position crowds flood the russian capital was the post election on the 3rd week of counter-movement insupportable. gaining momentum. after being airlifted from siberia to receive emergency treatment a russian opposition figure has told me. the other stories that we could request the sanctions against iran is rejected by the remaining members of the iranian nuclear. live from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly here on our teams and i shall

and daniel hawkins welcome to the program. where we start tonight in belarus where there's no letup in the wave of government unrest tens of thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president lukashenko to step down over claims. the lection. 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 aren't 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 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. and example of the shanker greeting security forces on sunday had sealed off a perimeter around the presidential residence during the protest in minsk crowds are already moving towards the compound of the shank arrived at his residence in

body armor and was seen exiting a helicopter with a gun in his hand it was accompanied by his 15 year old son all but a rose has been left deeply divided by the election the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests on monday though supporters of the president began holding counter rallies i think the boy caught my hearts bleeding and i can't believe this is happening in. the middle of us. and i love i love the. thanks it is opposition we are strong it is them who made us united we are the people we've been living in fear for a week we've been crying all these calls for change i was buying vegetables at the grocery i told the seller i was going to attend a meeting she said you look at shingle rat i think their thoughts 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. on saturday thousands showed up for a pro look at sharon corral in the western border city of god in a president himself delivering an emotional speech reiterating his claim 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 on state. 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 if 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. on

a number of foreign countries have challenged because legitimacy as president rejecting the results of this month's election use confirmed it's drawn up sanctions against but are russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters. and other blocs foreign policy chief has called for caution in dealing with belarus your seat belt said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and that minsk doesn't have to choose between europe and russia russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also warned against the 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 where negotiations 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 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 they're not intervening against peaceful demonstrators we think this is criminal. russian opposition leader has been admitted to a boil in hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted all south away from a siberian city of almost a mile he's been in a coma since falling ill there on a flight to moscow on thursday it's all over 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 saturday 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 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 a statement 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 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 vanny 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 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 there 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 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 feels flemmi of putin's press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the legs in the valley travelling here to germany that any delays in the transportation had been due to the concerns raised by the doctors he said that he also wish mr 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 and a case that is becoming increasingly politicized it's a big sexy story isn't it i'm in sort of james bond 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. 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 there's some of that thinking goes into the reason too. just coming in from syria this hour the state controlled news agency is reporting a gas pipeline explosion has caused a nationwide power cut the blast is said to have taken place about 40 kilometers to the northeast of damascus and the oil minister claims the incident may have been a terrorist attack. the fatal police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana has sparked large scale protests a video of the moments leading up to his death has gone viral

a warning you may find the footage disturbing. the confrontation happened in the city of lafayette on friday and was caught on camera as you want to old trafford pellerin was pursued by police after entering a gas station in the background of the video can be heard saying he has a knife. well the man fled and several officers caught up with him in a convenience store about hoffa more on the way the suspect was tasered but officers said it was ineffective so he was then shot the video was posted online on saturday crowds gathered to protest. hundreds of people marched to the lafayette police station demanding justice for miss the part of the situation escalated towards evening with clashes breaking out and riot police moving in police have promised to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the american civil liberties union asked to reflect the

case follows months long protests over alleged racial injustice and police brutality following the death of george floyd in minneapolis to discuss the case with journalist. there's every reason for suspicion that the police overreacted there's a consistent pattern of tally blacks 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 officer's actions trigger happy actions as well in any way but do you think running from armed police officers as ever i did idea people are afraid of the police black people are afraid of the police with good reason they are afraid that if they are that they surrender to the police they will be killed the months of b.l.m. protests in the wake of the george floyd killing the calls to defend the police of the protests actually achieve anything what what have the they've achieved that certainly brought the dramatize the problem. they've they've pressed the much of

the population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure is unresponsiveness their birth 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. well 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 is shooting through the roof and political instability is growing. germany france the u.k. russia and china have all rejected a u.s. request the re imposed sanctions on iran the so-called snapback sanctions going to be treated as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories to the pact a lot more predicts 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 listed 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 snap back 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 what i said you would know where to put concerns 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 we can all countries to resist and i stress once again that the u.s. plans are and 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 us 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 o a related activities he cannot therefore be considered to be a j c p a 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 seen 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 un the only other country to

support the u.s. move was the dominican republic and it seems with the world basically opposing washington's moves against iran that iran actually has the upper hand this is what we've heard from some iranian officials in was calm and on which i think today it's clear that the united states is size elated and american unilateralist is not supported by other countries with the. reason reason lucian then 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 in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the islamic republic. russia's envoy to the united nations said on for the us had declined to hold a security council session on the issue of sanctions against iran

a long time foreign correspondent 3 said it told us 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 a way 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 all perfectly legal the u.s. claims the unilateral right to post 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 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 efforts to gain reelection i think frankly it's quite the opposite. of the u.s. democrats this week officially nominated joe biden as that running for president but still vote at the party's virtual convention despite efforts to attract younger voters though with a star studded lineup of some event is proving to be a bit of a bore. without a doubt they will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history at.

the d.n.c. so far feels like one long on you tube usually skip. this convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the 80s. commie crowd i'm dying of which is e.m.c. messages goodbye to. 2 both democrats and republicans are making a raft of campaign promises including about american military interventions so bought and says he wants to see an end to forever war. isn't exactly something to herald as the old course or expose. 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 interests to avoid endless wars that were 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 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 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 i'm. not happy. 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 years of endless war you decide well biden was there he was in the room where it happened as you say he was there for 8 years of obama so he can't divorce and so through obama's warmongering policy pretty rich for the democrats to pretend now that they're the peace part of the because we had 8 years of president

obama starting more wars i think than any president in decades before hand before him more drone strikes more bombings more killings under president obama hope it was all for everyone's own good when in fact just last month when president trump announced he wants to remove $12000.00 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. well support with x. on a book or heading your way in just a few moments time the 2 men are back at the top of the aisle to bring you the latest world news updates will see about them and.

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to say there's been very little studies where they have been the exactly the same thing let's say in the eighty's and right now one study for australia did exactly the same. spare men the mid eighty's and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while we think things have gotten a little bit better i really doubt that it's changed very much over my lifetime now you describe beauty as a scarce resource but ogden is canyon is very too i mean you point out in your book that most people are sound way around the average somewhere around the middle 1000 make a beauty by is this phenomenon of discriminating or privilege ing people based on their looks. fairly infrequent because if we are all around the average who is discriminating against whom well not everybody is average i mean typical things like for.