e.u. commission chief was enough on the line has said she supports sanctions on bello russian officials who violated democratic values or abused human rights e.u. foreign ministers are holding talks at this hour to discuss if and when sanctions could be imposed now the government in ballarat says it is now least 2000 of around $7000.00 people had been detained at a police crackdown that followed president aleksander look. rooted re-election this apparent concession comes on the back of growing pressure both at home and abroad and more disturbing reports of abuse of protestors at the hands of security officials. protesters freed from custody. many bearing scars. they were detained whilst painting fury at what they see as a stolen election at the weekend giving president alexander lukashenko a 6th term in office. the general of syria they arrested everyone beat everyone girls guys children who were 151413 years old there was a grandpa who's around 70 with us everyone got detained even if you just came out to the shop to see what was going on you got arrested. the violence of authorities again

e.u. commission chief was enough on the line saying she supports sanctions on bello russian officials who violated human rights if that is decided what effect would that have will many figures in the opposition and belarus have said how important international solidarity is to them at the moment and yesterday we saw west several western diplomats laying flowers on the spot where one of the protesters was killed in recent days that was seen as a very important step the sanctions so in the sanctions have a very big symbolic value when it comes to their actual effects we would have to see what kind of sanctions they are but if they target individuals including sort of middle middle management in the security forces that could have an effect in kind of breaking away more loyal supporters of. regime going forward. emily sure when reporting for us thank you so much. now to some other stories making news around the world the united nations says the death toll from last week's massive explosion in the lebanese capital beirut has risen to nearly 180 some 6000 people were injured the agency says th

e.u. commission for example aims to improve the working conditions of close to 3000000 truck drivers moving freight across the block all the laws coming into effect now require them to return home every 4 weeks oh yes fear this will hurt their business and it could be the truck drivers who actually have bad the brunt of. the 3 wells don't get any easier with time. but if i'm down his family came to send him off from the rumanian town potentially the truck driver is heading out on a journey through western europe long distance driving has been stiffened amin's life now for nearly 6 years he enjoys it even though it wasn't easy at 1st. i can say that it's the right job for me. but i do enjoy doing it even though there are moments when i would like to be home. and sometimes have 2nd thoughts about going forward with trucking. but every job requires sacrifices or. truck drivers like him now worry that the new new trucking laws could mean even more sacrifices starting now drivers have to return home after 3 to 4 weeks on the road with their weekend rest will have to be spent in the hotel people

e.u. commission with regard to this question the your commission reply to them as reported topics like the limitation and the use of resources can only be a result through good intentions based on international good neighborhood relations trade dialogue and negotiation so basically the issue must be solved between turkey and greece i have spoken to some turkish diplomats from the foreign ministry today basically as one of the turkish diplomats puts it through. regarding the 4 hour statement this is a legal issue between turkey and greece based on the legal rights of 2 countries on the waters of the ija in c. but the e.u. is putting a political stance towards this legal issue which is basically understandable because they are part of a union european union this is why in a reaction statement from the turkish foreign ministry just an hour ago the foreign ministry spokesman put it like this we you know white the e.u. and e.u. member states not the support greece is maximalist amounts against international law under the pretext of union solidarity greece is not an archipelago state it's agains

e.u. commission president as lafond ally and confirmed that sanctions would be put in place on those deemed to have been behind the violent crackdown on protesters in belarus also raised a few eyebrows by saying that there would be cash made available to the people of bella ruth day we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsified cation of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power in belarus the european commission will mobilize now an additional 53000000 euros to support the belorussian people in these challenging times all in all though it seems that was a stronger response from the european union than we were probably expecting heading into this emergency summit there is plenty being said by e.u. member states during this summit before it all got underway there was a statement put out by the visit guard for that's made up of the group that's made of poland hungary czech re

e.u. commission chief ursula funnel line has said she supports sanctions on bell russian officials who violated democratic values or abused human rights e.u. foreign ministers are holding talks at this hour to discuss if and when sanctions could be imposed the government in bellows says 8 now has released 2000 of around 7000 people who have been detained. a police crackdown following president alexander lukashenko disputed reelection this apparent concession comes on the back of growing pressure both at home and abroad and more disturbing reports of abuse of protestors at the hands of security official. protesters freed from custody look over you manny bearing injuries they say were inflicted by officers or were they were detained while spending fury at what they call a right to lection in favor of president lukashenko. was. generally arrested everyone beat everyone girls or guys children who were 151413 years old there was a grandpa who is around 70 when everyone got to taint even if they just came out of a shop to see what's going on for was just. the start of it they made people saying the n

e.u. commission sanctions most likely it's going to be belarusian security forces and election authorities could also expect a statement of support for the opposition however for now at least the e.u. will be looking to tread lightly eastern europe specialist ben eris believes the belarus crisis is a major concern for both russia and the e.u. . a few days ago a look at. the kremlin and said that he was going to us brits and what supports the suggestion was that the present was reaching out to the russians for 'd a significant force the riot police beer troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and it's raised the question will russia invades. generation where there's been a lot of speculation 92 of the people to follow the situation closely that idea has been pretty written off putin's unlike stu that the better some population has actually warmed image of russia and see them as friends and they fought so hard to oust look the shanker that if person came in and crushed the. demonstrations by force and kept the percent go in office by force then the entire population with then su

e.u. commission sanctions most likely it's going to be belarusian security forces and election authorities could also expect a statement of support for the opposition however for now at least the e.u. will be looking to tread lightly. with the e.u. focusing its attention on the political crisis and belarus russia is warning that not to meddle in minsk is to methodist affairs later in the program we have to cross to our tears were among closer up to bring us more on last house reaction. the u.s. democrats have officially nominated joe biden for president and the virtual vote during day 2 of the party's a virtual convention but despite efforts to attract younger voters with a star studded lineup for some the event has fallen flat. without a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive gold meanspirited convention in history of. the d.n.c. so far feels like one long have to usually skip. this convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the. party crowd i'm dying of which ones are insane messages goodbye to just what you. and well both democrats and r

e.u. commission aims to improve the working conditions of close to 3000000 truck drivers moving freight across the block the law is coming into effect now require them to return home every 4 weeks now wholly is fear this will hurt their business and it could be the truck drivers who bear the brunt. of. this her wills don't get any easier with time. but different domains family came to send him off from the rumanian town potentially the truck driver is heading out on a journey through western europe long distance driving has been found amin's life now for nearly 6 years he enjoys it even though it wasn't easy at 1st. but for me i can say that it's the right job for me. i don't enjoy doing it even though there are moments when i would like to be home. and sometimes have 2nd thoughts about going forward with trucking market marvelous up to a lot of thoughts about what every job requires sacrifices or. truck drivers like him now worry that the new trucking laws could mean even more sacrifices starting now drivers have to return home after 3 to 4 weeks on the road with their weekend rest will have

e.u. commission sanctions most likely it's going to be belarusian security forces and election authorities could also expect a statement of support for the opposition however for now at least the e.u. will be looking to tread lightly. with international pressure mounting on the present a bell or us russia has weighed in with a warning for more on that let's cross live to our tis roman kustra now the leaders of russia and belarus have been in contact what's being sad. indeed alexander lukashenko initiated another telephone conversation with his a russian counterpart vladimir putin making its how 4 calls in just 5 days the president of belarus asked a lot of near putin to deliver a message to german chancellor angela merkel to ask her not to meddle in the country's internal affairs and he added that he doesn't see any point to speak to the european leaders by himself so it now looks like moscow has become a direct mediator between the european union and it delivers meanwhile a russian the foreign minister sergei lavrov boards against external interference in belarus is internal political cri

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e.u. from the commission from the european parliament meant corruption campaign is for several years now and that's what the separate government is still not really addressing and up or just reminds us why this report's an investigation is so important after all it's not illegal to sell citizenship in many countries do it. many countries sell residency and after many years you can then become a citizen what cyprus is one of only 3 e.u. countries to do is to quickly and easily well easy if you're rich enough sell you citizenship so within 6 months or so. 1000000 dollars you can buy a cypriot passport and the key thing is that the people buying this passport aren't doing it because they want to become citizens of cyprus they want a way into the rest of europe and that's what an e.u. passport gives them and that's why european politicians are so concerned it called the scheme a trojan horse a backdoor into europe for money launderers and the corrupt ok deborah davis there joining us live from london thank you very much indeed for that so bring in an m.e.p. to discuss this sophie and felt is a m

e.u. trade commission is quick to offer a breach of covert 1000 god lines for logan was criticized for attending a golf dinner with more than 80 people in his native arland he was traveling from belgium listed as i find fiction country we should say was legally obliged to isolate for 14 days an irish government minister also resigned and several other politicians were disciplined sport is coming up with andy more on the n.b.a. is the basketball referees march in support of players taking a stand against racial injustice. so we talked about the n.b.a. a little bit earlier and you got the latest on that yes thank you very much come out some news in the last few minutes n.b.a. players do look setser at cern so action and end their boycott of thursday's 3 playoff games definitely wants a place the league has said it's hopeful games will resume on friday or saturday or wednesday the milwaukee bucks for a no show for their game against the orlando magic that same man making a protest against systemic racism and the police shooting of wisconsin resident jacob blake all of the day's other games will the

merkel speaking in berlin the softer new well in brussels the head of the european commission ursula on the line said the e.u. is ready for a peaceful transition of power and better roast one alliance said the force used by the russian problem police against opposition demonstrators was unacceptable. today we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of the results of the election. the people of but i was took peacefully to the streets. and the authorities answered with violence and this cannot be accepted. and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. well for the very latest let's go now to correspond is nick conley in minsk and barbara in brussels barbara let's start with you how far is the e.u. going out on a limb here diplomatically by formally rejecting election results and better reason backing the opposition. they have really stuck their neck out of the window here terry because this is the most t

berlin shortly after the summit well speaking of brussels the head of the european commission ursula on the line said the e.u. is ready for quote a peaceful transition of power in belarus an alliance the force used by bill russian police against opposition demonstrators was unacceptable. today we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and force a fixation of the results of the election. the people of belarus took peacefully to the streets. and the authorities answered with violence and this cannot be accepted. and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. well in belarus itself there's no letup in public anger about the election many people are also angry about the violent crackdown faced by opposition protesters today more workers joined a general strike call to push him to step down and new elections to be held many public sector workers usually a mainstay of official support for the regime also risked disciplinary ac

e.u. leaders the head of the european commission added that europe is ready for a quote. peaceful democratic transition of power in belarus will provide detailed analysis in the wake of that emergency meeting in a moment but 1st let's get more on the situation as it stands now in belarus. more workers joined the walkout in the past president alexander lukashenko could count on state employees to support him but he had to order managers to threaten them with disciplinary action if they joined a nationwide strike. some ignored those threats. even with the presidential challenger svetlana chicken of sky is still in exile the opposition is growing more confident they set up a coordination council in bellerose to organize a peaceful transfer of power. with the commission that i'm up we are only beginning to rebuild mechanisms to feel like a strong and independent nation yes of course it will be very difficult but we have taken a step and we are setting an example for all to see how we can unite how we can work together and speak with one voice. but belarus is authoritarian lea

chancellor merkel speaking in berlin well speaking in brussels the head of the european commission on the alliance said the e.u. is ready for a peaceful transition of power in belarus funder alliance said the force used by builders and police against opposition demonstrators was unacceptable. today we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsified cation of the results of the election. the people of belarus took peacefully to the streets. and the authorities answered with violence and this cannot be accepted. and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. and its gets more and put on this. is a member of the european parliament from lithuania and he is the parliament rep or tour on better routes thank you for being with us are you satisfied with the e.u.'s decision not to recognize the elections in belarus. well good 6 all i think it's it was a very timely e.u. summit. taking care of very good stand and clear out lin

e.u. could bring infringement proceedings against cyprus where are they what the legislative and we really urge the e.c. must that the commission sorry must not waste no time on this. they must and allies whether the prince principle of sincere corporation between member states has been violated whether the security of the of this of the e.u. has been undermined by this means and not only in the case of cyprus but in the case of over countries which are so have these kind of schemes and plates and then 4 so what we doing is what we calling for is that a phase out of these schemes both fast forward and visa schemes but in the meantime we should not leave a vacuum and the the commission mascot must come up with a roadmap and with a legislative proposal to act to the arm when i standards at your level to ensure that there was no rights to the book a 3 member state that actually going to to just. present and this came up more attractive than the thing you want to the ongoing conversation. yes and just to clarify that the issue of seat is that she is still remains within the competence of a member state in the european union it's no

well european commission president on the line confirmed that the e.u. would be placing sanctions on those deemed to have been behind the violent crackdown on protesters she also announced that funds would be made available to those of those in the belorussian opposition. a we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power in belarus and the european commission will mobilize now an additional $53000000.00 euros to support the belorussian people in these challenging times. well that makes it interesting listening when you also take into account what was coming out of berlin chancellor angela merkel heads up the rotating presidency of the you at the moment and she was facing the cameras as well following that virtual summit saying there needs to be no outside interference in bell or reduce. bene

become the 1st tech giant to face a fine from ireland's data protection commission after the body submitted their decision to e.u. member states in may but some regulators objected to ireland's initial ruling which will cause a broader group of regulators to seek a majority decision as part of the use general data protection regulations rules introduced in 2018 regulators can levy a fine for violations of up to 4 percent of a firm's global revenue or 20000000 euros whichever is higher than the initial issue stems from a bug in twitter's android app where some users protected tweets were made public and the company's failure to notify authorities in a prompt manner. and meanwhile facebook is already settling one multimillion dollar lawsuit over its illegal use of facial recognition technology while its other social media platform instagram was just slapped with another massive suit over the same issue both cases were filed in illinois one of the 1st states in the us to pass privacy laws that protect consumers from invasive technology legal journalist molly barrows contributor with america's lawyer is following th

e.u. leaders so that on wednesday certainly a message of support for the opposition we can also expect clarification on the coup commission's sanctions will target in belarus most likely it's going to be the security services and election officials we what the e.u. is looking to do right now is tread carefully when it comes to belarus at least for the time being thorough that the summit gets underway in just under 3 hours time i believe looking ahead to it for us our correspondent in berlin peter of thank you. well we spoke to eastern europe specialist ben arris about this he believes that the crisis is a major concern for both russia and the european union. a few days ago look at chang go. to the kremlin and said that he was going to us puts in supports the suggestion was that the present was reaching out to the russians or significant force beer riot police beer troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and it's raised the question will russia invades. that ownership where there's been a lot of speculation navy terms that people have for the situation closely that idea has been pretty written off putin is unlik

the european commission has reserved up to 200000000 doses of a potential covert 19 vaccine from u.s. pharmaceutical company johnson and johnson the e.u. executive arm said the contract would allow all 27 member states to purchase the vaccine and also to donate to lower income countries. china says it's come up with its 1st nucleic acid testing laboratory for covert 19 such labs can be transported easily return results on site without the need for additional parts for testing. now a day after receiving another box of safe aged german travelled group to a has posted disastrous coarsely figures revenue is down a startling 98 percent amounting to a $1400000000.00 euro net loss between april and june with some travel restrictions still in place and the prospect of more lock times on the horizon a recovery may still be a long way off. the same as the vendors wouldn't normally be parked out of use under the reaal to bridge be packed with tourists wanting to discover the site but even though it'll be like most european cities listed it's locked down 3 months ago the pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to the entire tourism industry in veni

e.u. withdrawal agreement claiming it denies britain true national independence you're paying commission has already rejected the cols saying the commitments made in the agreement reasonable and will stand in the twitter post in duncan smith said the e.u. wants money the brussels wish is to stop britain being a competitor is common spot confusion online as many were quick to point out that duncan smith actually voted for the withdrawal agreement when it went through parliament last year others were keen to highlight that he once claimed that 3 days was enough time to debate it but in october the form the pension secretary expressed his complete support for the document in parliament. i am absolutely without question of a doubt going to support this tonight in both votes both in the 2nd reading vote and i believe massively importantly in the programme motion and our course at moffett we didn't have program versions some people might recall round here that we had to have a 100 hours in committee before we could actually come down to get a limit sometimes i wonder if that wouldn't be a good thi

e.u. withdrawal agreement claiming it denies britain true national independence the european commission hasalready rejected the call saying the commitments made in the agreement a reasonable and will stand in a twitter post in duncan smith said the e.u. wants our money and the brussels which is to stop britain being a competitor his comments spark confusion online as many were quick to point out that duncan smith actually voted for the withdrawal agreement when it went through parliament last year others were keen to highlight that he wants claim that 3 days was enough time to debate it britain is set to leave the transition period at the end of the year following its official withdrawal in january. of mourners i'm not sure but associate professor of politics of the month for university alice to jones out of their great to see you so what you make of this is is ian duncan smith at having regrets now well that would appear to be the case i mean as you pointed out he said you needed 3 days to debate it you would expect that all m.p.'s to actually lose read the legislation were votes in what i

commission says that there's no reason now that the tariffs should even remain now the e.u. they're going to tell you on their own because that according to the they can't that's not coming till this fall how bad could it get here you're right about the autumn the fall in america i think what you're going to see is you're going to see that if we pursue and continue to pursue these tie ups you will see them imposed from europe however what i would say is that currently the is pretty much in dire straits their economy has suffered way more than we have all the u.s. economy and g.d.p. has not suffered nearly as much as those countries across europe so i think what you will find is they really want to do business with the u.s. and i think by the fall by this fall by autumn you will see a relaxation of tower us if the french relax their. digital times and if the germans do step up for their contribution to nato that's what it takes and i think there will be pressure from the restaurant industries across europe as well and also that don't look at tourism as being hit drastically t

e.u.? what can we expect? maria: i think we're going to hear from the european commission today no question at mid day when theyons from the press. there's going to be a lot of talk about maybe extending sangs on russia, whether we're going to get new ones whether a new formal investigation triggered from the european union not just germany and of course we're waiting to hear not just from angela merkel but also emmanuel macron who said you cannot i ignore russia. this is a big country and you have to reset that relationship but again when you look at this tiche incident, if this is confirmed and we do get indications that the russia government had anything to do wit it's difficult to see how you get to anything that looks like a normal relationship with russia and the russian government. annmarie: maria, thank you for joining us. we stick with europe. germany's final g.d.p. fix yours are expected to confirm the scale of the slump at the height of the lockdown restrictions. it's expected to strengthen 0.1%. they've welcomed the storm etter than most. nasr when you look at the stock market you wouldn't think we'