tensions are rising in daily route, where president poroshenko has putut the armrmyn high alert and hasse the border with poland and lithuania. tens of thousands have been taken to the streets on a weekly basis in protest of his disputed reelection last month. totoday, the u.n. human rights council meets to discuss the situation. witnessssed thousands of arreststs, hundrededs of reportf torture and other ill-treatatme, including sexual violence, and the repoported tortuture of children. the violelent abduction off peoe in badad daylight t by m masked individuals, preresumably on the basis of theieir peacefully expressed opinions, armed police and security personnelel are beg dedeployed in a n near-sysystemc pattern of unnecessary o excessivive use of force against largely peaceful demonstrarator. well, our correspondent talked about how they tried to stopping.eeting from russia,r respect by china, and venezuela to basically prohibit some of the intervrventions by the u.n. experts and also by an opposition candididate and a baylor bruce activist on grounds of procedure, which was rejecte

all this is part of the fight against russian media and social networks in ukraine it began under poroshenko and continues under a zelinsky now russian parliamentarian's as well as the country's journalists' union have already said that if the apps do get deleted they will explore legal action now censorship against russian media in ukraine began back in 24 scene after a referendum was held in that cray me air where people have voted for a union with russia now several russian media and social networks have been as well have been deleted in ukraine since then and of course r.t. is also banned there so we discussed ukraine's targeting of russian media organizations with journalists and daniel. of course it's censorship and of course it goes contrary to our freedom of speech the ukraine is doing its best to create a special relationship with the united states and the u.s. 'd is responding and for whatever draws those 2 countries closer together has washington's approval so therefore one of the ukraine makes a request like this of apple apple really can't say no because it knows that the that w

potentially giving up you know he's nickname of europe's last dictator but he said he was like poroshenko for example ukraine's former president he had billions stashed away and switch. bank accounts then he could have left but that he doesn't. that says sort of it was the other side of it we've seen these mass protests months arrest what's the reality now in belarus. well it's all very well as you say listening to listening to alexander lukashenko amuse about the protests and who's fired answering them but the fact is that it is better russians in the 10s of thousands who are out in the streets every week who prove testing risking their lives their livelihoods that their well being because there is a lot of violence the police aren't restraining themselves they are holding back and the full strength of the law is being leveled against some of these protests some of these protests that there is there is bad blood a lot of bad blood now in in the streets a lot of anger a lot of rage yesterday we saw dozens of people detained at the protest over the alleged detention of the opposition leade

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obtained from some opaque source, we don't really know, of conversations between joe biden and poroshenkowas about to ask you, those tapes that have been released have been -- they're questionable. they've been heavily edited. >> absolutely. they've been edited. they've been doctored. we don't even know where he got them. these have all been part of a campaign to discredit joe biden ahead of the election. it's not just that derkach is speaking in a vacuum here, he is descending information to members of congress and some of that information has informed investigations that are going on right now, investigations that are going to produce a report prior to election day, speaking of, of course, from senator johnson and grassley in the senate into these allegations that are being made out of ukraine by these ukrainian figures that are then being funneled back here, put into the mainstream and legitimized by congre congressional probes. this is all part of the same operation here, what ultimately got the president impeached is now being funneled into these congressional investigations either t

in 2016 chairman johnson wrote a letter with bipartisan members of the group to former poroshenko. the letter reads, succeeding in this these reforms that putin -- it also offers a stark alternative to the authoritarianism and oligarch president tism in russia. we -- presentism in russia. we ask that you address the concerns and we're talking about the minister of economic development. we ask you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the prosecutor general's office in judiciary. so these are the words, colleagues, the words of the chairman of the committee. that's why senator schumer and i believe this investigation, the johnson-grassley investigation, is baseless. we have brought forward a resolution that we believe is important to defending our democracy. it comes down to a question of what we want campaigns and elections to be all about. in my view, and i have always said this right at the core of my being, i want elections about our best ideas. that's why i serve on the finance committee, to try to come up with the best ideas in health care, and taxes and trade and the like. el