convened an emergency meeting of response to the rest let's go live now our chief political analyst martin mccauley for his take martin good to see you we're not used to are we seeing unrest on the scale in belarus where the leadership usually takes a very tough line on any dissent how serious or indeed significant does this look to you. this is very significant because we're looking at the unofficial opinion polls she has done a decent jobs going into the opposition candidate remember that her husband was in fact in prison now so that when she took over put her name in the ballot the unofficial opinion polls give her the lead but of course look at she goes and he can in fact manipulate the vote and so on because as a very famous suffering leader has stolen said ones just matter how people vote it depends on who counts the votes and look at shaker would say right i can't vote and therefore i'm going to say that i won whereas the majority of the population it appears no really the dinos guy has won the critical question here in minsk and in other cities go and still hung in bureaus is what is the ro

now it's called live to author and russia analyst martin mccauley to dig deeper into this story as weheard there the western media are already in overdrive with kremlin assassination hysteria which is probably unsurprising in this situation but is there any capability of objectivity coming from them. well novelli is quite a hero in the west then he's seen as a very powerful opponent of the team of putin money called the. the constitutional amendments needed to vote on the new constitution or the constitution amendments he called it a coup and so on so from the western border view in many western countries and he's a hero because of that because even closer to true to the anything that happens to him would be seen as criminal rented it over to come from the kremlin. and nothing else would happen to him unless because the kerman did you know acted and did something and so on that's the way the media in the west really thinks now immediately point the blame because they once inflation is a mere one headline news and it sounds really great if you declare that mitt romney has been poisoned

developments with journalist and broadcaster neil clark and also author of in russia analyst martin mccauley both feel there's been too much jumping to conclusions. we have to wait. we really think it will take longer for the germans to come up with their make malaysian and we're still in the in-between stage where the prosecutor general motors who say we have europeans and the germans are saying we think it's close but at present we're not able to identify new agents and therefore the kondraty said it was going to let's let's be honest given the geopolitical context of this then whatever the russians come up with is going to be criticize an attack because if there was a full russian investigation it came out and said it wasn't poison of course a lot of people who got an axe to grind with russia wouldn't wouldn't except that whatever happens many people have already jumped forgotten stage 8 going to even be on stage be it someone of course it was the kremlin it will not necessarily there were a number of a number of people who have who have a motive perhaps of poisoning him he was an anti co

case and we can talk about this a bit further to you because also waiting on the line presses martin mccauley he's an author in russia. good afternoon to you martin. what do you make of this report that germany is willing to work with russia on the only case what sort of cooperation could we see do you think. one journeys a very famous teaching hospital charity in berlin. and it has a high reputations and therefore everyone has know which one of confidence in the expertise or 3 the medical staff and the specialist so what they will be doing is in fact sending a report 6 to moscow about what they're finding and they were explain. the procedures are doing their examinees blood and liver and other parts of other organs and so on in order to discover what actually caused this caused them to fall into a coma and the political explanation is some agents some toxic agent some potion of some sort which they haven't been able to identify so therefore they're working on that the president and what they will do will be roger report on all this and then forward that to moscow foremost group. do you think

keep post in the next hour or so does the organisers say more thoughts on it political analyst martin mccauley and the director of the crisis research is to mark allman gave us their thoughts on the unrest in belarus and what it could mean for the country. the irony of the different policy has. sort of a way of it russia he lost various economic benefits for her and then of course you have a big moment i suppose for the world will. also bar. who those things have to be damaged is standing. for the 6 years so we get the situation hold of our people grow up and if nothing else they're bored with the same post something and not seeming to have a clear direction to improve things in the group of things are going to go home to familiar stay loyal and they're willing to spill blood then look at shade or stay in power because that will then develop because if blood is shed then that could infuriate the population the more and more people become more active because you find with a revolutionary situation that people act different. time and again the reclusion. type of fever that takes there were peopl

develops you'll be there to bring us the latest thanks or we heard earlier from political analyst martin mccauley he told us alexander lukashenko has no intention of going anywhere. opposition now seems to be building up because they because of the covering of the pandemic of the code 19 because of the. increasingly poor economic situation russia would like to much closer association with with most of the willing to give has been for the last 26 years between east and west look at she has played off one against the other very well and he gets he got a lot of all wrong russia which he can then sell on to the west that has increased price despond so he could always relations. very close in russia but of course has been. contributing to the difficulties between look at your guy and putin because putin was a close relationship. is making way look at shaker wants to keep his distance and so on if you look at the last 26 years he's been there apparently almost wherever. he lived off of the military and the militia are police very very well and they've been given the goods have been living and they've b

russia analyst martin mccauley believes the poisoning rumors make a great story for the western media devoutness quite a hero in the west and he's seen as a pretty powerful opponent well good he reported so from the western border of your many western countries and he's a hero so there anything that happens to him would be seen as criminal into it all because we come from the kremlin. nothing else would happen to him unless he could become an did you know acted and did something is wrong that's the way the media in the west where do things now immediately point to blame because they want sensationalism they want headline news but of course in fact the totally false news or think news. we have to wait on the medical and the medics to find out exactly why he. descended into a coma why he was hospitalized and why he was in such paid and so on but of course it makes a great story from the from the western border view because most of the western press is only russian. lebanon is said to enter a 2 week lockdown starting on friday as it struggles to cope with a sharp rise in colvin 1000 case

below russian cities as well the protests are expected to continue on monday political analyst martin mccauley and the director of the crisis research institute mark almond gave us their thoughts on the all rest in belarus and what it portends for the country. opposition now seems to be building up because because of the covering of the pandemic of the code 19 because of the. increasingly poor economic situation and oppression from russia russia would lead to much closer this illusion with with most. willing to give has been for the last 26 years between east and west and look at those played off when we get as you know very well if you look at the last 26 years he's been there apparently almost wherever he looked after the military and the militias police very very well and they've been given. a living and they've been looked after because they're they keep him in power but in the last 5 or 6 years the ira it was a shame because policy has. sort to move away a bit russia lost various economic benefits because commercial and then of course you have big economic crisis calls on the world oil pr