opposition rallies break out in belarus after president look at shanghai was sworn in for a 6th term and dozens of people have been arrested. the russian foreign ministry accuses western powers of launching a dissent from a campaign over the alleged poisoning of election of the opposition activists has now been discharged from the hospital in berlin also this hour. russia is ready to provide you with with top notch assistance to me to putin invites united nations staff to try a new russian vaccine free of charge adding that there have already been requests from u.n. colleagues. and in our key correspondent becomes one of the 1st to get the russian . job as part of phase 3 trial. this morning i got

a call from the creamy i am an ideal candidate here look this is your vaccine there's not much in there looks like a couple of drops ok i'm ready. for broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our g international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now there has been another turn out of hundreds on the streets for a protest against the belorussian president situation flared up right after alexander lukashenko was sworn in for a 6th term. there was a heavy police presence earlier in the day and some clashes in the capital several demonstrators were injured and dozens were arrested the unrest has been simmering

for almost 7 weeks now since the disputed election with people calling on lucas sankoh to resign now there have also been other counter rallies in support of the president rival groups past each other on the streets look at those opponents carrying the red and white flag and government supporters with the official red and green flag artie's correspondent but i've got to say it has been following the unrest and of the police response for out the day. very tense now police have just fired water cannon behind us they're still firing what the cabin there's a line of policeman now trying to remove the demonstrators from a central square here in minsk hundreds of people 2 perhaps a few 1000 gathered just behind me and literally a few minutes ago police began pressing in on them we saw a number of people detained at the season unsanctioned rally the government had ruled that this isn't an unsanctioned rally they had cooled on the demonstrators to

disperse but passions are high here there's there's there's a lot of anger among the protesters many of them refused to leave and now they're being chased by police again they just fired would take out an ad to protest this earlier today of course what sparked it all was the surprise no gration of the better russian president. there was no grated for a 6 presidential tub it came as a complete surprise there was a new warning this new hint that it would happen people who learned that he had been inaugurated as he was giving this speech as he as he was giving a speech thanking his supporters saying that the the revolution in ukraine colored revolution in ukraine had failed and that better russians by electing him as their president again that protected their freedoms their independence and peace their year. dear fellow by the russians on the solemn day the president swears and this

state and the people with special feeling with a lot of pride for both the russians who have passed with the owner the test of strength in their beliefs in the inauguration is the day of victory convincing in significance within and just elect the president of the country we defended our values our peace our sovereignty and our independence and we still have a lot to do. there's been a very strong reaction both here in belarus many of the protesters wearing crowds people crowds. to. integration of president many people very unhappy that this has happened they had called for and wanted fresh elections including the opposition which formed the council of council to oversee a new elections and to make sure that president who is deposed many of their members ended up fleeing belarus for europe the european union which has taken a much more proactive stance with regards to what is happening in belarus we heard

senior officials in the in the european union say that they aren't meddling or interfering what they're doing can't be construed as foreign interference into the domestic affairs of better us rather that they're doing the right thing by supporting the opposition supporting the protesters obviously the government has different ideas calling this calling this meddling but we've also seen condemnation today especially as several european countries are a host of them coming out and saying that they won't recognize the integration of president you shake of that it was a farce and that he's no longer a legitimate president. there was new free democratic president. there is no democratic legitimacy for the ceremony that took place to. such a farce forged elections foods integration the former president bill or is does not become less forma quite the contrary his illegitimacy is

a fact with all the consequences that this entails. inaugurated today he has no legitimacy to lead his country he's or supposed before presidential elections in belarus we should not have a free. slovakia stands with citizens of belarus. in fact just retired that means his orders to state power structures are no longer legitimate and cannot be executive i said clients housecat and the only leader elected by the belarusian people and our task now is to build a new belarus together. mentioned. several 100 perhaps a few 1000 demonstrators gathered in the square behind me within 10 minutes they were they would have blood in the way they were running away they were being charged by police with battens the police had warned them that they should discuss this this was an unsanctioned protest but many of the demonstrators stood move they chanted for president to leave the police begad deploying want to get into

trucks spraying water at protesters and now most of them have fled there's the square nice empty for. police earlier this week the european union failed to agree on sanctions against a list of 40 below russian officials accused of election fraud and violence against protesters journalists in eastern europe specialist martin summers and believes the western pressure will continue and could push closer to russia. so much is only a question could be probably be agreed at some point but it won't change his position the more internally do is push him more towards. the russian federation because of course in many ways he was trying to steer a course between the needs of the russian federation and the demands of the west impose on of course the local poland baltic states ukraine very hostile to lucas and co in butler us you could say you've gotten

a hold of this from the from the soviets were lots of the soviet world for states has essentially been preserved and that is the reason wally he says he's been in the election this election in the previous 5 elections and if this is obviously a decision i wouldn't be prepared to stand down just because a minority. of go to go. russia and germany are continuing to trade accusations and demand answers over how election a volley fell ill the opposition activist has now been discharged from a hospital in berlin after his alleged poisoning and germany's refusal to hand over evidence to russia has sparked an angry exchange between the 2 countries. it is not the responsibility of the german authorities to conduct this to get the crime was committed in russia and that's why urgent appeal to russian side is to comment on the matter. with germany refusing to share samples or in a valley streetman details or let

a russian investigator talk to him there is no way the russian prosecutors can complete a preliminary proclaimers clearly berlin is a no hurry to share all this information although they're demanding the pressure to a committed action we get the impression the germans are still in for time in finding various pretext what sharing their data with russia we believe this is all being done to support the idea being spread in the media that russia does not want to clarify in the valleys illness any such claims are lice. meanwhile the doctors who have been treating the volley of the charlotte hospital in berlin say his condition is rapidly improving and he's put it all over has more. well while that diplomatic spat between moscow in berlin seems to continue to rumble on alexina valley has improved dramatically while his condition has anyway he's been posting on social media a picture of himself in what seems to be a burden park and which he says in the post that he will continue to work with

physio therapist so it follows on from a statement earlier on wednesday in which the shot at a hospital which had been treating the valley said that he was now well enough to be discharged from the care the patient seat of house has improved to such an extent that acute medical treatment can be ended lexan in only was treated at charity for a total of $32.00 days $24.00 days to which he was in an intensive care unit physicians considered fully cover repassed basin treatment and the current condition and the long term consequences of the severe poisoning can only be assessed later well it comes as the ministry of justice here in berlin of confirmed that they've received a 2nd official request from the russian senior prosecutors for information relating to tests carried out on alexei novelli those tests that berlin says showed that he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group well we've also heard from the foreign ministry here in berlin as well that say that they've still to receive any further

information from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons early and did share the information from the valley tests with them waiting for their findings the foreign ministry in mesko though is far from happy with what it sees as burlington's refusal to share information and preference to let this play out in the media system society to remember what we're seeing how the west has launched a massive distant from complain surrounding the alexander family situation there is no evidence of russian involvement in what happened there can be no such evidence once again the u.s. and its european allies are consciously ask away. as with russia preferring systematic confrontation to meaningful constructive confirmation when it comes to what's next for alexei and of ali well a german government spokesman was asked just that on the weapons day he said that he had no further information on the whereabouts of alexina volley or what his plans were. geo political analyst. believes that some in the west are using them

evolve the case as a pretext to derail the nord stream to gas supply project. we look into what really is a military nerve agent which is highly highly poisonous and dangerous. if it had been a polite never any what has died within several minutes after being in contact with that substance so it's not really likely that novacek really was in the play but not in charge of course plays a great role in the narratives in the media. for me it's more important to look at the geopolitical backgrounds of the anglo-saxon and the us american powers are in panic about the fact that the nostri to pipeline is about being finished quite soon so they need to give some pretext to the public to oppose

the finishing of this major pipeline project because it won't bring germany and russia closer together it was it would strengthen both countries economical each year politically and therefore there are great great geopolitical or geo strategic economic interests to stop this pipeline project. the russian president has called for a joint global effort to develop vaccines against covered 19 in his video speech to the un general assembly waldemar putin singled out russia's sputnik shot the 1st of its kind to be registered and he even offered free doses to u.n. workers. but would you leave them alone we are ready to sure experience and continue to cooperate with all countries and international organizations this includes the distribution of a russian vaccine to other countries which has proved its reliability safety and efficiency russia is ready to provide the un with top notch assistance particularly

we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination of u.n. personnel and entities we have received such requests from our un colleagues and we won't remain indifferent to. the 3rd phase of the sputnik vaccine trials underway in russia here in the capital about 40000 are expected to take part one of them is our correspondent for national. sure is the next nation day for me and finally this morning i got a call from the clinic to say i am in a deal candidate before that i have chorused took a number of tests and went through a thorough screening now it's time for a final check with the doctor before getting the short good afternoon. and the luster is a pregnancy test that was due to make sure it's safe for me to receive a vaccination. right now i am ready the vaccine doses are stored

in the freezer they take out each of those immediately before the injection each waxen is individually allocated ever beijing has a specific code and each child has this card and marked on it meanin is assigned to a particular patient. it could be either her real back seen or it will say the. number is you who 06 to seeks. the number is correct confirmed. yes question no we're going to ask you many times where i'm afraid to be vaccinated of course i'm not afraid to do you see this vaccine contains neither wife nor death coronavirus this means i can't get infected with called it rain and of course i won't be able to transmit it to anyone else here look this is your vaccine now there's not much in there that looks like

a couple of drops. will it hurt no. i am about to make the injection ok i am already. what did it feel like like a normal shot which like a mosquito bite as they usually tell my daughter. so i'll get the 2nd half in for a week. more covert the curbs are on the way in france with some areas bearing the brunt more than others our purse correspondent explains after this international. americans are divided enough to find it's all white and you said you shouldn't resign. our challenge ideologies become exclusionary and you can call it the

supreme court has no. politics and worst of all. is there a way out of this downward spiral. it's going to be hard to reclaim freedom and we're going to have to work at it but as people recognize from examples like. what we're pression digital systems need to. i hope people will start fighting. saying we won't tolerate systems. streets in our homes that can't possibly track what we're doing.

back this is our team international now the french health minister has announced a range of new containment measures against of the coronavirus including of the complete shutdown of bars and restaurants in 2 regions the country has seen case numbers spiral since the nationwide lockdown ended our press correspondent. has more. the red zones is the red zones where we've had active transmission of the kovac $900.00 fires and they've now been split into subcategories depending on high or high the transmission rate is in that area we'll come to that in a moment and discuss what that means for specific departments in france but 1st of all let's have a listen to what her french health minister had to say because he had this very solemn morning the overall situation continues to deteriorate and we will exceed $100.00 cases per 100000 inhabitants in the next few hours or days our hospital

system is under great strain if we fail to take measures quickly we could reach a critical threshold in some regions so no department yet is in a state of emergency but there are 2 departments that are in the next category down which is the maximum alert category these areas include must say and guadalupe now that means in those areas there will be new restrictions that come into force from saturday of this week that will mean the full closure of bars restaurants cafes except in those areas that will take place public spaces where they can't demonstrate the really strictest of hygiene measures will also be closed down as well and we know that this is something that's going to take place initially for 2 weeks though of course that could be extended at the end of the 2 weeks if we come to the category just below that this is where enhanced measures are taking place this is cities such as paris the capital city. to lose in many other places

across the country what's happening there is we will see now from monday a ban of gatherings of more than 10 individuals. we know that bars and cafes will be closed from 10 pm in the evening we know that demonstrations are large group gatherings that were allowed to be up to 5000 people not being. reduced down to 1000 people students have been told their parties have been cancelled for the forseeable future and we know that extra stricter measures can be put in place by the local authorities in those cities if they should wish to do so this all comes after weeks of what we have seen of increasing rates of 19 and we had the latest stats on wednesday that showed that more than 13000 people in the last 24 hours again tested positive 1000 that is the 3rd time in the last week but that number

has been breached the daily record for france so new covert restrictions coming into force from saturday in some areas a monday from others and they will be restrictions that i'm sure that won't please everyone. the leader of a religious sect and so bierria has been arrested on charges of abusing his followers the self-proclaimed messiah had operated in a remote commune for a quarter of a century and he's done quarter comments. surrogate torah says followers know him best sorry and a former traffic cop claiming to be the 2nd coming of jesus christ the same man accused of allowing psychological and physical violence against his followers child and human rights abuses since 1901 he's led a fanatical cults called the church of the last testament in siberia's cross new york but a recent police raid against him and his followers landed him in handcuffs according to the investigation the church of the los testament has used people in order to

generate revenue from really just 60 would also accomplices have used psychological violence against its followers resulting can see who is harm the perpetrators the church in the near future didn't take long for mr taurus arrest to make international headlines so what's so remarkable about this cult well in 1905 it established a commune called the vis sorry and community and for 2 and a half decades it basically acted as a state within a state in a remote part of siberia there practically existed an independent government on the territory of crossing the young risk no news vissarion media they lived in several settlements this territory was about 2 thirds the size of belgium and there were checkpoints all mr atory which led past people they wanted and didn't let pass those they didn't want as we've seen from reports local police were afraid to get involved preferring not to intervene and so on they did whatever they wanted there

back in 2019 the church was also investigated for fraud interrogations and searches followed but came up with no suspects on the outside their eco village looks clean and well kept residents are supposed to refrain from drugs alcohol tobacco even sugar a small price to pay for the man they are convinced is the messiah he just shouldn't always come in the same body when it's time to say something he should be in this room to film the. yes he's the lord's word for us he's an incarnation of jesus in the ninety's our teacher is syrian came across the soviet union and preached his doctrine it's not just a religion or faith it should be your life that's why we came here to be a part of the community but there's another darker side to the commune members were forced to give up their property children left with no access to health care or education after their leaders were arrested authorities discovered not everyone was

playing by the rules weapons empty liquor bottles and extremist literature were everywhere not to mention the psychological and physical violence police claim residents suffered from the sorry in communities lawyers did neither police allegations they say nobody's rights were infringed but until a more thorough investigation is conducted into what was going on behind closed doors we're left with far more questions than answers. a report has found that the u.s. embassy in afghanistan as well as the nato headquarters there have been dumping raw sewage into the river which runs through the capital and much of the country residents are furious with living conditions for people living downstream have been badly affected for years.

will why is the u.s. embassy leaving its sewage in this river it all comes to us we cannot sleep at night because of the smell of am always going up we have a big problem with the river and the united states embassy they dump their sewage in the river every afternoon. since the wastewater treatment plant is not functioning and its canals are damaged the sewage from the dumping site goes directly into the kabul river. which is we want companies that can easily build treatment plants and we want them to build the plants and deal with the waste properly bad. all right i'll be back

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this is the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm fair minded in washington coming out for us china tensions flare up at the un general assembly as both president speak out on the f.x. of the chrono virus you may have noticed that prices are up at the grocery store but we'll take a look at what those numbers actually mean with them both co-host spence want we have a lot to get to fill that gets started. tensions between the u.s. and china ramped up at the annual u.n.

general assembly in new york while the krona virus remains a global threat and has only made matters worse between the 2 countries in a speech chinese president xi jinping said his country is not looking for conflict and stead calling for international cooperation. we will never see courage gemini expansion or spear of influence we have no intention to fight either a cold war or a hot one with any country we will continue to not narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation. meanwhile president donald trump continued to blame china over allegedly mishandling the coronavirus in what he says could have been stopped from spreading we will distribute a vaccine we will defeat the virus we will end the pandemic and we will enter a new era of unprecedented prosperity cooperation and peace.