to blame for violence that protests after last weekend's disputed election the opposition says lucas shintos lopsided official electoral victory was rigged he's accused nato of deploying military forces near the country's border which the alliance denies. and we can go now to date of these in the show and who's following the developments in belarus for us from moscow and many supporters of lucia because we just heard have gathered in the capital and address them tell us a bit more about what he had to say what we saw today from alex on that was really a defiant speech to his supporters which he painted as the majority he addressed the opposition's calls for him to leave he said that that would lead to instability in the country he also addressed calls to hold new elections which is also been one of the the main demands of the opposition he said that those calls are basically orders from poland lithuania and latvia he has throughout these protests been painting the opposition and opposition proport protesters excuse me as being kind of manipulated from abroad and as being a sheep manipulated