opposition crowds flood. the post-election. 3rd. movement in support of. gaining momentum. in hospital after being lifted from. receive emergency treatment the russian opposition figure. in the stories that shape this week a u.s. request to reimpose sanctions against tehran is rejected by the remaining members.

bringing you stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment. this is the weekly on r.t. international a little unwelcome. we begin in belarus where there is no let up to the wave of government on rest huge crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday calling on president lucas shanker to step down kucing him of rigging the august election r t zegers a dollar for ports from the capital. so this is what the anti-government protest looks like right now since the last time you saw me or now we've moved about 2 kilometers away from the independence square to another iconic landmark of the better russian capital and it has become sort of a traditional a regular place for people to gather and vent their anger after the highly controversial elections and right now you can see that behind me this towering structure and the museum behind it are being guarded by the security forces they

are not letting people come close but they aren't trying to the road between the security forces and the protesters has become sort of an improvised border and people have been flocking here but this is not the final destination the final destination will be announced shortly we're expecting in one of the telegram channels a very very large telegram channels with lots of followers which are being used to coordinate these protests because the it's not like people it's not it hasn't been spontaneous it has been organized it has been coordinated through internet for instance. the reason protesters on trying to storm the structure is because this channel has called on people not to do that and not to approach the museum that's behind that's behind the structure on the on the small hill so soon they will be moving to another and we believe that the final location of today's protest

and so far because so far judging by what i have seen of these people these protesters they have been following every direction given by the coordinate his. the country has been left deeply divided by the vote the week that followed it was dominated by office ition protests but on monday supporters of the president began holding kuntar rallies. it up boy dot my heart is bleeding and i can't believe this is happening in bell. and i love you 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 their thirties are wrong the election results are a complete lie it's very sad the more the authorities deny evidence 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. bringing you back to saturday fellows and showing up for a prologue to rally in the border city of the president himself delivered on a most ill speech he reiterated his belief that the political turmoil ripping the country is being stirred up by external forces r.t. was able to speak to him right after his appearance on stage. yes no 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. meanwhile a number of foreign countries have challenged lucas shakos legitimacy as president rejecting the results of this month's election the e.u. has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against fellow russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters are 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 all changed as thousands pall 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 this miss 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 with held 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 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. abene roofs 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 a look of shame goes over towards the west than 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 a u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand get out of 6 wanted to help fellow troops 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 limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move don't you hawkins taking us through that meanwhile the e.u. foreign policy chief has urged for a caution in dealing with belarus used to said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and that meant does not have to choose between europe and russia

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also warned against a repeat of the 24 day in 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 gauche asians with our partners failed that is why the belorussian people will decide for themselves how they want to emerge from this situation i think the clear signs of normalization that we are seeing are 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. 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 belorussian 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 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 they're not intervening against peaceful demonstrators we think this is criminal. russian opposition figure lex a novelli is receiving emergency treatment in berlin after being early after there from siberia on saturday he has been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday or europe correspondent peter all of

a has 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 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 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 early in police have also put out a statement saying that they are here in increased numbers due to mr vanny being in this hospital and we aren't expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. air less in the valleys wife is here so would 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 valmy 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 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 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 if you will or the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered emitted by disruption with the reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off. now 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 in the kremlin of the hind it is being strongly denied by the need to use flood in your putin's press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the lakes in the valley travelling he had to germany that any delays in the transportation being due 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 on says at the moment a lot of eyes focused on the hospital just behind me in a case that is becoming increasingly politicized. let's turn attention stateside now where the fatal police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana sparked a large protest a video of the moments leading up to his death has gone viral a warning you may find at the store being. beamed around. the confrontation happened in the city of fear. and was caught on camera by a number of bystanders 31 year old trey for and powering was pursued by polaris after entering a gas station people in the background of the video can be heard saying he has

a knife the man fled and several officers caught up with him at a convenience store half a mile away the suspect was tasered but officer said it was ineffective so he shot the video and was posted online on saturday crowds. hundreds of people marched to the lafayette police station demanding justice for mr power and the situation escalated towards evening with. riot police moving in. promise to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the american civil liberties union. the case follows summer long protests over alleged racial injustice. george lloyd and minneapolis. you're watching international it is the weekly review off the top stories of the

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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 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 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 we're connel countries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. plans are on loehle. 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 seized 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 a way related activities he could not have 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 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 calm and on which i think today it's clear that the united states is size elated and american unilateralist is not supported by other countries with the reason reason lucian there was put before the security council the united states was defeated the slummy group public of iran has the upper hand 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 and their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the islamic republic. or russia's deputy envoy to the united nations had. on thursday about the u.s. had declined to hold a security council session on the issue of sanctions against iran long time foreign correspondent research told us america's actions are designed for omondi and. the

us has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this very quite explicit in the terms of the j c p o a that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back we've seen all kinds of seizure 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 pose 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 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 parts to gain reelection i think frankly it's quite the opposite. the us democrats this week officially nominated joe biden as their runner for president in a virtual vote up the party's virtual call bench and but despite efforts to attract younger voters with a star studded lineup for some the event is proving to be a bit of a bore. without a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive gold meanspirited convention in history of. the d.n.c. so far feels like one long on you tube usually skip. this

convention so far makes me think the democrats of the party ready to lead america into the. holy cow i'm dying of which indian see messages goodbye to. 2 well both democrats and republicans are making a rough go of campaign promises including about american military interventions joe biden says he wants to see a quote end to forever wars his track record on peace though isn't exactly something to her with us double quarter explores. donald trump 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 core to show interests to avoid endless wars that were caught up with 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 a waste 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 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. there are no you know. 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 while 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 year's event list 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 truman 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. when a parent of any young family dies it's a tragedy when both do it's also a crisis but following documentary proves there can be light and there can be happiness at the end of the tunnel big sister starts in moments.

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