i'm pablo foley is welcome to the program but a resume president alexander lukashenko has rejected calls to hold a new election and says moscow is ready to step in to quote save the country speaking to supporters in minsk go also accused nato of deploying military forces near the country's border the alliance has dismissed that claim but says it's closely monitoring the situation opposition protests have been growing in strength since last week's disputed election they took to the streets in their biggest numbers yet on sunday. opposing demonstrations in the streets of central minsk. with this man at the heart of both embattled by the russian president alexander lukashenko. dear friends i didn't just call you here to defend me you came here to defend your country your independence your families for the 1st time in a quarter of a century. go address thousands of loyal supporters on sunday after days of protest put belorussian domestic politics in the international spotlight he accused foreign powers of organizing the opposition against him that the opposition has all paid off their provoc

well for more on this story i'm joined by reporter pablo foley illyria's is in the studio with me hello to you pablo so why is it that the city of melbourne in particular is seeing such spike in coronavirus cases well the health experts have put it down to a relaxation of the rules which is sort of quietly led to a level of complacency with regards to social distancing we heard as well in the report there that people have been breaking many of the rules and also they said so it's sort of the perfect combination for things to go wrong and we're seeing that exactly they're also the premier. he said you know at the moment they can trace a lot of the infections they don't they come to try start of the workplace or to their homes so that's why it's such a worrying situation. well it is so much worse than in the rest of australia how other how are people elsewhere in the country responding to events there are incredibly worried obviously because here we are again it's sort of like taking a giant step back and there's a lot of reaction as you can imagine on social media in particular if you he

on pablo foley s welcome to the program we'll have more on those stories but 1st a prominent hong kong pro-democracy figure jimmy lie has been arrested a top aide said the media tycoon is accused of collusion with foreign forces under the national security law recently a poll imposed by beijing jimmy law is now the most prominent member of hong kong's pro-democracy movement to be arrested under the new law last week he was also charged with. taking part in a band vigil marking the anniversary of the $989.00 tenement square massacre. but we will move now to batteries where protesters and police have clashed after president alexander lukashenko emerged the likely winner of elections police used water cannon tear gas and stun grenades and thousands of opposition supporters gathered in the center of the capital minsk the violence broke out after state media and instead look a shadow had won a around 80 percent of the vote. seen here casting his ballot has held power since the ninety's and was running for a 6 term his challenger was 50. an english teacher who's the wife of a jailed presiden

on pablo foley s welcome to the program where we start in india we're at least 18 people work here killed and more than $100.00 injured when a passenger plane skidded off the runway in the southern city of cozy koda the air india express flight from dubai was carrying 190 passengers and crew and you will monsoon conditions appear to have played a role in the crowd. remember the devastating remains of a passenger plane in kozhikode de india that skidded off the runway in heavy rain and. eyewitnesses described the plane's fuselage breaking apart as it fell into a file a some 10 meters below 0. the boeing 737 flight from dubai was repatriating indian citizens stranded by the coronavirus pandemic i disastrous for passengers that had waited months to fly home and reunite with their families. among the victims were the 2 pilots as well as at least one young child who could be put behind a child under a box on the plane as soon as i picked her up her head had serious injuries small child one and a half years old i took the child in the car if she was in the ambulance maybe she could have been sa

on pablo foley s welcome to the show we start in lebanon where protests against the political establishment have left one police officer dead and more than $100.00 people injured demonstrators have stormed several official buildings setting fire to at least one government ministry the country has been deeply shaken by choose days devastating explosion on beirut's port or in beirut support excuse me the blast killed more than 150 people injured thousands more and destroyed large parts of the city. they came from near and far and their message. what's clear. down with the government amid anger and political elites they say are incompetent and deeply corrupt. and what happened on tuesday was the final straw for them. nearly $3000.00 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate exploded devastating large parts of the city the chemical had been stored for 6 years without adequate safety measures in a warehouse at the port the explosion taken knighted people's discontent with their leaders. i am here because of this devastation explosion that we just witnessed an 11 on that was it is a complete negl

pablo foley yes welcome to the program but a resume president alexander lukashenko has rejected calls to hold a new election and says moscow is ready to step in to save the country speaking to supporters in minsk kaluga shango said the opposition protests are being steered from abroad and accused nato of deploying military forces near the country's border the alliance has dismissed that claim but says it is closely monitoring the situation in bellerose undeterred fan tens of thousands of opposition protesters are also holding a massive rally in the capital called the freedom march it's the biggest demonstration so far against those disputed election victory. well we can now go to w.'s moscow correspondent and be sure one who's following the developments in better routes for us hi emily i mean what do you make of the president goes accuse ations against nato while nato has firmly denied that they are placing troops at the belarusian borders but we have heard from the belarus in the valorization army that they will be holding military drills in the coming days it seems to me that look a

reporter pablo foley ileus is in the studio with me to talk a bit more about this pablo why has melbourne in particular been hit so badly by this spike in corona virus cases compared to the rest of australia well health experts have actually been very clear and they've basically said the combination of problems have led to where they are now which is a relaxation of the rules of complacency when it comes to social distancing and also look you know and it's interesting when you hear from victoria's premier daniel unders he says the rate of community at transmissions of course the people in you know passing on the virus they don't really know where it's coming from because in many of cases many of the cases have nothing to do with the workplace or even they're not getting infected at home or either and of course before this many of the cases in australia were coming from people coming from abroad brought a sudden the situation is completely different you mentioned it there before the rules are going to be much tighter. stricter and it's a massive blow to melburnians and victorians well i th

reporter pablo foley welcome pablo so tell us what happened in scope of scotland is a little bit of a mess is what's happened in scotland essentially actually in the past few minutes this afternoon we've heard the scottish government has referred to this decision which resulted in students as a result i actually had been revised down because of the way the assessment process to work because let's not forget that in scotland they actually didn't sit exams what happened was the teachers provided you know they gave their assessment and they essentially said right this is what we think this student should get and this is the final result then they integrated as well have the school did which resulted in over 100000 students having their results graded going down and then others had their results that went up which resulted of course an outcry because many felt that it was very unfair and nicolas sturgeon the 1st minister apologized for the whole mess and actually let's hear from her 1st and then we'll discuss this a little bit further or the exams decision we reached nearly a stage is bro

pablo foley is covering this story for us hi pablo how is this news going down in flames well as youcan imagine it's all people are talking about today it came in some ways it wasn't sort of much of a shock because there had been sort of rumors of something big bad to happen but actually there are signs of the spanish prime minister is speaking at the moment to the nation he hasn't spoken yet about the king but of course the journalist will be on that as soon as they can but politically speaking this has caused a huge amount of division which as a spaniard comes as absolutely no shock the governing coalition party have had a sense of the socialists and have defended the decision of the former king and leaving the country they spoke of how important he was for the country but then their coalition partners put them most said that it's essentially a disgrace the fact that there is this investigation into him taking place and he's left the country then of course other big parties such as the people pulled out of a conservative state by and i know same thing but then in qatar when yet the