week dear to ask. any you plan to slap sanctions on dozens of belorussian officials over last month's disputed election is blocked by cyprus despite a plea for action from the ball russian opposition leader the personal data of thousands of police officers is leaked and roost in an online campaign the opposition leader. says she supports us is showing no signs of easing 6 weeks on from the contested presidential vote. also this hour european countries introduced new restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases to france and spain seeing record numbers over the

weekend. you're watching our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program. the who has failed to agree on sanctions against $48.00 belorussian officials including the president or last month's disputed election the plan was vetoed by cyprus out of meeting in brussels on monday despite a plea from the belorussian opposition leader. but the e.u. foreign policy chief said the bloc will continue to push for action against minsk. ministers this cause dissension see issue. reasonably it will do about those sanctions it has not been possible to that today because it would be pretty quiet who any miti it was not breach. and the issue would have to

be considered by the heads of state and governments and to to prevent gun still play to these weak who are their political and i guess. probably tell the across live now to our europe correspondent peter all over a telephone more about the meeting in brussels. well this meeting of foreign ministers didn't result in unanimous backing up for sanctions against members of the belarusian government including the boeotian president alexander lukashenko what that means is that that will be passed over until thursday friday of this week when the e.u. council will be meeting that's the heads of government and state of the e.u. member states they'll be discussing not further what the e.u. foreign ministers did agree on and we heard from your seatbelt the high representative for foreign affairs saying that there was unanimity really when it came to the e.u.

not accepting the results of the elections last month and as legitimate. ticket office guy or the woman who ran against alexander lukashenko in last month's elections was also at this meeting in brussels she showed pictures of people who had been injured by riot police during demonstrations and she also said that protests would continue and made a plea to e.u. leaders. i'm also asking you to demonstrate solidarity with their people support belarus civil society and media organizations consider criminal investigation against those individuals involved in human rights crime scene barrows i ask you more to finance their dictator dictator regime and speech by whose programs from state to non-state actors i also ask to

consider to reconsider partnerships with state again this nation's cost talk a sham come. on this taken off arrived with a list of those she wants to see targeted by e.u. sanctions those in belarus targeted by e.u. sanctions she did also say that the future of belarus must be decided by the belorussians well the thing is that her being at this meeting in brussels hasn't gone down well with the minsk all mesko who see it is seeking outside interference in the future of della reese. we consider such contact if it takes place as more evidence of the european union's departure from statements that they made in their regard in the absence of geopolitics in the situation with belarus so it's a step so i think no one needs any more proof that a policy is being implemented to undermine the sovereignty of belarus where the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs joseph bell said there was clear will within

the e.u. for sanctions it will go to thursday and friday with that e.u. council meeting to decide what will happen next regarding not there isn't going to be a cutting off of ties between the e.u. and minsk just yet the e.u. ambassador to belarus will remain in post as i say all eyes now focusing on what will happen at that meeting at the end of this week and how the e.u. will react to these pleas for sanctions against senior figures within the government and the better russian president himself artie's peter are very thank you for bringing us that report. now we can bring in live independent journalist martin summers here more on this do you think that helped the opposition's cause in any way by going to brussels and asking for these sanctions. well obviously she does or she wouldn't have done it but obviously the chance that she's basically

supported by outside forces is to some extent. brought out by the tactics that she's adopting. we should have to see how this plays out because obviously there's there's political effects involved with this with the sleepers facing off with that with turkey and. is important to the belorussians but so in cyprus the good of the refuse that they're more concerned about. now is are of course what was i saying russia and belarus describe the meeting in brussels as interfere and still you see it that way. well i mean these are political tactics on the way there's a positive sign from some scholars point of view she choice and give the impression that she's got massive support in the u. how much support she's got on the ground belushi was another matter because of course it's not likely at all that they won the election i think they've got very good judgment calls that they feel that the queen given a fair chance to try and win elections and that you know people getting beaten up

by police is obviously a distressing and in my view all necessary but i think the fundamental problem is that lucas shanku has won every single election and got a risk for the last 25 years and it would be very surprising if he'd lost this war that doesn't mean that sir he's entirely a wonderful person or anything like that it's just a question of who didn't who didn't win the election and of course we see similar things in both venezuela and in bolivia who are young who i do was was tempted by the u.n. others as the president even though he never stood for being a president that least 2nd oscar has actually stood in the presidential election and of course even murali has been removed from bolivia as the president by the army with the u.s. backing. even though he won the election but they claim that he didn't win it by enough votes and of course the organization security and cooperation in europe

refused to send election monitors to better us for this election the sentence to every other election that's been held but they didn't send them to this one which means that they can then say all the elections fraudulent but we didn't go to check on the same thing is happening in venezuela where they've got a national assembly election coming up and the e.u. have been invited to send observers to that election and they're refusing to send observers on the u.s. pressure so they're concerned right at the end of the election say we don't accept this is the judgment we we didn't observe whether it was or just little not but we didn't send any observers and i think the winner in a kind of. you know a movable force meets on stoppable own object situational going the wrong way round but i think fundamental to all of this is if there was another election in the reverse on the opposition last would they accept the result was an accepting result here but it's not clear that they won but it is clear that they did. we're going to

have to wait and see what happens with those sanctions independent journalist martin summers thank you for your time and for your comments. thank you now during the meeting in brussels atlanta has defended an online campaign to link the private data of belarusian officers accused of violence against protesters our senior correspondent juan garcia is in minsk with more on the story. as with any d. add on the operation the goal is sheer terror even and the better russian opposition makes no secret of what it is doing join us they say or we will ruin your life. the main goals of this channel are to track down every criminal that has committed a crime against his own nation to collect as much information as possible about that individual and also to create a special database which anyone in free bellerose can use to check whether they potential worker partner or anyone they meet has committed a crime against humanity next to pullen based and public ganda outlets

recently dumped the names and personal details of belorussian policeman into the public domain police are not without fault suppression of protests arrests and physical violence towards demonstrators unorganised were brutal and the public was outraged but the opposition feeds on that outrage anger with fake news and hysterical nonsense armed russian special forces and dragon our fellow citizens by the hair is this normal are you willing to tolerate this. apologized for that saying it is impossible to verify every message that they get such as the actual guilt of the policeman whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next year and other opposition doubtless do both the proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching co he was falsely accused

of being an agent of the state after someone sure photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a conscious gripped in his service had ended long. shere but they aren't acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of st lottie her not scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled to lithuania she says anyone in uniform who supports her rival current president. is fair game law enforcement officers should remember the people of belarus who revealed the identity of those who carry out criminal orders you will have to look you people in the eye the same people you're supposed to protect and she doesn't seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going after innocent people she doesn't seem to mind that not just them but also their families become the victims of cyber bullying and harassment and abuse and even attacks and it doesn't seem to concern her that it isn't just police or law enforcement that are targeted but also

rescuers teachers and even journalists. in the midst of this episode i have been forced to record this video because of harassment 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 don't harm me and my family. of. journalists to one of our road constantine but if the by law for example who has

faced a tsunami of death threats at the behest of all position media. of course it is frightening i don't know what's going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me and telegram saying look after yourself or a brick will find your head but at least he's just texting there could be someone else who will actually pick up a brick if they want me to go away then yes i will leave someday but not because of them not because of a text or a phone call another journalist had his car torched off the activists posted the picture of the vehicle on telegram with government insignia lose behind the pictures the veiled threats the fear campaign dave that anyone who disagrees with them aimed at tens of thousands of better russians don't suffer from sleepless nights doesn't both of them know they laugh it off at the coastal to look at behind this is that they are afraid of revealing who they really are that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets

these blacklists and terror campaigns all doing in the open. shouldn't any favors lose thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent these vigilantes and bullies from coming to power if they do things like these such horrific things now and laugh about it what will they do when they come to power and ordinary belorussians too they didn't sign up for this they don't want the nation divided into leasts and costs the unclean and the blessid opposition at that shows the more radical and hateful the opposition's message the fewer turn up to their protests. europe is bracing for new restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases both france and spain set daily records and infections over the weekend and on top british scientists has warned the country is at a critical point in the pandemic artie's charlotte has more. more than half of the

departments here in france are now considered to be red zones which means that there is an active circulation of the 19 virus the country also recorded its highest daily record for the number of covert positive test cases around 13 and a half 1000 people in 24 hours those were the figures released on saturday now there is a huge rate of testing going on in france more than a 1000000 tests a week and overall the rate of positivity is around 5.7 percent what's a really concerning are the number of hospital admissions which are now going up quite rapidly we saw $227.00 additional admissions on saturday meaning that there are around 3800 people currently in hospital now all of those almost 600 are in intensive care now in parts of the country already intensive care units are

at capacity so that is what is worrying officials in those parts of france in paris and even de france region which is the area around paris it is only at about 20 percent capacity but there are warnings that there will be a high tension particularly in the next 2 to 3 weeks for the past 10 days we've seen a significant daily increase in cases the 2nd wave is here and it's time to deal with it it's not the tidal wave that we experienced march in the intensive care units overall not overloaded but we feel that we're at a tipping point where there has been a huge demand for those covert $900.00 tests so much so that in each de france 20 new testing centers are opening or monday and they will give results within 24 hours for priority cases so people who've got symptoms of $1000.00 or perhaps have been referred there by a doctor now in other parts of france there are new restrictions coming into force

particularly nice where groups of no more than 10. will be allowed in areas such as parks beaches or gardens and those are restrictions that are similar to other cities such as mar say and bordeaux let's take stock of what's happening across the english channel in the u.k. where the chief medical officer there is warning that the country is at a critical point and is heading in the wrong direction this comes as the u.k. government is now considering apparently a 2 week lockdown in in glint the u.k.'s health secretary has said that nothing is being ruled out it will be increasingly stringent on the people who are not following the rules that everybody follows the rules then we can avoid for national lockdowns well they're already fines of up to 10000 pounds for people who defied kovac 1000 regulations such as the requirement to self isolate if they have symptoms and of course the government is encouraging people to snoop on others

including on their neighbors if they breach the rules of no more than 6 now matt not only defended that idea of people snooping on their neighbors but said that he would call the police himself if he saw more than 6 adults conjugating to gether so much so that some people have described him now as being a tinpot dictator now some areas of the u.k. are of course already on the mini lockdowns parts of the north of england and also parts of wales but despite that protests against the big 19 restrictions continue over the weekend in london more than a 1000 demonstrators headed out to the street to show that they were unhappy with those restrictions there were dozens of arrests i. am

. care on the continent there are also news directions coming into force in parts of spain in madrid around the region around the spanish capital some 850000 people now facing restrictive movement as the country is trying to what it says stem the idea of a 2nd wave of kopechne 1000 from monday people will not be able to leave their neighborhoods in those regions for all but essential reasons this comes as the world health organization is also concerned about what it describes as a worryingly high rate of transmission of 19 and saying that the situation here in

europe it considered still be very serious on a daily basis now as those transmission rates are going up and up governments across europe are having to make some very difficult decisions. a massive leak of bank documents has triggered a global scandal of i'll show how some of the world's largest financial institutions moved more than around 2 trillion dollars linked to money laundering schemes and possible criminal activity artie's us here told join me earlier in the studio with the details. financial scandals are nothing new we all remember how the banking giants that were considered too big to fail did in fact fail back in 2008 crushed many say by their own greed and over a decade on and it seems these banks haven't learnt their lesson there's been a staggering need of the so-called files now fence and is an acronym for the financial crimes and source meant network essentially it's an arm of the u.s. u.s.

treasury basically what happens any time any. where in the world any transaction in u.s. dollars happens in a bank looks and thinks you know what something's not quite right about this it sends a report to fence and it's basically the bank doing its to diligence unflagging something potentially criminal while delete feels that around 2 trillion dollars of suspicious money was essentially washed through the global financial system between 200-2017 how well the banks despite filing of course these reports about their suspicions continue to just blindly move really astonishing sums of cash with some of them coming from drug cartels human traffickers crime rings corrupt politicians even the taliban i mean we're talking about the darkest underbelly of society the sounds quite serious can you give us some examples of what's been uncovered exactly well take j.p. morgan for example it allowed 1000000000 dollars in twin account despite not

knowing whom it belonged to and then it later transpired that the account holder was actually a mafia boss on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list. also really stood out here turns out that the heart of the 2 trillion was actually moved through its accounts and it wasn't like these banks one aware of what was going on entirely h.s.b.c. for example was actually warned that essentially it was enabling a ponzi scheme but still it didn't shut any accounts it didn't cut anyone off now unfortunately this week has been politicized by some media in the u.k. especially there has been a particular emphasis on those russians involved for example how a russian politicians sanctioned by the u.s. government sent around $8000000.00 to a compound in london with some of that money ultimately being donated to the conservative 8 party or how. did millions of dollars through barclays now given the very fraught political climate at the moment it's probably on

surprising that the. or is such a focus on these so-called russians but really it does such a huge disservice to the scope of this scandal i mean 3000 u.k. companies alone on named in those files now that's more than any other country on top of that any bank you can think of really has implicated you know bank of america american express j.p. morgan deutsche of citibank bought these the list goes on and then you know clients and more than 170 countries and there are already 193 in the world were named and flagged so focusing on a couple of russians in the u.k. it seems a bit disproportionate and what's been the reaction in the financial world since this all broke while the german ministry of finance has said that all of these transactions occurred in the past they were all dated up until 2017 so they've been investigated the matter is closed but let's hear what some of the other big hitters had to say this is not new information to us or our regulators will learn from our

mistakes systematically tackle the issue and made changes to our old business perimeter our controls and our personnel consistent with our commitment to protect the integrity of the financial system cities diligence and filing suspicious activity reports with the us department of the treasury when appropriate given the confidential nature of these reports we did not comment on will confirm any particular report transaction but some argue that these words are not convince and given that the u.s. government especially has been pushing banks to reform for years now they've been fining them millions of dollars they've been threatening them with criminal charges so the fence and final show how these bikes just transaction off to transactions have been violating those promises of good behavior and really given this leak is also thought to be just the tip of the iceberg and account for a point 2 percent of the total reports filed you know we all remember how painful

how damaging the 2008. crash was we all hoped that that would somehow trigger change but really this latest leak you know the internationality of it the number of banks involved the astonishing sums the source of some of that cash really unfortunately is testament to how when it comes to money no matter how it is more oddity i often the noise just left at the wayside. the debate around the replacement of the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is heating up in the u.s. is expected to announce his nomination as early as this week but democrats are demanding that no nominees are put forward until after the election in november house speaker nancy pelosi is not even ruling out impeaching trying to stop him from advancing what is a lifetime appointment. some of mention the possibility if they try to push through a nominee in a lame duck session the jew in the house could move to impeach we're not ruling

anything out of protecting our democracy requires us to use every arrow in our quiz . ruth bader ginsburg died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87 on friday kids served as a justice for 27 years and was a renowned defender of gender equality and women's rights her death has not only triggered a nationwide reaction with people holding vigils to pay last respects to her but it's also shaken the u.s. political system as teleporter explains. the riots the coronavirus pandemic fierce political campaigning the u.s. has already seen its share of divisions but there's more on the way the death of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has just turned the country's highest judiciary body into america's latest political battleground why. does not i'm just stand and. fight has just begun and that's what we're going to do we're going to.

i. i. i i. so what's the big deal while the supreme court's always had the last word on disputes between state and federal governments and controversial laws same sex marriage obamacare the trump travel ban all these policies needed the court seal of approval back in 2000 the nation's highest justices even determines the presidential election outcome. fear radically the supreme court is supposed to be an unbiased check on the country's political system but it's pretty clear the partisanship of 2 party politics almost always influences appointments there can only be 9 judges inevitably each one of them either liberal or conservative and critical cases are often decided by that one odd vote at the same time they're all appointed by the president for life after being okayed by the senate and the process often has its share of political drama take the latest case

conservative judge brett kavanaugh who was given the job by trump and 2018 a woman is the president's u.s. or. court nominee brett kavanaugh assaulted her an additional anonymous allegation of physical assault against brad having a new sexual misconduct allegations president trump coming to his defense they're going to be dealing with credibility issues around judge cavanagh this was a candidate that was a bad choice even before the allegations came out and you're still reeling over the brett kavanaugh nomination i didn't trump has appointed more federal judges supreme court judges then anyone almost in history but this is going to be the most rancorous the most i mean you're going to see her and anger president said he wants to appoint a woman good luck for her good good luck for her her family what they're going to put her through i can only imagine. but with ginsburg seat

open we're seeing the exact same situation as when antonin scalia died back in 2016 but the sides are reversed eventually trump was able to appoint a conservative to fill scalia's position but that was only after a long struggle between former president barack obama and the republican dominated senate now the democrats are preparing for payback 4 and a half years ago republicans invented the principle that the senate shouldn't feel an open seat on the supreme court before a new president was sworn in a basic principle of the law is that we apply rules with consistency and not based on what's convenient or advantages and the moment boaters should pick the president the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider before it is berg's death conservatives already had a 54 majority over liberals in the supreme court on the one hand trump's got a small window to form a conservative supermajority of 6 to 3 with the senate's help on the other the

democrats are already trying to stall the appointment until the presidential election no matter which presidential candidate wins be a trump or biden there's no doubt this decision will seriously influence the amount of power they come to office with when you consider that you have lifetime tenure. the supreme court justices appointed for life if the impact that they have is abbott's so loosely. in comprehensible on every particular issue that you can imagine because remember the way our system works is we have 3 different. we have 3 different levels of governance the executive is a president the legislative is congress but the judiciary in each of them share power but what a supreme court judge justice excuse me can do is is.