belarus�*s authoritarian leader, alexander lukashenko, speaks exclusively to the bbc.e admits that his forces may have helped migrants cross into the european union. translation: i told the eu i'm not going to detain - migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on, i still won't stop them. the women's tennis association threatens to pull out of china as the outcry intensifies over missing chinese tennis star peng shuai. and kamala harris becomes the first woman ever to hold us presidential powers whilejoe biden had a medical procedure. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. thank you forjoining us. a us teenager who shot dead two people and injured another during racialjustice protests in wisconsin last year has been found not guilty of murder. kyle rittenhouse had argued that he was repeatedly attacked and had acted in self—defence. the protests in the city of kenosha came after a black man, jacob blake, was shot by police. mr rittenhouse and the men he shot are all white. prosecutors said that the teenage

the west says alexander lukashenko is using migrants as a political weapon.border fences to help migrants into the eu. translation: our guys - are helping the migrants get into the polish territory? it is possible. i think that is absolutely possible. maybe someone helped them. i won't even look into this. thousands of migrants have been coming to belarus to try to slip into europe. alexander lukashenko denies bringing them here. but he warned the eu six months ago. translation: you told the eu that belarus has been stopping migrants and now they would have to catch them themselves the migrants took that to mean belarus is open to them. i told the eu i won't hold migrants at the border or detain them at the border. they're not coming to my country, they're going to yours, the west stopped talking to us and working with us, if you don't want to, then fine, we will sort this problem out ourselves, as best we can. this was belarus last year. alexander lukashenko under pressure, accused of rigging an election and stealing the presidency. but he launched a brutal

the west says alexander lukashenko is using migrants as a political weapon.ing borderfences to help migrants into the eu. translation: our guys - are helping the migrants get into polish territory? it's perfectly possible. i think that's absolutely possible. maybe somebody helped them. i won't even look into this. thousands of migrants have been coming to belarus to try to slip into europe. alexander lukashenko denies bringing them here, but he warned the eu six months ago. translation: you told the eu that belarus had been stopping migrants but now, they would have to catch them themselves. the migrants took that to mean belarus is open to them. i told the eu i'm not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on, i still won't stop them because they're not coming to my country, they're going to yours. the west stopped talking to us and working with us. if you don't want to, then fine, we will sort this problem out ourselves as best we can. this was belarus last year. alexander lukashenko under intense pr

the west says alexander lukashenko is using migrants as a political weapon.ops have been cutting border fences to help migrants into the eu. translation: our guys are helping the migrants get into polish territory? it is perfectly possible. i think that is absolutely possible. maybe somebody help them. i won't even look into this. thousands of migrants have been coming to belarus to try and slip into europe. alexander lukashenko denies bringing them here, but he warned the eu six months ago. you told the eu that belarus had been stopping migrants and but now they would have to catch them themselves. the migrants took that to mean belarus is open to them. translation: i told the eu i am not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border and if they keep coming from now on, i still will not stop them, because they are not coming to my country, they are going to yours, the west up talking to us and working with us. if you do not want to, then fine, we will sort this problem out ourselves as best we can. this was belarus last year. alexander luka

ali alexander organized the january 6th rally. after 9/11, i spent my early adulthood growing up in a post 9/11 world with an arab name. it's open season on hate towards muslims and islam. at one point in 2012, had to have a member of congress call the fbi to get me removed from a watch list. and now, in this post 1/6 world, i'm on a list, yet again, because i've been deemed a minority in dissent. we are now hearing from the man who organized last week's rally that turned into a deadly insurrection. i know when it's like to grow up in america and post 9/11 as arab. and i know what it's like to grow up post january 6th as a trump supporter who demanded election integrity. ali alexander was trying to build a movement of people until it was a rhetorical gun cocked and pointed at congress. the vanguard of delusion of anti democratic, you know, attempt at a putsch that represented by stop the steal. my life has been torn apart. i regularly receive violent death threats. it has prevented me from returning to my work. i lost all of my so

lukashenko, between the regime of alexander lukashenko and the european union. when you had protests that started in belarus where they said there was an election they say was rigged, was severely rigged. the european union and the united states saying exactly the same thing. there were large scale protests and those protests were brutally crushed by the lukashenko regime. i was actually on the ground there for quite a while in the summer of last year when we saw a lot of those detentions taking place and the crackdown has only accelerated since then. most of the opposition leaders are either in jail or fled the country. then you had a situation this year where the belarusian regime forced a plane from the european carrier to land in minsk and then detained an activist from that plane. that obviously led to more sanctions from the european union. and essentially europe believes because of these sanctions, because of the standoff that's going on is that essentially alexander lukashenko is trying to get back at the european union, but also trying to test the europ

i'm ve who dealt with alexander rawson. in very angry.p. just to run. if he's got that, why would you put vulnerable people, why would you put vulnerable people, why would you put them at risk? eileen dean lived a _ would you put them at risk? eileen dean lived a long, _ would you put them at risk? eileen dean lived a long, full, _ would you put them at risk? eileen dean lived a long, full, happy i would you put them at risk? eileen dean lived a long, full, happy life. | dean lived a long, full, happy life. herfamily placed her in a care home because they wanted her to be safe in her final because they wanted her to be safe in herfinal years. the in her final years. the investigations in herfinal years. the investigations have begun into why she wasn't. june kelly, bbc news, at the old bailey. the bbc has asked the south london and maudsley nhs trust and fieldside care home for a response. as yet there's been no comment. the brexit minister lord frost is holding talks in paris with france's europe minister to try to end the dispute overfi

but alexander lucas ankle was talking about the aml gas bible. and that we understand that this was something that really affected the markets because we're hot on the heels of an energy crisis in europe that had to do with gas prices of 1st of all. but, but again, lucas shank was talking about a gas pipeline. and then we also heard from the russian present latimer potent that nothing good would come out of that decision. because russia is interested in stable gas market at perhaps a, it is definitely fair to say that technically, these announcements have nothing to do with each other. the warnings on the part of alexander lewis hankle in this announcement of the oil pipeline shut down for 3 days again on scheduled maintenance. they're saying it's all about some kind of repair works, but this could be a signal to europe that alexander lucas was ready to take action. so we don't know what exactly happens next again, on paper, this is maintenance, but alexander lucas angle always wants to seem as the man who has the tools to make sure that he can s

daphna and alexander didn't have that opportunity.ng in utero, can'tdidn't breast-feed her baby at first. they met their baby at four months old on a picture over a text message. for the rest of us, that is completely unfathomable. >> what has it been like for the babies? what was it like for the babies transitioning to their biological, but to them new parents? >> you know, i don't know what it could be like for the 4-month-old doing that. but i'll tell you, for the 5-year-old that daphna and alexander had, this was traumatic. she bonded with her baby sister. that's the baby sister she knew. and at 4 months old, for that baby, she was taken away from their older daughter. their older daughter was an energetic, lively, loving 5-year-old girl. and as soon as this happened, she changed like that. all of a sudden she was mistrusting, she was angry, she didn't hug or kiss her parents. that is -- i guess an understandable reaction, but for a 5-year-old girl, it is just devastating. >> yeah, the severing of a bond. can you tell us about the

europe doesn't see alexander _ you have been paying for?ee alexander lukashenko as a legitimate president. he claims not to care. a pariah in the west he knows there is also vladimir putin's russia to fall back on. the brexit minister david frost says significant gaps remain across most issues relating to the northern ireland protocol, that's the part of the brexit deal designed to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland. the uk and the european union have been holding talks to try to ease the row about trading arrangements for northern ireland, with european from brussels, jessica parker reports. the uk may have left the eu, but britain is still here talking. morning, everybody. because of issues with the treaty that both sides signed up to. our preference is to see if we can find a negotiated way through this problem. if we can't, article 16 remains on the table. that means potentially suspending parts of the protocol. so, how are discussions going? i wouldn't expect any breakthroughs on anything today, but there are some issues that

alexander lukashenko denies bringing them here. he said belarus had been stopping migrants.rants took that to mean that belarus was open. >> i told the eu we would not detain migrants the border, and if they keep coming, i still won't stop them. they aren't coming to my country. they will go to yours. we will sorthis problem out ourselves as best we can. steve: this was belarus last year. alexander lukashenko under intense pressure, accused of rigging and election and stealing the presidency, but he launched a brutal crackdown on the his critics and on civil society. we saw protesters being beaten, and we saw young people coming out of detention centers with injuries on their bodies. >> i admit it. people were beaten, but there were police beaten, too, and you didn't show this. steve: since july, 270 ngos have been shut in belarus. >> i will answer your question with no bother. we will gather up all of the mosque that you have been financing. you are upset that we destroyed your ngos and all those you have been paying for? steve: europe does not see mr. lukashenko as a legit

moscow correspondent and he's just recorded a remarkable interview with the president of belarus, alexanderenko. we're also going to consider the new editor of the daily mail. how much control will he have over which political stories in the uk last, notjust for a day or two, but for much longer? and of course, we've got to talk about peppa pig. i'm sure lots of people saw the prime minister's speech at the cbi this week which featured peppa pig. let's begin the program by talking to the deputy political editor at itv news, anushka asthana. i wonder how itv covered that story. we certainly did cover peppa pig and i can imagine that my itv colleague in northumberland, who was there, was watching — as we all were — slightly through his hands at that speech — not onjust peppa pig, but at a few things, and of course, he had the opportunity straight after that interview to ask the prime minister some questions, so did all broadcasters, but it was his turn to ask the questions and you will remember that he i think spoke to the nation in a way when he spoke to the prime minister, "are you 0k?" and

several thousand migrants have gathered there trying to get into the eu and alexander lukashenko hasiting them to come to belarus, to use his country get them into europe to try and put pressure on europe, pressure on the eu as basically revenge for eu sanctions. he denies that. but this is one of the things which has kept him — put him in the headlines over the last year and a half. think back to august of last year, he was accused of rigging the presidential election, then he launched a brutal crackdown on his critics and opponents — tens of thousands of people were detained. then he was accused of air piracy — remember the case of the ryan air passengerjet, which he forced to land in minsk so he could arrest one of his critics. and now being accused of weaponising migrants, so we put in a request to interview him, we didn't expect to get a yes, but he agreed. and then you went — tell us about what it was like when you arrived to do the interview. well, we had to set up all the equipment, all the cameras, the lights the day before in the palace of independence. then we came back th

but actually vladimir potent, who often supports alexander lucas sango. and we know that barrows and russia are close allies when mister putin heard about this threat from the bar, wasn't president of a potential closures of the gas pipeline. he was rather critical about it. here's what exactly you said. we'll move to ensure theoretically, alexander lucas shank o can shut down the gas pipeline as the president of a transit country. he can probably give an order to cut off our supplies to europe . it, although this would be a violation of our transit contract. i hope it doesn't come to this. if it happens, it will cause great damage to the european energy sector in the one contribute to the development of our relations with bella roofs in life. so mister potent remarks were rather calm and very diplomatic. i should say. this though, isn't, does something that we're supposed to expect from europe, because they're very aggressive when it comes to alexander lucas angle. they're aggressively reacting to anything. he says they are blaming him for waging a hybri

do you know, when i put in my first request to interview alexander lukashenko, it was a 1999, it wasthe first request, and it was a "no" that came back. so it's taken more than two decades. but basically, this time around, we went to belarus to cover the migrant crisis that's taking place on the border of belarus and the eu, poland. several thousand migrants have gathered there trying to get into the eu, and alexander lukashenko has been accused by the west of basically inviting them to come to belarus to use his country get them into europe to try and put pressure on europe, pressure on the eu as basically revenge for eu sanctions. he denies that. but this is one of the things which has kept 10, put him in the headlines over the last year and a half, but think back to august of last year, he was accused of rigging the presidential election, then he launched a brutal crackdown on his critics, tens of thousands of people were detained. then he was accused of air piracy, rememberthe case of the ryan air passengerjet, which he forced to land in minsk so he could arrest one of his critic

simon walker, julia alexander, maria breslin, and kamal ahmed.inly to the feel of our weather over the next few days. in fact, we'll start to see the first signs of that this weekend, gradually turning colder from the north. and it's this weather front that's producing some rain, the cold air tucking in behind the front, with a scattering of showers waiting in the winds. that gradually slips its way south into northern ireland and northern england. ahead of it, we should see early—morning cloud, mist and murk starting to thin and breakfor some glimpses of sunshine and highs of 13 celsius. plenty of showers following into the far north of scotland, and already the first signs of that colder air arriving. but the real cold air pushes through saturday night into sunday, and the wind direction changes to this northerly flow. so, for all of us, we'll notice the difference first thing on sunday morning. there'll be more in the way of sunshine right across the country, but it will be noticeably colder, particularly when you factor in the strength and th

what alexander mentioned about the singling of mister go, the extra in this meeting with the president, which is from belgrade, is a clear indicator he wants. this is a gambling of threads threatening disintegration of bosnia to the west and once a return, particularly from the you for stopping it. but that return a like he's both and for partner mr. trowbridge on the election law, ron is based the following something very similar. it's a, it's a face disintegration of the country. one, he wants basically an arrangement on an approval from the u and the u. s. b. girls, what he wants and possibly to each want is to turn bosnia really far and bought that they are doing this for 10 years into a kind of union of entities and can and that space, you know, esl journal division which would ultimately lead to this integration there's still can be a stop in here. i don't agree with my producers. the, with the west has instruments to stop this. you for can act. if it has the political world, they are actually understaffed and to remain. but they can call in over the horizon to stop any conflict.

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its president, alexander lukashenko, has been in power for 27 years.oday he threatened to shut down a key pipeline which carries natural gas from russia to europe, and most important to germany. the european union, which has not recognized lukashenko's victory in last year's elections, threatens him with more severe sanctions if he does not stop migrants from entering belarus and trying to jump across the border. today, several thousand people, including children and women, are stuck on the border with poland, causing something which starts to remind us of a major human to terry and crisis. the u.s. has also planned more sections against belarus and russia which is belarus' major ally. guy: -- some signs of weakening. bloomberg u.k., and he reporter lizzie burden joining us to talk about what this means, particularly for the bank of england. is this in some way vindication of the governor's decision not to vote for a rate a couple of days back? reporter: yes, kind of. the monthly figures came in slightly above forecast, but the corley figures for third

and from belgrade were joined by alexander brezza. a journalist usually based and sorry of a gentleman. welcome to the program. so if we can stop with you, christine schmidt says there's a very real prospect of a return to conflict in bosnia, is he right? i think he is. and this is the most serious political crisis the boss is currently facing since the end of the war and 1995. we are not sure how this will move forward and what the outcome will be. but i would agree with mister smith. but a watch of the international community be doing right now, are you in the us taking the situation seriously enough? ah, rising awareness, fortunately, there is a serious situation. i agree with my previous says that this is the most serious crisis we've seen in the end over the war. unfortunately, this crisis is one of the west, the use and the u. s. own making its self inflicted wounds. clothing will be seen as the human secret council yesterday. so the west not only has not driven its crisis to emerge. its officials are directly responsible for th

they'll alexander schellenberg, they all say and chances says, the reason he did that was because his hand was forced because to many people in his country as he sees it a fall and fall of what he calls anti vax propaganda. and that's one of the reasons he said that a vaccine uptake in austria was so low. these people low say they just don't want the government to have so much say in what happens to them, why they take vaccines. the real statistics, though are not austria is in the grip of a real biting situation. when it comes to this fault, wave of coven 90, particularly in the west of the country, hospitals are at creaking point. when it comes to taking severely ill people in intensive care units, they are just don't have the capacity to be able to cope. and austria is vaccine rate is below the average when it comes to the rest of the european union. however, these people here say that they just don't agree with the policies and the way that alexander shalon both government is handled, they say are in austria, patrol the reporting. that will mean while the world health organization

and the other thing we simply don't know is how much and how far, alexander lucas shanker, is willing to go to press his ames in this crisis. so in easing of sorts, but certainly not the game out. there was a whole reporting live that from poland inside of the border with baler is joining many things. emilia says the rushing mediated cease fire with as a by john is mostly holding following violence. earlier this week. it was the worst flare up since fighting of the disputed. know, going to come back border region last year. well, the 6000 people were killed in that conflict. to do as robin for us here. walker reports nation tbilisi and they bring georgia official footage from armenian defense ministry shows strikes on what it claims were as a, by johnny armored vehicles in armenian sovereign territory. as a by john said armenia provoked the fighting and describes the boy the area as disputed. ah, mobile footage shed on social media appears to show as a by johnny soldiers beating and taunting their armenian captives. 2 on tuesday, the head of armenia, security council, cold for russian

or at least that there is evidence that alexander lucas, shank and bella roost is directly responsible the situation continues to be of utmost concern to us. there is evidence that the regime and means constantly directs people to the border or the message coming out of minsk is the beller, is denise old allegations made against that the they are directly responsible for this. in fact, the better russian leader, alexander lucas shank, going on to say that the country just doesn't have the money to be able to deal with the amounts of refugees that it has at its borders. i honestly said that we wouldn't hold any more of the people you've been screened over in afghanistan, iran and iraq. we have neither the money nor the strength to do so as a result of your sanctions. while a number of those people who've been trying to make this journey into poland and into the european union have tragically died of hypothermia on the starvation making their way through those woods. it's a, a perilous journey. of course, we have been come to be familiar with the dangerous journey that was migrants tryin

they say alexander lucas shenika is taking revenge on the e u for sanctions imposed after his violent crackdown on political opposition at home. for months, belarus has been granting migrants visits, promising them an easy route into the you and you probably america just as all we have to sustain at all. so as i have told merkle, the problem is that we don't save those people. we would both lea zillow, both bellows and to an even bigger extent, the european union. we didn't let through the refugees to the e. u territory. that's why i proposed on solving the situation in general, we agreed with merkel. we won't talk about it specifically. she, after some time for a pause to discuss the proposal with the members of the european union. that's fine . what to just as the numbers at the border grow. so to does the desperation, they can't go back. holland says it cannot enter. that means we're likely to see more people pushing forward and the polish forces using tougher tactics to keep them out. a sad beg i'll jazeera near the poland, belly roost. border polish authorities have occasion barr

you and us officials have been leaving since february this. alexander, do you agree with what you have heard? so far is the peace deal that ended the war 26 years ago in danger of unraveling. i think this is going to be one of those shows where all of the guests agreeing in absolute principle when it comes to the fact that this is the biggest crisis bobby has experienced. and since 1095 and the finding of the court however, maybe i'm, i was i'm a born optimist. but i still do think that there are some checks and balances within the very they can peace accord. but also the country itself are complicated, that might be as complex as it might be, that might prevent any kind of, you know, everything that we're seeing so far escalate into some kind of open, open, open conflict besides of a war. what is the mood like there in, sorry, april, at the moment a people genuinely fearful? yes, i think my people are concerned much of this reminds them of the fall of 91 when another on college and his ilk. the again undertaking this month's long process that led to secession and genocide. so many peo

steve: alexander lukashenko and vladimir putin had a conversation and talked about the migrant crisisid they say? the kremlin readout gave very few clues. the minsk readout had more details. they both expressed concern about polish soldiers moving close to the polish-belarusian border. judging by what state tv has been saying in russia, moscow is supporting alexander lukashenko and the belarusian side. mr. lukashenko gave an interview today to an editor in chief of a russian defense journal who was gushing his praise of mr. lukashenko and called him an outstanding politician that gave lukashenko the opportunity to put forward his view of the world. as he so often does, he called lack white and white black. for months now he's been accused by the european leaders of weaponizing migration. turned everything around in the interview and blamed european leaders for the current crisis. ♪ ross: let's shift from steve to the conflict in ethiopia. the u.n. says more than a dozen local staff have been detained in the capital addis ababa. we don't know why but last month several officials were e

b u accuses bella russian president alexander lucas shanker. of luring the baron retaliation for sanctions against his country. today we are going to approve a new package of sanctions again to see people responsible for what's happening and and we're going to.

ali alexander organized the january 6th rally. after