beneath cause it is a blogger who takes a follow is along for adventures on instagram she's joined by over 50000 who accompany her to the fish through mountains in bavaria through his stories later freely will also write a longer post for her blog never ever don't me this is unique in europe i've never actually seen something like this before and that's exactly what i share. the regions dependent on tourism are increasingly turning to this kind of marketing authenticity is important the bloggers and the topics need to match we were thrilled right from the start renia so authentic just like that there's still mountains we were sure if she didn't fit in here who would get our past i'm the king of the world. the queen excuse me. the any fuss is taking her photographer along today but this isn't vacation it's hard work another part of it job is to interact with the father of one of my friends what animal do you see here i can't wait to hear what you think send me your replies. sure enough the responses flooded in. we'd like to extend our reach we want to make the region more known and sho

ditto the washington correspondent karl a blogger thanks for all your analysis. a professional israeli ice hockey player has raised eyebrows after signing with a polish team plays for the same city where the auschwitz concentration camp was located it. says he'll play in honor of the jews who were murdered there by german nazis during the holocaust. is a city that cannot escape its past even if it wanted to this is where the infamous auschwitz concentration camp is located and where during the 2nd world war the nazis murdered well over a 1000000 people most of them jews. and this is ice hockey player at least your share but off who says he wants to look to the future the israeli learned his hockey in montreal canada where he grew up he's also the captain of the israeli national team now he's playing for bush vientiane i that's the reason why i'm here is to be so jewish people that even after 75 years that the holocaust happened we can succeed i cross the world and with. times of auschwitz him and from poland will cheerfully and obviously i'm disappointed some crit

to washington correspondent karl a blogger thanks for all your analysis. well let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world somali security forces say they've ended a siege in a beachfront hotel in the capital mogadishu at least 15 people were killed one minute and stagnated a car bomb outside the elite hotel and gunmen stormed the building taking several hostages islamist group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. thousands of protesters have rallied in bangkok to demand political change tensions in thailand have been rising after the arrest of 3 leading pro-democracy activists the demonstrations come after years of political turmoil and failed promises to restore democracy following a 24 team military coup. a professional israeli ice hockey player has raised eyebrows after signing with a polish team that plays for the same city where the auschwitz concentration camp was located. says he'll play in honor of the jews who were murdered there by german nazis during the holocaust. is a city that cannot escape its

well that's true because it is actually the drop was announced by a had 22 years of bloggers who live in a divorce to use the most popular building. and she just amounted to just pull out and actually move to strike and right now defection is no longer legally perilous by a blogger even to both to thank you from north korea because actually everyone just would like to have and this is why people just full 82 days. and which might be. yesterday focus was a trillion and by by didn't blow back and decided to come with. this if they didn't come in and actually she's not going to put it in any form is just that that's interesting alexandra how much power does the foam off of ition ready have and whether it's mr tunnel skyla some of the other figures which are running for elections. well think an oscar was the face of a protest vote so she wasn't opposition in the traditional sense meaning that she was part of an established political party a political movement with an ideological platform so she's quite different. in her candidacy was largely accidental and she became a reluctant face of t

prisoners and then call new elections she's campaigning out of solidarity with her husband was a popular blogger a good one off school who wanted to run for the presidency himself but was not authorized. he had traveled across the country revealing abuses of power corruption and poverty and was charged with inciting popular unrest has been in jail since may . critics of the regime see him as a political prisoner who is apparently a threat for president. goodness but is ill this is completely arbitrary in our country we just eliminate the competition that we but i look back in such as it is where you just go it's unfair it should be allowed he was jailed over nothing here now they're making him into an enemy of the people it's a dictatorship. move. are not skinny isn't alone and challenging. but to all the serious contenders have disappeared from the political stage one of them the former banker of a club i recall has been in prison since june on charges of money laundering and tax fraud. the other of the businessmen valérie except karl left of the country saying he feared for his safety. that 3

represented from the kinds of shows this is a banker and this is a blogger and this is the former elites representative so this is a great. national revival that i would see that we are observing today and people just got tired angry and they saw that window of opportunity they saw the lead in power as they saw the lead in. candidates who are actually able to help the nation to contribute to a country is a democrat is a show i want to bring in another voice and this is from anastacio who spoke to us a little bit earlier on the stream she's in minsk. the reason i don't seem to describe and prosecute it is speaking on the comic to be close to them was an unwritten cast into some production people to change over the last couple weeks which kind of bill abilities concrete disregarding the difference congress you have to work office employees and students all you need to be and you better future. can we know how he characterized the protest movement it is even movement the right word to describe what is happening right now. i would say that we observe the awake you know of the nation in the s

a. blogger that that is a fine for me or very highest high protest most people just don't care who they just want to get rid of the president who's in power for 26 years ok everybody but one alexander lukashenko the. strongman is however still in power he only troublesome by helicopter these days we're told let's take a quick listen to how he in this it is the situation in belarus developing. we need to approve a new constitution so the opposition won't be against it it needs to be approved in a referendum because our previous constitution was approved in a referendum. and based on the new constitution and if you want it we will hold new elections for the parliament presidency and local government bodies. because you know what do you say the prospects of fresh elections would with the opposition accept the elections if president look at trying to we're going to stand again for the presidency. i heard. you were answer because you were at this news about it was reported today that marina crescent was one of the few girls of the. joint staff command of the opposition declared that they are

to say we're joined live by political activist rogers right brian logan who's a blogger on political and social issues good to see you both. rogers right can we kick off with the ins and outs of this bill the this still appear a tad ambiguous in places but could we know start to see race and gender officially becoming more important than professional law tribute. i don't believe that's the case i mean i will say 1st and foremost it is of course very sad that we needed government intervention and for more diversity on these corporate boards the bottom line is that there have always been qualified people of color unqualified women who just don't have the access to these corporations and it's just important that we do and it's also beneficial to these corporations for their bottom line when they have people on their boards who are representative of their consumers that's better for their bottom line and we've seen that as expressed in forbes magazine in bloomberg magazine as well so i don't think that this is going to lead to unqualified people being in positions of power where they shou

look, i want you to be a blogger or a nurse or a trucker, or a hollywood celebrity, bottom line is thatas the distinctive difference. it was the elite versus the normal. >> very good, exactly right. rob, your reaction. >> my reaction to the rnc is this is probably the most inclusive rnc that we have ever seen in history and the left knows that. now, you guys reference in msnbc host that called all of these african american leaders that were at the rnc minstrel and that name was tiffany cross with her colleague doctor jason johnson and called all of these policymakers, people like tim scott and democratic representative vernon jones and kentucky attorney general daniel cameron they called them minstrels. they should be ashamed of themselves. their behavior is despicable and that sort of racial this termination coming from the left shows they have turned into exactly who they hate. tiffany cross and doctor jason johnson should be ashamed of themselves for engaging in that conversation about african americans just because they have different clinical beliefs. >> very strongly put in approp

investigations when he was still basically just a investigations when he was still basicallyjust a blogger you know, ispoke a really effective team around himself. you know, i spoke to one of his researches yesterday, and these arejust his researches yesterday, and these are just really... you his researches yesterday, and these arejust really... you know, i work foran arejust really... you know, i work for an invested organisation, the organised crime and corruption reporting project so i know how these things work, and these people are these things work, and these people a re really these things work, and these people are really top class not only in the depth of the investigation they are able to do but in how they present these things to russian viewers and how they make it understandable and how they make it understandable and how they make it understandable and how they tie it all together and show that these are fundamental features of modern russia and i think that has stoked so much outrage and that is how he has become so well—known and so effective, even though he has never been

all and she has no political experience she's just standing in as it were for her husband of a popular blogger who was arrested and she's united the entire office behind her she's kind of standing in for her husband and also for 2 other opposition candidates who were not able to take part in this election one of them had to flee the country one of them was arrested on fraud charges she has been presenting herself as really a simple citizen of bella bruce as a mother and of someone as a muslim mother and as someone who's really just sick of what has been going on in the country who's sick of as she says being silent and who's sick of seeing the same man in power for 26 years and also i think observers say that many people are just sick of seeing lucas and go just like just like she says for such a long time. and thank you. let's go now to some of the other stories making news around the world in afghanistan a grand assembly has approved the release of 400 taliban prisoners the decision was endorsed by president. he wants to pave the way for peace talks between the government and the insurgents

and, of course, everyone is going to have this tidbit and my job as a blogger is to think how can i distinguish us. so i thought and thought and i did a blog post that was titled "obamas get a black and white dog" and i did a post-racial biracial presidency and what it meant for the country that we now have a black and white dog. and this thing went viral for about 15 minutes and the national editor called me several hours later and said, this was fabulous, let's have more of this. this is fantastic. and later that evening when i was having dinner with my husband without title, jeff glazer, i said, you know, i really have to find something more substantive because -- [laughter] judy: the dog lovers here may resent that. johanna: that is the truth. and then we started brainstorming about what i could do that i loved and i had always loved history. my father was a great history buff and it given me the bug. so i decided at a very advanced age to go back to school and get my ph.d. in history. this is my first book as a historian and it's also, for me, it's the first test of my conviction that you

. >> great, i wanted to ask you about i had read the, you started off as a blogger writing a book knowyour time magazine and now you want to profile lives on i went back and reread that profile and they wondered and i was thinking could be pose some of these questions to you where you don't want to ask liz though why you and why now but she has been doing this for a long time but how do you answer that question because that's an element where you are at. >> i think it is kind of the same thing. i feel there is little, i mean, i've been doing this a long time and i've built up a fan bases of people who are loyal to me and i give a lot of my work away for free so people can try it and honestly, the tenant years of longing and i still do this newsletter and i'm like i just am constantly like putting work out so i think some of that but some of it is straight up like and this is like the part i don't really understand is like marketing, right? my last book did okay and so then you know they put your book in more places and send it to more people so that's got to be a part of it to but i th

been a newcomer to politics, launching her campaign only after authorities jailed her husband, a popular bloggerand banned him from running. her aim was to defeat president lukashenko, a man who rules with an iron fist. he claims to have received over 80% of the vote, a result his opponents denounced as a sham. >> [speaking foreign language] lukashenko's supposedly inside victory has triggereded o consecutive nights of unrest in the capital minsk, with policed firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades at protesters, injuring dozens and detaining thousands. at least one protester is reported to have died in the clashes. the euu and u.s. have expressed concerns, both for the legitimacy of the election and the safefety of protesterers. >> we urge the belarusian government to accept the right to peaceably assemble and to refrain from use of force. >> lukashenko is nicknamed europe's last dictator. notign observers have judged a belarusian election free and fair since he came to power over 25 years ago. major, with --to niger whihich saw bloody violole on sunday. french humanitarian workers

angela: i wanted to ask you, i have read, he started out a blogger, writing books in the 19 alike, timegazine, do you want to a profile of your own. in a rebid that profile i was thinking could we pose some of these questions you were you were like, you know when asked, why me. why now. with us finding kind of like like because she has been doing this for a long time. how would you answer that question. as to where you're at . samantha: i think there is a real fan base of people who overtime are local to me. get give a lot of my work away for free. obviously like ten years of flopping and i still do this newsletter. i just been kind of constantly been putting workouts. if so been doing some of that. some of that is straight up like and this is like the part they don't really understand is marketing rights. my last book did, did okay. so then, but the book and more places and send it to mark people. this had to be a part of it too. i think also and i know asking like the bigger question. i think, maybe at the time, for more diverse voices in this. and people are more open to it. i love t

i wanted to ask you about, i have read, he started off as a blogger writing books. ow like time magazines like hey to indigo profile lizzo? i went back and. reporter: the profile. and i wondered, why you why now she's been doing this for a long time. how did you answer that question? [inaudible] and where you are at. i kind of just saying. i've been doing this for a long time. i built it up. who are loyal to me. i give a lot of my work away for free. on the selected ten years i still do this newsletter. and i am constantly putting workout into the world. i think there's some of that. and this is like part i don't really understand. it is like marketing, right, like my last book did okay. and so they put your book in more places and send it to more people. so that has got to be a part of it too. but i think also, i know you're asking the bigger question, i think, i mean maybe a time for more diverse voices in this space? and people are more open to it. i love me some nor efron or whatever, i don't know that she is what best example blitz go with her. the people who do

laurie hi taiwan is a popular blogger and activist she criticizes hezbollah's policy of sending its militia into conflicts elsewhere in the middle east because she believes it increases the chances of lebanon becoming embroiled in a war. you have to swallow does the lebanese hezbollah woods defense lebanon on. this is reality if this in. the same time there is as below which is the regional players and this is where the division comes. the fact that hezbollah has become a state within a state is perhaps only part of a wider problem faced by lebanon on the out of politics being defined by religion and. laurie high tie on organizes meetings for women who want to bridge the divide between the religious groups. that are here christians and muslims are sitting at the same table. they believe this is the only way the country can progress. in the office so that shovel of nabi and when the lebanese people have no voice and condiment apart from one or 2 politicians with a microphone in front of them of course everyone speaks the name of the lebanese people but in reality no one represents as politic

i wanted to ask you about, i had read like you started off a blogger reading books and now like timeagazine, hey, you want to go profile -- that's the thing to do now. i went back and read that profile and i wonder like thinking could repost some of these questions to you where you were like you do want to ask why you, why now without sounding like -- because she's been doing this for a long time. but like how would you answer that question to where you are at? >> i think it's kind of the same thing. i think -- i've been doing this a long time. i have built up a fan base of people who are loyal to me. i give a lot of my work away for free, so people can try. honestly, like the ten years of blogging and i still do this newsletter and like i'm just constantly like putting work out. i think there's some of that. some of it is straight up, like, this is like the part i don't really understand is like marketing, like my last book did okay and so then they put your book in more places and send it to more people. so that's got to be a part of it, too. but i think also and i know you're aski

been more to politics she lalaunched her campaign only after authorities jailed her husband a popular blogger and banned him from running. her aim to unseat president. lukashenko strongman who ruled the former soviet republic with an iron fist he claims to have received just over 80% of the vote. sold his didn't as a sham. well was. the what did this the place was. lukashenko's supposed landslide victory has triggered two consecutive nights of unrest in the capital minsk with police firing tear gas rubber bullets and stun grenades at protesters injuring dozens and attracting thousands at least one protester is to have died in the clashes. the u. in the us h have expressed their concerns both for the legitimacy of the election and the safety protesters. lukashenko i is named europe's dictator foreign observers have not judge a belarusian election free and fair since he came to power over twenty five years ago. so with that in light of the demonstrations that clashes with police that in minsk- that continues as the thunder to kind of skied t the opposition leader has a flat from the wrist at. t

teacher and interpreter to lead a quiet life until her husband is said again to cut off ski a popular blogger presidential candidate was disqualified from the presidential race and thrown in jail in an act of protest she took up the opposition husband's name and announced she would stand she said herself that she didn't want power at one point telling supporters she's more comfortable frying cutlets in her role as stay at home mom you are just as i want to become president in order to restore justice in this country my campaign program won be familiar to everyone the main point is new honest and fair elections. to cut off was just a woman with a grudge like many he couldn't predict the crowds would turn her into a symbol misconceived our constitution is not for women our society is not mature enough to vote for a woman but as things got heated it seemed but was ready perhaps not specifically for ticking off but for change yet despite condemning the results as false protests gaining traction she fled the country putting our family 1st. i have probably remained the soft woman that i originally

and he was a video blogger. and now he's injail, as are the presidential candidates.y similar to the situation that i also faced ten years ago. when you are threatened with your children's life and you when you are threatened with a situation, when you are told that your parental rights will be taken from you and your children could be sent to the orphanage. and this is what happened to me and my husband. we were lucky because we already got smuggled out of the country and kgb didn't know about that. and we already had the meeting with hillary clinton and lobbied for targeted economic sanctions. this woman who said, "i'm not a politician, i'm staying here "for freedom and i'm staying here for my husband. "in order when for me to become a president, iwill announce "new presidential elections within six months "and those people who are now in jail, they will run "for those presidential elections." after those threats, she was driven to lithuania where she is located. now she is recognised as a national leader, already european countries, and lukashenko is recognised not

she threw her name in the hat afr her husband, a video blogger, was jailed and barred from runn two other opposition leaders were also struck from the ballot. one fled the country, the other was imprisoned. tsikhanouskaya has gathered massive rallies li this one, attended by thousands of supporters in towns and cities throughout the nn,atioomething that's never happened in this tightly run dictatship before. today, belarus' leader faces a wavlie of disconten he's never seen before. earlier this year, russia hiked energy prices in a pressure campaign to push belarus lto an everoser union. then, the coronavirupandemic hit, which he dismissed as something you could treat with a shot of vodka. now, thousands of belarusians usuay earning money abroad are stuck at home, penniless. it's the perfect storm, but belarus' embattled president isn't ready to give up the reigns of power just yet. >> ( translated ): we won't let youake our country! reporter: central to his plan to stay in power are the arrests of the alleged russian mercenaries who his security services accuse of arriving in belarus to

the woman running as the presidential candidate instead of her husband, who was arrested, he is a video bloggernjail, as are other presidential candidates. the situation why she is in exile is very similar to the situation i also face, ten years ago, when you are threatened with your children's lives and when you are threatened with this situation when you are told that your parental rights will be taken from you, and your children could be sent to the orphanage, and this is what happened to me and my husband, we are lucky because we already got smuggled out of the country and the kgb didn't know about that. and we already had the meeting with hillary clinton. this woman, who said that i am not a politician, i am staying here for freedom, i am staying here for my husband in order, for me, to become a president, i will announce new presidential elections within six months, and those people who are now injail, they will run for those presidential elections. after those threats she was driven to lithuania, where she is located now. she is recognised as a national leader, by other european countrie