the rallies are held across protests against the president and. hundreds. of course funded. drug the president we should go to leave to leave the presidency 1st 2nd round of elections they won't change lost in the stories that shape. to walk with moscow want to probe into the about the poisoning of opposition played a volley an issue that's. why there's no bone in such a level of protection from most a church service. is part of the preaching system why would the russian government be so stupid and even let no one to germany instead of hiding him in russia and.

police officers are in critical condition after being shot the president has already called for the shooter to face the death penalty if they do so by. making sure you never miss a story this is r.t. international welcome to the weekly while we look back at the big headlines of the past 7 days. well let's head straight to ballarat us where rallies again took place throughout sunday calling for president to resign in the capital men's club with some brutal clashes between activists fans purity forces at least 400 arrests were made crowds are keeping up the pressure more than a month after that contested election which the opposition claims was wrecked our correspondent or i cast every ports from and. well here they are despite violence

this morning from police attempts to detain and the rest hundreds of protesters they have gathered together in this anti government march marching down the streets of minsk ordinary as a demonstration against present and for. the recognized as a legitimate leader. as well as the way to for example they have a number of demands the release of political prisoners for example as well as less police brutality they demand. to the usual unrestrained arm of the law. there are no charges for president we should go to leave to leave the presidency for a 2nd round of elections they want to change these demonstrators and they have a lot of support a lot of public support only remains cool over bellerose. there were also several counter protest segments on sunday with people forcing support for president lukashenko $120.00 for an end to the post-election unrest motorists lined up along

the city's highways displaying the official red and green flag. well this week also a high profile member of the opposition in belarus was arrested on the border with ukraine on monday where plastic of a disappeared she couldn't be reached by phone and for a while her whereabouts unknown on tuesday official said the activists had been detained for breaking the law while trying to cross into ukraine alexander lukashenko gave further details in an. interview with washington. clinical we're just at the only could you give us more detail about maria kolesnikov or where is she. i probably cannot give you much detail gigia 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 and 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 are 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 a cranium border up 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 ruth 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 hid in ukraine allegedly this woman sister lives in ukraine allegedly i don't know for sure they told me this today i ask why is it ukrainian not lithuania not hungry as they usually go to 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 but maria kolesnikov has a different version of that says she was abducted by officers. take ukraine border be kicked out of the country and put. the opposition figure is now being held in many e.u. hans condemned detention to get a violation of domestic and international rules. meanwhile this way now has passed a bill in world powers to recognize the opposition counted it in last months but a russian election as the rightful president list the way india is the fuss country

to recognize it lot of taken off as leader of that era she fled to lithuania after the election and she has since posted several videos all skinny international community to help 40 percent go out and enable new elections to political analyst reda rough was pleased with the way you would not have taken such a step without the backing of larger powers. it's a signal that is being shown to look at st paul and it shall show that there are forces 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. and i see this as. not too intelligent step. 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 neagle cooperation on a probe into the alleged poisoning of the texan of ali however state prosecutors want some information only with the activists consent and germany says it still expects russia to be held accountable for the incident. cured him of their relations with russia or 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 we're going to pitch pressure you to 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 process we cannot legally call this a criminal case. based on the analysis of the journal aboard 3 moreover the board to receive the b r d r me 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 hold that we will receive information from our german colleagues it will help to move forward if germany previously announced it would be sharing of on these test results with the global chemical weapons watchdog although russia which is a member of the w says nothing has been received yet novell knew much from an interest coma this

week with german doctor saying he is now responding to speech although of course the long term effect are still unclear he was as if to to belittle for treatment last month after falling ill on a flight from siberia the russian doctors that initially treated him found no evidence of poisoning meanwhile russia's envoy to the un has responded to the allegations coming from western powers these school incident cannot but raise questions well some folk being speech we hear what statements formal and what measures are being mentioned discussed or in. this lead this leads us to an unavoidable reply nicol question live. in search situations we want you to see if we post who is to benefit from this the one that one if you demand the explanations will defects on the table and we'll compare notes one

should with the rest illegalization is uncorroborated by evidence even though this is as you see your reasonable. the german parliament debated the poisoning out of special session on friday and several lawmakers demanded action against moscow as peter all of the now 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 no folly there were some voices that questioned the official government line not many i have to say but there were some to commit to the if the kremlin really regrets the assassination attempt on alec's in the valley and really wants to clear things up why does novell need such a level of protection from our 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 no one fly out to germany instead of hiding him in russia it's absurd that north stream too was a big issue on the during 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 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 bundestag north stream has never been a purely private sector project as the german government has repeatedly argued despite

the war in syria despite 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 a 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 it's the use of your mind you the german representative to the u.n. said the date is no longer a matter 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 urge them to

provide mystery information which might in any way should lights one absolutely unfounded accusations investigators in russia are 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 mr 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 we heard there from pisa senior politicians then berlin have been piling pressure on the government to pull out of the north stream to project over that unfounded case well we spoke exclusively with the head of the german parliament energy committee about this whole 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 1st 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 are 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 for going on says. one american is 2 law enforcement officers who are in a critical condition in los angeles county after being shot by an unknown suspect on saturday president trump has called for the shooter to face the death penalty. if they die 1st trial death penalty for the killer only way to stop this any most

that must be here at heart and this surveillance video a gang mentality seen walking up to a petrol car rather a patrol car and opening fire to county sheriff's deputies one male and one female was inside the vehicle and both suffered multiple gunshot wounds have since undergone surgery unfortunately the suspect still remains at large on saturday night a crowd showed up outside the hospital where that being treated. according to the l.a. county sheriff's office protest has blocked a march and see exits and they were made to discussed by police but 2 people was detained including a female reporter who was accused of interfering in an arrest. but of course the back story that incident for those months of on rest over police brutality all

across the u.s. and some of the wasp riots happening in portland oregon although a new poll now suggests more people in that state won't be chaos to stop conservative talk radio host dave parkin says the vicious attacks against police are unlike anything the country has seen before. it's the clearest evidence of a complete foundational moral inversion that i've ever seen in all the history of mankind and i never thought i would see it while i was still alive i want you to hear the level of belief and joy in the voices of the people shouting that they hope those police officers died this is the sense that they are morally right that what they are doing has the element of righteousness and proper punishment almost a law of sorts applying to them in which they are right and we are wrong and because of that they're very happy to be doing what they're doing especially when they get away with it and nobody stops them for any reason they're getting away

with a right now what we're seeing i think on a grand scale is an inversion of mortality what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right. across the pond a poll in the u.k. has found that more than a 1000 doctors are ready to quit the national health service and not so for the government's handling of the cove a pandemic the president of the country's doctors association says the issues have been building up for a long time now. i think what you have 0 is are and it has clearly been feeling and how in broken short many years now prior to them. 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 a year around hospitals around the way and indeed the pensions tax 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 where more than 700 members responded to the doctors' associations and around 2 out of 3 of them said they're now more likely to leave the n.h.s. because of poor treatment from the government during the covert response most of those planned to quit with then 3 years now some the want to move abroad while others will take a career break work for private hospitals so one of the main reasons cited for considering quitting the lack of pay rises and protective equipment others say they've been gagged from speaking publicly about their concerns and medics also warn they've also had promised benefits revoked and working on the covert front line has also had a major impact on mental health. ever since we've had in may depend we've had these

incredible time with people been dying struggling we've been separated for 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 well. it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about our national surviving on charitable donations and family trying to have a stop just because it came in just pretty crap we deserve back as a profession and home and a tax to serve better and that was what stage was really me while the government insists its 3 percent pay rise office is good enough fun prime minister boris johnson has pledged more funding for hospital and for structure of the difficult wood to period that is coming up ahead of the doctors so cieszyn again says its workers must feel valued. we know that the n.h.s. was very much understaffed and 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 of these so 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 so. 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. . finally the french president is being accused of hypocrisy for removing his face

mask during a meeting with students and that obviously despite a law requiring them to be one of the public to make matters even worse than mine well that then went on to call. the president coughs outside of his mom's can stretch his out his hand to take and return a glass of water straight after no jail no head washing what can we hope for back

wrong can't stand the fabric masks which is sparingly distributed to teaches however he only spoke for 5 minutes with his what it teaches have to say who forced to speak with one sometimes for 8 hours per day that the president does law forget the world what are we expecting that the video to be broadcasted schools will be saying that should not be done. but just as fran found the wald brace for a 2nd wave of the pandemic mosque skeptics all rallying on it deepens reports from paris masks are just a look around on the streets of paris everywhere people are following the rules but what if you're one of those people who has questioned the whole idea of wearing a mask all day effective do they prevent the transmission of 19 and what if you are one of those people who doesn't just question this in private but has actually gone

to a protest about that attack on germany's democracy protesters from a demo against the country's coronavirus restrictions try to storm the german parliament. this is how the mainstream media these he and she locked down protesters has spent the afternoon terrorizing police it will be made of people. people who think the coronavirus does not exist hundreds of vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists put their faith in science instead of conspiracy theories if they want to avoid getting covert one team that's now being backed up it seems by a study conducted via facebook carried out by those who enjoy his foundation it found that the typical anti mascot here in france is a woman in her fifties she's educated and supports the yellow vests she'd refused to have

a corona virus vaccine if it was available and she believes in conspiracy theories probably has been the most politicized. in the may control and i think it's because it has a different meaning and between the politicians and the scientific i've learned 'd a lot of confusion among the general public but when it comes to mosques dig. bit deeper and you find that 3 of the 4 main reasons that respondents gave to objecting to wearing them were not perhaps entirely unreasonable. they were mosques course reading difficulties well while of course you can breathe while wearing a mask some people have complained that when it's hot out all they've stepped up the pace wearing a mask isn't the most comfortable or experiences to they are a hive of bacteria well yes there is bacteria all around us and that's why it's

recommended to wash masks regularly or change them 3 they are useless in preventing 19 contamination the jury is perhaps to live on this one i say that as there is still no consensus that a governmental level here in europe as to whether or not face masks are an essential to in combat in the spread of 19 so while in france and germany for example why did usage of face masks has been recommended or made obligatory in the netherlands there was a short trial of mask wearing in busy cities was carried out that seems ended well the dutch study their effect if this sweeping of course went totally against the grain of the country's top epidemiologist threw his weight behind the new mask policy saying this is very dangerous to believe facemasks would change the game

when it comes to. even the w h which made a u. turn and is now recommending face masks says this we still don't know how much protective value fabric must have for the wearer that's why when you wear a mask you're protecting others and when others where the mass they're protecting you we're still in the midst of the pandemic. in the process for months the medical and the scientific advice has been a constant merry go round so is it so unreasonable that some people choose to question more i think because of the conflict of conflicting statements from politician and from the what health organization as well as from the scientific community he had to do quite a bit of confusion and uncertainty is in the general public and that led to some not only distrust but also a bit of flaring up in the journal. and that has i think probably primarily

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