natalia kaliada, welcome to hardtalk. thank you to have me here.een extraordinary scenes for more than two weeks now in belarus — masses of people, protesters, on the streets. but president lukashenko, he hasn't blinked, he hasn't buckled. are you surprised? 0h, he blinked. and... you know, like, i'm sure you saw a number of days ago when he was at his helicopter, fully equipped with a rifle, and he presented himself as a complete joke to the world. so, we need to understand that he's in that mental condition because he has a mosaic psychopathy. and he speak, and now we need to understand, as the world, what to do with him next, because people are standing up against him. yes, but when you say he made himself a complete joke, are you sure the people of belarus saw it that way? after all, the man was holding an automatic rifle. he was talking to his own security forces on the streets, heavily armed, determined to repress the protesters. that's not a joke. that's real. and that is what is happening. repression is still happening. it was a joke becaus

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natalia kaliada, we have to end there. thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk.storm ellen brought us some very wet and windy weather. this week, we have another named storm. this is storm francis, named by the met office. you can see this hook developing in the cloud structure on the satellite picture. this shows an area of low pressure that is deepening rapidly. it will continue to deepen as it moves across our shores, an unusually deep low for the time of the year bringing some unusually strong winds. with that, some heavy rain. it's a combination that could well cause some disruption. that rain already setting in for many of us. it will continue to pile northwards through the day. it then slows down across parts of northern england, central and southern scotland, northern ireland, some rain feeding back into wales. these areas could see some localised flooding. and then, we have the winds, which will be strengthening through the day. during the afternoon, quite widely across england and wales, we'll see gusts of 50 to 60 mph, some exposed coasts and hills cou