opposition. russian capital as the post-election all the rest and 3rd country movement in support of. old so gaining momentum. in the berlin hospital after being lifted from siberia to receive emergency treatment the russian opposition figure. since thursday. the stories that shape this week u.s. request to reimpose sanctions against iran is rejected by the remaining members of .

bringing you the top stories from the past 7 days on right to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on our team traditional welcome we begin in belarus where there's no letup in the wave of the government on the wrist tens of thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president lukashenko to step down over claims he the august 9th election. reports. so this is what the anti-government protest looks like right now 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 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 why 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 those behind the structure 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 coordinators.

this is alexander lukashenko greeting the security forces a few hours ago they had sealed off a perimeter around the presidential residence during the protests in that prides were earlier moving towards the car. arrived at his residence in body armor that was seen exiting a helicopter with a gun in his hand he was accompanied by his 15 year old son. valorous has been left deeply divided by the election the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests and on monday supporters of the president began holding her up . at the boy dr my heart's bleeding and i can't believe this is happening in bell. and i love i love the my thanks to this 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. often turn back to saturday about was when allison showed up for a prolific shanker rally in the western border city of kabul the president himself delivering an emotional speech he reiterated his claim that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by external forces r.t. was able to speak to him right after his appearance hosting. 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 are challenging new question because legitimacy is president rejecting the results of this month's election the e.u. has confirmed dead drawing up sanctions against peleg russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters r t s daniel 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 paul out of 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 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 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 the european council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the . abene 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 the united states 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 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 urge for caution in dealing with belarus you separate said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine mintz those not have to choose between europe and russia russian foreign minister sergey lavrov for 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 gauche issues 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. if you were in your 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. living on the russian

opposition figure of alexei navalny has been admitted to a berlin hospital for emergency medical treatment he was elected on saturday from the same beery in city of obs the valley has been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday it all of the latest. took a lot of wrangling between doctors and the russian. city of. the family but alexei navalny is here in germany here arrived on saturday in a special medical plane that being chartered by his supporters 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 be 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 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. air lexan of on these 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 valmy was too ill to be able to make that journey however they relented at the request of the family because 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 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 that came back negative that they were treating him under a different diagnosis and if you will the more the team of doctors conclude. 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 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 the need to the best school fees flemmi of 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 not 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 on says at the moment a lot of eyes focused on the hospital just behind me and a case that is becoming increasingly politicized it's a big sexy story isn't it i'm in sort of james bond stuff the german government was great belong with mike brown who offered to host the medical facilities here and where he's going to show it is one of the best hospitals in europe i mean the russians who visits germany for health care said it's the hospital of choices and

politics behind this and yes i think the german government was keen to make sure that he comes through this and gets the best possible care because they want to see the active opposition leader continue his work try and push for more democracy less corruption in russia and so this i'm about thinking goes to. the u.s. has been left isolated on the world stage after the u.n. security council rejected its attempts to reimpose sanctions on iran we delve deeper into the story and more after this.

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17 minutes into the program welcome back the fatal police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana sparked large scale protests a video of the moments leading up to his death viral a warning you may find it disturbing. the confrontation happened in the city of lafayette on friday and was caught on camera 31 year old trey furred pellerin 'd was pursued by police. station people in the background of the video can be heard saying he has a knife the police entered the month and several officers caught up with him a convenience store a mile away the suspect was tasered but officers said it was ineffective so he was then shot the video was posted online. it's gathered to protest.

people march to the lafayette police station demanding justice for mr potter and the situation escalated towards evening with clashes breaking oh it's riot police moving in police have promised to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the american civil liberties union horrific the case follows months long that protests over alleged racial injustice and police brutality following the death of george floyd in minneapolis i discussed the case with journalist dunn you listen. there's every reason for suspicion that the police overreacted there's a consistent pattern of the lax are treated very badly by the criminal justice system it's a very bad racial situation that's and we're getting worse not to justify the officers actions trigger happy actions as well in any way but do you think running

from armed police officers is ever a good idea people are afraid of the police black people are afraid of the police with good reason they're afraid that if they 'd out that they surrender to the police they will be killed the months of protests in the wake of the george floyd killing the calls to defend the police. the protests actually achieve anything. what what have they achieved they've achieved they certainly brought the drop dravid ties the problem they from they they've and pressed the much of the population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure isn't unresponsiveness that perth the chasm between rich and poor is enormous and it's getting worse by the by the year american political institutions by certain measures are more racist now than they were 16 years ago for example so the american government is actually in some ways more distant now from the needs of ordinary working class people than it

was 60 years ago. wealth polarization of shooting through the roof and political instability is growing. and other big story of the week germany france the u.k. russia and china of all rejected a u.s. request to reimpose sanctions on iran the so-called snuffbox sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories to the plant came 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 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 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 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 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 was aware difficult cern's at 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 week or no contraries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. 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 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 call me one 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 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. just stay with this story russia's deputy envoy to the united nations said on thursday about the u.s. had declined to hold the security council session on the issue of sanctions against iran long time foreign correspondent reece erlich told me america's actions are designed 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 the seizure of iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela are all 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 strait i think this is a sign of weakness because the u.s. is unable to get support any other country in the world for these. actions including britain france germany and staunch u.s. allies completely reject the above 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 efforts to gain reelection i think frankly it's quite the opposite. and just in case you missed it the u.s. democrats this week officially nominated joe biden as their running for president

in a virtual vote at the party spiritual convention but the spite 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 told meanspirited convention in history of. the d.n.c. so far feels like one long have to on you tube usually skew. this convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the.

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