video was posted online and on saturday crowds gathered for what started as a peaceful protest. not.

hundreds of people marched to the office at police station demanding justice for tree for the situation escalated towards the evening with clashes breaking out as riot police moved in police have promised to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the american civil liberties union as horrific a case of all summer long protest over racial injustice and police brutality following the death of george boyd in minneapolis. the weekly continues after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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welcome back germany and 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 to the agreement or just come up 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 un secretary general to terrorism to the president of the security council. notify 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

and this was my studio and i was aware difficult that 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 recall no contraries to resist and i stress once again that the us prices are low for that. 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 seize 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

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 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 calm and on which i said 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 that was put before the security council the united states was defeated in the slum a 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 united nations said on thursday that the u.s. had declined to hold a security council session on the question of sanctions against iran long time foreign correspondent reece erlich tell 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 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 its support for 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. the lebanese president has said he is unable to resign as that would cause a power vacuum calls for him to go have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beirut's port earlier this month.

last week the lebanese cabinet including the prime minister resigned amid mass protests with people blaming the tragedy on government incompetence recovery efforts are still ongoing in beirut the disaster has put added strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the international community pledged some $300000000.00 in aid to levanon the blast killed $178.00 injured thousands and left

more than a quarter of a 1000000 people homeless. the u.s. has also offered a financial lifeline to lebanon but only if the government agrees to certain reforms public order has the details. massive explosions in beirut during his unrest in its wake and it got to. lebanon the chaotic capital

in ruins and leaders across the world have no doubt opened up the foreign aid relief valve as a result countries like germany the u.k. and even the u.s. have stepped in to help out but when you accept money from washington you need to read the fine print when we see lebanese leaders committed to real change change in word and deed america and its international partners will respond to systemic reforms a sustained financial support of course mr hale forgot to mention that u.s. sanctions are what many to believe the key cause of lebanon's economic woes but there is always someone who remembers. you have seen some countries hypocritically trying to portray themselves as defenders of the lebanese people and expressing sympathy for the lebanese people if they are honest they should remove those sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels at 1st

donald trump said he'd be willing to give coronavirus aid to iran if it asked for it than when the country needed a 5 $1000000000.00 loan from the i.m.f. to deal with the pandemic washington protested for some reason even the united nations called on the u.s. to lift its sanctions against the country only to get a big fat no from pompei oh i've heard people talking about sanctions there know that the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance medical supplies pharmaceuticals from going to iran and war torn syria it's a similar story washington announced a nearly $1000000000.00 increase in 2022 minutes carrying assistance at the very same time that it was creating a brand new sanctions regime against the country we are maintaining our maximum political and economic pressure to suspend the imposition of the sanctions the government of syria must meet similar conditions to go. for a country in crisis it's not really difficult to get humanitarian aid from washington what they usually have to give in return however might not be that worth

it. we spoke with a lebanese journalist who say neighbor him he says the changes the u.s. ones aren't the ones lebanon needs all we have a big struggle in the me that is you know we have we have also other parties trying to do something for their presence in the middle east i mean. you know states like china. and russia like iran all they have sticks and love them so. they're not slated so long to change the 11 on to be in line with its interests there's no doubt that 11 on he needs to rent and needs sharon's needs also says that it's meant but not in the way. that americans want it you know making big forts to invest in the latest developments in the oven on to. their homes on what you're going to us that's been the weekly here on our t.v.

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