minister sergey lavrov while he said that he warned against external interference in belarus his internal affairs the swedish. we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and roosts we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing bill of rights to interfere in them from a brutal. yes and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside act is considered beneficial everything we're hearing now from the european caption is specifically from the both countries poland and the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy only with geopolitics moscow is calling on all parties involved to have to provide for a genuine dialogue. is he they also said that according to the kremlin the words of

ok let's get the views now of international affairs commentator marco gas it she's been waiting patiently on the line for us market good afternoon we heard there the taken off sky has now fled to lithuania do you think that will affect or have an impact on her support back home. well she certainly. children are close to a. lot of. my old street. clothes or your old. tricks or. is it. marco marseille interrupt you there because we're having real problems on the line herring you are hope we can do is try and call you back in a couple of minutes and see if we can resurrect the interview but in the mine we just can't hear what you're saying i'm afraid so we're trying get back to you shortly ok. you're watching r.t. just come quarter past 4 here in moscow we'll take a quick break and we'll be back until. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven

happy to welcome onto the program international affairs analyst. joining us from istanbul to have his say on what is developing today and there are a lot of things developing in lebanon today it looks like a total breakdown of law and order ministries being stormed the foreign ministry was taken over for a period the army had to be called in to regain control of that some are calling this a revolution where do you see this heading. how long. first of all i can say. is on thin ice right now i want to remind you and on the line my grooviest peachey have just peeved with the go it the night that it's. happened i say the explosion isn't then i think i don't believe that's an attack by our a result of included and so on recklessness and this is what the young generation has been protesting for several months fortunately the lebanese politics couldn't have found the solution because on the solution is to change the constitution and the system itself which doesn't seem to be possible at least for the moment. we are unfortunately can expect there worsen th

minister sergey lavrov while he said that he warned against external interference in belarus his internal affairs the swedish. we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now in better roofs we are concerned by the attempt to exploit the internal challenges facing bella ruse to interfere in them from a brutal and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside actors consider beneficial to everything we're hearing now from the european captions specifically from the baltic countries. and in the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy only with geopolitics moscow is calling on all parties involved to have to provide for a genuine dialogue and is used they also said that according to the kremlin's words of the kremlin belorussian officials are indeed ready to speak to the protesters and to the opposition however interference and provocation from abroad are certainly counterproductive now alexander lukashenko he's also earlier accused the west all for financing the opposition one of those western countries are openly withou

on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of belarus which could lead to a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. for many years but it doesn't exactly been a top priority for the united states in 2006 they slap sanctions on minsk for you guessed it undemocratic elections and in 2008 the country's expelled each other's ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u.s. secretary of state. generously offered to meet all of his energy needs and extended a helping hand the united states wanted to help the reuss build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look who may be interested or put their bets on. opposition amidst the uncertainty minsk one thing is clear washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u.s. friendly state on russia's border could be a game changer and as protests grow in a country suddenly thrown into the international limelight and with multi

there were commenting on the claims of violence against journalists better reeses ministry of internal affairs has now pledged to investigate every single allegation earlier we spoke to economist. he says that while the 4th day of protests in belarus were relatively calm people are still very angry. who is to insert peace for people. for the joy in their all but their gender change be a last drop that broke the camel's back was the mass join you the problem is the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial entities joined the protest saying that we demand not to purchase from the government we need both. elections to look at himself put in the position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election commissioners deliberate fraud and election and vote out definitely ignited that kind of protest and anger because nobody believes in butler that we should go to 80 percent of. the united arab emirates and israel have agreed to normalize relations the deal brokered by washington includes a promise to be by israel to delay annexation of pal

for life now to international affairs commentator donovan steele thanks for joining us on the program so the entire cabinet ever has resigned does that come as a surprise to hear. naturally this is the main demand of the just as they also want new elections and they want all of them to be ok to just well this is actually the 2nd government had to resign much of chad months. harry reid government to resign well job last year and then hariri remainders the tragedy is that was achieved once so it may well be that house and you know remains in power is a church a prime minister for another 2 so you're 4 months so the protesters will not be happy with that so will this lead to any political changes at all well it's difficult i mean you're going to mischaracterize why they are judged politics people vote according to their religion. there's a going to have forces rich can be tracked people who say you know. certainly one christian in same party you voted for one party or not they're going to they're against you and you will be take a long time to administer some kind of issue based politics

senior research fellow george someway from international affairs think tank the global policy institute believes we may not see many solid facts presented in the case. the question is are the germans prepared to share their findings all of the. findings they pull all the medical tests that they undertook on the ball in the are they prepared to share them with the russian doctors if they're not if they tried to do what to reason made did with discrete palls and offer no cooperation whatsoever with the russian with or it is that the russians could make an independent assessment as what the german scientists have found then it's hard to see why the russians are any under any obligation to conduct the full investigation as they look we don't know that he was poisoned ah doctors say that he wasn't so why should we just accept what the germans say when the germans refused to provide us with any scientific basis to assess their findings a russian doctor who initially treated of ali when he 1st fell ill says he's received online threats this comes off the russian medics claim they could find no

international affairs commentator marco gaslight thank you for your time and your comments. the e.u. has confirmed it's drawing up sanctions against fellow russian officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters the bloc hasn't disclosed whether or not alexander lukashenko is on the list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago meanwhile lithuania which shares a border with belarus has banned go and 31 other bowler russian officials from entering the country. you have stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in the belorussian crisis point out though that lithuania is doing precisely that with its sanctions on the. on wednesday evening the european union one emergency video conference on the crisis the block unanimously rejected the results of the election artist on quarter takes a look at the signals coming from the e.u. . for the west bank it was always europe's last dictator the european union never liked the guy but they did try to play nice not anymore we stand by the people of belarus their european union student in so

what was said there commenting on claims of violence against journalists pelosi has ministry of internal affairs is no pledge to investigate every allegation earlier we spoke to economists jaroslav roman chookie told us that while the 4th day of protests had better was when relatively calmly people there are far from. close to it said peace for people. but there's a lot of joy. but they engender change because the last drop that broke the camel's back was the mass joining the problems of the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial entity enjoy the prada saying that we demand not perks from the government we need fair. elections to look at himself put in the position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election commissioners are or the election and vote now definitely ignited that kind of protest and anger because nobody believes in butler that location got 80 percent of the. other use today the united arab emirates and israel have agreed to normalize relations the deal brokered by washington includes a promise by israel to delay t

your thoughts with us and give us your expertise in an area you know well jonathan steele international affairs commentator thank you. well let's just expound. news one of the questions we put the jonathan there are thoughts on confirm reports are stating that the terrorist group islamic state claimed responsibility for the explosion in roots partly is coming from online propaganda counseling to the terror group we're waiting for further details we do know in the past that they have been linked. not being able to verify previous attacks so anything to do with this we will of course bring it to you let's recap to the situation in the lebanese capital at least 63 people have died in a devastating explosion in beirut more than $3000.00 are injured according to the health ministry that number going up seemingly every forest so $3000.00 plus injured the hospitals at full capacity as well lebanese interior minister says the exclusion appears that being caused by huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate in the port area we should stress that it is still unclear whether the blast was an accident or deliberat

send a message to german chancellor angela merkel to ask her not to meddle in the internal affairs of. him he added that say he doesn't he doesn't want to have any direct conversations with any european leaders meanwhile right now looks like a moscow has become a mediator between the european union and bella ruse sendhil earlier russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also made a statement where he warned against external interference in the internal situation and delivers. what he's going to issue. we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and reuss we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing béla groups to interfere in them from a brutal and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside actors consider beneficial everything we're hearing now from the european captions specifically from the both countries poland and the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy but only with geopolitics . now moscow is also calling on all parties for a genuine dialogue between the author

but for the commenting on the claims of violence against journalists better it is ministry of internal affairs is now pledged to investigate every single allegation earlier we spoke to the economist manchu cater say that while the 4th day of protests in batteries were relatively calm people are still very angry. peace for people. for them. all but their gender change the last drop that broke the camel's back was the mass join you live probably as the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial entity enjoy the prada saying that we demand not to purchase from the government we need fair. elections to look at himself put in the position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election commissioners are or the election will unfold now definitely ignited that kind of protest and anger because nobody believes in butler the question got 80 percent of. the united arab emirates and israel have agreed to normalize relations they will break it by washington does include a promise but eventually annexation is still on the cards and shoot shoot the

and other western countries against imposing sanctions on the loose and interfering in its internal affairs he also accused e.u. member states poland lithuania lithuania of trying to provoke violence in groups leading by the russian opposition figure solana to have fled to lithuania amid a brutal crackdown on protesters who nevertheless continue to take to the streets. so bella ruse russian president putin has often look the same throw his support while his foreign minister is warning the west to stay out of internal affairs in bella ruse will putin was a further diplomatic collision with the un other nations 2 or does he simply not care. at the moment russian doesn't really have to risk diplomatic relation with your or our west in general because russia mainly has a lot of means of influence over minsk and that's in contrast to europe so just are displaced for a time trying to secure its interests its influence over millions in the end russian ones to secure this this influence so it won't risk all sort of relations with the west but at the moment it doesn't look like it has to but it seem

time paul robinson public international affairs expert thanks for your time on the program. lebanon's prime minister an entire cabinet have resigned following last week's devastating explosion in beirut mass protests have been held every day since people have been demanding accountability for the $150.00 plus the deaths and utter destruction caused by the blast our correspondent border clear reports from the scene. situation here is becoming more and more unruly behind you you see the lebanese police they've managed to push protesters all the way back from the parliament building we're now in one of the side streets but there is tear gas and we're going to move forward a little bit because rocks are being thrown in our direction by the protesters now the protesters are still out on the streets despite the fact that earlier the lebanese prime minister resigned he was signed along with his cabinet but what the protesters here are telling me is that they're not going to stop taking to the streets until the whole parliament itself designed so it's possible that scenes like this

rallies with molotov cocktails with sticks and stones and they don't try to run over military and internal affairs officers with their cars last sunday suit tens of thousands of anti-government protesters making their voices heard peacefully from this legion no one was arrested or detained it seems there's finally a truce between loon fools and protesters but a fragile one i'm being told it seems both sides will need to keep their emotions in check and be done of reporting from minsk and better us see what. on the front has been formally nominated to run for a 2nd term as president of the republican national convention a man who puts america 1st and will keep america great president donald john truck i come from the great state of montana we are factually calling it strong and we believe in trama says mead and promise is louisiana proudly casts its 46 votes for president double j. trucks and we know that the best is yet to come and the opening night of the convention drew plenty of parallels to trump's time on reality t.v. is kind of open explained. because the man who fired people on reality t.v.

is chairperson of international affairs committee of the hong kong democratic party we're pretty sure joining us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed thank you. tensions have boiled over for a 2nd day in lebanon after the massive explosion that tore through the capital beirut there were more clashes me a parliament after protesters gathered to demanding an end to rampant corruption riot police fired tear gas while demonstrators holed rocks and shot far works into the air 158 people died in tuesday's blast and 21 a still missing the army says there's little hope of finding any more survivors protesters say they want a complete overhaul of the political system and to government ministers have responded to the widespread anger by resigning environment minister damiano scott tong has confirmed he's out following the information minister. in. this is the point of no return people are starving the economy has deteriorated the economic crisis is heightening our families children friends have just been left behind fear and disappointments lives within them in this fateful moments we canno

if you open up the issue of palestine, you have to open up a lot of issues about the internal affairs of the great powers. i don't think anybody wanted to cross that line at this kirs conference. when you read the initial reports of the liberation of camps, the word "jewish" is not used very often. edward r. murrow, dorothy thompson, martha gelhorn, their reports do not specifically refer to jews. there's a sense -- i'm not sure how much of this is getting back to -- jewish suffering is no different from the rest of the suffering, to churchill's great credit, they soon woke up to the reality and truman assigns earl harrison to come to europe and write a report, the very famous report that harrison writes back to petroleuming that says we're treating the jews that the nazis did, except we're not killing them. largely it was the unwillingness of truman to open up what they saw the internal affairs of the great conference, and palestine is considered part of the internal affairs of great brita britain. >>> our next question -- it seems the true takeaway for great power competition is tha

but it wasn't that i had always had an interest in international affairs, particularly because of the soviet union. when i was the president of the screen actors guild, the effort of the communists to move in on the industry, and all i can tell you, when i was running for governor, some of the press editorialized, if i didn't start talking about international affairs, i would never become governor, but i did have that interest. then as governor, four times the president asked me to do some missions, errands for him abroad, that took me to 18 different countries in the world, some of them sever times, more than one so that's always been an interest of mip. it wasn't much that changed in my opinion. and if it does bother you, do you think that view has been alternate irit didn't bother me solve, because i had gone through the same thing about being governor. some people thought was, as you have described it, no, it didn't bother me so much. i do think there has been a change that we've become personally acquainted we were all on a very cordial first-name basis, say, in the economic summ

higher education, culture, use of nationalism, as we watched russia and china interfere in the internal affairsother countries, we have failed to use their own nationalistic feelings to help build their resistance to what the chinese and russians and others are doing. religion is an important instrument, we have not thought about it in that way but religion has played a big part in international affairs, particular since the end of the cold war and all you have to do is look at the role of religion in motivating terrorist to see that it has real power, there are a dozen or more of these instruments and the problem is we have neither resource them nor have we figured out a cohesive strategy, coherent strategy on how to bring them together as a call in the book is a symphony where they played together and each strengthens the other and overall strengthens the hand of the united states in dealing with the rest of the world. >> why haven't we enlisted these other instruments in the symphony of power, america has the power of intimidation if were threatened obviously an imperfect world, we need the

and palestine is considered part of the internal affairs of great britain. >> all right. our next question says it seems that the true take away for great power competition from potsdam is that force, or the threat of force decides diplomacy. would you agree? prof. neiberg: there is a great old expression that diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a really big rock. we used a very simplified thing we called the die. diplomacy, information, military and economics. ideally you want all four of those to work together. military forces always there. the official model of where i worked is not to prepare for war, but to promote peace. so the ultimate idea of where i work is to teach senior military officers the way you can use military force in exactly the way you are articulating short of violence. that is the ideal. of course it does not always work out that way. what we are seeing in the 21st century is states like russia and china who are using information, and in the chinese case economics, in place a military force to support their diplomacy. this i

palestine was considered part of the internal affairs of great britain. >> all right. our next question is from ian. it seems that the true take away for a great power competition from potsdam is force or threat of force decides diplomacy. would you agree? >> great old expression that the plumber sees the art of thing -- until you can find a really big rock. we use a very simplified thing where i teach. we call it the dine. diplomacy information military and economics. ideally, you want all those things to function together. military forces is always there. the official model of where i work is not to prepare for war but to prepare for peace. he ultimate idea of where work is to teach senior military officers the ways that one can use military force and exactly the way you are to articulating. that is the ideal but it doesn't always work out that way. i think what we are seeing in the 24 century our states like russia and china who are using information and in the chinese case, economics in place of military force to support their diplomacy. this is been part of the ch

watch russia and china interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.e've failed to use their own nationalistic feelings to help build their resistance to the chinese and russians and others are doing. religion is an important instrument. we haven't thought about it in that way, but religion has played a big part in international affairs, particularly since the end of the cold war. and all you have to do is look at the role of religion and motivating to see that it has real power. .. >> we need the military and cia but why don't we summon instruments of inspiration that are so strong in america? what is the reluctance to use nonmilitary? >> it is a tough question to answer. part of that congress has been reluctant to font on - - defend the nonmilitary instruments going back to the end of the cold war. but congress wanted us to establish the us agency for international development and president clinton stop that but still diminished usaid and to be starved of resources except a couple of brief periods during the george w. bush administration but congress