today absolutely crucial to send a political message of solidarity to the people on the streets in balad ruz it was just not enough to say that we closely monitor the situation or that we're gravely concerned about what's happening on the ground things we've heard throughout the course of the week and a so in particular german foreign minister for instance asked to increase the political pressure so that is what happens today when it comes to how effective these sanctions will actually be it depends entirely on on how brought the list will be if it's a narrow list it will be in favor of the regime but it will also be in favor of countries like hungary you are rather skeptical about slapping fresh sanctions on the roosts so at the end of the day you need a list that can be carried by all 27 you need to unite unanimous decision. off of people off your member states to support the list of sanctions. nasser's on top of this story in brussels for us thank you gail authorities in afghanistan have begun freeing 400 taliban prisoners their release as been a key demand of the taliban for entering int

i'm so gail welcome to the program we start in balad ruz where the top opposition candidate in sunday's presidential election has left the country amid a massive police crackdown on anti-government protests in a video message from to kind of skier said she was safe with her children in neighboring if you weigh in here she also wrote supporters to end their protest against the election. result which gave president alexander lukashenko a 6 but mystic kind of sky's ally say she was pressured into her latest moves. yet proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. by monday she was gone her whereabouts on earn her team unable to reach her. now svetlana taken off scalia has reappeared with a somber message online. to say the companion. i knew what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me that i could withstand anything. new but perhaps i'm still the weak woman that i was in the beginning but was initially. the opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the country's foreign minister taken off scale says she was not forced out of her country

in balad ruz it's no small matter to quit a good job he discussed his decision with his wife marina. the moment the 1st blood was spilled at the demonstrations jaeger says he had made up his mind. even that of a bush i was afraid they could send this against the protesters and he will be at that address see the order while i was still new for. eve so i had to resign 1st before i couldn't have this obeyed in order and that's treated like desertion and you just don't do that as a man just leave your comrades in the works somewhere take off the light if you don't get an upload woods was there we're there for one another. so we have to quit 1st stop people doing it but it's you and he's not the only one to quit he says not by far. my department a rough estimate would be about 10 percent who have quit the force 10 percent of the police officers. his wife is worried that yeager might still be penalized in some way. or the buy used on the budgets even from stop i'm scared that when he takes our little girl to daycare he might not come back and i wouldn't know where they took him used but th