lukashenko at his success in elections that observers have called neither free nor fair a correspondent nic conley traveled outside the capital to see how citizens elsewhere in the country have responded to the president's refusal to step aside. this is. a series of mines with the city in between place that provides much of the world with fertilizers and alexander lucas and his government with a significant chunk of its revenues any unrest here and so he goes let alone a strike would be devastating for the regime both financially and symbolically. not such a studio we have lived with one man in charge of everything for 26 years after this year's election we saw appalling violence against ordinary people. this regime is in human and has already committed crimes against humanity it needs to go it's human nature because of his spent all his working life in these mines and now he's trying to bring them to a standstill with a full scale strike so far the results have been so great only a few dozen miners have joined in the others he says just too scared and not without good reason all the strikers is s

we can go to men square we're joined by correspondent nick conley welcome nic so president bush says he can resolve this crisis in the coming days what we think he means by that. well it does sound very much like a crackdown i'm standing in front of the k.g.b. building in the center of minsk and for now the security service is staying largely loyal to the regime has said that you don't feel a lot of fear on the streets here of the protests not just being in the main square where again thousands of people gathered for the nightly protest ahead of sunday's protest that's being called the march of millions march of millions whether or not they get a 1000000 people together is questionable but it definitely looks set to be at least as big as last week's protests we've heard today from opposition leaders that they are trying to engage with those security services trying to convince them not to use force against the protesters we heard from the looks government said that they will also be going after ordinary protesters that even just taking part in the protests will be deemed a criminal o

now that fear has gone and for more let's bring in correspondent nick conley is joining us from minsk nic what is the atmosphere among protesters do they sense a change in the air. well you definitely get a sense that people have lost their fear fear of coming out in streets just simply because there are so many of them i think there's a feeling that the regime here called put all of them in jail have said that there has being significant violence protest is spending days in prison in detention about 30 people still unaccounted for days after they were taken in but people are coming out all voicing their dissatisfaction the regime in a way that was unthinkable just a few weeks ago i think that these protests are very diffuse there is no central protest camp these protests erupt all across mintz going all across the country and disappear as quickly as they begin i think this is part of the strategy to make it more difficult to security services here to come up to people and to detain them but there is a real sense that this is far from over this is the beginning rather the end of the proce

numbers for now but what's going no one can say for now the confrontation continues nic thank you so much data as nick conley there in minutes. this week career looking back at events in the summer of 2015 when europe faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 hundreds of thousands of migrants fled their home countries in search of a better future on the continent most of them crossed from turkey to greece. often in flimsy rubber dinghies more than 750000 migrants landed on greek shores that year from where they took what became from there they took what became known as the balkan route traveling north through macedonia and serbia into slovenia or hungary then on to austria and other e.u. countries including germany. well chancel americal declared an open door policy for refugees from syria as a result germany took in about a 1000000 migrants although not all of them were qualified to stay one of those who did qualify was a home here's his story. his songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also of hope 5 years ago pianist fled syria specifically the young refugee camp for palestinians. back ther

nic thank you very much for bringing us up to date that was nick conley there in minutes. now let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today the u.s. democratic party has now formally nominated joe biden as its 2020 presidential candidate to go up against donald trump party officials from all over the country cast their votes for the former vice president during the all virtual ever tragic national convention. japanese prime minister shinzo has dismissed concerns about his health the 65 year old said a hospital visit on monday was for routine check up it came just days after top politicians said of a appeared overworked took time out from politics a decade ago for health reasons he is japan's longest serving prime minister. authorities in france are to make face coverings mandatory in all places of work throughout the country from september 1st basques will be required in all work spaces including open plan or shared offices corridors meeting rooms and changing rooms move comes after france's daily corona virus infection count jumped

of the w correspondent nick conley covered yesterday's demonstrations he joins us on the line from the belarus in the capital welcome nic so another weekend of protests and 3 opposition leaders arrested bring us up to date. well quite still extraordinary scenes here in maine. 300000 people out on the street making ok the biggest demonstration of the russian history even more than a week ago there had been fears the people would have run out of the 2 weeks after the election people would stop coming out and would give in but not none of that and in spite of threats by the government to arrest people just taking call in these and sanctioned demonstrations people out with their friends that family bringing small children they were even young parents with their friends. today we've seen the crackdown that they can the think i had running in this weekend he said that the russians had this weekend to give it another thought that the government which shows was in charge as of today monday and that does seem to be happening we've heard all the strike leaders being arrested also a member of the opposition help. partly because ra