of years of use. for. anti-government rallies with tens of thousands on the streets of the belarusian capital passed peacefully after weeks of violence from both law enforcement and protesters present expressed gratitude to the military and riot police for maintaining order. or simple. mainstream media point the finger of russian authorities after the country's prominent opposition activist alexina valmy falls into a coma russian doctors who initially treated him say no talks are being detected in his blood. 12 o'clock we've received results from 2 lobes one in tomsk and the other in moscow they both the substance that could be classified as poison had been

found. and dozens of women of west african origin can post side their embassies and consulates in lebanon demanding to be sent back home as their employees in the crisis said country leave them literally on the street. i'm pregnant and i'm in the street because i want to go home and. a don't. only in the streets. good morning just turned 11 am here now live in for marty international's world new center this monday 24th of august carbonneau and with you for the next half an hour could have become the 1st. 3rd week of unrest on sunday tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the capital minsk they carried red and white flags and chanted slogans against president alexander lukashenko demanding

his resignation after those disputed elections. i. was. out he. was a come on the digits of after the order to move in the direction of national flags square the crowd came up close to the barbed wire and on you know they were a metre away from the right police and the so far there haven't been any provocation but the protests are send the armed forces are very close to one another kind of like. despite a heavy military presence there were no arrests this latest demonstration passed

off peacefully without incident alexander lukashenko thanked the offices. but that's because the using the figure for everybody. to feel. good purpose for simple life. because some of. the country remains split right now between pro and anti government supporters ahead of sunday's rally the government advice supporters to stay home and to avoid provocations let's go through a timeline of events next then with our correspondent in a ghost town of. people behind me on the independence square of the belorussian capital minsk they have been chanting slogans like leave calling on the president of belarus alexander lukashenko to go and long live belarus right now they're clapping and my cameraman is just going to zoom in to show you the scale of the protest right now we have a really good vantage point over there in the distance you can see police vehicles

and well police vehicles and crowds crowd control machines and they again they are so far standing by they are here they have not intervened well yet we do not know whether or not they will also we do know that the government has called on its supporters to stay home this has been done in order to avoid any potential confrontation and you know brawls between some of the more passionate protesters the protest has filled from the square and into the streets blocking the traffic and now it's just a sea of people yelling chants like long live bellows and go go leave calling on the incumbent president of this republic alexander lukashenko to leave office because they do not recognize the protesters here they do not recognize the results of the election we will like to with the election results i did not vote for the

opinions of my friends were not taken into account of the person who is to crowd. president is not the one who has been elected in one fairly actions political prisoners to be released and in the end to violence our country has never seen anything like what is happening now 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 very very large telegram channels with lots of followers 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 alexander lukashenko rode by helicopter at the presidential palace of the capitol surrounded by protesters it was shown for a while wearing a flag even carry a kalashnikov rifle the video calls to swirl of false reports of looting shameka fleeing the capital maybe not the 1st fake. reports it is difficult for human beings to be neutral just the way it is biology and psychology makes us want to pick a side to root for someone even if it isn't off fight so it is in belarus a huge divide neighbor against neighbor brother against brother journalist against

journalist there are a pseudo t.v. personalities of quid. national networks and improve that's the against the president against the elections against the other side i have decided that my broadcast today on belarus one was the last one nobody influenced this decision i took it myself there are not many of us but we exist vera correct me cover hoost of good morning belarus sergey because lo which presenter to tiana brought kidda and vladimir bercow who snuck in and try to claim the credit. until recently i presented the ass to military program on batteries i'm no longer a presenter of this t.v. project i resigned myself and it wasn't easy the people want justice the people don't want lies the people want freedom. you may have come away with a sense that he resigned over the elections like like others who sacrificed their

livelihoods their income as an act of protest vladimir didn't know no that's just him trying to claim the credit line it is absolutely unclear from the message when the prison to have the program and in my opinion this was done on purpose the t.v. company said goodbye to a dimmer a month ago followed as a showman successfully got in on the act bottom feeders are nothing new they swamp everything in times of hardship of desperation you'll find them on television trying to wiggle their way into the spotlight when things are tough to play and profit in people's misery you'll find them on live and blogs in social media shouting the loudest pointing and screaming lying and misleading we live in an era of fakes of think heroes fake opinions and think news she walked around spread men's legs and purposefully sadistically struck at

the group she would heated their testicles and called them scum one man who looked about 50 she beat in the group and while standing on his legs he later told me his hips were all blue kareena about 30 is blonde and not that 2 she was dressed in uniform and had a mask on her face remember what i said about taking sides you likely aren't from belarus yet hearing this story one can't help but feel revolted and many belorussians were hearing this the the witch hunt but gad soon they found this alleged corrina all christina and people went after her threatening to kill her to murder her family a reward was posted for her address they got the wrong woman. i have been forced to record this because of harris meant threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of false information on the internet please help me share this so that

lies don't spread further and done tar me and my family christina is a gym instructor at the interior ministry not a guard at the jail where the alleged torture happened oh they apologized afterwards after terrified and traumatized and threatening to kill her and her family they said sorry they said sorry and then posted another picture of another christina who might have been the woman from the story and went after her and let's not forget about the bear that's coming for better or worse for a while now internet users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards belarus there are 2 plausible explanations why they still haven't arrived russian military trucks are just really slow like incredibly slow like walking speed you could walk for moscow to better us in about a week the other explanation is that there aren't any russian armies moving towards

belarus. they recorded these videos without realizing that they were below russian armored personnel carriers not russian and they were moving towards the western border because we decided that we needed to take additional measures to protect the sovereignty and independence we could go on and on thinks about preparing to free the country thinks about the opposition leaders i.q. been very low fakes me divide stupidity reinforced with hysteria and decorated with the. word go to oversee correspondent and you foreign policy chief used to borrow compare the situation right now better roost to venezuela. we do not recognize him as the legitimate president nor do we recognize nicolas maduro from this point of view maduro and lucas shanker in exactly the same situation we do not recognize that they have been legitimately chosen however whether we like it

or not they control the government and we have to continue dealing with them despite not recognizing their democratic which is missing this one is cynical to hear from you know people you know because we know what the position of the european union it is. a regime. that is hong kong. with also in the past in ukraine. lately in serbia so all listen to all this have to listen to just a picture of seoul but if the whole bag of salt on the stone. below is one of maybe 2 last europe which is not. from the west from nato for the us all from the european a b. and the union of the country is functioning of much better than most of.

which it would fall into the european union of all of the west. next talk to say mainstream media claims that the top russian opposition figure was poisoned a false medical staff at the central russia hospital which treated him there were no traces of a toxic agent in election of arnie's blood. actually it would have been easier for us to choose a treatment strategy for we had known for a fact that we would dealing with poisoning but it took a while and by 12 o'clock would receive results from 2 lobes one in tomsk and the other in moscow they both the nose substance that could be classified as poison had been firmed it was important for us to remove the poisoning theory so we could do a better job treating mist in the valley the only who's still in a coma had been receiving treatment now in berlin since saturday though german medics have yet to make any comment on

a possible diagnosis artie's paper all over joins us outside the medical facility this morning where the activist is being treated well x. in the valley arrived here in berlin on saturday after taking a flight on thursday going from siberia to moscow the plane had to make an emergency landing in almost we just heard from the medical team there all we know so far about this conversation is that he's in a serious but stable condition at the moment in an induced coma. medical professionals are conducting have been conducting tests and continuing to treat him now his press secretary and other supporters have claimed that he was poisoned we just heard from the medical team saying that they didn't understand that to be the case what we have heard as well from medics in is that there's only so much information that they're allowed to give about alexina family this is the more concerning. medical information they're allowed to give out about anybody that

they're treating. a lot of famous journalists and even doctors were commenting on the situation without having any information they were asking why we're not disclosing details about the diagnosis treatments and test results but all these people must know that russian law doesn't allow us to do that we were restricted by the federal law on confidential information. while there are plenty of theories as to what happened to alexina family some even suggesting it could be down to diet we are hoping to hear more solid information from doctors here to take hospital in berlin we're expecting a press conference from them later on monday the lack of solid evidence though hasn't stopped some in the media from pointing the finger of blame directly at the kremlin and claiming that russian authorities were behind its poisoning so. does a lot of killing. people. you don't need a security clearance to know that the kremlin has a track record of poisoning its critics likes in the valley is here in germany as

a guest of chancellor angela merkel he was transported from the airport to the hospital in central berlin in german military ambulances when i spoke to police on sunday just outside of the hospital they confirmed that there is a larger presence here and that they have as they put it enough personnel on the scene to secure the area of the hospital and which alexei navalny is being treated i'll be keeping an eye on everything here in berlin throughout the day and bring you any updates here on r.t. . yeah the syrian state controlled news agency another bit of news in so now is reporting that a gas pipeline explosions caused a blackout across the country overnight so now also publishing this video about to show that we are from the blast which is said to taken place about 40 kilometers northeast of damascus the all minister claiming the incident could have been a terror attack as of now the latest is power is gradually being restored. to have 17 minutes past 11 moscow time good morning thanks for watching one of the stories

. covering officers clashing with rage demonstrators after police killed a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only really exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again in the capital of lebanon stranded workers of west african origin the sleeping rough outside the country's embassies and consulates hoping to fly home many a women abandoned by employers in beirut who could no longer afford to pay them when the country's economic crisis local activists are trying to raise funds to buy the plane tickets home we heard from some of those stranded women. i'm pregnant and i'm

in the street because i want to go home. like right now i don't have a place to stay only in the streets and my aim is to go home i came to lebanon. because i was coming. to look for when i was come to work so that i can be able to cover my family my own kids and my siblings as well but what i came and saw it was not what i was waiting to see when i came here it was different thing i came today but on to work to look for green pastures due to unemployment in my country so that's a came to ribbon to to support my family when i came here on streets he asked me money i met the same gas the stones he asked me $200.00 full cristiano and fought hard for the lack of dollar in the $400.00 that is 1001 $100.00 i told him i don't have money and make a must. have in it being the family i was working for they took me back to the

office and they keep changing me their houses and i was not getting my salary for like 6 months. but massive chemical blast ripped through the capital this month leaving economic devastation and growing reports of people unable to feed themselves the human rights activist told us that the west african women now are essentially part of a modern day slavery system. i've been on the streets for a week now helping the kenyan woman in baghdad or facing their consulate. they've been here actually for 2 weeks but we didn't know about it earlier their problem they are facing in lebanon is due to the system which is modern day slavery they are working with no salaries. no overworking sometimes they are abused and at the end of the day they were thrown on the street by their employers facing the consulate. this is new in the city could i

sure in wisconsin has declared a curfew to the morning over unrest in the city that triggered by the shooting of a black man warning you may find the following footage coming up with disturbing. angry crowds gathered over a video appearing to show police shooting a black man in the back several times jacob blake is in a serious condition in hospital the police department so far off a little information as to what led to the shooting protesters have clashed with police with video appearing to show demonstrators throwing a brick then of an officer who collapsed on the ground protesters have also allegedly broken into the local courthouse the looting has been reported in the area meantime there's also been huge demonstrations over the fatal police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana footage now coming up soon of the moments leading up to 31 year old trafford pelligrini death it's gone viral a warning it's coming up on your screens now.

on friday according to authorities that iran was armed with a knife and tried to enter a convenience store offices then tasered him but they said that was ineffective so they shot 11 rounds killing the man people immediately flooded on to the streets in protest. hundreds marched to the left police station demanding justice the incidents over the weekend followed months of rallies against alleged racial injustice gena study shed his thoughts on these latest developments now. they've achieved that certainly brought the drop dravid ties the problem they from dave dave and pressed the much of the population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure is unresponsiveness their

birth the chasm between our rich and poor is 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 trouble elsewhere of a different kind of football fans have clashed with riot police in the center of the french capital after the team lost in the final of the way for champion's league. to illegal to its. p.s.g. last one nailed to by a munich on sunday leaving approximately 5000 fans who gathered to watch the game in the city close to tea is now defined start to. fireworks to which police

responded with tear gas at least one person is reported to been arrested in the clashes. only a bit different a round off with wax print is one of the traditional symbols of west africa and in garner office workers even where them on fridays to support local producers but even this distinctive feature doesn't avoid scrutiny over links to colonialism and africa still has to pay for its foreign as well co-founder and c.e.o. of the africa dot com malaya be sure he has defined the role of the wax print in russian african culture of it she also shed some light on the situation in the wax fabrics market. different versions depending on the countries and not different but the me the

muslims when it was the ankara it was fabric people it's just a lot of authentic and is not actually offered gotten something that is made in all it's. coming from indonesia in the region of the public so basically it has been adopted or likely not pick up every day like for parents like maybe or new ones. it's very common in traditional sort of on one hand it does become part of the of the life of west african people who have this that will probably be on the other hand the more people who know the story behind it to leak implication belong to check it is the unsettlement some people don't want to buy this would be going to go it was still native poland so it's mainly going to be people or

a company. will . 'd 'd can sometimes loom 5 get the pole regional one just for the principle of paper to write quality but it was a little palestinian girl who forwarded one solution. and that's the way he's looking at his time so far this late monday morning from moscow when is kevin 0 in funks for watching our program.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to point these attacks was that the r.u.c. the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing the they were

active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast at that time more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the crates which the collusion was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named into the nanny gag i think it went to the very very top i think it is frosts the water where all the taste since you thought it was going on and give the go ahead.

hello and welcome to cross up where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle as the culture war rages on a baited the billionaire class is only getting wealthy or their wealth has skyrocketed 20 percent or i've 180 $4000000000.00 since the start of the pandemic slash law how will his back shape the coming recovery and is a permanent underclass the new normal. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest richard wolffe in new york he's a professor emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as an author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he has a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman stop rules in effect that means you can jump in time you want i was appreciate todd let me go to you as

you just heard in my introduction you know that we have an ongoing deep recession i think as of this morning the i.m.f. came out with their global projections that under a contraction of about 5 percent locally the u.s. doesn't do much better the industrialized world is more or less in the same position but at the same time as i said you know we how the wealthiest among us reaping in enormous revenues and in profits year and the unemployment depending on who you want to look at it's 13 maybe 17 percent and that's not going to go away any time soon so what's really happening with the the economy or it's a recession deep recession for many. and it's a goal the last time for some go ahead. i think when you look at the overall picture and this if you go back of the origination of the federal reserve i think this is kind of their plan all along this is part of the world.