the day or sinks. we dare to ask. massive rallies break out across the belarus as a protest against the president enter a 2nd month over $250.00 people have reportedly already been detained in minsk today. and in the stories that shapes the week germany agreed to work with moscow on a probe into the alleged poisoning of opposition figurehead extent of ali an issue that's part of german lawmakers and why does not only need such a level of protection from most of church services political motive is parts of the putin system why would the russian government be so stupid and even let nobody fly out to drew money instead of hiding him in russia. and the former u.k. prime minister has condemned the government's plan to override the divorce treaty with the e.u.

a move that downing street admits would break international law. this is the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the day's top news along with a breakdown of the biggest headlines from the past 7 days. large crowds are now gathering in cities across belarus calling for the resignation of president alexander lukashenko a keeping up the pressure more than a month after the contested election which the opposition claims was rigged opposition activists say tens of thousands are attending the march in minsk and more than 250 people have reportedly been arrested our correspondent ryan gusty of reports from the russian capital. well here they are despite the violence this morning from police attempts to detain and arrest hundreds of protesters they have gathered together in these anti-government march marching down the streets of minsk

oh no he has a demonstration against president bush and for 3 plotted to head north to whom they recognize the legitimacy. better of his rollers and if they're waiting for example they have a number of demands the release of whom political bridge for example one of nair's police brutality victim on. the the street down the. street to the president's 1st round of the licks. these demonstrators a. lot of public something. a kilometers long stream of people walking down the streets of means now that they're marching towards government official residences which is perhaps like you dangerous because that is where police might push back this is a good advice crowd it would be possible to try to dictate everyone but perhaps we

will see clashes as we have ceded previous days previous weeks further on towards their destination the residences at these d. which is almost the outskirts of means. this week another high profile member of the opposition and valorous was arrested this time on the border with ukraine on monday and maria can just about disappeared she can be reached by phone and for a while. her whereabouts were unknown and to say officials led the activists have been detained for breaking the law while trying to cross into ukraine because i gave further details in an interview with russian journalists on tuesday. that only could you give us more detail about marie kolesnikov or where is she. i probably cannot give you much detail due to the fact that i was only told that she and her 2 friends or drivers or close ones or distant ones they fled to ukraine today and they had documents and everything prepared in advance they showed their passports on our side customs officers border guards let them through further on is the state

border and the ukrainian post but between these posts there are 8 to 9 kilometers and there our border is heavily guarded so we deployed more guards naturally they were stopped before the gas pedal she was even thrown out of the car on the move well on the run so they themselves did it yes well there were 3 of them who could have thrown her out border guards of course detained her has would have been expected i say this is an old border guard and she was sent to the border office and the car went across the ukrainian border through the ukrainian post and then as far as i'm now informed they were detained and we negotiating with them so that they return them to us. what for they left they relatively speaking of were released from. you know they could not be detained they traveled legally with documents but they violated the state border they checked in at the checkpoint the border guards and customs officers did their jobs and the border itself is another

8 or 10 kilometers away and they drove right through this reinforced post and hit the ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is that ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go but someone's relatives a said to live there i cannot claim so i don't know everything yet therefore she was detained and we asked the ukrainian border guards to return the others to our country we will investigate what happened. kolesnikov tells a much different version of events she says she was abducted by officers and taken to the ukraine border to be forcibly kicked out of the country to avoid that she tore up our passports opposition figure is now being held in minsk the e.u. has condemned her detention calling it a violation of domestic and international law. in all the way now has passed a bill urging world powers to recognize the opposition candidate in last month's election as the rightful president of the area is the 1st country to recognize but on the to come off as the leader of belarus she flew pledged to lithuania after the

election and has sense posted several videos asking the international community to help force the question go out and enable new elections in her country political analysts or inner office believes lithuania would not have taken such a step without the backing of larger powers. it's a signal that is being shown to go and it shall show that force is major forces political forces behind lithuania because little you know wouldn't take such a measure which is illegitimate according to international law if there was no support by. the european union or who knows what it states and i see this as. not too intelligent step by lithuania it's too blunt because it shows clearly that the situation in. belarus is not only divided one

side is also in danger of being taken over by external interests therefore i see it in political terms and not in terms of elections in minsk. germany has accepted moscow's request for legal cooperation on a probe into the alleged poisoning of aleksandar volley over state prosecutors warn some information will only be shared with the activists consent and germany says it still expects russia to be held accountable for the incident. their relations with russia are influenced by the fact that russia is 1st of all an important global actor and also by the fact that in the past and in present times we have had some problematic topics between each other and we should express ourselves carefully this time there was an attempted murder on mr novelli performed with a very specific and internationally banned nerve agent of the novacek group and our

demand is that russia urgently explain what happened. our authorities are investigating this incident we don't like it when other countries dictate to us when and at what point to start our processes we cannot legally called this a criminal case based on the analysis of the journal of board 3 moreover the board to receive the b.r.d. army just as in the b. or d. it is probably impossible to initiate a criminal case on the basis of tests that were taken in our military hospital this is legally nonsense there are acts of furphy cation our investigative bodies are working they have questions new questions appear we hope that we will receive information from our german colleagues it will help to move forward. germany previously announced it would be sharing of all these test results with the global chemical weapons watchdog although russia which is a member of the o.p.c. wu says nothing's been received yet but only a merge from a medically induced coma this week with german doctors saying he is now responding

to speech about the long term effects are still unclear he was airlifted to berlin for treatment last month after falling ill on a flight from siberia to moscow the russian doctors that initially treated him found no evidence of poisoning you know all russia's envoy to the un has responded to the allegations coming from western powers. the zulu system cannot but raise questions well some poultry being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in what these leaders leads us to an unavoidable reply nicol question legion lost in search situations we've won you tresses we've produced who used to benefit from this the one that one if you demand explanations will defer explain the pavement and we'll compare notes one should with the rest illegalization is uncorroborated by evidence even this is as

you see the your reasonable book the german parliament debated the poisoning at a special session on friday and several lawmakers demanded action against moscow as artist peter all reports. it was a fiery session on friday afternoon until evening here in berlin in the german bund the stock the majority of those who spoke or pointing a finger of blame directly at russia and the russian government for what they say was the poisoning of alexei novelli there were some voices that questioned the official government line not many i have to say but there were some and i mean. if the kremlin really regrets the assassination attempt on alex in the valley and really wants to clear things up why does novell need such a level of protection from a security services political murder is part of the putin system. so not only are the russians supposed to have tried to poison an opponent of the

regime with a military nerve agent but they put it in his tea why would the russian government be so stupid them and even let an avanti fly out to germany instead of hiding him in russia it's absurd nord stream too was a big issue on the debate as well basically the german politicians splitting into 3 camps there are those that say it needs to be halted immediately and perhaps canceled altogether there are those that want to wait and see how russia reacts and how this story develops and there are those who are saying that it's simply too important economically and it must remain purely an economic project no matter what else is going on we have those see heated debate over north stream both on the streets here in germany friday night in the north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the german government has repeatedly argued it is by the war in syria just by the use of

a chemical weapon in souls bury the federal government is sending a message to the kremlin no matter what you do economic goals are more important to us than climate protection security policy and human rights. demanding the immediate term a nation of north stream 2 is in my view and hasty and misguided reaction but it pleases those who have always opposed the project especially the greens well as germany continues to push russia for an explanation for what happened to alexei novelli the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said russia still waiting for information it requested from germany but still you sort of go minute of the german representative to the u.n. said the data is no longer not for bilateral relations between germany and russia but amounts for multilateral proceedings what kind of proceedings the germans are talking about they were unable to say. in the interests of our german colleagues we urged them to provide all necessary information which might in any way should

lights one absolutely unfounded accusations investigators in russia of also being on the search for more information police in the city of thompson which is where all x. in the valley had been he was flying from tomsk to moscow before his plane had to make an emergency landing in the city of school with the lexan of only in extreme distress well placed in tom skipping putting together a timeline of where he was in the lead up to him getting on that plane they've placed miss in the valley in a hotel in a restaurant in a flat and in a coffee shop what they've also been going about doing is trying to interview those that were in close contact with aleck's in the valley during his time in the city of tomsk police there say they've been able to interview 5 of the 6 people that spent a lot of time with mist in the valley they say the 6th person a woman is believed to have come here to germany there are still lots of facts to come to light in the case of what happened to alexa in the funny books as we search

for those facts the diplomatic route between germany and russia continues to heat up. as peter mentioned in his report senior politicians and berlin have been piling pressure on the government to pull out of the north stream to project over the number on in case we spoke exclusively with the head of the german parliament energy committee about that issue. north stream 2 is not putin's project it involves a large number of european companies and is designed to ensure the security if europe's gas supply to question this project now is to shoot ourselves in the foot it is certainly not in the interests of germany or europe if there is a decision to end the project companies will be able to sue those who made the decision in this case the german government and of course it will affect gas prices it must be clearly understood that this is not a game that the pressure coming from the us is already enough in my view so we have

strongly resisting the american sanctions that have been imposed on companies and individuals involved in the pipeline construction this is against international law and we don't accept it i can see the many people who might not have fully understood the story thinking now we'll show them but i think it's completely wrong 1st of all we need to establish what really happened because i don't think germany knows i think we should respond appropriately to the russians request for legal assistance we obviously received such a request but according to the russians it is so focused on. still to come on the weekly an alarming number of doctors in the u.k. say they're ready to quit over the government's handling of. that story and more the program.

listen we all want to have love. probably have. actually have to be acceptable people point to ration before they will go down in a society because. there is a real risk undermining faith in the vaccination system. and i think governments are under such pressure to introduce a vaccine rapidly to the willingness to consult and to ensure acceptability or somehow to new growth. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on offense very dramatic development the only thing i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back to former british prime ministers tony blair and john major have urged the government to rethink its plan to override the brics it to bourse treaty the conservative leadership is planning to put forward an internal market bill that by its own admission would break international law this way of negotiating is irresponsible and wrong in principle and dangerous in practice it raises questions that go far beyond the impact on the island the peace process and negotiations for a trade deal crucial though they are it questions the very integrity of our nation as the world looks all the girls at the u.k. this government's action is shaming itself and embarrassing on nation. the

withdrawal agreement which took the u.k. out of the e.u. contained a clause to prevent a hard border between the north and south of ireland prime minister boris johnson signed off on that agreement last year and it took effect in january but he now wants the power to override it arguing that the agreement would impose barriers between mainland britain and northern ireland and that sparked a harsh warning from brussels. just picked up again you need to respect the rule expect the u.k. to of the commitments that negotiated and signed up to last year especially go to citizens of the nile and. the u.k. to undermine the agreement would have serious consequences. against that backdrop you broke the talks will continue. assesses their chances of success. how i long for the breck set days even stability that you know of removals one part permanently outside number 10 blacks it means president today after delay after

delay is a passive but something reassuring not so comforting that in these tumultuous times one can turn to bricks it like the good friend that it is but still that in fact nothing's changed we have now been talking for 6 months and can no longer afford to go over well trodden ground we need to see more realism from the e.u. about our status as an independent country the needs to be in agreement with our european friends by the time of the european council and the 15 that's going to be in force by the end of the year but bragg some would have been bracks if it wasn't full of the satisfaction in acting promises by you the u.k. is having 2nd thoughts about the withdrawal agreement signed back in january so it might override key parts of the last brussels basically says we get our sue off to a free trade deal by mid october and the media thought of the u.k. renee taking on its words elicited cries of moment you're from those bureaucrats in brussels do you. own freaks ability and grit.

to work with the u.k.'s redlines it's time to do you good to great i trust the british government to implement their withdrawal a criminal and obligation under international law and prerequisite for any future partnership protocol in ireland northern ireland is essential to protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market the one room of the got people especially worried is that tucked away in voters' pocket is something called the internal market belt and its contents could jeopardize peace and security along the irish border but downing street denied this saying that it's only proposing my alterations which would provide clarity on such a big us part of the deal but even at home not everyone is convert. it's a bad idea the head of the u.k. to evil department quit over the whole thing and then there is this one minute minor detail proving to be just a little contentious piece god's great interaction or in

a very specific and limited boy oh wow jones it's just specific but is all this proves to be the straw that breaks the camel's back and the u.k. and e.u. don't shake hands the u.k. will be left popping up out in the north sea with no deal and no tower of free gas classic bracks set everyone happy looming deadline the threat of no deal and now the prime minister losing trust something was never change america's professor at the london school of economics believes brussels is still refusing to accept that britain has actually left the bloc think both sides would like some kind of deal however. the e.u. insists on treating britain like an immigrant a good province that we can really be truly independent and the best good for you. and it believes the. issues policies should still apply to british territory

waters. believes that when it comes to rules and regulations the british should be able to make their own should be forced to. run any new regulations passed the get their approval 1st and of course. impossible for the british to accept. a poll in the u.k. has found that more than a 1000 doctors are ready to quit the national health service or the government's handling of the covert pandemic the president of the country's association of doctors says the issues have been building for a long time ago. i think what you have 0 is are an inch has clearly been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them harm demick this is a profession who have suffered through some of the worst crisis crises in history within our workforce including absolutely ruinous junior doctor contracts changes

to our training that mean doctors move every 6 months or year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions taps crisis which has forced many of our most senior inexperienced experienced doctors interest high and all of this was prior to us going into a national crisis the u.k. doctors association sent out a survey to its members and more than 1700 responded to and 3 of them said they are now more likely to leave the n.h.s. because of poor treatment from the government during the cold response most of those who plan to quit will do it within 3 years some want to move abroad while others will take a career break and others work at private hospitals from now on among the main reason cited for considering quitting were a lack of pay rises and protective equipment others say they have been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns medics also warned they have had a promised benefits revoked and working on the code front line has also had

a major impact on their mental health. that is the since we've had in may depend on me and we've had b.c. incredible time with people living dying and struggling we've seen separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone months it wasn't too long the guy that we were talking about mass if he were surviving on charts but our nations and family trying to have a stop just because it came and just pretty crap for us we deserve facts as a profession and a home and a test deserve better and that was what stage was reading me. the government insists its 3 percent pay rise offer is good enough and boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital infrastructure over the difficult winter period coming up ahead of the doctors' association again says its workers must feel valued. we know that the n.h.s. was very much under started under resourced going into this pandemic and i have no

doubt that that impacted on our ability to combat this virus we had 10000 vacancies for doctors across the frontlines 100000 vacancies for a front line and it's our stuff including nurses so we were we were already struggling with our workforce now if so many doctors leave and we have to remember this was a survey of just 1700 doctors with 2 thirds of them saying actually they were making plans lisa who knows how how big that number truly is but this this really is a worry and i think it is even more of a worry given that many doctors feel that a 2nd set. may be coming within the u.k. so what we're asking is that the government considers the hard work of those true key kids within the n.h.s. that they show them how much they're valued and they really are carted them to retain them in the n.h.s. especially if there is to be a 2nd strike in the u.k.

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