and i have made clear — through my statements at the osce and the un — the democratic values and theom of expression and media freedoms — such as access to information — must be respected, and those that violate the must be held accountable. can she assure me that she will continue to work with our international partners to put pressure on the belarussian regime to stop all violence against journalists, protesters and opposition candidates? and does she also share my concern over the forced deportation of such individuals? i can assure him that we are supporting an independent investigation through the osce into the fraudulent elections and the violation by the belarussian authorities. we have spoken to germany and the us on the 18th of august, france on the 19th of august, and i've also spoken to the baltic states, to finland, sweden and to poland. the eu is currently drawing up a list of belarussian officials to which they will make them subject to asset freezes and travel bans. as the uk looking to do likewise, and if not, why not? the honourable lady makes a very, very important

what about the osce?position because, on one hand, they tried to exercise a balanced approach was belarus in order to avoid imposing sanctions because it would force belarus to be drifted further into russia's influence but could not believe what was happening on the ground, particularly with violations of human rights, so effectively what they have done is they have posed sanctions in order to quarantine the regime from at least the rest of europe and perhaps us effectively saying, ina perhaps us effectively saying, in a month or so, alexander lukashenko in a month or so, alexander lu kashenko cannot use in a month or so, alexander lukashenko cannot use his apparatus and his ministers will become illegitimate subsequently we do not need to talk to them and we will effectively impose political vacuum over belarus for as long as the current president stays in place. thank you very much indeed for talking to us. thank you. well, daily demonstrations against president lukashenko are still continuing, with cl

that night a law and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. is going to let them know the also be accords were signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough with the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 name cities in the whistle battle besides jericho and elections will the palestinian council will take place and much else. i'm sure there's enough to say on this is a day of achievement the visits are grubby and this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo be according to the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about in a storage. order showed you today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians. and control daily lives through the civil administration all should show this is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue killing and being killed after we got here already we are not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can give peace a cha

it's unclear if belarus, an osce member, will cooperate it did not invite the osce to monitor the elections left without shelter after fire gutted the moria camp in greece last week have been moved to a new, temporary encampment nearby. all had first received coronovirus tests. officials said the operation to move all twelve thousand people left homeless was likely to take several days. for those watching on bbc world news — we'll be right back. as the travel industry tries to recover from the damage caused by coronavirus restrictions, the search is on to find ways to allow people to travel safely. one solution is being tested in italy, where at rome airport they're trialling new compulsory covid testing. our rome correspondent mark lowen reports. tickets, passports and compulsory negative test results. welcome aboard europe's first covid free flight. all aboard europe's first covid free flight. all these passengers from rome to milan have been tested either at the airport before the flight either at the airport before the flight or within the previous 72 hours before being allowed to travel

that night to a lawyer and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. is the most lamentable he also be accords was signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough for the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 name cities in the whistle bank besides jericho and elections with the palestinian council will take place and much else. shows us that up today on this is a day of achievement visits are probably in this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo be a court of the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about an historic treaty are you. on your show due today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians . and control daily lives through the civil administration all shallow this is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue killing and being killed off the government only we are not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can't give peace a chance. i don

according to osce accord $38.00 the new legislation applies to anyone anywhere in the world. yes this is a piece of war that is its border you know we would hope but then again though this law needs to be enforced in hong kong i still have to go for the introducer and system. so that due process is still there they could have introduced the mainland national security to hong kong but in the pacific we drop a new law cater to hong kong and thus shows that how much they still want to system to work. at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the handover there was a similar message so you know why homegrown why we walk on launching laugh i hope here in how fucked up saying happily more young homes on the go though it's easy to see if the lot of my fat see it don't want young hell hell i'll see money i have fucking yet. we invited the chinese government to explain this father and respond to criticisms of the new law but they didn't reply. ah ah. out on the streets protesters were skeptical and defiance. and all that stuff that they really like have their own homeland and. there'

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being present in the north in the center so that's the challenge ahead no new response from the echo osce or france the former colonial power in terms of the announcement of these new leadership but clearly there's a lot of work ahead for a semi going and the new president bind out. well let's take a look at how things have unfolded in mali the protests against them presidency. began in early june many accuse him of corruption economic mismanagement and into space it says victory in the 2018 elections nearly a month later several protesters were killed during a crack turn by security forces then as the protests continue its military leaders took power and briefly detained kater on august 18th forcing him to resign the international community condemned the coup fear and political instability regional un and french forces have been in mali fighting against armed groups with a coup leaders are now under pressure to hand over power to civilians but they've said now this transition will last at least 18 months. well let's bring in our guests from macro we're joined by chukwuemeka is the execut

development aid over the past 50 years so it seems like governments both don't hear governments and osce so african governments themselves would have ample incentive to crackdown more effectively absolutely i mean the figure you cite is heartbreaking if you think about it you know what good could have been done with the money that left the country. absolutely and policymakers to have survived and should should do more but these things happen so slowly i mean if you look at germany now the wia cuts surely must of shown that often it's not really very good at its job should have done the better about being the germans or i mean actual supervision or a supervisory authority a german regulator and if not why it caught them this latest revelation should be a reason to give them more teeth to reform the way they do they do their work to maybe employ more people. to police these things would have happened yes hopefully yes but as you know these things even with the. stuff and pensions move slowly fall a problem off such a scope i do want to come back to the german picture in a moment but let's

members of the coordination council of their own volition suddenly decided to leave the country if you osc the opposition and their allies that they give a completely different account they describe pressure psychological and even physical pressure to opposition figures being grabbed by the arm put into caused by security services driven to the border with ukraine of poland and told to scrabble told to leave the country and many of them have done so one has been arrested and now there is only one svetlana i think save it a prominent figure and in belarus an elderly woman a new book prize winner who is still free the only member of the opposition coordination council and she has found her apartment in you dated with foreign diplomats with foreign figures and embassy workers who have formed something of a human shield in order to discourage the better russian government from trying to arrest or trying to force her out and that is what the better russian government seems to you know put they have put their money on trying to crack down on this opposition coordination council. the investigatio

turkey, turkey has not been part of the ltilateral negotiations for a peace agreement under this osce'sat has happened in the last couple of months is that, as tensions have heated up, after, as i mentioned military clashes in july, the united states did not really get involved. it created a diplomatic vacuum. so, what has been have subsequently is that russia and. turkey have been filling that vacuum russia on the side of armenia which is a treaty ally of russia under the collective security treaty organization and turkey supporting azerbaijan. >> next i want to tell you about leaders from six to five country who signed up to a plan to sigh of wildlife and habitat -- to save wile and habitats from the threats of climate change. the u.k. says it will increase the amount of land protected from development from 26% to 30% by 2030. here is the u.k. prime minister. >> we need not just good intentions but real action. we must act now, right now. we cannot afford to dither and delay. because biodiversity loss is happening today and at a frightening rate. if left unchecked, the consequences wo

svetlana to add tikkun off sky urged the security council to condemn the crackdown on opponents of the osce are terry and president alexander lukashenko thanks lewd actors and musicians who've moved out of the theater and onto the streets to do correspondents in economy has been to meet them. to effortlessly the whirling was gathering is illegal placement says these days singing in public can get you arrested here in minsk every day for most of the cupola also will come up and sing in front of the theater they've been locked out of to join tens of thousands of others demonstrating against the government i very plays double bass in the or at least he used to since the election nearly ogust he's been out to ministry to almost daily. now and i think most performers would not be able to go out on the stage and carry on as if nothing it toughened. loose is almost unrecognizable since election or was the 9th for weeks now hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in peaceful protest demanding fresh elections they've been met with police brutality in mass arrests now the protests i

that night to a law and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. the muslimism of the oslo b. accords was signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough for the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 name cities in the west bank besides jericho and elections will the palestinian council will take place and much else. instead of this at the say on this is a day of achievement the visits are grubby and this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo b. accord the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about an historic treaty. order showed you today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians. and control their daily lives through the civil administration all should show this is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue killing and being killed off will go to the regular not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can give peace a chance. i don't think a

being present in the north in the center so that's the challenge ahead no new response from the echo osce or france the former colonial power in terms of the announcement of these new leadership but clearly there's a lot of work ahead for a semi going and the new president bind out. well now to developments in sri lanka a draft bill that would amend the country's constitution to give the president extra powers has been put before parliament if passed it will allow president got to pacs a to dissolve the parliament and will give him full immunity against prosecution it would replace a bill from 2015 that strengthen the role of the parliament when alpha and his brings us more now from columbia in the building behind me this reluctant parliament is where it's all happening at a whim the justice minister. table that draft for the 1st reading he did it to howls of protest by the opposition obviously the amendment seeks a kind of cruel back all the sweeping powers the executive president lost in the last amendment to the constitution brought by the previous government now this is once again cre

that night to a law and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. as the most wanted them of the oslo be accords was signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough for the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 name cities in the west bank besides jericho and elections with the palestinian council will take place in the most. you showed us that up today on this is a day of achievement of visits are grubby and this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo be a court of the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about in a storage treaty. i don't show do you today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians there and control daily lives through the civil administration all should show there is is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue killing and being killed off the government already or not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can't give peace a

they were commending on the they were commenting on how well the nations here these 10 nations in the osce and walk have been handling the covert situation but there are many challenges ahead as they said that they handle things well they're also saying that they will be behind these 10 nations here now to discuss this further let's bring in benjamin as a walker who is with the asia foundation here in bangkok benjamin thank you very much as always you know before we went on there you and i were discussing kind of the importance in the history of aussie on and that is to give these tens 10 nations one voice particularly in these very difficult times how important is that all is extremely important to united states audience and charlie for the united states it's critical for the u.s. to sort of prevail in this tit for tat and for these policy debates and practices in southeast asia and in the south china sea for china it's quite the opposite we've seen ever since it introduced its 9 dash line about a decade ago that its its approach has been to deal bilaterally with all xian states as oppose

we had the opportunity to talk to president putin, to advocate for the mediation as proposed by the osce. we see no other option. we say no to intervention, note to guilty silence. europe also must be up to its responsibilities, its history, and its geography. believing in peace and stability in our region also means wanting to build for the continent of europe a new paradigm of some kind for sustainable stability, and this cannot be reduced to historic agreements nor ultimately to the dismantling of those agreements as we have seen in recent years. when we talk about peace, stability and the collective security of europe, i cannot avoid today the fact that we are living in a situation where our security and stability, very largely depended on agreements that were signed in the past between the united states of america and the soviet union and , that these agreements have been progressively dismantled over the last 10 years. the end of the inf treaty marked an important step that we should must address. ,his is why i hope that we europeans, can we commit to a complete and ambitious discu

quite interesting how she described her meeting with the new foreign minister and saying that she has osc them for help that the opposition in milan was understands that there really needs help to change the facts on the ground she also told us that she believes that sanctions are very important because they can force the regime to listen to what the people of their own lives has to say and in the end so she was very diplomatic describing this meeting but in the end she'll also told us that her message to the e.u. foreign minister was to tell them to be braver to be bolder and that of course could be seen as an indication that maybe there are figures within the opposition who are becoming impatient and who really wants the european union to take action next let's come to you know we hear there that the impassioned plea from stateline addition of how is her meeting with the new foreign minister is being seen there in minutes. what people are definitely following these talks in brussels and the sanctions plans i think for most the opposition as we have money going to that this is a big it's

that night abu alaa and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. is going to let them of the also be accords was signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough for the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 main cities in the west bank besides jericho and elections for the palestinian council will take place and much else. this is a yawn this is a day of achievement the visits are grubby and all this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo be accorded the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about in a storage. i know showed you today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians. and control their daily lives through the civil administration all shallow this is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue killing and being killed off the government for labor not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can't give peace a chance call your shallow. i don

has in its osce no katrina you reports from beijing it's the people's liberation army troops on exercisealong the tibetan border in recent weeks china's military has been playing games on land at sea and in the air despite the show of military strength china's government says its capabilities are purely for defense and rejects the pentagon report which says china's military is gaining on the u.s. . this report is full of lies and. distortion china's defense strategy china formally opposes china's strategies a consistent and transparent as constitution is peaceful and its military policy is defensive the pentagon says china's navy has already surpassed the u.s. with $350.00 compared to america's 293 and it's made major strides in developing ballistic and cruise missiles as well as its a defense systems the report says china intends to double its stockpile of nuclear weapons over the next 10 years analysts say if true china would still lag fall by. time the u.s. is still 110th of what america. has got because you know those bases so that was something like 6 miles of. war and of course the

were commending on that they were commenting on how well the nations here these 10 nations in the osce and block have been handling the covert situation but there are many challenges ahead as they said that they handle things well they're also saying that they will be behind these 10 nations here now to discuss this further let's bring in benjamin as a walker who is with the asia foundation here in bangkok benjamin thank you very much as always you know before we went on there you and i were discussing kind of the importance in the history of aussie on and that is to give these tens and 10 nations one voice particularly in these very difficult times how important is that was extremely important to united states. for the united states is critical for the u.s. to sort of prevail in this tit for tat and for these policy debates and practices in southeast asia and in the south china sea for china it's quite the opposite we've seen ever since it introduced its 9 dash line about a decade ago that it's its approach has been to deal bilaterally with all of the on states as opposed to multi-lat

we are members of the osc. our participation there has made a much stronger relationship between europe and the united states on the basic principles of our nation. i think we can do the same within oas. i don't to get has been used as effectively as we need to. the second point, a response to both, is the caribbean nations. there are many caribbean nations that are relatively small. it doesn't take a lot of attention to make sure that we have their support on the global community within the united nations and in our own hemisphere. we found within oas, we did not get the type of support we wanted from the caribbean states. it doesn't take a lot of to -- attention. china is giving them that attention and the united states is not. i would urge us to recognize that we can do a lot more with relatively small amount of funds in some of these small island states. your response? >> thank you. we have seen it as a multilateral institution that actually works. revived theged, ability of the members to speak up against